David Luther Thomas

[Mr Nobody 🍀🌏✈️ @LeftyCelt]

@GoodLawProject

[Damian Hastie @DamianHastie]

Strange that a Thai based billionaire can register to vote at a farmhouse that he doesn't own and doesn't live in, so he can keep funding the party he doesn't own, in an attempt to stop foreign based people who don't live here coming in 🤷

[Alway Football Club @AlwayFC]

Anyone available Saturday 4th , need an away fixture 🙏🏼 . Happy to split costs

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Apparently @elonmusk finds it embarrassing that his own Grok Baby called him the number one source of misinformation on X

So please don’t share this to far and wide 🙏

[Rt Hon. Will || Portfolio for Sarcasm (parody) @colder_sarcasm]

The Americans cry about people in the U.K. being arrested for tweets.

At least we don’t get arrested for touching a pond!!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The greatest trick coffee pod companies ever pulled was convincing people to pay more for cheap coffee wrapped in trash.

Tens of billions of single-use coffee pods and capsules are used every year. Many are made from mixed plastic, foil, aluminum, filters, lids, and wet coffee grounds, which makes them annoying or impossible to recycle through normal curbside systems. Even the 'recyclable' ones often require special collection programs most people don't have easy access to.

The pod gives you one cup of coffee, then leaves behind a tiny piece of manufactured garbage that may outlive you.

A French press, drip maker, moka pot, pour-over, percolator, or reusable pod can make coffee every morning without throwing away a plastic capsule every time you wake up. The grounds can go in your compost.

This is one of those environmental swaps that is not complicated. You don't need a lifestyle overhaul. You don't need to become a coffee snob. You just need to make the switch.

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

🚨🇬🇧 ANALYSIS: Tommy Robinson Inc.

Tommy Robinson raised millions from the public, ran it through companies that never filed a single set of accounts, and dissolved them owing the taxman over £300,000.

Not filing accounts is a crime. No one stopped him.

People ask how he affords the lifestyle. Wrong question. Look at the paperwork.

Let's take a closer look 🧵⬇️

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

Closing verdict

The schoolboy he defamed, Jamal Hijazi, was awarded £100,000 by the High Court. Years on, he has not received a penny - Robinson's bankruptcy saw to that. The fundraising never stopped.

So: millions raised from the public. Companies that never filed accounts once. Several dissolved owing the taxman. A second name on two of them. A self-appointed liquidator. An open HMRC investigation.

People wonder how the lifestyle is funded. That's the wrong question. The documented question is simpler - where did the money go, and why was no one held accountable for it?

The paperwork is public. The accounts never were.

[HUMAN WA$TE @Dplanet]

What the tax actually points to

Tax specialist Dan Neidle, of Tax Policy Associates, ran the numbers. The corporation tax figure implies company profits of roughly £1.67 million.

His estimate: on a best-case reading, Robinson personally owes around £692,000 in income tax - close to £800,000 with interest. If HMRC finds the errors were deliberate, penalties push it into the millions.

[Source: Dan Neidle / Tax Policy Associates]

[David Luther Thomas @Dai_LT]

@johnmactravels Any idea what the capacity is now?

[Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar]

BREAKING: Craig Williams, who was parliamentary private secretary to Rishi Sunak, has pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to cheating at gambling with bets on the date of the 2024 general election.

[Politics Wales @PoliticalWales]

The objection to 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 devolution from Reform and the Welsh Conservatives is simple.

Both parties object to Welsh identity taking precedence over British identity.

The would not object to far reaching devolved powers for north Wales if it was joined to Manchester. Neither would they object to great autonmy for a greater Bristol region encompassing south east Wales.

Their objection is, and always has been - Welshness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.

[Angry Pict @SymbolStones]

The Hidden Financial Architecture of The Highland Clearances

The Highland Clearances are usually related as an economic story: private landlords, sheep, the logic of improvement. The financial architecture beneath them is rarely mentioned, if at all. The implication being that private landlords, many of them Scots, made a choice to remove their people, and the Anglo-British state was an innocent bystander.

It never was; it built the structure, and it enforced clearance - where necessary with legislation, and military force.

After 1746 the estates of defeated Jacobite elites were forfeited to the Crown. When they were returned, decades later, they came back restructured, and on strict terms - the families recovering them had to buy them back. This carried a repayment obligation to the state that had confiscated them. An estate carrying such debt had to be made to pay or it couldn't survive.

Clan heads were converted, by statute and by the imposition of debt, into commercial landlords, with a direct incentive to commercialise, and maximise what the land earned. Where sheep earned more than people, state imposed debt pointed toward eviction. Extraction and profit became the logic that replaced reciprocal obligation - the older, kin-structured duties that had bound chief and people together.

That mechanism isn't unique to Scotland; we see it in other colonial contexts. Defeat establishes colonial control; debt maintains it. A subdued elite is left in place and made dependent on a financial and debt pressures, and that elite then administers the extraction an occupying force would otherwise have to impose directly. Coercion moves from the visible to the structural - hidden, but still there.

It's the same logic later identified in the debt conditions placed on states emerging from formal empire after 1945: restored sovereignty on the surface, creditor discipline underneath. Another form of colonial control, under cover of plausible deniability.

Scotland is simply one of the earliest clear examples of this hidden mechanism - one that still binds many former colonies today.

[Marl Karx @BareLeft]

It's corporate welfare we should be cutting, not support for the poor, sick, and disabled.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Was Brexit all for nothing? 🤣

[SHIBBY32 @shibby3235]

@MikeLevin P L U N D E R.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Johnson flew to Poland en route to meeting Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

And Harborne didn’t just supply the jet. The leaked schedule notes he went too.

And he had his own interest in Ukraine. He was & still is the largest individual shareholder in UK defence company, QinetiQ
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[David Luther Thomas @Dai_LT]

@fooballcymru Pissed up England fan. I don't know why they just ejected him- they should have detained him and called the police to arrest him.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

They will NOT make a billionaire contribute to the basic needs of the community BUT they will make the whole community bear the electrical, water, and building costs of a data center owned by a billionaire.