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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Paying tax is a privilege

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 153 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

It's three minutes after ten. A very good morning indeed to you.

0:03.3

And a conversation this morning that I think is, it might be the first time that we've ever had it.

0:10.1

I'm trying to find the thing that you've got to be careful, haven't you, online?

0:13.5

And there's a chance in the second hour.

0:15.1

We'll be looking at some developments in the area of social media.

0:19.1

Very strange developments, but I never know how interested you are.

0:22.2

If you're heavily engaged in Twitter or Facebook or whatever one, TikTok and Insta,

0:29.6

then obviously you're interested in things that happen there.

0:32.2

But if you're not heavily engaged in it, then how interested are you in?

0:35.4

I don't know, but I think that certainly in the case of Twitter, it's a proven

0:39.1

electoral influence, so that may indeed

0:41.2

be why Elon must bought it in the first

0:43.4

place. So we may have a look at that in the second hour, but when you're

0:45.4

trying to find things online, you have to

0:47.4

be careful, don't you? You can find

0:49.4

the wrong thing sometimes.

0:51.8

So I've got two, I've found

0:53.2

two pictures of checks signed by Alan Sugar.

0:57.9

And I presume, I don't, I, oh, maybe he did both of them.

1:03.2

But the point was he was showing how much tax he pays.

1:07.9

He was showing how much personal tax he pays. In January of one year, 2017, he published a

1:18.9

picture of a check. I mean, it's actually extraordinary for 56,000, 646,000 and 28 pounds and 44 pence. I wonder what they spent the 44

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