The Panama Papers thread

OrbitalDawn said:
Well, the Guardian had this as their headline article the whole of yesterday and it's still there. Here's one by the BBC, and another one. Here's a Sky article, featuring criticism of Cameron.

Let's see what RT offers. Oh, that's unexpected. An op-ed criticising western journalism. And some more whining about Putinphobia. Let's see what Sputnik offers us... Oh, how surprising, an article about social media users being upset by the focus on Putin.
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Granted, they published something about the Cameron connection, but only after they set the global headlines alight with the salvo fired at Russia. In all that noise the followup articles are less likely to get as much attention of course. And your definition of the "whole of yesterday" seems different to mine, that Guardian article was only published at 15:04 BST, hell even MyBB forums get a bit quieter by 3pm, the news day is mostly over by then.
 
Xarog said:
Feel free to show where either the UK or the US has publications in Russian discussing the foibles of the leaders of the US/UK respectively please.
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Feel free to post Sputnik/RT articles that, in any way, takes a critical stance of Putin or features significant political opposition from inside Russia.

NarrowBandFtw said:
Granted, they published something about the Cameron connection, but only after they set the global headlines alight with the salvo fired at Russia. In all that noise the followup articles are less likely to get as much attention of course. And your definition of the "whole of yesterday" seems different to mine, that Guardian article was only published at 15:04 BST, hell even MyBB forums get a bit quieter by 3pm, the news day is mostly over by then.
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I dunno about that. The first article I saw on The Guardian about this was the Cameron one, with a big ass banner article. I could be wrong, naturally.

Look at the Panama Papers section tag on The Guardian:

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OrbitalDawn said:
Feel free to post Sputnik/RT articles that, in any way, takes a critical stance of Putin or features significant political opposition from inside Russia.
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But that's my point. Niether side's foreign language news coverage is in the business of scoring own-goals. Compare apples with apples, not apples with oranges. I am sure Russia's internal media has more coverage of the Putin angle. RT does not represent the entirety of Russian media, so stop holding it up to the entirety of Western media and expecting it to do exactly the same job.

I dunno about that. The first article I saw on The Guardian about this was the Cameron one, with a big ass banner article. I could be wrong, naturally.
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Personally I've avoided their site ever since the whole Glen Greenwald saga. :p
 
OrbitalDawn said:
I dunno about that. The first article I saw on The Guardian about this was the Cameron one, with a big ass banner article. I could be wrong, naturally.
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I'm just going on the timestamp in the article you linked previously: "Monday 4 April 2016 15.04 BST"

Hence, I could also be wrong and there could also have been other articles, I didn't exactly make a scientific study out of it, but every single headline I saw in the morning when the news first broke was aimed at Putin and did not mention Cameron.

That could just be the google algorithm playing tricks on me, who knows, but that was my experience yesterday morning.
 
NarrowBandFtw said:
I'm just going on the timestamp in the article you linked previously: "Monday 4 April 2016 15.04 BST"

Hence, I could also be wrong and there could also have been other articles, I didn't exactly make a scientific study out of it, but every single headline I saw in the morning when the news first broke was aimed at Putin and did not mention Cameron.

That could just be the google algorithm playing tricks on me, who knows, but that was my experience yesterday morning.
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Well most of UK press is only vaguely focused on Putin. They mostly on about Cameron and the British nationals who they suspect of dodging tax. The opposition is demanding that the UK take over the running of all of the tax havens which are Crown Possessions and they demanding a detailed public HMRC inquiry into the tax affairs of all Britons named in the papers.

As far as I can tell, none of the UK politicians have even mentioned Putin in the context of the Panama papers.

Last nitghs Panorama program on BBC mentioned Putins mate, but mostly focused on Cameron and 4 other British nationals who they hounded in their driveway trying get answers.
 
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NarrowBandFtw said:
Granted, they published something about the Cameron connection, but only after they set the global headlines alight with the salvo fired at Russia. In all that noise the followup articles are less likely to get as much attention of course. And your definition of the "whole of yesterday" seems different to mine, that Guardian article was only published at 15:04 BST, hell even MyBB forums get a bit quieter by 3pm, the news day is mostly over by then.
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The Guardian reported on this stuff back in 2012

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/apr/20/cameron-family-tax-havens
 
Jeremy Corbyn demands David Cameron publish his tax return and submit his family investments to an independent investigation after the Panama files leak

Ian Cameron's firm used a secretive type of share now banned in the UK

Blairmore Holdings avoided tax, paying people in Bahamas to sign papers

David Cameron refused to say if family still benefits from offshore funds

Corbyn said tax avoidance was not a 'private matter' if tax was not paid

He demanded independent investigation into all Britons named in papers

Labour leader also said British tax havens should come under direct rule

The Panama paper leak showed Ian Cameron used a secretive share certificate and a signature from a Bishop to help his company avoid UK tax
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ependent-investigation-Panama-files-leak.html
 
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