Philip Taylor
@philipjtaylor.bsky.social
Commercial and Agricultural Property Solicitor. Companion of John Ruskin's Guild of St George.
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Philip Taylor
@philipjtaylor.bsky.social
· Jan 26
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
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It was prophesied. The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui youtu.be/_AJQlRmJvLA?... via @YouTube
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One strange thing about the BBC/Trump row is that the programme in question was actually made by an independent production company. Yes, the BBC producers and Panorama’s editor should have checked everything before it was broadcast. But…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
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Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
November 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Why can't the BBC just be more impartial towards President Trump, like GB News, says Nigel Farage.
GB News:
GB News:
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Trump: the world is the US
Also Trump: the world is on fire
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Also Trump: the world is on fire
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November 10, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Trump: the world is the US
Also Trump: the world is on fire
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Also Trump: the world is on fire
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No link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism, review finds
No link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism, review finds
No link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism, review finds
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
No link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism, review finds
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It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑🚒
Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row
A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
It will be interesting to see how much notice (if at all) voters pay to these sorts of story ahead of next year's local elections - where Reform might be expected to make further gains. 🚒🔥🧑🚒
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Reform split over trains and two-child cap
Reform split over trains and two-child cap
Two senior party figures appear to disagree with Nigel Farage over repealing the cap
www.newstatesman.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Reform split over trains and two-child cap
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UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens
UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens
Latest official data ahead of the Budget later this month shows it is the highest rate since 2021.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
UK unemployment rate rises to 5% as jobs market weakens
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NEW: Unemployment has risen to 1,789,000. That's up 117,000 in the last 3 months and up 282,000 in the last year.
On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now 5.15 million people underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago.
There are now 7.1 people seeking work for every vacancy.
On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now 5.15 million people underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago.
There are now 7.1 people seeking work for every vacancy.
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 AM
NEW: Unemployment has risen to 1,789,000. That's up 117,000 in the last 3 months and up 282,000 in the last year.
On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now 5.15 million people underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago.
There are now 7.1 people seeking work for every vacancy.
On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now 5.15 million people underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago.
There are now 7.1 people seeking work for every vacancy.
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Scoop from @cjayanetti.bsky.social - Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Council To Double Tax On Second Homes Despite Nigel Farage Calling The Idea 'Madness'
A Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after party leader Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madne...
www.politicshome.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Scoop from @cjayanetti.bsky.social - Reform-led council is planning to double council tax on second homes six months after Nigel Farage denounced such policies as “madness” www.politicshome.com/news/article...
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This supplement dramatically cuts heart attack risk, scientists say
This supplement dramatically cuts heart attack risk, scientists say
This supplement dramatically cuts heart attack risk, scientists say
www.independent.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:38 AM
This supplement dramatically cuts heart attack risk, scientists say
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Normally agree with you, Bendor, but this wasn’t just an “editing error”. This was a conscious event-manipulation by a news broadcaster. Yes, sack Robbie Gibbs, but also make it clear that that production company (and particular film makers never work for the BBC again.
November 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Normally agree with you, Bendor, but this wasn’t just an “editing error”. This was a conscious event-manipulation by a news broadcaster. Yes, sack Robbie Gibbs, but also make it clear that that production company (and particular film makers never work for the BBC again.
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The programme was made by October Films.
November 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
The programme was made by October Films.
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Suspect the Trump lawsuit does have the potential to be existential for the BBC. Whoever on the Board helped escalate an editing error (made by an independent production company, four years after Jan6) into this crisis must be removed.
November 11, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Suspect the Trump lawsuit does have the potential to be existential for the BBC. Whoever on the Board helped escalate an editing error (made by an independent production company, four years after Jan6) into this crisis must be removed.
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In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
November 11, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In the last decade, the BBC has legitimised climate change denialism, paved the way for Brexit, defended the coup that was prorogation, over-platformed Farage's Far Right projects, and is neutral on our abandonment of human rights norms.
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
What is this 'good' it supposedly does?
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Duff-looking UK labour market data this morning.
Payrolls on a declining trend, unemployment rate hits 5%.
(usual caveats to both - former v prone to revisions, often upwards, and latter is drawn from the wonky Labour Force Survey)
Payrolls on a declining trend, unemployment rate hits 5%.
(usual caveats to both - former v prone to revisions, often upwards, and latter is drawn from the wonky Labour Force Survey)
November 11, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Duff-looking UK labour market data this morning.
Payrolls on a declining trend, unemployment rate hits 5%.
(usual caveats to both - former v prone to revisions, often upwards, and latter is drawn from the wonky Labour Force Survey)
Payrolls on a declining trend, unemployment rate hits 5%.
(usual caveats to both - former v prone to revisions, often upwards, and latter is drawn from the wonky Labour Force Survey)
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Maybe some could ask of all these vested interests, if you are so crucial to economic growth why hasn't there been any?
They'll blame other incumbents... and so the world doesn't really turn until this can somehow be stopped.
They'll blame other incumbents... and so the world doesn't really turn until this can somehow be stopped.
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Maybe some could ask of all these vested interests, if you are so crucial to economic growth why hasn't there been any?
They'll blame other incumbents... and so the world doesn't really turn until this can somehow be stopped.
They'll blame other incumbents... and so the world doesn't really turn until this can somehow be stopped.
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Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
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The trial has begun of a Saudi Arabian psychiatrist charged with murdering six people and attempting to kill another 338 at a Christmas market in Magdeburg last year
Saudi doctor accused of Magdeburg Christmas market attack faces court
Taleb al-Abdulmohsen’s trial has required a purpose-built temporary court with an armoured glass box for the defendant and seats for hundreds of victims
www.thetimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
The trial has begun of a Saudi Arabian psychiatrist charged with murdering six people and attempting to kill another 338 at a Christmas market in Magdeburg last year
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I do appear to be delivering this episode from beyond the grave, but it was fun to chat about the long-term decline of the two-party system and the huge structural challenges facing British politics.
Ghostly pallor - but a great pod. @QMUL's finest, @robertsaunders.bsky.social talking Britain going berserk. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ8q...
Nick Cohen talks to academic & author Robert Saunders about the bizarre state of UK politics
YouTube video by LowdownNickCohen
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I do appear to be delivering this episode from beyond the grave, but it was fun to chat about the long-term decline of the two-party system and the huge structural challenges facing British politics.
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
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