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Freelance news and features journalist. Previously: the Guardian's Wealth Correspondent, and US Business Correspondent. Rupert.Neate @gmail .com

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Rupert Neate
6 years
Excl: Dan Snyder, the billionaire owner of the Washington NFL team, asked IMAX to build him a private IMAX movie theatre... on his superyacht. It cost an additional $3m.
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News: After 13 years, and some really wonderful experiences I am leaving the Guardian. I’m going freelance, I'm available for commissions, shifts, jobs and anything else that will pay the bills. If you hear of anything, please let me know! Please RT
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3 years
Rowan Williams demands the government impose a wealth tax on the super-rich to help tackle “spiralling inequality”, which he said was “deeply damaging to our collective morale and trust”. @ChuActTaxJust
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6 years
. @sajidjavid has today ordered the extradition of @TheVijayMallya Indian multimillionaire and former Force India F1 team owner over allegations of £1bn fraud.
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5 years
Spent my weekend tracking down Philip Green. He wasn't pleased to see me.
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Philip Green: -Arcadia is in trouble with £500m pension blackhole -Jobs will be lost and stores closed -Green family have taken £1.4bn dividends This is what happened when @RupertNeate tracked Green down to his Monaco hideaway
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2 years
The company that operates the pipeline leaking oil into Poole harbour is owned & run by a multibillionaire amateur racing driver who owns 46 sports cars including a £12m McLaren F1 GTR Today he’s posting about his cars. No apology or mention of oil leak
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8 years
@TheVijayMallya Hi Vijay, I'm a reporter for the Guardian in London. Have you got more of a statement? rupert.neate @theguardian .com 020 3353 2175 thanks
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2 years
King Charles III personally owns 321 private houses and cottages near his Sandringham palace - and half of a load of other people’s gardens. @MaeveMCC and I went to meet some of his tenants
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5 years
Listening to Jane's story was the hardest thing I've done all year. Please read it. "Jane had stopped eating in order to scratch together enough money to feed her children. It shows." Thanks, and massive respect, to @DeniseBentley_ and @firstlovefdn
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8 years
Mark Thompson, NYT CEO and former BBC DG, is being sued over allegations of age, race and gender discrimination
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10 years
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9 years
Trump says Mexico is sending its "rapists" to the US. "They're sending us the worst people". http://t.co/ubpkWWXbXq
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10 years
|LIVE NOW| Interviewing founder and Eco of Meerkat @benrbn . Watch #meerkat http://t.co/lkvHjXaR3p
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7 years
So impressed by these guys
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2 years
“Ratcliffe has donated money to a local charitable endeavour” When reporter attempted to join the club they were told “admission requirements” include paying a £25,000 joining fee followed by annual membership fees of £6,000.
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6 years
In February when politicians were raging at Jeff Fairburn for his "obscene" £75m bonus he promised to give a "substantial proportion" to charity. 10 months on he still hasn't.
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8 years
The biggest corporate winners from Trump's victory. Private prisons and oil companies
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8 years
Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump and 285k others have companies registered at this Delaware bld
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12 years
Boris Johnson's hero is the mayor in Jaws who kept the beaches open leading to more shark attack deaths http://t.co/ORdvCrie
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3 years
Amazon EU Sarl (which owns but is based in Luxembourg) made so much money and has so few staff - that it works out at rate of €8.4m income PER EMPLOYEE
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8 years
Under President Trump the 0.1% are set to get ave $1.3m tax cut. While 8m poor families face effective tax hike
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5 years
@seatsixtyone Please could you send me the press release. rupert.neate @theguardian .com. Also are you available for interview about it? thanks Rupert
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5 years
“People love this. You get the same sort of tax savings you get in Jersey [and other tax havens] but you get to live somewhere you actually want to live.” The global super-rich are moving to Italy, to pay max tax of €100k
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5 years
Tower Hamlets ruled against the proposed residential tower development because it would “harm the long-term provision of a nightclub that serves the LGBT+ community”. 'When I discovered the fetish scene at Backstreet as an 18-year-old, it saved my life'
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9 years
. @facebook : employs 81 black people out of 5,479 US workforce. @twitter : 49 out of 2,910 http://t.co/lmAmya6fqr http://t.co/o6x1qq39cj
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1 year
Wanted: an animal-loving billionaire who might consider buying 1,993 threatened white rhinos instead of a new superyacht or a Picasso, or a Picasso onboard a superyacht. Quite liked that intro
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5 years
Tree prime ministers flew to London this week to sell citizenship in their countries to the super-rich. I went to watch them do it.
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9 years
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10 years
Black Friday at Tesco Edmonton
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6 years
- UK's best-paid boss Jeff Fairburn of Persimmon sacked cos his £75m bonus is a "distraction", says board. - Board replaces him with a deputy who they gave a £40m bonus. So that's a lot less distracting...
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6 years
Brexiteer billionaire Sir James Dyson is moving his HQ to Singapore
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9 years
DoJ #FIFA diagrams explaining "The Enterprise" and how the "Sports Marketing Bribery Schemes" work http://t.co/hvrQ9HsdrO
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8 years
Watching #ENGISL in Italy. The commentators are all Brexit jokes. I don't blame them we are an international laughing stock
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2 years
Govt accused of introducing a “simply staggering, huge tax cut for richer households” that will leave “the super-wealthy laughing all the way to the actual bank”
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2 years
Jes Staley, the former boss of Barclays, has been accused in court of “personally observ[ing] the sexual abuse of young women” by Jeffrey Epstein.
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7 years
Between them 109 billionaires own 140 of the world’s biggest sports teams, including two-thirds of the NBA and NFL
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2 years
The UK's richest person - Jim Ratcliffe - is being investigated for using a charity to build a £16m "exclusive.. members only" ski lodge in Courchevel. - by me
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9 years
This is the press pack for DoJ #FIFA press conference http://t.co/qw9yY3aP8i
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4 years
These people appear to have been arrested for sitting down on a bench
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10 years
A fight has broken out over coffee makers. Tesco staff mostly concerned over stopping people videoing it. We will have a video tomo am
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3 years
An Irish subsidiary of @Microsoft made $315bn profit last year (almost as much as Ireland's entire GDP). The company has zero staff. And paid zero tax, as it is "a tax resident in Bermuda".
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9 years
No one from McDonald's press office will come out & speak to me, despite 100s of emails & traveling 700 miles to stand outside their office
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9 years
James Comey, director of the FBI: "The game... was hijacked." http://t.co/s5yi8axzlM
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7 years
Will Humphrys ever retire?
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5 years
The new @FT editor @khalafroula was on the @mediamasters_fm podcast last month. Worth a listen again now.
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10 years
The Guardian Snowden laptop destroyed on the orders of the Prime Minister to go on display at the V&A http://t.co/cYN5eL4n9R
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12 years
America's best paid CEO accused of duping the world's poorest people out of $3.8bn http://t.co/4yICbuDw
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6 years
@LifeOnBaars @ObserverUK @Conservators_uk Alright alright I've changed it
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6 years
Hard Brexit-backing billionaire Sir James Dyson moves his company to Singapore. Other firms start stockpiling everything from Bentleys to laptops and even cat and dog food in case of no deal chaos. One CEO describes Brexit as "the killer" of profits and jobs.
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Companies quitting Companies stockpiling The #Brexit effect -Tomorrow’s Guardian
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4 years
Imagine getting paid $3bn a year. Imagine inviting Paris Hilton to trash your $52m apartment Imagine being called Chase Payson Coleman The Third.
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13 years
The rich have already found loopholes to avoid George Osborne's crackdown on stamp duty avoidance. Great FT (£) story http://t.co/gyqmLhf6
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12 years
Foxes jumping on a trampoline. Well this made my bank holiday http://t.co/eFFb3ZYj
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