Naomi Fowler
@naomifowler.bsky.social
Podcast suprema @taxjustice.net Producer and host of the Taxcast. I direct Justicia ImPositiva, Impôts et Justice Sociale, É Da Sua Conta, الجباية ببساطة Unequal India Decoded, & The Corruption Diaries. All available here: https://podcasts.taxjustice.net/
This is one of the most hopeful things I've read in a while from @graceblakeley.substack.com written a year ago but doesn't matter "what I saw in North Wales was one of the most profound examples of political transformation I had ever seen with my own eyes"
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What Can We Do?
What Can We Do? #1
graceblakeley.substack.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is one of the most hopeful things I've read in a while from @graceblakeley.substack.com written a year ago but doesn't matter "what I saw in North Wales was one of the most profound examples of political transformation I had ever seen with my own eyes"
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/what-can-w...
graceblakeley.substack.com/p/what-can-w...
Season 2 of @taxjustice.net's podcast The Corruption Diaries starts Jan 2nd 2026, the story of a music lover who ran a record label, toured with bands like Porcupine Tree, and then unexpectedly became a tax justice campaigner from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts
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December 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Season 2 of @taxjustice.net's podcast The Corruption Diaries starts Jan 2nd 2026, the story of a music lover who ran a record label, toured with bands like Porcupine Tree, and then unexpectedly became a tax justice campaigner from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts
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After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
December 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1.
Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.
Manchester's mayor freezes bus fares at £2. A bus ride in London is £1.75, and you can even get two buses within one hour for that price. A bus ride in Birmingham costs £3! I know there are many different reasons for it but affordable public transport really matters
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Greater Manchester Bee Network fares set to be frozen for 2026
Tram and bus fares across Greater Manchester are to be frozen until the end of 2026.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Manchester's mayor freezes bus fares at £2. A bus ride in London is £1.75, and you can even get two buses within one hour for that price. A bus ride in Birmingham costs £3! I know there are many different reasons for it but affordable public transport really matters
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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As we sit at the cusp of the greatest progress in tax justice in a hundred years, a threat is looming: money, Or rather, the lack of it. Read our CEO's blog about the outlook for the Tax Justice Network and the wider struggle for tax justice. taxjustice.net/2025/12/17/t...
December 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
As we sit at the cusp of the greatest progress in tax justice in a hundred years, a threat is looming: money, Or rather, the lack of it. Read our CEO's blog about the outlook for the Tax Justice Network and the wider struggle for tax justice. taxjustice.net/2025/12/17/t...
"The year-long investigation is based on freedom of info requests to Swiss govt departments. It details how Palantir went on a 7-year “shopping trip” trying to convince Swiss authorities to use its products & was rejected at least 9 times by different agencies" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
MPs question UK Palantir contracts after investigation reveals security concerns
Journalists find Swiss government rejected company over fears US intelligence might gain access to sensitive data
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
"The year-long investigation is based on freedom of info requests to Swiss govt departments. It details how Palantir went on a 7-year “shopping trip” trying to convince Swiss authorities to use its products & was rejected at least 9 times by different agencies" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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2) I urge you to listen to the @taxjustice.net podcast the #Taxcast for the rollercoaster tale of the battle in the US (biggest global financial secrecy offender) over the implementation of a ben ownership register&the attempts to stop it featuring @zorkamilin.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social
#151 Ending US financial secrecy - Tax Justice Network podcasts
Μonthly podcast show sizzling with the latest developments in the corrupt world of tax havens, financial secrecy and tax dodging.
podcasts.taxjustice.net
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
2) I urge you to listen to the @taxjustice.net podcast the #Taxcast for the rollercoaster tale of the battle in the US (biggest global financial secrecy offender) over the implementation of a ben ownership register&the attempts to stop it featuring @zorkamilin.bsky.social @factcoalition.bsky.social
Absolutely fascinating in a horrible way. Glaring conflicts of interest, brute force and abuse of power across the world, combined with ineptitude
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Kushner’s Serbian boondoggle collapses amid corruption scandal
This week, Jared Kushner abruptly canceled his plans to build Trump Tower Belgrade after the project became enmeshed in a criminal corruption scandal involving Serbian government officials.
popular.info
December 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Absolutely fascinating in a horrible way. Glaring conflicts of interest, brute force and abuse of power across the world, combined with ineptitude
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popular.info/p/kushners-s... via @popular.info
Let's ban the super-rich making super-huge donations; parliamentarians should be accountable to the electorate, not elites. I just signed an @equalitytrust.bsky.social petition to stop them: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st... Please consider signing and sharing too
Stop oligarchs buying democracy
Billionaires are gaining too much power over our democracy. It's time to stop it.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Let's ban the super-rich making super-huge donations; parliamentarians should be accountable to the electorate, not elites. I just signed an @equalitytrust.bsky.social petition to stop them: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st... Please consider signing and sharing too
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Wealth in the UK is extremely concentrated at the top: over half belongs to the richest 10%, while the richest 1% control over a fifth by themselves. But the bottom half of the population – nearly 34 million people – have less than 1/20th between them. This is bad for all of us. It has to change.
December 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Wealth in the UK is extremely concentrated at the top: over half belongs to the richest 10%, while the richest 1% control over a fifth by themselves. But the bottom half of the population – nearly 34 million people – have less than 1/20th between them. This is bad for all of us. It has to change.
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BREAKING: The 11th Circuit court upholds the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act in final ruling.
Read FACT's full statement here, with quotes from legal, law enforcement, and national security experts:
thefactcoalition.org/court-uphold...
Read FACT's full statement here, with quotes from legal, law enforcement, and national security experts:
thefactcoalition.org/court-uphold...
U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Landmark Anti-Money Laundering Law
On December 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act, the most significant new federal anti-money laundering law in a generatio...
thefactcoalition.org
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
BREAKING: The 11th Circuit court upholds the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act in final ruling.
Read FACT's full statement here, with quotes from legal, law enforcement, and national security experts:
thefactcoalition.org/court-uphold...
Read FACT's full statement here, with quotes from legal, law enforcement, and national security experts:
thefactcoalition.org/court-uphold...
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The Corruption Diaries podcast Season 2 drops 2nd Jan: Richard Allen had his own record label, managing & touring with bands like Porcupine Tree but unexpectedly ended up taking on tax dodgers & the UK authorities from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts podlink.com/1721797109
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The Corruption Diaries podcast Season 2 drops 2nd Jan: Richard Allen had his own record label, managing & touring with bands like Porcupine Tree but unexpectedly ended up taking on tax dodgers & the UK authorities from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts podlink.com/1721797109
1) Good news: US Court of Appeals finds in favour of the Corporate Transparency Act, a landmark anti-money laundering law requiring "certain US entities to provide basic identifying information to the Treasury Dept about their true or “beneficial” owners" thefactcoalition.org/court-uphold...
U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Landmark Anti-Money Laundering Law
On December 16, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act, the most significant new federal anti-money laundering law in a generatio...
thefactcoalition.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
1) Good news: US Court of Appeals finds in favour of the Corporate Transparency Act, a landmark anti-money laundering law requiring "certain US entities to provide basic identifying information to the Treasury Dept about their true or “beneficial” owners" thefactcoalition.org/court-uphold...
The Corruption Diaries podcast Season 2 drops 2nd Jan: Richard Allen had his own record label, managing & touring with bands like Porcupine Tree but unexpectedly ended up taking on tax dodgers & the UK authorities from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts podlink.com/1721797109
December 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The Corruption Diaries podcast Season 2 drops 2nd Jan: Richard Allen had his own record label, managing & touring with bands like Porcupine Tree but unexpectedly ended up taking on tax dodgers & the UK authorities from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts podlink.com/1721797109
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The govt says it’s taxing the super-rich… but it doesn’t seem to know what that means.
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
December 15, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The govt says it’s taxing the super-rich… but it doesn’t seem to know what that means.
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
Last week the Chancellor was asked about her Budget's impact on the richest 1%, she said they only analyse impact by deciles (10% slices of the pop).
🧵Here's why that's a BIG problem... 1/9
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Let’s make Elon Musk the world’s richest man this Christmas! - Sign the Petition! (It's not what you think, a petition from @taxjustice.net) c.org/Zg78NDtCQW via @ukchange.bsky.social
Sign the Petition
Let’s make Elon Musk the world’s richest man this Christmas!
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December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Let’s make Elon Musk the world’s richest man this Christmas! - Sign the Petition! (It's not what you think, a petition from @taxjustice.net) c.org/Zg78NDtCQW via @ukchange.bsky.social
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Wow the International Criminal Court apparently lacks jurisdiction & "infringes on US sovereignty" by investigating crimes against humanity & the gravest crimes under int'l law. The US isn't a member but wants to stop possible investigations of Trump & officials in 2029, when his term ends. I bet...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Wow the International Criminal Court apparently lacks jurisdiction & "infringes on US sovereignty" by investigating crimes against humanity & the gravest crimes under int'l law. The US isn't a member but wants to stop possible investigations of Trump & officials in 2029, when his term ends. I bet...
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From me: Trump's FTC dismissed a Lina Khan case against Pepsi and Walmart scheming to raise prices on competitors, then claimed it was "purely political" with no evidence. But advocates got the now-defunct case unsealed, & it reveals how pricing really works in America.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
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Pepsi and Walmart’s Monopolization Machine Revealed - The American Prospect
An unsealed lawsuit that Trump’s FTC tried to bury puts the pricing schemes of business on full display.
prospect.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
From me: Trump's FTC dismissed a Lina Khan case against Pepsi and Walmart scheming to raise prices on competitors, then claimed it was "purely political" with no evidence. But advocates got the now-defunct case unsealed, & it reveals how pricing really works in America.
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
prospect.org/2025/12/15/p...
Wow the International Criminal Court apparently lacks jurisdiction & "infringes on US sovereignty" by investigating crimes against humanity & the gravest crimes under int'l law. The US isn't a member but wants to stop possible investigations of Trump & officials in 2029, when his term ends. I bet...
Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump ...
www.reuters.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Wow the International Criminal Court apparently lacks jurisdiction & "infringes on US sovereignty" by investigating crimes against humanity & the gravest crimes under int'l law. The US isn't a member but wants to stop possible investigations of Trump & officials in 2029, when his term ends. I bet...
Let’s make Elon Musk the world’s richest man this Christmas! - Sign the Petition! (It's not what you think, a petition from @taxjustice.net) c.org/Zg78NDtCQW via @ukchange.bsky.social
Sign the Petition
Let’s make Elon Musk the world’s richest man this Christmas!
c.org
December 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Let’s make Elon Musk the world’s richest man this Christmas! - Sign the Petition! (It's not what you think, a petition from @taxjustice.net) c.org/Zg78NDtCQW via @ukchange.bsky.social
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1) Wow. All this scrupulous data checking now deemed important to apply to visit the US and yet it was considered 'too onerous' and 'unconstitutional' to ask people setting up companies in the US to take two minutes to file simple ID information to prevent fraud www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...
Trump administration plans to check 5 years of social media for visitors
The proposal would require tourists to disclose up to five years of their social media history before they can travel to the U.S.
www.newsweek.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
1) Wow. All this scrupulous data checking now deemed important to apply to visit the US and yet it was considered 'too onerous' and 'unconstitutional' to ask people setting up companies in the US to take two minutes to file simple ID information to prevent fraud www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...
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Incredible that The Institute of Economic Affairs continues to get such a platform from the media as though it's some kind of neutral commentator (including the BBC) when they don't declare their funders - exposures like this just demonstrate why they don't. Great work from @writesbright.bsky.social
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Incredible that The Institute of Economic Affairs continues to get such a platform from the media as though it's some kind of neutral commentator (including the BBC) when they don't declare their funders - exposures like this just demonstrate why they don't. Great work from @writesbright.bsky.social
Incredible that The Institute of Economic Affairs continues to get such a platform from the media as though it's some kind of neutral commentator (including the BBC) when they don't declare their funders - exposures like this just demonstrate why they don't. Great work from @writesbright.bsky.social
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Incredible that The Institute of Economic Affairs continues to get such a platform from the media as though it's some kind of neutral commentator (including the BBC) when they don't declare their funders - exposures like this just demonstrate why they don't. Great work from @writesbright.bsky.social
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The Corruption Diaries Season 2 starts on 2nd January: Richard Allen had his own record label, managing & touring with bands like Porcupine Tree but unexpectedly ended up taking on tax dodgers & the UK authorities from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts podlink.com/1721797109
December 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The Corruption Diaries Season 2 starts on 2nd January: Richard Allen had his own record label, managing & touring with bands like Porcupine Tree but unexpectedly ended up taking on tax dodgers & the UK authorities from his garden shed. Available wherever you get your podcasts podlink.com/1721797109
1) Wow. All this scrupulous data checking now deemed important to apply to visit the US and yet it was considered 'too onerous' and 'unconstitutional' to ask people setting up companies in the US to take two minutes to file simple ID information to prevent fraud www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...
Trump administration plans to check 5 years of social media for visitors
The proposal would require tourists to disclose up to five years of their social media history before they can travel to the U.S.
www.newsweek.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
1) Wow. All this scrupulous data checking now deemed important to apply to visit the US and yet it was considered 'too onerous' and 'unconstitutional' to ask people setting up companies in the US to take two minutes to file simple ID information to prevent fraud www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...