Your overpaid CEO won't take a pay cut? Here's what to do...
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LATEST: Think you’re paying less tax now? The withdrawal of Working and Child Tax Credits leaves low earners paying a 73% marginal tax rate, and medium earners paying even more
...And this government says it cuts taxes for poor working households!
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RIP-OFF NEWS ROUND-UP, OUR PICK OF THE LAST WEEK'S MEDIA
Drug firm Novartis tried to 'scupper' trials of a cheaper version of eye medicine
Has Austerity caused the UK’s first decline in life expectancy in 20 years?
Kellogg's effectively paid no corporation tax in the UK in 2013, +more stories...
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YOU'RE FIRED?! We are already nearly the most easily fired people in the developed world
Only the US and Canada make it easier, says the OECD’s Worker Protection Index
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EYE OPENER: Housing Equity Withdrawal took off in 1979. Since then almost all UK growth has suspiciously equalled the amount we took out. Looks like it’s pensions next
Osborne’s new rules allow you to spend your entire pension pot now. Same mistake, different pot
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DID YOU KNOW? MPs are getting a 10% pay hike in May, to £74k
...and in 2010, 137 MPs put family members on parliament's payroll. Now it's soared to 167
GOOD DEBT
PENSION CRAZY
BANKSTER PAY
MPs' 2nd JOBS
TAX IS THEFT?!
FAILING SCHOOLS
AFFORDABLE NHS
1m WORK IN POVERTY
JAIL THE ACCOUNTANTS
RICKETS IS BACK
UN-NATIONALISED RAIL
LOW WAGE BRITAIN
BANK OF MUM & DAD
UK: A PRISONER OF CUTS
TAXING LIES
WATER CANNON BORIS
UNIVERSAL C.. OCKUP
FULL TIME JOBS? WHERE!
Sunday, 29 January 2012
By Richard Murphy, founder of the Tax Justice Network , director of Tax Research LLP, and author of The Courageous State*Ed Miliband has announced himself in favour of good business. I am delighted he has. So am I. It’s astonishing that some are saying that by declaring himself against spivs, chancers, asset strippers, speculators and tax avoiders he is somehow anti-business. Far from it: he’s declared himself very pro-business precisely because it is these people who are anti-business.But being anti-something is not good...
Friday, 27 January 2012
Sunday, 22 January 2012
One of the tell-tale signs of a rip-off is an extortionate interest rate. You don't need to look as far as the £9 billion British banks put aside to compensate consumers for their infamous Payment Protection Insurance rip-off. Britain's high-street banks charging up to 800,000% interest on unauthorised overdrafts provides a clear sign of what they are up to.But it is not enough to simply look for ludicrous interest rates to spot a rip-off. Being wicked doesn't make a chap stupid. And anyone who paid attention in that maths lesson about percentages...
Saturday, 21 January 2012
One of the true things energy companies say, (and never forget, the most effective rip-offs are done without lying) is that the UK has low domestic gas and electricity prices compared with most of the European Union. This statement has often been used by energy industry apologists to squirm out of a tight interview. The interviewer almost never knows the hidden truth behind the truthful facade.What the apologists are rather shy about is the fact that the price difference is due to UK taxes on retail energy being about the lowest in the EU....
Friday, 20 January 2012
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Sunday, 15 January 2012
The British Army has a brave tradition known as the "Forlorn Hope": a band of soldiers who would make the first assault against a well defended position. None of the Forlorn Hope was expected to survive unscathed; few were expected to survive at all. In spite of the extreme danger there was rarely a shortage of volunteers. Ambitious men who had a forlorn hope of being plucked from obscurity, veterans who hoped forlornly to show they still had what it takes, or those on their last legs forlorn and yet hopeful of leaving the mark they had failed...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
Sunday, 8 January 2012
By Stefan Stern, visiting professor of management practice at the Cass Business School. At the end of 2011 they interred the ashes of the man who urged us to "live in truth".Vaclav Havel's funeral was, perhaps unexpectedly, quite uplifting, a reminder that speaking the truth with courage and conviction can still be the most powerful weapon of all. It can bring down governments and change the course of history. In the Arab world this year, the word from the streets has helped to overturn seemingly unshakeable dictatorships. The less...
By Stefan Stern, visiting professor of management practice at the Cass Business School. At the end of last year they interred the ashes of the man who urged us to "live in truth".Vaclav Havel's funeral was, perhaps unexpectedly, quite uplifting, a reminder that speaking the truth with courage and conviction can still be the most powerful weapon of all. It can bring down governments and change the course of history. In the Arab world this year, the word from the streets has helped to overturn seemingly unshakeable dictatorships. ...
Wednesday, 4 January 2012
By Sophie Allain, campaigner at Campaign for Better Transport.In the first week of 2012 thousands of rail passengers fed up with being ripped off by above inflation rail fare rises took part in a social media protest, showing that fares continue to be a highly charged political issue. It’s not surprising that British passengers are angry, Campaign for Better Transport compared a sample UK season ticket with four similar European ones and discovered we’re paying up to ten times as much as our European counterparts....
