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UK overseas territories are world’s worst corporate tax havens, …
Oct 1, 2024 · UK overseas territories including the British Virgin Islands make up the world’s worst tax havens and are responsible for an estimated £63bn in global tax avoidance, according to a new study. The Tax Justice Network’s latest corporate tax haven index, released today, ranks countries on their complicity in helping multinational corporations ...
Explained: The rise of online misogyny
Oct 13, 2024 · Misogynistic harassment, when directed at a woman or girl or group of women and girls. General misogynistic behaviour causing a woman or girl to experience fear, alarm, degradation, humiliation or distress. a new statutory aggravation concerning misogyny, which would be used where an offence had a misogynistic motive or someone demonstrated ...
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Glen Affric: Pippa Middleton’s family estate urged to stop …
Jamie Mann. July 4, 2023. A Highland sporting estate owned by the billionaire family of Kate Middleton’s sister has been urged by politicians and a ramblers charity to stop trying to deter public access at a famous loch. Loch Affric has been a backdrop to Hollywood movies such as Victoria & Abdul, Detective Pikachu, and Valhalla Rising and ...
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Claim Scottish child payment already lifted more than 100,000 kids …
Sep 6, 2024 · Ferret Fact Service verdict: False. The Scottish child payment has not “already lifted more than 100,000 kids out of poverty” as claimed by the SNP. The statistics relate to predictions of what could happen in 2024-25 due to a range of Scottish Government measures including the child payment. Ferret Fact Service (FFS) is a non-partisan fact ...
‘Sickening’: Grangemouth owners set for £6m closure windfall
Oct 12, 2024 · The owners of the Grangemouth oil refinery are set to earn a multimillion pound windfall when the plant closes next year due to a loophole in a key climate scheme. The closure of the refinery will cost 400 jobs and has been described as a “ hammer blow ” to workers and the local community. But it could prove lucrative for Petroineos — the ...
Forever chemicals found in 55 per cent of Scottish drinking water
Mar 3, 2024 · Potentially toxic ‘forever chemicals’ – including some linked to cancer – were found in more than half of samples of Scottish drinking water taken in 2023, according to new data obtained by The Ferret. Per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) were identified in 349 of the 631 samples taken by Scottish Water at drinking water sources ...
Far right groups in Scotland using riots to recruit new members
August 9, 2024. Far right groups in Scotland are using the recent riots in England and Northern Ireland to try and recruit new members, The Ferret can reveal. They include a white supremacist martial arts club and a political party called Homeland which promotes a nationalism based on ancestry, land and the “law of blood”.