LIVE SHOW: Nadhim Zahawi, trans rights, and kidnapped child asylum seekers
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2023
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Finally, the truth is coming out: Tory minister Nadhim Zahawi has admitted reaching a tax settlement with HM Revenue and Customs over a supposed 'error' worth million. Even more remarkably, he negotiated the settlement when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer. What on earth is going on, what's the truth - and what does it tell us about our broken tax system? Tax expert Richard Murphy joins us to explain all.
As the anti-trans moral panic escalates with the showdown over Scotland's reform of the gender recognition process, we're joined by trans writer, vlogger and activist extraordinaire Katy Montgomerie.
Plus: with horrific news that dozens of child asylum seekers have been abducted by gangs, we talk to anti-trafficking social worker Lauren Starkey.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the show, it's great to see you all, I can't see you all actually, |
| 0:21.2 | just a lie isn't it really, but I can see your comments and that matters, I can see what |
| 0:24.6 | you think because we are live, which is great, we've got quite the show today, there was |
| 0:29.4 | a lot to talk about in the given the burning skip, which is currently British society, there's |
| 0:35.8 | quite a lot of terrible things to talk about, we would do so with much cheer as we can, |
| 0:42.2 | the problem is the material we've got, awful, but we're going to try and always, I suppose |
| 0:48.4 | it's not being cheerful, but trying to encourage people to think that maybe as terrible and |
| 0:52.9 | dying and actually quite catastrophic as things are, there are things people can do about them, |
| 0:56.5 | otherwise we're just making people from miserable to taken, it seems a little bit futile, |
| 1:00.6 | but we are going to talk about some pretty grim things today, so I just want to be clear about |
| 1:04.5 | that, later on in the show, speaking of which, we will be talking about an absolutely horrendous |
| 1:10.9 | story, which is about child asylum seekers who've been taken kidnapped by gangs, absolutely |
| 1:19.3 | gruesome story to say the least, and we'll be talking about that, and the home office is |
| 1:23.6 | failures, we're talking to Lauren Starkey, who's a brilliant anti-trafficking social worker, |
| 1:30.0 | the anti-transmoral panic has, you probably haven't, have noticed, has not gone away, |
| 1:34.3 | and it continues to escalate, not least because of the standoff over Scotland's democratic decision |
| 1:39.9 | to reform the gender recognition process, and then the attempts by the Conservative Government, |
| 1:45.9 | led by Rishi Sinak, to overturn that democratic decision, and the impact that's having on |
| 1:51.0 | trans people, not just in Scotland, but across the UK, we've got the brilliant Katie Montgomery, |
| 1:55.1 | who many of you will know and has been on the show before, and before we bring in our first |
| 2:00.0 | brilliant guest, who I think many of you will be more than aware of, to talk about Natham Zaharri |
| 2:05.0 | tax affairs, and what it says more broadly, because we're not just going to talk about Natham Zaharri's, |
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