Derek Cobb
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Former CTO London Internet Exchange, Operations Director for BT & Network Architecture Director for Virginmedia. Support Crystal Palace FC! Cyclist!!
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Oh shit www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... Water companies do not have the capacity to deal with our sewage - even on good days. No wonder we're in it up to our necks, with nationalisation the only way out of this mess.
Oh shit
As the FT has noted this morning:
At least half of Thames Water’s sewage plants lack the pipes and tanks to process enough waste water, leading untreated effluent to spill into rivers and waterways ac...
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February 13, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Oh shit www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... Water companies do not have the capacity to deal with our sewage - even on good days. No wonder we're in it up to our necks, with nationalisation the only way out of this mess.
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The UK’s suffering from top-down political thinking. Do we need to go bottom-up instead?
youtu.be/lQuxSaeV2Tg?...
youtu.be/lQuxSaeV2Tg?...
The UK’s suffering from top-down political thinking. Do we need to go bottom-up instead?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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February 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The UK’s suffering from top-down political thinking. Do we need to go bottom-up instead?
youtu.be/lQuxSaeV2Tg?...
youtu.be/lQuxSaeV2Tg?...
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People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold It isn’t youtu.be/xRX7l_2HZEw?... People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold. It isn’t. It is nothing like gold. But more than that we don’t need to be on the gold standard ever again. It destroyed the world economy.
People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold It isn’t
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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January 26, 2025 at 7:51 AM
People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold It isn’t youtu.be/xRX7l_2HZEw?... People are claiming Bitcoin is the new gold. It isn’t. It is nothing like gold. But more than that we don’t need to be on the gold standard ever again. It destroyed the world economy.
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Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Reform revealed their economic thinking to the House of Commons last week. It is an exercise in economic insanity.
Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it
Rupert Lowe, the Reform MP for Great Yarmouth, gave one of the most bizarre speeches to Parliament probably made for a long time on Wednesday last week when he presented what is called a ‘Ten Minute R...
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January 13, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Reform wants to destroy government and the economy as we know it www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01... Reform revealed their economic thinking to the House of Commons last week. It is an exercise in economic insanity.
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Royal Mail? Really? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Is profit all that really matters now? What about service? What about community? What about national control of essential infrastructure? And what is Labour thinking? So many questions, and no answers.
Royal Mail? Really?
The Royal Mail is not royal, if ever it was.
It has not been an essential state-supplied service for some time, although I doubt we can survive without it as a universal service.
And now it is going...
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December 16, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Royal Mail? Really? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Is profit all that really matters now? What about service? What about community? What about national control of essential infrastructure? And what is Labour thinking? So many questions, and no answers.