Simon Tutty
@billygiblets.bsky.social
Refugee from the other place. East Devon.
My latest on Substack (free). How one incredibly stupid Excel error broke Britain. russincheshire.substack.com/p/the-spread...
The Spreadsheet That Broke Britain
The absurd error behind austerity, stagnation and the rise of populist rage.
russincheshire.substack.com
This is *such* a revealing line about Kemi's world view and contempt for those who do the day to day work of keeping our society functioning
NEW Stewart Lee column ‘Jokes’ like the one Zack Polanski shared on social media only help Farage deflect scrutiny www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
In the meantime, take your kids here. They have a FANTASTIC tour, absolutely stunning. It's worth every penny. Exiting live "lectures" for kids, play with space toys, look at astronaut stuff. Bliss. And it's a lovely area too - go to Old Hall in Sandbach for dinner afterwards. You'll thank me.
Jodrell Bank@jodrellbank.bsky.social · last wk.
What do these companies have in common: -Amazon -Walmart -FedEx -McDonald's -Dollar General -DoorDash -Instacart They're all highly profitable, give their CEOs lucrative salaries, and pay thousands of workers starvation wages — making them reliant on SNAP and Medicaid.
ICYMI A must-read from the Nerve’s @carolecadwalla on ten years of investigating Farage, Brexit funding, Cottrell etc
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3w agoIf you’re wondering why UK press has suddenly woken up to Farage, please read this. It’s because: Brexit. The r/w press refused to scrutinise the money behind Farage & the lawsuit against me scared off the rest. But this isn’t a new scandal. It’s the same one I’ve been reporting on for a decade
Almost £10 billion of the £15 billion that Boris Johnson's Government spent on PPE during the pandemic was wasted, the Covid Inquiry has concluded. The Inquiry found money was wasted on a "vast" scale, with companies with "connections to government" given first preference for contracts
Johnson government wasted ‘vast’ sums on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
theguardian.com
It's incredible to think that a mainstream political position has emerged which is rounding up and expelling British citizens who - by definition of the so-called 'Boriswave' - are mostly non-european in their heritage.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3w agoOnce you start mass removal of citizenship on political grounds you've stopped functioning as a viable democratic state. But that was always where this agenda was heading.
The right creating a stab-in-the-back myth, centred around Boris, because the “points-based immigration system” they’d been demanding for years caused immigration to rise is just so fucking exhausting
David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Spectator going full on ethnonationalist
GUYS - I’ve just realised what Farage is going to do… The thing is he now has NO WAY to proceed which doesn’t humiliate him. If he wins, he is, as Rachel Reeves put it, The Man Who Spent His Summer Arguing With A Bin. If he bails, he’s The Man Who Fled From A Bin. And if he LOSES…
"Brexit is thanks to me". Ten seconds later: "The UK is in dire straits economically."
You see a headline like this and instantly know it won’t be a Brit. No idea if the Polish tycoon here is a good chap but it’s fascinating how UK ultra-wealthy have no interest investing in the country. Dyson? Ratcliffe? Various property spivs? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Billionaire to invest £35bn in small modular nuclear reactors roll out across UK
A consortium led by Michał Sołowow is planning to build enough SMRs to power the equivalent of 8m homes for more than 60 years
theguardian.com
This is crazy. Peter Thiel’s spy tech Palantir is embedding itself in the British state, and makes hundreds of millions from Government contracts in health, policing and defence, but pays barely any taxes
Tax Justice UK@taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · last mo.An investigation by OpenDemocracy found that Palantir has paid very little UK tax, despite receiving over £670m in UK public contracts. How? By booking profits overseas, and using tax loopholes for paying staff with stocks to reduce their corporation tax bill.
Unfortunately I can't make the debate on second jobs as I'm in America for a speaking engagement before coming back to promote gold bullion then doing my GB News show and squeezing in a few Cameo recordings before bed.
🚨Elon Musk is set to become the world's first TRILLIONAIRE today. Immigrants are not the reason you can’t afford groceries 📍near Tesla’s flagship London store, Tottenham
Last week, @thenerve.news published #TheHarborneReceipts, a forensic examination in cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne’s donations…& how closely they tracked Farage & Johnson’s pro-crypto policy statements. Yesterday, the FT published an editorial making this exact point about Reform. 1/
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 2mo agoNEW 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/
It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons
Socialism has produced everything that works in the world. The roads, the water systems, the electrical network, the schools, the universities, most of the houses, the Healthcare that actually works. All Capitalism does is rip people off.
Marshall Wace has gained around £11.7 million in that time period by betting against the bank. The fall in share price was mostly due to the exit of Dame Alison Rose as CEO after Coutts closed Farage’s account. Farage presents a show on Marshall’s GB News www.standard.co.uk/business/gb-...
GB News owner’s fund makes millions from short position as NatWest shares slide
Marshall Wace holds a 0.59% short position in NatWest, which has delivered gains of close to £12 million in the past week
standard.co.uk
This is all happens in 2023. Farage goes apoplectic on GB News about Coutts/Nat West. He is supported by Boris Johnson. GB News owner makes a mint shorting NatWest stock. Boris Johnson offered a GB News slot
Ben Habib just casually alleged that Farage and Johnson were each handed £1m by Christopher Harborne to “fix an election”. The real story shouldn't be Starmer. The £5m bung is just the tip of the iceberg, maybe the press should camp outside Farage’s pad instead of No.10?
Can't wait to see how Labour's strategy of showing open contempt for the people who voted for them while desperately sucking up to people who'll never vote for them in a million years works out.
