{"id":15790,"date":"2012-05-29T08:53:45","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=15790"},"modified":"2012-05-29T08:53:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T07:53:45","slug":"why-is-that-newsnight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/05\/29\/why-is-that-newsnight\/","title":{"rendered":"Why is that Newsnight?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/may\/28\/give-these-overpaid-ceos-asbos\" target=\"_blank\">Aditya Chakrabortty's (excellent as usual) <\/a>column in the Guardian this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[On tax avoidance], Sorrell goes one better [than\u00a0Philip\u00a0Green]. In September 2008, he wrote an op-ed for the FT about how his London staff suffered \"ruinous housing costs, high crime levels and creaking public transport\". Just a few months after issuing this plea for greater public spending,\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2012\/mar\/01\/wpp-martin-sorrel-hq-london\">he moved his FTSE 100 firm to Dublin for tax purposes, even while keeping its offices in London<\/a>. Oh, and as Ferdinand Mount points out in his book The New Few, in 2008 the\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on WPP\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/wppgroup\">WPP<\/a>\u00a0boss got 631 times the wage of his average employee. Yet somehow Sorrell's views on what should be done about taxes for the\u00a0super-rich get far more airtime on Newsnight than, say, a tax-justice campaigner such as John\u00a0Christensen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is that Newsnight?<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to explain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aditya Chakrabortty&#8217;s (excellent as usual) column in the Guardian this morning: [On tax avoidance], Sorrell goes one better [than\u00a0Philip\u00a0Green]. In September 2008, he wrote<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/05\/29\/why-is-that-newsnight\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}