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Posts by JustArran

Do any good thing you can, no matter how small. No good thing is ever insignificant.

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Seen in Los Angeles

(Credit: Zurita Carpio)

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Hope is here.

Be part of it. Join the Green Party today.

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Photo of construction site with cranes. Article header:

STRIPPED TEES

How Britain's flagship 'levelling up' project turned into a scandalous giveaway 

by Richard Brooks

Photo of construction site with cranes. Article header: STRIPPED TEES How Britain's flagship 'levelling up' project turned into a scandalous giveaway by Richard Brooks

IT WAS to be the UK's largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport.

But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the River Tees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception. In the process, it is financially imperilling a major regional development body and squandering the chance to revive one of the country's most deprived but industrially promising areas.

This is how it happened...

IT WAS to be the UK's largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the River Tees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception. In the process, it is financially imperilling a major regional development body and squandering the chance to revive one of the country's most deprived but industrially promising areas. This is how it happened...

As some of you will know, Private Eye has a very good track record of persisting with long-term investigations into scandals such as Post Office Horizon. It's often hard to tell when the reporting will break into the mainstream. On Teesworks I'm still waiting.

(8 page report in edition 1660)

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What can you say?

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Farage: epic grifter

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Even by Sky News standards, quite an allegation 😳

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“Sorry, we accidentally demolished the Epstein files.” - DJT

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Qobuz is good, I like it. I spent a month testing all the streaming services and decided Qobuz, Deezer and Tidal were my faves.FI preferred the Tidal interface so went for that but Qobuz is good too (in my opinion)

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Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed.

THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

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Sunday afternoon - grocery shopping for the week
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday - DoorDash
Friday - dine out
Saturday - dine out
Sunday morning - throw away spoiled groceries
Sunday afternoon- grocery shopping for the week

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Trump has murdered the people in boats in the Caribbean. Nothing in domestic US or international law allows the killing of civilians without due process. Asserting they are terrorists without any evidence is not due process.

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What a refreshing attitude to take. Learn and then decide. Bravo that man.

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He just doesn’t miss. That line at the end was pure gold.

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He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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@zackpolanski.bsky.social is fucking knocking it out of the park.

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Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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my children are all of this, and now so are their children…

I couldn't be prouder…

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Zack at the podium with Bold Politics.

Zack at the podium with Bold Politics.

Day 2 and the energy at @greenparty.org.uk conference is amazing!

Join today - and we could even overtake the Lib Dems in membership by the end tomorrow. Let's do this!!!! 🚀

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October season...
Take a chance on my dark thriller The Great Orme...

This isn’t a rescue mission. It’s a descent, haunted by ghosts, and drowned in guilt. The deeper Zach goes, the clearer it becomes: no one escapes the justice of the Great Orme.

#Booksky📚💙 #Darkthriller

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Why it is so hard to tax the super-rich – video Josh Toussaint-Strauss speaks to Mark Bou Mansour from the Tax Justice Network to untangle some of the myths around a wealth tax, find out how it might work and what is holding governments back from introducing one

Why it is so hard to tax the super-rich – video

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Incomers: the myth vs reality of refugees in the UK Britain hosts just 1% of the world’s refugees – far fewer than many nations – yet myths of handouts and 'overwhelm' still dominate debate

Incomers: the myth vs reality of refugees in the UK

Britain hosts just 1% of the world’s refugees – far fewer than many nations – yet myths of handouts and 'overwhelm' still dominate debate

By Jeremy Leslie-Spinks

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3 more points for an historic win. Must be so demoralising being American/living in America at the moment 😁😁

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City 1 Blackpool 0 - the winning run continues as the Bantams stay top of League One City 1 Blackpool 0 - the winning run continues as the Bantams stay top of League One

New from The Width of a Post: Back to enjoying who we are as Bradford City rediscover League One comfort #bcafc #bantams

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