Freelance news and features journalist. Previously: the Guardian's Wealth Correspondent, and US Business Correspondent. [email protected]
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"The rich have definitely been getting a lot, lot richer."
Journalist @RupertNeate discusses the growing disparity between the 'wealthiest 1%' and the rest of society - and reveals how the super-rich celebrate Christmas.
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Update: Guardian wealth correspondent @RupertNeate has also accepted voluntary redundancy as the news title targets cost savings, joining a list that includes media editor Jim Waterson and special projects editor Jonathan Shainin pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-…
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Christopher Beaumont, 23rd @SeigneurOfSark, takes on the Barclay dynasty. Beaumont is attempting to snap up abandoned hotels and other buildings belonging to the Torygraph billionaires. via @RupertNeate theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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Latest episode in the Cost of the crown podcast series, featuring @MaeveMCC and @RupertNeate’s run in with the law for visiting a public churchyard near the King’s private estate in Norfolk.
Cost of the crown part 4: calculating the king’s wealth – podcast theguardian.com/news/audio/2…
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REVEALED: Direct ancestors of King Charles and the British royal family owned slave plantations in Virginia, documents show. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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The king argues his personal fortune is a "private" matter. With the help of 12 experts, our investigation team traced and valued assets worth an estimated £1.8bn. And we discovered quite how much of his "private" wealth derives from his public role. theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i…
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It’s five years since I was diagnosed with an incurable blood cancer. I wrote a big piece for Saturday magazine about the worst year of my life - terror, grief, miscarriage - and how it has led to some of the happiest theguardian.com/society/2023…
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Today the Guardian is launching Cost of the crown, an investigation into royal wealth and financing. Here is why we think the UK monarch urgently requires this kind of scrutiny: theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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Charity begins at home, or at least a £16m ski clubhouse, if you're a super rich billionaire Brexiteer living in a tax haven theguardian.com/news/2023/ja…
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A battle is brewing in SW19. Local residents, environmental and heritage groups are preparing to launch a PR and legal salvo against Wimbledon’s plans to develop historic parkland into 39 new tennis courts for the championships.
By @RupertNeate theguardian.com/business/202…
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Tax the rich! Say … the rich! Come for the extraordinary common sense presented by millionaires, as reported by @RupertNeate. Stay for the fist-gnawing final sentence theguardian.com/news/2021/oc…
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I rang the registry of court judgements and asked the woman on the line what sort of thing the debt could be for - she said "maybe he's not paid someone who redecorated his flat"
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"The most insufferable newspaper on planet Earth": the rudest things they ever said about the Guardian. theguardian.com/media/2021/m… via @RupertNeate with @elonmusk @officialmoz etc
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Word of the day is ‘ingordigiousness’: extreme greed; an insatiable desire for wealth at any cost.
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A 24-hour Twitter storm just before Piers' contract negotiations with GB News. The attention economy strikes again.
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ITV statement: "Following discussions with ITV, Piers Morgan has decided now is the time to leave Good Morning Britain. ITV has accepted this decision and has nothing further to add."
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.@kathviner:
"Every institution in the United Kingdom is currently examining its own position on vital issues of race and the treatment of people of colour.
“As I have said before, the media must do the same. It must be much more representative and more self-aware.”
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We disagree with the Society of Editors statement on the Meghan and Harry interview. Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief @kathviner has said the following...
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Exclusive:
Pontins used blacklist of common Irish surnames to keep Traveller families out of its holiday parks
Full story from me and @cahalmilmo on @theipaper
inews.co.uk/news/uk/pontins-… @EHRC
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The bailout of slave owners of £20m was 40% of total expenditure when it happened in 1833 and was only paid off in 2015. I didn’t learn about this bailout at school but when I did the podcast on it a year ago👇. We need to teach our history in schools.
Some people are highlighting our episode on teaching the history of Empire in schools, with @GKBhambra and @JJtodd1966.
Anti-racism in the UK must include understanding our imperial past.
cheerfulpodcast.com/rtbc-epi…