Two things stand out from my entirely cursory skim of this new report (cursory because my word this really is getting boring having to point to the silliness of much of this research): PRIVATELY HELD, NON-RESIDENT DEPOSITS IN SECRECY JURISDICTIONS The first is this: Furthermore, we find that such deposits have been growing at a compound rate of

Here are some of the posts made at Spectator.co.uk over the past week. Fraser Nelson says that age is no impediment to wit and intelligence, and argues that Cameron has to win outright. James Forsyth watches Cameron kick-off his campaign, and says there is growing confidence among Tory ranks. Peter Hoskin asks if the Tories have been fools or knaves over Ashcroft, and welcomes the start of mature ...

It is worth pointing out, because it is so different from what was happening a few weeks back, that the Tories are having another good day today. Gordon Brown has been forced to admit at PMQs that he had got his defence statistics wrong when addressing both the Commons and the Chilcot inquiry, the Unite story is rumbling on and there are various rows breaking out over Labour’s process for se...

The US is growing increasingly worried by the EU's financial reform agenda, as US officials descend on the European institutions in Brussels to warn policymakers against divergent rules on hedge funds and derivatives.

My concern has been growing lately about the importance of Sea Control, and my perception that as every day goes by--the gap between our ability to "do" it and others ability to "contest it" shrinks. In this month's Proceedings, Captain Vic Addison of OPNAV and CDR David Dominy (RN) team up to offer an interesting discussion of Sea Control, offering a useful framework for evaluating "littoral...

Lawyers who specialise in libel actions against media companies have launched a legal counter-attack against the government in the growing battle over English defamation rules.

Just a quick link on an interesting story about how the growing, affluent middle class in China is taking the view that it likes taxes as about as little as the Tea Party campaigners in the US....

SIGNS of growing resentment among some sections of the legal profession came to a head last week, when a "requisition", signed by just 50 of the 10,500 lawyers in Scot

Online fraud cases in the US cost victims more than twice as much in 2009 as they did the previous year, underscoring fears that internet crime is growing out of control

CONCERNS about the independence of solicitors under new legal reforms have been highlighted by MSPs, stoking a growing rebellion of lawyers that could split the Law Society of