‘Is it time to squeeze the rich?’ Robin Hood on BBC Big Questions
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 by Simon Chouffot Posted in Robin Hood Tax | No Comments »Catch Sunday's broadcast of the BBC's Big Questions, with the first 20 minutes of the programme devoted to discussions of whether we should look to the rich to provide solutions to the current economic crisis, in the wake of Saturday's ...
New video from Bill Nighy: It cuts both ways… the Alternatives
Tuesday, March 29th, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Fairness, Robin Hood Tax, UK poverty | No Comments »Bill Nighy, Zac Goldsmith and Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien describe how a range of organisations propose alternatives to the government's austerity measures
Robin Hood Tax debate, 29th March – be there
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011 by Oxfam UK Poverty Posted in Cuts, Fairness, Robin Hood Tax, UK poverty | No Comments »Do you have a view on the Robin Hood Tax? On the duty of the banks to make up for their part in the global financial crisis they brought about? On how we fight poverty and climate change when times ...
Join Robin Hood and take his message to the banks
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011 by Kate Kewley Posted in Robin Hood Tax | No Comments »Join Robin Hood tomorrow to draw attention to the fact that this month, some senior bankers will be taking home over £7bn in bonuses while we (including the people working in the high street bank branches) face the biggest decline ...
We are (not yet) all in this together
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 by Simon Chouffot Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Fairness, Robin Hood Tax, UK poverty | No Comments »Was Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, being unduly pessimistic when he recently surmised: “Of all the many ways of organising banking, the worst is the one we have today”? If you’re reading this from a trading desk at ...
Green light for RBS cash bonuses? Have your say
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 by Kate Kewley Posted in Attitudes, Cuts, Equality, Fairness, Inequality, Robin Hood Tax, Welfare reform | No Comments »RBS wants permission to pay out cash bonuses of up to £50,000; as a taxpayer, thus a shareholder, but also as someone facing substantial public sector cuts - what do you think? As calls for curbs to bank bonuses fill the ...
