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Osborne, Barclays, the Cayman Islands and tax avoidance
Making it easier for British multinationals to shift the profits they make into tax havens makes no sense whatsoever, explains ActionAid’s Chris Jordan.
How plain packaging on cigarettes will work
Martin Dockrell, policy and campaigns manager for Action on Smoking and Health, explains how plain packaging on cigarettes will work.
How DWP’s incompetence cost taxpayers and disabled people
The Department for Work and Pensions' failure to scrutinise the consequences of disability benefit reform raises serious questions about their competence.
The grey ghosts of election ’92 could return unless voter registration is stepped up
Without a concerted voter registration effort, the grey ghosts of John Major 1992 may return to haunt 2015, and beyond.
Gulf between asylum and benefit support leaves thousands of children in severe poverty
The gap between asylum support and mainstream benefit rates is leaving thousands of children in severe poverty, new analysis from The Children’s Society shows.
The next sub-prime crisis may be an educational lesson just a little too late
In the US, commentators are now warning of the next group of loans that seem reckless and ready to collapse that could lead to the “the next financial crisis”.