Salman Shaheen
On Saturday, a hundred people descended on a London hotel because they wanted to change the world. Like many, I went along to Left Unity’s first national meeting full of hope, but also dread. Because the path to that room was littered with the decaying corpses of a dozen other …
After an exciting, and at times tense, first national meeting of Left Unity, which brought together representatives from many of the local groups around the country, I was elected alongside nine others to serve on the National Coordinating Group with just over 61% of the vote. Having spectacularly failed to …
I was honoured to chair last night’s IF Campaign debate with David Gauke, the Conservative Exchequer Secretary, Catherine McKinnell, Labour’s Shadow Exchequer Secretary, and Stephen Williams, Co-Chair of the Liberal Democrat Treasury Committee. The debate threw up a lot of interesting questions around tax and transparency and Britain’s crucial role …
My editorial from the May issue of International Tax Review. The leaders of eight of the world’s wealthiest nations will meet on the shores of Lough Erne in Northern Ireland next month. Such meetings are often held in remote locations to avoid the kinds of anti-globalisation protests that dominated the …
Whether you’re turning merrily around a pole or turning the capitalist order upside down, I bid you greetings and send you solidarity …
Britain has placed tax avoidance at the centre of the global agenda as it prepares to host the G8 summit in June. …
It’s a curious irony that with the death of Margaret Thatcher and the release of Ken Loach’s The Spirit of ’45, the …
Squashed beneath the seat of a train bound for Karachi, a frightened young boy hides in the hot dark from armed men …
My editorial from the April issue of International Tax Review. The annual circus of jibes, justifications and recriminations visited Britain again last …
Margaret Thatcher died today. They say you should not speak ill of the dead, so I shan’t be writing any long obituaries. …