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Seth Freedman

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Seth Freedman is a writer. He worked as a stockbroker in the City for six years before moving to Israel. He served for 15 months in a combat unit of the IDF between 2004 and 2006. He was the whistleblower at the centre of the gas price-fixing scandal in November 2012

June 2015

  • cocaine

    Worse things happen in the City than a bit of coke-snorting

    Seth Freedman
    Never mind the hapless ‘City boy’ caught on camera brazenly snorting coke on a tube, what about some media outrage at the villains of the Libor-rigging scandal?

March 2014

  • Daniel in the Lions' Den

    You told us
    The Cif community challenges its writers – and can change their minds

    Seth Freedman
    Seth Freedman: You told us: Georgina Henry's kind but firm encouragement to go below the line on my pieces has transformed my life as well as my ideals

November 2013

  • Paul Flowers

    The Co-op Bank chief's drug-taking fuels a City stereotype

    Seth Freedman
    Seth Freedman: I was one of few traders who took cocaine and then only once at work. The City's problems have nothing to do with drug abuse

August 2013

  • Israel should praise their dancing IDF soldiers, not condemn them

    Seth Freedman
  • Moritz Erhardt Merrill Lynch intern

    Banking interns need protection from the City's 'all-nighter' culture

    Seth Freedman

February 2013

  • Gas ring

    Centrica profits: how gas companies play the 'wholesale costs' card

    Seth Freedman
  • London bus

    Bigots on the bus: why are we forced to put up with them?

    Seth Freedman

November 2012

  • Gas Composite

    The gas game
    'Bang, bang, bang: six times people have tried to force the price down' – the suspicious trading behaviour which led to an FSA investigation

    Whistleblower Seth Freedman explains the suspicious pattern of trades which led him to raise the alarm

July 2012

  • Broker looking at screen

    Banning naked short-selling won't solve the eurozone crisis

    Seth Freedman
    Seth Freedman: Short-selling is not to blame for this banking mess, but it's an easy scapegoat for politicians eager to assuage public opinion

May 2012

  • African migrants, Tel Aviv

    Israeli politicians are fanning the flames of anti-migrant tension

    Seth Freedman

    Seth Freedman: The interior minister's rabble-rousing rhetoric about African migrants killing the 'Zionist dream' must be challenged

April 2012

  • Tel Aviv

    Cif belief
    Time for Israel to allow buses on the Sabbath

    Seth Freedman

    Seth Freedman: Israel has to get over its obsession with its religious character and be a country for all its citizens – including the non-religious and non-Jewish

February 2012

  • Ultra-orthodox Jew walks past Israeli soldiers

    Israel's ultra-orthodox Jews have a duty to serve their country

    Seth Freedman
  • Nicolas Sarkozy at the EU Summit in Brussels, Belgium

    Nicolas Sarkozy's new tax won't make him Robin Hood

    Seth Freedman

October 2011

  • pope Benedict

    Cif belief
    The Vatican can't bring morality to the money markets

    Seth Freedman
    Seth Freedman: It may be noble in spirit, but the Catholic attack on institutional investor practices is just whistling in the wind

September 2011

  • UBS entrance

    The return of the rogue trader – but not the end of UBS

    Seth Freedman
    Seth Freedman: The bank's $2bn 'unauthorised trading' loss may sound staggering, but it made billions last year

March 2011

  • Costa Rica's Estadio Nacional stadium

    Costa Rican football fans celebrate opening of stadium built by China

  • A blood stain is seen on the pavement at the scene of an explosion in Jerusalem

    Jerusalem bus bomb will harm the Palestinian cause

    Seth Freedman

October 2010

  • The olive groves where peaceful solidarity grows

    Seth Freedman

  • The second intifada, 10 years on

    Seth Freedman

September 2010

  • Betfair

    The Betfair flotation and the world of extreme gambling

    Seth Freedman
    Seth Freedman: Online betting exchanges such as Betfair have revolutionised the industry – but helped destructive betting compulsions develop
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