Annie Shaw

@MerrynSW And he went to a grammar school!!!! 😜

Be sat. It's hopeless isn't it.

@John_Stepek The Blair Which Project?

@John_Stepek Great headline in the Mail, which somewhat sums up the situ: "If bringing back Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman is Starmer's answer, then what on earth is the question?"

Starmer demonstrates his commitment to recycling in response to the threat from the Greens

@alexgroundwater @John_Stepek

@John_Stepek 🤣👏🏻 But seriously… Gordy the Destroyer… this can only be punishment for yesterday 😱

@Frances_Coppola @JasonDJudge

@JasonDJudge What is this supposed to achieve?

Really?

Unless you’re AIP-maxxing you’re going to get property-mogged

@paullewismoney It’s a vastly under reported scandal.

@MerrynSW *remembers wistfully the bag of groceries you got from Ranks Hovis McDougall as you departed after the rather good buffet*

We need more shareholder perks. Make physical AGMS with full lunch and wine compulsory. More discounts and gifts. Maybe even annual freebie lotteries. Make equity ownership feel real (and fun.. ). open.spotify.com/episode/3QWfi9…

Wot she said ⤵️ 👏

@paullewismoney Washington renamed Trumpton? Now there's a thought 😉

What next? Renaming Washington? America itself?

@Almd1233 @BigJimStilton @rose1_scarlett Came here to say that but you beat me to it by 14 hours! 🤪

@BigJimStilton @rose1_scarlett Our Revels now are ended…

I guessed orange, but it was chocolate. I guessed toffee, but it was peanut. I guessed strawberry, but it was coffee. I was wrong on so many Revels.

@TheMehOffice Family member thought it was Spanish 😄

How dumb do you have to be to not understand how a beer brewed by the world’s 3rd biggest brewing company was able to launch into pubs across the country? It’s like saying that you don’t understand how Cadbury’s new chocolate managed to infiltrate every supermarket.

@TheMehOffice Gotta be parody. I was had for a sec there 😂

@TheMehOffice Mind boggling 😳. What an absolute plank.

Times journalist talks about the North as if she were discovering an Amazonian tribe. How can you be so ignorant of your own country that you end up sounding this surprised & patronising?

Happy Dave Brubeck Day to all those who celebrate daysoftheyear.com/days/dave-brub…

THE MAN THEY JAILED TO SAVE THE BANKS Tom Hayes @robilypj spent five and a half years in prison. He lost his marriage, his career, and a decade of his life. The Serious Fraud Office called him the ringmaster of a global conspiracy. The judge gave him 14 years to send a signal to the City. The signal the City received was: make sure it's a trader who goes down, not a bank. Libor is the interest rate that banks used to report daily, forming a benchmark that underpinned roughly 350 trillion dollars worth of loans and financial products globally. Hayes, a derivatives trader at UBS and Citigroup, was convicted in 2015 of nudging his bank's Libor submissions in directions that benefited his trading positions. His own bosses knew. Senior bank officials were doing the same thing at a far larger scale. The Bank of England was implicated in secret recordings. None of that made it into the jury's deliberations in any meaningful way. In July 2025 the UK Supreme Court unanimously quashed his conviction. The jury had been misdirected by the trial judge, the court found. Hayes had been denied a fair trial. The SFO said it would not seek a retrial. That last part is doing a lot of work. Because a retrial would require actually prosecuting the case properly. Which would mean the jury hearing about the senior bank executives. And the central bank. And the regulators who looked away. And that is apparently not in the public interest. BBC journalist Andy Verity @andyverity spent years documenting exactly this. His 2022 Radio 4 podcast The Lowball Tapes and his 2023 book Rigged laid out the evidence that the direction to push rates down was coming from the top of the financial system, not from one trader in Tokyo. The Criminal Cases Review Commission referred Hayes's case back to appeal shortly after publication. Journalism, doing the job regulators refused to do. Hayes has since sued UBS for 400 million dollars, alleging the bank deliberately fed false information to prosecutors and used him as a scapegoat to protect senior executives and reduce its own regulatory penalties. UBS declined to comment. One trader jailed. Fourteen billion dollars in fines distributed across the global banking system. Zero senior executives prosecuted. One BBC journalist who read the documents everyone else ignored. That is the complete ledger of accountability for the biggest interest rate fraud in financial history. Sources: Bloomberg @Bloomberg, BBC @BBC (Andy Verity @andyverity), Guardian @guardian, CNN @CNN, Fortune @FortuneMagazine, Fox Business @FoxBusiness and many others

@soniasodha Same here🙄

So all BBC freelancer payments have been made through a new system since 1 April, which requires freelancers to log in to "claim" the payment before it's processed. But no one has sent me a link to register on this new system yet so none of my payments can go through😵‍💫

It’s becoming an issue