@lanehunter.bsky.social
Twitter deactivated 20th Jan 2025. Trying to build up followers again here. Retweet because other people are much more eloquent with words. Villa supporter. Love Rioja and Tanqueray G&T. Köln / Kingston upon Thames
If you can’t guarantee the safety of the competing teams, you should be ineligible to be a World Cup host nation. Period.
Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
UK govt "will not tolerate" energy firms profiteering from Iran war.
It will do what?
Ofgem allows profiteering: electricity pricing formula is based on price of gas, renewables are the cheapest. Profiteering is built in.
Change the formula, levy windfall tax, prosecute profiteering execs.
PRA fines Aviva £10.625m over Direct Line accounting miscalculation.
It overstated solvency ratios. Failure of controls and resourcing issues in its finance and actuarial functions.
Company will pass fine to customers. Execs face no penalties.
Vandalism by masked thugs in Wembley at Indian restaurant causing much concern + reported in India. No police statement yet on initial investigations. Not confirmed if criminal gang activity, as some suggest, rather than religious hostility/communal motive
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/ind...
Jill came across a shoplifter in the village shop yesterday.
She hid a huge muffin under her coat & then stuffed moist baps down her trousers. When challenged this deranged woman told Jill to frack off & called her a blob.
Simple Sally chased her off with a mop & a blow torch.
😱
South East Water says it can't provide water to all new homes
Water companies haven't built new reservoirs for decades, paid dividends, govts did nothing
Govt wants to build new homes but no infrastructure planning. That's what happens when you privatize essentials infrastructure.
Ah, The Times, Britain's most dishonest newspaper, with a story which curiously omits all mention of the fact it is a Good Law Project case.
US bombers loading up on UK airstrips before raining down bombs on Iran.
Parliament wasn't consulted - and polling shows huge numbers oppose it.
When do MPs get a say over our involvement in this war?
www.forbes.com/sites/peters...
UNHCR reporting 3m Iranians have been displaced so far since war with US and Israel. Thousands are already refugees from Afghanistan. How many are the UK taking? Remember we took over 200,000 Ukrainians.
Shell CEO’s pay jumps 60% to £13.8m. Did yours?
Execs rewarded for profiteering.
Average real pay for workers hardly changed since 2008.
Govts claim worker pay rises are inflationary, but silence on exec pay, dividends, share buyback and corporate tax abuses.
Jeez. I thought I had seen everything but this! It’s almost impossible to believe it has actually just been posted by the White House. They’ve just presented the horrors of war as some kind of sick video game. Shameful, disgraceful, obscene and utterly horrific.
MPs to investigate student loan system.
Student loan debt in England is £267bn, expected to hit £500bn by 2040.
Govt transferred public debt to households, real rates of interest, low repayment threshold, lives blighted.
No Uni tuition fees in most of Europe or Scotland.
Ah.
Meatball Time, Villans?
What can be done if a single government seeks to paralyse the EU? The ultimate fall-back solution
Peter Mandelson wanted £547,201 for being sacked as UK ambassador to the US, settled for £75,000.
Will he pay it to Epstein's victims?
Mandelson had danger written all over him. Resigned previous ministerial posts in scandals, relationship with Epstein was known. Starmer still appointed him. Why?
We've won the UK's first ever SLAPP suit - acting for @danneidle.bsky.social - and made some really important law protecting the right to call out barristers whose misconduct facilitates aggressive tax avoidance.
Nice to have that over.
We really need to reframe our conversation about tax and return it to its place within the social contract. The right talk about it as a penalty, to be avoided by any possible means.
Congratulations, Dan. Must be painful to be dragged through this sort of nonsense, but the outcome is well deserved and the ruling will add to the weight of evidence against SLAPPs.
A tax barrister sued me personally for £8m for libel after we linked him to a tax avoidance scheme.
Today the High Court struck out the claim, granted summary judgment, and ruled it was a SLAPP. The judgment is highly critical.
It doesn't matter how "minor" the revelations from the Mandelson documents turn out to be - it will be the new focus of the far right/billionaire led campaign to bring this government down for the next few days and the weekend.
#Mandelson
#Starmer
#Epstein
It feels like it's much easier for British journos to openly call out the USA's propaganda than it ever is to criticise Likud's propaganda.
@lewisgoodall.com just compared the US lies over the attack ("it was an Iranian missile") to Putin's lies un Ukraine.
But Likud/IDF are the worst for this.
I confidently expect the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph to tell us that this wasn’t a U-turn but a “patriot pivot”…
"The Government believes that no one should be able to vote on legislation solely on the basis of their inheritance, so reform of this outdated and undemocratic principle has been long overdue".
www.gov.uk/government/n...
A tax barrister is suing me personally for £8m for libel, for linking him to a dodgy tax avoidance scheme. The judgment is due out tomorrow 12pm. I'll post about it as soon as it's out.
Is it a coincidence that Starmer's decision making is showing signs of improvement post-McSweeney?
#Starmer
#Iran
#Trump
