Rowena Renshaw
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No MP should be earning £380,000 on top of their parliamentary salary.
Farage manages it because he's turned "politainment" into a viable career. Like his US counterparts he's discovered that being a disruptor can make you very wealthy indeed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage manages it because he's turned "politainment" into a viable career. Like his US counterparts he's discovered that being a disruptor can make you very wealthy indeed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage apologises for 17 breaches of MPs’ code of conduct
Reform UK leader, who failed to declare £380,000 on time, says he is computer-illiterate ‘oddball’
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 8:35 AM
No MP should be earning £380,000 on top of their parliamentary salary.
Farage manages it because he's turned "politainment" into a viable career. Like his US counterparts he's discovered that being a disruptor can make you very wealthy indeed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage manages it because he's turned "politainment" into a viable career. Like his US counterparts he's discovered that being a disruptor can make you very wealthy indeed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Hikes in state pension age (SPA) transfer wealth to the rich.
Life expectancy in Blackpool 73.1 yrs for men, 78.9 yrs for women.
Kensington and Chelsea - 83.4 yrs for men, 86.5 yrs for women.
Poor pay, but get pension for a short period. Rich get it for longer.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/pens...
Life expectancy in Blackpool 73.1 yrs for men, 78.9 yrs for women.
Kensington and Chelsea - 83.4 yrs for men, 86.5 yrs for women.
Poor pay, but get pension for a short period. Rich get it for longer.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/pens...
Pensioner poverty in the world’s sixth largest economy is a political choice
The hardship inflicted on retirees now will surely visit future retirees unless steps are taken to alleviate misery.
leftfootforward.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Hikes in state pension age (SPA) transfer wealth to the rich.
Life expectancy in Blackpool 73.1 yrs for men, 78.9 yrs for women.
Kensington and Chelsea - 83.4 yrs for men, 86.5 yrs for women.
Poor pay, but get pension for a short period. Rich get it for longer.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/pens...
Life expectancy in Blackpool 73.1 yrs for men, 78.9 yrs for women.
Kensington and Chelsea - 83.4 yrs for men, 86.5 yrs for women.
Poor pay, but get pension for a short period. Rich get it for longer.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/pens...
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It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
A little bit of hope after a terrible week
A survival guide to the next four years.
iandunt.substack.com
January 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It's been a terrible week. A terrible, terrible week. The worst people on earth are full of energy and vigour, the best are defined by anxiety and self-doubt. Here are three simple rules to surviving the next four years, because by God we'll need them iandunt.substack.com/p/a-little-b...
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Great point here. Trump is creating a hostile environment for talent that leans liberal. We can't pay as well, but there are not school shootings and we aren't being run by anti science fascists.
We should be throwing up lab space in places like Cambridge and Tatton Park at a vast rate.
Biggest opportunity to recruit scientific talent since the 1930s.
Biggest opportunity to recruit scientific talent since the 1930s.
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research.
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
January 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Great point here. Trump is creating a hostile environment for talent that leans liberal. We can't pay as well, but there are not school shootings and we aren't being run by anti science fascists.
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We must understand the signals and the plans. History teaches us these.
January 21, 2025 at 8:33 PM
We must understand the signals and the plans. History teaches us these.
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So proud to stand with Guardian & Observer colleagues today to defend the Observer on its 233rd birthday 🎂
Such amazing support from readers, writers, politicians & more. Thank you!
We ❤️ the Obs & we want it back.
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Such amazing support from readers, writers, politicians & more. Thank you!
We ❤️ the Obs & we want it back.
✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
December 4, 2024 at 5:43 PM
So proud to stand with Guardian & Observer colleagues today to defend the Observer on its 233rd birthday 🎂
Such amazing support from readers, writers, politicians & more. Thank you!
We ❤️ the Obs & we want it back.
✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
Such amazing support from readers, writers, politicians & more. Thank you!
We ❤️ the Obs & we want it back.
✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
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“Handing vital infrastructure to private investment companies will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan.”
A stark warning about BlackRock… they’re not here to help. They are here to seize control. That’s what they do.
A stark warning about BlackRock… they’re not here to help. They are here to seize control. That’s what they do.
Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor
Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinan...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:18 AM
“Handing vital infrastructure to private investment companies will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan.”
A stark warning about BlackRock… they’re not here to help. They are here to seize control. That’s what they do.
A stark warning about BlackRock… they’re not here to help. They are here to seize control. That’s what they do.
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With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation".
But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.
But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.
November 19, 2024 at 8:59 AM
With farm owners protesting today over the prospect of paying a highly discounted inheritence tax, I'm sure you've seen quotes about how they "feed the nation".
But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.
But nobody is talking about the migrant workers who actually pick the crops on horticulture farms, so here's a short thread about them.