Howard Turner

Ordinary chap. First Nation Brit. Lives near the English Lake District.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@Sinner7z @ariaradnia There have been cheaper options to Adobe for decades. People forget this.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@ariaradnia I think it has stood the test of time. It adheres well to the classic book, is compelling drama and the characters are sympathetic. There are many films whose CGI is outdated (Alien, Star Wars, Gladiator, etc) but they continue to stand up well.

[James Hanson @jhansonradio]

Do up your tie, put on a proper suit and sing the national anthem.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@SarahLongwell25 @anneapplebaum Integrity is everything. Especially in governance.

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Pro-Pals are mocking me because I’m angry our legal system keeps letting Hamas supporters off. Like it’s a game. Maybe it is to them but I watched my husband’s cousin be buried next to his daughter. Both murdered by Hamas. That’s why I am full of rage and why I will never stop.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

More bonkers on energy — despite solar doing its bit this fine sunny UK morning, wind is not. So almost 30% of the electricity we’re using is being imported. Not great for the balance of payments. We import more and more food. Now a huge chunk of electricity too. Brilliant.

[Israel Heart 🇮🇱 @heart_ISR]

Hamas had killed little Elin's younger brother and parents.

Today, she passed away due to her injuries and was reunited with them in heaven 💔.

She was laid to rest today.

Our hearts were broken the very day this happened.

May her memory live on forever.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@jk_rowling Female means the existence of two X chromosomes. It is as simple as that.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@AllisonPearson Burnham swapped Phillipson, a vindictive class warrior, as education secretary for Powell, an ingnoramus. The two aspects of the modern Labour Party summed up.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@timfarron Well done, Tim. There’s nothing more frustrating than an injury keeping you from running. Good luck.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@thomasknox Agree about Ulsterisation; visit, say, Blackburn and you’ll see it already. AI & robotics will be upwardly productively transformative tho make many flaccid and useless. Can’t see it resolving growing racial tensions esp as the scales fall from native Brits’ eyes.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Trump’s war on Iran is contributing to a looming global food crisis. And for what? I have no idea — The Andrew Neil Report.
https://t.co/WEVuigycVJ via @YouTube

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@afneil Such a smart guy who did such a stupid thing. Anyone with half a brain could see that Starmer and Reeves were incompetent frauds and the Labour candidates of 2024 simply not up to the job.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@ariaradnia *CX Enterprise.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@ariaradnia Adobe sets the standards for the design industry long term and is going a lot higher. Talk to almost any professional designer - which is where the revenue is. And that’s before we factor in the massive potential of CX Studio and related apps, largely ignored by commentators.

[Big Time Charlie @shadowcanman]

🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧THE GREAT BRITISH LEDGER: A STATEMENT OF INTENT

Britain has an extensive public record, but a remarkably poor public memory.

The information exists. It is simply fragmented.

Companies House records sit in one place. Charity accounts sit in another. Parliamentary interests, government contracts, court judgments, grants, council records, political donations and institutional archives are spread across hundreds of separate systems.

A member of the public can spend days establishing something that ought to take minutes.

The Great British Ledger is being built to change that.

It will be one website, one database and one historical record.

Its purpose is to establish, preserve and connect the public record concerning the people, organisations, money and decisions that have shaped modern Britain.

Our initial research is concentrated heavily on immigration and asylum, but the database itself will not be divided into separate projects. Its value comes from connecting records that are currently treated as unrelated.

WE WILL GO BACK DECADES

The principal historical timeline will begin in 1997 and continue to the present.

That will not be an arbitrary cut-off. Where an organisation, institution or financial relationship predates 1997, the research will go further.

Major organisations will be traced back to their foundations where the records permit it. Historic trustees, directors, executives, funding, contracts, offices and institutional relationships will be retained.

For some institutions, this will produce considerably more than thirty years of searchable history.

The Ledger is intended to measure time in decades rather than news cycles.

WE WILL DOCUMENT THE PEOPLE

The database will cover relevant politicians, peers, councillors, trustees, directors, NGO executives, lawyers, barristers, advisers, campaigners, contractors, researchers and public officials.

It will record their relevant professional appointments, employment, trusteeships, directorships, declared interests and institutional relationships.

Inclusion will not constitute an allegation of misconduct. It will mean that a documented relationship forms part of the public record.

WE WILL DOCUMENT THE ORGANISATIONS

The database will cover charities, NGOs, foundations, campaign groups, law firms, think tanks, contractors, subcontractors and public bodies.

For each organisation, we will establish who founded it, who governed it, who worked for it and who funded it.

We will record the public money it received, the contracts and grants it obtained, its declared political relationships and its involvement in relevant campaigns, policy work and litigation.

The purpose is to put information that currently requires dozens of searches into a coherent institutional record.

WE WILL FOLLOW THE MONEY

Financial relationships will be recorded as precisely as the evidence allows.

Government contracts will be connected to the organisations receiving them. Subcontracts will be connected to the principal contractors where they can be established. Foundation and National Lottery grants will be connected to their recipients. Political donations and declared benefits will be connected to the relevant people and organisations.

The amount, date, recipient and stated purpose will be recorded wherever those facts are available.

This will allow users to establish where money originated, where it went and what it was intended to fund.

WE WILL DOCUMENT POLITICAL RELATIONSHIPS

The Ledger will incorporate parliamentary interests, donations, APPGs, sponsored staff, hospitality, travel, appointments and other relevant declared relationships.

These records are already public, but they are rarely presented alongside the organisations and financial relationships necessary to understand them properly.

The Ledger will provide that context without asserting that a documented relationship proves improper influence.

WE WILL DOCUMENT THE LAW

Significant publicly documented immigration, asylum and human-rights litigation will form part of the database.

Records will identify the case, the organisations involved, the solicitors and barristers where publicly recorded, the judges, the principal arguments, the judgment and the eventual outcome.

Where a judgment is available, the judgment will be treated as the authoritative account of what the court decided.

WE WILL MAP ORGANISATIONAL LOCATIONS

Publicly listed offices and relevant operational premises will be recorded geographically.

Users will be able to establish which organisations have operated in particular towns, cities and regions and how those locations have changed over time.

Private residential addresses will not be published. The purpose is to document institutional activity rather than private lives.

THE DATABASE WILL BE SEARCHABLE BY PERSON, ORGANISATION AND PLACE

A user will be able to search for a person and examine their documented professional and institutional history.

A search for an organisation will show its leadership, historical leadership, funding, public contracts, grants, publicly listed offices and relevant political or legal relationships.

A search for a funder will show the organisations it has funded and the amounts and dates that can be established.

A search for a court case will provide the judgment and the relevant participants and organisations.

A town or postcode search will identify relevant publicly documented organisations, offices, grants, contracts and institutional activity associated with that area.

The user will then be able to move between those records rather than conducting an entirely new investigation for every connection.

THE LEDGER WILL PRESERVE HISTORY

Organisations change over time, and those changes matter.

People change jobs. Trustees and directors are replaced. Offices move. Funding relationships begin and end. Contracts are awarded and expire. Organisations merge or close. Governments and policies change.

The database will preserve those historical states rather than simply displaying the latest information.

A user examining an organisation in 2026 should therefore be able to establish who was running it in 2016, where its money came from, which offices it operated and what relevant relationships existed at that time.

EVERY CONNECTION WILL REQUIRE EVIDENCE

Primary records will be preferred wherever they exist.

The principal sources will include Companies House, the Charity Commission, the Electoral Commission, Parliament, Registers of Interests, government procurement and spending records, council records, court judgments, annual accounts and grant databases.

Institutional publications, archived websites and public professional records may be used as supporting evidence.

Important factual assertions will link to their underlying sources. Records will carry verification dates so users can distinguish current information from historical information.

ERRORS WILL BE CORRECTED

People and organisations will be able to challenge factual inaccuracies and provide evidence.

Where the database is wrong, it will be corrected. A transparent correction history will preserve what changed and why.

Disagreement with an interpretation will not alter the underlying primary evidence. Readers will be able to inspect that evidence and reach their own conclusions.

This distinction is essential.

The Great British Ledger will not determine that somebody is guilty because they worked for an organisation, received a declared donation, represented a client or participated in a campaign.

It will establish what happened, when it happened and what reliable evidence supports it.

Britain already publishes an extraordinary quantity of information about its institutions. The difficulty is that the information is dispersed across millions of pages, filings, accounts, registers, judgments and archived websites.

The Great British Ledger will bring those records together and make the relationships between them searchable.

That is the project.

One website. One database. One historical record. For the people of Great Britain.

If a factual claim cannot be evidenced, it does not belong in the Ledger.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@KateClanchy1 Thank you, Samreen. I feel for you and I wish you freedom, and peace.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@WeirdContrarian @ariaradnia Yes, but they can’t do all the other things that Adobe can and they don’t have Adobe’s synergistic ecosystem. Adobe have ALWAYS had competition while remaining the market leader for decades.

[Howard Turner @HowardTurnerGoS]

@FennellJW He certainly did his best to undermine the outstanding Air Vice Marshal Keith Park. Quite an upstart.