Event organiser, architecturalist. Often spotted at vintage and antique markets.
Beckenham, England, Europe
Joined September 2012
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Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
This October marks the 50th anniversary of the @NationalTheatre’s South Bank home. For five decades it has showcased British theatre at its very best and made a huge contribution to our city’s rich cultural heritage and global reputation. shorturl.at/wtlKs
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
So.... £2,485 on glasses for a PM was "sleaze rotting our politics to the core" but £72,000,000 in a single day for Nigel Farage is celebrated as hitting "the jackpot" and a "war chest..."
Whatever is happening here is happening in plain sight. You decide!
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
Someone has to say it.
The amount of racism directed at World Cup players - including in the England squad - on this platform is out of control.
We cannot allow a vile vocal minority to divide our nation. A lot of this content is illegal and Ofcom should be investigating.
Solidarity with every player targeted. We are united.
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
Times columnist Fraser Nelson pointed out over the weekend that new Home Office statistics paint a striking picture: net migration has fallen dramatically since Labour entered government, now sitting around 80 per cent below the record highs reached under the Conservatives.
And it is not just the headline figure shifting. Remove international students from the equation and long-term immigration levels are now “probably at a multi-year low”, Nelson wrote on his Substack — a remarkable turnaround after years of Tory chaos, broken promises and soaring numbers.
The asylum backlog is also being rapidly reduced under Labour. After ballooning in the aftermath of Covid while successive Conservative ministers appeared paralysed and unwilling to grip the crisis, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has begun making serious progress in clearing the system.
Away from the Westminster psychodrama and endless Reform stunts, an uncomfortable reality is emerging for Labour’s opponents: the Government may quietly be delivering results where the Tories failed for years.
Source: The London Economic
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
Farage may struggle to close this down, especially when so many questions remain. Who else in Reform has received a 'personal gift' from crypto kings?
My column on the link: thetimes.com/comment/columni…
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
2012. 'Comedian' Jimmy Carr was involved in a 'legal' tax avoidance scheme.
There was public/media outcry.
Carr apologised.
He pulled out of the scheme.
He paid the tax bill of £500k.
Richard Tice avoided £600k in taxes. Where is the media coverage?
#BBCBreakfast #GMB #r4today
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
Well, with country in a state of high anxiety over the war in Iran, Badenoch chooses to go on the attack. She piles into Starmer asking why UK is not carrying out defensive bond raids on Iran, pivots to defence spending and calls him 'pathetic and weak'.
Starmer is absolutely excoriating in return as he takes the high ground: "I spent the week protecting British lives and our national interests. Moments like this define a leader of the opposition. They can either step up, act in the national interest and show that they're fit to be Prime Minister, or they can expose their utter irrelevance. She has chosen the second."
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
🚨 WATCH: Independent MP Ayoub Khan says rubbish is "building right beneath my very nose" as he looks down at the Reform MPs sitting below him
"It's becoming a serious problem in Birmingham"
#PMQs
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
🚨 NEW: All of Reform's 12 councils will raise council tax this year despite pledging not to in campaigns
Some of the planned rises include:
Worcestershire - 10%
Derbyshire - 4.99%
West Northamptonshire - 4.99%
Kent - 3.99%
Staffordshire - 3.99%
[@thetimes]
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
According to a new study from a respected US think tank, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Britain’s decision to leave the EU has meant that its GDP is between 6 per cent and 8 per cent smaller than it would have been.
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
New map produced by RTVE, Spanish national TV, of the 6000 mass graves in Spain. In the last 25 years some 17,000 bodies of men, women and children have been exhumed out of the ~120,000 dumped in mass unmarked graves by the Franco regime.
rtve.es/noticias/fosas-guerr…
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
What has happened today at the BBC is nothing short of a coup, a national disgrace, the corporation's board has effectively been undermined and elements close to it have worked with hostile newspaper editors, a former PM and enemies of public service broadcasting. The only honourable players here are Tim Davie and Deborah Turness.
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: The City finally admits it 👉Brexit broke Britain’s money machine.
Treasury’s new figures show:
💸 UK productivity has crashed since Brexit.
🏦 £1 trillion in banking assets have fled to the EU.
📉 City output once the driver of UK growth is now dragging it down.
💔 Result: a £20 billion hole in the public finances.
Even Chancellor Rachel Reeves now admits Brexit caused the slump but refuses to fix it by rejoining the Single Market.
This isn’t just about bankers. When productivity falls, everyone pays:
Lower wages 💷
Higher taxes 📈
Worse public services 🏥
Brexit didn’t take back control, it took away Britain’s future earnings.
The money machine is misfiring and Labour’s red lines mean it stays that way.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Alan Old 🇪🇺🇬🇱 retweeted
Full exchange on Nigel Farage's house in Clacton. He confirms when he said "I've bought a house" in Clacton, he misspoke and should have said "we" as his partner bought the house not him. He owns other properties, so had he bought, or put money into Clacton with his partner, it would have been liable for higher rate of stamp duty rather than the standard rate
