Lee Porte

Does anyone apart from charity shops use the word 'pre-loved'? "I don't call it a second marriage, I prefer to say I have a pre-loved husband"

"Finally grasp the nettle and bring not just water but every critical asset that this country has, from data to health to housing, where people need it, under our control, owned by us" 🔥🔥🔥 @labourlewis.bsky.social says we need public ownership to tackle the risks facing this country

Lifestyle buyers of farmland have fallen to 11 per cent as farmer purchases hit a seven-year high.

If any journalists reporting on tech-startups or financial shenanigans want to contact me, I think I have a story about a soon-to-IPO company possibly screwing over its early employees.

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

Reform’s response to the Channel 4 doc: “Reform UK has a robust vetting process for prospective donors approved by the Electoral Commission.” The Electoral Commission’s riposte: “The Electoral Commission has not approved the donor vetting process for Reform, or any other party.”

So it looks like Reform policy chief James Orr has straight up broken the law here. It's also exactly the same crime Farage has been accused of re: George Cottrell donating via his mother and which Parliament is currently investigating.

Meta has got a bit of a PR problem with its new product. Not only are Zuckerberg’s new glasses creepy, they’re also not very good ✏️ Matt Muir

So having shit for brains may not be so bad www.newscientist.com/article/2531...

1. This short thread is about the issue that dominates almost every aspect of politics, and causes or exacerbates most of our problems: the extreme wealth of a small number of people. Here’s the amazing thing: almost the entire political class aligns with the ultra-rich against the rest. 🧵1/10

Except when they question Nigel Farage☹️

Is there anything more relaxing than a purring cat on your lap?

Wealth taxes are back on the agenda – and Prof Richard Murphy shows why the data demands them. 200 years of evidence: capitalism funnels wealth upward unless govts intervene. So what's stopping them? His must-read analysis👇 @eastangliabylines.co.uk @richardjmurphy.bsky.social with thanks

On the day we celebrate the victory over German fascism in 1945, here's a message from a WWII veteran to those who would support German fascism today www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4Z...

Humnn, is that a kidnap kit on the East Midlands Railway train?

I'm pretty sure the output of global radio is the same www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sure. We're in this mess because we leaned too much on USA resources which left us unable to defend a European country against a nation with a tiny economy and tanks that get stuck in the mud. Why not spend what extra money we can find on the most expensive weapons which we never intend to use?

@jonty.bsky.social looks like this may have your name written on it www.rbauction.co.uk/pdp/1996-mer...

Brexit was a test run for politicians telling lies, it carried on without consequence Now social media companies are removing fact checkers What's the point of an Online Safety Act if it doesn't require platforms to filter out lies?

DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

I doubled my salary by leaving the Civil Service. I don't claim to have been a lynchpin or a massive talent, but I was one of a number of people who couldn't afford to stay. Technical ability & strategic thinking is undervalued compared to managerial & budgetary skills.

JONI MITCHELL: They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar an' a half just to see 'em TECH BRO: Sounds awesome but can we make it a monthly subscription

"The country needs conviction politicians, not politicians with convictions," says Kemi Badenoch, who has previously admitted to hacking and vandalising a Labour MP's website, which was an offence carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison #pmqs

Ignore his reality TV boll****. Join a union instead youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...

Looks like Starbug broke down in Basingstoke. Thankfully the AA are on hand to recover the ship!

Wait a minute, that’s just Bob Mortimer in a toupee.

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat, while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to figure out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it we put them on the cover of Forbes" and much worse, we excused them from having to follow laws, morals..

I'm definitely very tired today.

Some bloke just cycled past me whilst looking like Jimmy Saville. That's a brave look.

New sign fitted

Definitely a soup kind of day