Juliette Garside
European financial affairs editor at the Guardian newspaper theguardian.com/profile/juliette-ga…
Steering committee for antislapp.uk
- The shortlist for the Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism is out: ten investigations on a brilliant range of subjects. Very proud to have worked on 2 of them, with colleagues @manisha.bsky.social @shaunwalker7.bsky.social and @pjotrsauer.bsky.social daphnejournalismprize.eu/edition-2025...
- Here is a nice picture of Elena Zhukova, the ex-mother in law or Roman Abramovich (and granny to his children), with her husband Rupert Murdoch at the state dinner given by King Charles for Donald Trump last night.
- Three out of the six declared candidates for the deputy leadership of Labour back a wealth tax: Emily Thornberry, Bell Ribeiro-Addy and Paula Barker. Here is Bell on why she wants the UK to introduce a wealth tax: labourlist.org/2025/08/weal...
- These three stories are the most read pieces by the Guardian’s business team over the last 7 days. Can you spot the theme? Here’s the link to my report on the battle over Norway’s wealth tax. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
- On the day of his election as leader of the Green Party, @zackpolanski.bsky.social has chosen to write for the Guardian not about the environment, but about how to tax wealth. This is a moment, for Labour, for the unions and for those they choose to finance. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- "Without meaningful anti-SLAPP protections that can level the playing field and make sure the justice system serves everyone equally, there are few structural protections to prevent this happening again. For that reason we need a universal anti-SLAPP law without delay." antislapp.uk/2025/08/22/t...
- Today is a good day for press freedom. This important decision by the High Court protects the rights of women who speak out against abuse, and of the journalists who seek to tell their stories. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...
- It’s the big question for the chancellor - should Rachel Reeves bring in a UK wealth tax? I looked at Spain, which has had one for years, and increased it after Covid. The result? It doesn’t raise much, but it’s popular, and there was no billionaire exodus. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- My colleague Shaun Walker attended the funeral of reporter Viktoriia Roshchyna in Kyiv today. She died alone and in unimaginable suffering, somewhere inside Russia, after being taken captive. Her body was returned in February and finally buried today 💔 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- This week Ukraine put the head of the prison where she was held, Sizo 2 in Taganrog, just over the border from Ukraine, under formal investigation. He is accused of overseeing systematic torture and abuse of Ukrainian captives, including Viktoriia, and is likely to face trial in absentia.
- It’s far from perfect justice, but it is a statement of Ukraine’s intent to prosecute war crimes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- The man who would be France’s next president: Gabriel Attal on Brexit, controlling migration and his intentions for the 2027 presidential race www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
- He hasn’t officially declared his candidacy but when I asked him he said “J’y travaille” - “I’m working on it”. If he wins - and that’s a big if - he would lift Emmanuel Macron’s crown as France’s youngest president.
- Zelenskyy is pushing Russia to release 200 civilians - political prisoners and journalists - as part of the peace talks deal to exchange combatants As the Guardian highlighted in the #viktoriiaProject Russia is holding 16k Ukrainian civilians in appalling conditions detector.media/infospace/ar...
- Congratulations to this year’s @europeanpressprize.bsky.social winners. As a member of the committee I read over 100 entries. It was a rich and mind expanding experience! Each winner and runner up is republished, in English and paywall free. Enjoy! www.europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/y...
- 🏆 The moment has finally arrived! The Winners of the 2025 European Press Prize are out now! A huge congratulations to this year’s Winners and Runners-Up! Thank you to everyone who participated! www.europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/y...
- Viktoriia Roshchyna ventured into occupied Ukraine to investigate the Russian 'black sites' - then ended up in one herself. Here, Michael Safi speaks to @manisha.bsky.social and I about Vika and the detention and torture of thousands of other civilians. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
- Thank you to @tinabrownlm.bsky.social for the opportunity to tell the tragic story of Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian captivity, at today's Truth Tellers summit. With the formidable @laurentrichard.bsky.social and Katya Adler. Watch here sirharrysummit.org/watch/
- This week I've been writing about the death in Russian captivity of the Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna. She was tortured, she was just 27. And she was one of the 16k civilians Russia has abducted since 2022. I spoke about it to Anita Rani on BBC Woman's Hour www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
- Viktoriia Roshchyna crossed the frontline to investigate one of Russia's least talked about war crimes - the brutal detention and torture of 16,000 civilians from occupied Ukraine. She died in Russian custody, a victim of the horrors she had set out to expose. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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View full threadThis story can only be told thanks to the courage of those who agreed to relive some of the darkest moments of their lives. Thank you.
- Hats off to our brilliant reporting team @shaunwalker7.bsky.social @manisha.bsky.social @pjotrsauer.bsky.social , our colleagues from Ukraine Tetyana Nikolayenko, Anton Naumliuk, and Artem Mazhulin, and our graphics wizard Lucy Swan. Thanks also @forbidden-stories.bsky.social for making it happen.
- Russia is holding thousands of Ukrainian civilians captive. They are local politicians, retired police officers, small business owners, community activists. Anyone likely to oppose the occupation. They are ghost prisoners. Held without charge, without access to lawyers or to their families.
- In today's report, we go inside one of Russia's worst torture prisons - Sizo 2 in Taganrog. For months, our reporters have been recording interviews with released prisoners of war to understand what happened here - and to name some of those responsible. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- "I thought I'll give it a go, see how I get on"...Mark ended up losing £27,000 - a year's salary - to investment fraud. Now he's in debt, struggling with the repayments. Listening back to his calls with the scammers, it's easy to see how he was taken in www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...
- Most of us know a friend or a relative who has lost money to online scammers. What we didn’t know until now are that British citizens are targeted more than any other group. Canadians come second. Why? Because they are relatively wealthy and speak English. www.theguardian.com/money/2025/m...
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View full threadConclusion: Facebook should stop hosting the scam ads that lure in victims, and share the cost of compensation. Banks, including the new generation of digital banks, need to take more steps to combat fraud.
- Brilliant teamwork by Simon Goodley, Zoe Wood @porcelinad.bsky.social and Michael Goodier. Thanks to Swedish TV and @occrp.org for bringing @guardian into this project. And to @johncollingridge.bsky.social for his support.
- Today we published the findings from six months of work pouring through a giant leak from Tbilisi in Georgia, where a network calling themselves the ‘skameri’ took the equivalent of $35m in a few years - a third of it from the UK.
- We spoke to the victims whose lives they upended, we uncovered the names of those running the scheme, enjoying the cars and watches and holidays funded from stolen savings, and we followed the money trail through the banking system.
- US citizens, on the other hand, are carefully avoided by the scammers. Because the US Department of Justice actually polices transnational crime. It’s time the UK did too.
- The British Virgin Islands are a clash with UK Gov over financial crime which threatens to escalate into a constitutional standoff, from @byrobdavies.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
- A number of members of the House of Lords have visited Azerbaijan recently, on paid trips. Human rights groups say endorsements from peers risk legitimising this authoritarian regime, ruled over by one family for decades. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Hats off to the genuinely brilliant @byrobdavies.bsky.social - and his ridiculously talented accomplice @simonlock.bsky.social - who for the first time showed us exactly how Roman Abramovich bent the rules at Chelsea FC
- Winners of the Sports Journalism category are @simonlock.bsky.social @byrobdavies.bsky.social @jacobsteinberg1.bsky.social of @tbij.bsky.social and @theguardian.com for their joint work “exposing the less salubrious machinations behind the lucrative world of football” #BritishJournalismAwards
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View full threadThen there were the secret offshore payments to agents and executives, apparently in breach of the financial fair play rules... currently under investigation by the Premier League, which should get on a publish its findings www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...
- And finally, the young players who signed away their futures using a type of contract so exploitative it was banned www.theguardian.com/world/2023/n...
- First, where the cash came from... www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...
- Then there was Abramovich's secret bankrolling of Dutch club Vitesse. The revelations led to points deduction, relegation, and a fine for the accountant BDO...hat tip also to the Guardian's David Conn here... www.theguardian.com/world/2023/m...
- Here's a reminder of the highlights of a year of painstaking work unpicking a hidden money trail that led from Russia to the Premier League, involving reporters from across the @theguardian.com and @tbij.bsky.social and many others in the #CyprusConfidential collaboration
- Labour peer Margaret Hodge has been named anti-corruption champion. She'll have limited powers but a big loudhailer. This is a signal foreign secretary David Lammy is serious about stemming the flow of dirty money through London. Facilitators beware... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Pink dawn and Christmas lights by the Thames this morning
- Look at that! Bluesky just blasted past Threads for daily active visits. We don’t know the exact number for X because Musk. But some estimates say 120m. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
- Most billionaires pay an effective tax rate close to zero. But there are plans to change that, with the G20 leaders discussing a minimum global tax in Brazil this week. Spain's economy minister Carlos Cuerpo tells me it's time to "be brave" and make it happen. www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
- These are all top subjects I would love to read more on. Good luck with the bungalow.
- Amazing snowball effect happening on Bluesky right now. Added 1k followers overnight. I’ve been here since last year but it’s now starting to feel conversational and buzzy like Twitter used to.
- The world's 5 richest men doubled their wealth during Covid. Their effective tax rates are close to zero. But the pandemic was paid for by workers, as govts slashed benefits and hiked taxes on wages. It's time to tax the billionaires. But how? parispeaceforum.org/2024-forum-p...
- Today will debate the options at the Paris Peace Forum. Quentin Parrinello of EU tax Observatory, Friederike Röder of Global Citizen, William Roos of DG du Trésor and Pedro Abramovay at OSF make the case for a global tax on billionaires, green solidarity levies and more
- The world's 5 richest men doubled their wealth during Covid. Their effective tax rates are close to zero. But the pandemic was paid for by workers, as govts slashed benefits and hiked taxes on wages. It's time to tax the billionaires. But how? parispeaceforum.org/2024-forum-p...
- On Monday we will debate the options at the Paris Peace Forum. Come and hear our fantastic panel Quentin Parrinello at EU Tax Observatory, Friederike Roder at Global Citizen and Pedro Abramovay at Open Societies Foundation make the case for a global billionaire tax, green levies and more
- More from our series on race science and the tech right with @hopenothate.bsky.social - this from Stephanie Kirchgaessner on the Republican candidate promoting genetically selected babies and dictator run city states www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
