Nomad Solo

Nomad Solo

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I'm a limited edition. Just one rare piece and trying to survive!

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The Duchy of Cornwall says it collected £503,711 rent from the King for Highgrove House. Prince William is the Duke of Cornwall. Father pays rent to son. No money left the family but nice PR. Previously, King Charles was the Duke of Cornwall. He was paying rent to himself.

leftfootforward.orgRoyal financial privileges show that we are not in it togetherThis week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...

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“With Trump, always assume the pettiest, most vain, pathetic, wriggling urges and you're probably close to what he's thinking." Why Donald is too ignorant and uneducated to ever get it right when it comes to Russia and Ukraine www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...

thenewsagents.co.ukWhy Donald Trump has totally unravelled over Russia and Ukraine | The News AgentsRussia has done nothing wrong in its invasion of Ukraine, says Donald Trump, who becomes more erratic every time his approval rating drops. Why is he so willfully ignorant?

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UK Govt promised to halve consultancy spending by 2025-26. How is it done? By fudging the data and by reclassifying consultancy spending as "professional services". £600m spent. Reliance on consultants means poor in-house knowledge, poor decisions. archive.ph/5Glj6

ft.comGovernment accused of ‘fudging’ consultancy spending to meet pledgeAttempt to clamp down on payments to Big Four firms may be undermined by rise in professional services spending

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Those calling for state pension cut are silent on their tax perks. Gross tax relief on pension contributions £83.9bn. 14% went to 1.1m additional rate tax payers. 57% to 6.6m higher rate (40%) payers. 29% went to 30.4m basic rate (20%) payers. Equalizing it at 20% for all leaves £14.5bn spare.

leftfootforward.orgHere’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millionsPrem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...

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"Is it conceivable that the King made those comments? We have seen that he's got a temper." Rage, fury and a rare royal intervention. Could the King really have said it?

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Jay-Z is an errand boy for other billionaires. What this Macklemore situation has shown is how the NFL billionaires colluded against Kaepernick

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Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

19thnews.orgTierra Walker died after she couldn’t get an abortion. Her family is suing Ken PaxtonThe case, filed Tuesday, argues that Texas’ near-total abortion ban violates the state and U.S. Constitutions, which “prohibit state actors from killing their citizens.”

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A federal judge rejected months of dubious explanations from Attorney General Todd Blanche for missing deadlines and withholding Jeffrey Epstein records, ruling he "failed to comply" with a court rule created by the court as a matter of law.