P&O Ferries’ long-overdue accounts have finally been filed.
They reveal the chief executive’s pay soared in 2023. In the same year the company lost £91 million, despite having fired 786 staff to cut costs
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Kwasi Kwarteng, out of his depth in a paddling pool
Man who was so out of his depth he drowned an entire economy is now giving opinions on people being out of their depth, I can’t breathe.
The Labour party is doing lots of good things but I reckon they need to sit down, draw breath and ask themselves,
"Who are we, What are we about".
Have a rethink, because looking after children with special needs, same as looking after people with disabilities, is exactly what we should be about
Salami tactics, take it a slice at a time rather than a huge Chunk and scaring the children
It's not Bake Off. It's a global far-right insurgency.
To normalise Nigel Farage, is to normalise Donald Trump.
We, the media, have to wise up fast.
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First Germany said NO to fascism and Trumpism.
Then Canada said NO to fascism and Trumpism.
And now Australia has said NO to fascism and Trumpism.
The people of the world are speaking with their votes and we want democracy not authoritarianism.
#SheShed
As a Tigers fan, it is hard to say, but I really hope Saints turn Leinster over today, though I struggle to see how
And yet already there is briefing, likely out of No. 10 and its allied camps, that these results show Labour needs to recommit to the Blue Labour agenda, to take on Reform on its own territory and to focus on immigration and other socially conservative issues. To follow this advice would be a remarkably short-sighted misreading of the last year in politics. Because Labour has been doing exactly this for the last year. It has been planting itself in incredibly crowded political territory and fighting with both the Tories and Reform on issues that aren't its natural strengths, just as the public repeatedly try to flag that their deeper concerns lie elsewhere.
The media make Farage VERY LOUD. While the liberal opposition is given very little airtime at all. Labour has been sucked into the noise, instead of telling its own story, listening to its core voters and acting in the country’s best interests. They risk appealing to absolutely no one.
Local government is boring bit it does all the essential stuff which rapidly affects people's lives and it has to be done with insufficient money. Councillors who think they are dealing with national issues will be sorely disappointed
From a thread on inexperienced Reform councillors taking over local govt at the point where it’s a financial bin fire. People tend to think of local elections as if they kind of don’t matter or it’s all bins & potholes but they run services that have such a big direct impact on lives
Copying Reform on immigration while cutting money from OAPs and the disabled has been a disaster
Surely, now, Labour must change course
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A depressingly successful playbook, hugely assisted by a supportive media owned by robber barons who stand to gain from the politics of hatred and fear
I think they have been very cautious given how brexit burned them before. Labour need to be Labour and go with the policies to help the most vulnerable. If the electorate reject it so be it but don't lose by being soft tories
It has become a matter of face for the Chinese and they will not back away. USA will come to regret poking the dragon. Foolish and damaging bullying
@quietriotpod.bsky.social
Photograph of the face of a few-year-old girl. She has wavy hair with curls on the sides. Under her neck she has a button-down shirt with a semi-circular collar with a pattern of flowers on it. She is looking slightly upwards and has a slightly open mouth.
28 March 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Yvonne Suskind, was born in Bergen op Zoom.
In September 1944 she was imprisoned in #Theresienstadt ghetto and on 23 October 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
Bad Enoch couldn't grill a sausage
France to concede one safety, and Ireland two. I think these are very unlikely outcomes but one never knows
For the first time in 10 years, a child has died from measles in the United States.
Vaccines prevent measles.
Americans need to hear our top health officials say clearly: every child in America should get vaccinated against this terrible disease.
When hectoring, bullying and greed and seen as signs of strength and to be admired, decency and integrity, let alone empathy, all leave via the back door
It’s almost as if he is telling us he’s a psychopath, isn’t it?
Ironically in a way that makes him feel better about his own lack of it?
"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"
"To billionaires in the White House, it may seem like a game. But to anyone with a heart, it’s about children’s lives and our own security, and what’s unfolding is sickening."
Pitch for a new spy movie: a CIA agent spends years getting close to a terrorist suspect then just before he gets the crucial piece of evidence he’s fired and replaced with a teenager who doesn’t speak any foreign languages but does have a lot of followers on X.
Everybody dies.
I suppose if you are a nasty person, devoid of moral worth then all the money in the world makes no difference. Elon Musk is just a horrid person
Always had a way of putting things has that @billybragg.bsky.social. Makes them starkly clear.
Although imagining you’re Musk and making the choice he does….oof, maybe not something to do on a regular basis.
