Straight after the BBC I'll be hot footing it upstairs from the BBC studio at Millbank, Westminster into the Sky studio, which is literally on the floor above, for a 1.30 interview with Adam Boulton on the 50p tax rate.
Mind you, I'll have to call in at make up on the way again. The BBC just do a bit of powder. Sky spray paints the foundation on - a truly weird experience I can assure you - certainly for me! And one that requires many baby wipes to remove afterwards.
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Those BBC and Sky News studios seem dangerously close to me. Won’t the ‘left-wing’ BBC and right-wing Sky News reporters mutually annihilate one another should they come into close contact. I dread to think what the resulting wave of gamma propaganda would do to Central London!~ #PoliticalPhysics
Richard,
Like you I was both at Sky and the BBC at Milllbank. I didn’t get made up at either using powder or spray paint. But then, with me, what you see is what you get!
Oooohhh! Catty!
How macho of you!
I didn’t realise just how butch you are.
But now I realise what a wimp I am to take the BBC’s advice and Sky’s advice to be made up.
Or, to put it another way, I alternatively realise just how daft you show yourself to be by ignoring it.
Hello Mr Murphy,
My name is Mital Selarka and I will be starting on the graduate scheme at Ernst & Young from this September working in their indirect tax team. I will be also studying for the ATT and CTA. I saw you speak on Sky News at lunch time last week about the 50p tax rate. I was wondering if you had any advice for me about working in a Big 4 and what you would recommend in terms of reading materials before I start my job.
Thanks and hope to hear from you soon.
Mital
Hi
I’d encourage anyone to learn how the tax system really works – so go ahead, do the job.
BUT read Nick Shaxson’s Treasure Islands and maybe my Tax Havens, The True Story of Globalisation or my Courageous State.
And read the TJN blog and my blog regularly. You need both sides of the story.
Note though indirect tax is not the most contentious bit – you’d need to be in direct tax to get that
But good luck – and keep eyes and ears open!
Richard