Burberry boss could collect up to £12.2m under new bonus scheme as company rolls back climate goals. The same repeated across major corporations. Workers produce wealth, execs get mega rewards. Govts preach wage restraint to workers, silence on exec pay, dividends and share buyback.

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

Hitchens fails to address that Phillips is a pro-Russian propagandist, literally partied with occupying forces in Ukraine, denied war crimes, and filmed tortured POWs, and proudly received medals from Russian backed military groups for his efforts.

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

Why anyone would take a flight into the USA is beyond me. Here’s an exchange between a controller at JFK and a British Airways pilot where the pilot couldn’t get a simple answer and aborted take off. Sound up. #cdnpoli #uspoli

Least of issues I know but this "veteran" campaign strategy really winds me up. Kenyon isn't a veteran and was never mobilised. He was in the British Army Reserve. People like my father meanwhile fought in actual wars - and though my dad also served as a councillor he'd never ever mention it.

Reform UK's Robert Kenyon is stirring up tension in #Makerfield. He's saying the former St Mary's Church is now a Mosque. IT IS NOT, it's a food bank with a Muslim prayer room. One that was firebombed.

Adam Bychawski (Big Issue/The Lead) revealed how a 2014 legal change led to many people who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned, often for years, being denied compensation for their ordeal.

The point of these attacks is twofold: 1. Flood people with nonsense until it feels true. 2. Grind people down until they lose hope. We know the answer to that: fight back - with hope & a plan for change. There is absolutely no way they win this. Join.greenparty.org.uk

I got some A3 prints done of the Stormtrooper drawing I did. If anyone wants one they're £25 (inc UK post) only 5 of each colour available.

A £300 tax on your UK summer holiday does sound like a lot... So let’s take a look at this tax, put it in a wider context, and find out where that £300 figure came from.👍🏻 1/26 🧵

Professor Michael Clarke, "On a daily basis the Russians are attacking Britain" "Attempts to create division in society" "Attempts to manipulate social media to create doubt" "And to effect our democracy, our elections"

Left: Reform UK's Robert Kenyon says he wants to stop St Mary’s becoming a mosque Right: The building was never a consecrated church. It was a former school used as a prayer hall. It closed, stood empty for five years, and is now being turned into a food bank with a multi-faith prayer room

It would be bad for public confidence if there was a suspicion that large corporate interests are buying access to the Government via the Tony Blair Institute. My letter to the cabinet office. 👇🏼

While they're bombing 900 year old historical sites and demanding evacuations of Lebanon, Israel are straight up announcing further war crimes in Gaza, yet the Defence minister's own quote of being 'committed to ethnic cleansing' isn't even making front pages.

EXCL Reform MP under fire for helping 'Britain's biggest benefits cheat' who swindled £740,000 get bungalow in now-deleted video Ethel McGill claimed her father war pension and benefits for 12 years after he died, pleaded guilty to 14 charges @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...

Follow this: First, Trump quietly buys up to $5 million of Dell stock. Then, he urges his followers to “go out and buy a Dell.” Today, his Pentagon awards a $9.7 billion deal to Dell. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Democracy for Sale newsletter uncovered how campaign group Labour Together had hired a PR firm to build dossiers on reputable journalists with the intent to discredit them.

I think about this a lot.

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

this fucking sucks ( from the creator of the cupcake character, lorynbrantz instagram - www.instagram.com/p/DY2v_qXIoQt )

What's really striking about this clip is that I laid out some of the nonsense against me - and why it was disproportionate. Journalist agrees some of it is "overcooked." But none of my explanation nor the danger around my personal safety has made the cut....!

I’m surprised to see this from YouGov. It’s a perfect example of how not to ask a polling question. “Clean energy” can be – and in most instances is – “cheaper energy”.

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Well done Mr President!

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

I did a thread on 15 minute cities on X which went so viral I ended up in the Times and on BBC Radio. I thought I'd repeat it here... This was my parents house in Coventry. They bought it in 1965 and it was my home throughout the 1970s & 80s. My mum lived there until 2021. It was a happy home. 1/22

Thanks Mr Blair but a baselessly confident 6,000 word diatribe telling the UK to move right on every issue while embracing Trump and Silicon Valley wasn't even that cute all those times Dominic Cummings wrote it.

OK, so Helen Whately and the Express are doubling down and going all out hysterical at this point...🙄 They've actually "calculated" the state benefits a man with ELEVEN WIVES could claim!! And this time, they've done it behind a paywalled article🤷‍♀️ But don't worry, I got behind it!🤓 🧵1/20

Number crunching: Number of white South Africans who could get US refugee visas to flee a made-up genocide vs number of Palestinians in Gaza who could get US refugee visas this year From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Trump spent three hours at hospital today doing ‘tests’. It should only have been 20 minutes, but the first test was really hard.

Tony Blair. What the billionaire class have paid for.

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Reform's plan: sack 450 planning officers to make planning more efficient. Small problem: there are only 445 planning officers in the whole country. So they're going to employ 5 more, just to sack them? Or maybe they're just idiots. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Russia's most famous alcoholic now threatens to kill European diplomats.

We've been saying the UK has a big dirty money problem. Now we know how BIG! New research from our friends @thefinancelab.bsky.social has exposed that around £325 billion from financial crime, money laundering, corruption, illegal trade & tax dodging flows through the UK every year. 1/x

NEW The Harborne Receipts: Follow the Money Billionaire Christopher Harborne gave millions to Nigel Farage & Boris Johnson & their parties. Then the pro-crypto announcements began. We mapped a timeline of Harborne's £30m political donations and crypto-friendly announcements by Farage & Johnson 1/

Farage, Harborne, £5 million and Reform UK’s cryptocurrency bill Within a year of receiving £5mn from a crypto billionaire, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK published a draft crypto bill By Anthony Robinson

In honor of the true heroes on this Memorial Day, I fixed it. #DonaldTrump #MemorialDay

ICE tear gassed NJ Senator Andy Kim outside Delaney Hall in Newark after detainees launched a hunger strike over conditions that included spoiled food, lack of medical care, and extreme heat. h/t veronicadelacruztv

ICYM - Almost all – 98% – environmental claims and commitments made by meat and dairy companies over 2021-24 could be categorised as “greenwashing” - research paper #climatecrisis HT @carbonbrief.org journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

"English Women don't care about their bodies and just walk around with their fat bellies and odd shapes pushing a pram at 16 in their PJ’s." Robert Kenyon - Reform candidate for Makerfield. Patriot. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Adjudicated rapist says what?

As Putin again rains death and destruction down on Kyiv, we’re publishing an investigation, based on newly leaked documents, into Russia’s influence operations in Europe. 👇 www.occrp.org/en/investiga...

Farage's Reform UK handed £15m by offshore millionaires, while patriotic Brits pay taxes Wealthy people, big business, foreign-linked money funding Reform, shaping UK politics. What have they been promised in return? End political corruption. Criminalise receipt/payment of all political donations

35% of total disposable household income in the UK went to the fifth of individuals with the highest household incomes. 8% went to the bottom 20%. Household income inequality is higher than in the 1960s/1970s. Can't revive economy without equitable distribution of income.