Retired IT bloke. Now riding my bikes, hiking, volunteering for the Wildlife Trust, occasionally hanging out with my rather wonderful children. One day I might get my Moto Guzzi back on the road. Born at 316ppm.
Even enthusiasts for private equity agree that it should not be involved in social care, for infants or the elderly.
Prem SikkaCurse of Private Equity Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms – fees are up, food is frozen. Usual PE practices. Build local monopolies, high debt and prices, profiteering, worst services, high exec pay, shareholder returns. Parents/Children abused. Govts do nothing. archive.ph/Yk4Eh
"Until then, Furnari is left with a 6ft 4in statue of a renowned racist, which he has spent $100,000 making, and which no one wants to buy. Maybe it is cursed after all." 🤣🤣🤣
New York sculptor spent $100,000 to make a Charlie Kirk statue no one wants to buySergio Furnari said he thought the lifesize sculpture – which no one commissioned – would raise ‘millions’ of dollarswww.theguardian.comIt's very sad. The list of good things that the Starmer government has achieved is actually quite long, but so many of the bad things are issues of morality, not politics, so not easily forgiven or forgotten. It's odd that the human rights lawyer can't see the difference between right and wrong.
George MonbiotApart from Blair, I can't think of a Labour leader who has done more than Starmer to create division and polarisation. Pandering to Reform on immigration, complicity in genocide, attacks on the right to protest ... Now he presents himself as a great healer. His speech was not "moving" but sickening.
Two words come to mind when trying to describe Suella - they are 'fucking nutcase'.
If you have been listening to Suella Braverman and think Britain has gone bonkers, let me explain | Nels AbbeyThe idea that former colonies should pay reparations makes perfect sense to the new right. But have they got the telescope the right way round, asks author and broadcaster Nels Abbeywww.theguardian.comTrump is such a winner - "Europe stronger, America chastened, China calling the shots and the rest of the Pacific hung out to dry by a weak and disorientated Trump administration." www.thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-t...
The extent of Trump’s foreign policy humiliation is now clearDisruption has failed – and America looks diminished and decliningwww.thenewworld.co.ukIran doesn't trust Trump. But then anyone who looks at the last 50 years would be insane to rely on any promises made by the USA. Which is actually a far greater problem than the current dispute.
Trump is bombing Iran again and blundering again. He has no grasp of his enemy | Sina ToossiThe president is behaving as if the battleground is the same, but it isn’t. Iran has leverage and knows it, says Sina Toossi from the Center for International Policywww.theguardian.comCount Binface shows himself to be a pretty good interviewer. #votebinface youtu.be/HTIESiyDNUQ?...
Count Binface reacts to 'hilarious' chance of becoming an actual MPYouTube video by LBCyoutu.beThis. I watch the Channel 5 highlights, which are pretty much devoid of any useful commentary, then listen to youtube.com/@loveofcycli... Still miss Gary though, possibly my favourite TV presenter ever
For The Love Of CyclingThe podcast that reminds you why you love cycling 🧡youtube.comAndy IvyI really miss ITV’s daily roundup and Gary Imlach’s inimitable wit but I’m enjoying the review and analysis in @nedboulting.bsky.social’s For The Love of Cycling podcast.
Republicans, Reform, Restore - what is it about these right wingers that leads them to think that truth and honesty are optional qualities - or even undesirable qualities?
darth™️these fucks lie with such ease and confidence
Great thread.
Emma MonkIt was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
The country that lectures Europe about free speech is trying to stop its children from reading about reality.
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