Shane Swindells

Does that include the one behind Him?

HE EXPOSED A £2 BILLION BRIBE Lt Col Ian Foxley (@ianfoxley) was six months into his job as Programme Director for GPT Special Project Management (@Airbus), running a £2 billion UK-Saudi defence communications contract, when he stumbled on something he wasn't supposed to see. Millions of pounds were being funnelled through offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands to senior Saudi officials and members of the royal family. Millions more went on luxury cars and a prepaid villa for a Saudi National Guard general. No legitimate services. Just cash, quietly flowing, as it apparently had been since 1982. Foxley took it to the Ministry of Defence. The MoD took it straight back to GPT without telling him. GPT's Managing Director and HR Director, a senior Saudi Princess, then threatened to have him thrown in a Riyadh jail. A colleague drove him to the airport that night. He fled the country with the evidence and never worked in defence again. Back in London, his contract was terminated. The Serious Fraud Office (@UKSFO) eventually launched an investigation after he filed formal complaints in 2012. GPT pleaded guilty to corruption in 2021 and paid £28 million in fines. The judge confirmed the UK government had known about these kinds of payments since 1982, and described the corruption as going on for more than 45 years. Two GPT employees put on trial for paying the bribes were acquitted in March 2024 after their lawyers argued the payments had been authorised by the British and Saudi governments. The judge had already aborted the first trial after the MoD drip-fed disclosure to the SFO, revealing it had been concealing its own role for years. Foxley filed a civil claim against the MoD, the Department for Business and Trade, and Airbus in March 2024. In March 2026 the case went to the High Court, where the government and Airbus argued his claim should be thrown out for being brought too late. Their position: the man they allegedly helped expose, silence, and bankrupt for 14 years simply didn't move fast enough. His lawyers at Leigh Day (@LeighDay_Law) called this astonishing. Meanwhile, Airbus is bidding for SKYNET 6, a new multi-billion-pound UK military satellite contract. The government is apparently unconcerned. Ian Foxley prevented an estimated £170 million in further bribes, saved the British taxpayer millions, and helped trigger a prosecution that ended in a £28 million fine. His reward was unemployment, financial ruin, and a legal battle that is now in its 15th year. The system not just fail him. It turned on him, and it did so deliberately. Supported by @EndCorruptionUK | @LeighDay_Law | @WhistleUK Sources: @guardian | @thetimes

🚨BREAKING: OLLY ROBBIN’S DIDN’T JOIN THE FOREIGN OFFICE UNTIL 8th January 2025 - 2 WEEKS AFTER PETER MADELSON WAS APPOINTED US AMBASSADOR 🇬🇧 So WHY has Starmer FIRED Robbins❓ ROBBIN’S IS STARMER’S SCAPEGOAT SO HE CAN GET AWAY WITH IT AGAIN, DO NOT LET HIM - HE IS LYING❗️

@isdownapp Yes

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Just a pity we won’t be able to afford to use these new fantastic roads due to the cost of fuel!

So, as a doctor I can’t accept a plastic pen from a pharmaceutical company because it might influence my prescribing decisions, but MPs can accept thousands in cash from those who want to privatise the NHS and it won’t affect their decision-making??? CTFO thenational.scot/news/25967768.…

@DisrespectedThe Willingly Bring it on it would be super easy

Would you be able to do this?

@kiwi_angie @HospitalityTday @thetimes The only thing I would say is, they do still have all the banking and administration costs of Collecting those taxes for the Government. There’s no relief for that

@HospitalityTday @thetimes Rather disingenuous. VAT, PAYE, and Employee NI are not taxes suffered by a business. They are not part of the income or expenses of a business, they are collected by the business on behalf of HMRC.

Tim Martin: Wetherspoons is paying £1m tax per pub - @thetimes #TaxedOut thetimes.com/article/d7ea17…

@HospitalityTday @Longm8 @thetimes These numbers are complete Bollocks. The Duty is part of the Purchase price of the alcohol spoons buys. But it doesn’t actually pay the Duty, the brewers and other alcohol producers do. And they tend to be price takers and spoons are aggressive buyers who set price!

When your new Partner doesn’t have ANY Social Media! 😮 😱

@ive_arc 2

Can you guess who’s singing?

@redpillb0t @grok is this real

There's no way she said this out loud

Another. This is now happening every day in every town/city across the UK. This was a family run business, local produce, local jobs. @Keir_Starmer how can you sit by and allow your Chancellor to do this?

⚠️ UK supermarkets are using MISLEADING food labels to confuse shoppers and HIDE imported products behind British branding. The investigation EXPOSED Sainsbury's, Asda, Aldi, Morrisons, and others for vague or missing country-of-origin labels - and the government allows it‼️

The movie mash up we never knew we needed, until now. This is amazing 😂😂😂

In 70 seconds time Christmas will be truly magical for one and all, thanks to this Yuletide medley by Dermot Mulligan and Dermot O’Hare. Legend has it that Dermot Mulligan developed his impressive man boobs after a brief addiction to hormone replacement tablets. He often wears a turtleneck to accentuate them. Good day.

@bftwni I’m still about. Hope you are well. Happy Christmas

@shaneswindells I thought you had left here! Good to see you posting

This is incredibly powerful

I am the CEO of a $6.7 billion fintech company. Last year I replaced 700 customer service workers with AI. I called it "the future of work." The future arrived. It's worse. In 2023, we stopped hiring entirely. I announced it on stage. People applauded. Applause is how you know you've made a mistake. We partnered with OpenAI. I said "AI can already do all of the jobs that we, as humans, do." I said this publicly. Into a microphone. With my whole chest. We saved $10 million. I put that in the press release. Press releases are how you celebrate before the consequences arrive. Our employee count went from 5,500 to 3,400. I called it "efficiency." Efficiency is when you fire people and the stock goes up. For a while. The AI handled customer complaints. Customers complained about the AI. It couldn't do nuance. It couldn't do empathy. It couldn't do angry customers yelling about missed payments at 2 AM. Turns out those are the only customers who call. I started getting emails. From customers. About the AI. The AI was hallucinating payment plans that don't exist. It told one customer their refund was "processing in the astral realm." I don't know what that means. Neither did the customer. They posted it on Twitter. It went viral. Not the good kind of viral. The kind where Congress starts asking questions. My VP of Customer Experience scheduled a meeting. She asked if we could "reintroduce human elements." Human elements means people. People I fired. I said we'd "explore hybrid solutions." Hybrid solutions means admitting we were wrong. Without using the word "wrong." I did an interview with Bloomberg. I said "there will always be a human if you want." A human if you want. Like it's a topping. Like empathy is extra cheese. I announced a new hiring initiative. We're bringing back customer service workers. But not as employees. As gig workers. From home. No benefits. No stability. Like Uber. But for apologizing. I called it "flexible human infrastructure." That's not a real thing. But it sounds like one. The workers we fired are now contractors. Doing the same job. For less money. With no healthcare. I called it "the evolution of the customer experience." Evolution means we broke something and fixed it worse. But the word sounds forward-thinking. We spent $10 million to save $10 million. And ended up with angry customers, viral tweets, and a gig economy call center. I'm doing a keynote at Davos next month. The topic is "AI Transformation: Lessons in Leadership." I haven't learned any lessons. But I have learned to call them lessons. That's the same thing. In business.