Ian Rex-Hawkes

Apparently the world might get its first trillionnaire today. That means that if he spent $1 million a day and got no return on his wealth, he wouldn't run out of money until 4763. How on earth does it make sense for someone to have that much wealth when there are people struggling to find food?

US government criticises UK police for 2 tier policing? Would genuinely like them to consider how many of their own citizens have been killed by their police in recent years before they judge anyone else. We're not perfect, but they're far worse.

Definitely an interesting way for the Greens to decide not to stand a candidate against Burnham... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Genuinely insane that Starmer gets to impose a 3 line whip on Labour MPs to force them to vote against a motion that would see him referred to the Standards Committee to investigate whether he acted improperly regarding what he told the House about Mandleson. Our system has problems...

A bit of advice to #Reform politicians - if you are not invited to speak at a student event, take it on the chin like a grown up and move on with your life. Don't threaten the university, because that makes you look like a bunch of petulant children rather than supposedly serious statespeople.

Bitcoin was trading at $126k in October and now trades at less than $64k. Which price is closer to the correct fair value, and why? My view: there's no intrinsic value to bitcoin, so the fair value is actually closer to $0 than anything, so my view is that today's price is closer to correct.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Does Trump seriously think that dealing with China is more dangerous than dealing with the US at the moment? As far as I'm aware, China hasn't recently threatened us with tariffs just for stating that we respect our allies' sovereignty.

Trump is suing the BBC for defamation. Defamation requires a demonstrable harm to one's reputation. What harm could anyone do to Trump's reputation that he hasn't done to himself? Complete non-starter, even before you consider the lack of jurisdiction that Florida has over the UK broadcaster.

Sickening that 96 elected MPs voted yesterday to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights. Every single one of them should either resign or be voted out, because people shouldn't forget someone voting to essentially make them non-human.

There's a lot of people referring to the government's announced and proposed tax changes as either communism or socialism, which leads me to conclude that there are a lot of people in the country who don't know what communism or socialism are.

Is this what politics has come to? Seeming Labour supporters criticising Ed Davey not for his policies or his antics but because his name can be said as "Little Davey"? If that's the best you've got, you've got nothing substantial, and shouldn't ever vote on any issues that are actually substantial

Wow, 31 Reform councillors have either resigned or been kicked out since May. Surely this is some sort of record? www.markpack.org.uk/175342/how-m...

So, ID cards. I can understand why some people would be opposed to them on the grounds of data security, but the biggest uproar I've seen seems to suggest that people are worried the government is going to spy on them. What are they doing that's so interesting, and how can I get involved?

Right wingers, can you please clarify what freedom of speech actually means? Because if it doesn't apply to lies and the government can step in over mistruths,I have some really bad news for you regarding some of the claims made by your heroes.

Time for comedians all around the world to really double down on calling out trump for his attacks on free speech and free press. This latest is a further descent into the realm of absolute tyranny, and it absolutely breaks what the US was supposed to stand for.

I have a bald patch. Not a natural one, the doctor just shaved a bit of my head so they could more easily get to my scalp. The joys of neurosurgery!

Signed - can't imagine it will actually change the minds of the Labour leadership, but at least it'll be another bit of evidence that they are ignoring the wishes of their party membership and the country as a whole for their own foolish reasons.

“He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain.” - Boris Johnson

I wrote an article about Ponzi Schemes, what they are, why they fail and how to avoid them. If you're interested, it's here: aegisfinancial.ltd/too-good-to-... #Scam #Investment #Finance

I've seen a few questions about #WealthTax on here, so I've tried to put together my thoughts in an article. Have tried not to be political, but just to talk about the features and consequences of the tax. aegisfinancial.ltd/wealth-tax-a...

I wrote this post on LinkedIn regarding something the Chancellor said in passing during her Mansion House speech earlier today. It might sound like a minor issue, but 6.7% average return and 9% average return are very different, and finance professionals wouldn't be allowed to get away with it

If the original Magna Carta was kept in another country because at some point we got invaded and the original was sold to a collector as a curiosity, I imagine we would be quite keen to get them back. The Parthenon Marbles are more than twice as old. That's why they matter to Greece.

Apparently staying that I think there is wealth inequality and that steps ought to be taken to try to improve that inequality make me a communist, a Marxist and a dickhead. Sadly that's all from LinkedIn, not Twitter.

You got 34% of the vote, Starmer. Given how bad the last Tory government was and the interference offered by Reform, that doesn't make you some sort of political genius. If anything you should have done much better given the circumstances, but you only got 34% of the vote.

New analysis of the 2025 local election results: This year we saw the lowest ever average winner’s share of the vote at 40.7%, including 75 candidates who were elected with less than 30% of the vote. The system isn't working. It's time for Proportional Representation.

Today I took my son swimming, and realised with horror when I was about chest deep that my phone was still in my pocket. Needless to say, the phone was soaked and is now having a few intermittent stability issues (much like me in some ways) Still mostly working though, which is surprising.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Sadly McDonnell has been left behind by Labour's shift to the right. I suspect that this veteran Labour MP will witness the complete collapse of his party because of its leadership's unwillingness to actually be as progressive as they have been saying they are

Farage's manifesto would be an economic disaster, but has Badenoch forgotten that Liz Truss was the Conservative PM? It's not like he mini-Budget worked out particularly well or demonstrated any economic competence.

Line up all the good Labour have done, and it doesn't even begin to net off against the bad. Some of the stuff on this list is unforgivable, period.