Labour’s millionairess Margaret Hodge’s family business pays very little tax: The Labour MP has been one of the fiercest critics of tax avoidance by companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon. However, she is likely to face questions over the limited tax paid by Stemcor, the steel trading company in which she owns shares and which was founded by her father and is run by her brother.Analysis of Stemcor’s latest accounts show …
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Read the headline to this post…it came from Guido Fawkes before the Newsnight programme was broadcast. Who knew eh? This if anything, proves absolutely that George Entwistle failed utterly and completely to get a grip of his news team. Ian Overton editor of the London-based Bureau of Investigation working for Newsnight, claimed : “We’ve got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile”. …
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Roger Harrabin slides seamlessly into Black’s place: roger harrabin @RogerHarrabin Asking if climate change caused Sandy is like asking if gravity caused an old house to collapse when it did. Ex NYT http://nyti.ms/TKJPnz This is amusing too: roger harrabin @RogerHarrabin DfT consults on plan to increase single carriageway lorry speed from 40 to 45 or 50 “to boost economic growth and cut congestion. Aniol Esteban @aniolesteban @RogerHarrabin do …
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You almost, very, very nearly feel sorry for George Entwistle when you hear him being given the 5th degree on the Today programme this morning. Very nearly but not quite….he is the Director General and yet he was like a rabbit in the headlights, almost clueless. A pretty poor performance for a man who has reached such heights in management. He seems to lack entirely the necessary political antenna that …
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I caught a rather interesting debate on BBC Today @ 7.50am this morning concerning that BBC favourite, Windfarms! ”This week one of the world’s biggest wind turbine manufacturers announced it was cutting 3,000 jobs around the world. Chairman of the UK’s independent Committee on Climate Change Lord Deben and Dr John Constable, Chairman of the Renewable Energy Foundation, discuss the matter.” If you get a chance, give it a listen …
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I see Entwistle has been all over the BBC this morning as Newsnight incompetence becomes the story yet again! A BBC Newsnight report in which an abuse victim accused a former Tory politician of sex abuse should “never” have been broadcast, BBC director general George Entwistle says. He gave an unreserved apology to Lord McAlpine after it wrongly implicated him in abuse at care homes in Wales. Yeah, and of course, …
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