Why the new Code governing corporations isn’t worth the paper it’s written on
The Financial Reporting Council’s Code – released this week – would do nothing to stop collapses like Carillion or BHS.
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The UK’s financial regulators are presiding over widespread corporate failure
The handling of scandals at leading banks show it’s time for a regulatory overhaul.
Interview with Professor David Nutt: People will die unless medical cannabis is legalised
Speaking to Left Foot Forward, the former chief drugs adviser restates his call for cannabis to be legalised – and suggests he could come back into the fold.
Just some of the times the Daily Mail’s Paul Dacre has made politics worse
Ten low-lights from the past few years.
The government’s ‘tough’ action on overseas tax dodging isn’t all it seems
The Tories are forcing overseas territories to publish who really owns companies. A welcome step – but it will do little on its own, writes accounting expert Prem Sikka.
We need to end the neoliberal love affair with all things tech – before it’s too late
This past few weeks has shown that while we can’t turn the clock back on enterprise and technology, we need to find new ways to keep the digital world in check.
Here’s how we’re stamping out sexual assault and harassment in London
There are a host of initiatives being launched across the city’s nighttime economy where sexual violence is most prevalent, writes London Assembly Member Len Duvall.
With half of all cases recorded being in London, we have a crucial role to play in ending FGM
It’s incredibly concerning that there have been no convictions for practicing FGM, writes London Assembly Member Jennette Arnold.
The Telegraph says homelessness is a ‘choice’ and then attack’s Labour’s plan to tackle it
The editorial pages of the Torygraph were given over to a moral lesson on the deserving and the undeserving poor this weekend.
Watch out: Labour just forced the Tories to reveal these potentially explosive outsourcing papers
These risk assessments could be the next major embarrassment for the government.