Alistair Darling

A razzie for obfuscating PwC

February 18, 2009 General

MayorWatch has a piece that looks suspiciously like a retrodden press release. I make no apology for ripping the entire piece because there are bags of nuggets worthy of comment: Figures produced for the City of London show the UK’s financial services sector contributed an estimated £67.8bn to UK government taxes – 13.9% of the [...]

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Live blogging the PBR – a 1st across three sites

November 24, 2008 General

Chancellor Alistair Darling’s historic pre-Budget Report was bound to generate a lot of interest. I got a call from AccountingWeb’s Rob Lewis asking if I would drop an opinion piece. So did others. I let Rob know I would be live blogging the event. He in turn posted a live list of the major changes. [...]

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