Stephen Drennan
@stephen1958.bsky.social
From Norn Irn. Happy with complex national identity, unhappy with Brexit.
Engineering degree, Development, Product Management & 12 yrs as MD.
Also BA & MA History, just because: decolonisation in Africa, nationalism, Ireland/UK
Engineering degree, Development, Product Management & 12 yrs as MD.
Also BA & MA History, just because: decolonisation in Africa, nationalism, Ireland/UK
Reposted by Stephen Drennan
The same man migrated his head office from Britain to Switzerland, supported Brexit and then migrated himself to Monaco avoiding £4 billion in tax.
A nasty piece of work
A nasty piece of work
February 11, 2026 at 5:58 PM
The same man migrated his head office from Britain to Switzerland, supported Brexit and then migrated himself to Monaco avoiding £4 billion in tax.
A nasty piece of work
A nasty piece of work
Reposted by Stephen Drennan
Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’)
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
February 11, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’)
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...
And a gift to our well-funded fascist bloc.
February 11, 2026 at 8:34 PM
And a gift to our well-funded fascist bloc.
So, you’ll get through 0.013% of his books in that time
February 11, 2026 at 7:42 PM
So, you’ll get through 0.013% of his books in that time
Everyone should get behind The Bear’s judgement here.
February 11, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Everyone should get behind The Bear’s judgement here.
From the various ‘put the world to rights’ sessions over my career, the difficult bit is remembering the great solutions the following day. Was especially true for the sessions in Hannover, for some reason.
February 11, 2026 at 8:52 AM
From the various ‘put the world to rights’ sessions over my career, the difficult bit is remembering the great solutions the following day. Was especially true for the sessions in Hannover, for some reason.
Reposted by Stephen Drennan
Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
Bannon, Brexit, Johnson and Cambridge Analytica: the Daughter of Time
Peter Jukes reports on more revelations about the transatlantic right-wing network, and why the Government is withholding key information on the former Prime Minister’s role
bylinetimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Now more details in the Epstein files reveal Bannon as part of a successful plot to topple Theresa May with Nigel Farage, Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Mogg, here’s an article from the archive about Johnson and Bannon’s collaboration
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
bylinetimes.com/2023/04/24/b...
Yes, you need evidence of right of entry and if that is 🇬🇧 citizenship now that FOM has ended, you just have to be able to show that, even if it costs £100 every 10 years.
The UK was demanding dual passports were sent with a 🇬🇧 passport application but now I think relaxed to full colour photocopy.
The UK was demanding dual passports were sent with a 🇬🇧 passport application but now I think relaxed to full colour photocopy.
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Yes, you need evidence of right of entry and if that is 🇬🇧 citizenship now that FOM has ended, you just have to be able to show that, even if it costs £100 every 10 years.
The UK was demanding dual passports were sent with a 🇬🇧 passport application but now I think relaxed to full colour photocopy.
The UK was demanding dual passports were sent with a 🇬🇧 passport application but now I think relaxed to full colour photocopy.
Also earlier.
The economic case for a Europe wide rail network would have been very appealing to Napoleon I.
The economic case for a Europe wide rail network would have been very appealing to Napoleon I.
February 10, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Also earlier.
The economic case for a Europe wide rail network would have been very appealing to Napoleon I.
The economic case for a Europe wide rail network would have been very appealing to Napoleon I.
I feel everyone who sat through Boris Johnson’s bloviating pronouncements as PM is united in crying
“GO OXFORD TOWN!”
“GO OXFORD TOWN!”
February 10, 2026 at 2:47 PM
I feel everyone who sat through Boris Johnson’s bloviating pronouncements as PM is united in crying
“GO OXFORD TOWN!”
“GO OXFORD TOWN!”
This is half the reason why I was ‘economically inactive‘ from 2019 to 2024. (“Sod it, I’m going to pack it in 5 years early”)
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This is half the reason why I was ‘economically inactive‘ from 2019 to 2024. (“Sod it, I’m going to pack it in 5 years early”)
…because the importer into the EU bears the product liability responsibility and the burden of evidencing standards & due diligence.
As a manufacturer within the EU you do all this & you can sign up a network of smaller distributors who will not have to worry about it. As an outsider, you can’t.
As a manufacturer within the EU you do all this & you can sign up a network of smaller distributors who will not have to worry about it. As an outsider, you can’t.
February 10, 2026 at 11:39 AM
…because the importer into the EU bears the product liability responsibility and the burden of evidencing standards & due diligence.
As a manufacturer within the EU you do all this & you can sign up a network of smaller distributors who will not have to worry about it. As an outsider, you can’t.
As a manufacturer within the EU you do all this & you can sign up a network of smaller distributors who will not have to worry about it. As an outsider, you can’t.
The company mentions Brexit quite a bit in the piece and they also include distribution issues, which reporting usually ignores when just focussing on the ‘red tape’ of getting across a regulatory border.
Distribution differs a lot when you are outside the Single Market because…1/2…
Distribution differs a lot when you are outside the Single Market because…1/2…
February 10, 2026 at 11:39 AM
The company mentions Brexit quite a bit in the piece and they also include distribution issues, which reporting usually ignores when just focussing on the ‘red tape’ of getting across a regulatory border.
Distribution differs a lot when you are outside the Single Market because…1/2…
Distribution differs a lot when you are outside the Single Market because…1/2…
You could call it Michael
February 9, 2026 at 4:03 PM
You could call it Michael
I’m sad to say there are certainly people out here in the wilds of East Kent who get wound up by people speaking a foreign language.
I think hearing Polish in Lidl was half the reason Dover voted 60% for Brexit.
I think hearing Polish in Lidl was half the reason Dover voted 60% for Brexit.
February 9, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I’m sad to say there are certainly people out here in the wilds of East Kent who get wound up by people speaking a foreign language.
I think hearing Polish in Lidl was half the reason Dover voted 60% for Brexit.
I think hearing Polish in Lidl was half the reason Dover voted 60% for Brexit.
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Kent councillor Matthew Fraser Moat has fallen on his sword after admitting his party had failed to find any waste to cut
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
Reform councillor forced out... for telling the truth
Kent councillor Matthew Fraser Moat has fallen on his sword after admitting his party had failed to find any waste to cut
www.thenewworld.co.uk
February 9, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Kent councillor Matthew Fraser Moat has fallen on his sword after admitting his party had failed to find any waste to cut
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
I broadly agree with this.
And I don’t understand why they haven’t made some obvious moves:
-Changing BBC leadership
-Leaveson 2+
-Ensuring even current laws on social media misinformation & hate-speech are enforced on the platforms.
And I don’t understand why they haven’t made some obvious moves:
-Changing BBC leadership
-Leaveson 2+
-Ensuring even current laws on social media misinformation & hate-speech are enforced on the platforms.
February 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
I broadly agree with this.
And I don’t understand why they haven’t made some obvious moves:
-Changing BBC leadership
-Leaveson 2+
-Ensuring even current laws on social media misinformation & hate-speech are enforced on the platforms.
And I don’t understand why they haven’t made some obvious moves:
-Changing BBC leadership
-Leaveson 2+
-Ensuring even current laws on social media misinformation & hate-speech are enforced on the platforms.
Time ‘Ponzi’ schemes were joined by ‘Musk’ schemes:
Ones which rely on fantasy future growth to keep them fuelled by both Private *and Public sector* gullible cretins.
Ones which rely on fantasy future growth to keep them fuelled by both Private *and Public sector* gullible cretins.
February 9, 2026 at 8:15 AM
Time ‘Ponzi’ schemes were joined by ‘Musk’ schemes:
Ones which rely on fantasy future growth to keep them fuelled by both Private *and Public sector* gullible cretins.
Ones which rely on fantasy future growth to keep them fuelled by both Private *and Public sector* gullible cretins.
As his Tesla product begins to falter, making its valuation impossible to justif, he switches to robotics & space.
Can ‘investors’ not see that this is a giant Ponzi scheme fed with SciFi fantasies to keep attracting the mark‘s $?
Can ‘investors’ not see that this is a giant Ponzi scheme fed with SciFi fantasies to keep attracting the mark‘s $?
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 AM
As his Tesla product begins to falter, making its valuation impossible to justif, he switches to robotics & space.
Can ‘investors’ not see that this is a giant Ponzi scheme fed with SciFi fantasies to keep attracting the mark‘s $?
Can ‘investors’ not see that this is a giant Ponzi scheme fed with SciFi fantasies to keep attracting the mark‘s $?
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
The irony is that it isn’t a ’market’ at all, really.
It’s cartel, fixed by the ‘cap’ price.
But the senior management swallowed business bullshit-speak wholesale, with particular reference to the need to pay top management top salaries and to ‘spend, spend, spend‘ to justify it.
It’s cartel, fixed by the ‘cap’ price.
But the senior management swallowed business bullshit-speak wholesale, with particular reference to the need to pay top management top salaries and to ‘spend, spend, spend‘ to justify it.
February 8, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The irony is that it isn’t a ’market’ at all, really.
It’s cartel, fixed by the ‘cap’ price.
But the senior management swallowed business bullshit-speak wholesale, with particular reference to the need to pay top management top salaries and to ‘spend, spend, spend‘ to justify it.
It’s cartel, fixed by the ‘cap’ price.
But the senior management swallowed business bullshit-speak wholesale, with particular reference to the need to pay top management top salaries and to ‘spend, spend, spend‘ to justify it.
…and it *is* punishing them through stigmatisation and then various ‘administrative’ instances of poor treatment.
I’m afraid Labour, you are utter, utter bastards for pursuing this course. And morons, as it won’t win you any Reform/racist votes.
I’m afraid Labour, you are utter, utter bastards for pursuing this course. And morons, as it won’t win you any Reform/racist votes.
February 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
…and it *is* punishing them through stigmatisation and then various ‘administrative’ instances of poor treatment.
I’m afraid Labour, you are utter, utter bastards for pursuing this course. And morons, as it won’t win you any Reform/racist votes.
I’m afraid Labour, you are utter, utter bastards for pursuing this course. And morons, as it won’t win you any Reform/racist votes.
This is a word/logic game worthy of the USA.
The Refugee Treaty, that the UK signed and hopefully supports, says that refugees must not be punished for irregular entry.
To ‘administratively’ categorise them as ‘illegal’ ‘even if criminal proceedings cannot be brought’ is such bullshit.
…1/2
The Refugee Treaty, that the UK signed and hopefully supports, says that refugees must not be punished for irregular entry.
To ‘administratively’ categorise them as ‘illegal’ ‘even if criminal proceedings cannot be brought’ is such bullshit.
…1/2
February 8, 2026 at 6:09 PM
This is a word/logic game worthy of the USA.
The Refugee Treaty, that the UK signed and hopefully supports, says that refugees must not be punished for irregular entry.
To ‘administratively’ categorise them as ‘illegal’ ‘even if criminal proceedings cannot be brought’ is such bullshit.
…1/2
The Refugee Treaty, that the UK signed and hopefully supports, says that refugees must not be punished for irregular entry.
To ‘administratively’ categorise them as ‘illegal’ ‘even if criminal proceedings cannot be brought’ is such bullshit.
…1/2
Usual ’lying as easy as breathing’ from the Mad King.
“I…do not represent everything that happens in the US”
is not = to
“I…do not represent the US”
“I…do not represent everything that happens in the US”
is not = to
“I…do not represent the US”
February 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Usual ’lying as easy as breathing’ from the Mad King.
“I…do not represent everything that happens in the US”
is not = to
“I…do not represent the US”
“I…do not represent everything that happens in the US”
is not = to
“I…do not represent the US”
On a tangent, Mrs D saw a trailer last week for a US filum that seemed to have the copied the basic plot from ‘Kind Hearts & Coronets’.
I wonder if they’ve fucked it up like they did with Get Carter and The Italian Job.
I wonder if they’ve fucked it up like they did with Get Carter and The Italian Job.
February 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
On a tangent, Mrs D saw a trailer last week for a US filum that seemed to have the copied the basic plot from ‘Kind Hearts & Coronets’.
I wonder if they’ve fucked it up like they did with Get Carter and The Italian Job.
I wonder if they’ve fucked it up like they did with Get Carter and The Italian Job.