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Cymro yn Manceinion, Enedigol o Garnant. Education, Rugby, Mountains, Snowsports. 35yrs Public service.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹. Part time tofu eater, full time wokerati.

Some personal reflections on Zahawi, Barrowman and Mone. Why libel law rewards liars, and how we could change it.

https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/11/07/libel/

Zahawi, Barrowman and Mone: why libel law rewards liars, and how we could change it.

Baroness Mone introduced a company, PPE Medro, to the "VIP fast lane" for supplying PPE to the Government during the pandemic. There was copious evidence that she and/or her husband, Douglas Barrowman, ran the company. In December 2020, a lawyer instructed by Mone and Barrowman told the Gu

Tax Policy Associates Ltd
I am looking for (probably elderly) ladies in Scotland who were members of the Electrical Association for Women back in the day. It closed down about 1986.
Founded in 1924, its 1st branch outwith London was in Glasgow but later there were branches all over the place, having meetings, classes, lectures and field visits. Centenary next year so we are looking to do some oral histories.
Did you or your mum/granny go to the EAW. Have you seen one of their teatowels around their house?

The Tory Cost of Living Crisis, brought to you by #Brexit

I can't wait for those living costs to go up even more, can you?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/aug/03/uk-brexit-checks-fresh-food-eu-delayed-fifth-time-reports?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

UK Brexit checks on fresh food from EU delayed for fifth time, reports say

Government source reportedly says there are concerns extra red tape could fuel further inflation

The Guardian
Here’s a short poem called ‘Divided by a Common Language’.
So #SuellaBraverman's defence is that while an email to #Tory supporters appeared under her name, she neither wrote it or sanctioned it.... so let me get this right the Home Secretary is now prepared to argue that signed statements are not indicative of the opinions or claims of the signatory - I'm not sure the #RuleofLaw can survive such a position; I'm looking forward to see how the detachment of signatories from the documents they sign plays out, not least in #contractlaw!

Shell £32.2 BILLION profit.
BP £23 BILLION profit.

Average energy prices which are set to rise further in this country:

£2,585 - UK
€650 - France
€650 - Belgium
€620 - Spain
€558 - Germany
€558 - Denmark
€546 - Holland
€545 - Austria
€543 - Norway

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Boost if you want to see a change.

He needs those parts for his spaceship, he's going to otter space.🚀
🏉Dragons 🆚 Lions from 1255 if you would care to join us #rugby #Wales #Dragons https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/rugby-union/64320124

Hi everyone, I'd like to announce I just spun up this brand new Mastodon instance for Persians, Iranians and the like; https://persia.social/

My intentions are to foster a supportive, inclusive free online community for us to share our culture and ethnicity with one another and the digital world.

Would love to have you join!

#introduction #iranrevolution #iran #mahsaamini #WomanLifeFreedom #stopexecutionsiniran #IRGCTerrorists

persia.social

A Mastodon instance for Persians, Iranians, and all the like.

Mastodon hosted on persia.social

Simon Pegg has his say. And who can disagree?

#ukpolitics #tories #conservatives #sunak #arts