Most of the writing here sits at the intersection of financial systems, institutional integrity, and the use of intelligent tools — human and otherwise — in the pursuit of accountability.
\n\nAequitas essays
\n\nWriting on governance, professional practice, institutional integrity, risk and artificial intelligence.
\n\n- Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication
- AI Update: The Tech I Use
- An Officer and a Gentleman
- … he as a knight was deemed to have a duty to prevent…
- Care & Competence
- Zen & the Art of Aircraft Maintenance
- {mis}conduct
- Lessons from ERP?
- The Risk of Registers
- One ring to rule them all
- When compliance goes wrong
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Compassionate Revenue
\n\nWriting on revenue administration, tax compliance and Medium-Term Revenue Strategies is published separately at Compassionate Revenue.
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Areas of focus
\n\nFinancial crime and tax administration. The mechanics of evasion, the architecture of enforcement, and the vocabulary that gets used to make one look like the other. Thirty years of practice means the analysis goes beyond the theoretical.
\n\nGovernance and institutional design. What distinguishes a board that governs from one that ratifies. How values-based culture survives contact with decisions that actually matter. Why the language of accountability matters as much as the structures.
\n\nAI and the future of analytical work. Not a technology column. A practitioner perspective on what it means to work alongside digital intelligence — and what habits of mind that requires. The position is set out in full on the AI & Privacy page.