Jonathan Taylor

@KarrinNorth12 @NadineDorries @netflix They haven’t been in control before, but at least the journalists interviewed them so what was presented was balanced albeit with the journalists bias. In this case, many haven’t even been asked to comment. We will see tomorrow, but of course it is worrying to them

@jontay44 @NadineDorries @netflix That they aren’t in control of the narrative in this documentary?

The #Letby ⁦@netflix⁩ documentary is nothing more than promotional exercise for Cheshire Police as the conviction they manipulated turns to dust before their eyes. The biggest justice scandal this country has ever witnessed. Read my column here ✍️ mol.im/a/15521465

@KarrinNorth12 @NadineDorries @netflix I think they maybe ‘freaking out’ because they know how little little consultation there has been with them and how much consultation there has been with those prosecuting… what might that imply?

@NadineDorries @netflix I don’t watch any of these Letby docs on the tele, but there must be something in this one that Letby’s current legal team are freaking out over - as why has Maltin PR got you all tweeting this stuff about it otherwise? Sounds a bit squeaky bum time! Maybe I will actually watch

@DebRoberts22249 @ContrarianJolly But on balance, wouldn’t it settle matters for the families who can’t be in a good place today?

@jontay44 @ContrarianJolly It would be good to expose the lies you're all telling, not so good for the families.

After ten minutes of @ContrarianJolly’s Substack podcast, I hit the line that really crystallises the whole problem with his worldview: “In eighteen months, the guilters, though resolute in giving no quarter, have barely fired a shot. All they have is the trial. That is their citadel. But try as they might, they cannot turn up any incriminating revealers beyond it. Nor can they find anyone with germane expertise to corroborate the expert opinions the crown presented at trial.” It’s an extraordinary claim, mostly because it collapses under the weight of its own irony. “All they have is the trial” is a sentence you only utter if you’ve decided in advance that the one place where evidence was actually tested - sworn testimony, contemporaneous records, cross‑examination, judicial oversight, jury assessment - is somehow the least relevant part of the entire case. And yet, what exactly does he think Letbyists have beyond the trial? A handful of speculative reinterpretations, a few remote commentators, and a rotating list of hypotheses that have never been scrutinised in any adversarial setting. That’s it. The trial isn’t a “citadel”. It’s the evidential record. It’s the reason we’re even having this debate. If there had been no trial, there would be no disagreement, no discussion - because there would be no alternative narrative for contrarians to retrofit themselves into. His reluctance to engage with the trial isn’t philosophical. It’s practical. The moment he actually reads what was presented, the scaffolding of his position buckles. And then there’s Shoo Lee - treated as if he were a one‑man Court of Appeal, despite offering hypotheses that remain exactly that: untested, unchallenged, and unexamined. Until those ideas face the same scrutiny that the Crown’s experts did, they’re not a counterweight to the trial. They’re merely commentary. So when he says “all they have is the trial”, what he really means is: the trial is inconvenient to the story he prefers, so he’d rather pretend it doesn’t matter. Maybe he thinks that Shoo Lee is more relevant than the trial, but he refuses to consider that until there is a Court of Appeal hearing or a retrial, Lee's hypotheses are just that, and remain unscrutinised, certainly not worth investing such premature faith in when in total denial of the trial itself.

@LBC @lewis_goodall @grok what proportion of students in England are expected to repay their student ‘debt’ before it is written off and how much does their career average earnings per year need to be to do this?

'This is not a progressive system, it's a regressive one.' @lewis_goodall explains how the student loan system has 'quietly shifted the burden' from higher earners onto those 'least able to bear it'.

@NotFarLeftAtAll Because you have made the numbers up?

Labour the party for the working class Keir Starmer net worth - £14 million Angela Rayner net worth - £4.7 million Sadiq Khan net worth - £5 million Ed Miliband net worth - £15 million David Lammy net worth - £5 million How have they become so wealthy

@ElonMusk_LordX Yes

@robprogressive Where do you propose the money should come from to pay for your bins to be emptied (amongst other local services)?

Council tax is actually wealth tax (for broke AND rich people) Why do I have to pay over £5,000 to have my bins emptied? Just because my house is bigger? Or in a different area? It’s the same ‘service’ whether your house is worth £200K or £2 million. Up to £5,835 a year to get your bins emptied. Oh, and if I ALREADY pay a national tax, why am I paying a local tax on top?

@BornonLoveStre1 @MerrynSW Or a pension

@MerrynSW Next up: don’t put your money into an ISA because you’re depriving the NHS, education of much needed funds … have I got this right??

And every penny you claim back for yourself or your favourite charity is a penny that doesn't go to the NHS, education, potholes etc. Maybe that's what you want. But best to think about it correctly.

@PJTheEconomist The person in their late 60s has presumably worked 40 years to get that state pension and their income will drop to an income of £12k within 5 years. The graduate(?) can expect to earn 42000 so will be somewhat better off even after paying their tax and NI

Note that a graduate in late 20s earning £30k pays a marginal rate of 37%: income tax + NI + loan repayment. Someone in late 60s earning £30k pays income tax at 20%. That’s all. And they’ll have a c£12k state pension.

@MerrynSW Sad that income from work for most people isn’t enough to live on isn’t it? Business is heavily subsidised by getting cheap labour which is subsidised by the universal credit system

The welfare bill is, give or take £10bn, now much the same as the income tax take. Pretty much every penny in income tax paid by these working people Reeves care about so much... goes to a welfare recipient.

@PensionsMonkey It doesn’t keep delivering because higher pension contributions by the employer will become contractual (hopefully) and it only applies to sacrifice

Pension salary sacrifice: "The policy results in an increase in NICs which is estimated to raise £4.7 billion in 2029-30 and £2.6 billion in 2030-31." Interesting the OBR doesn't expect it to keep delivering...

@donmcgowan EV charging through public charging was already more expensive than ICE and this does make it worse. But EV charging on cheap rate is still much cheaper than ICE

Labour has just killed the EV market stone dead. Billions on charging infrastructure wasted for clean driving. £360 would be added on my 12,000 miles last year. Absolutely ludicrous choice. EVs are now a white elephant. 🐘 This is counterproductive and counterintuitive.

@Matt_Pinner Matilda

Name ideas? 👵

@DebRoberts22249 You may be invested in truth but your focus this year has been on legal process not on the evidence. That’s my observation. I am not involved in Mark’s campaign (if it even exists as such) - this would be obvious if you analyzed my responses

@jontay44 Facts, Jonathan. I know that you are invested in McDonald's publicity campaign and the false narrative. It is nothing to do with legal process for either of you. Unfortunately for you, and unlike you, I am invested in the truth. You hate that.

@DebRoberts22249 I read your posts Deb because you used to include a focus on evidence to support the prosecution case, which was interesting to me. More lately, you seem more concerned about the sanctity of legal process than in justice. To me that is deflection.

@jontay44 I find it interesting that you are so focussed on what I focus on, rather than what I say in my articles and posts. Otherwise called deflection.

@Babygravy9 You are spouting racist rubbish

This is just insane. In the UK, just 9 million people contribute more in income tax than they receive from the government in welfare. The UK is basically South Africa at this point. A small rump of middle-class whites supporting a vast mass of people.

@UKHospKate @thetimes How much goes to the government from a pint at Wetherspoons that cost under £3?

Thanks to @thetimes for highlighting the true cost of a pint - the main beneficiary is Govt with £2 in a £5 pint being paid in tax to fund vital public services. But with just 2p left over, the pub landlord is literally #TaxedOut

@DebRoberts22249 @Courtwatch_Olly My source is not connected to the current defence team in any way. But it is hardly critical of Myers to say that his client refused to accept his advice

@Courtwatch_Olly @jontay44 Marky Mark who is at pains to say he will not criticise Ben Myers KC? But tacitly does so every time he opens his Lebyist mouth. Or should that be McDonaldist mouth?