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I found it interesting that the comments seemed to see right through what looks like a cchq oped.
Alan G 55 minutes ago
The really interesting part of this whole saga is that it's exposed a basic hypocrisy at the heart of the Tory concept of the world.
So Ian Cameron was an 'honourable man' and his convoluted scheme to set up a company in Panama, owned via bearer shares and managing a business in the Bahamas, was perfectly understandable and the sort of thing any of us would do if we had the chance.
However, equally complicated schemes set up by Apple, Starbucks or Google, although intended to achieve precisely the same objective of legal tax minimisation, are dishonourable and they should be 'made to pay their fair share'.
Gadget 1 hour ago
this has nothing to do with party politics or a failure of spin, it is about the difference between right and wrong. But you're right. Politicians should not be publishing their tax returns. They should be reforming laws to stop tax havens, stop people gaming the UK system avoid tax, and not doing any of it themselves.
Dhako 1 hour ago
I don't know whether this puff piece was meant as a joke. Or whether this contemptuous piffle is all Mr Anderson is capable of producing, particularly when it comes detaining those who come to peruse this paper as a source of stimulating discourse.
But, then I suppose, this is what passes for putting up a good defense for "Call-Me-Dave" in his shenanigans in dodgy tax-havens. Lets hope this cheap insults to the readers intelligence won't win any "honors accolade" for this Anderson fellow from Cameron as a stout-defender of his position. For that would be an insult added to an already sustained injury.
All in all, it was already bad enough to put up with a certain chap by the name of Janan Ganesh with his school-boyish infatuation for all things Tory-ism, and for Osborne in particular (since Janan is the nearest thing we have in the FT as Gideon Osborne's ever-dutiful stenographer). However, it's mightily tiresome to even contemplate entertaining this Anderson fellow in any future articles of any kind on top of daily Tory's propaganda from Mr Ganesh.
Lets hope the editor will genuinely spare us the prospect of reading too many of a Tory-central office's "approved stooges" in this parish when it comes to a future open edition editorials at the pages of the FT.