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Summary Notes on the Pandora Papers
- Module
- Journalism (P500)
- Institution
- University Of Derby (UoD)
This is a summary of the Pandora Paper scandal
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Pandora Papers A leak of around 12 millions documents containing evidence of hidden wealth, tax
avoidance and money laundering by some of the world's richest people.
$5.6-$32 trillion worth of money hidden offshore
$600bn in lost taxes each year
12 million papers leaked: 6.4 million documents, 2.9 million images, 1.2 million
emails, half a million spreadsheets, nearly 900k other documents
Names: Jordan’s King Abdullah III amassed $100m worth of property in the United
States and United Kingdom through secret companies, Czech PM moved $22m
through offshore companies, and Tony Blair.
14 sources working for of International Consortium of Investigative Journalism (an
international group)
Coronavirus in the news
Should Cummings have been sacked?
Chief Advisor to Boris Johnson
Advised rules to the public and then broke them himself: dropped his kids off with
grandparent whilst being contagious with covid (putting vulnerable people at high
risk), went to a tourist attraction, Barnard Castle, during a major lockdown when the
public weren’t allowed out, and then refused to apologise.
How can the public respect someone that doesn’t respect the person they work for or
the public they are trying to protect.
Did it bolster or weaken the Prime Minister's public standing?
It weakened his public standing, because it is understandable that this type of thing
has never happened before but a lot of people were behind helping the country and
they had access to a lot of things for research but still didn’t manage to handle the
control of the coronavirus.
Even his own staff members did not follow the rules that they devised, lacking control
as a leader.
What is the Government? Who is in it? What does it do?
The Government is responsible for running the country. The political party that wins
the most seats at a General Election takes charge of the Government for 5 years until
the next General Elections. (parliament.uk)
The leader of the winning party is anointed Prime Minister and chooses other party
members to work in Government with them as Cabinet Ministers or Juniour Ministers
The Government is responsible for deciding how the country is run: they set taxes,
choose what to spend public money on and decide best on how to deliver public
services.
o The National Health Service
o The police and armed forces
o Welfare benefits like the state pension
o The UK’s energy supply
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