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Joined May 2009
“Hello and welcome to Newsnight. Tonight, we’re joined by Faiza Shaheen, director of Tax Justice UK. Faiza is an economist and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. Faiza’s previous roles include Program Head for the Inequality and Exclusion Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children, and Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation. Faiza holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Manchester and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford University. She is the author of a range of materials and publications covering the most salient social and economic debates of our times, including inequality, austerity, immigration, and social mobility. Faiza has over 15 years of experience researching the trends and consequences of inequality, as well as designing policies and campaigns to address the causes of inequality and exclusion. Her book, ‘Know your place: How society sets us up to fail and what we can do about it’ was published in July 2023 by Simon & Schuster. To speak over her, we’ve invited Winston Marshall, a podcaster and former member of Mumford and Sons. We hope you enjoy the programme.”
"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth." "How's that going?" Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen. #Newsnight
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Centrism is such an easy gig. If Melenchon makes the last two, and Le Pen wins, it’ll be Melenchon’s fault. If Phillipe or Glucksmann make the last two, and Le Pen wins, it’ll also be Melenchon’s fault.
If Jean-Luc Mélenchon gets to the 2027 presidential run off, Le Pen will win by a landslide and that will be France, Europe and Ukraine fucked
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"Even voters who know little about Palestine will struggle to understand why Labour is turning on its own local administrations. The impression it creates is not of a party that’s been renewed as a force for ‘hope’, but of one that remains petty, vindictive and self-serving."
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Takes me back to the good old days when Corbyn was persistently harangued with demands for 'apologies' from our media. Polanksi's having none of it. #ItWasAScam
“I’m not sorry at all” Green Party leader Zack Polanski says he will not apologise over his handling of the debate around the “Zionism is racism” motion at his party conference despite the chair of Jewish Greens calling on him to do so #BBCLauraK bbc.co.uk/news/live/c64gv8k2…
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Well, yes. You’ve got the entire establishment attacking him. The only Jewish leader of a mainstream political party being targeted and bullied. You’re all hypocrites. Solidarity, @ZackPolanski. If you weren’t a threat, they’d ignore you. #BBCLauraK
Zack Polanski’s poll approval ratings hit new low amid ‘Zionism is racism’ row trib.al/6OL8zkp
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A Labour Peer interviewing a Labour minister. This is so utterly absurd. We so badly need media reform.
Labour govt minister Yvette Cooper tells Labour peer Ayesha Hazarika, who is interviewing her, "you're a journalist"
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Polanksi is giving a masterclass in fielding these loaded questions. It's hugely refreshing to see a party leader articulating all this in such clear and lucid terms.
"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?" @ZackPolanski is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK? And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"
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Have any Green councils capitulated to Labour’s demands? The entire good vibes energy from Burnham has totally collapsed in just two weeks.
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Endless war, endless death, endless profits....
Asked about the Iran War's effect on defense stocks, Lockheed Martin CEO says: "Investors need to know and understand that this demand is not fleeting — it's permanent."
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in shocking discovery, Helen Whately finds that disabled children do not stop being disabled at the age of 18
Look at this chart 👇 Many if not most of the children on DLA will go onto PIP. Around half of children who get DLA become NEETs. There’s a clear path from child DLA to PIP to a lifetime on benefits. We must change this.
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The problem for the BBC isn't that it produces bad TV shows -- it does, or at least it did, produce great TV. The problem for the BBC is it has lost the trust of many people through its biased and dumbed-down coverage of news and politics, which many of us have been disgusted by.
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Llamar a un colegio Margaret Thatcher y no terminarlo por falta de inversion publica me parece cinema verite.
🏫El colegio Margaret Thatcher de Barajas encadena 12 años de retrasos y vuelve a quedarse con las obras paralizadas. Los vecinos llevan desde 2014 esperando la conclusión del centro. 📍Barajas 🗨️urbanity.one/t/madrid-edific…
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Protect The Dolls
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The sexpests for cluster bombs community is a vanishingly small demographic.
Why govt must not buckle to the ‘Palestine Action is harmless protest’ crowd ⬇️ Pro-Palestine activists vandalise homes of defence bosses thetimes.com/article/d0cc0a1…
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Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.
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Narrator: Tesla received $3.68 billion in government subsidies last year.
Elon Musk used $0.00 of your tax dollars to create the first ever flying car. George Soros spent millions of your tax dollars to burn down U.S. cities with BLM riots using USAID. They are not the same. God bless @ElonMusk.
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Thousands have been arbitrarily arrested by Modi’s BJP government for protesting the removal of more than 130 million people from India’s electoral rolls. This could become one of the largest acts of mass disenfranchisement in history. Solidarity with everyone fighting fascism in India, and with everyone who came out in London to stand with Jantar Mantar 2.0 and the Cockroach Janta Party ✊🏽🇮🇳
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Let’s amplify Alex’s post so everyone knows he lied about Mothin Ali and had to pay him a huge pile of money.
On 19 July 2024, I published two posts on my X account in which I made allegations about Mr Mothin Ali being involved in the Harehills riots. I have accepted these were incorrect and I have jointly made a statement in open Court in order to apologise to Mr Ali and correct the record which is below. archive.org/details/JSIOC-MA…
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"You can't protest against JK Rowling, it might put others at risk!" is such an incredibly funny attempt at a defence. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room!"
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he literally helped cut funding for cancer research
If Elon created a cancer vaccine, people would complain about the size of the needle.
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