Simone Hochgreb

An absolute banger! Every paragraph left me slack-jawed . Best FT piece I have ever (?!) read. Your dead-pan skills are unmatched. Congratulations!

Record Uptake In CAO Course ‘How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford Rent’ WITH THE first round of CAO course offers out, some key trends are emerging with noticeable trends including a serious surge in popularity for a degree in How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford …

Record Uptake In CAO Course 'How To Dismantle Capitalism So I Can Afford Rent' https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2024/08/29/record-uptake-in-cao-course-how-to-dismantle-capitalism-so-i-can-afford-rent/

Slackjawed. So many priceless gems!

🎲 NEW REPORT | Fairer gambling taxes could raise £3.2bn to scrap the two-child limit & benefit cap, lifting 500,000 children out of poverty. The plan targets the most harmful, least-taxed parts of the industry. Find out more: www.ippr.org/articles/reforming-gambling-taxation

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Winston, no less... paging Orwell.

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

What an amazing piece of investigative journalism!

Maybe informal employment/gigging means lower tax intake?

Trump is attempting to end PBS and public broadcasting more broadly in America. Given the outsized impact of the US on the world, I'd make the case that even foreigners such as myself should consider donating to PBS, for all our sakes.
foundation.pbs.org/donation/

This is brilliant, thank you! I vote for Dan's ideas.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

I read one of them is even called Woakes.

I would get a subscription but I am in the UK.

Funny. But no info on who created the nonsense and why!

I just want the many potholes fixed.

Any of them good? Need a third axis.

Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

1939

A brilliant and maddening story. www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website!

Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

And finally finally, please share far and wide!

www.trumpactiontracker.info

This thread adapted from my substack post here:
christinapagel.substack.com/p/introducin...

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Clearly a Kruger-Dunning problem here.

I found it really challenging -- gave up trying to get from Cambridge to Sallon Les Bains by train within the university budget rules, as it would take me more than a day and cost 3x as much. We need better synchronisation of trains, and hopefully overnight ones.

If they think Superman is woke, wait until they learn about Jesus.

7 of the top 15 online platforms used to access news in the UK are controlled by Meta, Google and X Corp. Google commands 93% of UK search engine use, while Meta and Google together account for three-fifths of all UK advertising spend, giving these two Big Tech companies unrivalled control over how news is found, accessed and funded online. Just three companies – DMG Media, News UK and Reach – control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation, a 20% increase in market concentration since 2014. These same three companies account for over 40% of the combined reach of the UK’s top 50 online newsbrands, giving these publishers significant power to set and steer the national news agenda. The UK’s local newspapers are dominated by a tiny handful of corporate chain publishers, with just 2 companies – Newsquest and National World – controlling 51% of the UK’s 882 local newspapers and online local news websites. More than 8 out of 10 Local Democracy Reporters, funded by the TV licence fee to restore local journalism, are contracted to Newsquest, Reach and National World – and these same companies control local newspaper monopolies in areas covering 11.6 million people. In commercial radio, just two companies – Bauer and Global – own two-thirds of the UK’s national DAB radio stations, and more than 60% of local analogue stations. Bauer, Global and News Broadcasting (owned by publishers News UK) together control more than three-quarters of the UK’s national DAB radio market. Netflix, Amazon Prime and Disney+ account for 75% of all UK video-on-demand subscriptions. Almost half of the value of TV commissions by the UK’s major broadcasters went to just 12 companies, despite these largest producers making up only 4% of the entire UK independent production sector.

Some stats on who owns Britain's media, via the Media Reform Coalition www.mediareform.org.uk/media-owners...

Or was this straight out extortion to be let into the club?

Really. I have been a subscriber for 38 years. Between this shocking affront to science , and your irresponsible cover with F@#age, it is probably time to ditch it, and go find sanity somewhere. Correlation not causation I hear you say all the time. Yet here you are. Panderer. What was your take $$?