Farmers angry about losing 30 year old concession that lets them avoid all inheritance tax bit.ly/3NS3IKD even though the vast majority will, on HMRC figures, not be affected by it

Understandable fuss about the Queen and Partygate but for my money this is the most important bit of today’s serialisation

Richard Murphy Martin Davies 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 🇨🇦 Clue: Which newspaper owner owns vast tracts of Dorset? Answer: ‘The Rothermere family (Daily Mail) bought the land to diversify their investments.’ Ie: Tax dodger!

Labour partnering up with Blackrock means the UK will be privatised. "BlackRock own, and extract income from, things – schools, bridges, wind farms, and homes – that are nothing less than foundational to our daily being’. This requires them to ‘relentlessly squeeze’ profits out

The fiction of the rule of law applying equally to all. Duchy of Cornwall doesn't pay inheritance, corporation and capital gains tax even though it trades. P&O Ferries knowingly violated employment law when sacking 800 workers. Faced no action from govt. leftfootforward.org/2024/11/whatev…

Yet again it's shown that privatisation, where there is no competitive market, doesn't benefit the customers but the investors & fat cat owners! BBC News - Major water company uses accounting trick to inflate balance sheet by £1.68bn - BBC News bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A Czech billionaire has bought Royal Mail, Italy owns a UK rail franchise, China built our nuclear power stations, Canadian pensioners and Abu Dhabi bought our water companies, India our steel industry. And then the tabloids get upset when England hire a German football manager.

Don’t worry America I’m sure annexing Canada, Mexico, Panama and Greenland will definitely lower grocery prices

We are in 2025, we have now lost all the progress we made on inequality in most Western Countries since WW2. From 1945-1980 we advanced, for 45 years we have declined. Soon we will be back to the Great Depression. But we won't stop there.

As Blair is well aware, 'self-diagnosis' of depression does NOT entitle anyone to benefits - they must be diagnosed by a medical professional and complete multiple applications before having ANY chance of benefit - and the DWP will probably refuse them... lbc.co.uk/news/tony-blai…

12 months on since Mr Bates versus The Post Office…… Absolutely outrageous and a National embarrassment. Heartbreaking and gut wrenching. #MrBatesVsThePostOffice #PaulaVennells #PostOfficeScandal #horizon #ThePostOffice #alanbates #postofficeinquiry #newsnight

The mask has slipped: Kemi Badenoch and the Tories wants to cut your state pension. Labour will protect the triple lock, guaranteeing the new state pension will rise by £470 from this April and by up to £1,900 over the course of this parliament. express.co.uk/comment/expres…

This doesn’t seem to be getting enough attention. The Silicon Valley social contract forced on the public by Obama and then Trump and then Biden (minus Lina Khan) and now Trump was straight forward: We will let these bros become the richest people in human history and in exchange

They always mimic the salute but never the bit where Mussolini is hanged, or Hitler blows his brains out in his bunker. Apparently that would be taking the joke too far.

Recession Thrifting. It goes like this. #stockmarketcrash #Economy #EatTheRich

That is an insane admission

Now how did that happen?

This is incredible: 75% of the govt's forecast improvement in incomes from housing is "imputed rent": ie, the amount homeowners *would get* if they rented their house out, ie not money they actually recieve, ie not actually better off. #SpringStatement

And why wouldn’t it? The two largest economies in the world just decoupled, everyone else still gets 10%, and god know what happens in 90 days.

🧵 #WorldParkinsonsDay Famous names affected by Parkinson’s disease include comedian Billy Connolly, the musicians Ozzy Osbourne Neil Diamond and Linda Rondstadt, and the actor Michael Fox Michael J. Fox, who campaigns and fundraises in a bid to find a cure bbc.com/news/articles/…