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  MAY 2022

• 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 Accountabilit
• 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)
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
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• THE QUEEN’S SPEECH 2022  (10 May 2022)
• Consequences ‘dire’ if Human Rights Act ditched, more than 50 groups warn (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)
• 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)
  

• 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)
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• 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)
• 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)
• Even Martin Lewis is out of ideas – the Tories have made poverty our new normal (5 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)

• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• UK’s vulnerability to corruption uncovered amid slow sanctions response (5 Mar 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)

• 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)
• 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) (23
  
• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
  
• 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)
• 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)

• 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)
  
• 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)
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