Oliver Bullough
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1 week ago |
codastory.com | Oliver Bullough
perspective I’ve been thinking a lot about the apocalypse in the last few days, and wondering what options oligarchs believe are available to help them escape it. In Mark Lynas’s new book about atomic weapons, he helpfully provides a table showing what percentage of each country’s population would die during or immediately after a nuclear war.
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1 week ago |
shorturl.at | Oliver Bullough
perspective I’ve been thinking a lot about the apocalypse in the last few days, and wondering what options oligarchs believe are available to help them escape it. In Mark Lynas’s new book about atomic weapons, he helpfully provides a table showing what percentage of each country’s population would die during or immediately after a nuclear war.
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2 weeks ago |
codastory.com | Oliver Bullough
perspective Since Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, some 31 percent of “revenue agents” (the people tasked with conducting tax audits) have lost their jobs. This is supposed to save the government money, but it’s a bit like trying to reduce the cost of crime by sacking police officers. “This administration is clearly running the risk of losing hundreds of billions of dollars — in fact, likely over $1 trillion — through its destruction of the IRS.
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3 weeks ago |
codastory.com | Oliver Bullough
perspective Apparently, the word “deadline” was first coined in a notoriously brutal Confederacy-run prison during the American Civil War: any prisoners that crossed the line got killed. The point of a deadline is that, if you don’t stick to it, there are severe consequences. So what do you call a line that, should you cross it, brings zero consequences? A shrug-line? A meh-line? A British-Overseas-Territories-line?
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1 month ago |
codastory.com | Oliver Bullough
perspective Pretty much everyone in Brussels has had it in for Malta’s “Citizenship by Investment programme ever since it launched a decade ago, but it took the European Court of Justice to finally kill it, on the basis that it’s illegal to make acquisition of a passport a “mere commercial transaction”. “Such ‘commercialisation’ of citizenship is incompatible with the basic concept of Union citizenship,” the court declared.
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Great piece this. Is the moral of the story to be suspicious of any journalist with too big an expenses budget? https://t.co/B7nbqKpIdH
Spent a couple of months working on this longread about Pablo González / Pavel Rubtsov, the Spanish journalist accused of being a GRU spy. Hopefully it goes some way to answering a few of the questions around Pablo. https://t.co/Q43NrBt48d
So good. Can someone who knows @YvetteCooperMP send this her way please? https://t.co/Pi5rOStloB
***NEW INVESTIGATION*** How oligarchs took on the UK fraud squad - and won. I’ve been working on this story for 15 years. It goes from South Africa to Moscow via the London Stock Exchange. Now new documents illuminate a case that has rewritten UK law and is set to end with a
RT @witty_tierney: “Excellent” @OliverBullough “Majestic” @jonawils “Eye-Opening” @JoshRobinson23 “Moral” @andybrassell #StatesofPlay by…
