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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

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‘I am the luckiest public servant alive’: Rebecca Skinner on being a glass-half-full leader

CAREERS: ‘I brought with me a knowledge that if you have a big organisation with a delivery focus, you’ll find a way to deliver the outcome that’s expected of you. So, that is my glass half full.’

Enigma code-breaking machine rebuilt at Cambridge - TechXplore: “Cambridge Engineering alumnus Hal Evans has built a fully-functioning replica of a 1930s Polish cyclometer—an electromechanical cryptologic device that was designed to assist in the decryption of German Enigma ciphertext. The replica currently resides in King’s College, Cambridge. Work on the hardware-based replica began in 2018, as part of Hal’s fourth year Master’s project under the supervision of King’s College Fellow and Senior Tutor Dr. Tim Flack. The aim was to investigate further into cryptologist Marian Rejewski’s cyclometer—an early forerunner to Cambridge University mathematician Alan Turing’s machine, known as the Bombe, which was used to crack the German Enigma code during the Second World War…”


FiveThirtyEight, We’re Not Going To See Trump’s Tax Returns Anytime Soon:

President Trump is one of the only presidents in modern memory who has kept his tax returns private, and attempts to force their release have sparked a mountain of litigation, reaching all the way to the Supreme Court.


Cross-border VAT fraudsters busted in Portugal: 6 arrests and 32 indictments


Tax crime prosecution case studies


Fourth person jailed for Operation Elbrus

Devyn Hammond  was last week sentenced in the Supreme Court of NSW to 4 years jail for her role in a syndicate that is alleged to have defrauded the Commonwealth of more than $105 million over three years.

 

 

HMRC CEO’s warning over job retention bonus

 

 

 

 

 

HMRC CEO Jim Harra has challenged the Chancellor over the Job Retention Bonus Scheme set out in this week’s summer economic update, saying that the £1,000 bonus to be paid to employers who bring back furloughed staff may not be cost effective

 

 

 

 

 

 

First arrest over £495K ‘furlough fraud’

 

 

 

 

 

A West Midlands man has been arrested in connection with a suspected £495,000 fraud involving the government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS), the first such action over potential furlough fraud


 

 This is a great interview with Jia Tolentino in Interview magazine. Take for instance her answer to the question “What has this pandemic confirmed or reinforced about your view of society?”:

That capitalist individualism has turned into a death cult; that the internet is a weak substitute for physical presence; that this country criminally undervalues its most important people and its most important forms of labor; that we’re incentivized through online mechanisms to value the representation of something (like justice) over the thing itself; that most of us hold more unknown potential, more negative capability, than we’re accustomed to accessing; that the material conditions of life in America are constructed and maintained by those best set up to exploit them; and that the way we live is not inevitable at all.


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