Reddit User Gives Excellent Analogy of Panama Papers
A Reddit user has posted an inspired analogy of the Panama Papers, likening the leak to a kid's piggy bank. DanGliesack dumbed-down the data leak to shed light on its importance. Read it in full below: When you get a quarter you put it in the piggy bank. The piggy bank is on a shelf in your closet. Your mom knows this and she checks on it every once in a while, so she knows when you put more money...
Doncaster Named ‘Best Place To Get A Properly-Served Pint’
Doncaster has been named the best place to get a properly-served pint in Britain. A report by pub watchdog Cask Marque and monitoring firm Vianet has confirmed that there is a north/south divide when it comes to the quality of beer. Pubs in the North were found to be more likely to keep their beer in best condition and to serve it through clean pipes, whereas drinkers in the South generally consume worse pints at a higher price! Northerners pay up...
How do you find the right technology consultancy to help your business?
FIVE QUESTIONS TO ASK IN FINDING THE RIGHT TECHNOLOGY CONSULTANCY Finding the right consultancy for your business isn’t necessarily straightforward. After all, it’s a competitive market out there and many companies have a great deal to shout about. On the other hand, some are inept cowboys who use jargon and a fancy website to blind potential clients and capitalise on their knowledge asymmetry. With so much choice available, how do you go about ensuring you engage with the right consultancy...
Alex Lodge: Weekly Report Vol 39
By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two. Have been frantically record shopping all week so this one was difficult to cut down. We have a track from Bibio’s new release which is a bit of a departure in a lot of ways from the usual kaleidoscopic psychedelia we’re used to from him, along with a banger from the LA beat scene with Linafornia. We kick off with...
Cameron’s dad ‘ran offshore fund that paid zero UK tax for 30 years’
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The huge leak from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca may have dragged in the PMs own late father. 11.5 million documents have been leaked, document work stretching back nearly 40 years and a firm Ian Cameron was director of, has cropped up in the paperwork. It is alleged that Cameron’s dad was embroiled in recruiting what has been dubbed a small army of Bahamas residents, to sign paperwork on behalf of an offshore fund, which...
World T20: Despite final heartbreak, inexperienced England impress on biggest stage
Sport News 24/7 By David de Winter - Sports Editor @davidjdewinter @TLE_Sport Ok, so it wasn’t quite the fairy-tale ending England fans were hoping for as Carlos Brathwaite clubbed Ben Stokes for four consecutive sixes off the last over to win the T20 World Cup for the West Indies for the second time in their history. Nevertheless, England showed admirable courage, determination and no little skill to make it as far as the final – a fantastic achievement in my...
Corbyn is “playing” at this year’s Glastonbury
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The Labour leader has been invited to speak at the world famous Glastonbury festival. He has been asked to participate at Worthy Farm by veteran left-winger and musician, Billy Bragg. The festival is run by landowner Michael Eavis and his daughter, Michael stood as a Labour candidate in the 1997 General Election, and is a keen supporter of left wing causes. Corbyn will join other guest speakers on Bragg’s Left Field stage. It is expected...
‘I have thought about quitting,’ say four out of five teachers
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor There appears to be a teaching crisis are a Teachers’ union said there was a crisis in recruitment. A survey has revealed that four out of five teachers have thought about leaving the profession entirely. The poll of nearly 900 members of the teaching profession have said they have seriously considered leaving. The worry research was by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers who found 83 per cent were thinking about quitting while at the...
Benefits Island: Why Don’t We Have Programmes On Tax Cheats?
The Panama Papers, published today in an unprecedented data leak, confirmed once again that it is the super-rich and not the super-poor that are causing the real headache for Britain. Russian president Vladimir Putin has been caught up in a $2 billion offshore trail and a raft of wealthy UK residents have also been implicated, including David Cameron’s father and three senior Tory figures. UK tax fraud costs government £16 billion a year according to HMRC, which makes up almost half of the total £34bn “tax...