Rebecca Boden
@rebeccaboden.bsky.social
Academic who likes asking difficult questions. An accountant who is an unashamed social justice champion. She/her.
🧵1/4 Delighted that @DanNeidle has looked into how many local political parties aren’t paying their due taxes on rental income. Dan is generous about the reasons -citing that they are volunteers. But my experience makes me more sceptical. taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/05/11/p...
Political parties’ failing to pay tax on their rental income
Investigation reveals widespread failure by political parties across the UK to pay corporation tax on rental income, even when funded by taxpayers.
taxpolicy.org.uk
May 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🧵1/4 Delighted that @DanNeidle has looked into how many local political parties aren’t paying their due taxes on rental income. Dan is generous about the reasons -citing that they are volunteers. But my experience makes me more sceptical. taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/05/11/p...
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Calling all journalists.
The questions you SHOULD be asking those politicians and functionaries enthusiastically promoting the exclusion of trans people from a decent life in society are:
The questions you SHOULD be asking those politicians and functionaries enthusiastically promoting the exclusion of trans people from a decent life in society are:
April 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Calling all journalists.
The questions you SHOULD be asking those politicians and functionaries enthusiastically promoting the exclusion of trans people from a decent life in society are:
The questions you SHOULD be asking those politicians and functionaries enthusiastically promoting the exclusion of trans people from a decent life in society are:
@robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Great interview on Woman’s Hour today.
May 12, 2025 at 9:36 AM
@robinmoirawhite.bsky.social Great interview on Woman’s Hour today.
Labour, dragging its sorry ass to the Reform camp. No moral compass, no backbone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Labour targets international students claiming asylum after election losses to Reform
Exclusive: Ministers understood to be drafting white paper this month in move to reduce legal migration
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Labour, dragging its sorry ass to the Reform camp. No moral compass, no backbone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Some backbones have been located? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer faces Labour revolt over plan to raid bank accounts of benefit claimants
Welfare fraud bill would allow funds to be taken from bank accounts and driving licences to be cancelled
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Some backbones have been located? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So, it appears that the Supreme Court has defined lesbian for me. Am I to be grateful? Is this what all those rabid anti-trans lesbians are celebrating? Being defined by the state?
April 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
So, it appears that the Supreme Court has defined lesbian for me. Am I to be grateful? Is this what all those rabid anti-trans lesbians are celebrating? Being defined by the state?
The awful moral deficit of this government- we won’t scrap the two-child cap because it’s ’popular with key voters’. FFS. How low can they sink? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
April 22, 2025 at 7:47 AM
The awful moral deficit of this government- we won’t scrap the two-child cap because it’s ’popular with key voters’. FFS. How low can they sink? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1
April 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1
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The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Fighting fund for trans rights | Good Law Project
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollbacks on trans rights in the UK.
goodlawproject.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The fight for the rights and dignities of trans people is a fight against the thin edge of fascism. It's a hill we are willing to fight and die on. If you'd like to support us with a donation dedicated to trans rights, you can do so here. I am donating £1,000. goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
Excellent piece by @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is a very tough day for trans people – with a long legal road ahead to right this wrong | Robin Moira White
The supreme court judgment is contradictory and confused. And there seems no prospect of the Labour government sorting this out, says discrimination barrister Robin Moira White
www.theguardian.com
April 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Excellent piece by @robinmoirawhite.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Where is Labour’s leadership on child poverty? Shameful silence from them. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students
A survey of more than 14,000 staff also found schools having to step in to provide basic household items
www.theguardian.com
April 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Where is Labour’s leadership on child poverty? Shameful silence from them. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
When you’re voting in the May elections, here’s the Deputy Leader of Calderdale Council, Scott Patient (Labour), calling voters coming to a council meeting to silently protest exorbitant parking charge hikes that are wrecking their areas, ‘pernicious’. Down peasants.
April 10, 2025 at 8:48 AM
When you’re voting in the May elections, here’s the Deputy Leader of Calderdale Council, Scott Patient (Labour), calling voters coming to a council meeting to silently protest exorbitant parking charge hikes that are wrecking their areas, ‘pernicious’. Down peasants.
Totally agree with this. Excellent piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Orange Juice? Keir Starmer is on the Kool-Aid | Stewart Lee
Instead of standing up to Trump, the PM is encouraging people who want to destroy our values to come and do it in our country at reduced tax rates
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Totally agree with this. Excellent piece. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
US = basket case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘False teacher’: Trump’s pick to head the ‘White House faith office’ roils some fellow Christians
Paula White, a millionaire televangelist who speaks in tongues, was criticized for an alleged cash-for-blessings scheme
www.theguardian.com
April 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
US = basket case. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Russell Brand has been charged with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape plus two counts of sexual assault.
news.met.police.uk/news/russell...
news.met.police.uk/news/russell...
Russell Brand charged by the Metropolitan Police Service
The CPS has authorised the charges following an investigation by detectives
news.met.police.uk
April 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Russell Brand has been charged with one count each of rape, indecent assault and oral rape plus two counts of sexual assault.
news.met.police.uk/news/russell...
news.met.police.uk/news/russell...
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The government would be prepared to scrap the digital services tax on US tech firms such as Amazon, Alphabet & Meta in exchange for a deal sparing British businesses from tariffs. Meaning the 3 richest men in the world will share £800 million & we all pay for it!
That isn’t a deal it’s appeasement
That isn’t a deal it’s appeasement
April 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
The government would be prepared to scrap the digital services tax on US tech firms such as Amazon, Alphabet & Meta in exchange for a deal sparing British businesses from tariffs. Meaning the 3 richest men in the world will share £800 million & we all pay for it!
That isn’t a deal it’s appeasement
That isn’t a deal it’s appeasement
Labour. Out Torying the Tories. Again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour's populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right | Janey Starling
Forcing the abandonment of commonsense, evidence-based guidelines is a new low for a party that once prided itself on justice reform, says Janey Starling of campaign group Level Up
www.theguardian.com
April 2, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Labour. Out Torying the Tories. Again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This government is becoming truly Trumpian.
March 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
This government is becoming truly Trumpian.
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'Come and enjoy the places where we raped and sold enslaved people, placed unmarried mothers into servitude and orphaned children into workhouse.'
March 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
'Come and enjoy the places where we raped and sold enslaved people, placed unmarried mothers into servitude and orphaned children into workhouse.'
UK ministers and officials treated to hospitality 3,500 times in five years. The answer is simple -prohibit it all completely.
March 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
UK ministers and officials treated to hospitality 3,500 times in five years. The answer is simple -prohibit it all completely.
Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’
March 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’
Wise words. Labour isn’t listening. open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections
In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax
open.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Wise words. Labour isn’t listening. open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...
They even dishonour those who’ve fought for them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:05 AM
They even dishonour those who’ve fought for them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
They even dishonour those who’ve fought for them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
They even dishonour those who’ve fought for them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
These greedy people are robbing the books off kids’ desks. www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Hundreds of English academy heads paid over £150k, as number ‘on gravy train’ doubles in five years
School leaders attacked as ‘an unaccountable elite’ after years of below-inflation pay rises for teachers
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 9:58 AM
These greedy people are robbing the books off kids’ desks. www.theguardian.com/education/20...