Yesterday Labour announced its advisory panel on (clamping down on) tax avoiders. A welcome move in principle. But the composition raises some red flags

Chiefly the inclusion of Sir Edward Troup – a former HMRC official with a less than clear history of tackling tax avoidance 🧵

Looking forward to joining Mary Fitzgerald from Open Society Foundations who has gathered a panel of outstanding editors at #ijf24 to talk about how we fund investigative journalism today - and in future

Lambeth is imposing hikes of up to 300% on some of the service charges paid by residents in council homes.

brixtonbuzz.com/2024/04/lambet…

🚨 Breaking: Center for Countering Digital Hate has won dismissal on all counts against @ElonMusk's X Corp's outrageous and hypocritical SLAPP suit to silence our research.

This ruling sends a strong message to those who aim at intimidating and silencing independent research.

More from us soon.

Very pleased to see Rob Davies David Conn and Simon Lock recognised for bringing to light what really happened at Chelsea FC during the Abramovich years.

V sad to see the closure of The Center for Public Integrity: once a bright light of non-profit news.

Why did it happen? Lots of important lessons from the excellent Richard Tofel here 👇 (🧵)

dicktofel.substack.com/p/what-went-wr…

Excl: If the Premier League charges Chelsea FC with breaching spending rules, an independent panel can call witnesses.

Today, we reveal links between former club CEO Marina Granovskaia and offshore payments funded by Roman Abramovich.

theguardian.com/football/2024/…

Brilliant painstaking work by ⁦Sarah Butler⁩ in reporting what village shops believe is an abuse of market power by the Tesco group. Village shops are vital to local communities and help sustain them. The ⁦Competition & Markets Authority⁩ should take a close look theguardian.com/business/2024/…

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Kyrgyzstan used to be one of the more liberal states in Central Asia. But in recent years that has changed. In January, the authorities jailed 11 journalists from a single news outlet, Temirov Live

Today, media from around the world are calling for their release.

Europe unprepared for war with Russia or risk that Donald Trump withdraws the US from Nato, boss of Airbus warns

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Exclusive: Syndicate agreed to lend up to €640m to Allwyn in 2020, two years before contract awarded by ⁦Rob Davies⁩ theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Whether you think Brexit is good or bad, it is clear there are gaping holes in the gov's preparations for the new import rules it has brought in. This is hitting smaller businesses the most, as many delis, like the ones in this 👇 piece, are finding out theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Extraordinary report here on the Ministry of Defence from David Pegg and rob evans - who has a long and distinguished record on examining UK arms deals with the Saudis

The Conservatives’ economic record over 14yrs in government - in 10 charts. It’s not a pretty picture, and shows the damage done by Brexit is mounting. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/m…

Surprised and thrilled to be nominated for Scoop of the Year at the Sports Journalists awards with David Conn
and Simon Lock for our series exposing how Roman Abramovich may have broken football's spending rules to fund Chelsea FC's success.

sportsjournalists.co.uk/awards-news/ti…

“The idea is what we’ve been able to achieve with multinational firms – putting a floor to their effective tax rates – we should do the same for super-rich people,” ⁦Gabriel Zucman⁩ ⁦The Guardian⁩ ⁦G20 Brasil⁩ theguardian.com/news/2024/feb/…

With today's historic vote, Daphne's Law is now a reality.

We promised it. We worked for it. We delivered it.

Very proud of European Parliament's leading role on the anti-SLAPP Directive protecting journalists and activists from threats and harassment.

#DaphneCaruanaGalizia Tiemo Wölken 🇪🇺

.Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project has won an intermediary ruling in what the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition called a SLAPP suit designed to harass reporters. Lawyers for Mr. Hawrami, the former Kurdish oil minister, asked the court for a summary judgment against us. It was rejected. antislapp.uk/2024/02/27/the…

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