Neil Channing

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/...

When the powerful speak of a ‘rules-based international order’, they mean rules for others, and impunity for themselves.

All human life has equal value, which is why we need an ethical foreign policy based on cooperation, justice and peace.

Changes with last week:

Reform: 24 (-2)
Greens: 20 (+2)
Tories: 17 (-1)
Labour: 16 (+1)
LDs: 10 (-2)

The Home Secretary’s own MPs see through this. She is desperate and dangerous.

People are joining the alternative:

join.greenparty.org.uk

The Greens aren’t ‘extreme’, prime minister: they’re just behaving like Labour should After a heavy byelection defeat, Starmer only sounded absurd by implying that the winner – popular local councillor Hannah Spencer – was ready to ‘tear the country apart’, writes Sangita Myska

"The Greens aren’t ‘extreme’, prime minister: they’re just behaving like Labour should" www.thenerve.news/p/hannah-spe...

YouTube video by Novara Media Labour Just Lost One of Their Safest Seats — And The Greens Did It | Zack Polanski Interview

Nice. Aaron Bastani’s interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the immediate aftermath of Hannah Spencer’s historic win in Gorton and Denton.

Rolls-Royce boss defends state aid bid for new engine despite share buyback British aero-engine company will return between £7bn and £9bn to investors over next three years amid soaring demand

Corporate Welfare

Rolls-Royce boss defends state aid bid for new engine despite record profits and £9bn share buyback.

Corporate bosses attack benefits for the needy and decent wages for workers but want free money.

No free money for any corporation without equity stake.
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Handouts to oil and gas firms while people face likely bill hikes.

Reckless and irresponsible at a time when we should be doubling down on renewables not cutting tax to fossil fuel fuel giants.

We need a plan to protect people from the coming price shock.

A lot better than the present shit show!

It's so bad for the Greens if they win elections, it'll spell their defeat - all those on the right wing must do their duty and vote for the Green party in order to ensure their downfall

🚨Following the escalation of conflict in the Middle East, gas-fired electricity prices in the EU rose by 51% – highlighting the risks of relying on fossil imports.

The longer the conflict goes on, the greater the impact for countries with the heaviest gas reliance.

Donald Trump is losing the Iran war 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/why-trump-...

Highly recommend listening to the whole conversation. Platner is an extraordinary political communicator. I have rarely heard better.

Private Eye cover with photos of Trump in his “war room” suggesting the Iranian offensive was to distract from the Epstein files

Ah, Private Eye Day…

Trump has cornered himself with his war in Iran | Sidney Blumenthal The president needs a quick win to avoid a quagmire – but he needs a long war to justify potential emergency powers

Trump has cornered himself with war in Iran.

What is the end-game? Killing the leader means another vengeful hardliner step-in, generations will seek retribution and it goes on.

Leaders declaring illegal wars should do frontline service. Trump dodged military draft 5 times.

Every refugee fleeing Western bombs in Iran should be granted asylum in whichever Western nation they choose.

Every single one.

No ifs, no buts, no long drawn-out legal shenanigans.

If your nation causes a refugee crisis, it should house the refugees.

The New Statesman * @NewStatesman BRITAIN HAS AN AMERICA PROBLEM by @b_judah The year I would spend in the Foreign Office, as special adviser to David Lammy when he was foreign secretary, was to watch from the headquarters of British diplomacy as the rules-based order began to collapse. Being in politics means living various lies. Dutifully, I found myself ticking lines to approve sent by the embassy: we were the US's "day-one, night-one partner" for interventions, or "America's closest ally" - but we were just living in a different age from the one those slogans came from. It was painfully clear to me under both presidents whose teams I met that their real special relationship was with Israel.

I will not easily forget, sitting in the Foreign Office, how a Trump delegate explained why we needed to accept his 10 per cent tariffs and not overplay our hand in negotiations. "You've got to remember," he grinned, "it's like being at school. America's the big kid and it's coming for your lunch money." What Britain really has is an America problem. That's why, brutally, our grand strategy no longer makes sense. The superpower we have built our security around has become erratic, unpredictable and unmoored from its old alliances. We have a Europe problem too. The current situation is one we've all been happy to accept so long as it was economically beneficial. Shall we let the Americans lead on owning that super-sensitive defence infrastructure, with us getting to use it, or shall we make voters pay for it in tax rises? We all know how Europeans will answer that question, as long as they can get away with it.

Welcome as it is to see people wising up and admitting they’ve fucked it - more of this, please - I note that any vaguely left wing public figure would’ve been booted to death on live television for saying this, as recently as one year ago. Ben would’ve helped.

Prior to being elected in July last year, Joani Reid was director of Reid Strategy. The firm is now being wound up. Companies House shows the nature of business to be ‘management consultancy activities other than financial management’. Reid Strategy uses the same accountants as her husband’s firms, and accounts show that her company has borrowed money from her husband’s companies. Reid Strategy had one employee only, and no other controlling officers aside from Reid herself. The records show that she was the majority shareholder, so presumably all profits or dividends from the business went to Joani Reid.

Connected and benefited you say?
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On Anti-Green Hysteria Maybe I have a weird sense of humour, but I found Tuesday morning's YouGov poll putting the Greens in second and Labour a distant joint thir...

"... as far as both parties are concerned the insurgent Green Party has come from nowhere and threatens to drag politics as a whole into confrontation with property, work, income, living standards, and why the rich have prospered at everyone else's expense."

Our Victory in Gorton and Denton Is Only the Beginning The Green Party has proven it can remake our broken politics — and its message of hope is resonating with working-class people across the country.

The Green Party has proven it can remake our broken politics — and its message of hope is resonating with working-class people across the country, writes MP Hannah Spencer.

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls

Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.

for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick

"Keep an eye on Joani Reid" writes Euan McColm in the Spectator.

Thanks for the tip-off, Euan. I certainly will.

Obviously British citizens should not forgo protection just because they've holed up in a zero-tax slave state. But we should also make it much, *much* harder for people to shrug off their social obligations like that.

Special exception: Richard Tice and Isobel Oakeshott can swim home.

I am 4 years old. War in Middle East could wipe out growth in UK living standards.
I am 15 years old. War in Middle East could wipe out growth in UK living standards.
I am 25 years old. War in Middle East could wipe out growth in UK living standards.
I am 34 years old. War in Middle East could wipe

Our Victory in Gorton and Denton Is Only The Beginning The Green Party has proven it can remake our broken politics. Its message is resonating with working-class people across the country.

"Gorton and Denton were supposed to be one of Labour’s safest seats. If we can win there, then nowhere is off limits. A Green tidal wave is heading for parliament." tribunemag.co.uk/2026/03/our-... Hannah Spencer MP writing for @tribunemagazine.bsky.social

Owner is a climate denier and really poor staff relations.

UK competition watchdog investigates hotel groups over alleged data sharing Regulator looks into claim Hilton, InterContinental Hotels and Marriott could be sharing ‘competitively sensitive’ information via analytics tool

UK competition watchdog investigates Hilton, InterContinental Hotels (IHG) and Marriott.

Suspicion of sharing “competitively sensitive” information to fix prices, boost profits.

Bug business ready and willing to construct harmful practices.

Yet neoliberals deregulate. Let corporations run amok.

UK private equity investor plots closure of up to 80 former WHSmith stores Modella rebranded high street shops as TG Jones after buying them last year

UK private equity investor plots closure of up to 80 former WHSmith stores, jobs lost.

Will blame govt etc but standard PE business model is:
No long-term interest.
Cut staff, real wages.
Hike prices
Demand longer credit from suppliers.
Dodge taxes.
Asset-stripping
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3 nationals polls published since the Gorton and Denton by-election. All good news for Greens:

YouGov: 21% (+4 and highest ever, 2nd place just behind Reform)
Freshwater Strategy: 15% (+1 and highest ever)
More in Common: 14% (+3 highest ever).

Greens polling average is close to 15% and rising.

Greens Win Gorton We discuss the implication of the Green Party's historic win in last week's Gorton and Denton by-election. We cover the meaning of Manchester, making Britain normal and the ordinary charisma of new Gr...

Here is the long-awaited emergency podcast from me and @profafinlayson.bsky.social on the Gorton & Denton by-election.
You can find this in any app by searching for Culture, Power, Politics.
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