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[F @F03148046]

The whole thing is dodgy as hell but I'm not sure "man suspected of crime and then apparently cleared by authorities" is something the left should be specifically pushing as a scandal

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

EXCL: The £5m gift to Nigel Farage by a cryptocurrency billionaire was reported to the National Crime Agency by bankers who were concerned it may have been laundered money - another big scoop by our @Annaisaac

https://t.co/hg41X5dwpr

[F @F03148046]

@GarrittyOf @zeynep Exactly. Making humanity stupid and relying on a fascist oligarch-owned cartel for everything can only be good.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Israel just bombed this

[F @F03148046]

@DanNeidle The triple lock fuss is a distraction from that obvious solution. The BSP is still cripplingly low and will be for decades.

[F @F03148046]

@DanNeidle My eternal hobbyhorse: if you care about the fiscal impact of pensions and intergenerational fairness, apply NI contributions to all income including pensions. It's insane that wages attract a much higher effective tax rate than pension income.

[F @F03148046]

@JimSmith1278 @Mangan87 @NoJusticeMTG Exactly! They don't even pay NI on their wages past pension age. It's outrageous. The triple lock fuss is a right-wing distraction from the NI issue.

[F @F03148046]

@willuminare @cymrurouge The specific tax issue to address is that we barely tax pensions! Raise the BSP and apply NI to pensions. Would raise billions and fixes the real intergenerational fairness issue: high income retired people paying half the tax rate we pay on wages.

[F @F03148046]

@NoJusticeMTG @stuartshakesby I've had "leftists" like @cezthesocialist blocking me for pointing this out, while they merrily join the right in trying to axe support for poor pensioners (and themselves in the future!).

[F @F03148046]

@NoJusticeMTG @stuartshakesby The generational fairness issue has nothing to do with the miserly basic state pension. It's that so many of today's pensioners have large private pensions and *we barely tax them*. Just apply NI to pensions. The BSP should be stepped *up*, not attacked

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

UK officials are still deepening relations with Israel amid the genocide.

Here is a Foreign Office director visiting Israel in a move aimed at “strengthening UK-Israel technology partnerships and expanding cooperation across innovation, research and emerging technologies.”

[Flying_Rodent @flying_rodent]

This is what’s happening, by the way. All these advisors aren’t only out there trying salvage their reputations and careers, they are fighting to establish the narrative that they failed due to ineptitude and not because the public were repulsed by their politics and policies.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

🚨 Months ago, The Intercept lost control of its Signal tip line to an unknown third party, which has been operating it actively.

The Intercept recently learned of the breach and posted the innocuous-sounding update below, chalking up a change in the Signal account username to "security best practices."

In reality, it's a devastating operational security collapse and The Intercept should publicly address it so that sources who may have been trying to leak to the outlet understand they may have been compromised.

Please share this post so potential sources become aware of the risk they may have been duped into. Details below:

[F @F03148046]

@KaiserLink03 @JustinStathers @owenjonesjourno @EthanCroft98 @meganekenyon Brown and Balls were the ones pushing terrible PPI deals rather than actual public investment, and refused to properly regulate the banks, which crippled the state in 2008. They were fools, utterly seduced by the finance industry.

[Ally Fogg @AllyFogg]

Seeing a lot of comments like ‘how can he be on Russia’s side if he’s also on Israel/USA’s side?’ and it seems to me this should be considered a very valuable teaching moment about how the world really works.

[Recovery in the Bin @RITB_]

Let's be clear about debanking.

Coutts is an exclusive private bank for the super wealthy, most people do not have this. They closed Farages account because he's a divisive racist & fascist, and they told him the reason. They didn't prevent access to his money, he was able to withdraw it and deposit it into another account.
"Tommy" aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is an unemployed grifting criminal.
Lloyd's is an ordinary high street bank, The Canary were given no reason, and denied access to funds, they have salaries to pay.
It's not the same.

[Benjamin Ryan @benryanwriter]

Don’t tell me about typos.

[F @F03148046]

@flying_rodent An alarming number of prominent online leftists seem to have bought the wholly rightwing argument that £12k a year is too generous.

[F @F03148046]

@EvanCull @flying_rodent Universal benefits are cheap to run and popular. Anything reserved for the poor gets squeezed to nothing.

The issue with pensions is that we barely tax them. Make pensioners pay NI and any fiscal issues are gone for decades. It's progressive, cheap to do, and raises billions.

[Matt Zarb-Cousin @mattzarb]

From the people who regularly remind you “Gordon Brown sold all our gold before the price went up” — you rarely hear them complain about Thatcher selling all our houses before they went up even more