Jasmine Birtles

IT BEGINS. A Greek court has ordered the state to pay €300 000 compensation to the family of a woman who died from the Astra Zeneca c*vid vaccine. The court held the state responsible because the vaccination campaign was part of public health policy.

Digitalisation is “for your convenience.” - try explaining that to the 3 million people who are not online in the UK. The majority (67%) are aged 70 or over. The digitalisation of everything is creating digital exclusion for millions of people - in particular, our elderly.

Keir Starmer has just prorogued parliament meaning NO PMQ's next week Also next week the Ukranian rent boys are due in court on Monday It's obvious what is going on

The fact that so many people are subserviently putting up with the UK having the highest ever tax burden & paying taxes to the government to destroy people’s lives and transferring our money to their corporate cronies is absolutely mind blowing. Modern day robber barons.

The UK just issued £15 billion of debt in a single day. The largest gilt issuance in British history. At the highest yield in nearly twenty years. That yield is not a number. It is the bond market's verdict on Britain. It is saying we will lend to you but we want more return because we do not trust where this ends. The 30 year gilt is now at 5.49%. The government will be paying that rate for thirty years. On debt it is taking on today to pay interest on debt it took on yesterday. That is not a fiscal strategy. That is a country that has run out of road. And is borrowing to pretend otherwise. The bond market always knows first. It knew in 2022 before Truss resigned. It knows now, and so does Bitcoin...

📽️THE TANKER There's an extraordinary race underway on the high seas, as nations vie to secure increasingly scarce shipments of fuel. In our latest on the economics of this conflict we track one such ship & ask: why is Britain so exposed? The answer is not v reassuring. Watch👇