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2024
Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Scandal: UK Government Forced to Publish the Sandstorm Report
The Pin-stripe Mafia: How Accountancy Firms Destroy Societies
(Free download)
New Book - Fighting Corporate Abuse
: Beyond Predatory Capitalism
A Policy Paper prepared for the UK Labour Party - A Better Future for Corporate Governance: Democratising Corporations for Their Long-Term Success
A Policy paper prepared for the UK Labour Party - Controlling Executive Remuneration: Securing Fairer Distribution of Income
A Policy Paper prepared for the UK Labour Party - Reforming the Auditing Industry
A Policy Paper prepared for the UK Labour Party -
Regulatory Architecture To Enhance Democracy And Business Accountability
Ofwat finds Thames Water has broken dividend payment rules
(19 Dec 2024)
Poverty, fascism and the American dream
(18 Dec 2024)
The Government's response to our DWP investigation: reflections from the Ombudsman
(18 Dec 2024)
Oral statement to Parliament: Government response to Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) report
(17 Dec 2024)
Government response to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman's investigation into Women’s State Pension age and associated issues
(17 Dec 2024)
'Children are stealing and starving' as parents struggle over Christmas time
(17 Dec 2024)
Reeves puts phase 2 of pensions review on ice
(17 Dec 2024)
Private Equity Is Making Big Money From UK’s Most Vulnerable
(16 Dec 2024)
Economists and policy experts warn Reeves against City deregulation
(16 Dec 2024)
Private Equity Is Coming for Your Pets
(15 Dec 2024)
Public anger over water bill rises is justified, says UK environment secretary
(15 Dec 2024)
Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption
(14 Dec 2024)
Labour condemned for allowing ‘new generation of slum homes’ in England
(14 Dec 2024)
Why wealth inequality matters – and what to do about it!
(12 Dec 2024)
The Guardian view on politicians using business logic: public services aren’t startups
(11 Dec 2024)
UK should temporarily take over Thames Water, says ex-government adviser
(11 Dec 2024)
Thames Water is nearing a market-led solution — but at what cost?
(11 Dec 2024)
Bankers to scrutinise public sector spending to 'bring private sector into the heart of government'
(10 Dec 2024)
UK Labour chancellor pledges austerity offensive to fund military spending increase
(10 Dec 2024)
Bankers to scrutinise public sector spending to 'bring private sector into the heart of government'
(9 Dec 2024)
Pat McFadden vows to make the state "more like a start up" as he deploys reform teams across country
(9 Dec 2024)
Everything You Need to Know About the Right-Wing War on Books
(3 Dec 2024)
What is ‘fictitious capital’?
(2 Dec 2024)
What is fraud?
(1 Dec 2024)
What do 678,000 people do in the City?
(30 Nov 2024)
Courts in crisis: ‘The chances of acquittal are higher for the rich’
(29 Nov 2024)
Tens of thousands more pensioners now in receipt of Pension Credit
(28 Nov 2024)
FCA is ‘incompetent at best, dishonest at worst’, claim MPs and peers
(26 Nov 2024)
Report on the Call for Evidence about The Financial Conduct Authority
(26 Nov 2024)
Court statistics for England and Wales
(25 Nov 2024)
Keir Starmer declares war on benefits Britain: Prime Minister vows to crack down on £137billion welfare 'blight'
(24 Nov 2024)
National Insurance Avoidance: Why Starmer chose to give rich lawyers a break in the Budget and punish everyone else
(23 Nov 2024)
Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm behind think tank pushing PFI 2.0
(23 Nov 2024)
NAO reveals woeful conflicts of interest management undermining government objectivity
(22 Nov 2024)
National Audit Office NAO) Report: Managing conflicts of interest: value for money
(22 Nov 2024)
The impact of fraud and error on public funds 2023-24
(22 Nov 2024)
Political finance law reforms will reduce big money in politics, but will rich donors be the ultimate winners
(21 Nov 2024)
National Audit Office NAO) Report: An Overview of the impact of fraud and error on public funds for the new Parliament 2023-24
(20 Nov 2024)
Tax Dodging by Super-Rich, Big Corporations Costs Nations Half a Trillion Per Year
(19 Nov 2024)
City statistics briefing
(19 Nov 2024)
Labour’s plans won’t save children’s social care
(18 Nov 2024)
Every UK water firm risks financial ruin like Thames, warns Barclays
(18 Nov 2024)
Children’s social care reforms to include rules to stop profiteering
(18 Nov 2024)
Profit and child social care DO NOT mix – and nor will Labour’s latest ‘reforms’
(18 Nov 2024)
Thames Water supply ‘on knife-edge’ with £23bn repairs needed
(17 Nov 2024)
King Charles owns dozens of homes for rent that don't meet vital minimum energy standards
(16 Nov 2024)
United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere
(16 Nov 2024)
'Genuine impasse' at top of government about social care plan, insiders say
(16 Nov 2024)
Record numbers seek help with water bills
(16 Nov 2024)
United Utilities refuses to hand over data on sewage discharges into Windermere
(16 Nov 2024)
Post Office scandal: Who knew what and when?
(15 Nov 2024)
Rachel Reeves targets trade deal with Donald Trump as UK economy stalls
(15 Nov 200024)
Reeves tells City regulator to encourage more risk-taking in financial sector
(15 Nov 2024)
In the Thames Water debt game, all that matters is the final result
(15 Nov 2024)
Outsourcing adult social care has contributed to England’s care crisis, argue researchers
(15 Nov 2024)
Rachel Reeves "remit" letter to the FCA - deregulation
(14 Nov 2024)
Southern Water’s debt downgraded to junk status by Moody’s (
14 Nov 2024)
Thames Water has an ocean of debt, but Labour should not throw it a lifeline
(14 Nov 2024)
Rules imposed after financial crisis have ‘gone too far’, Reeves tells City bankers
(14 Nov 2024)
Council tax in England set to rise by up to 5%
(14 Nov 2024)
Reeves in radical pension shake-up to boost growth
(14 Nov 2024)
Chancellor fires up financial services sector to drive growth
(14 Nov 2024)
Chanellor Rachel Reeves Mansion House 2024 speech
(14 Nov 2024)
Outsourcing adult social care has contributed to England’s care crisis
(14 Nov 2024)
Thames Water should explain its murky logic on fundraising
(13 Nov 2024)
Thames Water gains key support from creditors for £3bn funding lifeline
(13 Nov 2024)
Children's care homes 'charging £15k a week per child'
(9 Nov 2024)
Southern Water: One of Britain’s worst-performing water suppliers turns to vulture funds for rescue deal
(5 Nov 2024)
Britain’s art-loving elite fumes at money laundering crackdown
(5 Nov 2024)
One of Britain’s worst-performing water suppliers turns to vulture funds for rescue deal
(4 Nov 2024)
Calls for audit reform grow after ISG found to owe £1bn
(4 Nov 2024)
Construction giant ISG went bust with debts of £1bn
(3 Nov 2024)
Letter To Dame Meg Hillier MP – HBOS Reading – The Dobbs Review
(2 Nov 2024)
Crown court backlog in England and Wales ‘could hit 100,000 without radical overhaul’
(1 Nov 2024)
A budget that does not ‘put more pounds in people’s pockets’
(31 Oct 2024)
Extra billions for schools in England will be quickly swallowed up, say experts
(31 Oct 2024)
Chancellor chooses a Budget to rebuild Britain
(30 Oct 2024)
Autumn Budget 2024 speech
(30 Oct 2024)
HM TREASURY: AUTUMN BUDGET 2024 - FIXING THE FOUNDATIONS TO DELIVER CHANGE
(30 Oct 2024)
Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic and fiscal outlook October 2024
(30 Oct 2024)
Business and wealthy bear brunt of £40bn tax increases in UK Budget
(30 Oct 2024)
Who would be affected by Capital Gains Tax reform?
(29 Oct 2024)
Report into HBOS scandal ‘may never see light of day’
(28 Oct 2024)
Another day, another social care review. But don’t despair, it may actually work this time
(24 Oct 2024)
Independent commission on the water sector regulatory system: terms of reference
(23 Oct 2024)
Water watchdog chief seeks to stem consumers’ sewage lawsuits
(16 Oct 2024)
Train leasing company Porterbrrok pays £150m dividend while passengers swallow ticket price hikes
(14 Oct 2024)
Unions hit out at profiteering train owners as Porterbrook's boss paid £1.4m
(14 Oct 2024)
Written evidence submitted by Porterbrook Leasing Company Ltd
(14 Oct 2024)
Private equity barons lean on Rachel Reeves to water down proposals for higher taxes
(12 Oct 2024)
Adult social care in England: what next?
(11 Oct 2024)
Adult social care workforce in England
(11 Oct 2024)
Passenger rolling stock: why has average age decreased?
(10 Oct 2024)
£12bn Thames Water creditor group pitches rescue deal to Ofwat
(9 Oct 2024)
New Report: For-profit social care provision has drastically increased despite concerns over quality
(7 Oct 2024)
Evidencing the outsourcing of social care provision in England
(7 Oct 2024)
Outsourced children’s care homes provide poorer quality care – Oxford study
(4 Oct 2024)
Outsourcing and children's social care: A longitudinal analysis of inspection outcomes among English children's homes and local authorities
(4 Oct 2024)
Private Sector Dominance Raises Fears for Britain’s Care Homes
(2 Oct 2024)
Private equity profits from children’s homes: The dark side of Britain’s care system
(26 Sep 2024)
‘I worked for Thatcher and Brown. Here’s what Reeves’ growth plan is missing’
(25 Sep 2024)
Cost of taxpayer-funded grant for UK monarchy to rise by £45m
(24 Sep 2024)
Royals really cost £510m, anti-monarchists say
(24 Sep 2024)
The Half a Billion Pound Royals
(24 Sep 2024)
Lack of City of London oversight hurting efforts to halt dirty money, FCA warns
(24 Sep 2024)
OPBAS finds improvements needed amongst anti-money laundering supervisors
(24 Sep 2024)
Anti-Money Laundering Supervision by the Legal and Accountancy Professional Body Supervisors: Progress and themes from our 2023/2024 supervisory work
(24 Sep 2024)
Water companies had debts of £68.3 billion as of March 2023
(23 Sep 2024)
Fixing UK’s Sewage Leaks Will Be More Costly After Thames Water Mess
(23 Sep 2024)
Corporate Welfare: Corporate UK tax breaks to cost £20bn more than they generate, study finds
(22 Sep 2024)
ISG goes bust: after Carillion, how has this happened again?
(21 Sep 2024)
The dodgy details of private equity’s ‘dividend recaps’
(20 Sep 2024)
Starmer’s Plan to Court Investors Depends on Fixing Thames Water - Water companies need £7bn equity
(19 Sep 2024)
How much water bills could rise by, as Starmer considers Thames Water bailout
(18 Sep 2024)
For Every Winner a Loser - it is about the role of financial markets
(17 Sep 2024)
Starmer plots to raise bills to fund Thames Water bailout
(17 Sep 2024)
What is Labour’s real mission? Keir Starmer must choose whether to prioritise economic growth or lower borrowing
(16 Sep 2024)
Owner of Belfast shipyard that built Titanic to enter administration
(16 Sep 2024)
Questions grow as HBOS scandal victims wait for report
(16 Sep 2024)
'I got a £44,000 student loan - now I owe £54,000’
(16 Sep 2024)
Poorest families in UK lack beds and are sleeping on floors, charity warns
(15 Sep 2024)
Charities demand to meet UK ministers as 1.6m disabled OAPs set to lose winter fuel payments
(15 Sep 2024)
DWP Equality Analysis of Winter Fuel Payment cut for pensioners
(14 Sep 2024)
Winter fuel: 780,000 UK pensioners entitled to payment will lose it
(14 Sep 2024)
Billpayers in England and Wales tricked into ‘stealth bailout’ of water companies
(14 Sep 2024)
Bankrupt and ravaged by student mental illness, Britain’s universities are badly in need of reform
(13 Sep 2024)
China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978
(13 Sep 2024)
NHS privatisation and PFI - what Lord Darzi’s review missed
(13 Sep 2024)
Labour considers PFI-style deals to build schools and hospitals
(12 Sep 2024)
Raising revenue from reforms to pensions taxation
(12 Sep 2024)
UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies
(11 Sep 2024)
‘Brace for £15bn tax grab on pensions’
(11 Sep 2024)
Seven million retirees to miss out on £460 state pension boost
(10 Sep 2024)
Around 20pc of pensioners have no income other than the state pension
(10 Sep 2024)
National debt: it’s time for tough decisions
(10 Sep 2024)
Water firms in England and Wales lost more than 1tn litres from leaks last year
(8 Sep 2024)
Thousands of people ‘only receiving fraction of full state pension’
(2 Sep 2024)
Thousands getting state pension of under £10 a week
(2 Sep 2024)
DWP benefits statistics, including state pension: February 2024
(1 Sep 2024)
Around half of state pension recipients receiving full amount
(31 Aug 2024)
Thousands of state pensioners receive £100 or less a week
(30 Aug 2024)
Canadian export agency ‘nursing losses’ after lending $1bn to Thames Water
(21 Aug 2024)
I’m a former minister – ending pensioner poverty would take one change
(21 Aug 2024)
Pensioners urged to claim as winter fuel support cut
(20 Aug 2024)
Two former BHS directors ordered to pay £110m to creditors
(20 Aug 2024)
BHS High Court Case: (1) ANTHONY JOHN WRIGHT v DOMINIC CHAPPELL and Others
(20 Aug 2024)
Water renationalisation to cost as little as £14.5bn
(16 Aug 2024)
One in six universities rely on international students for more than a third of income
(15 Aug 2024)
The cost of nationalising the water industry in England
(14 Aug 2024)
Involuntary closures of for-profit care homes in England by the Care Quality Commission
(6 Aug 2024)
Most care homes closed by industry regulator are run for-profit
(6 Aug 2024)
A simple solution to Rachel Reeves’ spending cuts? Stop subsidising the banks
(5 Aug 2024)
Beware private equity buying into auditors, watchdog warns
(4 Aug 2024)
Austerity: Britain didn’t vote Labour just to get a new iron chancellor
(4 Aug 2024)
Labour is right to ditch the winter fuel allowance – it isn’t ‘robbing’ old peo
ple (2 Aug 2024)
Millennials and Gen Z beware: People in their fifties have serious pension problems. You could be doomed
(2 Aug 2024)
Austerity: Government shelves £1.3bn UK tech and AI plans
(2 Aug 2024)
Thames Water has breached its licence to operate. So now what?
(2 Aug 2024)
Austerity: What taxes might Rachel Reeves raise?
(1 Aug 2024)
Billionaire former Glencore oil trader charged with corruption in West Africa
(1 Aug 2024)
Austerity: Which tax rises could the Labour government introduce in the autumn budget?
(31 Jul 2024)
First Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up
(31 Jul 2024)
HM Treasury: Fixing the foundations Public spending audit 2024-25
(30 July 2024)
Austerity: Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government
(29 Jul 2024)
Austerity: Reeves set to axe projects to plug budget shortfall
(28 Jul 2024)
Winter Fuel Payment statistics for winter 2022 to 2023
(27 Jul 2024)
Government Minister urges pensioners to check eligibility for Pension Credit as Week of Action kicks off
(27 Jul 2024)
FSCS expects to pay £40m over WealthTek collapse
(26 Jul 2024)
Private Equity Puts Debt Everywhere
(25 Jul 2024)
How private equity tangled banks in a web of debt
(24 Jul 2024)
Freeports delivery roadmap
(23 Jul 2024)
How to tax private equity properly
(22 Jul 2024)
UK could raise more inheritance tax by adopting measures used by G7 peers, says think-tank
(20 Jul 2024)
Pension Credit toolkit: advice and guidance for stakeholders
(16 Jul 2024)
A bad answer to the wrong questions: Ofwat’s interim determination and its Turnaround Oversight Regime for Thames Water
(15 Jul 2024)
Labour can end austerity at a stroke – by taxing the rich and taxing them hard
(14 Jul 2024)
How bad is the crisis at Thames Water?
(12 Jul 2024)
Ofwat sets out record £88 billion upgrade to deliver cleaner rivers and seas, and better services for customers
(11 Jul 2024)
Cheap sales, debt and foreign takeovers: how privatisation changed the water industry
(10 Jul 2024)
Lovebombed by lobbyists: How Labour became the party of Big Business
(10 Jul 2024)
THE HIDDEN IMPACT OF CATARACT OUTSOURCING ON NHS EYE CARE DEPARTMENTS
(10 Jul 2024)
Thames Water chief defends bonus amid plan for hefty bill increases
(9 Jul 2024)
Thames Water to tap investors for funds as it will run out of cash by next June
(9 Jul 2024)
Boost for new National Wealth Fund to unlock private investment
(9 Jul 2024)
Rachel Reeves launches £7.3bn national wealth fund
(9 Jul 2024)
What is the national wealth fund and what will it invest in?
(9 Jul 2024)
Labour lifts Tories’ ‘absurd’ ban on onshore windfarms
(8 Jul 2024)
Ownership without investment in English water - net capital extraction by shareholders of English & Welsh water and sewerage companies 1990-2023
(4 Jul 2024)
Freeport lobbyist met Government ministers 50+ times
(3 Jul 2024)
Almost 1.8m students owe £50,000 or more in student debt
(2 Jul 2024)
Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly
(2 Jul 2024)
PFI: 'The rip-off that just keeps on taking'
(30 Jun 2024)
Will rising debt cause Thames Water to sink under a Labour government?
(29 Jun 2024)
Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2023
(28 Jun 2024)
Austerity spending cuts cost average person nearly half year in life expectancy
(20 Jun 2024)
The Impact of Austerity on Mortality and Life Expectancy
(20 Jun 2024)
Why UK private equity is ‘encouraged’ by Labour’s signals on promised tax crackdown
(19 Jun 2024)
Revealed: Investment in UK is lowest in G7 for third year in a row, new data shows
(18 Jun 2024)
ROCK BOTTOM LOW INVESTMENT IN THE UK ECONOMY
(18 Jun 2024)
Labour’s private equity tax crackdown to exempt bosses who risk their own capital
(18 Jun 2024)
How Macquarie bank left Thames Water with extra £2bn debt
(14 Jun 2024)
Labour Party 2024 manifesto
(13 Jun 2024)
Has Labour boxed itself in with promise of no tax rises for ‘working people’?
(13 Jun 2024)
Labour manifesto promises biggest shake-up of the workplace in a generation, against backdrop of further tax rises and cuts to public services
(13 Jun 2024)
Labour Party manifesto: an initial response
(13 Jun 2024)
Labour Manifesto - 2019 Costings
(12 Jun 2024)
Labour Manifesto - 2019 Fair Tax Programme
(12 Jun 2024)
Labour Manifesto - 2017 Costings
(12 Jun 2024)
Tobacco, alcohol, processed foods and fossil fuels ‘kill 2.7m a year in Europe’
(12 Jun 2024)
Our take on the Conservative manifesto
(11 Jun 2024)
Our take on the Lib Dem manifesto
(10 Jun 2024)
It’s time to explode myths of privatisation
(10 Jun 2024)
Britain Is Plagued by Tories’ Failure to Build
(9 Jun 2024)
The Lib-Dem buyback tax won’t raise £1.4bn, and could raise nothing
(9 Jun 2024)
Life in the slow lane: Assessing the UK’s economic and trade performance since 2010
(9 Jun 2024)
UK growth since 2010 has been lacklustre and largely driven by immigration, says report
(9 Jun 2024)
Hiding in plain sight: The Government’s record on taxes and the challenges ahead
(8 Jun 2024)
Tax rises of £800 a year coming whoever wins UK election, thinktank finds
(8 Jun 2024)
A New Measure Shows C.E.O. Pay at Even More Astronomical Levels
(7 Jun 2024)
An inherited problem: only a small minority of estates are subject to inheritance tax
(7 Jun 2024)
Why Labour must adopt radical new tax policies – including on wealth and capital gains
(2 Jun 2024)
Crime and punishment: how 14 years of Tory rule have changed Britain – in charts
(2 Jun 2024)
An introduction to the UK tax gap
(30 May 2024)
Private equity and the regulation of financialised infrastructure: the case of Macquarie in Britain's water and energy networks
(29 May 2024)
A new triple locked personal allowance for pensioners?
(28 May 2024)
Is there a tax avoidance magic money tree?
(27 May 2024)
The Guardian view on private equity and public services: this trend needs reversing
(27 May 2024)
Thames Water pumped 14bn litres of sewage into Thames in central London in 2023
(27 May 2024)
Tax loophole ‘hands £4bn to private equity’
(27 May 2024)
BUY BACK BETTER: THE CASE FOR RAISING TAXES ON DIVIDENDS AND BUYBACKS
(26 May 2024)
'Wealth taxes will cause the rich to flee’: 12 wealth tax myths debunked
(25 May 2024)
How private equity rolled Red Lobster
(24 May 2024)
Thames Water Kemble Bonds Hit Fresh Lows As Board Clears Out
(21 May 2024)
Water investors have withdrawn billions, says research
(20 May 2024)
Average British house price hits record high of £375,000
(20 May 2024)
Infected blood scandal: who failed the victims, and who fought for them
(20 May 2024)
Post-Brexit border checks forecast to cost UK £4.7bn, says NAO
(20 May 2024)
Post Office scandal: how did Paula Vennells, an ordained priest, fall so far and so fast from grace?
(19 May 2024)
How Britain became the world’s worst on homelessness
(18 May 2024)
The Times view on Britain’s utility companies: Troubled Waters
(18 May 2024)
Democide: More than 200,000 pensioners died while waiting for social care since Tory pledge, data shows
(18 May 2024)
About 100 sub-postmaster convictions separate to Post Office cases may be 'tainted'
(17 May 2024)
UK water companies embrace PFI to deliver £14bn of infrastructure
(17 May 2024)
UNITE Report: Profiteering is breaking the economy
(16 May 2024)
Emergency food parcel distribution in the UK 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024 (Foodbanks)
(15 May 2024)
Nearly 40% of dirty money is laundered in London and UK crown dependencies
(14 May 2024)
Monbiot: Some democracy, this.
(13 May 2024)
Patient safety fears as nearly 60 GP surgeries sold to private equity without NHS approval
(12 May 2024)
House of Commons Library Tax statistics: an overview
(10 May 2024)
Patients suffering as prime minister fails to tackle waiting list crisis, RCN warns, as new analysis reveals decade of misery
(9 May 2024)
Post Office 'misled and deceived me' says key lawyer
(9 May 2024)
HOW TAXPAYERS SUBSIDISE PROFITS FROM CARE HOME REAL ESTATE
(8 May 2024)
Profiteering in care home sector likely to push costs up further, says report
(8 May 2024)
How Britain's big water firms are drowning in sea of debt
(7 May 2024)
Changing the narrative on wealth inequality
(4 May 2024)
How India Bailed out The West in World War II
(3 May 2024)
NAV 2.0: A better asset pricing model for private infra
(2 May 2024)
Water companies pay £2.5bn in dividends in two years as debt climbs by £8.2bn
(1 May 2024)
Rethinking economics: a discipline in disarray holds too much sway in the UK (MMT)
(30 Apr 2024)
Pay packets worth less than 2008 in nearly two-thirds of UK local authorities – TUC analysis reveals
(29 Apr 2024)
There’s a hard-right tidal wave about to hit Europe – and it will only make the economic crisis worse
(29 Apr 2024)
Thames Water collapse could trigger Truss-style borrowing crisis, Whitehall officials fear
(28 Apr 2024)
Why is Thames Water in so much trouble?
(28 Apr 2024)
Ofwat explores Thames Water break-up in ‘Project Telford’ rescue plan
(27 Apr 2024)
Introducing the Holistic Market Model - critique of CAPM, valuation of companies, cost of capital, discout rates
(25 Apr 2024)
Forget Everything You Know About Valuing Companies
(24 Apr 2024)
Thames Water debacle holds a harsh lesson about asset pricing models
(23 Apr 2024)
As recession looms, could MMT be the unorthodox solution?
(22 Apr 2024)
Does government debt matter any more? (MMT)
(21 Apr 2024)
‘No dividing line’: consultants advising private water companies also work for their regulator, Ofwat
(21 Apr 2024)
‘Dirty secret’: insiders say UK water firms knowingly break sewage laws
(20 Apr 2024)
Pensioners: The idea that all over-65s are well off is a nonsense
(20 Apr 2024)
People of State Pension age receive over £1,400 each month in these European countries
(19 Apr 2024)
Recent trends in and the outlook for health-related benefits
(19 Apr 2024)
Thames Water submits new plan to raise bills by 56%
(19 Apr 2024)
Thames Water could benefit from a spell of public ownership
(19 Apr 2024)
Deloitte - Horizon Desk Top Review of Assurance Sources and Key Control Features (Post Office Scandal) report prepared on 29 May 2014
(18 Apr 2024)
Spending as much as other countries but taxing less is unlikely to be sustainable
(17 Apr 2024)
A quick guide to Thames Water’s serpentine capital structure
(16 Apr 2024)
NHS backlog data analysis
(12 Apr 2024)
Sold down the river: England’s broken water industry is a case study in the dangers of dogmatic privatisation
(10 Apr 2024)
NHS hospital bed numbers
(9 Apr 2024)
What's going on with UK water stocks?
(8 Apr 2024)
Only 1,500 people compensated so far over prepayment meters, Ofgem says
(3 Apr 2024)
Thames Water on road to state rescue amid investor standoff with Ofwat
(28 Mar 2024)
Investors are making a fortune from UK healthcare. Why is nobody holding private equity to account?
(13 Mar 2024)
It’s official: The UK is the second-most miserable nation in the world
(8 Mar 2024)
The Mental State of the World in 2023
(8 Mar 2024)
OBR - Economic and fiscal outlook March 2024
(6 Mar 2024)
Spring Budget 2024 speech
(6 Mar 2024)
How wealth taxes could fund a fairer, greener Britain
(29 Feb 2024)
Notting Hill residents’ capital gains exceed people of ‘three cities combined’
(20 Feb 2024)
Who would be affected by Capital Gains Tax reform?
(20 Feb 2024)
HMRC investigations of wealthy ‘tax dodgers’ halve in five years
(18 Feb 2024)
Why is Labour still using the self-defeating, discredited ‘maxed out credit card’ analogy?
(15 Feb 2024)
Too little, too late: Why we need to rethink inheritance tax
(14 Feb 2024)
Tax Reliefs: The hard truth is that Britain’s entrepreneurs simply don’t innovate
(10 Feb 2024)
Raising UK state pension age to 71 would bring ‘misery’ to millions
(8 Feb 2024)
UK women ‘need to work extra 19 years to retire with same pension pot as men’
(7 Feb 2024)
Pension: £59,000 is the astonishing annual income couples now need to enjoy a 'comfortable' retirement - so is YOUR pension pot on track?
(7 Feb 2024)
Pension: SNP press UK Government on compensation bill for Waspi women
(6 Feb 2024)
UK state pension age will soon need to rise to 71, say experts
(5 Feb 2024)
The UK and other ageing populations will have to increase their state pension age to 71 by 2050 to maintain the number of workers per retiree
(5 Feb 2024)
The state pension is doomed to disappear
(5 Feb 2024)
One in four adults currently has less than £500 in savings
(1 Feb 2024)
The State of the UK Economy 2024 - One in ten with £1 remuneration paid only 10% – less than someone on the minimum wage
(31 Jan 2024)
Britons have £10,000 LESS disposable income than in 2010
(26 Jan 2024)
PROFIT AND DEBT IN CHILDREN’S SOCIAL CARE – THERE ARE SOLUTIONS
(19 Jan 2024)
Taken, not earned: How monopolists drive the world’s power and wealth divide
(18 Jan 2024)
Press Release - Taken, not Earned: How monopolists drive the world’s power and wealth divide
(18 Jan 2024)
Woodford compensation deal ‘could set dangerous precedent’
(17 Jan 2024)
Democide: Covid-19: risk of death in UK care homes 13 times higher than in Germany
(16 Jan 2024)
Shadow Banking: Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?
(15 Jan 2024)
Democide: Health inequalities ‘caused 1m early deaths in England in last decade’
(8 Jan 2024)
Some thoughts on accounting for the national debt
(5 Jan 2024)
Medieval inflation medicine
(1 Jan 2024)
Tackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost
(31 Dec 2023)
The good news this Christmas is that £1 trillion of the UK’s national debt does not exist
(24 Dec 2023)
Government cannot demonstrate value for money for untold billions of taxpayer-funded procurement
(14 Dec 2023)
State pension warning as millions of over-55s risk being £2,643 short of basic income
(13 Dec 2023)
UK to remain global centre of ‘dirty money’ without offshore registers, MPs say
(7 Dec 2023)
Where do we find the £100bn needed to fix Britain? Margaret Hodge has the answer
(30 Nov 2023)
Democide: At least 20,000 annual UK cancer deaths avoidable, says charity
(28 Nov 2023)
HM Treasury: Autumn Statement 2023 Chancellor speech
(22 Nov 2023)
HM Treasury: Autumn Statement 2023
(22 Nov 2023)
Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) Economic and fiscal outlook November 2023
(22 Nov 2023)
IFS: Autumn Statement 2023 response
(22 Nov 2023)
Halving inheritance tax would give away an average of £180,000 to the top 5% of estates at death
(20 Nov 2023)
Techno-Feudalism Is Taking Over
(17 Nov 2023)
Most NHS maternity units not safe enough, says regulator
(16 Nov 2023)
Private firms harming NHS patients by failing to deliver medicines, Lords report warns
(16 Nov 2023)
Profiteering: Price paid for offshore power to rise by 66%
(16 Nov 2023)
Carillion director disqualification proceedings dropped – but where next for NEDs?
(15 Nov 2023)
UK plans to scale back corporate governance reforms after business backlash
(15 Nov 2023)
UK to loosen post-Brexit chemical regulations further
(14 Nov 2023)
Liz Truss backs plan to cut minimum wage, paid holidays and redundancy cash
(14 Nov 2023)
The Growth Budget 2023
(14 Nov 2023)
Poverty: Millions of UK households forced to unplug fridge or freezer amid rising bills
(14 Nov 2023)
Homelessness, Destitution, and Hunger Soar in the UK
(13 Nov 2023)
Five charts explaining the state of the UK’s rental sector
(13 Nov 2023)
We’re Still Living Under Capitalism, Not “Techno-Feudalism”
(12 Nov 2023)
Capitalism is dead. Now we have something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism, Starmer, and the tyranny of big tech
(11 Nov 2023)
Capitalism is dead: long live Technofeudalism
(10 Nov 2023)
Are We Living Under ‘Technofeudalism’?
(9 Nov 2023)
Nothing to Lose but Their Chains
(8 Nov 2023)
THE KING’S SPEECH 2023
(7 Nov 2023)
Boris Johnson referred to Treasury as ‘pro-death squad’, inquiry hears
(6 Nov 2023)
Minimum service levels for passenger rail: government response and policy approach
(6 Nov 2023)
UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy
(5 Nov 2023)
Understanding retirement in the UK
(1 Nov 2023)
Early retirement in England increasingly preserve of wealthy, report shows
(1 Nov 2023)
Ecclestone lawyer claimed £40m payments were gifts
(31 Oct 2023)
Britons living overseas for over 15 years likely to win voting right before next election
(30 Oct 2023)
How the Tories, inspired by Republicans, have fixed the voting system in their favour
(28 Oct 2023)
Destitution in the UK 2023
(24 Oct 2023)
More than 1 million UK children experienced destitution last year, study finds
(24 Oct 2023)
1m children in most extreme poverty as figure almost trebles since 2017
(24 Oct 2023)
The Tories have created a new poverty – one so deep and vicious it requires Victorian vocabulary
(24 Oct 2023)
Destitution in the UK 2023
(24 Oct 2023)
Green Budget 2023:
The Chancellor is in a fiscal bind as low growth and high debt interest payments limit any room for manoeuvre in the forthcoming Autumn Statemen
t (17 Oct 2023)
How hollowed-out firms manufacture their distributable profits
(17 Oct 2023)
UK government shelves stricter company disclosure rules
(17 Oct 2023)
The strange death of corporate Britain
(17 Oct 2023)
How to Estimate Distributable Reserves
(17 Oct 2023)
Burdensome legislation withdrawn in latest move to cut red tape for businesses - The Government has withdrawn draft regulations after consultation with companies raised concerns about imposing additional reporting requirement
s (16 Oct 2023)
What does the decrease in the number of HSE inspections mean for industry safety?
(17 Oct 2023)
Democide: Deprivation causes extra 33,000 UK cancer cases each year, analysis finds
(14 Oct 2023)
Freezing working-age benefits next April would save the Treasury up to £4.2 billion but plunge an additional 400,000 children into poverty
(14 Oct 2023)
Pensions: Almost a quarter of older Londoners living in poverty, charity warns
(13 Oct 2023)
Carillion: Record fine for KPMG over 'exceptional' failure
(12 Oct 2023)
FRC Sanctions against KPMG LLP, KPMG Audit plc and two former partners
(12 Oct 2023)
FRC, KPMG and Carillion - SUMMARY OF FINDINGS IN DECISION 1
(12 Oct 2023)
FRC, KPMG and Carillion - SUMMARY OF FINDINGS IN DECISION 2
(12 Oct 2023)
Conspicuous Destruction
: Two new books argue that the private equity industry has created an economic order in which getting rich quickly preempts every other value, undermining companies and evading the law
(11 Oct 2023)
Labour is right: billions were lost to Covid fraud, and the public deserve a reckoning
(11 Oct 2023)
UK interest rates will need to stay high into 2024, warns IMF
(10 Oct 2023)
Labour will empower water regulator to ban bosses’ bonuses until they clean up their filth
(10 Oct 2023)
Peter Mandelson calls for Labour caution in improving workers’ rights
(9 Oct 2023)
Nobel economics prize awarded to Claudia Goldin for work on women's pay
(9 Oct 2023)
Water companies’ secrecy over sewage data is ‘self-sabotage
(9 Oct 2023)
Rachel Reeves echoes Thatcher as she vows to recover money lost to fraud during pandemic
(9 Oct 2023)
‘Covid corruption commissioner’ would seek to recoup lost billions, says Labour
(8 Oct 2023)
Thames Water says pollution fine limits needed to win over investors
(8 Oct 2023)
Angus Deaton on inequality: ‘The war on poverty has become a war on the poor’
(8 Oct 2023)
“Energy firms adding £242 to energy bills as profits soar”
(8 Oct 2023)
Thames Water says pollution fine limits needed to win over investors
(7 Oct 2023)
Taxpayers to pay £40bn due to threshold freeze, think tank says
(7 Oct 2023)
Energy firms operating costs making up £242 of customers’ bills, report reveals
(7 Oct 2023)
Energy firms holding £8.1bn of customers' money
(7 Oct 2023)
Code of Practice on ‘reasonable steps’ in relation to Minimum Service Levels Consultation
(6 Oct 2023)
Tories insist private schools need tax breaks – but take it from an expert, they’re raking it in
(6 Oct 2023)
Removing tax exemptions from private schools likely to have little effect on numbers in the private sector, raising £1.3–1.5 billion in net terms
(6 Oct 2023)
Tax, private school fees and state school spending
(6 Oct 2023)
Profiteering in care home sector likely to push costs up further, says report
(4 Oct 2023)
Council leaders told billions being taken out of care system by profiteering and property finance
(2 Oct 2023)
Just 11 ‘wealthy’ people prosecuted for tax fraud last year
(30 Sep 2023)
HMRC prosecutes just 11 wealthy individuals in the past year
(30 Sep 2023)
Labour would close tax loopholes to fund election pledges
(28 Sep 2023)
London’s AIM Market Faces Risk Over Inheritance Tax Policy Change
(27 Sep 2023)
IPPR Report - Fairer taxes, smarter spending: A recipe for sustainable growth
(27 Sep 2023)
IPPR Report: FAIRER TAXES, SMARTER SPENDING - A RECIPE FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH
(27 Sep 2023)
Childcare and Poverty - Early years spending update: Budget reforms and beyond
(26 Sep 2023)
Study finds free childcare reform has ‘little benefit’ to poorer families
(26 Sep 2023)
Democide: UK’s cost of living crisis will cause thousands of premature deaths, study says
(26 Sep 2023)
Democide: Population mortality impacts of the rising cost of living in Scotland: scenario modelling study
(26 Sep 2023)
Labour vows to push through UK audit and corporate governance reforms
(25 Sep 2023)
New report reveals huge profits and low taxes made from care home real estate
(19 Sep 2023)
HOW TAXPAYERS SUBSIDISE PROFITS FROM CARE HOME REAL ESTATE
(19 Sep 2023)
28% of over 55-year-olds purely rely on state pension
(18 Sep 2023)
Why the triple lock will push up the state pension age
(17 Sep 2023)
How did increasing the state pension age from 65 to 66 affect household incomes?
(16 Sep 2023)
Over-65s rely heavily on state pension
(15 Sep 2023)
Pensions: Women get 35% less than men due to care responsibilities
(14 Sep 2023)
10 ways to avoid inheritance tax: How to stop the taxman grabbing some of your estate
(11 Sep 2023)
Tory MPs call on Jeremy Hunt to dismiss proposals by a Treasury advisor to tax businesses that give out pay rises of more than 3% in a bid to curb inflation
(10 Sep 2023)
Pensioner poverty: fear of rise over decades as UK under-40s wealth falls
(10 Sep 2023)
State pension and triple lock: What is it worth and when do you get it?
(8 Sep 2023)
Triple lock could add £45bn a year to state pensions bill by 2050, IFS says
(8 Sep 2023)
T
he triple lock: uncertainty for pension incomes and the public finances
(8 Sep 2023)
Which Nation Has Taxed the Rich the Most?
(7 Sep 2023)
Councils going bust, schools crumbling, the NHS in crisis: the answer is more tax
(7 Sep 2023)
Wealth is undertaxed by £170 billion a year in the UK
(6 Sep 2023)
Removing the VAT exemption from financial services could raise £8.7 billion in tax a year
(6 Sep 2023)
Income tax reform: Restricting pension tax relief to the basic rate of income tax
(6 Sep 2023)
Poverty in Britain is firmly linked to the country’s mountain of private wealth – Labour must address this growing inequality
(5 Sep 2023)
London is a major reason for the UK’s inequality problem. Unfortunately, City leaders don’t want to talk about it
(5 Sep 2023)
More than one in five Britons have cut pension payments in living cost crisis
(4 Sep 2023)
After Wilko, it’s time to shine a light on insolvency
(4 Sept 2023)
Auditor EY under fire over its green light for Wilko
(3 Sep 2023)
Less than Mexico: New research reveals ‘postcode lottery’ for NHS hospital beds
(31 Aug 2023)
Half of new state pension claimants receive full amount
(30 Aug 2023)
Half of people claiming new state pension receive full amount
(30 Aug 2023)
Democide: NHS waiting lists: estimated 340,000 died awaiting treatment in 2022
(30 Aug 2023)
Half of people claiming new state pension receive full amount
(29 Aug 2023)
UK Labour party: The curious case of Britain's forgotten 2017 election
(28 Aug 2023)
Households Below Average Income: an analysis of the UK income distribution: FYE 1995 to FYE 2022 (Poverty, Pensions)
(24 Aug 2023)
Why focus on corporation tax?’
(22 Aug 2023)
Ten Reasons to Defend the Corporation Tax
(22 Aug 2023)
Ten Reasons to Defend the Corporate Income Tax
(22 Aug 2023)
Executive Pay: FTSE 100 CEOs get half a million pound pay rise
(21 Aug 2023)
Executive Pay: Analysis of UK CEO Pay in 2022
(21 Aug 2023)
Food companies face investor calls to curb antibiotic use on farms
(20 Aug 2023)
Economy and Productivity: The UK is doing a shoddy job of keeping up with the neighbours
(19 Aug 2023)
Energy Crisis, Poverty and Cost of Living: Protecting Households from Price Surges
(18 Aug 2023)
Private equity has its sights on the NHS – and with it our faith in public services altogether
(17 Aug 2023)
Water: Victorian sewers not to blame for England’s pollution, research shows
(14 Aug 2023)
Let’s stop kidding ourselves we’re a rich nation and get real… the UK’s gone bust
(13 Aug 2023)
Wilko paid out £77m to owners before collapse
(12 Aug 2023)
Wilko shareholders were handed more than £10million before collapse risking 12,000 jobs
(12 Aug 2023)
The care-home squalor that costs a fortune
(10 Aug 2023)
Britons have become so mean that many of us think poor people don’t deserve leisure time
(8 Aug 2023)
Childcare sector in England must not become ‘playground for private equity’, experts say
(5 Aug 2023)
Report - Play fair: Equalising the taxation of earned and unearned income
(4 Aug 2023)
Play fair: Equalising the taxation of earned and unearned income (capital gains)
(4 Aug 2023)
Golden goose: why private equity is eyeing up UK essential services
(4 Aug 2023)
Basel III: Endgame
(31 Jul 2023)
Exploitation of care workers in England is ‘appalling’, says government adviser
(30 Jul 2023)
Why has Britain become so poor?
(30 Jul 2023)
More Donations to Politicians to Go Hidden from Public Eye as Michael Gove Quietly Changes the Rules Ahead of Election
(27 Jul 2023)
House of Commons Treasury Committee - Tax Reliefs
(26 Jul 2023)
Why we focus on corporation tax
(25 Jul 2023)
UK to run up highest debt interest bill in developed world
(25 Jul 2023)
Ditching two-child limit is a no-brainer. Why doesn’t Labour commit to it?
(25 Jul 2023)
No change, no hope: Starmer criticised after rejecting calls for bolder policies at Labour policy meeting, amid union fury
(24 Jul 2023)
Child Poverty Is Public Policy in the UK
(23 Jul 2023)
It won’t cost much to make free school meals a universal right
(23 Jul 2023)
38m patients wait over 14 days to see GP in England despite government pledge
(23 Jul 2023)
Private equity ownership of health services can worsen care, review says
(20 Jul 2023)
Britain proposes tougher rules on company payouts after Carillion collapse
(20 Jul 2023)
Britain is a developing country
(19 Jul 2023)
Income inequality ticks higher in the UK
(18 Jul 2023)
Effects of taxes and benefits on UK household income: financial year ending 2022
(18 Jul 2023)
THE PUBLIC SECTOR NEEDS A REAL PAY RISE
(18 Jul 2023)
Public sector pay rises of 10% would add little to inflation, says UK thinktank
(18 Jul 2023)
South East Water suffers £74m loss as extreme weather and inflation bite
(17 Jul 2023)
South East Water pays £9m dividend - despite imposing a hosepipe ban and falling to a £74.2m loss
(17 Jul 2023)
Companies House is a giant fraud robot. Will the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill stop it?
(14 Jul 2023)
Tory government suffers major defeat as High Court rules its “strike-breaking” agency worker regulations unlawful
(13 Jul 2023)
HIGH COURT JUDGEMENT - TRADE UNIONS AND GOVERNMENT REGULATION TO PERMIT AGENCY WORKERSTO BREAK STRIKES
(13 Jul 2023)
High court quashes rules letting agency workers cover for UK strikers
(13 Jul 2023)
Thames Water has worst year for sewage pollution in a decade
(13 Jul 2023)
British corporate profits surge second highest in the G7 amid claims of ‘greedflation’
(12 Jul 2023)
Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance report 2022
(12 Jul 2023)
Water and sewerage companies in England: environmental performance report 2022
(12 Jul 2023)
Reliance on the state must be nipped in the bud
(12 Jul 2023)
Water Privatisation is a Scandal
(11 Jul 2023)
Death of an Economic Theory
(8 Jul 2023)
Poor accounting by the ONS should not stop the necessary nationalisation of water companies
(7 Jul 2023)
Big business’ windfall profits rocket to “obscene” $1 trillion a year amid cost-of-living crisis; Oxfam and ActionAid renew call for windfall taxes
(6 Jul 2023)
The UK has one of the lowest life expectancies among rich countries. But why?
(6 Jul 2023)
The real problem with Britain’ s water companies
(6 Jul 2023)
Thames Water should not drain taxpayers’ money
(6 Jul 2023)
World’s 722 biggest companies ‘making $1tn in windfall profits’
(4 Jul 2023)
70% of central London properties sold this year bought with cash
(6 Jul 2023)
Big UK banks made more profit than those in Europe last year
(5 Jul 2023)
Let Thames Water die to teach everyone a lesson, says Citi
(5 Jul 2023)
Only 1 in 3,000 chance of going to prison for fraud
(4 Jul 2023)
Food bank use a ‘personal decision’, says veterans minister
(4 Jul 2023)
Water has a private equity, not a private ownership, issue
(3 Jul 2023)
Rishi Sunak vowed to get tough on universities as they're full of non-Tory voters
(2 Jul 2023)
Almost 13 million adults now struggling to pay bills
(2 Jul 2023)
Punishment without trial: Britain’s latest weapon in the war against dissent
(30 Jun 2023)
The 'fat cats' at nine water companies who pocketed 'excessive' £13M pay packages in past 12 months - including £2M-a-year boss at debt-ridden Thames Water now teetering on the brink of collapse
(30 Jun 2023)
Home energy bills likely to remain high, says British Gas owner
(30 Jun 2023)
In charts: how privatisation drained Thames Water’s coffers
(30 Jun 2023)
Who owns Thames Water, how much money does it owe and what might happen next?
(29 Jun 2023)
Seven common misconceptions about the Thames Water crisis
(29 Jun 2023)
Whitehall prepares for water nationalisations as Thames teeters on the brink
(28 Jun 2023)
A quick guide to Thames Water’s serpentine capital structure
(28 Jun 2023)
Europe’s Inflation Outlook Depends on How Corporate Profits Absorb Wage Gains
(27 Jun 2023)
Free school meals: Everything you need to know
(27 Jun 2023)
HMRC fined 184,000 low earners for not filing return despite no tax owing
(26 Jun 2023)
UK's high rate of avoidable deaths linked to NHS woes
(26 Jun 2023)
How does the NHS compare to the health care systems of other countries?
(26 Jun 2023)
Britons’ earlier deaths linked to NHS underinvestment
(26 Jun 2023)
UK mortgage-holders pay thousands more than Europeans
(26 Jun 2023)
Britain’s shorter children reveal a grim story about austerity, but its scars run far deeper
(25 Jun 2023)
How the UK’s housing system compares to the rest of the world – from renting to house prices
(25 Jun 2023)
The Myth That Drives Private Equity
(23 Jun 2023)
Britain’s productivity puzzle reflects not individual failings of workers, but dysfunctionalities in Britain’s model of capitalism and the politics that upholds it
(22 Jun 2023)
Measuring tax gaps 2023 edition: tax gap estimates for 2021 to 2022
(22 Jun 2023)
More than 200 companies named for not paying staff minimum wage
(21 Jun 2023)
UK’s best known retailers top list of firms fined £7m over pay breaches
(21 Jun 2023)
UK economy in growth ‘doom loop’ after decades of underinvestment
(20 Jun 2023)
UK has under-invested to the tune of half a trillion pounds, or 30 Elizabeth lines, says IPPR
(20 Jun 2023)
Now is the time to confront UK’s investment-phobia
(20 Jun 2023)
Why is UK Productivity Low and How Can It Improve?
(17 Jun 2023)
Virgin Galactic commercial space flights to start this month
(16 Jun 2023)
Private equity bought out your doctor and bankrupted Toys“R”Us — here’s why that matters
(16 Jun 2023)
What Explains Britain’s Authoritarian Turn?
(15 Jun 2023)
Tony Blair’s bet on gambling Britain has spiralled out of control
(15 Jun 2023)
LIBERTY LAUNCHES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST UK HOME SECRETARY FOR OVERRIDING PARLIAMENT ON PROTEST POWERS
(14 Jun 2023)
Public Order Act: UN slaps down Tory bid to criminalise ‘legitimate and important’ slow walking protests
(14 Jun 2023)
Labour must counter the Tory bonanza of uncosted policies. But not at the expense of childcare
(14 Jun 2023)
No growth in average earnings since 2005, ‘unprecedented’ data shows
(14 Jun 2023)
S
pace tourism: rockets emit 100 times more CO₂ per passenger than flights – imagine a whole industry
(14 Jun 2023)
Virgin Galactic’s use of the ‘Overview Effect’ to promote space tourism is a terrible irony
(13 Jun 2023)
ONS Data: Real average weekly earnings using consumer price inflation (seasonally adjusted)
(13 Jun 2023)
Reversing Parliamentary Defeat by Delegated Legislation: The Case of the Public Order Act 1986
(Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community)
Regulations 2023
(13 Jun 2023)
Cold, cynical and paranoid: if this is Labour in opposition, what will it look like in power?
(12 Jun 2023)
Pension funds hit buffers after rout on bond markets: Sainsbury's and M&S among thousands of firms to see value of schemes plunge
(11 Jun 2023)
How does the average UK house price compare to the average salary?
(10 Jun 2023)
A NEW AGE F INHERITANCE WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE UK?
(9 Jun 2023)
Unite Investigates: Food Profiteering Update - June 2023
(8 Jun 2023)
Government Fraud Quadruples on Rishi Sunak’s Watch, New Report Reveals
(6 Jun 2023)
The good life at the top: Analysing The Sunday Times Rich List 1989-2023
(5 Jun 2023)
FCA hits broker ED&F Man Capital Markets with record £17.2m fine over cum-ex trading
(5 Jun 2023)
I could not, in good conscience, vote for the debt ceiling bill
(2 Jun 2023)
Brexit, the environment, energy bills … it’s hard to tell Labour and Tory policies apart
(1 Jun 2023)
Beyond Growth: A Strategy for Tackling Power. My speech to the EU Conference
(29 May 2023)
Companies are becoming more profitable – but will it last?
(26 May 2023)
Look at what hedge funds really do – and tell me capitalism is about ‘rewarding risk’
(25 May 2023)
Why profits, not pay, have caused the cost of living crisis
(24 May 2025)
North Sea oil companies receive more money from the government than they pay in taxes
(23 May 2023)
The whole thing stinks’: water firms to pay £15bn to shareholders as customers foot sewage bill
(22 May 2023)
A lost generation are stuck living with their parents – and Tory talk of housebuilding won’t help them
(22 May 2023)
Two of Britain's biggest water firms to handout £550m to shareholders - despite sewage row and profits being dented
(21 May 2023)
Brexit has wrecked Britain’s car industry, but so have the Tories
(20 May 2023)
Democide: More than 23,000 died in A&E in England last year, data obtained by Labour shows
(19 May 2023)
Shell companies: Property register fines worth £1bn not yet imposed
(18 May 2023)
SFO secures 10 month sentence for former London Capital & Finance Plc CEO
(17 May 2023)
Getting inflation back to the 2% target − speech by Andrew Bailey
(17 May 2023)
Bank of England governor admits UK economy suffering from wage price spiral
(17 May 2023)
Not so much a shortage of skills as a shortage of pay
(13 May 2023)
Democide: Poor diabetes care may be behind 7,000 excess deaths
(10 May 2023)
UK water company dividends jump to £1.4bn despite criticism over sewage outflows
(8 May 2023)
We should take Sunak’s plan to tackle fraud with a barrel of salt
(7 May 2023)
Three failed US banks had one thing in common: KPMG
(5 May 2023)
Water giants are dumping sewage, so why can’t we? When the urge takes you, just head for the river
(30 Apr 2023)
‘Less than two fines a year’ issued for enabling failed tax avoidance schemes
(25 Apr 2023)
How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years
(21 Apr 2023)
Democide: More than 1,300 people died while homeless in UK during 2022
(20 Apr 2023)
Low Pay Britain 2023
(19 Apr 2023)
UK total pay fell by 4.1% on the year after taking inflation into account
(18 Apr 2023)
US executive pay bucked falling stock market in 2022
(16 Apr 2023)
Is India’s Rise Inevitable? The Roots of New Delhi’s Dysfunction
(14 Apr 2023)
Restoring the firewall between capital and democracy in the capitalist economy
(13 Apr 2023)
The Dawn of Austerity An interview with Clara E. Mattei, the author of
The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism
(12 Apr 2023)
Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected?
(11 Apr 2023)
Corporations Kill; Unravelling the commercial determinants of health
(2 Apr 2023)
Defining and conceptualising the commercial determinants of health
(2 Apr 2023)
Conceptualising commercial entities in public health: beyond unhealthy commodities and transnational corporations
(2 Apr 2023)
A decade of cuts: Legal aid in tatters
(1 Apr 2023)
Large ethnicity gap in real living wage, report finds
(31 Mar 2023)
French prosecutors raid five banks in massive tax fraud case
(29 Mar 2023)
Profit versus health: 4 ways big global industries make people sick
(28 Mar 2023)
Brexit damage as big as Covid, says OBR – predicting five years before incomes recover
(27 Mar 2023)
Raw sewage dumped into English waterways 800 times a day
(26 Mar 2023)
“Not safe from torture or ill-treatment”: why Britain is no longer a democracy
(25 Mar 2023)
Tax cuts for the wealthy only benefit the rich: debunking trickle-down economics
(25 Mar 2023)
Keeping tax low for the rich does not boost economy
(24 Mar 2023)
50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
(23 Mar 2023)
What Happens When Private Equity Firms Buy Hospitals?
(21 Mar 2023)
Watchdog to block shareholder payouts if UK water companies miss targets
(20 Mar 2023)
Excluding small businesses from anti-fraud legislation is asking for trouble
(18 Mar 2023)
One in seven UK-linked billionaires is resident in a tax haven
(17 Mar 2023)
How does France's pension age compare to other countries - and why has it sparked protests?
(17 Mar 2023)
FREEPORTS ARE MINI TAX HAVENS, THEY SHOULD HAVE NO PLACE IN SCOTLAND
(16 Mar 2023)
The Macroeconomics of Austerity
(15 Mar 2023)
UK Chancellor's Spring Budget 2023 speech
(15 Mar 2023)
Office for Budget Responsibility - Economic and fiscal outlook March 2023
(15 Mar 2023)
HM Treasury: Spring Budget 2023
(15 Mar 2023)
HM Treasury: Impact on households: distributional analysis to accompany Spring Budget 2023
(15 Mar 2023)
Corporate profiteering soars an astonishing 89% compared to pre-pandemic levels
(14 Mar 2023)
Gulnara Karimova: How Uzbek president’s daughter built a £200m property empire
(13 Mar 2023)
Why are we talking about Britain’s cost of living crisis? The real culprit is bosses’ ‘greedflation’
(13 Mar 2023)
Republicans Blame Silicon Valley Bank Failure on ‘Wokeness’
(13 Mar 2023)
Corruption: experts who praised new ‘skinny jab’ received payments from drug maker
(12 Mar 2023)
‘Global greedflation’: big firms ‘driving shopping bills to record highs’
(12 Mar 2023)
More than half of water bills in England help fund leading Chinese investment firms
(11 Mar 2023)
Network behind £70m criminal money laundering service dismantled
(11 Mar 2023)
Hundreds of people have been prosecuted for tax evasion in the last tw
o years
(10 Mar 2023)
Doubling of BP boss pay to £10m is a ‘kick in the teeth’, say campaigners
(10 Mar 2023)
Carried Too Far? A Challenge to the Tax Treatment of Carried Interest in the Private Equity Industry
(10 Mar 2023)
Why wages fell and profits surged
(10 Mar 2023)
Former Goldman Sachs Investment Banker Sentenced in $2.7B Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme
(9 Mar 2023)
Ex-Goldman banker given 10 years in prison for role in 1MDB fraud scandal
(9 Mar 2023)
Former Wall Street Precious Metal Traders Sentenced for Wire Fraud - traders employed at Deutsche Bank, Bank of America iand Morgan Stanley
(9 Mar 2023)
UK Pensioners’ Incomes Series: financial year 2020 to 2021
(8 Mar 2023)
The financial crisis lurking in the shadows: Why regulators must now turn their attention to shadow banking
(7 Mar 2023)
UK prosecutions of tax evasion enablers drops by 80 per cent
(6 Mar 2023)
Sunak is the Michael Corleone of the Tory party – try as he might to break free, he’s up to his neck in it
(4 Mar 2023)
Hancock Buried Rising Covid Cases Linked To 'Eat Out To Help Out', Messages Reveal
(4 Mar 2023)
The Macroeconomics of Austerity - £540bn cut in the UK public expendture
(3 Mar 2023)
Unemployment: Who are the millions of Britons not working?
(3 Mar 2023)
Capital losses: The role of London in the UK’s productivity puzzle
(2 Mar 2023)
How auditing giant KPMG became a global sustainability leader while serving companies accused of forest destruction
(1 Mar 2023)
Credit Suisse ‘seriously breached’ obligations on Greensill, says regulator
(28 Feb 2023)
Why UK Banks Are Being Very Coy About Profits
(28 Feb 2023)
Number of households in England in fuel poverty increases by 100,000
(28 Feb 2023)
Is private equity tearing the soul out of Morrisons supermarket?
(27 Feb 2023)
What private equity means for football
(27 Feb 2023)
Swiss regulator investigates 12 banks in Lebanese central banker corruption case
(27 Feb 2023)
Poverty: UK benefits fall short of minimum living cost by £140 a month, charities say
(26 Feb 2023)
Private equity-backed insurers under US scrutiny over risky loans
(26 Feb 2023)
Taxpayers on the hook for up to £200bn over Bank of England money-printing losses
(25 Feb 2023)
PPE Medpro fights back against UK government claim of contract breach
(23 Feb 2023)
UK Households below the Minimum Income Standard: 2008-2021
(22 Feb 2023)
KPMG settles £1.3bn lawsuit from Carillion creditors over alleged negligence
(17 Feb 2023)
Soaring fuel bills may push 141m more into extreme poverty globally
(16 Feb 2023)
Invisible Trillions review: global capitalism operates beyond the rule of law and threatens democracy
(15 Feb 2023)
Income inequality in the UK
(14 Feb 2023)
Akshata Murty held shares in collapsed firm that had near £300k ‘Sunak’ taxpayer loan
(13 Feb 2023)
Water firms could escape higher fines for pollution as ministers row back on tougher penalties
(12 Feb 2023)
Why the richest 5% are going to get richer during the cost of living crisis
(12 Feb 2023)
The Living Standards Outlook 2023
(11 Feb 2023)
Barclays probed by UK regulator over anti-money laundering systems
(10 Feb 2023)
Letter from The National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) relating to the Bank Signature Forgery Campaign (BSFC
(9 Feb 2023)
Why energy companies are making so much profit despite UK windfall taxes
(8 Feb 2023)
Britain is only G7 economy in Europe with falling wages, warns OECD
(8 Feb 2023)
BP sees biggest profit in 114-year history after oil and gas prices soar
(7 Feb 2023)
Register of Overseas Entities: What three luxury homes reveal about who owns UK property
(7 Feb 2023)
BP scales back climate goals as profits more than double to £23bn
(7 Feb 2023)
Prepayment meters: magistrates told to stop allowing forced installations
(6 Feb 2023)
EY under fire over its two roles at battery start-up Britishvolt
(4 Feb 2023)
Half of UK's vulnerable children live in poverty with 27,000 missing out on essentials
(4 Feb 2023)
Magistrates granting energy firms prepayment meter warrants in ‘private back rooms’ at court
(4 Feb 2023)
Michelle Mone’s £20m home owned by firms linked to tax avoidance schemes
(3 Feb 2023)
Britain Is Much Worse Off Than It Understands
(3 Feb 2023)
Shell is more serious about share buybacks than renewables
(3 Feb 2023)
Register of Overseas Entities - Dyson among British entrepreneurs who own UK property via overseas companies
(3 Feb 2023)
Pension triple lock unsustainable, warns IFS
(2 Feb 2023)
Shell announces record annual profits of £32.2bn after energy price surge
(2 Feb 2023)
Register of Oveaseas Entities: Corruption crackdown under new government anti money laundering laws
(1 Feb 2023)
The IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities
- Benefits and tax credits
(1 Feb 2023)
Register of Overseas Entities: Three Russians under sanctions own UK property via overseas entities
(31 Jan 2023)
UK PLUNGES TO LOWEST-EVER POSITION IN CORRUPTION PERCEPTIONS INDEX
(31 Jan 2023)
Corruption: My horror over the Nadhim Zahawi fiasco is that we just expect this stuff now
(30 Jan 2023)
Nadhim Zahawi: Letter from Sir Laurie Magnus to the Prime Minister, 29 January 2023
(29 Jan 2023)
Seven occasions when Nadhim Zahawi broke the ministerial code
(29 Jan 2023)
‘I can’t explain how exhausted I was’: Women hit by change in state pension age describe physical toll of work
(28 Jan 2023)
Bank of England winds up £19.3 billion emergency measures triggered by Liz Truss
(27 Jan 2023)
Britain lavishes benefits on plenty of rich pensioners. Let’s means test them now
(26 Jan 2023)
Former PwC partner banned for 2 years in Australia for leaking information
(26 Jan 2023)
Millions of broadband customers trapped between price hikes and exit fees of over £200
(26 Jan 2023)
Jim Chalmers ‘furious’ after former PwC tax adviser found to have shared confidential government briefings with staff
(25 Jan 2023)
UK placed in third tier in global index of free expression
(25 Jan 2023)
Index of Censorship
(25 Jan 2023)
Crypto firms acted like banks, then collapsed like dominoes
(24 Jan 2023)
Britishvolt Is a Monument to Global Britain’s Empty Hype
(23 Jan 2023)
How consecutive Conservative governments destroyed union rights – a timeline of the UK’s ati-strike
laws since the 1970s
(23 Jan 2023)
Shocking rise of 'something for nothing Britain': Over half of households get more from the State than they pay in tax... while top 10% of earners account for 53% of all income tax
(23 Jan 2023)
‘
Solvency II reforms risk GB failure
’ (23 Jan 2023)
Free market thinking that failed Britishvolt
(22 Jan 2023)
Business minister boasted Britishvolt was Brexit success story months before collapse
(22 Jan 2023)
Britishvolt timeline: From positive spark to flat battery in three years
(21 Jan 2023)
Workers' rights agency denies backing new UK strike law
(20 Jan 2023)
Britishvolt: how Britain’s bright battery future fell flat
(20 Jan 2023)
Bank of England Governor Questions Need For Digital Pound
(19 Jan 2023)
Big Bang 2.0 reforms increase risk to public, Bank of England warns
(18 Jan 2023)
UK worker shortfall due to Brexit curbs estimated at 330,000
(17 Jan 2022)
Battery startup Britishvolt enters administration as rescue talks fail
(17 Jan 2023)
Poverty and Inequalities: Richest 1% bag nearly twice as much wealth as the rest of the world put together over the past two years
(16 Jan 2023)
How do planned UK strike laws compare to France, Italy and Spain?
(16 Jan 2023)
Care providers ask for doubled fees to care for people discharged from hospitals
(9 Jan 2023)
Democide: Mortality rates among men and women: impact of austerity
(6 Jan 2023)
Why for-profit homes won’t solve long-term care issues: Privatizing health services is a bad idea that just won’t go away
(3 Jan 2023)
Retail: Last year saw a big jump in the number of shops closing
(2 Jan 2023)
UK Employment Law: Looking Ahead to 2023
(29 Dec 2022)
Dementia patients in England facing ‘national crisis’ in care safety
(28 Dec 2022)
Democide: Crisis in A&E departments drives 15,000 deaths
(23 Dec 2022)
Thatcher, Privatisation Strategy and the Economic Reconstructiion Group
(22 Dec 2022)
Thatcher had a battle plan for her economic revolution – now the left needs one too
(22 Dec 2022)
Private equity groups spot profit in UK’s nurseries
(21 Dec 2022)
NHS hospital beds data analysis
(21 Dec 2022)
Private equity’s debt tower is teetering
(20 Dec 2022)
Brexit costs government £40 billion a year in lost tax revenue
(20 Dec 2022)
Care workers paid £8,000 less than NHS equivalents in England - study
(20 Dec 2022)
It’s not only the NHS in trouble — the whole country is getting sicker
(19 Dec 2022)
The Guardian view on City reforms: banks need more regulation, not less
(19 Dec 2022)
Countdown starts on vital rights
(19 Dec 2022)
The strikes are a baleful legacy of a 12-year obsession with tax cuts and a small state
(18 Dec 2022)
MAKING POLLUTERS PAY - How the Emissions Trading Scheme should be harnessed to benefit people and climate
(18 Dec 2022)
Tax implications of the Register of Overseas Entities
(17 Dec 2022)
Antibiotics shortages: what’s causing them and how countries can minimise the impact
(17 Dec 2022)
Financial Services Bill: UK bank capital plans at odds with post Brexit vision
(16 Dec 2022)
EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business
(16 Dec 2022)
Tax dodging and non-compliance during pandemic cost UK £9bn
(16 Dec 2022)
UK’s Politics Now Wide Open to Foreign Donations, Peers Warn, as Government Scraps Time Limit on Brits’ Donations from Abroad
(14 Dec 2023)
8 REASONS TO SHARE THE WEALTH
(14 Dec 2022)
Deregulation: Andrew Bailey hits back at Rishi Sunak's plans to liberate the City of London
(13 Dec 2022)
Shadow Banking: Bank of England to stress test hedge funds and private equity lending
(13 Dec 2022)
Children’s care home workers ‘leaving sector for retail and hospitality jobs’
(13 Dec 2022)
THE NATIONAL LIVING INCOME GUARANTEEING A DECENT MINIMUM INCOME FOR ALL
(13 Dec 2022)
30 million in UK ‘priced out of decent standard of living by 2024’
(12 Dec 2022)
How much would a public sector pay rise really cost the UK government?
(11 Dec 2022)
Fakers, fast sign-ups and fraud: the crisis at the UK’s Companies House
(4 Dec 2022)
‘Competitiveness’ mantra must not let risky banking rise again
(4 Dec 2022)
Starmer's sly dig over private school tax stirs up hornet's nest that could leave him stung
(3 Dec 2022)
Private Equity: Blackstone limits withdrawals at $125bn property fund as investors rush to exit
(2 Dec 2022)
England’s water can be renationalised without compensation, activists say
(2 Dec 2022)
England’s water: the world’s piggy bank
(1 Dec 2022)
Social-care insurance scheme needed, David Cameron says
(1 Dec 2022)
State pension age could rise sooner despite falling life expectancy, minister hints
(30 Nov 2022)
Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership
(30 Nov 2022)
Water firms’ debts since privatisation hit £54bn as Ofwat refuses to impose limits
(30 Nov 2022)
Emma Sleep: CMA investigates online selling practices based on ‘urgency’ claims
(30 Nov 2022)
Losing energy support will mean ‘fuel poverty for more than 7m’ in UK
(30 Nov 2022)
Energy prices to rise for some in January – and it's worse for those who prepay or pay on receipt of bills
(29 Nov 2022)
HSE annual workplace stats: Rise in construction deaths while 1.8m cite work-related ill health
(26 Nov 2023)
The state of the adult social care sector and workforce in England
(25 Nov 2022)
Social care 360: expenditure
(24 Nov 2022)
Social care 360: access
(24 Nov 2022)
Government should provide insurance against dementia care costs, David Cameron says
(23 Nov 2022)
Labour would abolish the House of Lords
(22 Nov 2022)
NHS staff from overseas: statistics
(22 Nov 2022)
A Commentary
on the UK Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, delivered on 21 November 2022
(22 Nov 2022)
UK government under fire over ‘inexplicable’ Bulb decision
(21 Nov 2022)
Starmer’s Lords plan is bad news for England
(21 Nov 2022)
A wealth tax by another name? Inheritance tax and CGT raid on the middle class to rake in £130bn in the coming years
(20 Nov 2022)
Keir Starmer: I will abolish House of Lords to ‘restore trust in politics’
(19 Nov 2022)
British workers are living through a two-decade wage stagnation costing £15,000
(19 Nov 2022)
Feed the Future: Jeremy Hunt ignores pleas to expand free school meals in autumn Budget
(19 Nov 2022)
UK government upholds £20 billion commitment to research and development
(19 Nov 2022)
How will Jeremy Hunt’s budget affect me?
(18 Nov 2022)
This isn’t fair’: public sector workers react to autumn statement
(18 Nov 2022)
Office for Budget Responsibility Economic and fiscal outlook November 2022
(18 Nov 2022)
Overview of the November 2022 Economic and fiscal outlook
(18 Nov 2022)
HM Treasury Analysis - AUTUMN STATEMENT 2022
(18 Nov 2022)
HM Treasury - Impact on households: distributional analysis to accompany Autumn Statement 2022
(18 Nov 2022)
UK energy windfall tax: what it is and why it needs to change
(17 Nov 2022)
The Autumn Statement 2022 speech
(17 Nov 2022)
NHS and schools to get £11,200,000,000 extra funding over next two years
(17 Nov 2022)
HMRC: Energy Taxes Factsheet
(17 Nov 2022)
Benefits rise brings relief but stark warning from poverty campaigners
(17 Nov 2022)
Adult Social Care Statistics in England: An Overview
(17 Nov 2022)
NHS: How does UK health spending compare across Europe over the past decade?
(16 Nov 2022)
UK strike levels soar as public sector workers face worst pay squeeze
(16 Nov 2022)
Labour seeks to protect face-to-face bank branches by forcing Commons vote
(16 Nov 2022)
Inflation set to wipe out £184billion of UK savings this year with average household set to lose £1,087 in real terms... so should you invest instead?
(15 Nov 2022)
Poverty: Four million children now live in households on universal credit
(15 Nov 2022)
UK must act over poverty, housing and equal rights, says UN body
(15 Nov 2022)
Poverty: Inquest finds toddler killed by mould exposure in ‘defining moment for housing sector’
(15 Nov 2022)
I was the chairman of Greggs. The wealthy should be paying more tax
(14 Nov 2022)
Household debt: statistics and impact on economy
(14 Nov 2022)
NHS: The Number of Recommended Hospital Beds Per 1 000 People
(13 Nov 2022)
Number of Britons on poverty pay set to hit 5.1 million next year
(13 Nov 2022)
From two PMs to three levelling up secretaries, the 147 government resignations and sackings this year
(12 Nov 2022)
Voter ID list gives few election options for younger voters
(11 Nov 2022)
Beware Tory propaganda on the public finances – economics is not a neutral science
(10 Nov 2022)
Why are so many nurses leaving the NHS?
(9 Nov 2022)
VOTER ID: ‘It’s Far Worse than Any US State
(9 Nov 2022)
Cost of living: Millions have no savings as prices soar
(8 Nov 2022)
Call for more light on shadow banking
(8 Nov 2022)
There is no ‘black hole’
(8 Nov 2022)
Billionaires emit a million times more greenhouse gases than the average person, study finds
(8 Nov 2022)
New State Pension figures suggest that 1.9 million people over 66 are receiving less than £100 per week
(7 Nov 2022)
Fat cats: Bonus bonanza boosts FTSE 100 chief executives’ pay by nearly a quarter
(7 Nov 2022)
Surprise rise in over-50s who now shun work: Bank of England warns number has unexpectedly jumped since the summer
(6 Nov 2022)
Former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's Budget fire sale has cost pensions £75bn, according to a report by a US investment bank
(5 Nov 2022)
Britons now have the worst access to healthcare in Europe, and it shows
(5 Nov 2022)
Can the Financial Services and Markets Bill create net-zero opportunities for the UK?
(4 Nov 2022)
Extreme heart care disruption linked to 30,000 excess deaths involving heart disease
(4 Nov 2022)
UK Household indebtedness and financial stability
(3 Nov 2022)
The Guardian view on the Bank of England: on the side of profit, not people
(3 Nov 2022)
Britain to go it alone for now on reining in 'shadow banking
' (2 Nov 2022)
NHS haemorrhaging money to PFI companies
(2 Nov 2022)
Bank of England sells £750 million worth of bonds at first QE unwind auction
(1 Nov 2022)
Bank of England begins selling government bonds
(1 Nov 2022)
OCTOBER 2022
£1.3 trillion is wiped off value of UK bonds in record sell-off
(29 Oct 2022)
UK government debt and deficit: June 2022
(28 Oct 2022)
Oil and gas firms are still making a killing – and No 10 is letting them
(28 Oct 2022)
UK should match Norway’s 78% North Sea oil and gas tax, thinktank says
(28 Oct 2022)
Sunak explores tax rises and spending cuts of up to £50bn
(28 Oct 2022)
Profits at world’s seven biggest oil firms soar to almost £150bn this year
(27 Oct 2022)
6 in 10 believe the main priority of business should be delivering better pay for their workers
(27 Oct 2022)
UK Real Wages Fell at Sharpest Pace Since 2010 Financial Crisis
(26 Oct 2022)
Three million workers risk being dragged into higher tax bands
(25 Oct 2022)
How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
(25 Oct 2022)
The Bank of England Is Central Banking’s Crash Test Dummy
(24 Oct 2022)
Public sector finances, UK: September 2022
(23 Oct 2022)
It is tragic how far Britain has fallen
(22 Oct 2022)
UK Taxpayers Take First Ever Loss From BOE QE Holdings
(21 Oct 2022)
Central Government Supply Estimates 2022-23 Out-of-Turn Supplementary Estimates (see page 59 for QE losses)
(20 Oct 2022)
Latest key statistics on adult social care include council spending in 2021-22: statistical press release
(20 Oct 2022)
UK Treasury to Transfer £11 Billion to BOE to Cover QE Losses
(19 Oct 2022)
Care home stats: number of settings, population & workforce
(16 Oct 2022)
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'Shadow banks,' indebted firms to be launch pad for next crisis, warns Nobel-winner economist
(15 Oct 2022)
COVID support schemes 'lost billions to fraud and error', report finds
(14 Oct 2022)
Covid furlough scheme ‘lost billions of pounds to error and fraud’
(13 Oct 2022)
Shadow banking: What is the opaque, unregulated network of lenders threatening stability of the financial system?
(13 Oct 2022)
National Audit Office Report: Delivery of employment support schemes in response to the Covid-19 pandemic
(13 Oct 2022)
1 in 5 residential care workers in the UK living in poverty before cost-of-living crisis
(11 Oct 2022)
Shadow banking: The hidden nasties lurking in the financial system
(10 Oct 2022)
Kwasi Kwarteng’s pledge to OBR over public spending
(9 Oct 2022)
Shadow Banking: Woodford-style run on funds worth $41 trillion threaten global stability
(8 Oct 2022)
Lord Elgin paid no British customs tax on Parthenon marbles, letters suggest
(8 Oct 2022)
Freeze state pensions and slash ‘non-frontline’ NHS and schools staff, said No 10’s economic adviser
(8 Oct 2022)
The broken US economy breeds inequality and insecurity. Here’s how to fix it
(7 Oct 2022)
Britain’s shadow banking system is raising serious concerns after bond market storm
(7 Oct 2022)
The £895bn Quantitative Easing (QE) monster is really to blame for the market meltdown
(7 Oct 2022)
How a ‘safe bet’ brought gilt markets to the brink
(7 Oct 2022)
‘Windfall tax’ on wind and solar companies set to be unveiled next week
(7 Oct 2022)
Europe’s gas price cap options, explained
(7 Oct 2022)
Insolvencies rise as companies worry about energy bills
(7 Oct 2022)
Facebook UK pays £29m corporation tax despite record £3.3bn sales
(6 Oct 2022)
The Guardian view on race and poverty: a worsening divide
(6 Oct 2022)
Britain’s shadow banking system is raising serious concerns after bond market storm
(6 Oct 2022)
Quantitative Easing: Bank of England slams brakes on emergency bond buy-out
(6 Oct 2022)
Mini-Budget: Reforms, roll-outs and freezes in the tax and benefit system
(6 Oct 2022)
IFS: Millions in Britain ‘face stealth tax raid’ under Liz Truss’s plans
(6 Oct 2022)
Lobbying and capture of the State: 'Taken Over by Big Fat Cat Sponsors’ Making Friends and Influencing Ministers at Conservative Conference
(6 Oct 2022)
Gordon Brown says there will be a 'national uprising' if Tories slash benefits for poor
(5 Oct 2022)
Over 330,000 excess deaths in Great Britain linked to austerity
(5 Oct 2022)
Government for Sale: Liz Truss raised £500,000 for bid to be leader, register of interests reveal
(5 Oct 2022)
Teachers' pay: Which countries pay the most and the least in Europe?
(5 Oct 2022)
Alarm over dismantling of UK nature laws
(5 Oct 2022)
Energy price guarantee could cost taxpayer £140bn in 'extreme' scenario, market expert warns
(5 Oct 2022)
UK price cap on household energy bills expected to cost £89bn
(5 Oct 2022)
UK Government introduces second Economic Crime Bill into Parliament
(5 Oct 2022)
UK power companies threatened with legislation to limit revenues
(4 Oct 2022)
Making the poor poorer is a false economy
(4 Oct 2022)
Scary’ market turmoil makes investors wary of UK private equity
(3 Oct 2022)
It will spark strikes and protests, but public sector pay has to fall
(3 Oct 2022)
Unions brand bid to exempt firms with up 500 staff from new rules ‘reckless’
(2 Oct 2022)
Red tape cut for thousands of growing businesses
(2 Oct 2022)
Minister says Rees-Mogg wants to ditch ‘all business regulations’ for SMEs
(2 Oct 2022)
Free Trade: Why Did the Slave Trade Survive So Long?
(1 Oct 2022)
SEPTEMBER 2022
UK is only G7 country with smaller economy than before Covid-19
(30 Sep 2022)
UK climate activists held in jail for up to six months before trial
(30 Sep 2022)
Serco injected £60m to prop up pension fund after market meltdown
(30 Sep 2022)
The Financial Services and Markets Bill – second reading
(29 Sep 2022)
I got rich by betting that inequality would destroy the U.S. and U.K. I’m sorry
(29 Sept 2022)
UK pension funds sell assets and tap employers in rush for cash
(29 Sep 2022)
Private pension statistics commentary: September 2022
(28 Sept 2022)
How regulation can prepare the ground for economic growth
(27 Sep 2022)
BOE’s QE Portfolio Is £200 Billion in the Red After UK Rout
(26 Sep 2022)
Labour are much better at running the economy than voters think – new research
(25 Sep 2022)
Public ownership of clean power: lower bills, climate action, decent jobs
(24 Sep 2022)
Nationalised energy could save UK households up to £4,400, TUC says
(24 Sep 2022)
One in six UK public procurement contracts (PPE) had tax haven link
(24 Sep 2022)
HM Treasury: THE GROWTH PLAN 2022
(23 Sep 2022)
The Growth Plan 2022 speech
(23 Sep 2022)
Chancellor announces new Growth Plan with biggest package of tax cuts in generations
(23 Sep 2022)
IFS Mini-Budget response
(23 Sep 2022)
Five charts that will underpin chancellor’s mini-budget
(23 Sep 2022)
From stamp duty to defence spending: what will Kwarteng’s mini-budget do?
(22 Sep 2022)
UK in recession and further interest rate hikes probable, Bank warns Kwarteng
(22 Sep 2022)
Private equity may become a ‘pyramid scheme’, warns Danish pension fund
(22 Sep 2022)
New crackdown on fraud and money laundering to protect UK economy
(22 Sep 2022)
Donald Trump sued for 'years of bank, tax and insurance fraud'
(21 Sep 2022)
UK Government outlines plans to help cut energy bills for businesses
(21 Sep 2022)
Energy bills – latest: Cost of support for businesses ‘could be up to £48bn’
(21 Sep 2022)
‘Not good enough’: four companies give their verdict on the energy plan
(21 Sep 2022)
Firms still fretting over energy bills despite price cap
(21 Sep 2022)
Energy cap does not go far enough to help schools, UK headteachers warn
(21 Sep 2022)
Government business energy plans are a taxpayer funded ‘panic measure’ as job fears grow
(21 Sep 2022)
Energy bailout will benefit corporate giants who don’t need it, MPs warn
(21 Sep 2022)
Germany nationalises gas giant amid energy crisis
(21 Sep 2022)
Money Laundering: Westminster council plans crack down on ‘dirty money
(21 Sep 2022)
Firms still fretting over energy bills despite price cap
(20 Sep 2022)
Cutting corporation tax is not a magic bullet for increasing investment
(20 Sep 2022)
Truss admits her tax cuts will disproportionately benefit the rich - and says she's prepared to be an unpopular PM to boost economy
(20 Sep 2022)
Liz Truss warned corporation tax cuts have not fuelled investment
(20 Sep 2022)
Britain blames Brussels for driving up UK energy bills in explosive new Brexit row
(20 Sep 2022)
‘Polluters must pay’: UN chief calls for windfall tax on fossil fuel companies
(20 Sep 2022)
Workers who lose their jobs face £7,500 stealth tax raid
(20 Sep 2022)
Inequality: Number of global ultra high net worth individuals hits record high
(20 Sep 2022)
UK unions seek legal review of government’s strike-breaking laws
(20 Sep 2022)
ENERGY PRICE AND COST-OF-LIVING CRISIS: A CRISIS OF POVERTY, INEQUALITY, DEMOCRACY AND FAILED ECONOMIC POLICIES
(19 Sep 2022)
Vulnerable countries demand global tax to pay for climate-led loss and damage
(19 Sep 2022)
Activists call for FCA reforms in Brexit bill
(16 Sep 2022)
The sovereign’s wealth: UK royal family’s finances – explained
(14 Sep 2022)
EU expects to raise €140bn from windfall tax on energy firms
(14 Sep 2022)
Link Group to defy City on Neil Woodford fine
(14 Sep 2022)
Number of people in UK with long-term sickness rose to record 2.5m in July - Almost 400,000 have exited jobs market with long-term health problems
(13 Sep 2022)
Liz Truss energy and tax plan ‘will give richest families twice as much support’
(13 Sep 2022)
Link faces additional £50m fine from FCA over Woodford probe
(13 Sep 2022)
Woodford fund investors could be in line for £306m in compensation
(12 Sep 2022)
Let’s not forget to scrutinise the new energy policy
(11 Sep 2022)
Household indebtedness and financial stability
(8 Sep 2022)
Why the Tories are suddenly into printing money and borrowing
(7 Sep 2022)
How do household energy bills compare across Europe?
(6 Sep 2022)
UK Taxpayers on the Hook for Truss’s £200 Billion Energy Plan
(6 Sep 2022)
Covid: Bounce Back Loan Scheme performance data as at 31 July 2022
(5 Sep 2022)
AUGUST 2022
The Guardian view on broken markets: time to take back control
(29 Aug 2022)
UK Striker-Replacement Law: ‘Criminal Offence’ Turned ‘Option for Business’
(27 Aug 2022)
Unite Investigates: Profiteering across the energy sector
(26 Aug 2022)
Energy bills are soaring in Europe. What are countries doing to help you pay them?
(26 Aug 2022)
Regulators come under fierce criticism after six-year probe into disgraced former bosses of failed bank HBOS ends in no action being taken
(26 Aug 2022)
Energy firms refusing to supply small UK businesses over bankruptcy fears
(25 Aug 2022)
When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home
(25 Aug 2022)
Half of care workers in England earn less than entry level supermarket roles
(24 Aug 2022)
Has the time come to organise a general strike?
(23 Aug 2022)
England’s privatised water: profits over people and planet
(23 Aug 2022)
Record profits for grain firms amid food crisis prompt calls for windfall tax
(23 Aug 2022)
How to tackle the UK cost of living crisis – the main economic ideas
(22 Aug 2022)
High Pay Centre and TUC research finds that median FTSE 100 CEO pay increased 39% in 2021
(22 Aug 2022)
Energy bills increase equates to adding 9p to income tax rate, supplier warna - bills are going to go from £15bn in a normal year to £75bn this year
(22 Aug 2022)
Cost of living crisis: the UK needs to raise taxes not cut them – here’s why
(22 Aug 2022)
Water firms in drought-hit UK flogged 35 reservoirs in five years - and built just two
(21 Aug 2022)
Avanti paid shareholders £11.5m despite ‘abysmal’ service for rail users
(21 Aug 2022)
Companies are paying inflation busting dividends at cost to the rest of the economy, including their employees
(20 Aug 2022)
Assessing the impact of shareholder primacy and value extraction: Performance and financial resilience in the FTSE350
(20 Aug 2022)
DWP benefits statistics: August 2022 (state pension)
(19 Aug 2022)
Europe mercilessly mocks UK government for allowing British rail to fund their rail systems
(19 Aug 2022)
Why the housing market is about to crashThe existence of the 50-year mortgage shows lenders are desperate
(19 Aug 2022)
Inflation is a passing phase: what we need is help to get through it rather than pain to punish us for it (18 Aug 2022)
Welcome to the freeport, where turbocapitalism tramples over British democracy
(17 Aug 2022)
How our water industry went down the drain: Foreign predators continue to load UK's biggest firms with debt amid fury over executive pay
(17 Aug 2022)
Leaked Parliamentary Ombudsman report blames 50s Women for not understanding they would have to wait six more years for a pension
(16 Aug 2022)
Blackmore Bond collapse: FCA failed to act before people lost life savings
(16 Aug 2022)
Keir Starmer rejects calls to nationalise energy firms after £29billion bills bailout
(15 Aug 2022)
Starmer’s plan works as means to get this issue on the political agenda, but leaves a lot to be desired
(15 Aug 2022)
Rising Energy Bills: Surviving 2023 How to manage the coming economic crisis
(14 Aug 2022)
Nationalise now, but not to bail out the system
(14 Aug 2022)
There is no point nationalising the
energy sector
(13 Aug 2022)
Nationalising energy companies won’t cut our bills – but there’s another way
(12 Aug 2022)
Britain’s energy crisis has been decades in the making
(11 Aug 2022)
Student loans: How do they work, what can I borrow and when do I pay it back?
(11 Aug 2022)
Student loan interest rates to be capped at 6.3% from September 2022 due to market rates
(10 Aug 2022)
The Restructuring and Privatisation of Electricity Distribution and Supply Businesses in England and Wales: A Social Cost–Benefit Analysi
s (10 Aug 2022)
Energy Crisis: How We Happened to Sell Off Our Electricity
(9 Aug 2022)
Full extent of NHS dentistry shortage revealed by far-reaching BBC research
(8 Aug 2022)
Agency ‘failed to investigate claims of forgery by banks’
(8 Aug 2022)
Bank of England accused of failures on shadow banking (private equity)
(8 Aug 2022)
SHADOW BANKING AND THE UK’s FPC
(8 Aug 2022)
Nationalising water, energy and Royal Mail would pay for itself within seven years, research says
(6 Aug 2022)
Private Equity: The Carried Interest Loophole Survives Another US Political Battle
(5 Aug 2022)
DWP ignores the Parliamentary Ombudsman and refuses to compensate 118,000 disabled people hit by benefit maladministration
(7 Aug 2022)
British Tory MP spills the beans on government debt
(3 Aug 2022)
Debt-ridden water giants at risk from rate rises
(2 Aug 2022)
New register of overseas owners of UK properties ‘riddled with flaws’
(1 Aug 2022)
JULY 2022
Executive Pay: Minder Initiative A Review of the Popular Initiative that Revolutionised Swiss Governance
(31 Jul 2022)
Rishi Sunak facing fresh Covid fraud questions after disturbing new evidence emerges of business scheme abuse
(30 Jul 2022)
Record 1.2m graduates are not earning enough to even begin repaying their student loans - with new high of six in 10 recent university leavers on salaries below £27,295 threshold
(29 Jul 2022)
Director of care home paid £2.27m
(29 Jul 2022)
FCA publishes Decision Notices for Carillion plc (in liquidation) and three of its former executive directors
(28 Jul 2022)
If you think being tough on unions wins you plaudits in the media, you’re wrong
(28 Jul 2022)
How ex-footballer’s energy gamble ended up costing bill payers £700m
(27 Jul 2022)
House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee Report - Energy pricing and the future of the energy market
(27 Jul 2022)
Welsh NHS staff advised how to access food banks
(26 Jul 2022)
Water Industry: ‘This stinks’: Government accused of hiding from scrutiny over sewage in rivers
(26 Jul 2022)
TUC publishes plan to cut bills through public ownership of energy retail
(26 Jul 2022)
UK Government has plenty of money for weapons of war
(26 Jul 2022)
TUC publishes plan to cut bills through public ownership of energy retail
(25 Jul 2022)
A fairer energy system for families and the climate
(25 Jul 2022)
Frederick Barclay transferred fortune to avoid paying tax, ex-wife tells court
(25 Jul 2022)
Fear prevents workers reporting low pay
(25 Jul 2022)
Fifth of UK households now have ‘negative disposable income’
(25 Jul 2022)
Compliance and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage: the case of the Leicester textiles sector A report by the Low Pay Commission
(25 Jul 2022)
NHS in England facing worst staffing crisis in history, MPs warn
(25 Jul 2022)
UK restaurant insolvencies jump by more than 60% in year
(25 Jul 2022)
One per cent of current Tory MPs are of ‘working-class’ backgrounds
(25 Jul 2022)
Anglian Water chief lands £1.3m pay despite two-star pollution rating
(24 Jul 2022)
Sham Democracy: Just one in 100 Tory MPs came from a working-class job
(24 Jul 2022)
Charge for hospital stays to help fund NHS, says ex-health boss
(24 Jul 2022)
Thames Water boss Sarah Bentley on £2m a year gets £727,000 windfall - just as Environment Agency condemns firm over pollution
(23 Jul 2022)
MPs to investigate benefits and drawbacks of tax reliefs in new inquiry
(22 Jul 2022)
Government failures to control PPE contracts could cost taxpayers £2.7 billion
(20 Jul 2022)
The Tories are upping their attack on our democracy, under cover of the leadership contest
(19 Jul 2022)
Morrisons set to lose Big Four spot to Aldi as sales slump following private equity takeover
(19 Jul 2022)
Fat Cats: 'CEOs, Not Working People, Are Causing Inflation': Report Shows Soaring Executive Pay
(19 Jul 2022)
Error and fraud in the COVID-19 schemes: methodology and approach (an update for 2022)
(18 Jul 2022)
‘1.3 million families facing cost-of-living crisis with no savings buffer’
(17 Jul 2022)
Full list of more than 200 bank branches closing by end of 2022
(16 Jul 2022)
Agency workers during strikes – another dark day for UK employment law
(16 Jul 2022)
Tesco wins right to fire and rehire workers after legal battle
(15 Jul 2022)
Water and sewerage company performance on pollution hits new low
(15 Jul 2022)
Jail water firm bosses over ‘appalling’ pollution, says Environment Agency
(15 Jul 2022)
Water Companies: EU Criminal sanctions for environmental offences
(15 Jul 2022)
Water companies hit ‘appalling’ new low as worst sewage incidents triple in a year
(14 Jul 2022)
Benefit cuts since 2010 increased UK child poverty in run-up to pandemic, says IFS
(14 Jul 2022)
Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022
(14 Jul 2022)
Corruption: Jury discharged in trial of UK middlemen accused of Saudi bribes
(14 Jul 2022)
Average UK household £8,800 a year worse off than those in France or Germany
(13 Jul 2022)
UK families ‘nearly £9,000 worse off than in comparable countries’
(13 Jul 2022)
Resolution Foundation Report: Stagnation nation
(13 Jul 2022)
MPs approve controversial plans to let agency workers cover for striking staff
(12 Jul 2022)
Recruitment body calls on government not to lift ban on use of agency staff during strikes
(12 Jul 2022)
UK’s biggest recruiters warn ministers not to hire agency staff to replace strikers
(12 Jul 2022)
Tories acting like “gangsters” with plan to lift agency worker ban
(12 Jul 2022)
Crisis in Social Care: Follow the Money
(12 Jul 2022)
Over 300 footballers including Premier League stars 'probed' for tax avoidance
(12 Jul 2022)
Uber broke laws, duped police and secretly lobbied governments, leak reveals
(11 Jul 2022)
Financialisation of Nature: John Bellamy Foster – The Capitalist Solution to ‘Save’ the Planet: Make It an Asset Class & Sell it
(10 Jul 2022)
Review finds cause for concern in some parts of road fuel market
(8 Jul 2022)
Rishi Sunak's beloved 'charter cities' pose a huge threat to our democracy
(8 Jul 2022)
Private equity may be heading for a fall
(7 Jul 2022)
Competition and Markets Authority - Road Fuel Review
(8 Jul 2022)
The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth
(6 Jul 2022)
Our taps could run dry and greedy water company bosses - who waste 450,000 Olympic swimming pools of water a year - should be prosecuted, writes singer turned anti-pollution campaigner FEARGAL SHARKEY
(5 Jul 2022)
The Living Standards Audit 2022
(4 Jul 2022)
Feargal Sharkey warns London is ‘perilously close’ to running out of drinking water
(3 Jul 2022)
Ever more people are paying higher rate tax (£20bn extra tax) – good news for the Treasury, bad news for everyone else
(3 Jul 2022)
Polluting water firms splash £9m on bosses: Top brass rake in a fortune despite public's anger over raw sewage in Britain's rivers
(2 Jul 2022)
Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation
(1 Jul 2022)
Sewage dumping ‘scandal’ means councils must be able to fine water companies, say Lib Dems
(1 Jul 2022)
JUNE 2022
Toys R Us bankruptcy lawsuit could shake private equity
(30 Jun 2022)
Charter Cities: BORN IN THE USA The Americanisation of Reactionary Politics in the UK
(30 Jun 2022)
UK failure to tackle ‘dirty money’ led to it ‘laundering Russia’s war funds’
(30 Jun 2022)
Water bills at risk of one-fifth increase to rid rivers of sewage
(30 Jun 2022)
House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee Report: The cost of complacency: illicit finance and the war in Ukraine
(30 Jun 2022)
Anglian Water pays £92mn dividend to owners as customer bills rise
(29 Jun 2022)
Interest rate hikes could trigger chain of bankruptcies in shadow banks (private equity and hedge funds)
(29 Jun 2022)
Water Companies: Government under investigation over ‘appalling’ handling of sewage dumped in rivers
(28 Jun 2022)
Fracking firms could share in UK fossil fuel tax breaks worth billions
(28 Jun 2022)
Prince Charles pressured ministers to change law to benefit his estate
(28 Jun 2022)
Windfall tax on Covid profits could ease ‘catastrophic’ food crisis, says Oxfam
(27 Jun 2022)
Sewage in water: a growing public health problem
(27 Jun 2022)
U.S. Advances Legislation to Stop Enablers of Money Laundering - money launderers resort to real estate transactions, private equity investments, art dealers, and other “enablers
(27 Jun 2022)
Rail firm paid shareholders £500m before asking workers to take wage cut
(25 Jun 2022)
River sewage a serious public health issue that water companies must tackle, warns Chris Whitty
(25 Jun 2022)
BA made low-paid staff take 10% pay cut - and 'reinstated it only for managers'
(25 Jun 2022)
Covid-19: politicisation, “corruption,” and suppression of science
(24 Jun 2022)
The Guardian view on privatisation: the god that failed
(23 Jun 2022)
Anglian Water makes waves with big payout - water companies apid £60bn in dividends since privatisation
(23 Jun 2022)
National Audit Office (NAO) Report: The energy supplier market
(22 Jun 2022)
Failing energy firms will cost UK consumers £2.7bn, says watchdog
(22 Jun 2022)
Ofgem blamed as supplier failures lead to higher energy bills
(22 Jun 2022)
The United Kingdom has the highest inflation in the G7
(22 Jun 2022)
Brexit is making cost of living crisis worse, new study claims
(22 Jun 2022)
The Resolution Foundation Report: The Big Brexit
(22 Jun 2022)
Poor UK households paying up to £541 more a year for goods and services
(22 Jun 2022)
UK inflation rises to 9.1%, its highest rate in 40 years
(22 Jun 2022)
UK food price inflation set to hit 20%, Citi forecasts
(22 Jun 2022)
Why has the UK's inflation rate hit a 40-year high and will things get worse?
(22 Jun 2022)
Labour accuses Government of ‘siding with the water companies’ over sewage
(21 Jun 2022)
Train strike: UK government’s plan to replace strikers with agency workers failed in 2015 – it still won’t work today
(21 Jun 2022)
Selling to yourself: the private equity groups that buy companies they own
(21 Jun 2022)
Anglian Water to pay £92m dividend to private equity owners despite rising bills and backlash over pollution
(21 Jun 2022)
Average UK pay rises stall at 4% – less than half the inflation rate
(21 Jun 2022)
Fat cats: Outgoing boss of discount retailer B&M handed £5m payout
(21 Jun 2022)
Boris Johnson plans to break rail strikes by allowing use of agency workers
(20 Jun 2022)
Anglian Water pays £92mn dividend to private equity owners as customer bills rise
(20 Jun 2022)
Etsy paid just £128,000 in corporation tax in 2020 in the UK despite £160m in sales
(19 Jun 2022)
Windfall tax ‘seriously flawed’, says North Sea oil and gas producer
(19 Jun 2022)
The end of cheap money is bringing 'the bezzle' to a shuddering halt and will hit private equity
(19 Jun 2022)
Fat Cats: Tesco boss Ken Murphy defends his mammoth £4.7m pay packet despite warning shoppers face 'unprecedented increases in the cost of living'
(18 Jun 2022)
Norwegian oil giant ‘threatens to ditch £4.5bn North Sea project over Rishi Sunak’s windfall tax’
(18 Jun 2022)
Government for Sale: Crypto lobbyist donated £500k to Conservatives before UK’s ‘crypto hub’ move
(17 Jun 2022)
Hungary blocks EU deal on 15% minimum corporate tax
(17 Jun 2022)
Concerns over Oxford Street being ‘overrun’ with US candy stores
(17 Jun 2022)
McDonald's to pay France €1.2 billion to settle tax evasion case
(16 Jun 2022)
England student loan interest rate capped at 7.3%
(14 Junn 2022)
UK City watchdog convicted just two people for insider trading in the past five years
(13 Jun 2022)
Victims of one of UK’s biggest banking frauds (HBOS, Lloyds Bank) ‘to be offered £3m compensation’
(13 Jun 2022)
HBOS victims to be offered a £3m compensation deal nearly 20 years after notorious banking fraud that hammered small businesses
(13 Jun 2022)
Grant Shapps says law change could allow agency workers to break strikes
(13 Jun 2022)
Contrary to popular and academic belief, Adam Smith did not accept inequality as a necessary trade-off for a more prosperous economy
(12 Jun 2022)
Adam Smith’s Soft Side
(12 Jun 2022)
Adam Smith on What It Means to Flourish
(12 Jun 2022)
Inequality and economics: let’s go back to Adam Smith
(12 Jun 2022)
Adam Smith would have taxed the rich
(12 Jun 2022)
Morrisons' US private equity owner facing backlash over plan to sell off fisheries, warehouses and food manufacturing plants
(12 Jun 2022)
Fat Cats: What cost of living crisis? Bumper executive bonuses make a comeback
(11 Jun 2022)
Rip-off: Shetland Islands homes quoted £725,000 for broadband connection
(9 Jun 2022)
Activists take water regulator to court over sewage in English and Welsh rivers
(9 Jun 2022)
Household income inequality, UK: financial year ending 2021
(8 Jun 2022)
Water companies hit with fines after sewage kills thousands of fish
(8 Jun 2022)
Don't blame water companies for river pollution, says research conducted among water companies
(7 Jun 2022)
Wage gap between CEOs and US workers jumped to 670-to-1 last year, study finds
(7 Jun 2022)
Money laundering: MPs call for closure of NI corporate loophole
(7 Jun 2022)
Cash burn leaves cancer specialist Rutherford Health facing collapse
(7 Jun 2022)
Private cancer care provider Rutherford Health collapses into liquidation
(7 Jun 2022)
Income inequality in the UK
(7 Jun 2022)
Fat cats: Sainsbury’s CEO’s pay triples to £3.8m as firm rejects living wage calls
(7 Jun 2022)
Fresh setback for long-suffering Woodford investors as cancer firm Rutherford Health goes bust
(6 Jun 2022)
Fossil fuel projects that qualify for Rishi Sunak’s tax relief ‘could create 899 million tonnes of CO2’
(6 Jun 2022)
City donations worth £15m raise concerns over influence on UK politics
(6 Jun 2022)
Investors seek millions from Woodford fund collapse
(5 Jun 2022)
Sainsbury's is under fire for huge rise in dividends - a lot of which goes to foreign shareholders - as staff and shoppers struggle with cost of living
(5 Jun 2022)
Wind farm and nuclear electricity could be exempt from windfall tax
(4 Jun 2022)
Trade unions should handle their resurgence carefully
(3 Jun 2022)
Choice on Units of Measurement: Markings and Sales
(3 Jun 2022)
Crowning glory: Crown symbol pint glasses making a comeback as nation celebrates the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
(3 Jun 2022)
Neil Woodford investors sue administrators of collapsed fund
(3 Jun 2022)
We can upgrade Brexit and ease the cost of living by going back to the single market
(2 Jun 2022)
Dentist crisis: People unable to get NHS treatment resorting to desperate measures to stop pain
(2 Jun 2022)
The decade that broke Britain: the disastrous decisions that left millions in a cost of living crisis
(1 Jun 2022)
Amundi warns that parts of private equity market resemble ‘Ponzi schemes
(1 Jun 2022)
MAY 2022
This age of inflation reveals the sickness ailing Britain’s economy: rentier capitalism
(31 May 2022)
Loss of 25,000 NHS beds caused ‘serious patient safety crisis’, finds report
(31 May 2022)
The Case for Taxing the Rich Gets an Unexpected Boost
(31 May 2022)
High Value Fraud Ignored as Government Chases Welfare Cheats
(31 May 2022)
How shadow banks threaten the global economy
(31 May 2022)
High Value Fraud Ignored as Government Chases Welfare Cheats
(31 May 2022)
‘Same nightmare week after week’: UK firms fed up with post-Brexit EU trade
(30 May 2022)
Former minister accuses Starling Bank over Covid loans
(29 May 2022)
Woodford named in fresh lawsuit as investors look to recoup £18m three years after fund freeze
(29 May 2022)
Tax rises, handouts, law-breaking: what do the Tories stand for now?
(29 May 2022)
The question that rattled Davos - is globalisation dead?
(28 May 2022)
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) accused of adopting unfair tactics in brewing court battle against All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking
(28 May 2022)
Money lost to Covid fraud and error is more than the 10 biggest heists in history put together
(26 May 2022)
A Bounty Hunters’ Bill? A critique of the Whistleblowing APPG’s April 2022 Bill
(25 May 2022)
Bribery and Corruption: Glencore to pay $1bn settlement amid US bribery and market abuse allegations
(24 May 2022)
Bribery and Corruption: Glencore Entered Guilty Pleas to Foreign Bribery and Market Manipulation Schemes
(24 May 2022)
Companies House: Dozens of Phantom Companies Created in the UK Without the Consent of their ‘Owners’
(24 May 2022)
Serious Fraud Office charges Glencore with seven counts of bribery
(24 May 2022)
The Guardian view on public order: criminalising protest is bad for democracy
(24 May 2022)
PROFITING FROM PAIN: The urgency of taxing the rich amid a surge in billionaire wealth and a global cost-of-living crisis
(23 May 2022)
Poverty: Food and energy billionaires $453bn richer than two years ago, finds Oxfam
(23 May 2022)
Human Rights. Corruption: BRITAIN REBUFFED NELSON MANDELA’S APPEAL FOR OIL SANCTIONS AGAINST NIGERIA AFTER IT EXECUTED ENVIRONMENTALISTS
(20 May 2022)
Poverty: Record 420,000 children a month in England treated for mental health problems
(22 May 2022)
Leading fund manager Nick Train demands regulators end uncertainty over former star stock-picker Neil Woodford
(21 May 2022)
House of Lords Library Briefing: UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]
(19 May 2022)
UK Infrastructure Bank Bill [HL]
(19 May 2022)
HM Treasury Paper: UK Infrastructure Bank - Policy Design
(19 May 2022)
Office for Budget Responsibility - UK Infrastructure Bank
(19 May 2022)
What should we make of Rishi Sunak’s UK Infrastructure Bank?
(19 May 2022)
Infrastructure Bank welcomed but opportunities missed
(19 May 2022)
Can a National Infrastructure Bank transform the UK?
(19 May 2022)
How a national infrastructure bank could transform the UK economy
(19 May 2022)
Poverty: Boris Johnson Has Left Behind the People Who Handed Him a UK Majority
(18 May 2022)
Private Equity: Is the Priory fit for purpose? Thousands of NHS patients are sent to its lucrative private mental health clinics every year. But after a coroner's damning verdict on a 23-year-old student's death, the Mail's dossier exposes a deeply worrying pattern
(13 May 2022)
Largest oil and gas producers made close to $100bn in first quarter of 2022
(13 May 2022)
Fat Cats: Tesco criticised as chief pockets £4.75m amid soaring prices
(13 May 2022)
New report shows 13,000 staffed beds required across the NHS to drive meaningful change and improvement
(13 May 2022)
RCEM Acute Insight Series: Beds in the NHS
(13 May 2022)
MPs attack ministers’ ‘nonsensical’ refusal to make firms reveal race pay gap
(13 May 2022)
Michael Gove is right about one thing: building more homes won’t solve anything
(13 May 2022)
‘Greed and fear’: How BP and Shell oil profit is boosted by own traders
(12 May 2022)
New Bill to set up UK Infrastructure Bank announced in Queen’s speech
(12 May 2022)
Levelling UP: Boris Johnson’s Flagship Plan to Fix Britain Is in Trouble
(12 May 2022)
More than 90,000 people ‘die in poverty in UK every year’
(12 May 2022)
Dying in poverty: Exploring poverty at the end of life in the UK
(12 May 2022)
Corruption: Major Donation to U.K. Conservative Party Was Flagged Over Russia Concerns
(12 May 2022)
This Is What Happens When Private Equity Takes Over Your Soccer Team
(11 May 2022)
This British ‘bill of rights’ is constitutional butchery that will make us all less free
(11 May 2022)
BEIS in the 2022 Queen's Speech
(11 May 2021)
Money Laundering: Can the new Economic Crime Bill really tackle the UK’s dirty money problem?
(11 May 2022)
Tory MP blames food poverty on lack of cooking skills
(11 May 2022)
Poverty: Further 250,000 UK households face destitution in 2023, warns NIESR
(11 May 2022)
Tesco exec fired over accounting crisis takes role with 'chicken king
(11 May 2022)
THE QUEEN’S SPEECH 2022
(10 May 2022)
Consequences ‘dire’ if Human Rights Act ditched, more than 50 groups warn
(10 May 2022)
‘Criminalising our right to protest’: green groups’ anger over public order bill
(10 May 2022)
Barclays avoids almost £2bn in tax via Luxembourg scheme
(9 May 2022)
Morrisons rescues McColl's taking on all 16,000 staff
(9 May 2022)
McColl’s saga is lesson banks must take onboard with recession looming
(9 May 2022)
‘Ghost dom’ tax loophole hampering efforts to stop sanctioned Russian money flowing into UK
(9 May 2022)
Half of older women fear having to work beyond UK state pension age
(9 May 2022)
Corruption and Bribery: UK used ‘deniable fiddle’ to hide £60m of payments to Saudis, court told
(9 May 2022)
Rishi Sunak admits to outsourcing key aspects of post-Brexit legal work
(8 May 2022)
Windfall tax on oil giants won’t hurt British pensioners, thinktank finds
(8 May 2022)
Political Donations and Corruption: Two donors who gave Tories £1m between them handed public health jobs
(6 May 2022)
Super rich individuals are private equity’s growing LP base
(4 May 2022)
FRC launches inquiries into audits of four Liberty Steel companies
(4 May 2022)
Student debt can damage your health, new research suggests
(4 May 2022)
FCA: Failed funeral plans provider Safe Hands coughs up just £4m of £64m needed to pay back customers
(3 May 2022)
BP profits double to $6.2bn, fuelling calls for energy windfall tax
(3 May 2022)
Gender and Ethniciity Pay Gap: Being open about pay would make it harder to hire minorities? That sounds like corporate BS to me
(3 May 2022)
Private Equity: Morrisons owner offers to sell 87 petrol stations to clear £7bn takeover
(3 May 2022)
Behind the Headlines: The end of the London Capitl and Finance (LCF) saga?
(3 May 2022)
Rate of UK dividend growth far outstripping wage increases
(2 May 2022)
The Great Divide: Examining Labour Compensation and Dividend Growth
(2 May 2022)
Private Equity: Care scandal exposes carelessness of the state
(2 May 2022)
Brexit: More Irish than UK passports issued in Northern Ireland for first time
(2 May 2022)
Private Equity: My friend’s son Matthew Caseby died after the Priory treated him. A review of psychiatric services is urgent
(1 May 2022)
APRIL 2022
The Times view of failures at Priory facilities: Duties of Care
(30 Apr 2022)
Which countries have the cheapest gas and electricity? How UK prices compare to France, Germany and Europe
(30 Apr 2022)
6 divisive laws Boris Johnson has rammed through at the last minute that could hit you
(29 Apr 2022)
Deutsche Bank HQ in Frankfurt raided over suspected money laundering
(29 Apr 2022)
Private Equity: Patients died after catalogue of errors by Priory mental health chain
(29 Apr 2022)
Non dom: Javid used offshore trust while working at Treasury
(28 Apr 2022)
Use your right to protest — it’s the best response to Tory police bill
(28 Apr 2022)
Transfer Pricing and Diverted Profits Tax statistics, 2020 to 2021
(28 Apr 2022)
Honduras Ends Its Experiment With Charter Cities
(27 Apr 2022)
Brexit Explains 80% of U.K. Inflation, Former BOE Official Says
(27 Apr 2022)
House of Lords votes through controversial bill that will give police unprecedented powers
(27 Apr 2022)
Cost of living crisis: Changes to childcare and MOT rules considered to help budgets
(27 Apr 2022)
Life expectancy: Parts of England and Wales see “shocking” fall
(26 Apr 2022)
Tory peer withdraws name from key amendment to borders bill
(26 Apr 2022)
Growing gap in healthy life expectancy between poorest and richest in England
(25 Apr 2022)
Scandal-stricken accountant KPMG wins £10m of government contracts after saying it would no longer bid for them
(24 Apr 2022)
Managing cross-border travel during the COVID-19 pandemic
(21 Apr 2022)
Fraud: UK quarantine hotels cost taxpayer £400m, watchdog finds
(21 Apr 2022)
Asda’s private equity buyer records 20-fold return from debt-laden deal
(19 Apr 2022)
Almost one in 10 parents ‘very likely to use UK food bank in next three months’
(18 Apr 2022)
FIFTH of UK bankers earning more than £125,000 a year benefited from non-domiciled tax status
(18 Apr 2022)
The working classes are a volcano waiting to erupt
(18 Apr 2022)
Lloyds may strip ex-boss of £1m bonus over HBOS: Bank chiefs mulling huge clawback from Horta-Osorio as rising cost of compensation ups pressure
(17 Apr 2022)
Government waste on PPE adds up to £310 for every family in UK
(16 Apr 2022)
Bank of England owned nearly 600 slaves, new exhibition reveals
(15 Apr 2022)
A socialist program of action for the working class to oppose war and fight COVID-19 and austerity
(14 Apr 2022)
Morrisons is being weighed down by huge debt-fuelled private equity deal, top credit rating agency warns
(13 Apr 2022)
Morrisons slapped with ‘speculative’ rating after takeover leaves chain saddled with debt
(12 Apr 2022)
Morrisons £5.6m private equity debt likely to see prices rise
(12 Apr 2022)
France is set for serious
social unrest
(11 Apr 2022)
Cost of living crisis has exacerbated period poverty, charities say
(10 Apr 2026)
1MDB scandal: Ex-Goldman Malaysia boss found guilty
(9 Apr 2022)
Studying health inequalities has been my life’s work. What’s about to happen in the UK is unprecedented
(8 Apr 2022)
Canada bans foreign homebuyers for two years in effort to cool market
(8 Apr 2022)
UK cost of living crisis 'is going to get worse' Boris Johnson admits
(8 Apr 2022)
Morrisons' private equity buyers agree to sell a number of petrol stations to force through £7bn takeover
(7 Apr 2022)
Current list of named tax avoidance schemes, promoters, enablers and suppliers
(7 Apr 2022)
FSCS reviews assets of crowdfund platform Northern Provident
(6 Apr 2022)
Even Martin Lewis is out of ideas – the Tories have made poverty our new normal
(5 Apr 2022)
The Gender Pension Gap
(4 Apr 2022)
Morrisons's private equity owners begin carving up the business with £500m sale of manufacturing and distribution sites
(4 Apr 2022)
'Fraud ready' criminals may have stolen £37BILLION in Covid money from the public purse, Oxford university analysis reveals
(3 Apr 2022)
Cabinet minister admits £200 help with fuel bills is ‘a loan’ despite Rishi Sunak’s denials
(2 Apr 2022)
Boss of betting firm 888 doubles his pay package to £4m despite £9.4m fine for failing customers who lost thousands in pandemic
(1 Apr 2022)
ScotRail now nationalised - what the change means for passengers and staff
(1 Apr 2022)
Governments for Sale: Priti Patel accepts £100,000 donation from firm run by oil trader
(1 Apr 2022)
Government dropping employment bill would ‘betray’ workers, says TUC
(1 Apr 2022)
MARCH 2022
To fix public transport in Britain, we should copy France
(31 Mar 2022)
SHARE BUYBACKS ON COURSE FOR A RECORD YEAR
(30 Mar 2022)
Starbucks pays just £5m UK corporation tax on £95m gross profit
(30 Mar 2022)
Government for Sale: More sleaze: Tories take millions from oil and gas donors under Johnson
(29 Mar 2022)
Public spending during the Covid-19 pandemic
(29 Mar 2022)
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Demcoracy: Employers can take action against striking workers, Court of Appeal decides
(29 Mar 2022)
National Grid criticised for £4.2bn sale 'of the national silver' to foreign investor
(28 Mar 2022)
UK Government paid firm linked to Tory peer £122m for PPE bought for £46m
(27 Mar 2022)
Rail Factsheet 2021
(25 Mar 20212)
Inflation Nation: Putting Spring Statement 2022 in context
(24 Mar 2022)
Spring Statement 2022
(24 Mar 2022)
Three times more spent chasing benefit fraud than on pursuing tax avoidance
(24 Mar 2022)
UK Chancellor's Spring Statement 2022 speech
(23 Mar 2022)
Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic and fiscal outlook March 2022
(23 Mar 2022)
Spring Statement 2022 - An initial response from IFS researchers
(23 Mar 2022)
Are the P&O Ferries sackings legal?
(19 Mar 2022)
Government must reverse decision to suspend pensions triple lock amid cost-of-living crisis
(18 Mar 2022)
McDonald’s ‘dodged tax’ while claiming £872m in Covid support
(18 Mar 2022)
UK is only major economy to put up taxes during cost-of-living crisis, research finds
(17 Mar 2022)
HMRC contacts just 0.4 per cent of UK crypto holders about tax rules
(17 Mar 2022)
Central banks have humanity’s future in their hands: they must not fail on inflation
(17 Mar 2022)
1 in 3 parents with pre-school children spend more than a third of their pay on childcare
(17 Mar 2022)
Universal credit claimants 'overwhelmed' by debt
(16 Mar 2022)
Water companies fail to tackle sewage overflows
(16 Mar 2022)
Tory MPs block law to name and shame water companies that kill animals with sewage
(16 Mar 2022)
From tax cuts to speed limits: How European governments are trying to are trying to cut fuel costs
(16 Mar 2022)
Gas and electricity networks top UK profit margin ranking
(15 Mar 2022)
Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain: the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution
(15 Mar 2022)
Borrow billions or see incomes squeezed, Rishi Sunak told
(15 Mar 2022)
Half of UK low-paid workers given less than a week’s notice of shifts
(15 Mar 2022)
Public sector workers face an average pay cut of about £1,750 once inflation is taken into account
(15 Mar 2022)
Labour market inequality
(15 Mar 2022)
Sunak could delay the pain for households but he can’t take it away
(14 Mar 2022)
Oligarchs will hide wealth in UK’s offshore tax havens, government warned
(13 Mar 2022)
TUC report: Energy bills to rise 14 times faster than wages
(12 Mar 2022)
The even longer squeeze on teacher pay
(11 Mar 2022)
Cost of Living Crisis: UK households face £38bn hit from rising energy bills
(11 Mar 2022)
English water companies face probe over sewage treatment
(10 Mar 2022)
The oligarch’s guide to getting round the UK’s economic crime bill
(9 Mar 2022)
Cost of Living Crisis: Third of UK households were living beyond means before Covid
(9 Mar 2022)
Record Rail Fares Show Why We Need Public Ownership
(7 Mar 2022)
John Lewis Partnership chair SHARON WHITE: Companies must not allow social and environmental goals to distract them from making profits
(6 Mar 2022)
New infrastructure bank won't help UK reach net zero, says Labour
(5 Mar 2022)
UK’s vulnerability to corruption uncovered amid slow sanctions response
(5 Mar 2022)
Charter Cities: Q&A with Paul Romer
(4 Mar 2022)
Government’s new infrastructure bank will have no effect on growth and is 147 times smaller than Germany’s
(4 May 2022)
Corruption: Dodgy Russian money has destabilised Britain’s democracy. We have to crack down on it (political donations)
(3 Mar 2022)
Hollowed out firms make risky distributions to shareholders (Dividends, share buybacks)
(3 Mar 2022)
U.K. Financier’s Firm Aided by Covid Loans Is Ensnared in Probe
(3 Mar 2022)
Fat Cats: Boss of Bet365 paid almost £300m during first year of Covid
(3 Mar 2022)
Economic Crime Bill: Register of offshore owners of UK properties full of loopholes
(2 Mar 2022)
How a network of enablers have helped Russia’s oligarchs hide their wealth abroad
(2 Mar 2022)
Resourcing UK law enforcement to tackle grand corruption and kleptocracy (Companies House, Money Laundering)
(2 Mar 2022)
The whistleblowing Barclays bankers who were sent to jail
(1 Mar 2022)
Betting/Gambling firm 888 fined £9.4m after customers lost thousands in pandemic
(1 Mar 2022)
FEBRUARY 2022
Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill
(28 Feb 2022)
Government takes landmark steps to further clamp down on dirty money
(28 Feb 2022)
Corporate Transparency and Register Reform White Paper
(28 Feb 2022)
The Danger Zone: Charter Cities, Citizenship, and Social Justice
(27 Feb 2022)
Charter Cities
(27 Feb 2022)
IS THE CHARTER CITIES MOMENT HERE?
(26 Feb 2022)
623 new ‘British’ companies are actually controlled from Russia (Momney laundering)
(25 Feb 2022)
£2.8 billion of benefit credits available to pensioners are not claimed a year
(24 Feb 2022)
Dramatic increase to £80m in cost of Southeastern train accounting scandal
(24 Feb 2022)
What price British democracy when a rich elite has the government’s ear? (political donations, corruption)
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The Credit Suisse leaks expose an industry that has got away with too much for too long
(21 Feb 2022)
Switzerland at risk of EU blacklist after Credit Suisse leak
(21 Feb 2022)
Corruption: JP Morgan accused of negligence over corrupt $1.3bn Nigerian oil deal
(20 Feb 2022)
Revealed: Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians (corruption, revolving doors)
(20 Feb 2022)
Oil and gas firms have unlisted links to Westminster
(20 Feb 2022)
Six Tory donors given top cultural posts since Boris Johnson became
PM (19 Feb 2022)
We followed a crypto scam from the start. Why can’t the police?
(19 Feb 2022)
What is happening to life expectancy in England?
(18 Feb 2022)
Social care staffing situation continues to deteriorate, show latest figures
(18 Feb 2022)
Private Equity: Large for-profit nursery groups are becoming more common – with negative consequences for parents and the sector
(17 Feb 2022)
London Assembly votes to condemn Priti Patel’s borders bill as ‘racist’ legislation
(16 Feb 2022)
No 10 pressured me to drop anti-money laundering measures, says ex-minister (financial crime, the state)
(15 Feb 2022)
UK to scrap golden visa scheme for foreign investors
(16 Feb 2022)
'Fat cat' water firm bosses earn £15m as amount of raw sewage dumped in rivers rockets
(15 Feb 2022)
2,000,000,000 litres of raw sewage released into Thames in two days
(15 Feb 2022)
Population changes provide UK with unexpected boost to public finances (life expectancy, pension)
(15 Feb 2022)
Matt Hancock broke law over Tory peer Dido Harding's appointment during Covid pandemic
(15 Feb 2022)
Covid: High Court rules Dido Harding and Mike Coupe appointments were unlawful
(15 Feb 2022)
Big Six energy firms banked more than £7bn profit in last five years
(14 Feb 2022)
Britain’s banks prepare to pay out bumper bonuses amid cost of living crisis
(14 Feb 2022)
House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts - HMRC Performance in 2020–21 (Covid, fraud, tax gap)
(14 Feb 2022)
Corruption: Tories nudge donors into plum state jobs
(13 Feb 2022)
Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Annual Report 2019
(13 Feb 2022)
Cross-Government Fraud Landscape Bulletin 2019-20
(13 Feb 2022)
National Audit Office - Fraud and Error, Good Practie Guidance (Covid frauds, government frauds)
(13 Feb 2022)
What gambling firms don’t want you to know – and how they keep you hooked
(12 Feb 2022)
State pension faces biggest real-terms cut in nearly 50 years
(12 Feb 2022)
Fury as water companies make £2.8BILLION in profits amid scandal of dumping raw sewage in rivers
(12 Feb 2022)
'Capitalism's only working for the few, not the many - and its ugly side will flourish'
(11 Feb 2022)
The case for a UK windfall tax on oil and gas giants is unanswerable
(11 Feb 2022)
Half of PPE procured by UK using ‘VIP’ companies has not been used
(11 Feb 2022)
HMRC ignorance and inaction “rewarding the unscrupulous” and looks “soft on fraud”
(11 Feb 2022)
Covid: Fake PPE firms given £180,000 before fraud exposed (Companies House)
(10 Feb 2022)
Two fake PPE companies shut down: Companies fraudulently took £180,000 from Covid-19 financial assistance schemes
(10 Feb 2022)
Four Gupta steel firms face winding up orders, say reports
(10 Feb 2022)
HMRC seeks to shut down Sanjeev Gupta businesses over £26mn tax bill
(10 Feb 2022)
Levelling-Up: Sunak’s council tax bodge undermines Gove’s white paper
(10 Feb 2022)
UK accounting regulator to probe auditor of Sanjeev Gupta’s Liberty Commodities
(10 Feb 2022)
'Maximum Suffering.' A Man Stripped of His Citizenship Sheds Light on the Potential Impact of the U.K.’s Nationality Bill
(10 Feb 2022)
Energy prices: What is a windfall tax and how would it work?
(9 Feb 2022)
Raise income tax – not national insurance
(9 Feb 2022)
We should restore tax relief on private healthcare
(9 Feb 2022)
PMQs: Fact-checking claims on fraud, Brexit and the economy
(9 Feb 2022)
Trickle-down economics has failed, Michael Gove admits
(9 Feb 2022)
After BP’s £10bn year here are three reasons for a windfall tax rethink
(8 Feb 2022)
1m UK adults ‘go entire day without food’ in cost of living crisis
(8 Feb 2022)
Ex-owner of Norton Motorcycles faces jail over breaches of pensions rules
(8 Feb 2022)
Collective bargaining and the limits of competition law: Protecting the fundamental labour rights of self-employed workers
(8 Feb 2022)
Norton Motorcycles' ex-owner must pay back £14m missing from pension fund
(7 Feb 2022)
‘Working class people are getting priced out’: cost-of-living crisis spreads to live music
(7 Feb 2022)
National Provident Investments: FSCS liaises with joint liquidators of collapsed platform
(7 Feb 2022)
FSCS seeks records for mini bond firm investigation
(7 Feb 2022)
1m UK adults ‘go entire day without food’ in cost of living crisis
(7 Feb 2022)
Pulled by a current of Tory indolence, Britain flounders in a sea of dirty money
(6 Feb 2022)
Companies House: The flat above a West Country takeaway that is home to 761 Chinese firms - and fraudsters are suspected of registering more than 11,000 companies in the UK in the past year
(6 Feb 2022)
Lloyds Bank: Police watchdog to examine alleged leaks
(6 Feb 2022)
Police ‘leak’ to Lloyds Bank under investigation
(6 Feb 2022)
'Towns must get support': Showaddywaddy star speaks out as banks plot 800 more closures - and new rules WON'T ensure you can get cash
(5 Feb 2022)
Corruption: Give me back my £200,000, major donor tells Tories
(5 Feb 2022)
Inside Iyin Aboyeji’s plan to build charter cities for African tech
(4 Feb 2022)
Factbox: Europe's efforts to shield households from soaring energy costs
(4 Feb 2022)
Corruotion and Government Contracts: Government Releases Private Messages Between Owen Paterson and Matt Hancock
(4 Feb 2022)
Private equity group Cinven hit with third fine for NHS price gouging
(3 Feb 2022)
FCA removes permissions of principal linked to Blackmore Bond marketeer
(3 Feb 2022)
CMA fines firms ( Advanz, the private equity firm Cinven, and Lexon) over £35m for illegal arrangement for NHS drug
(3 Feb 2022)
Firms handed £1.3bn in Covid contracts claimed £1m in furlough grants
(3 Feb 2022)
How this government wasted enough to pay for almost THREE NI tax hikes: Audit reveals £33bn was squandered during Covid pandemic... and the figure is expected to RISE even further when loan schemes data is factored in
(3 Feb 2022)
More Than 1,600 Works of Art—Including Major Pieces by Banksy—Were Secretly Shuffled Through Shell Companies, Pandora Papers Reveal
(2 Feb 2022)
Johnson’s ‘Brexit freedoms bill’ won’t set us free. But it will reward his supporters
(2 Feb 2022)
Government urged to increase Companies House charges by 700 per cent to crack down on fraud
(2 Feb 2022)
UK Government unveils levelling up plan that will transform UK
(2 Feb 2022)
Levelling Up the United Kingdom Executive Summary
(2 Feb 2022)
Levelling Up the United Kingdom - White Paper
(2 Feb 2002)
The UK government’s 12 ‘levelling up’ missions – key points
(2 Feb 2022)
Levelling-up: some wealthy areas of England to see 10 times more funding than poorest
(2 Feb 2022)
'Levelling up' plan for UK unveiled by Michael Gove
(2 Feb 2022)
Poorest Londoners left ‘out in the cold’ by Levelling Up plans
(2 Feb 2022)
'Levelling up' plan for UK will give workers control of lives
(22 Feb 2022)
What is levelling up and how is it going?
(2 Feb 2022)
Government faces urgent call to tackle Britain’s ‘fraud epidemic’
(2 Feb 2022)
House of Commons Treasury Committee: Economic Crime
(2 Feb 2022)
FRAUD - THE FACTS 2021: THE DEFINITIVE OVERVIEW OF PAYMENT INDUSTRY FRAUD
(2 Feb 2022)
‘Anxiety is at its maximum level’: cost of living crisis hits UK businesses
(1 Feb 2022)
Covid-19: Government writes off £8.7bn of pandemic PPE
(1 Feb 2022)
Department of Health and Social Care Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21 (see pages 200-201 for PPE write-offs)
(1 Feb 2022)
Cost of living: Supermarket shoppers facing £180 a year increase in average spend
(1 Feb 2022)
US healthcare giant’s takeover of NHS GP practices lands in high court
(1 Feb 2022)
JANUARY 2022
As UK households feel pressure, how are other European countries tackling energy crisis?
(31 Jan 2022)
Sue Gray: Initial findings of Downing Street lockdown party probe published
(31 Jan 2022)
Cost of Living: Asda and Morrisons hike prices after private equity takeovers
(31 Jan 2022)
The government’s four dubious ‘Benefits of Brexit’
(31 Jan 2022)
The benefits of Brexit
(31 Jan 2022)
There’s a smarter way to fix the social care crisis than raising national insurance
(31 Jan 2022)
Sink or swim: Macquarie plunges back into crisis-hit UK water industry
(30 Jan 2022)
Britain’s energy crisis
(30 Jan 2022)
UK urged to suspend ‘golden visas’ after fast tracking of Russian millionaires
(30 Jan 2022)
Sink or swim: Macquarie plunges back into crisis-hit UK water industry
(30 Jan 2022)
Three British water firms that pay NO tax - our investigation shows foreign owned Thames, Yorkshire and Southern avoid business levy
(30 Jan 2022)
Lord Agnew says there is ‘zippo’ detail on how UK will deal with Covid fraud
(29 Jan 2022)
Even Johnson’s own fraud minister couldn’t bear the stink of this government
(29 Jan 2022)
Corruption experts warn Boris Johnson’s government is worst since WWII
(29 Jan 2022)
Why Boris Johnson is coming out fighting
(29 Jan 2022)
If partygate doesn’t kill the Tories, Rishi Sunak’s spending cuts might
(29 Jan 2022)
Cost of Living Crisis - From milk to crisps: why the price of basic food items is rising
(29 Jan 2022)
Head of Bet365 gambling firm Denise Coates tops list of UK’s biggest taxpayers
(28 Jan 2022)
Hewlett-Packard wins civil fraud case against Mike Lynch over Autonomy sale
(28 Jan 2022)
HP wins multibillion-dollar fraud case over Autonomy sale
(28 Jan 2022)
Who are the top 10 UK political donors since the 2019 elections?
(28 Jan 2022)
Middle-income earners ‘to be hit hardest’ by national insurance rise
(28 Jan 2022)
Graduates in England face ‘tax rise by stealth’ on student loans
(28 Jan 2022)
Bankers' rate 'rigging' not criminal, says US
(28 Jan 2022)
Middle-income earners ‘to be hit hardest’ by national insurance rise
(28 Jan 2022)
Will road pricing answer the UK’s net-zero car-tax conundrum?
(28 Jan 2022
Care home (controlled by private equity firm HC - One) residents found 'shivering' with some patients bathed 'once a week'
(28 Jan 2022)
Work from home tax loophole to be closed after it cost Treasury £500 million
(27 Jan 2022)
NHS officials took £70,000 drug company bribes, then ‘switched’ patients’ medication, court told
(27 Jan 2022)
Your pay rise will be scrapped unless National Insurance hike is cancelled
(26 Jan 2022)
Britain’s cost of living crisis means that for some, ‘getting by’ will become a luxury
(26 Jan 2022)
Lawyers challenge water firm’s immunity over sewage discharge
(26 Jan 2022)
Freelancers charged higher tax rates after taking Covid grants
(26 Jan 2022)
Pressure grows on UK to beef up measures to tackle economic crime (Companies House, “Adolf Tooth Fairy Hitler”)
(25 Jan 2022)
MPs should reject ‘cynical and ideological’ anti-union rules, TUC urges
(25 Jan 2022)
NHS: High Court to review US company takeover of London GP practices on 1-2 Feb
(25 Jan 2022)
IMF urges 'targeted support' for UK households hit by cost of living surge
(25 Jan 2022)
Fraud is rampant — and no one in government is paying attention
(25 Jan 2022)
The Nazarbayev Billions: How Kazakhstan’s ‘Leader of the Nation’ Controls Vast Assets Through Charitable Foundations
(24 Jan 2022)
Cost of living: ‘I work 60 hours a week for NHS but must buy food on credit cards, I’ll never vote Tory again’
(24 Jan 2022)
Hopes shattered as banks fail to pass on interest rate rise
(23 Jan 2022)
State pension at 72 and more tax. Welcome to year 2060
(23 Jan 2022)
Phones4U founder: tax avoidance schemes should be stamped out
(23 Jan 2022)
Bad banks are back, with a cruel co-ordinated attack on the heart of Britain
(23 Jan 2022)
Private equity bought £11.9bn worth of European oil and gas businesses last year as shift to renewable energy left industry assets looking cheap
(23 Jan 2022)
Hundreds of England’s NHS consultants have shares in private clinics
(22 Jan 2022)
David Dimbleby suggests BBC licence fee could be linked to council tax
(21 Jan 2022)
Revolving Doors: Former Tory MEP Fox lined up to join board of audit regulator FRC
(21 Jan 2022)
UK state pension systems not fit for purpose – MPs’ report
(21 Jan 2022)
End oil and gas subsidies for ‘green and just’ transition, campaigner who took government to court says
(20 Jan 2022)
BIG oil and gas firms can earn more in UK Government incentives than they pay in taxes under a North Sea subsidy scheme
(20 Jan 2022)
UK energy industry urges ministers to stick with net zero plan - see tax per barrel for UK and Norway
(20 Jan 2022)
Ignore the hysteria: Sunak was right to write off fraudulent Covid claims
(20 Jan 2022)
If Rishi Sunak can write off Covid support fraud, his government can stop obsessing over ‘benefit cheats’
(19 Jan 2022)
Policing Bill and Elections Bill: What’s next in fight to save UK democracy?
(18 Jan 2022)
Energy price rises could worsen child poverty
(18 Jan 2022)
Pay rises fail to keep up with the cost of living
(18 Jan 2022)
Elections Bill: As long as party donations can be obscured, British politics will not be clean
(18 Jan 2022)
Bye-bye bonds: Pension funds signal exit from traditional fixed income to private equity and real estate
(18 Jan 2022)
Boris Johnson completes 'attack on democracy' as election reforms pass
(17 Jan 2022)
Elections Bill: MPs approve plans to make voter ID mandatory and abolish transferrable votes for mayors
(17 Jan 2022)
Elections Bill: David Davis: MPs have last chance to save the UK’s freedom to vote
(17 Jan 2022)
Bankers prepare £25bn package as private equity firms circle GSK
(17 Jan 2022)
House of Commons Library: Cost of gas and electricity
(17 Jan 2022)
Electoral Commission -
2019 electoral fraud data
(16 Jan 2022)
After Investing More Than $1 Trillion In 2021, Private Equity Firms Are Stocking Up For Their Next Big Spending Spree
(16 Jan 2022)
EDF shares plunge as Macron shields consumers from soaring energy bills
(14 Jan 2022)
Thirteen years on from the rise of Quantitative Easing (QE), prepare for the great reversal
(12 Jan 2022)
The Living Standards Outlook 2023
(9 Jan 2023)
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OIL and GAS: The UK offers operators best profit conditions to develop big offshore fields; Kuwait, Canada follow
(8 Jan 2022)
Court to rule on legality of government support for North Sea oil and gas
(8 Jan 2022)
OIL and GAS TAX: Only 6 months left till COP26. What must the UK do to make it a success?
(8 Jan 2022)
ExxonMobil, Shell and BP among oil companies paying negative tax in UK on some North Sea operations
(8 Jan 2022)
Climate change: UK government oil and gas subsidies hit £13.6bn since Paris Agreement, campaigners say
(8 Jan 2022)
Inequality: Household total wealth in Great Britain: April 2018 to March 2020
(7 Jan 2022)
Fat Cats: Top CEOs to surpass average yearly UK pay after just four days
(7 Jan 2022)
Nationality and Borders Bill: Why is it causing protests?
(7 Jan 2022)
Ladbrokes claimed £102m furlough despite online boost
(7 Jan 2022)
Tory peer Michelle Mone secretly involved in PPE firm she referred to government
(6 Jan 2022)
BlackRock Identifies Factors Fueling the Growth of Private Equity
(5 Jan 2022)
Bet365 risks driving families into financial ruin by failing to implement recommendations designed to protect gambling addicts
(4 Jan 2022)
The Nationality and Borders Bill treats hostility as a virtue
(3 Jan 2022)
Nationality and Border Bill: RNLI lifeboats given green light to save migrants’ lives in Channel by Priti Patel
(2 Jan 2022)
FCA shared intelligence with City of London Police on Blackmore once
(2 Jan 2022)
Blackmore Bond collapses owing investors £45m
(1 Jan 2022)
FCA was warned three years ago about mini-bond firm Blackmore Bond, which collapsed with £45m of savers’ money
(1 Jan 2022)
Inequality: In the Shadow of the Poor Law
- Britain has been a high inequality, high poverty nation for most of the last 200 years
(1 Jan 2022)