SteveM59 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

I am not a robot.

"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." – George Orwell

[Richard @ricwe123]

What most people already understand, even without the economic terminology, is that firms like BlackRock operate less like investors and more like modern feudal landlords.

They buy essential infrastructure,water networks, ports, energy grids, data centres, and other public necessities, often using vast amounts of borrowed money and paying prices that ordinary market participants cannot match.

Once the acquisition is complete, the debt is pushed onto the acquired company itself.

The result is simple: the public pays.

Consumers repay that debt through higher water bills, rising energy prices, increased fees, and declining service quality.

The infrastructure becomes a cash-extraction machine.
Profits flow upward to shareholders and executives, while the financial burden flows downward to ordinary households.

When the model inevitably breaks down, the consequences are socialised. Communities are left with crumbling infrastructure, polluted rivers and failing services.
Thames Water's £14 billion debt mountain and repeated sewage scandals are a stark example of what happens when financial engineering takes precedence over public stewardship.

The executives who loaded the company with debt have already collected their bonuses.
The investors have already taken their returns.
And when the system finally reaches its breaking point, taxpayers are expected to pick up the bill.

Privatise the gains.
Socialise the losses.

That is the business model......

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

Remember this?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

A Melton Mowbray pork pie is pork, wrapped in pork fat, sealed with pork jelly. It was built to survive a day in the coat pocket of a man on a galloping horse.

The pastry is like no other. You boil water with a block of lard until it melts, pour it hot into the flour, and work it while it is still warm. The result can be raised by hand into a tall case that will stand up on its own. It bakes as hard as a tin.

The filling is fresh pork, chopped with a knife, with nothing added but salt and pepper. It cooks grey, the colour of a roast, and a real one is never pink.

Then comes the clever part. As the meat cooks it shrinks away from the crust and leaves a gap. So when the pie comes out of the oven, hot stock made from boiled trotters is poured in through a hole in the lid. It sets into a jelly that fills every space and shuts out the air. That is what makes the pie keep.

It was the food of the hunting field. The grooms and riders of Leicestershire needed something that would not fall apart at a fence, and from the 1830s Melton was sending them to London by stagecoach.

And the pork was there for a reason. The same countryside makes Stilton. Cheesemaking leaves gallons of whey, and whey fattens pigs. The cheese fed the pig, and the pig became the pie.

The recipe has been protected by law since 2009.

Every part of it breaks a modern rule. It is also a complete meal you can eat with one hand, that needs no fridge and no packaging, and they solved it 200 years ago with a pig.

[Adam Cherry @_adamcherry_]

Six of the seven Treasury ministers have a spouse, partner or family member in the Civil Service. Emma Reynolds is the only exception.

Another eleven ministers across government declare Civil Servant relatives, including Shabana Mahmood, Diana Johnson and Baroness Ramsey, who each have two.

Any taxpayer hoping Healey will take an axe to a bloated Whitehall next Wednesday might want to bear this in mind.

https://t.co/61yPAO9OJU

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

His video will be in the Oscars 🏆
-Best foreign film

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

SNATCH (2000) has Vinnie Jones delivering one of the most effortlessly intimidating performances as Bullet Tooth Tony. Watching him dismantle the pawn shop robbers’ confidence then casually explaining the consequences, is Guy Ritchie at his sharpest.

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports claim Kim Jong Un may have "secretly died" in China.

[Pierrick Chevallier | IA @CharaspowerAI]

The hero we didn't know we needed these past few days. 🦸‍♂️🔥
Absolute legend.

Haters will say it's AI. 💀😂

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😳 Bizarre scenes during Brentford vs Liverpool on Saturday, as a supporter attempted to boot a RUGBY BALL onto the pitch from the roof of a nearby building.

Brentford have since released a statement condemning the dangerous incident and confirmed that the matter has been referred to the police.

The club are now assisting authorities in identifying those responsible, with potential criminal proceedings to follow. 😬

[David Ornside @David_Ornside]

🚨𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The premier league committee has guaranteed the 19 premier league teams that Manchester city will be relegated to the championship at the end of this season by point deduction.

There will also be a 3 season ban on transfers for the club.

[FullTime Report @FullTimeX_]

🚨𝗠𝗔𝗝𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The premier league are set to deduct 70-80 points from Manchester city at the end of the season which will guarantee their relegation to the championship.

The premier league committee are still working on the years of transfer ban to issue to man city.

[Chris @APchris06]

#BalanceTonPilleur #Nice06

[Bad Hombre @Badhombre]

This is White liberal woman Helen Haines, an Australian Member of Parliament. She has repeatedly called for more cultural diversity in Australia, saying “we need to welcome people of all faiths and corners of the world.” She has supported efforts to resettle Afghans and Palestinians across Rural Australia.

Today she was run over outside her office by a 43-year-old man in a Toyota Land Cruiser. He had a knife on him and the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack. Police are not sharing the suspect’s name.

She is currently in the ICU fighting for her life.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

It’s wrong on all counts. I would no more depend on the BBC’s coverage of France than I would Putin on Russia.

[Direct Brut @DirectBrut]

🇫🇷 MARSEILLE - SCÈNE INCROYABLE 😲

Des jeunes ont été poursuivis par les forces de l’ordre jusqu’au toit du Centre Bourse lors de la mobilisation du 17 octobre.

Trois d’entre eux ont réussi à s’échapper en dévalant la toiture en pente.

Un quatrième, sorti par la porte d’accès au toit, a été matraqué par les forces de l’ordre.

[Saif @diol2n]

رجل بريطاني يدعى غافين (38 عام) كان مسجون بتهمة السطو وسرقة منزل، لكن بسبب اهمال المسؤولين تقرر الافراج عنه مبكرا رغم سلوكه الخطير

وبعد اقل من 24 ساعه من خروجه سرق سيارة وبدأ يقودها بسرعه جنونية وهو يردد بأنه المسيح وانه من نسل الله، بعد مدة فقد السيطرة واصطدم بالمنزل، توقفت امرأة لمساعدته فقام غافين بسرقة سيارتها ليكمل جنونه

اصطدم مرة اخرى وسر�� سيارة اخرى بعد ان دخل لمنزل ام مع ابنتها ورسم صليب على وجههم واخذ مفتاح سيارتهم، وهو يرجع للخلف بالسيارة دهس مسن يدعى تيري رادفورد (87عام) وصرخ قائلا: لقد قتلته، لقد قتلت الشيطان

اخيرا اصطدم بشجرة وتمكنت الشرطة من القبض عليه، وحكم عليه لاحقا بالمؤبد، وفي عام 2024 تم محاسبة الثلاث مسؤولين الذين سمحوا بالافراج عنه

اللوم كله على اللي يطلع شخص غير سوي مثل غافين من السجن وهو عارف ماضيه الاسود

[The Sun Football ⚽ @TheSunFootball]

BREAKING: Man City ‘set for huge points deduction that will relegate them to Championship and keep them there for TWO SEASONS’ https://t.co/vPOw8DuKPO

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

EXCLUSIVE: Man City to face HUGE points deduction which will guarantee relegation

[Mahyar Tousi @MahyarTousi]

The French government will soon launch a crackdown to identify the foreign rioters to arrest them days from now. It’s difficult for them to arrest during the riots. They will go after them later.

The problem is, the foreign criminals are now making their plans to get on small boats to get to England. Macron will allow them to leave France. They will soon be in the UK. The same barbarians.