Nationwide predicts UK house prices will continue to rise theguardian.com/business/2021/…

Predatory capitalism: BA and Ryanair investigated by UK regulator over failure to refund customers for cancelled flights. BA and Ryanair have already received UK govt loans of £2bn and £600m respectively. Softly will not do. Govt needs to prosecute. theguardian.com/business/2021/…

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Rishi Sunak @UKInfraBank How do ambitious infrastructure projects cut emissions? Give details please.

Criminal capitalism: Southern Water discharged untreated raw sewage into protected coastal waters for nearly 6 years. All to enable high executive pay, bonuses and dividends. Why was the regulator silent for 6 years? Why is the company allowed to operate? theguardian.com/environment/20…

The company that brokered the deal to sell more than a billion's worth of unreliable covid tests to the government - and earned its owners at least an 8 figure sum - has now been restructured in a way that will let them avoid income tax. Full story in the new Eye, out now.

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“I don’t think we really know yet how amazing this is all going to be” Married couple Sally and Neville helped unearth thousands of Jurassic fossils during lockdown bbc.in/2UB7DmN

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Macquarie bank acquires control of Southern Water. Previously it controlled Thames Water which discharged untreated sewage into rivers, was loaded with debt to extract returns, customers exploited and it dodged corporate taxes. The same will happen again. theguardian.com/business/2021/…

Webinar – crossing borders: A tax guide to doing business in the US and the UK pkf-francisclark.co.uk/events/webinar…

11 Jul 2008 - Highest ever Brent crude price $147.02 a barrel; petrol 119.4p a litre. 29 June 2022 - Brent crude $115.20 a barrel; petrol 191p a litre. Winners: Govt takes over 45% of the price in VAT & duties; profiteering by companies. Losers - Everyone else.

No new beginning under Truss She supported all of Johnson's policies and lies. Higher income tax, national insurance; cuts in wages, state pension & benefits; illegal prorogation of parliament; criminalisation of demonstrations & more. PM's name has changed, nothing else.

Truss staring at the end game. Mini budgets fiasco, numerous policy U-turns. Ministers sacked, chief whip gone, MPs ignored three-line whip, terrible interviews by Truss, poor show in parliament/elsewhere, open rebellion. Tories need to replace Truss or call election.

In the Lords I have just formally called for a public inquiry into Tory Govt's role in mass deaths. 334,000 killed by 2012-2019 austerity; 208,000 - Covid; 117, 000 -Could not get hospital treatment; 93,000 - Poverty. Please support this call. Tell your MP.

If the answer is Boris Johnson, you haven’t understood the question.

World’s 7 biggest oil firms make £150bn profit. Only 56 out of 212 countries have bigger GDP. Their profiteering is our cost-of-living crisis. Tax dodging, environmental abuse is rife Despite huge profits, companies receive govt subsidies. Who governs? theguardian.com/business/2022/…

Beth Rigby This journalistic demand for public apologies - in this case from someone who wasn’t in government at the time and argued against the measures adopted - seems particular performative.

A City grandee says - Brexit is a ‘complete disaster’ and ‘total lies’, Boris Johnson ‘threw the country and the NHS under the bus’ - will the UK ever recover from Tory rule? Labour needs to promise a referendum - rejoin the EU or Single Market. theguardian.com/business/2023/…