David Hallett
@hallett.social
Tech Founder CEO at http://sme.software - FRSA MIoD MBCS - Liberté, égalité, fraternité - London Plymouth Geneva https://www.linkedin.com/in/hallettdavid/
There are two easy ways to fix the problem with the High Street... and it's not rocket science.
- Keep the shops open till mid-evening
- Make parking free or cheap
(Forget the buses, most people will not use them.)
There you go, fixed it for ya.
#pmq
- Keep the shops open till mid-evening
- Make parking free or cheap
(Forget the buses, most people will not use them.)
There you go, fixed it for ya.
#pmq
November 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
There are two easy ways to fix the problem with the High Street... and it's not rocket science.
- Keep the shops open till mid-evening
- Make parking free or cheap
(Forget the buses, most people will not use them.)
There you go, fixed it for ya.
#pmq
- Keep the shops open till mid-evening
- Make parking free or cheap
(Forget the buses, most people will not use them.)
There you go, fixed it for ya.
#pmq
Betfred has said it would close all 1,287 of its high street betting shops if Reeves raised taxes on the gambling industry. The company behind William Hill, also said last month it was considering closing up to 200 betting shops.
Crack on then, sooner the better
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Crack on then, sooner the better
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK gambling firms make extra £1bn from punters amid calls for tax rises
Betting companies made £12.6bn in 12 months to March, with 15% rise in takings from online casino players
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Betfred has said it would close all 1,287 of its high street betting shops if Reeves raised taxes on the gambling industry. The company behind William Hill, also said last month it was considering closing up to 200 betting shops.
Crack on then, sooner the better
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Crack on then, sooner the better
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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When it comes to Saudi Arabia, the president isn't putting America first.
He's putting his own wealth and his own personal interests ahead of everything else.
Ahead of you.
He's putting his own wealth and his own personal interests ahead of everything else.
Ahead of you.
November 22, 2025 at 9:11 PM
When it comes to Saudi Arabia, the president isn't putting America first.
He's putting his own wealth and his own personal interests ahead of everything else.
Ahead of you.
He's putting his own wealth and his own personal interests ahead of everything else.
Ahead of you.
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Oh dear,
When Country Music is Coming out with these lyrics, Republicans better watch out.
When Country Music is Coming out with these lyrics, Republicans better watch out.
November 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Oh dear,
When Country Music is Coming out with these lyrics, Republicans better watch out.
When Country Music is Coming out with these lyrics, Republicans better watch out.
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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Hey, it's a good job the United States of America isn't a country built entirely on the back of mass migration ... because if it was... oh wait
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Hey, it's a good job the United States of America isn't a country built entirely on the back of mass migration ... because if it was... oh wait
Yup, this is me. The quiet expert.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Yup, this is me. The quiet expert.
Find out more at hallettconsulting.com
Find out more at hallettconsulting.com
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I swear a lot of the Government's problems would be solved by just taking themselves off of Twitter
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I swear a lot of the Government's problems would be solved by just taking themselves off of Twitter
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BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
Trump says he will sue BBC for between $1 billion and $5 billion despite apology www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump says he will sue BBC for at least $1bn over Panorama edit
The US president told reporters on Air Force One that he will take legal action against the broadcaster and will call Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
BBC has a case against Trump. WhiteHouse Chief Press Officer called the BBC ‘100% fake news.’ Which is defamatory and untrue.
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Did Jen drop the box with Cloudflare in it?
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Did Jen drop the box with Cloudflare in it?
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Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc
November 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Bloody left wing bias etc etc etc
@lukepollard.bsky.social have a word with your gaffer, eh? Profoundly dissapointed. You wouldn't have my vote again if we had GE tomorrow.
November 17, 2025 at 9:29 AM
@lukepollard.bsky.social have a word with your gaffer, eh? Profoundly dissapointed. You wouldn't have my vote again if we had GE tomorrow.
If you see someone wearing this, point and laugh. If you know someone wearing this, have a word. If you buy one yourself, seek therapy.
Apple has built its reputation on cutting-edge devices and sleek design, but the company’s latest product is decidedly more low-tech. https://cnn.it/3JJCl71
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
If you see someone wearing this, point and laugh. If you know someone wearing this, have a word. If you buy one yourself, seek therapy.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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I DEMAND Panorama IMMEDIATELY produces a documentary showing Kamala Harris not instigating a violent riot, not sexually assaulting anyone, or getting fined for denying it, or being found guilty of business fraud, or f*cking a porn star AND accepting the result of an election.
You know. For balance.
You know. For balance.
November 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I DEMAND Panorama IMMEDIATELY produces a documentary showing Kamala Harris not instigating a violent riot, not sexually assaulting anyone, or getting fined for denying it, or being found guilty of business fraud, or f*cking a porn star AND accepting the result of an election.
You know. For balance.
You know. For balance.
I won't be lamenting his departure, but... Left wing bias? C'mon. Blatantly pro Tory for years, and now blatantly pro Reform. Mad.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie says departure is ‘my own decision’, while head of news also quits, as BBC prepares to apologise for editing of a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I won't be lamenting his departure, but... Left wing bias? C'mon. Blatantly pro Tory for years, and now blatantly pro Reform. Mad.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
With blatant right wing bias, how can it also have left wing bias? Which is it? Both?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson trying to undermine BBC leadership, insiders fear after leak
Director general under pressure after release of memo criticising reporting on Trump, trans rights and Gaza
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM
With blatant right wing bias, how can it also have left wing bias? Which is it? Both?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
What this tells expats in the UK is... Don't leave. Ever.
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Woman with stage 4 cancer has welfare benefit stopped after falling ill abroad
Ana Paula Cabral’s universal credit payments were abruptly ended by DWP when she failed to return from Portugal trip
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What this tells expats in the UK is... Don't leave. Ever.
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Welcome to your new (forever) home.
Sad.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Elon Musk is deliberately using his platform to poison our politics and divide our country.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
It's time for the government to wake up to the threat he poses to our democracy.
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Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.
must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Get your colleagues and friends off it, folks.
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X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
Sky's Tom Cheshire explains how Elon Musk's X is boosting the British right.
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
X effect: How Elon Musk is boosting the British right
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The Empire created Britain’s wealth.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The Empire created Britain’s wealth.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
Yet I can’t remember it ever being mentioned in history at school.
It means many people have no idea why they see the mix of people they the do around them.
Ignorance of history plays into the hands of fhe far-right.
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If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
![[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]
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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:
Hello there
2
[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].
DAD:
Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE:
Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!
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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?
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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:
Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!
6
NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:
Listen - that's their call
[Calls emanating from the landscape]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:
They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.
8
KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!
[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].
[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke
9
[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:
Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.
[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:
tut-tut
woke-woke
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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?
NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…
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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].
NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…
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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:
Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?
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October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...
So she expressed it badly, but her point was correct? They'll be shooting for the disabled next.
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage defends MP’s complaint about TV adverts as ‘ugly’ but not ‘deliberately’ racist
Reform MP Sarah Pochin said seeing adverts of black or Asian people ‘drives me mad’
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
So she expressed it badly, but her point was correct? They'll be shooting for the disabled next.
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I'm guessing they don't watch Strictly?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...