Kirsty Major

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Learn With Ms Rachel review – undoubtedly the TV event of the year for millions of us The queen of children’s edutainment is back after four very long months, with her most extraordinary, envelope-pushing and moving special yet. Cue absolute relief for parents the world over

"Friendship & Social Skills suggests that if a toddler can understand that killing children is wrong, that is not a sign of the assertion’s naivety – but evidence of its elemental truth."
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Guardian’s positive action work experience is open for applications! There are (paid) schemes for disabled, BAME, and working class wannabe journalists.

Because the media needs more people like us.

Info here: workwithus.theguardian.com/entry-level-...

Please share this with any working class young people you know who might like to try out a career in journalism workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

Billionaire halts mass eviction after London Centric investigation Exclusive: Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital hoped to replace hundreds of tenants with more lucrative temporary accommodation. That plan has been shelved – for now.

Really great work from @londoncentric.media. It's a crime that temporary accommodation, funded by council tax payers, is more lucrative than long term rentals www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

Come work with me workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

And the majority of the Your Party spats are still happening on there. Horribly symbolic.

How to win friends and influencers: Labour’s new social media strategy is a step into the future | Kirsty Major There was a backlash when No 10 invited online content creators inside its doors. But in a fast-changing media landscape, this solves two problems at once, says deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

I wrote about No10 welcoming the content creators www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’

Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Podcast: James Butler, Peter Geoghegan and Ethan Shone · On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power

Well worth listening to @piercepenniless.bsky.social @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @ethanshone.bsky.social on Epstein and Mandelson www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Content Creation Has Become a Pyramid Scheme YouTube video by Taylor Lorenz

The renumeration from Insta for creators is shocking! @taylorlorenz.bsky.social v kindly shares her insta income as someone with a huge following.

‘Populism’: we used to know what it meant. Now the defining word of our era has lost its meaning | Oliver Eagleton In the 2010s it described an insurgent rhetorical style; in the 2020s it is inadequate to account for the wildly diverging fates of the left and right, says Oliver Eagleton, managing editor of Phenome...

I loved commissioning and editing this essential piece by the v v good Oliver Eagleton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A man pushed me in the street, he wanted to teach me a lesson. Is that OK now? | Lucy Pasha-Robinson Many women reading this will have experienced something similar: a warning that sharing public space isn’t a man’s job, it’s a woman’s, says Lucy Pasha-Robinson, a Guardian assistant Opinion editor

A really important piece by @lucypasha.bsky.social . What women hasn't experienced such an everyday but incredibly sinister moment with a man in the street? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Every generation gets the Wuthering Heights it deserves. And Emerald Fennell’s is for the always-online | Nadia Khomami Packed cinemas testify to the allure of Emily Brontë’s tale, even if this latest retelling is not to everyone’s taste, says Guardian arts and culture correspondent Nadia Khomami

Operation shock and vibes! Nice piece by Nadia Khomami

These pieces by @robtoes.bsky.social are well worth reading

How the left can win back the internet – and rise again | Robert Topinka In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academi...

Final piece in Robert Topinka's series on digital politics www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Oh, this looks really interesting, and something I've been thinking about for a while!

How the right won the internet | Robert Topinka In the second part of our series on digital politics, we look at how online provocateurs have advanced extreme political ideas – and watched them seep into the mainstream, says digital media academic ...

Second piece in this v good series www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How liberals lost the internet | Robert Topinka In the first part of our series on digital politics, we look at how centrists have lost ground fighting disinformation – when the real battle is over emotion and attention, says digital media academic...

I am super proud of this 3 part series about digital politics by the brilliant Robert Topinka that I commissioned and edited.

First piece here about how liberals misread the rise of the right content platforms.The illos by Antoine Cossé are so good www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A 5 bedroom 1930s house, worth a cool £2m....

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That's an interesting take. Any interviews etc that would lead you to thinking there's a lack of deeper analysis etc?

Thanks for sharing. And yes I totally agree. My initial thought in response to this point was to say, "Well is it fair that you contribute more tax than a billionaire?" But this would mean Labour taking on business interests and Im not sure that's what they want to do.

Oh interesting!

Hello Dave, I think def an issue in seats in and around the city centre of Liverpool but not so much in Knowsley, but yes I do think that's a another part of the story about Labour' demise in Merseyside. Something I should def look into more.

I wish I could have used the entire interview, but word count and editors had other ideas haha! You were both a joy to chat with.

Thanks Bill!

Hi Martin, no sorry I don't know who that would be....

Omg, I did now know this was on! Amazing, I will go

This is awful!