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Ashley Cole

Pretty sure #r4today presented by Brian Readhead and John Timpson wouldn't have covered the death of Hulk Hogan.

Presenters of #r4today have normalised the need for nearly 3,000 food banks to the extent they no longer mention their existence. However make a suggestion about a wealth tax and the animation of those on the show (completely unconcerned about themselves of course!) is palpable.

I’m on a whisky diet. I’ve lost three days already.

Tommy Cooper

There isn't a story on the BBC News site about today's trans rights rally at Parliament Square where it's estimated 20k attended. But they did have a story last week about the Let Women Speak transphobe rally in Bristol where 100 people attended.

Right time for a truth bomb for you lovely people, disabled people never have, don't now, and never will get 'free cars'.

Labour’s disability benefit cuts betray the vulnerable—fairer alternatives exist Labour's £5bn disability benefit cuts hurt the most vulnerable. Fairer options, like a wealth tax, could fund support without harm

“Oxfam’s latest inequality report showed that the total wealth of UK billionaires increased by £35mn per day in 2024. Increasing taxes on the super-rich through a modest wealth tax could generate an estimated £24bn a year.”

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From today's The i newspaper,

If only there had been a clue that something sold to the British people by Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage would turn out to be a pile of excrement….

Paedophile gang that ran 'monstrous' child sex abuse ring jailed — Sky News During a two-month trial, defence lawyers had argued the children may not have been telling the truth, but prosecutors said it would be

Wow, who knew paedophiles and rapists could be white!!? I had heard rumours, but looking at the news for the last 10 years I thought it was just an urban myth and they had to be brown or foreign.

apple.news/A99sIvoIdTdW...

Elder dives worse than Peter Kay.

Wealth of world’s billionaires grew by $2tn in 2024, report finds Rate of wealth growth last year was three times faster than 2023, Oxfam inequality research reveals

World's billionaires rose by 204 last year to 2,769.

Their combined wealth jumped from $13tn to $15tn.

60% of wealth from inheritance, “cronyism and corruption” or monopoly power.

They fund political parties, shape laws, plot regime changes

Sham democracy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ja...

If you want to know the answer to the UK's economic crisis. Read this book and #LearnMMT

Is the City of London staging a coup against Labour right now? As I write this, the UK government appears to be under continuing pressure because institutions in the City of London are selling their bonds, forcing interest rates higher. There is only one logical...

Is the City of London staging a coup against Labour right now? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Might far-right City traders be trying to pull Labour down, as Musk suggested should happen?

So, not even a faint dusting of icing sugar on top today then.
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Honouring Sadiq Khan belittles the achievements of

Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg
Sir Gavin Williamson
Lord Chris Grayling
Baroness Charlotte Owen
Baron Shaun Bailey
Baroness Michelle Mone
Sir Christopher Chope
Lord Ben Houchen
Baron Ross Kempsell
and Lord Lebedev of Siberia

Just catching up with Laura Kuenssberg interview with Yvette Cooper…’when can our viewers..?’… ‘what our viewers want to know …’ etc. Do all her viewers have the same views? How does she know? This patronising populist arrogance has echoes with GB News.

Flat tax rate is an ‘attractive idea’, Kemi Badenoch says Rule would mean a tax rise for basic ratepayers and a huge cut for higher earners if change was fiscally neutral

A flat tax: a silly idea that asks everyone to pay the same % on their income, ignoring that the very richest barely feel the pinch while the rest struggle to make ends meet. Taxing the us, the richest, more isn’t a punishment —it’s common sense and our privilege www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The real person of the year.

I was at this game.
After this, everything seemed possible.

Covid corruption commissioner gets to work Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.

Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe

Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption..

And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail

Let's see.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

An improbably buff AI image of Elon Musk dressed as some sort of a Roman Warrior, which he's captioned 'SPQR'

Whenever he does this shit I think of Crassus, 1/3 of the triumvirate with Caesar and Pompey; briefly the richest man on earth his hubris was so chronic he walked into avoidable slaughter at the hands of the Parthians who, we're told, poured molten gold down his corpse's throat to mock his greed.

I have noticed that corporations and idiots often use the word 'disrupt' as a synonym for 'fuck up'.

Important context here:

● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)

● "a big farm" is 217 acres.

Now let's see who's angry:

● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres

Great you are on here, Nitin.
I followed you on Twitter but suspected the shadow banning.
Speaking of banning, or rather blocking, (in case you aren't already aware) there are block lists on here you can subscribe to which will automatically block unpleasantness, such as - bsky.app/profile/skyw...

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A Ram demolishing a tree.
Comprehensively.
Seems quite symbolic to me.