Overdue now Robbie Gibbs then the BBC may attract back some of the good people and programmes driven out. www.theguardian.com/media/2022/a...

Long overdue we need Robbie Gibbs to join them and maybe the BBC can go back to being a more impartial BBC and attract the many good people and programmes back. www.theguardian.com/media/2022/a...

Graham King is still yet to clarify the ownership of BSS and explain why it cannot be found on the UAE corporate register.

UAE corporate records show that BSS was founded 3+ years after Clearsprings said it made its first payment to the firm in 2018/19.
Registered founder of BSS, Swati Naidu, said the company was established in 2022 and stated: “I am the sole shareholder, director, manager, with no connections to King.

Clearsprings have been repeatedly investigated and criticised for their poor quality accommodation, with some asylum seekers living in "dire living conditions".A Open Democracy investigation found that Clearsprings paid £17.1m in consultancy fees to a UAE-based firm Bespoke Strategy Solutions (BSS).

 The company's latest contract with the Home Office, covering Wales and the South of England, is valued at £7.3 billion and runs until September 2029. Graham Kings companies have made sizable donations to the Conservatives party.

He his now the 154th wealthiest person in the UK, Sunday Times Rich List. His company, which operates asylum seeker housing under government contracts, has reported record profits, with Clearsprings Ready Homes generating over £1 billion in annual turnover and a £90 million profit in 2024.

Graham King, the founder and billionaire owner of Clearsprings Ready Homes Graham King, 56, who ran a caravan park, a taxi firm and a teenage disco, but has since won Home Office contracts to provide accommodation for ever he has seen his net worth surge to £1.015 billion as of 2025.

There is no suggestion that any of the home secretaries had any knowledge of or involvement. But Byline Times decided not to publish the information of the hotel owner, due the libel laws at present and the inability to fund the subsequent libel action.

One contract for asylum accommodation for one hotel in East Anglia, amounted to a million pounds. The owner of that hotel 4 days after the contract was signed, donated a large amount to the Conservative Party.

Because they were originally whipped to abstain, on the belief they didn't want to draw attention to it. But a threatened rebellion by labour MPs who wanted to vote against made Starmer relent.

Who can be the most evil. That is a sad game!

Durham is now hike rates after failing their promise of cuts. To add insult this year's Durham light show will end after lack of support from it's major funder, Durham council go Reform