What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

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Day 6 alarm becalmed
#EllesmereYard

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Day 5 dark and light
#RossOnWye

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Day 4 random patterns

WIN: High Court throws out £8m lawsuit over tax avoidance investigation | Good Law Project We have successfully defended award-winning journalist Dan Neidle from an ‘oppressive’ claim which tried to silence him – but the law still needs reform

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.

War? Kemi never said she supported the war! What are you talking about?
thecritic.co.uk/the-...

U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

“The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military.”

At least 175 were killed, many of whom were just little children.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

there's a theory that if only Britain exploited North Sea oil we'd be secure from a global energy price shock

which totally ignores (or doesn't understand) the fact that energy prices are global and a rise in UK production (from a declining basin) would have negligible impact on that global price

Net zero will cost less than fossil fuel price rise, UK climate adviser says Climate Change Committee report comes after days of turbulence in global energy markets

For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d163...

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Day 3 black and white @pembscoast.bsky.social

Aye right.

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Day 2 hanging on in there
Between a rock and a hard place

I co-run a volunteer led oil ordering consortium. 50 people ordered 35,650 litres at an agreed price of 72ppl plus VAT on 02 March.
On 09 March the supplier, having taken the cash, said ‘they could get no oil’ and refused to deliver 🤔
Can’t get anyone to deliver locally or quote

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Day 1 Birmingham reflections

Oops

Heating oil already at £1.60 ppl plus VAT
Think I’ll burn diesel

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Day 7 caught cycling inside the canal

Reform UK supporters on Facebook aren't taking this news very well...

A fountain of vomiting people. You've got till the end of today to see the 'Fountain of Filth' on the South Bank. It's an installation by Channel 4 to tie in with their new documentary Dirty Business, about the sewage scandal

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Day 6 inside with Mr Sheen

Tory peer to leave House of Lords after investigation finds he breached standards over £50m Covid PPE deals Lord Chadlington introduced government to supplier in which he had financial interest in 2020 The Conservative peer Peter Gummer has said he will leave the House of Lords after an investigation found he committed five breaches of standards over £50m Covid PPE deals and did not cooperate with previous inquiries. The Lords standards commissioner, Martin Jelley, also found that Gummer, whose peerage title is Lord Chadlington, “did not act on his personal honour” by failing to cooperate with the previous investigations, which cleared him. Continue reading...

Tory peer to leave House of Lords after investigation finds he breached standards over £50m Covid PPE deals

#grosmontpathsgroup spruced up a stile this morning supported by #MonLife #RamblersCymru and the landowner.

A collaborative effort between county, country and community builds mutual understanding and makes scarce resources go further.

@visitmonmouthshire.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social

“Tory and Lib Dem policies effectively killed ordinary Britons. According to their modelling, those service cuts, benefit caps and welfare freezes put an end to the lives of 345,000 British people. And it left the UK disastrously placed for Covid”

Yet it’s Starmer’s fault @theguardian.com ?

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Day 5 If you can’t stand the heat you shouldn’t be inside here
#Panajachel #Guatemala

Kemi is wrong about everything. Which is almost an achievement in itself | John Crace The Tory leader’s appearance on the Today programme was sheer madness – and comedy gold

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“you would have to live in Wales for 10 years to be prioritised” for housing

You would have to live in Wales for 10 years to be part of the legislature?

Scrutinising Reform's plan for Wales We covered their manifesto launch and looked at the plans closely

I have been through Reform's manifesto for Wales so you don't have to.

(Spoiler, there are a lot of holes in it)

willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/scrutinisi...

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The best explanation for the British right's enthusiasm for war with Iran: brain damage. thecritic.co.uk/the-...