Peter Verney

🔴The Israeli army issued forced displacement orders for 29 towns and villages in Lebanon this morning while simultaneously bombing dozens of areas.

Israel says it won’t leave Lebanon, Syria, or Palestine. A genocidal, expansionist state can openly declare the intent to occupy three nations without generating a single headline in Western media.

A juror — a JUROR — in the Palestine Action case is now speaking at a rally in their support. 😵‍💫 This is the collapse of the apparatus of our freedoms. What is Britain becoming?

'Ego-driven lust' drives capitalism says Boris Johnson, who knows zilch about business, never understood it as a journalist, as a Mayor or as PM. He is simply wrong - in media ego sometimes does come first; BUT in business school, in boardrooms, in rooms where it happens, ego is a danger. What matters is analysis, risk, the numbers, humility and and a belief we can all work together in teams.

#الحرية_لمعمر_إبراهيم

Yesterday I was watching the news and former Defence Minister James Heappey was on, urging us to spend way more on defence. Then the presenter said, "Mr.Heappey who now works for a company that makes software for drones" Of course he does...it's a revolving door.

The full UK State Pension is now worth around £12,548 a year. That's less than half the earnings of someone working full-time on the National Minimum Wage, despite many pensioners paying taxes and National Insurance for 40, 50 or even 60 years. Yet every time the Treasury needs money, the same voices appear demanding the Triple Lock be scrapped. Why? State pension spending is forecast at around £154 billion this year, but that supports over 13 million pensioners, many of whom rely on it as their primary income. Meanwhile, billions continue to disappear into failed projects, government waste, bureaucracy, consultants, quangos and policies that deliver little value to ordinary taxpayers. The Triple Lock isn't some gold-plated luxury. It exists because politicians allowed the State Pension to fall behind for decades. Even today, a full State Pension is barely above the poverty line and is nowhere near a typical working wage. If politicians want to save money, start with waste, inefficiency and failed spending programmes. Leave pensioners alone. They worked, they paid in, they built this country and they deserve dignity in retirement, not another raid on their income.