Commentary & Podcasts

The Public Accounts Committee is quizzing Google about its tax payments this morning. Google says it complies with tax law. Critics don’t find that a satisfactory answer. Google is a household brand. How can it be that they pay so little tax?

In the second of our new ESRC-sponsored Ask the Expert seminars, Professor Joanna Shapland – Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Sheffield – discussed the future of restorative justice in the UK.

This week’s #FridayFive from the Social Market Foundation has a theme of intergenerational fairness.

This week’s #FridayFive from the Social Market Foundation has a tax theme inspired by today’s release from the Fabian Society.

In the first of our new ESRC-sponsored Ask the Expert seminars, Professor Diane Coyle - of the University of Manchester and Enlightenment Economics, and a former vice-chair and acting chair of the BBC Trust - presented evidence and arguments on the government’s BBC Charter Review.