PJ White
@petewhite.bsky.social
Onetime freelance writer & journo. Currently learning Old English, reading poetry and getting used to Linux. Leicester, UK.
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Richard Burgon MP, addressing RMT Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Regional Council today at the NUM HQ in Barnsley.
Workers must have protection from unfair dismissal from Day 1, not after six months.
Workers must have protection from unfair dismissal from Day 1, not after six months.
December 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Richard Burgon MP, addressing RMT Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Regional Council today at the NUM HQ in Barnsley.
Workers must have protection from unfair dismissal from Day 1, not after six months.
Workers must have protection from unfair dismissal from Day 1, not after six months.
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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 6:48 AM
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...
Don't want to keep banging on, but In the UK it's EDI.
If you call it DEI you are just being a big fat copy cat and don't merit being taken seriously. Thank you.
If you call it DEI you are just being a big fat copy cat and don't merit being taken seriously. Thank you.
🔴Nigel Farage’s ‘£7 Billion DEI Savings’ Don’t Actually Exist
The media is widely reporting Reform UK’s claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/30/n...
The media is widely reporting Reform UK’s claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com/2025/05/30/n...
Nigel Farage's '£7 Billion DEI Savings' Don't Actually Exist
The media is widely reporting Reform UK's claims they could save billions by cutting equality schemes. The real figure appears to be around 250 times smaller, reports Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com
May 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Don't want to keep banging on, but In the UK it's EDI.
If you call it DEI you are just being a big fat copy cat and don't merit being taken seriously. Thank you.
If you call it DEI you are just being a big fat copy cat and don't merit being taken seriously. Thank you.
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🚨 A statement:
Over the past year James O’Brien & others have made claims about my departure from LBC. I’m restricted in what I can share with you but hope the statement below will draw a line under the matter. My focus is on moving forward. I am grateful for your continued support, Sangita
Over the past year James O’Brien & others have made claims about my departure from LBC. I’m restricted in what I can share with you but hope the statement below will draw a line under the matter. My focus is on moving forward. I am grateful for your continued support, Sangita
May 28, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🚨 A statement:
Over the past year James O’Brien & others have made claims about my departure from LBC. I’m restricted in what I can share with you but hope the statement below will draw a line under the matter. My focus is on moving forward. I am grateful for your continued support, Sangita
Over the past year James O’Brien & others have made claims about my departure from LBC. I’m restricted in what I can share with you but hope the statement below will draw a line under the matter. My focus is on moving forward. I am grateful for your continued support, Sangita
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Join Birmingham Stand Up To Racism for a peaceful protest to say the far right are not welcome here.
Meet at 11am this Saturday outside St Martin’s Church on Edgbaston Street.
NO PASARÁN! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
RSVP here - facebook.com/events/s/sto...
Meet at 11am this Saturday outside St Martin’s Church on Edgbaston Street.
NO PASARÁN! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
RSVP here - facebook.com/events/s/sto...
May 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Join Birmingham Stand Up To Racism for a peaceful protest to say the far right are not welcome here.
Meet at 11am this Saturday outside St Martin’s Church on Edgbaston Street.
NO PASARÁN! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
RSVP here - facebook.com/events/s/sto...
Meet at 11am this Saturday outside St Martin’s Church on Edgbaston Street.
NO PASARÁN! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
RSVP here - facebook.com/events/s/sto...
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Is there a proper term for the linguistic error where the words of a phrase are grouped wrongly? Examples: fine toothcomb, high watermark…
May 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Is there a proper term for the linguistic error where the words of a phrase are grouped wrongly? Examples: fine toothcomb, high watermark…
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Some years ago I bought a few shares in a community wind turbine in the back room of the Victoria pub, Leeds. A few cynics said you'll never see your money again. 10 % interest over the last year. I guess it was windier than usual.
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Some years ago I bought a few shares in a community wind turbine in the back room of the Victoria pub, Leeds. A few cynics said you'll never see your money again. 10 % interest over the last year. I guess it was windier than usual.
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Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
May 14, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Island of Strangers - by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social m.facebook.com/story.php?st...
I normally don't mind a bit of irony.
But it would be nicer if M&S's apology for losing our personal data didn't recommend its website for tips on staying safe online.
But it would be nicer if M&S's apology for losing our personal data didn't recommend its website for tips on staying safe online.
May 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I normally don't mind a bit of irony.
But it would be nicer if M&S's apology for losing our personal data didn't recommend its website for tips on staying safe online.
But it would be nicer if M&S's apology for losing our personal data didn't recommend its website for tips on staying safe online.
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The International Civil Aviation Organization finds Russia was responsible for shooting down MH17. The ICAO Council will consider what form of reparation is required in the coming weeks. www.government.nl/latest/news/...
ICAO Council: Russian Federation responsible for downing of flight MH17
The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO Council) has concluded Monday that the Russian Federation is responsible for the downing of Flight MH17 and has thus violated the Con...
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May 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
The International Civil Aviation Organization finds Russia was responsible for shooting down MH17. The ICAO Council will consider what form of reparation is required in the coming weeks. www.government.nl/latest/news/...
Great thread, very interesting.
Here's Gary Stevenson calling for a return to the 1970s, when the top rate of tax was 98%. But did the rich ever pay it?
We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data.
A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax *now*.
We spoke to 1970s tax dodgers and ex-HMRC staff & and crunched the data.
A 🧵, but here's a spoiler: the rich pay more tax *now*.
May 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Great thread, very interesting.
"As is often the case with Mr. Trump’s declarations on social media, it was not entirely clear what he was talking about."
Evergreen analysis from the New York Times.
Evergreen analysis from the New York Times.
May 5, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"As is often the case with Mr. Trump’s declarations on social media, it was not entirely clear what he was talking about."
Evergreen analysis from the New York Times.
Evergreen analysis from the New York Times.
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E P Thompson on opinion polls: 'A psephologist is a man employed by the mass media to research into what people think the mass media has told them to think'
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May 1st Elections in England. Beware Ephology opinion polls
May 1st Elections in England. Beware Ephology opinion polls The late socialist historian E P Thompson wrote the following on opinion polls in the New Reasoner in 1959 (the NR went on to be part of …
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April 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
E P Thompson on opinion polls: 'A psephologist is a man employed by the mass media to research into what people think the mass media has told them to think'
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Brilliant thread. Wise & informed, with perspective.
Lots of people dunking on Pritchard for this, & for sure I don’t like seeing “public health” trotted out to excuse senior managers either - but there are some big (& flawed) assumptions being made in the dunkings… 🧵
Sarah Neville in the FT on lunch with Amanda Pritchard: "The NHS contributes between 10 and 20 per cent to people’s health, she says — a figure I find startlingly low"
This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵
www.ft.com/content/5cf4...
This widely quoted figure is startlingly low because it's probably wrong.🧵
www.ft.com/content/5cf4...
April 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Brilliant thread. Wise & informed, with perspective.
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i actually cannot handle this on any level. this is journalism malpractice.
this is, by definition, not an "immigration crackdown"
April 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i actually cannot handle this on any level. this is journalism malpractice.
So important to think of this. Not going to get better till it's fixed.
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—Louis Brandeis
—Louis Brandeis
April 19, 2025 at 7:04 PM
So important to think of this. Not going to get better till it's fixed.
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I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
What's the Real Quid Pro Quo with Bukele?
Hint: It's not about fighting "terrorism," or stopping illegal immigration.
asharangappa.substack.com
April 17, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I wrote about some details that the Trump administration might not want to come to light when it comes to what kind of deal Trump has truck with Bukele asharangappa.substack.com/p/whats-the-...
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sumerian scribe, 3000 BCE: yeah most of my day is chiseling the little arrows on the tablets. the arrows can mean grains, clay, poultices, all sortsa stuff (sighing) yeah i guess it's kind of a bullshit job
April 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
sumerian scribe, 3000 BCE: yeah most of my day is chiseling the little arrows on the tablets. the arrows can mean grains, clay, poultices, all sortsa stuff (sighing) yeah i guess it's kind of a bullshit job
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Original of my "Hosanna, Not Alleluia (2023) as well as the link between the two ideas:
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-mus...
Original source of the "two procession" idea (2007):
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-mus...
Original source of the "two procession" idea (2007):
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
April 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Original of my "Hosanna, Not Alleluia (2023) as well as the link between the two ideas:
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-mus...
Original source of the "two procession" idea (2007):
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/sunday-mus...
Original source of the "two procession" idea (2007):
www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
A better read than the NYT piece. Original and with credits.
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/palm-sunda...
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/palm-sunda...
April 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A better read than the NYT piece. Original and with credits.
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/palm-sunda...
dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/palm-sunda...
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This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments
BREAKING: Trump administation attests that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is alive and secure but is under the "sovereign, domestic authority of El Salvador." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 12, 2025 at 9:29 PM
This is a concession by the U.S. government that its “arrangement” with El Salvador is irrevocable. To me this has to be grounds to argue that the arrangement itself is unconstitutional under the Fifth and Eighth Amendments
No pause for penguins. Can't see the bond markets liking that.
US administration has announced 90 days of a +10% tariff - not 90 days pausing the tariff announcements. So there is no gain today to countries - like UK (US has trade surplus) or penguins - on that lowest rate, but a smaller hit than was threatened on eg EU, India everyone except China
April 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
No pause for penguins. Can't see the bond markets liking that.
It's easy to get depressed and despairing about the state of things. Then you stumble across this and life looks good again. Genius.
April 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
It's easy to get depressed and despairing about the state of things. Then you stumble across this and life looks good again. Genius.