The Tax Justice Network has released a report slamming Britain as the worst offender when it comes to financial secrecy thanks to its network of tax haven crown dependencies and overseas territories. I was back on RT News today responding to their report and calling on Britain to get its house in order.
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Andrew Sparrow from the Guardian quoted my New Statesman article yesterday, picking up on a growing movement behind a new party of the left. Interestingly, he drew parallels between this trend and Len McLuskey giving his strongest hint yet that he is questioning Unite’s link with Labour. Sparrow writes: In the light of Shaheen’s article
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Round 3 with Iain Dale on his drive time LBC Radio show. This time, as Labour’s poll ratings are falling, I made the case that the public want to see a genuine alternative to austerity and that if Labour won’t provide that, we in Left Unity will. I’m beginning to enjoy being Dale’s token lefty
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My flight plans may not be the cause of quite as much international speculation as Edward Snowden’s right now, but this blog will be going quiet for the week as I’m jetting off to Croatia for a much needed holiday. I look forward to soaking up the sun and culture of the beautiful walled city
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With the People’s Assembly falling on the day Ed Miliband announced he would be sticking to Conservative spending plans, there was much talk last week of Labour abandoning the working classes. It’s not exactly news. Labour gave up on the working class two decades ago. But now I’m helping to build a new party of
I was on the Boulton & Co show on Sky News last week, debating the Telegraph’s Dan Hodges on Ed Miliband’s welfare reform plans. Both Hodges and I have traditionally been critical of Miliband, but from opposite directions. Now Hodges appears to be warming up to Miliband as he lurches to the right over welfare,
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It was an action-packed day for Ed Miliband last Thursday, ripping up every last shred of hope those of us on the left had that he might provide some principled opposition to Tory-led austerity. And it was an action-packed day for me, with appearances on Sky News and LBC Radio criticising Miliband’s welfare reform plans
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As David Cameron was in Brussels for vital talks on tackling tax havens, I was invited back on RT News to give my two tax compliant cents.
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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 be elected as head boy
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I was on Ken Livingstone and David Mellor’s LBC 97.3 show this morning, speaking in support of Ed Miliband’s plan for a 10p tax rate funded by a mansion tax, and how I would go about cracking down on tax avoidance in the unlikely event George Osborne were to call me up. My favourite moment
