David Cottam

How about demanding access to Gaza while they’re in the area and bringing back some eye witness accounts of the genocide?

Self respect is incompatible with such abject crawling.

“A huge number of donors use Trump as a vehicle to enrich themselves. They don’t care about - or even celebrate - some of his egregious moral stances or his authoritarianism. All that stuff is fine with them, as long as the gravy train for the elite continues to chug along.” @brianklaas.bsky.social

Gordon Brown calls for gambling tax hikes to lift 500,000 kids out of poverty Gordon Brown said poverty was blighting the lives of Britain’s children as he called for 'massively undertaxed profits' of the gambling industry to be used to lift kids out of poverty

Gordon Brown calls for gambling tax hikes to lift 500,000 kids out of poverty

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It could replace Johnson’s Mail column with a random alliterative bullshit generator.
Chat GPT would make a less incompetent, incontinent and scandalous PM than him too.

If plumbers are worth £90 an hour, and corporate lawyers are billed at £1000 an hour, surely resident doctors deserve £22? Tell me I'm wrong.

If you live in Dubai to avoid paying UK income tax, maybe don't post endless tweets attacking 'economic migrants'

We were just discussing if it was too early to watch the whole thing again when I saw this. Spooky.

Achieving things using your own imagination and limited resources can still be surprisingly satisfying.

Inane "we need to train OUR young, not rely on migrants" Newsnight chat.

Median age was 37 in 2000, 41 today, will be 45 by 2050. Birthrate is 1.4 (minimum, just to tread water is 2.1). Immigration is a function of demography. Haldane knows this. We're not running out of skills, but out of people.

The history of ICE: How Trump constructed an American Gestapo

1 in 3 doctors were born overseas.

1 in 2 builders were born overseas.

1 in 6 nurses were born overseas.

1 in 4 transport workers were born overseas.

1 in 7 UK business founders were born overseas.

1 in 5 university academics were born overseas.

The UK would be screwed without them.

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

Amazed it took 40 years to reach this conclusion. It was obvious in the 80s, if you bothered to look.

Thatcher used the working-classes' own money to bribe them into voting to destroy their futures, and the Tories have been worshipping her for it ever since.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

Margaret Thatcher’s sale of 1.9m council homes cost public purse £200bn. Tories bought votes.

Policy fuelled shortages in social housing, turbocharged inequality.

One in six private tenants in England now rents a former local authority home.

Councils lack resources to build new homes.

The man who had his doctor report that he’s 6’3”, 238 lbs fired the person in charge of reporting labor statistics.

I have always thought that Cornish Pasties were strong contenders. Your dumplings are exquisitely made (no innuendo intended)

Am I being naive? Aren’t pardons at the whim of a president, antithetical to the separation of powers built into the constitution?
What’s the point of an independent judiciary if not to prevent such overreach?

I’m a bit wary of anyone whose former occupation was “professional hypnotist”. I’m also suspicious of would be populists. We are not a police state (yet) much as I oppose
the prohibition of pro Palestinian
protesters.

Trump was impeached, twice.

Considering posting this every day until the Smithsonian corrects its exhibit. Feel free to join me.

We still enjoy DVDs. They’re really cheap s/h. You have to look hard to find interesting films in Charity Shops.

My children and I loved his books. I can still recite Each Peach, Pear , Plum from memory and the Jolly Postman was a delight. I still love reading Burglar Bill to the grandchildren.

Gerrymandering: when data science meets moral bankruptcy.

Gerrymandering: the art of mathematically disproving majority rule.

a really fun thing is when you send HMRC a large quantity of money and then it takes them an implausibly long time to confirm they got it and also the line in your bank statement doesn't contain enough details for you to be certain you didn't just send it to a random passer by, that's great

I love that film!

He should get some advice from Matt Hancock.

He’s been in the dressing up box again.

Mrs Coulter from His Dark Materials?

Starmer and Reeves should prepare UK for wealth tax, say top economists PM could raise ‘tens of billions’ while positioning Britain as progressive, say Thomas Piketty and others

Starmer/Reeves should prepare UK for wealth tax, say top economists.

Long overdue.

Top 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.

Laws bent to help the rich - privatisations, PFI, corporate subsidies, capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages, unchecked profiteering.

Earlier this year, I lost my beloved job at my beloved Observer when the Guardian, in its great wisdom, gave the newspaper away to a podcast company...who promptly sacked me.

So, forgive my delight today, in being nominated for FIVE awards in the British Podcast Awards!!
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Which recent post are you asking about?