Vodafone paid no corporation tax and reduced its UK tax bill by a fifth last year. The company defends its...
(from my good friends @ Positive Money and very relevant to todays Headline story about benefit scrounging banks) When banks...
Much of the heated political debate in the UK at the moment revolves around benefits and the welfare state - specifically poor people who are...
.. Plans for the NHS to SELL patient care records to big pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and research institutions are a national...
.. The extent to which the banking industry is dominated by those who attended private schools has been revealed. A...
.. During the Labour leadership election, many people were impressed by Ed Balls' apparent conversion to a social democratic economic...
.. More than 270,000 of the poorest households in England face council tax hikes of £80 a year, a survey...
The lord chief justice has warned police that they risk damaging their image of independence after Scotland Yard acted on...
The Gagging Bill effectively became the Gagging Law last night when the vote in the House of Lords was a tie - in...
.. Both a Tory minister and a Labour shadow have this week made the latest in a long line of...
.. Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, is launching a new bill as part of a campaign to...
.. As Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, recently pointed out, the UK is at bottom...
.. Iceland has sent four former directors of its bank Kaupthing to prison for fraud. But the chances of similar...
.. There is something distasteful about well-paid media executives overseeing stories exposing “shirkers” and benefit fraud – fraud which, as...
.. Like many others I flinched with embarrassment when the Chancellor visited China. George Osborne sublimated his dislike of Marxist-Leninism...
.. Professor Richard Werner, Director of the Centre for Banking, Finance and Sustainable Development at Southampton University, gave a presentation at the Transforming...
.. The richest 85 people in the world have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion – or half...
.. Eighty-five people control the same amount of wealth as half the world's population, according to a recently released report...
.. The global crash of 2008 kicked off a furious debate in the UK about whether or not the City...
.. “It takes me about two hours to assemble a team of financial geeks and lawyers to devise a product...
.. Two images stay in my head which refuse to go away. Both occurred on the debate on the explosion in the use of food...
.. .. Shale gas executives and government officials have been caught colluding to undermine protests and public resistance to fracking. E-mails released under freedom of...
.. A poll of GP's for the Guardian newspaper has found that NHS doctors don't trust the health secretary Jeremy Hunt and are convinced...
.. Thousands of Brits are turning to payday loans to hide rent or mortgage problems, new research shows. The research,...
.. The Haze notes with little surprise the ceaseless chafing and wriggling by the banks as they aim to overturn anything and everything...
.. Next month on February 19, protesters will gather nationally outside Atos centres to peacefully protest the inhumane treatment of...
.. It seems that Jeremy Misprint Hunt is trying to pretend that his planned law making it easier to close...
.. People in the UK are facing among the highest and most volatile food prices in Western Europe, according to...
.. The coalition's benefit cuts, bedroom tax and aggressive welfare sanctions are forcing many Britons into "forced penury" as they mark an increasing return...