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‘#Labour hopes to boost the public coffers by billions of pounds with its crackdown on tax avoidance and evasion.
But figures obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveal that fewer than five such prosecutions were brought in 2023-2024, down from 16 in 2018-2019.’
Meanwhile more than 600 carers have been prosecuted since 2019 for fraud.
Priorities?
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‘Latest official figures show more than 134,500 unpaid carers are paying back more than £251m after unwittingly falling foul of drastic “cliff-edge” rules on earnings limits.
This means a carer who earned £1 more than the current £151 a week threshold for 52 weeks would have to pay back not £52 but £4,258.80.’
No level legal playing field in UK terms of richest and poorest.
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International academics using burner phones and laptops that are basically just browsers when entering the US…EU countries setting up fellowships to help US academics escape.
When the most intelligent folk on the planet start acting like this…you know it’s not a practice drill.
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Alt Text: ‘The people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.
The people who killed her were following it.’
And remember Anne Frank wasn’t living in Nazi Germany or Hitler’s homeland of Austria. She was living in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Fascism not only turns law and order on its head…it spreads beyond borders.
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The scariest public utterance yet from #Trump about seizing #Greenland by force…and twisting the hand of NATO to support it against #Denmark:
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‘What makes this decline all the more delicious for #Musk’s critics is the sheer speed at which the empire is crumbling. From its record high of $479.86 in December, #Tesla’s stock has erased all of its post-election gains and then some.
Its market capitalisation has collapsed by nearly $800 billion, and Musk’s own stake in the company is now worth $55 billion less than before #Trump’s victory’
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‘#Musk’s net worth has taken a staggering hit along with Tesla’s stock. Once valued at an eye-watering $464 billion, Musk’s fortune has shrunk by $141.5 billion. Monday alone saw him lose $20 billion in paper wealth as Tesla’s stock tanked.
Of course, he remains the world’s richest man, but that’s likely of little comfort as investors lose faith in him as an asset rather than a liability.’
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/tesla-stock-plummeting-faster-than-a-space-x-starship/?
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I don’t understand why a Church that would surely want to make all its believers feel included, who makes up the rules as it goes along, would want to wilfully exclude and even insult those who don’t drink alcohol by referring to them as alcoholics and not accommodate those who can’t gluten because it makes them physically ill.
59% of Gen Z over age of 18 don’t drink.
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The rolling news of #Trump’s fascist takeover of the US and intent to seize land around the world by stealth has been both shocking and numbing.
With each new day we see another horrific previously unthought of executive order. And so we forget the previous day’s equally inhumane action.
Will we recall Bernie Sanders’ defiant stand in a week, month or year’s time? Probably not, but we should.
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Asked by a reporter if he was seriously asserting that the crash had happened because of DEI, [Trump]replied, “It just could have been. We have a high standard, a much higher standard than anybody else, and there are things where you have to go by brainpower, you have to go by psychological quality, and psychological quality is a very important element of it.”
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This evidence free, un-hinged scapegoating on a day of national disaster, is not limited to #Trump sadly:
‘In a press conference on Thursday morning where Vice President J.D. Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy all suggested that the Federal Aviation Administration had hired unqualified and incompetent air traffic controllers due to diversity hiring practices’
The doubts about the suitability of his entire administration come home to roost.
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I miss Caroline Lucas…who else in Parliament is picking up the baton to constructively engage with the media and public about protecting our democratic rights of non-violent protest?
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Come on #Starmer, this is the kind of endorsement you’ve been working towards for months now and you really pushed for it this past week…you should feel so proud that all your hard work to cozy up to a fascist hellbent on destroying democracy, expanding their territory, defunding sciences, trashing the environment and only interested in furthering the rights of white, straight, male tech bros has paid off.
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My boss has grown up kids…she had them in the 90’s, but had extended family nearby to help. I only have elderly frail in-laws who live half an hour away.
When I work late it’s from home, but I’ve already been into the office and back 20 miles away.
Working freelance would mean consultancy and that’s not really my bag.
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Are there any mothers out there who have cracked having a mentally stimulating job that pays a living wage, but is genuinely part time - no expectation of completing tasks in your own time to meet deadlines - therefore allowing you to be present for your kids?
I feel that I am in a downward spiral at the moment. I worked until 8.30pm tonight - I’m only paid until 2.30pm.
If you have cracked it, what industry do you work in?
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I literally begged to come off a work call to feed my kids their dinner tonight. Then I went straight back to work and only stopped returning messages to my boss when I pointed out I needed to put the kids to bed.
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My partner came home while I was cooking dinner, he then looked after the kids until bedtime. I am lucky to have a partner and yes, he’s my kid’s dad so it is part of his role to look after them…but I still feel like I’ve been a $hit parent while simultaneously being exploited. This doesn’t happen to this extent every night, but it does happen until 5pm regularly.
Quitting with no realistic prospect of finding a role in the field I love on part time hours seems a bad move.
What do I do?
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Dame Kate Bingham is spot on about the #Tory government’s view of the immunocompromised during #Pandemic, but she’s also spot on about #BEIS which turned into #DESNZ.
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“I felt very strongly that we were conducting a strategy that was not following the prime minister’s goals.
So the government was following a very clear two-tier strategy where the clinically vulnerable, immunocompromised patients were being deprioritised in favour of those who were able to receive vaccines.
And I felt that was manifestly wrong, both ethically and morally, but also did not follow the goals that we’d been set, which was to protect the entire population.”
Dame Kate Bingham
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Keeping the back of the head is especially important I remember reading a few years back.
Late Gen X. Adopted city Norwich, started out life in Dorset. Juggling twins, hearing aids, politics and climate concerns. Partial to dramatic landscapes, Wes Andersonesque architecture, unsung historical figures and Peanuts cartoons. Do we all get better at juggling or do we acknowledge some balls are just too precious to drop?
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