Writer, editor, Hillsborough survivor/campaigner, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize
Joined August 2015
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My book about the hijack of football, and the real cost: shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, Football Book of the Year, & Gordon Burn prize
Ronald Araujo is exactly what a Liverpool player should be. Him and Jacquet have made a massive difference
Excellent piece on Aberfan by John Humphrys, who reported on the disaster as a young journalist. Some very enlightening replies BTL about the failure of the Wilson govt to hold anyone to account, and the parallels with Hillsborough, Covid, Grenfell
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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🔴TORY CORRUPTION: £50 MILLION of taxpayers' money to "SG Recruitment" for #PPE
Tory peer, Lord Feldman, helped secure the deal WHILE holding a financial interest in its parent company.
▪️More than HALF the supplies were unsuitable.
▪️£24 MILLION lost. Company now in liquidation.🚫
Do YOUR job @metpoliceuk.
- @happymonkey1874
@Conservatives
£50 MILLION of taxpayers' money to "SG Recruitment" for PPE!
Tory peer helped secure the deal WHILE holding a financial interest in its parent company!
More than HALF the supplies were unsuitable!
£24 MILLION lost. Company now in liquidation!
🚫 Do YOUR job @metpoliceuk
Andy Burnham offering @MetroMayorSteve pork scratchings on Gogglebox. I had Steve down as a salt-and-vinegar crisp butty fan
Has Maya screwed up tonight, saying the game-changing dagger had to go to 'another faithful'? That wasn't the rule when those 3 were picked. And how would she know Kenny was a faithful? If he wasn't, would he then be refused the dagger and be exposed as a #CelebrityTraitors
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This man and his lackey Hancock have been found guilty of killing thousands of older people living in care homes and lying to the public time and again.
They should be arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned posthaste.
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BREAKING: Dutch spies hacked Jared Kushner's iPhone and watched him access a Dubai bank account holding hundreds of millions funneled from Azerbaijan, part of at least $2 billion MBS and MBZ placed for him after he promised to push their agenda with Trump, per a Vanity Fair excerpt.
"Jared was looking for shortcuts in his diplomacy. He promised MBZ that he'd push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a fund. He wanted normalization with Israel so that business could take off," a source who knew the arrangement said.
The money was meant to redraw the region's map and lock in normalization with Israel. Roughly $1 billion of it was deposited in Israel's Central Bank for Kushner, with Netanyahu requiring dual-key approval on any transfers.
The two royals initially discussed more than $10 billion for a shared slush fund. That narrowed to roughly $2 billion deposited into accounts Kushner could access, including roughly $750 million at First Abu Dhabi Bank under a UAE charity used as cover for covert operations.
The reveal comes as Kushner is deeply involved in Iran war diplomacy, where Iran has accused him and Steve Witkoff of pocketing $9 billion through market manipulation, using insider knowledge of the talks to trade oil futures, energy stocks, and prediction markets.
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Johnson, Hancock and quite a few others should be jailed.
Covid Inquiry chair Baroness Hallett says former health secretary Matt Hancock’s claim of a protective ring around care homes at the start of the coronavirus pandemic “was unfounded” and “quite the opposite was true”.
Live coverage on LBC News:
l-bc.co/LBCNews
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The Ruggeri House is a villa in Italian Art Nouveau style, located in Pesaro, Italy. Constructed between 1902 and 1907 for the industrialist Oreste Ruggeri by architect Giuseppe Brega.
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There was no protective ring around care homes; but there obviously is one around Michelle Mone and Dido Harding
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1/3 Last night two peers tried to delete the heart of the Hillsborough Law: the offence that makes it a crime for public officials to deliberately mislead the public. They gave no statement saying it was just a probing amendment.
It failed. The offence stays in the Bill.
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BREAKING: Iran's IRGC is now threatening to completely cut off the world's internet, with spokesman Hossein Mohebi saying seven major cables run under the Strait of Hormuz that global data depends on, warning: "we are reminding them of this so that the enemy knows," per Fars News.
The threat follows Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf's announcement of a "Persian Gulf Data Authority" and SNSC Secretary Mohsen Rezaee's warning that over $2 trillion in data centers would be destroyed if war resumes.
The significance is the target itself. These cables carry roughly 99% of intercontinental data and trillions in daily financial transactions. A successful strike could wipe out 70% to 90% of the Gulf's internet connectivity, crippling global commerce. Iran is making it clear: if the US strikes its energy infrastructure, the next target will be the digital backbone of the global economy.
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Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong in the system.
So … let me get this straight:
* British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June
* BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone
* Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year
The MEN at the top:
* John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received £6.5m bonus on top of his salary
* Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica was paid almost £2m last year in salary and benefits
* Centrica's non-executive directors were paid almost £1m
* Scottish Power's CEO Keith Anderson is on £1.15m.
* E.On boss Michael Lewis is on £1m
* EDF's Simone Rossi is also on £1m
* And their top execs enjoyed a share of £4.65m
* Peter Simpson of Anglian Water earned a £1.3m pay package
* Welsh Water bosses awarded themselves bonuses of over £930,000
* Severn Trent bosses awarded themselves bonuses of £5.56m
* Thames Water's Sarah Bentley, received a £727,000 bonus on top of her £2m annual salary
Meanwhile there are...
* People who haven't had breakfast and/or lunch TODAY, because they can't afford it.
* People using FoodBanks because food is becoming more of a luxury than a necessity.
* Children celebrating a birthday without presents.
* Parents worrying about new school uniforms - and some schools enforcing rules which are not cost-effective.
* People who can't get to work because they can't afford to put petrol in their cars/pay for public transport anymore.
* People who are working so much they're making themselves ill, and they STILL CAN'T AFFORD to pay their bills.
* People who have been given fines by these same energy/water companies because they couldn't afford to pay their bills in the first place - increasing their debt.
* Customers being told to do STAR JUMPS TO KEEP WARM for crying out loud!
* Hose pipe bans when gallons of water leak away everyday.
* Elderly people NOT DRINKING because they're worried about running out of water!!!
All this and energy prices are set to rise up to 75% in October...
THIS IS MADNESS!.. I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.
Something needs to change.
Why is customers' money being used to make life more comfortable for those who are making life more intolerable for the rest of us?
I actually don't understand how the energy companies are allowed to get away with this and why the government aren't stopping them instead of handing out money.....
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Paul McCartney teaching “Let It Be” to John, George, and Ringo for the very first time. ❤️🎶
What a priceless behind-the-scenes glimpse of music history! ✨🎸
