@nicklangley
Semi-retired freelance journo, ex-editorial "consultant"* to conservation NGOs. Currently immobilised by orthopaedic boot. Busy with books & BFI subscription. *Facilitating stakeholder engagement by correcting grammar & spelling. Will edit for food.
Staying abroad too long could present two tax problems: people might not spend enough days in Dubai to qualify for residency there; and might spend too many days in the UK and be counted as UK tax residents.
...the rich “really value the ability to move and work wherever they want, when they want, and when something like the Iran war disrupts it, they don’t like it”.
A private jet was “an instrument of return” to keep them within their fiscal terms, “in many cases with the cost of a jet being far lower than their potential tax bill if they miss the minimum days”
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UK criticised for not mobilising quickly enough to defend our paymasters in the oil-rich Midde East. These are countries with royal families bigger than the entire British Army. Get them off their flabby arses & into uniform.
Reform won big in Durham in May 2025 but a 10% swing to Labour here.
* Reform have held one, lost two (LibDems, now Labour) in by-elections
* Reform have lost four through defections (Advance, Ind), gaining one
For the next few weeks, you can join their live workshop on March 26th + watch both POWER STATION and Bank Job + get Dan's complete Crowdfunding Blueprint book - all for just £12.
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Which is good news because if Dan and Hilary don’t end up getting Power Station played, the people of Port Talbot may well end up with free solar panels.
Channel 4 told them they love Power Station. They just can’t show it. Because Dan and Hilary aren’t famous enough. Channel 4 also took the concept behind Bank Job and remade it with Michael Sheen. Because Michael Sheen is famous enough.
Dan and Hilary have made three feature documentaries , including Bank Job, where they literally destroyed £1.2 million in predatory debt, and Power Station, documenting how 20 households created London’s first community solar power station, premiered at Sheffield DocFest, shown in 125+ cinemas.
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Artist and filmmaker duo decide to get properly famous before World War 3, the climate crisis, and various other disasters overtake us — so they can finally get the revolution properly televised and installed.
I've dug out my old Anti-Nazi League & Rock Against Racism badges from the 1970s. We drove them off the streets then; we can do it again. See you all there.
Gloucestershire County Council (GCC) said previously the £75,000 crossing does not count as a priority as no-one had yet been killed or seriously injured.
12-year-old Amalie said: "We shouldn't wait for that to happen, we should put it in place now to make it safe."
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Why not just ask kids to bring their favourite book in?
Screenshot from Telegraph daily newsletter Today we can reveal the source of Sir Keir Starmer's hesitation over Iran. It was Ed Miliband. Tony Diver, our new Political Editor, has the full story.
Just imagine the depths of uselessness and ghastliness this government could achieve if it didn’t have Ed Miliband in it
Nomen est omen.
the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz
Watch to understand what's happening in Iran/MidEast
Documentary filmed in Trump's first term. Journo Lee Fang investigated rising influence of Christian nationalists in the military & pushing the USA towards war; actively trying to bring about the end of the world.
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It doesn't seem to have occurred to her that the target readers for her new book are functionally illiterate.
Those privately-educated friends of the working class at Reform UK have pledged to rip up the new legal protections for workers and renters. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
Easier to attack nature regulation than to attempt to regulate the land bankers, housebuilders' cartels & private-equity-backed corporate landlords that have caused our housing crisis.
I always laughed at people who got expatriate & ex-patriot confused, but maybe they were right all along.
I've just stumbled over Berlin's "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co" campaign -compulsory buying (back) of the property of private landlords with 3,000 or more units in the city, through public purchases by the Berlin state government.
Now that sounds to me like a vote winner. Start with Criterion.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
Harold Macmillan said that Britain's relationship to the USA was to be Greece to their Rome.
The Tories' current position, as outlined by Badenoch, Hunt etc, is that we should be Paulie Walnuts to their Tony Soprano.
Title courtesy Daily Mail.
Here's the story, w/ Carter-Ruck update.
London Centric uncovered Criterion's plan to carry out the biggest mass eviction in recent London history, ahead of the of the Renters’ Rights Act coming into force.
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
"In 2024, Aziz changed his tax residency from London to Abu Dhabi in response to taxation reforms in the UK."
Another landlord draining the blood of UK tenants while dodging taxes in the UAE. How's that working out for him? Will we who pay our taxes have to fund his escape from Iranian bombs?
