Phil Redshaw

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My doctor says it's not depression: it's a "remarkably perceptive, accurate, and realistic world-view"

Education, education, education. Gene Roddenberry believed this was the key to unlocking his utopian future for humanity.

If that is true, that would make the political right "Enemies of Humanity", right? Now there's a three-word slogan with a ring to it, in terms they and their slack-jawed supporters can understand.

Two million French folk take to the streets in a wave of strikes and protests against a proposal to raise the pension age from 62 to 64.

Meanwhile in the UK: "Mustn't grumble. When's 'Strictly' on?"

how many times am I going to have to prove I'm not a robot? I wonder if there's a way to automate it
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Nigel Farage promised that Brexit would deliver £2-3 billion every year for the fishing industry.
(to the tune of Pirates of the Caribbean for some reason)

But the fishing industry says it's costing them £300 million over 5 years.

https://yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/fishing-industry-on-course-to-lose-ps300m-post-brexit-fishermens-trade-body-claims-3403106
https://twitter.com/Nigel_Farage/status/743356387183386626

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1598341010043666436

Fishing industry 'on course to lose £300m post-Brexit' fishermen's trade body claims

Government promises that the fishing industry would benefit to the tune of tens of millions of pounds from Brexit has been challenged by analysis by a fishermen’s trade organisation, which says it will make multi-million pound losses every year instead.

Yorkshire Post

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When water companies were privatised in 1989 they were all debit free.

We, the tax payer, had written off all of the companies' debts.

33 years later they accumulated £54bn in debt and 20% of your bill now goes towards paying interest.

We've been had!

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/01/water-companies-debts-since-privatisation-ofwat-refuses-impose-limits?CMP=share_btn_tw

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Feargal_Sharkey/status/1598278317878431745

Water firms’ debts since privatisation hit £54bn as Ofwat refuses to impose limits

Customers pay on average 20% of their bill towards servicing debt and rewarding shareholders, says CMA

The Guardian
Revealed: Foreign investment firms, private equity, pension funds and businesses lodged in tax havens now own more than 70% of the water industry in England. ⁦⁩ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/30/more-than-70-per-cent-english-water-industry-foreign-ownership
Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership

Guardian unpicks complex web of investment firms, wealth funds and tax haven-based businesses that own most of sector

The Guardian

More than 40% of British exports have disappeared from European shelves since Brexit

Government’s new trade red tape likely to hit long-term productivity, trade economists warn

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-exports-trade-eu-politics-b2234671.html

More than 40% of British exports have disappeared from European shelves since Brexit

Government’s new trade red tape likely to hit long-term productivity, trade economists warn

The Independent