My column on Thames Water
This is a test of UK capitalism. Owners knowingly took risks and mustn’t be bailed out. Sticking to these rules will enhance the UK’s reputation.
Bills will have to rise to pay for future investment.
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🎉🌼🌸April Fools! 🌸🌼🎉
Only kidding. Obviously, the people mentioned in the above tweets aren't women at all, but men, every last one of them.
In passing the Scottish Hate Crime Act, Scottish lawmakers seem to have placed higher value on the feelings of men performing their idea of femaleness, however misogynistically or opportunistically, than on the rights and freedoms of actual women and girls. The new legislation is wide open to abuse by activists who wish to silence those of us speaking out about the dangers of eliminating women's and girls’ single-sex spaces, the nonsense made of crime data if violent and sexual assaults committed by men are recorded as female crimes, the grotesque unfairness of allowing males to compete in female sports, the injustice of women’s jobs, honours and opportunities being taken by trans-identified men, and the reality and immutability of biological sex.
For several years now, Scottish women have been pressured by their government and members of the police force to deny the evidence of their eyes and ears, repudiate biological facts and embrace a neo-religious concept of gender that is unprovable and untestable. The re-definition of 'woman' to include every man who declares himself one has already had serious consequences for women's and girls’ rights and safety in Scotland, with the strongest impact felt, as ever, by the most vulnerable, including female prisoners and rape survivors.
It is impossible to accurately describe or tackle the reality of violence and sexual violence committed against women and girls, or address the current assault on women’s and girls’ rights, unless we are allowed to call a man a man. Freedom of speech and belief are at an end in Scotland if the accurate description of biological sex is deemed criminal.
I'm currently out of the country, but if what I've written here qualifies as an offence under the terms of the new act, I look forward to being arrested when I return to the birthplace of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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Michelle Mone & husband to appear on @bbclaurak Kuennsberg about FINALLY admitting they were involved in PPE Medpro? #bbclaurak
🔹What an INSULT to taxpayers.
🔹Mone and her husband have also been raided by, and are currently under investigation from, the National Crime Agency.
🔹Mone's husband also up on fraud charges in Spain related to another company.
🔹For 3 years Mone, through lawyers, has denied involvement, lied to and threatened numerous papers and individuals who said that she WAS involved.
🔹From Tory VIP PPE LANE contracts worth £203 million, her husband pocketed £65 MILLION - approximately a third of the contracts became profit.
🔹From there £29 MILLION reportedly transferred to an offshore trust in the name of Mone and her children
🔹The 2nd contract for £122m for PPE gowns is now going to court as the gowns were not fit for purpose and unusable.
🔹If Mone and husband lose, £130+million (inc interest and storage) will be REPAID to the taxpayer (DHSC).
🔹They want to keep the £65 million and NOT pay it back.
🔹🔹Mone has had to come clean now that the pre trial hearing has taken place & evidence presented
🔹🔹This is about money and nothing more.
@B31Bowden @MartinSLewis I think everyone agrees that pension should be increased to keep up with inflation. But the triple lock is a mechanism that goes above and beyond that, make pensioners better off than working people in the long term. And that is not fair, especially in such hard times.
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