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NEW 🔴🧨
Our highlights for 2021
Tough year.
Covid has exacerbated the cracks in the system.
The Uk gov has increasingly shown its authoritarian tendencies while trying to avoid scrutiny
So, 🙏 for being there: with your growing support, we have kept holding power to account.
Our highlights for 2021
Tough year.
Covid has exacerbated the cracks in the system.
The Uk gov has increasingly shown its authoritarian tendencies while trying to avoid scrutiny
So, 🙏 for being there: with your growing support, we have kept holding power to account.
1. JANUARY
We discovered Cronysm at the highest level and how the Covid pandemic has been a bonanza for some, while the country was on its knees.
We discovered Cronysm at the highest level and how the Covid pandemic has been a bonanza for some, while the country was on its knees.
2. FEBRUARY
We found a new government Covid19 contract linked to a friend of #MattHancock, whose husband donated £5,000 to the Health Secretary.
The first of a long series of investigations exposing a Covid Vip lane of lucrative contracts to Tory donors.
We found a new government Covid19 contract linked to a friend of #MattHancock, whose husband donated £5,000 to the Health Secretary.
The first of a long series of investigations exposing a Covid Vip lane of lucrative contracts to Tory donors.
1.
#DAZN #Matchroom
#disruption #sport
#Legacy v's #PurePlay specialists
This week #EddieHearn announced the worst kept secret in sports broadcasting - He's taking his show, Lock Stock, to Mr #Blavatnik first-mover streaming service.
#Thread with a different perspective...🧐
#DAZN #Matchroom
#disruption #sport
#Legacy v's #PurePlay specialists
This week #EddieHearn announced the worst kept secret in sports broadcasting - He's taking his show, Lock Stock, to Mr #Blavatnik first-mover streaming service.
#Thread with a different perspective...🧐
2.
This is exciting for #Sports fans - Especially #boxing
Lower cost access
More shows
Bigger production
Interesting, it's announced a week after #SundayTimes named the owner of #DAZN as the richest man in the UK (again)!
That rich list is an good starting point to explore
This is exciting for #Sports fans - Especially #boxing
Lower cost access
More shows
Bigger production
Interesting, it's announced a week after #SundayTimes named the owner of #DAZN as the richest man in the UK (again)!
That rich list is an good starting point to explore
3.
We're living through changing times;
Technology
Business
Societal
Cultural
Political
GeoPolitical
What's that got to do with #DAZN & #Sport 🤔
Well, Sport & #Entertainment is big business 💰
It's also used by powerful people to influence Hearts & Minds...
#Sportswashing
We're living through changing times;
Technology
Business
Societal
Cultural
Political
GeoPolitical
What's that got to do with #DAZN & #Sport 🤔
Well, Sport & #Entertainment is big business 💰
It's also used by powerful people to influence Hearts & Minds...
#Sportswashing
Congrats to @MarcusRashford who leads @thesundaytimes #GivingList 🔥
But it's time for the Crony Times #GivingList. Companies who GAVE to the Tory party, and RECEIVED a Covid contract!
We and @BylineTimes found 57 people who donated £1BN. Full story 👇
bylinetimes.com/2021/03/29/map…
But it's time for the Crony Times #GivingList. Companies who GAVE to the Tory party, and RECEIVED a Covid contract!
We and @BylineTimes found 57 people who donated £1BN. Full story 👇
bylinetimes.com/2021/03/29/map…
1. Computacentre:
💸Won £200,000,000 in Covid contracts
💸Donated £110,000
Sir Philip Hulme co-founded the company, and he and his wife are Tory party donors. Hulme has featured on the Sunday Times #RichList in past years.
💸Won £200,000,000 in Covid contracts
💸Donated £110,000
Sir Philip Hulme co-founded the company, and he and his wife are Tory party donors. Hulme has featured on the Sunday Times #RichList in past years.
2. Meller Designs:
💸Won £163,000,000 in Covid contracts
💸Donated £60,000
Owner David Meller was previously the finance chair for Michael Gove’s leadership campaign in 2016.
💸Won £163,000,000 in Covid contracts
💸Donated £60,000
Owner David Meller was previously the finance chair for Michael Gove’s leadership campaign in 2016.
PRIZE TIME: This year's @thesundaytimes #RichList is here. They missed some stuff. Can you guess what?
Time for a quiz!
A winner will receive a print of our #CronyVulture ... like and share to enter!
📸 from the amazing @jealous_gallery
Time for a quiz!
A winner will receive a print of our #CronyVulture ... like and share to enter!
📸 from the amazing @jealous_gallery
Who gave a £14.4m PPE contract to a “horse-racing friend” whose company had never made PPE before? (Clue: they had to give the money back)🐴
Correct Answer: Matt Hancock
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/fri…
bylinetimes.com/2021/02/10/fri…
Despite a laughable conclusion that insists we need the "ambition and optimism" of the filthy rich for "our" economy "to take flight again", the preamble to @thesundaytimes #richlist 2020 understands that the greed of the super-rich is indefensible:
@thesundaytimes #richlist 2020 writes: "Once a poster boy for entrepreneurs, Sir @richardbranson attracted considerable scorn for seeking a £500m government loan to save @VirginAtlantic.
Commentators soon highlighted that @richardbranson had paid no personal tax in the UK for 14 years. But the largely unnoticed point is that over the past seven months he had enjoyed a windfall of well over £500m from the stock market float & soaring share price of @virgingalactic
It's that time of year when Scotland's #richlist comes out revealing how inequality is rooted in power, not any nonsense about hard word, innovation, etc.
The one at the top of the pile, the Gordon-Grant family, is the perfect example of this.
THREAD
commonspace.scot/articles/14225…
The one at the top of the pile, the Gordon-Grant family, is the perfect example of this.
THREAD
commonspace.scot/articles/14225…
The Gordon-Grant family have been doing very, very well. No family’s wealth in the whole of the UK had grown faster since the #richlist began, a whopping 5,000% increase in 29 years.
This year the rich list informs us that the family’s wealth has more than doubled in just the past six years, up from £1.4 billion in 2013 to £2.9 billion today. The increase from 2018 to 2019 is an enormous £310 million.
