Keir Starmer says he won’t shy away from “unpopular decisions” but it’s funny how the decisions are never unpopular to the super rich. After a decade of austerity, Labour’s “tough choices” can’t yet again fall on the working class. It’s time someone else made some sacrifices.

www.theguardian.com/world/articl.... Drastic but something has to curb illegal lets

Seville council can cut off water supply to illegal tourist flats, court rules

Six properties disconnected in past year but there are thought to be 5,000 unlawful apartments in Spanish city

Provisions for GDPR have been around for a while. Does HMRC have the computer systems to identify them and the staff to tackle the cases?

With such generous reliefs it’s a shame that the rules don’t require the claim to be signed off by a qualified accountant

The UK has lost £bn in R&D tax fraud. £100m of this was thanks to "tax specialist" firm Green Jellyfish. They hired unqualified creative writing graduates as "technical experts" and gave them briefings claiming that garden design was R&D. Thread with evidence:

It’s not a bee in my bonnet. Brexit is crap as I always thought it would be which is why I voted remain. But if we start making special rules for musicians, young people and other people who have good arguments for special treatment we risk reducing the clamour to Rejoin

That isn’t the Brexit that some people voted for. Why should some groups get special treatment based partly on age discrimination. We are where we are. Better to #Rejoin.

Privatisation was always about doctrine and profiteering, never about service

👇’UK trains running in 2021-22 were 74.3% on time, which is worse than the last days of British Rail when it was 89.6%.’ And British Rail had been run into the ground by the end, as the Tories prepared to flog it off. Privatisation = efficiency is a myth. Renationalisation can’t arrive soon enough.

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How to make the most of re-nationalising our railways

The government wants to renationalise railways. Will it be any better this time round? Two public transport experts on how to make it work

Variance is a much better term. In my 50s i realised that i'm on the autism spectrum. Although my life has been and is good, i do think things might have been easier if this had been identified years ago and credit given for the positive side of this variance rather than a focus on the negative