UK lost out on £2bn in tax in 2021 as big tech shifted profits abroad, claim campaigners
The UK might have missed out on as much as £2bn in tax in 2021 from big tech companies shifting their profits elsewhere, according to an estimate by a group campaigning for greater tax transparency. Seven of the biggest US-headquartered tech companies, including Apple, Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet, are estimated to have paid £750m in UK corporation tax and the digital sales tax, compared with £2.8bn in estimated tax due had profits not been routed elsewhere, according to TaxWatch, a campaign group.
Big multinational companies often have complicated structures using different subsidiaries around the world. In many cases that makes it near impossible for observers to calculate how much tax they have paid in the UK, and whether the amounts paid align with the amount of activity in the UK.
To try to get around the lack of data, TaxWatch estimated how much UK tax these global groups would have paid if their British subsidiaries declared profits at the same rate as they declare them worldwide. There is no suggestion that the companies involved have evaded taxes illegally.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/16/uk-lost-out-on-2bn-in-tax-in-2021-as-big-tech-shifted-profits-abroad-claim-campaigners
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Leaked Tory memo predicts double by election defeat blaming enormous discontent on Nadine Dorries
Conservative HQ is claiming the Tory vote share in two upcoming by-elections could halve to around 30%, based on telephone canvassing data over recent days. The resignation of two Tory MPs have triggered by-elections this Thursday in Tamworth, Staffordshire and Mid Bedfordshire, with the party fighting hard to hold on to both. Party officials say the delay over Nadine Dorries quitting the Commons has caused "enormous discontent". There is little concrete data to go on, with constituency polling unreliable and the political parties often only able to see what is going on with their own data. Sky News has obtained a memo to Greg Hands, the Conservative Party chairman, from a senior official at the party HQ. It says in the Mid Bedfordshire by-election, the latest internal polling suggests the party will get a vote share of 30%. This is half the 60% that Ms Dorries won for the Tories in 2019, with Labour on 22% and Lib Dems on 12%.
https://news.sky.com/story/leaked-tory-memo-predicts-double-by-election-defeat-blaming-enormous-discontent-on-nadine-dorries-12986125
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UK at risk of massive security breach from national IT meltdown
The UK is at risk of a massive security breach that could see bank account details and national insurance numbers leaked because of the government’s failure to upgrade Whitehall’s ageing computer system, The Independent can reveal. HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has sounded the alarm over its “old and ageing IT systems”, sparking warnings from experts that hackers could steal taxpayers’ sensitive data or leave the UK open to the threat of Russian and Chinese hackers. The risk to the UK’s entire taxation system came as parliament’s Treasury committee prepares to grill HMRC chiefs and board members over the issue, as well as other topics, on Wednesday.
The security warning in the tax authority’s annual accounts, uncovered by The Independent, states the outdated tech could lead to a “major IT failure or security breach” that could “harm our business operations permanently”.
It ranks the risk – codenamed red – and impact of such a breakdown as “high” and warns a cyberattack or malfunction is becoming more likely.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cybersecurity-breach-hmrc-tax-b2408041.html
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Two thirds of prisons officially overcrowded in England and Wales
Two-thirds of prisons in England and Wales are officially overcrowded, with HMP Wandsworth holding more extra prisoners than any other jail despite the alleged escape of a terror suspect last month. In September there were 663 more men in Wandsworth than the 950 the south London prison has “good, decent” accommodation for, under the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) definition. That means prisoners sharing cells designed for one, often with a toilet in the middle shielded by a curtain. Normally when a prison is in crisis – for example, suffering a high-profile escape or scathing inspection report, both of which happened at Wandsworth in the space of the past six weeks – the Prison Service will move inmates to other jails to ease pressure. But on the last Friday in September, three weeks after Daniel Khalife allegedly escaped from Wandsworth clinging to the bottom of a food delivery truck, there were just four fewer prisoners than at the time of the escape, MoJ figures show.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/15/two-thirds-prisons-officially-overcrowded-england-wales
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Nearly half of voters want a general election by spring 2024, including a third of Tories, poll show
Nearly half of the electorate want to see a general election by the spring of next year, including almost a third of those who voted Tory in 2019, polling shows. Exclusive polling for i by BMG Research reveals that 48 per cent of the electorate want Rishi Sunak to call a general election within the next six months, rather than wait until next autumn. And 29 per cent of people who voted Conservatives in the last election also want their say on who should form the next government sooner rather than later.
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/nearly-half-voters-want-general-election-spring-2024-poll-shows-2688857
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More questions for civil service boss who said Carrie Johnson was real PM
Civil service chief Simon Case – who described the government as a “terrible, tragic joke” in private WhatsApp messages at the height of the pandemic – is expected to be questioned over a “treasure trove” of further correspondence when he appears before the official Covid inquiry. Case, who became cabinet secretary in September 2020, having previously served as permanent secretary in No 10, will give evidence to Lady Hallett’s inquiry either on 30 or 31 October, or in the first week of November. Sources say that many more messages involving Case will be produced, raising further questions about the quality of government during the national emergency.
Hallett’s inquiry is examining questions about “core UK decision-making and political governance” to establish how well the Whitehall machine reacted under huge pressure.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/oct/15/more-questions-for-civil-service-boss-who-said-carrie-johnson-was-real-pm
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Meet the Man Making £26m a Year from the UK’s Dysfunctional Asylum System
Asylum seeker accommodation in the UK is infamous for its poor conditions. But there’s one firm that stands out – Clearsprings. Clearsprings, which manages asylum seeker accommodation in London, the South of England and Wales, is the subject of the most complaints filed to the Government’s Migrant Help hotline. In June, the company forced some of the asylum seekers under its care in London to sleep on the street in protest after it crammed them into tiny hotel rooms without beds. The company also ran, Napier Barracks, a military base converted into housing for asylum seekers that made national headlines after the squalid conditions in the camp were exposed Last month, Byline Times revealed that three-quarters of councils have logged complaints about the conditions of asylum seeker accommodation, including one council that logged seven cases of homes with collapsed ceilings alone.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/13/meet-the-man-making-26m-a-year-from-the-uks-dysfunctional-asylum-system/
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Electric cars will cost drivers £6,000 more if Sunak fails to strike Brexit deal with EU
Electric cars will cost British motorists an extra £6,000 if Rishi Sunak fails to strike a post-Brexit deal with the EU on tariffs, industry bosses have told The Independent. UK manufacturers warned of “devastating price war” on consumers – threatening both the electric vehicle (EV) market and the UK’s climate change commitments – if tariffs are enforced in January 2024.
In the latest major Brexit row, the Sunak government is pushing the European Commission to agree to delay the costly new rules set to come in at the start of next year as part of Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal. But Brussels has shown no sign it is willing to budge – leaving business leaders in despair about the impact of 10 per cent tariffs on exports on Britain’s car industry.
The tariffs would increase the price of a new Tesla Model Y – the UK’s most popular electric vehicle – by £6,000 or more, according new report by the Independent Commission on UK-EU Relations, shared with The Independent.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-electric-cars-sunak-uk-eu-b2428577.html
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Delays to climate targets will cost renters and drivers more money, government advisers conclude
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's recent delay to key climate targets will actually cost many households more, rather than saving them money as he claimed, his own climate advisers have concluded. In a major speech last month, Mr Sunak pushed back the end of new petrol and diesel car sales from 2030 to 2035, and scrapped a plan to make landlords improve the energy efficiency of their properties, which would have saved renters money on bills. He also exempted some households from replacing gas boilers with a greener alternative, as part of a "pragmatic" rethink on the cost of the UK's net zero climate policies. Amid scepticism over the prime minister's claims he was saving homes thousands of pounds, the Climate Change Committee (CCC), ran the numbers on the impact on people's pockets.
https://news.sky.com/story/delays-to-climate-targets-will-cost-people-more-money-government-advisers-conclude-12982994
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Delays in UK Covid response to blame for ‘rollercoaster’ of lockdowns, inquiry told
The UK government’s delay in introducing Covid interventions and a lack of an effective contact tracing programme led to more severe restrictions than in other countries, the UK’s Covid inquiry has heard. Countries such as Japan, South Korea and Vietnam were able to use testing and tracing measures to maintain low levels of spread and outbreak of Covid-19, said Thomas Hale, leader of the Oxford Covid-19 government response tracker, which monitored how 185 countries responded to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK government’s delay in introducing Covid interventions and a lack of an effective contact tracing programme led to more severe restrictions than in other countries, the UK’s Covid inquiry has heard. Countries such as Japan, South Korea and Vietnam were able to use testing and tracing measures to maintain low levels of spread and outbreak of Covid-19, said Thomas Hale, leader of the Oxford Covid-19 government response tracker, which monitored how 185 countries responded to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Keeping the virus at a lower level also meant these countries were able to avoid the more stringent measures required to deal with a more widespread infection, the professor added. “Effective use of these testing measures was a nice way of maintaining a low level of spread and therefore not beginning the rise of the rollercoaster,” said Hale, referring to the trend in some countries – including the UK – to implement strict measures, ease them between waves, and reintroduce them later.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-rollercoaster-uk-lockdowns-delay/
Ministers feared Covid would be ‘federalist Trojan horse’ for devolved nations
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Matt Hancock blames everybody but the government at Covid inquiry
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Covid inquiry UK's public services were 'depleted' when Covid hit
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The Great Grift How billions in COVID 19 relief aid was stolen or wasted
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‘Disappearing Dan Wootton Articles Show a Serious Need for S40 Alternative’
The influence of the rich and powerful over what can and cannot be published in the UK is longstanding and often rooted in a broken system. But it is not an unfixable problem. Last week, the Guardian, the Mirror, various other Reach sites, and The National removed stories after a legal warning made by a lawyer acting for suspended GB News presenter and former MailOnline columnist Dan Wootton, following a Byline Times investigation into his conduct and subsequent Metropolitan Police investigation.
In response, a spokesperson for the Guardian Media Group told Press Gazette bluntly: “Following a review, the article has been taken down.”
The basis for such legal threats is often along the lines of ‘the police investigation triggers a right to privacy’, with the 2022 decision of ‘Bloomberg LP v ZXC’, where the Supreme Court found pre-charge suspects have a reasonable expectation of privacy, invariably cited.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/11/disappearing-dan-wootton-articles-show-a-serious-need-for-s40-alternative/
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Police Investigating Dan Wootton Over Allegations of 10 Year Catfishing Campaign
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MPs Demand Answers From GB News on ‘Serious Accusations’ Against Dan Wootton
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World's Newsround Episode 4
On This week we look at Israel-Hamas in much details & catch up with the ongoing war in Ukraine (this video was recorded on Saturday 9AM)
Israel-Hamas live: Israeli air raids pound Gaza as Palestinians seek safety (live feed)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/13/israel-hamas-live-dozens-killed-while-fleeing-to-southern-gaza
Gaza’s disappearing internet, visualized
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/13/middleeast/gaza-internet-outage-map-visuals-dg/index.html
Palestinians flee northern Gaza before expected Israeli ground invasion
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/13/palestinians-flee-northern-gaza-before-expected-israeli-ground-invasion
Woman arrested on suspicion of supporting Hamas - as hundreds of officers set to police pro-Palestine protest
https://news.sky.com/story/woman-arrested-on-suspicion-of-supporting-hamas-as-hundreds-of-officers-set-to-police-pro-palestine-protest-12983969
Israel, Gaza and the Spectre of Genocide
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/13/israel-gaza-and-the-spectre-of-genocide/
Russian air strike on Beryslav, Kherson Oblast, kills 1
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-air-strike-on-beryslav-kherson-oblast-kills-1/
Russia claims 2 drones shot down over Black Sea
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-claims-two-drones-shot-down-over-black-sea/
General Staff: Russia has lost 286,890 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
https://kyivindependent.com/general-staff-russia-has-lost-286-890-troops-in-ukraine-since-feb-24-2022/
Russia’s Loss Would Open a Historic Chance for Geopolitical Stability From Scandinavia to the South Caucasus – Zelensky
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/22718
White House says Russian new offensive in eastern Ukraine hasn't made much progress
https://kyivindependent.com/white-house-says-russian-new-offensive-in-eastern-ukraine-hasnt-made-much-progress/
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Newsround Episode 8
This Week On Newsround!
More than £2bn of UK foreign climate aid channelled through consultancies since 2010
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/13/uk-foreign-aid-climate-through-private-consultancies
SNP MP Lisa Cameron defects to Conservatives over 'bullying' in Westminster group
https://news.sky.com/story/snp-mp-lisa-cameron-defects-to-conservatives-over-bullying-in-westminster-group-12982971
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Labour’s maths plan should include money lessons in senior schools, Martin Lewis warns
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labours-maths-plan-financial-education-senior-schools-martin-lewis-warns-2681112
Keir Starmer: I won't build homes without GPs and schools
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67087861
Rishi Sunak’s popularity hits record low after Tory party conference
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-poll-labour-tory-b2429111.html
Government’s pandemic modellers ‘weren’t given key policy information’
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-inquiry-spimo-sage-pandemic-modelling-policy-withheld/
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From Prisoner to Publisher: Reformed Robber Unmasks Britain’s Broken Prison System
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/12/from-prisoner-to-publisher-reformed-robber-unmasks-britains-broken-prison-system/
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Just Time: A journey through Britain's fractured justice system
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Climate crisis costing $16m an hour in extreme weather damage, study estimates
The damage caused by the climate crisis through extreme weather has cost $16m (£13m) an hour for the past 20 years, according to a new estimate.
Storms, floods, heatwaves and droughts have taken many lives and destroyed swathes of property in recent decades, with global heating making the events more frequent and intense. The study is the first to calculate a global figure for the increased costs directly attributable to human-caused global heating. It found average costs of $140bn (£115bn) a year from 2000 to 2019, although the figure varies significantly from year to year. The latest data shows $280bn in costs in 2022. The researchers said lack of data, particularly in low-income countries, meant the figures were likely to be seriously underestimated. Additional climate costs, such as from crop yield declines and sea level rise, were also not included. The researchers produced the estimates by combining data on how much global heating worsened extreme weather events with economic data on losses. The study also found that the number of people affected by extreme weather because of the climate crisis was 1.2 billion over two decades. Two-thirds of the damage costs were due to the lives lost, while a third was due to property and other assets being destroyed. Storms, such as Hurricane Harvey and Cyclone Nargis, were responsible for two-thirds of the climate costs, with 16% from heatwaves and 10% from floods and droughts.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/09/climate-crisis-cost-extreme-weather-damage-study
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Just 9% of British voters think Brexit has gone well, poll finds
Fewer than one in 10 British voters think Brexit has gone well, a new study has found. Research by the think-tank UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) found that just 9 per cent now say leaving the EU had been a success.
Voters are also increasingly pessimistic that the policy will ever turn out well, with fewer than one-third (30 per cent) agreeing. Even among people who voted Leave in 2016, just 61 per cent still think the policy will eventually turn out well. In a hypothetical referendum on rejoining the EU, 48 per cent would vote to rejoin while 32 per cent would vote against it, with the rest unsure.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-poll-latest-rejoin-eu-b2426476.html
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Ministers feared Covid would be ‘federalist Trojan horse’ for devolved nations
Ministers in Westminster feared Covid could become a “federalist Trojan horse” due to the closer working relationships with leaders in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Senior government figures including the then prime minister, Boris Johnson, were concerned about the amount of influence applied from outside Whitehall, according to documents submitted to the second module of the Covid inquiry. In evidence shown today, Johnson claimed it was “optically wrong” for him to hold regular meetings with the leaders of the devolved nations. Doing so, he said, risked making the UK appear a “mini EU”, adding: “That is not, in my view, how devolution is supposed to work.”
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ministers-feared-federalist-trojan-horse-covid-inquiry-devolved-nations/
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Revealed Police Forces Subject to Record Misconduct Complaints Amid Officer Abuse Scandals
Police forces in England and Wales logged a record number of complaint allegations last year, reaching a new high of 134,952, the equivalent to one complaint for every two serving officers. Some of the reports covered serious breaches, including officers abusing their position of power for sex, and amounts to a 24% rise on the figure recorded two years previously. Byline Times analysis also suggests that the amount of time taken to investigate serious accusations of misconduct has tripled in recent years. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC), which handles independent investigations of serious police misconduct, saw its average time to “finalise” an investigation rise from 130 working days in 2020-2021 to an expected 312 working days for 2023-2024. Those figures include time spent investigating by police forces themselves before a case is referred to the IOPC, meaning the delays could be due to failures at local police forces rather than the IOPC itself. Given the limited number of working days in a year, that IOPC this year will take almost a year and a quarter in real-time to complete. Campaigners said the findings demonstrated that the police complaints system was “not fit for purpose and needs a substantial overhaul”. Those 134,952 allegations in 2022-2023 amounted to 547 per 1,000 serving officers – and related to 81,142 complaints (each complaint can contain multiple allegations). In 2020-2021 the figure was just 109,151, rising the a year later to 120,694.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/10/09/police-forces-subject-to-record-misconduct-complaints-amid-officer-abuse-scandals/
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Right wing think tank set to ‘expand network’ into Labour Party
Aright-wing think tank has said it will be “expanding its network” into the Labour Party and will announce one of its peers as a patron in the coming weeks. Speaking at a Labour Party Conference fringe event in Liverpool, Duncan Simpson, executive director of the Adam Smith Institute (ASI), said it had been interested by some of Labour’s new policies. A Labour MP has called the announcements “concerning” and said the peer – who is yet to be named – should “think twice” about working with the organisation, which does not declare its UK funders and received the lowest possible transparency rating in openDemocracy’s ‘Who funds you?’ project. Speaking at the ‘Growing into power?’ event, Simpson said Labour’s planning reform announcement had been looked on positively by the think tank. He did not name the peer it is set to partner with, but said it would be making an announcement in the next few weeks.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/adam-smith-institute-labour-conference-peer-dark-money/
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