Mark Glennon

Social democrat, Labour member, BBC supporter, Keynesian and ITFC fan. Join a union!

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

There is no greater driver of economic growth than good public transport links. Look at the boom of the Elizabeth Line. People who whinge about the costs of it are just short-sighted morons. Ignore them and build everything. HS2. HS3. Crossrail 2. Trams in every city. Just do it.

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

No, platforms are finally recognizing that most humans enjoy doing human things. We like to read, write, make jokes, doodle, search for things to share, comment on things we see.

The ones salivating over AI are the same types who, in every generation, have looked for the easy way to take advantage of others while personally doing as little as they can. They’re the type who stole ration cards in the wars, who added chalk dust to infant formula, who stared over shoulders in school on exam day. They complain the world is hard and that they can’t get ahead, then chase one graft after another and blame everyone else for calling them thieves.

The platforms are finally waking up to the fact that what they’re doing with AI is catering to criminals and losers, the very type of people doing the very type of things the rest of us want nothing to do with. They’d have known this earlier if they weren’t built by those types of people in the first place.

[Matt Hero @matt_hero]

@Streettough That this isn't more widely understood is another major failure of the fourth estate.

[Razor Marone @Streettough]

What exactly did the austerity enthusiasts think was going to happen?

[Marcos Agustín @marcosagusstinn]

🇪🇺🇺🇸 Europe must stop funding America’s growth.

🔸 50% of EU fund flows go to US markets vs 35% staying in the EU

🔸Cash and deposits: EU 31% vs US 13%

🔸 Europe needs an additional €750–800bn in investment every year to close its competitiveness gap.

Europe must earn their capital through tax incentives, public financial education and simple investment products that finance European companies.

Europe cannot keep falling behind in competitiveness while holding over €10tn in deposits and investing 65% of its market capital outside Europe.

[Amelia @amelia_tweetz]

Maybe I’m missing something, but doesn’t Google’s AI search hurt the very business that made Google successful? If people get the answer instantly, they’re less likely to click websites or even see the ads. How does that increase revenue?

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

😢 The tragedy of Britain has never been a lack of wealth or resources. We’ve had coal, steel, oil and gas, fertile farmland, world-class universities, scientific innovation and now some of Europe’s best renewable energy potential. There has always been more than enough to build a prosperous, secure society.

The problem has never been scarcity. It’s that too much of that wealth has flowed upwards instead of being shared more broadly.

Today’s divisions aren’t inevitable. They are the result of political and economic choices. Britain isn’t poor bc it had nothing to give. Britain is struggling because, too often, a small minority has captured the rewards while asking everyone else to accept less.

That’s the real tragedy of modern Britain: there has always been enough to share, but not enough willingness among those with the greatest power and wealth to do so.
@labourlewis @andyburnham

[Yorkshire Victor Meldrew+his dog @TheMeldrew]

Unbelievable, just when you think they can't sink any lower Sky news have doorstepped Count Binfaces family

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Here's a photo of Nigel Farage, convicted fraudster and criminal money-laundering expert "Posh" George Cottrell, and Russian asset Nathan Gill. And here's the Russian asset with his hand on the fraudster's shoulder. And just what was the money-laundering expert doing with Farage and Harborne, and why does Farage need a money-laundering expert as a close associate?

[Beosweyne @iggypopbarker]

I've just spoken to someone senior at IPSA. They confirmed to me that Farage has claimed well into 6 figures in expenses since becoming an MP, including in the last financial year.

Farage lied yet again.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

The Sunday Times has already reported that:

- Richard Tice's company broke the law by failing to pay at least £90k in tax

- That his shell companies failed to pay £100k of tax, benefitting his firm, which donated to Reform

- That he used a loophole to avoid £600k

He furiously denounced our reporting: now it transpires the web of companies was involved in transactions with George Cottrell and Cottrell's mother, who, we reported in our piece on Sunday, described herself in legal documents as a "retired stylist" - and has made £750,000 of donations to Reform.

[Chris S @chris_spencer04]

Over several years Tice donated £1.7m to reform through 'Leave means leave/ Britain means business' (the same company with a name change), but the accounts show only small values. In Oct 20 for example £990k was donated, but the accounts showed less than £30k of current assets.

[Gabriel Pogrund @Gabriel_Pogrund]

BREAKING🚨

The Telegraph reports George Cottrell's mother made a ***£1m*** payment to Richard Tice's company, half of which was donated to Reform

And that George Cottrell loaned £80K to Tice

We approached Fiona Cottrell about the above before our piece - she wouldn't comment

[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

[Benjamin Butterworth @benjaminbutter]

@Nigel_Farage You obviously cannot have a free and fair election that is paid for by one of the candidates standing. Farage knows this is bloody obvious and so is claiming he’d love to pay as nothing more than a cynical stunt to avoid being held accountable for the cost to taxpayers

[Jonathan Lis @jonlis1]

Maybe calling a publicly funded by-election for your own vanity with the cri de coeur of ‘people vs the establishment’ would work a bit better if you weren’t a fabulously rich ex-public schoolboy City trader who’s being funded by both a crypto billionaire and convicted fraudster

[David Henig 🇺🇦 @DavidHenigUK]

Farage is doing what fascists do. Claiming the "will of the people" or "his people" is more important than the law.

[Brendan May @bmay]

Exciting for Clacton voters that they're going to get to see their MP again for the first time since they last elected him.

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

Nigel Farage has no shame, no honour, no humanity

What about Jo Cox and David Amess when he keeps saying he is the MP who has received the most violence and hatred in British history!!!!

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

Nigel Farage: "I'm going to ignore the wishes of Henry Nowak's family and extract every ounce of political capital from their son's death".

Nigel Farage: "Leave my family alone"