@davidallengreen that’s a very helpful article, thanks (I get Prospect), but I offer a correction in grammar: “may” is the present, but you used it twice in the past. For instance, it should have read, “might not have been any serious legal problem”. Sorry, but the meaning can be confused by the wrong tense.
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@DarleneRyan I’d say that was unhelpful to descend to this dreadful individual's level. That article is equally dreadful.
A very helpful read; not pleasant, but . . . https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/29/donald-trump-americans-us-culture-republican?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@kierac123 sorry, but I thought it worth a correction. You don’t have to continue someone elses's mistake.
@kierac123 it’s “eavesdropping”. Dictionaries are very easy to use, you know :-)
Bob JamiesonTo: Rishi Sunak, Prime Minister
Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts
The Government is sneaking in new powers to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error.
It will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the government.
Petition:
Stop the Government from spying on all of our bank accounts
Sir Keir Starmer is pushing plans we defeated under the Conservative Government - to spy on all of our bank accounts on the premise of dealing with welfare fraud and error. It will force banks to flag people who meet secret criteria to the government. Everyone wants fraudulent uses of public money to be dealt with, and the government already has strong powers to check the bank statements of suspects. But this is a major expansion of government power that takes away our financial privacy...
Ways the weasels at the Post Office avoid compensating their badly wronged sub-postmasters: https://www.taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/11/hss_scandal/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Rishi Sunak is talking bollocks about "maxing out" North Sea oil and gas
Under the current privatised energy set up drilling for more North Sea oil will neither improve energy security, nor bring down prices.
For as long as Britain’s energy market remains the ideologically deranged shambles of private corporations and overseas governments that it is, the idea of British “energy security” is an absolute fantasy.
Just in case the Climate Emergency had slipped out of mind … https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/nov/20/the-great-carbon-divide-climate-chasm-rich-poor?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other