Businessman Richard Allen exposed a Channel Islands export-import VAT scam used by major retailers, saving taxpayers billions. Despite his detailed evidence, HMRC suppressed it, letting the illegal tax evasion continue for six more years. 🧵1/3

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week. It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

Nothing to see here, just a Russian glide bomb that failed to detonate in the middle of a peaceful Ukrainian city.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

95% of firms who committed to AI have made nothing from it. Is Starmer lining the UK up for data centre losses? nixons.substack.com/p/revolution...

The VIP lane processes for PPE and Test and Trace, between them, consumed more than £40bn of UK taxpayers money. At least 80% of that was wasted. That, alone, justifies a public enquiry into the VIP lane procedure. Anonymous “officials” being blamed, but ministers are responsible.

Many years ago *cough* 20! *cough* I used to sing in a cover band. We weren't great but we did ok. My wife was our biggest fan, dancing in front of the stage and singing along to every song. Fast forward to the present and my wife has been diagnosed with having Lewy Body Dementia (1/n)

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

This is happening because the Government has failed for the past year to make a positive case for immigration and why we need people here. There are plenty of examples of economies that have collapsed - including our own after Brexit - when immigrants leave en masse. Google Uganda under Idi Amin.

I find the politicisation of autism spectrum disorder extremely troubling. Paracetamol or Tylenol as it is called in States should not be touted as a cause of ASD before anyone has scrutinised the data they allege will show this. 🧪🧵

It’s such a frequently used drug I find it hard to feel confident in any data as will be be used on and off prescription before people knew they were pregnant even making good statistical or correlation analysis exceptionally challenging.

Dosage too if prescribed will be outrageously hard to monitor. I really fear it’s a spurious correlation that will harm not help families with ASD children.

Reform are filth. They represent hatred, extremism, ignorance and irresponsibility. They'd make us a wretched vicious hateful little island. If people don't stand up to this, they won't stand up to anything.

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain. England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem. With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

That Farage is treated seriously shows how degraded the politics in the UK habe become. Barring absolute far right racists, anyone with half a brain cell can see this latest raft of proposals would utterly destroy the UK, as well as the lives of migrants. 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

This should have been a moment of profound national learning - about the corruption that serves our elite - but the Cabinet Office which ran the VIP Lane sought to close the discussion down and Labour unaccountably let them. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

It's been pointed out by a Lib Dem politician that the Small Boats should be called the Brexit Boats. I'm happy to do just that. Let's call them Brexit Boats from now.

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

It would signal the the de facto end of nearly all immigration to this country, from those coming to work to those who come for love. It would crater our economy, tear up relationships, remove status from millions of European, result in endless legal battles and leave us as an international pariah.

New evidence proves North Sea asteroid impact Scientists have found proof that an asteroid hit the North Sea more than 43 million years ago causing a huge tsunami and leaving a 1.9 mile (3km) wide crater under the seabed. Silverpit Crater is around 80 miles (128 km) off the East Yorkshire coast

The ITV exposé on COVID now turns its sights on testing. I was stunned in 2020 when Sir Paul Nurse - Director of the Francis Crick Institute - told me he’d written to the government to offer the services of the Crick (the biggest biomeolecular lab in the country) - and never got a reply…

They say if history doesn’t repeat, it rhymes. It sure feels that way this past week. There is a rising & dangerous blurring of white Christian nationalism with alt‑right white supremacy. Jesus taught love, humility, empathy, & forgiveness. That’s not what we’re seeing. What Bible are they reading?

Tylenol/acetaminophen is the one largely safe OTC painkiller that pregnant women can take. If you're wondering what's behind this move, there's your answer.

Well, that ITV programme on the PPE and test and trace scandals revealed the staggering scale of government sponsored fraud, and confirmed we’ll get nothing back from it. FML! Did wonder why no mention of the army being brought in to solve distribution problems and the cost of that.

Selfish shit of a man, the UK is now at its weakest since before the second world war and he’s trying to tell us that’s a good thing. It’s what Putin heavily invested in, and James bloody Dyson thinks that’s a good idea? Fuck off, Dyson!

A US Navy E-6B Mercury airborne nuclear command post and communications relay has crossed the Atlantic from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma to Ramstein Air Base, Germany. This is a rare occurrence.

The annoying thing here is that the Lib Dems talk policy quite a lot and get ignored by the media, which is what Davey's stunts were a response to in the first place. I don't think he's addicted to stunts. I'm sure he'd love it if his policies got covered www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I think he was more installed than elected Terry. Look how “musks kids” hacked into our Dept of Treasury. I’ll never believe he legitimately won as long as I live. All swing states AND the popular vote It’s preposterous!

Twenty years before MAGA came into existence, Umberto Eco captured it perfectly. He was able to do so because he had a deep understanding of so many elements of fascism.

«The network, we concluded, is made up of at least 90 TikTok accounts - some masquerading as news outlets - which have posted thousands of videos totalling more than 23 million views and 860,000 likes since January. Moldova's population is just 2.4 million.» #Moldova #elections #Russia #infops #EU

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This is on ITV tonight but not during peak viewing hours, which is shameful. Question I most want answered, why has no legal action been taken, even after a change of government?

“A Different Kind of Power” was a five stars for me. A very rare first hand account of a country leader oozing with sincerity and genuineness. And it’s not without hope. #JacindaArdern

Before you shrug and say “Oh. PPE again. Old news” Remember 1/ that cost lives due to reduced - or no- protection 2/ All those £billions could have been spent on crumbling NHS and school infrastructure Instead it went into Tory crony pockets That‘s your money & my money going into their pockets

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James flags up Lizzi Collinge MP (Morecambe and Lunesdale) sharing a video of her Westminster Hall speech in early September on what the Battle of Britain meant @lizzicollinge.bsky.social takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/this-is-en...

There is another country. Latest post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

What does a global economy dominated by large companies look like? Arguably this one, relatively resilient but lacking in dynamism or growth, with a strong herd mentality.

Misuse of legislation leads to all sorts of complications, esp. legislation as convoluted and complicated as the Terrorism related acts. I wonder, did Cooper properly consult before she proscribed Palestine Action, did she ignore advice or even act alone? emptycity.substack.com/p/the-proscr...

Congratulations to Chris Mason for being nominated for 'Political Journalist Of The Year' in the London Press Club Awards. He was nominated for his "fearless commitment to unbiased, objective reporting" by a Mr N Farage of Clacton.

❗️During the night, the 🇬🇧British Royal Air Force transferred several Eurofighter Typhoon fighters and a Voyager KC3 tanker aircraft from Coningsby air base in England to 🇵🇱Poland to patrol the airspace.

Exposing the Real UK Race Riot Instigators: The Key Players and Transatlantic Network Around Tommy Robinson Nafeez Ahmed uncovers a worrying nexus of tech platforms and far-right conspiracy – with links to Europe, Russia and the January 6 insurrection bylinetimes.com/2024/08/08/e...

When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna. Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up. Like if you want Mone on trial. RT if you want them both facing the music.

The end of war in Ukraine will trigger economic collapse in Russia, as military spending has become main driver of its economy, said Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence This means that strengthening Ukraine will accelerate Russia’s financial exhaustion euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/20/i...

It’s official (again): Climate change is real, it’s caused by us, and it’s dangerous The science isn’t new www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

NEW The proscription of Palestine Action as a case study of terrorism law Why is the general criminal law not sufficient to deal with direct action groups? Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/the-proscr... Personal blog: davidallengreen.com/2025/09/the-...

Indeed. Fairly obvious link between the Trump-Modi tiff, US tariffs on India, and the H1B visa fee. Deeply damaging to the US in the long run (but a potential opportunity for the UK!)