Paul Mason
Fifa arrests: why they’ll worry big corporations
When US prosecutors say Fifa’s execs have “corrupted global football”, that will ring alarm bells in every global brand associated with football.
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Newsreader Huw Edwards resigns from BBC
Newsreader Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC. He has not been seen on screen since last summer when allegations emerged that he had paid a person for sexually explicit photographs. Edwards had long been a fixture in the corporation’s coverage of major political and royal events.
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FactCheck: Hunt claims corporation tax cut would raise money
Economics experts say otherwise.
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FactCheck: how competitive is the UK after Rishi Sunak’s corporation tax hike?
It’s a massive change in policy – the first time a UK chancellor has raised the headline rate of corporation tax in decades.
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Police raid Australian Broadcasting Corporation over leak
Australian police have raided the offices of the national public broadcaster, ABC, over news reports from 2017 alleging misconduct by Australian troops in Afghanistan.
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Labour scornful of Osborne’s good news ‘topping’
The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats claim credit for today’s news of a 2.8 per cent rise in economic output. But Labour is dismissive, saying this is still the slowest recovery in 100 years.
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Channel 4 News’ Syria war coverage wins Emmy in New York
For the second year running Channel 4 News has won the International Emmy Award in the news category, for a series of films charting Syria’s brutal civil war.
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What does the phone-hacking trial mean for News Corp?
The acquittals of Rebekah Brooks and five other defendants at the phone hacking trial was good news for Rupert Murdoch. But what, asks Martin Hickman, is the longer-term outlook for his global empire?
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Starbucks pays UK corporation tax for first time since 2009
Coffee shop chain Starbucks pays £5m in corporation tax – its first such payment since 2009, the company confirms.
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Amazon pays less corporation tax than it got in grants
The UK arm of internet shopping giant Amazon received more money in government grants than it paid in UK corporation tax in 2012, according to new figures revealing the internet giant’s accounts.
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BBC advertises for Newsnight editor post-Savile
The BBC launches a search for a new editor of Newsnight after the programme dropped a report into Jimmy Savile’s decades-long campaign of sexual abuse.
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Sainsbury’s CEO: ask where firms pay corporation tax
Video: Sainsbury’s chief executive Justin King tells Channel 4 News that consumers should vote with their feet if they don’t like the way firms choose to pay tax.
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Murdoch’s iPad paper folds as News Corp prepares for split
Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper for the iPad era, The Daily, shuts after less than two years, as News Corporation also announces the departure of Tom Mockridge from News International.
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Newsnight: ‘Basic journalistic checks not completed’
A BBC television investigation into sexual abuse at a children’s home failed to carry out basic checks before broadcast, according to an internal report.
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BBC DG: Newsnight film ‘should have never gone out’
A BBC report which wrongly implicated the former Tory treasurer Lord McAlpine in child abuse should never have been broadcast, the corporation’s director general says.
