Academic who researches corruption, privatisation and materialities. In her spare time golfs, knits and origamis when her hands permit: she/her.

Joined January 2009
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UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. How many have politicians on payroll? gmb.org.uk/news/%C2%A317-bil…
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Didn't age well did it? Could've been a big error posting this as Team Europe saw it, and used it, to claim the #SolheimCup in the Netherlands For cheers with beers to drowning their sorrows for Team USA
Had to pull out some bottles for Jen 🤭
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EUROPE WINS THE 2026 SOLHEIM CUP ON HOME SOIL! 🏆 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
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Great commentary team this week @SkySportsGolf - much appreciated!
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Unbelievably noisy in the quiet coach today both from Newcastle to York this morning and now going home when all i want is a quiet read and idiots without headphones are eveeywhere. @LNER
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Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out. The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing. Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees. The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in. Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal. The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals. The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion. This is your tax money. It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children. This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close. We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us. google.com/url?q=https://www…
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Devoured by private equity. Bernard Matthews Body Shop Byron Burger Casual Dining Cath Kidson Claire’s Comet Debenhams Flybe Four Seasons Health Care Homebase Maplin Thousands of jobs lost, supply chain destroyed, taxes dodged. Yet govts venerate PE. leftfootforward.org/2026/06/…
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Wonderful tribute from the brilliant @brianmoore666 to his friend and former teammate, the great Scott Hastings. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🦁
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Breaking; 57 golfers on the verge of losing their livelihoods as LIV golf faces extinction. One of those poor unfortunate players interviewed while on his Gulfstream V said he’s not sure how he’ll manage to make ends meet and may have to off load his beach house in the Hamptons.
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The most entertaining two minutes I've watched today.
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Maybe the “should” mindset has been part of the problem, Courtney.
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REBECCA MORRISON YOU ABSOLUTE HEROOOOOOOOO!!!!! WHAT A SHOT AND WHAT A WAY TO WIN IT. THEY ARE STILL ALIVE AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 A truly sensational shot from Rebecca with Team Morrison and Team GB's final stone gives us a vital victory.
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How did Rebecca Morrison pull that off ?? #WinterOlympicGames #curling
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Jeane Freeman's leadership during the Covid pandemic was exemplary. There are people alive in Scotland today who might not be but for the actions of the then Health Secretary. RIP Jeane.
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However the crown decides to award him an honour...
VC loses confidence vote:
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