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Kinda shocked no one has taken it upon themselves to stand outsides these businesses and pass out pamphlets to tourists
The curious thing is the two tax evading "Kingdom of Treats" shops using the same name and logo in London and Edinburgh have different legal operators.
The only public legal link between the two shops in two capitals is that they share the same landlord: billionaire Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital.
The only public legal link between the two shops in two capitals is that they share the same landlord: billionaire Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital.
September 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Kinda shocked no one has taken it upon themselves to stand outsides these businesses and pass out pamphlets to tourists
love em but Tracy and Joe are like death, they’ll take anyone
NEW ODD LOTS:
Former UK Prime Minister on surging gilt yields, central bank independence, free speech, and the broader economic agenda which she never got to implement
(Correct link this time)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Former UK Prime Minister on surging gilt yields, central bank independence, free speech, and the broader economic agenda which she never got to implement
(Correct link this time)
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Liz Truss on the 'Doom Loop' Engulfing the UK Economy
Podcast Episode · Odd Lots · 08/28/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
August 30, 2025 at 1:33 PM
love em but Tracy and Joe are like death, they’ll take anyone
Banner week for news about how much one billionaire can accomplish when they set out to ruin London
Has your local pub closed down?
It might be the work of the billionaire property developer Asif Aziz. If you recognise the name, that's because he's the man behind Criterion Capital, the firm that was recently accused of trying to shut down the Prince Charles Cinema.
It might be the work of the billionaire property developer Asif Aziz. If you recognise the name, that's because he's the man behind Criterion Capital, the firm that was recently accused of trying to shut down the Prince Charles Cinema.
Exclusive: The billionaire developer closing London's pubs
Companies linked to Asif Aziz have been buying up and shutting down some of the capital’s most beloved boozers. Now, we’ve mapped them.
www.the-londoner.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Banner week for news about how much one billionaire can accomplish when they set out to ruin London
This would be a huge loss for central London culture. Picturehouse has had great programming since the pandemic, especially their live Q&As. It functions as a great meeting space for Londoners, incl those in the industry. Turning it into a windowless hotel is almost comically villainous.
Asif Aziz almost forced out London’s Prince Charles Cinema earlier this year. Is he trying the same again with Picturehouse Central - and is another major central London cinema under threat from the same landlord? www.londoncentric.media/p/picturehou...
Asif Aziz almost forced out one West End cinema. Is he doing it again?
To undermine one central London cinema may be regarded as a misfortune; to do it twice two looks like carelessness.
www.londoncentric.media
August 16, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This would be a huge loss for central London culture. Picturehouse has had great programming since the pandemic, especially their live Q&As. It functions as a great meeting space for Londoners, incl those in the industry. Turning it into a windowless hotel is almost comically villainous.
From the country that brought you the “upload a photo of your passport to an offshore third party in order to access Bluesky DMs” comes the “please delete your emails in order to conserve water” www.gov.uk/government/n...
August 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
From the country that brought you the “upload a photo of your passport to an offshore third party in order to access Bluesky DMs” comes the “please delete your emails in order to conserve water” www.gov.uk/government/n...
London Centric once again doing the lord’s work on this one
He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...
The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops
Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?
www.londoncentric.media
July 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
London Centric once again doing the lord’s work on this one
Natural born poster
To church, where a Presbyter made a sad and long sermon, which vexed me.
June 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Natural born poster
Can’t wait for a border guard to pull up grok, feed it 15 years’ of my DMs and have it time out while running inference to determine how anti-American they are
Please hold while your encrypted DMs are transferred to the federal government for analysis
X says it's pausing the encrypted DMs feature to "work on making some improvements"; users can view previous encrypted DMs but cannot send new ones (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
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May 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Can’t wait for a border guard to pull up grok, feed it 15 years’ of my DMs and have it time out while running inference to determine how anti-American they are
Late to the party but better than never I suppose
May 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Late to the party but better than never I suppose
It’s time for #pintofscience! Let’s see if I can add to my t-shirt collection #pint25
May 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s time for #pintofscience! Let’s see if I can add to my t-shirt collection #pint25
Random Tim Hortons in Singapore, thank you for being an auspicious omen 🍁🎉🏒
April 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Random Tim Hortons in Singapore, thank you for being an auspicious omen 🍁🎉🏒
Nailed the Bluesky-AI hate
AI has real uses which are mostly unhelpful to the creative class that dominates on here and the forced adoption of unwanted AI features on basically every platform makes people understandably annoyed, producing some of the most disproportionately nasty discourse imaginable
April 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Nailed the Bluesky-AI hate
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Working on an #ICLR2025 Pack with those attending and accounts connected to the conference
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Let me know if you would like to be added
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Let me know if you would like to be added
April 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Working on an #ICLR2025 Pack with those attending and accounts connected to the conference
go.bsky.app/AusRuod
Let me know if you would like to be added
go.bsky.app/AusRuod
Let me know if you would like to be added
A great episode, especially now
Apropos the discussion of creating more domestic manufacturing jobs, I enjoyed this episode of Search Engine that walked through some of the challenges.
Why it’s so hard to manufacture a new product in America, and what happens if you just try anyway. open.spotify.com/episode/1F4Z...
April 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
A great episode, especially now
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Apropos the discussion of creating more domestic manufacturing jobs, I enjoyed this episode of Search Engine that walked through some of the challenges.
Why it’s so hard to manufacture a new product in America, and what happens if you just try anyway. open.spotify.com/episode/1F4Z...
The Puzzle of the All-American BBQ Scrubber
Search Engine · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Apropos the discussion of creating more domestic manufacturing jobs, I enjoyed this episode of Search Engine that walked through some of the challenges.
Doing the lord’s work - really recommend subscribing to Londoncentric while you’re at it, it’s become my new must-read
I waded through human shit for this story the least you can do is click it. www.londoncentric.media/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: The London flats pushing raw sewage into the Thames
London Centric shows you the apartment blocks sending untreated human waste into the capital's waterways, causing "a quiet, steady, background poisoning".
www.londoncentric.media
March 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Doing the lord’s work - really recommend subscribing to Londoncentric while you’re at it, it’s become my new must-read
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I waded through human shit for this story the least you can do is click it. www.londoncentric.media/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: The London flats pushing raw sewage into the Thames
London Centric shows you the apartment blocks sending untreated human waste into the capital's waterways, causing "a quiet, steady, background poisoning".
www.londoncentric.media
March 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I waded through human shit for this story the least you can do is click it. www.londoncentric.media/p/revealed-t...
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"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped
I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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65,000 UK companies are unlawfully hiding their beneficial owner. We've just published an interactive map showing them all.
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March 19, 2025 at 1:09 PM
65,000 UK companies are unlawfully hiding their beneficial owner. We've just published an interactive map showing them all.
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leaking through the ears level of brain rot, outstanding
gawker would've had a FIELD DAY with nick denton's twitter feed
March 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
leaking through the ears level of brain rot, outstanding
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New post just out
Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.
Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.
(This one is free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.
Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.
(This one is free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Ten books to understand the world we're now in
Trump’s second term is on track to be more damaging than his first.
open.substack.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
New post just out
Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.
Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.
(This one is free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
Ten books to help understand the world we're now in.
Five recommendations on the US/Trump/Musk and five on Europe and the rest of the world.
(This one is free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
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New @irpp.org tool for assessing impact from US tariffs across Canada.
We may not know what products will be targeted or when, but we have a good sense of which industries rely the most on exports to the US. Explore where workers in those industries live using our new interactive dashboards.
We may not know what products will be targeted or when, but we have a good sense of which industries rely the most on exports to the US. Explore where workers in those industries live using our new interactive dashboards.
Measuring community workforce exposure to U.S. exports - IRPP
As part of the IRPP’s Community Transformations Project, we’ve thought a lot about how external shocks can disproportionately affect local workforces. Even when the shock seems manageable at the natio...
irpp.org
March 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New @irpp.org tool for assessing impact from US tariffs across Canada.
We may not know what products will be targeted or when, but we have a good sense of which industries rely the most on exports to the US. Explore where workers in those industries live using our new interactive dashboards.
We may not know what products will be targeted or when, but we have a good sense of which industries rely the most on exports to the US. Explore where workers in those industries live using our new interactive dashboards.
So excited on the eve of yet another self-inflicted economic disaster I can barely sleep. Who knew I'd get to experience the joy of another Brexit, but with even higher stakes!
March 4, 2025 at 3:56 AM
So excited on the eve of yet another self-inflicted economic disaster I can barely sleep. Who knew I'd get to experience the joy of another Brexit, but with even higher stakes!