Research day: Leeds City Library. Victorian pride and splendour.

Those BLUEBEARD manuscripts...
#edchat #highered

Taking time out to visit the Leeds Art Gallery.
You can catch the FOUND CITIES / LOST OBJECTS exhibition until 21 April 2024.

Double life of language: the contronym.
#teamenglish #engchat

In my book The Decade In Tory I recount reports of Mark Menzies hiring a Brazilian sex worker, showing him around the palace of Westminster, and asking him to buy them amphetamines.

And then another time, the police being called cos Menzies had ...
thetimes.co.uk/article/28f948…

“The plan is working” says Rishi Sunak proudly

The UK has just been ranked by Unicef - that’s the the United Nations Children's Fund as the worst among the world’s richest countries in child poverty levels, more than fourteen million people are now living in poverty, a million

Large collection of plays at Leeds City Library.

Research day: Leeds City Library. Victorian pride and splendour.

Let’s not forget about the £30m Caribbean villa snapped up by the owners of PPE suppliers Full Support Healthcare.

The firm landed PPE deals valued at over £1billion

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.dail…


And here’s the $9.5m pad snapped up by Gareth Hales.

amp.smh.com.au/property/news/…

Hales was the founder of Unispace. The firm secured £679m in PPE deals via VIP lane after lobbying Michael Gove.

goodlawproject.org/michael-gove-o…

Here’s the £1.5m pad brought by Tory donor and former Councillor Steve Dechan.

Dechan brought the mansion following a £200m+ PPE deal secured via the VIP lane. ⬇️

thetimes.co.uk/article/tory-s…

Looking forward to the Conservative party questioning these housing transactions ⬇️

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Here’s the This £7.25m Berkshire stately home bought in July 2020 by Zoe Ley.

Ley made £20m brokering a VIP PPE deal alongside former Tory MP Brooks Newmark ➡️goodlawproject.org/broker-bought-…

The Tories thought taking our non-dom tax changes would stop us from funding:

🧑‍⚕️More NHS appointment

🦷 More dentist appointments, and

🍞Breakfast clubs at school

It didn’t.

But the Tories haven’t said how they’ll fund their £46bn plan to abolish national insurance?

Here’s another opendemocracy.net/en/covid-19-pp…

And another one bites the dust...

news.sky.com/story/mark-men…

#ToryScum
One house is owned by Michelle Mone and one was owned by Angela Rayner. One of the owners owes millions the other might owe a couple of thousand pounds. Guess which one the press want you to focus on?

The sad thing about Liz Truss through it all amid the terrible reviews of her appalling book is that she isn't bright enough to realize that she is a laughingstock. She should just have apologized and disappeared.

Stat of the week! 💥💥💥

£140bn hit to GDP thanks to Brexit according to a report by Cambridge Econometrics.

Brexit never failing to prove the experts were right.

'One in every 52 children in Blackpool are in care compared with one in 140 across England, leading to calls for more to be done to urgently tackle the widening north-south divide, brought on by “decades of underinvestment”. ...'
theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

“I soon realised that the Communist Bank of England, in league with the anti-growth, Marxist Treasury, working in league with the socialist global economy had connived to bring my hopes and dreams crashing to the ground”

bylinetimes.com/2024/04/15/liz…