Ian Fraser
@ianfraser.bsky.social
Author and journalist. Latest edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’, about the pivotal role of what's now called NatWest in the global banking crash, was reissued in 2024. Recovering financial editor.
The car was a right-hand drive Lancia 2000 Coupé belonging to Storm Thorgerson, founder of Hipgnosis, who designed the cover of Peter Gabriel‘s first solo album (“Car”). The photographer was Peter Christopherson.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The car was a right-hand drive Lancia 2000 Coupé belonging to Storm Thorgerson, founder of Hipgnosis, who designed the cover of Peter Gabriel‘s first solo album (“Car”). The photographer was Peter Christopherson.
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it.
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it.
Updated edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’—about why the world’s largest bank by assets collapsed in 2008 and took more than a decade to recover—available here:
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November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Updated edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’—about why the world’s largest bank by assets collapsed in 2008 and took more than a decade to recover—available here:
www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/shre...
www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ian-...
www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...
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Recommended listening: Neil Collins and Jonathan Ford of A Long Time In Finance explore the life, legacy and deals of great pension purloiner (and father of Ghislaine) Robert Maxwell with his biographer, John Preston. @libraryofmistakes.bsky.social
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November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Recommended listening: Neil Collins and Jonathan Ford of A Long Time In Finance explore the life, legacy and deals of great pension purloiner (and father of Ghislaine) Robert Maxwell with his biographer, John Preston. @libraryofmistakes.bsky.social
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Who knew? South Lanarkshire Council HQ, originally Lanark County Buildings (1963) was in part modelled on the United Nations secretariat building in New York City, designed by a team that included Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer (1952).
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Who knew? South Lanarkshire Council HQ, originally Lanark County Buildings (1963) was in part modelled on the United Nations secretariat building in New York City, designed by a team that included Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer (1952).
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Straight outta Pyongyang
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Straight outta Pyongyang
#ICYMI The Kindle edition of my book Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain (2024 edition) is now available for the knockdown price of £2.98 for a limited time. It is currently ranked as the fifth bestselling book in its category. www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...
October 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#ICYMI The Kindle edition of my book Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain (2024 edition) is now available for the knockdown price of £2.98 for a limited time. It is currently ranked as the fifth bestselling book in its category. www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...
The consternation from other countries at the IMF meetings in Washington DC about the US’s behaviour on the world stage, and it's likely consequences, was palpable.
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The consternation from other countries at the IMF meetings in Washington DC about the US’s behaviour on the world stage, and it's likely consequences, was palpable.
The idea that a mixed-race woman should present a football show is just too much for Spectator and Spiked columnist Patrick West. 🥴
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The idea that a mixed-race woman should present a football show is just too much for Spectator and Spiked columnist Patrick West. 🥴
Remarkable, in-depth investigative journalism from Richard Brooks in @privateeyenews.bsky.social exposing, among other things, “Teesside’s top trouserers.” Runs across eight pages in the current issue.
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Remarkable, in-depth investigative journalism from Richard Brooks in @privateeyenews.bsky.social exposing, among other things, “Teesside’s top trouserers.” Runs across eight pages in the current issue.
Oh, look who was standing closest to Nigel Farage when a group of Brexit Party MEPs arrived in Strasbourg to take up their seats in July 2019
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Oh, look who was standing closest to Nigel Farage when a group of Brexit Party MEPs arrived in Strasbourg to take up their seats in July 2019
Fill your bookshelves?!? My book Shredded: Inside RBS the Bank that Broke Britain (2024 updated edition) has shot up the Kindle charts since Amazon slashed the Kindle price to £2.89 in a limited time deal..
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October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Fill your bookshelves?!? My book Shredded: Inside RBS the Bank that Broke Britain (2024 updated edition) has shot up the Kindle charts since Amazon slashed the Kindle price to £2.89 in a limited time deal..
www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...
www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...
Mikeno VI’s Turkish-born skipper Muhammad Kuchuktigin made history today when he successfully breached Israel’s eighteen-year blockade of Gaza.
October 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Mikeno VI’s Turkish-born skipper Muhammad Kuchuktigin made history today when he successfully breached Israel’s eighteen-year blockade of Gaza.
Flotilla tracker currently shows Mikeno IV, a 12m ketch, to be “sailing” and in Palestine’s territorial waters.
Almost all the other vessels in the Global Samud Flotilla have been intercepted by Israel and their arrested.
Almost all the other vessels in the Global Samud Flotilla have been intercepted by Israel and their arrested.
October 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Flotilla tracker currently shows Mikeno IV, a 12m ketch, to be “sailing” and in Palestine’s territorial waters.
Almost all the other vessels in the Global Samud Flotilla have been intercepted by Israel and their arrested.
Almost all the other vessels in the Global Samud Flotilla have been intercepted by Israel and their arrested.
Jack Anderton, the 24-year-old Farage adviser who thinks Britain would be better off if he hadn’t fought Nazi Germany in WWII has resurfaced with a column in the Daily Mail. And guess what? It's full of shit about Charlie Kirk.
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Jack Anderton, the 24-year-old Farage adviser who thinks Britain would be better off if he hadn’t fought Nazi Germany in WWII has resurfaced with a column in the Daily Mail. And guess what? It's full of shit about Charlie Kirk.
Three people have now been charged over the Dundee “knife girl” incident.
Some online voices have accused @thecourier.co.uk of “covering things up” in relation to this case. Yet the Courier has done exactly what you’d expect a responsible newspaper to do...
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Some online voices have accused @thecourier.co.uk of “covering things up” in relation to this case. Yet the Courier has done exactly what you’d expect a responsible newspaper to do...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Three people have now been charged over the Dundee “knife girl” incident.
Some online voices have accused @thecourier.co.uk of “covering things up” in relation to this case. Yet the Courier has done exactly what you’d expect a responsible newspaper to do...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...
Some online voices have accused @thecourier.co.uk of “covering things up” in relation to this case. Yet the Courier has done exactly what you’d expect a responsible newspaper to do...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
September 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Of course Reform UK leader Nigel Farage didn’t avoid £44,000 in stamp duty on his Clacton-on-Sea constituency “home”.
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Of course Reform UK leader Nigel Farage didn’t avoid £44,000 in stamp duty on his Clacton-on-Sea constituency “home”.
Yes, Stephen Flynn's right.
This is what Peter Mandelson, aka the Prince of Darkness, said to FT political editor @georgewparker.bsky.social on the train from London to Manchester.
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This is what Peter Mandelson, aka the Prince of Darkness, said to FT political editor @georgewparker.bsky.social on the train from London to Manchester.
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September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Yes, Stephen Flynn's right.
This is what Peter Mandelson, aka the Prince of Darkness, said to FT political editor @georgewparker.bsky.social on the train from London to Manchester.
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This is what Peter Mandelson, aka the Prince of Darkness, said to FT political editor @georgewparker.bsky.social on the train from London to Manchester.
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Spotted on a table by the entrance @waterstones.bsky.social Salisbury. ‘Upon A White Horse’ by @peteralanross.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Spotted on a table by the entrance @waterstones.bsky.social Salisbury. ‘Upon A White Horse’ by @peteralanross.bsky.social
GMB's Susannah Reid clearly furious with Kevin Maguire for telling the truth about asylum seekers.
Maguire was right and correct to say that Reid's fellow ITV presenter Rylan Clark "regurgitated a load of myths and lies" about asylum seekers.
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Maguire was right and correct to say that Reid's fellow ITV presenter Rylan Clark "regurgitated a load of myths and lies" about asylum seekers.
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September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
GMB's Susannah Reid clearly furious with Kevin Maguire for telling the truth about asylum seekers.
Maguire was right and correct to say that Reid's fellow ITV presenter Rylan Clark "regurgitated a load of myths and lies" about asylum seekers.
Full item: youtu.be/PC7m5f_Ryp8?...
Maguire was right and correct to say that Reid's fellow ITV presenter Rylan Clark "regurgitated a load of myths and lies" about asylum seekers.
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Only 10 per cent of people in Britain believe that climate change is a hoax. That’s the lowest level of any European country.
— professor @dannydorling.bsky.social at Festival of Politics
— professor @dannydorling.bsky.social at Festival of Politics
August 21, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Only 10 per cent of people in Britain believe that climate change is a hoax. That’s the lowest level of any European country.
— professor @dannydorling.bsky.social at Festival of Politics
— professor @dannydorling.bsky.social at Festival of Politics