Isabel Macpherson

@isabelmacpherson.bsky.social

I'm so very sorry. I have donated as much as I am able, via Mohamed Elmay - Free Palestine. #ScotlandStandsWithPalestine 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✊️🇵🇸 No Chat, no Zios, No Go Fund Me #IndependenceIsNormal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

This is a dreadful development in our politics, which is bound to see dodgy & illegal lobbying now go unnoticed. And I say this as someone who, 20 years ago, was included in the register of MPs’ staff interests, when I worked for an MP. I never begrudged my inclusion on the register.

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Thames Water gave finance boss £1m signing-on fee, 15 months after he joined. TW circumventing rules about exec pay and bonuses. Leaks, sewage dumping, rip-off bills continue. Golden hellos and goodbyes are mostly banned in Switzerland. Anything goes in the UK, laws/rules not enforced.

Thames Water risks fresh storm over £1m payment to finance chief

Britain's biggest water utility has handed the seven-figure sum to Steve Buck even as it battles to avert the prospect of nationalisation by Andy Burnham's government, Sky News learns.

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Hahahaha. Farage now whining that he was badly advised by his overpaid team into calling his stupid by-election. Confirming then that he’s incapable of working it out for himself. Too busy counting his money. Honest to god, Clacton. Don’t be the constituency dunces he needs you to be. (Times)

One senior source said they believed Farage had been poorly advised over calling the by-election in Clacton.
They said that "young advisers" around Farage had not checked whether the standards' commissioner's investigation would continue in the event of the by-election and they had incorrectly assumed it would not. They also criticised "massive salaries" paid to staff who they said were "letting Nigel down".

Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.

I feel I must be missing something. Burnham wants a new constitution for the UK. This seems to me to be an attempt to annexe Scotland completely. It is on record that WM recognises the sovereignty of the Scottish people and so I cannot see a legal route for Scotland to be colonised in this way.

UK constitution 'fundamentally flawed' without exit route from Union, Labour warned

Any UK constitution which does not establish a route out of the Union will be 'fundamentally flawed', Andy Burnham has been warned

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The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building is a masterpiece. We need a full, faithful restoration with zero erosion of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s original design intent. If you agree, please add your name to the petition to help save 'The Mack': you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Fully and Faithfully Restore ‘The Mack’

The Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building is a masterpiece. We need a full, faithful restoration with zero erosion of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s original design intent. If you agree, please add...

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Spain is demonstrating how the #energytransition can be achieved whilst bringing down electricity prices. With the massive expansion of wind and solar energy, Spain is now one of the cheapest electricity markets in EU. Gas rarely determines the price there; #renewables supply 60% of the electricity

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