Maggie
@galliccelt.bsky.social
Remaining hopeful that all the good people in the world will make themselves known & together save us from the despots (& ourselves!)
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Private equity struggles to value assets, sells assets to itself to pay investors.
Sold £79.2bn of assets to itself, to new entities under its control with money from new investors to pay earlier investors.
A ponzi scheme full of conflict of interests.
Sold £79.2bn of assets to itself, to new entities under its control with money from new investors to pay earlier investors.
A ponzi scheme full of conflict of interests.
PE firms sell assets to themselves at a record rate in 2025
Private equity firms sold companies to themselves at a record rate this year, using a controversial tactic
www.cityam.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Private equity struggles to value assets, sells assets to itself to pay investors.
Sold £79.2bn of assets to itself, to new entities under its control with money from new investors to pay earlier investors.
A ponzi scheme full of conflict of interests.
Sold £79.2bn of assets to itself, to new entities under its control with money from new investors to pay earlier investors.
A ponzi scheme full of conflict of interests.
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🎵10ème #BachFestivalGers
🎉#ConcertDuNouvelAn🥳
📅Samedi le 27 décembre à 17:00
⛪️#Montesquiou #Gers #Occitanie #France 🇫🇷
🎹Irena KOSIKOVA #orgue
🎻Anna BRIKCIUSOVA #violoncelle
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/billets-10eme-bach-festival-gers-2025-concert-du-nouvel-an-1391593697209👈
#BonneAnnée
🎉#ConcertDuNouvelAn🥳
📅Samedi le 27 décembre à 17:00
⛪️#Montesquiou #Gers #Occitanie #France 🇫🇷
🎹Irena KOSIKOVA #orgue
🎻Anna BRIKCIUSOVA #violoncelle
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/billets-10eme-bach-festival-gers-2025-concert-du-nouvel-an-1391593697209👈
#BonneAnnée
December 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
🎵10ème #BachFestivalGers
🎉#ConcertDuNouvelAn🥳
📅Samedi le 27 décembre à 17:00
⛪️#Montesquiou #Gers #Occitanie #France 🇫🇷
🎹Irena KOSIKOVA #orgue
🎻Anna BRIKCIUSOVA #violoncelle
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/billets-10eme-bach-festival-gers-2025-concert-du-nouvel-an-1391593697209👈
#BonneAnnée
🎉#ConcertDuNouvelAn🥳
📅Samedi le 27 décembre à 17:00
⛪️#Montesquiou #Gers #Occitanie #France 🇫🇷
🎹Irena KOSIKOVA #orgue
🎻Anna BRIKCIUSOVA #violoncelle
🎟️https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/billets-10eme-bach-festival-gers-2025-concert-du-nouvel-an-1391593697209👈
#BonneAnnée
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The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
December 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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JD Vance: "To honor Charlie, we are working to end the scourge of left-wing violence in the United States"
December 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
JD Vance: "To honor Charlie, we are working to end the scourge of left-wing violence in the United States"
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Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Jim Ratcliffe chemical firms received up to £70m of UK state aid in last four years
The government is preparing a £50m bailout for Ineos’s Grangemouth plant, after Jim Ratcliffe asked for help in October
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Monaco based tax-exile Jim Ratcliffe businesses received up to £70m UK subsidy in last 4 years. More promised.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
Free cash, not repayable, no means-testing, no equity stake taken.
Sunday Times Rich List estimated his wealth to be £17bn.
Benefit cuts for the poor, free cash for corporations/Rich.
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JD Vance: "Greatness awaits every single one of you in the America First movement we are building together, but we need your help to get there. Do you want more prosecutions? Great. So do we. Donald Trump and I have a list of better judges and prosecutors to enact swifter justice."
December 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
😳
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Thank you, @franciswilkinson.bsky.social, for giving necessary attention to what’s going on with public education attacks in South Carolina. My story is but a drop in the bucket of the broader plot to make America dumb again. Education strengthens democracy. Destroying it hurts us all.
Gift Link. "No Congressional legislation was passed to institute this MAGA control over every US public school. No public debate informed it. No evidence was offered for its preposterous assertions....Yet the word “funds” or “funding” appears 9 different times." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
MAGA’s Book Bans Are Coming Back With a Vengeance
The Trump administration’s executive orders are fueling a wave of book bans, and South Carolina is leading the pack.
www.bloomberg.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Thank you, @franciswilkinson.bsky.social, for giving necessary attention to what’s going on with public education attacks in South Carolina. My story is but a drop in the bucket of the broader plot to make America dumb again. Education strengthens democracy. Destroying it hurts us all.
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It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 AM
It’s exactly this kind of dismal, prejudiced bollox from the Daily Mail that’s got us into the ruinous Brexit mess we’re in. What a moronic response to us rejoining Erasmus and all the benefits that brings. If they’re really worried about cost, they should push to cancel Brexit altogether.
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MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’
Exclusive: Health select committee chair says UK government’s ‘naive belief’ Trump is a good faith actor ‘could cost UK taxpayer billions’
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
MPs warn that UK agreements with Donald Trump are ‘built on sand’.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
UK bullied to pay billions more for NHS drugs produced by US companies, importing US beef, accept steel tariffs and more, without any reciprocity.
Can't trust Trump. US wants dominance, not partnership.
Rejoin the EU.
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Goodwin (like similar voices) is being totally dishonest about this. Despite the equal dishonesty of its headline, the Mail story shows these weren't "anti-immigration tweets", they were calls for "slaughter" and mass violence against MPs. It's incredible that this is being openly condoned.
December 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Goodwin (like similar voices) is being totally dishonest about this. Despite the equal dishonesty of its headline, the Mail story shows these weren't "anti-immigration tweets", they were calls for "slaughter" and mass violence against MPs. It's incredible that this is being openly condoned.
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"If leaving the ECHR is meant to be about booting out criminals, it will have the reverse effect and it will make it easier for criminals to come to the country. Just like Brexit, it's going to backfire. Remember, with Brexit, immigration was meant to go down, and trade".
December 16, 2025 at 12:53 PM
"If leaving the ECHR is meant to be about booting out criminals, it will have the reverse effect and it will make it easier for criminals to come to the country. Just like Brexit, it's going to backfire. Remember, with Brexit, immigration was meant to go down, and trade".
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London is the safest city I’ve ever lived in. Every other American I know that lives here feels the same way simply by virtue of the lack of gun violence.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
London records fewest homicides this year since monthly records began
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing ...
www.london.gov.uk
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
London is the safest city I’ve ever lived in. Every other American I know that lives here feels the same way simply by virtue of the lack of gun violence.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
Any pundit or public figure (often taking gulf $) trying to paint this city as crime-ridden is plainly wrong and probably lying to you.
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LONDON HAS FALLEN
Well, its murder rates have
Well, its murder rates have
The number of murders in the capital in the first nine months (1st January to 30th September) of 2025 is the lowest since monthly records began and represents a fall of almost 60 per cent compared to 2003.
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
www.london.gov.uk/london-recor...
London records fewest homicides this year since monthly records began
The number of homicides in London in the first nine months of 2025 was lower than any year since monthly homicide records began in 2003, according to new analysis from the Mayor’s Office for Policing ...
www.london.gov.uk
December 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
LONDON HAS FALLEN
Well, its murder rates have
Well, its murder rates have
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UN says Israel's killing of two Palestinians in occupied West Bank looks like 'summary execution' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-says-israels-killing-two-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-looks-summary-execution
UN says Israel's killing of two Palestinians in occupied West Bank looks like 'summary execution'
UN rights chief Volker Turk is calling for 'independent, prompt and effective investigations into the killings of Palestinians'
www.middleeasteye.net
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
UN says Israel's killing of two Palestinians in occupied West Bank looks like 'summary execution' - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-says-israels-killing-two-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-looks-summary-execution
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Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Starbucks workers' union escalates strike on Black Friday
() -The Starbucks workers' union said on Friday it is escalating an indefinite strike to more than 120 stores and 85 cities, demanding higher pay and staffing levels at the coffee chain. The walkout,...
www.yahoo.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Starbucks employees escalated their strike on Black Friday, expanding to 120 stores and 85 cities.
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
Their CEO took home $96 million while refusing to negotiate a living wage for workers.
Boycott Starbucks. Stand with the employees.
Support local independent coffee shops:
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The Defense Department will host right-wing media at the Pentagon next week for its first in-person press event since October, when the mainstream press corps walked out rather than sign the department’s new press policy.
Pentagon’s right-wing, pared press corps gets a meet-and-greet
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s briefing at the Pentagon next week will welcome a new crop of media that no longer includes the mainstream press.
wapo.st
November 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Defense Department will host right-wing media at the Pentagon next week for its first in-person press event since October, when the mainstream press corps walked out rather than sign the department’s new press policy.
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The Bishop of Norwich has taken aim at the Home Office’s asylum reforms, warning they’ll make integration harder and deepen division.
A rare intervention – and a sharp one.
A rare intervention – and a sharp one.
New: Bishop warns asylum plans will fuel division
A senior Church of England bishop has criticised government asylum reforms, warning they will make integration significantly harder
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The Bishop of Norwich has taken aim at the Home Office’s asylum reforms, warning they’ll make integration harder and deepen division.
A rare intervention – and a sharp one.
A rare intervention – and a sharp one.
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Unprecedented nepotism & corruption at the highest levels of American government
Reuters has confirmed that President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and his special envoy Steve Witkoff held a private meeting in Miami with a sanctioned Kremlin proxy to help shape the new "peace plan" for Ukraine. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Unprecedented nepotism & corruption at the highest levels of American government
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