In February 2009 Guido’s co-conspirators held a tax justice demo outside the Guardian’s spanking new HQ. Shouting “Scott Was a Tax Evader” and“GMG Fat Cats Pay No Tax”. We didn’t manage to get any support from multi-millionaire, three home-owning, anti-poverty campaigner Polly Toynbee. We would have dragged her out if we could… See also: Guardian’s Tax Hypocrisy is Ridiculous, Tax Justice Protest Against Guardian Tax Dodging Now MPs Exploit Third Home Fiddle – Mail Vincent K arguing against Qatarphobia… “It’s going to be great – sitting in a non-segregated stadium, next to a chick in a mini-skirt, sharing a beer with the gay guys in the front row and cheering on Israel.”
Guardian Tax Justice Demo Polly Missed Guardian Tax Justice Demo
The Guardian Media Group is one of the shrewdest corporate avoiders of tax in Britain, in 2008 it made a £300 million profit and yet managed to pay no corporation tax, the following year in 2009 it still paid no corporation tax, it uses the offshore Caymans tax haven to own assets, it uses tax efficient trusts and deploys all manner of perfectly legal tax shelter strategies to avoid paying tax. Polly seems silent about this tax dodging…
Threats Force LibDems to Cancel Conference – Liberal Vision
Tories Don’t Bankroll Me – Iain Dale
Times Online Loses 99.4% Casual, 86% Regular Readers – PaidContent
The “Brownese” Translator – FT
The Speaker Phone – Paul Waugh
Mirror and Mail “Considered Merger” – Press Gazette
Labour Need More Former Servicemen – Jim Murphy MP
USA: McBride “unpleasant”, Brown “abysmal” - LeftWatch
Oil Struck Again Near Unprotected Falklands – Bloomberg
David Davis on Libel Reform – ConservativeHome
Kirsty Wark : Shrill Bee of the Left – Damian Thompson
What Can Ireland Do? Default. – Wolfgang Münchau
Sunday, 5 December 2010
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