What do you do with a Council Leader convicted of fraud? Put them on the Planning Committee of course
Ashfield councillor convicted of fraud given committee role
Jason Zadrozny was found guilty of fraud and tax evasion last month.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 15, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands.
It could receive £23m public subsidy.
BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance.
Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
It could receive £23m public subsidy.
BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance.
Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
www.theferret.scot
October 11, 2026 at 7:25 AM
calling it now -- these same entities are going to be selling the government and major corporations "protection" from their own products very soon
Anthropic is the latest lab to report 'rogue' agent activity, which sources said included applying for visas with the State Department www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/t...
October 10, 2026 at 6:12 AM
And yet somehow also accurate #societyofrackets
October 10, 2026 at 11:24 AM
And yet somehow also accurate #societyofrackets
October 5, 2026 at 9:42 AM
I'm reminded of this interview with Phillip Ruch about why people voted for the Nazis. It wasn't economic anxiety (poor people didn't vote for them), or antisemitism (there were more antisemitic parties) or slick propaganda (their propaganda was bad), it was...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
October 2, 2026 at 10:10 AM
You know who has often been involved with tainted food? Organized crime #societyofrackets
September 28, 2026 at 10:16 PM
You know who has often been involved with tainted food? Organized crime #societyofrackets
It’s insane how quickly the news about lifelong fraudster criminal Susan Collins committing outright bribery got swept aside and buried. This is how fascist republicans get away with breaking every law there is without so much as a slap on the wrist.
September 27, 2026 at 5:36 PM
BP, Uber and Amazon are among the companies that have signed up to the membership scheme at the former UK prime minister's think-tank. ft.trib.al/4rqSGbH
September 26, 2026 at 12:35 AM
September 26, 2026 at 1:06 AM
Pure speculation, but I wouldn't bet against the involvement of organized crime in far right politics #societyofrackets
It feels like Britain and ireland needs to start talking about the mass scale of cocaine usage that seems to be happening
Just got off train to bunch of lads outside station playing techno and snorting lines. But seen similar in rural ireland
And that’s before get to the ‘patriots’
Just got off train to bunch of lads outside station playing techno and snorting lines. But seen similar in rural ireland
And that’s before get to the ‘patriots’
September 25, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Pure speculation, but I wouldn't bet against the involvement of organized crime in far right politics #societyofrackets
The US in Africa is the epitome of mob diplomacy
"Nice vaguely functioning healthcare system you got there. Hand us mining rights and private data or maybe it collapses"
Zimbabwe held firm, and now it loses all US health funding
allafrica.com/stories/2026...
"Nice vaguely functioning healthcare system you got there. Hand us mining rights and private data or maybe it collapses"
Zimbabwe held firm, and now it loses all US health funding
allafrica.com/stories/2026...
Zimbabwe: U.S. Announces End to All Health Funding in Zimbabwe
AMERICA will, at the end of this month, stop funding all health programmes in Zimbabwe it has been involved in for more than 20 years, Ambassador Pamela Tremont has revealed.
allafrica.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:45 PM
making universities educate people at a loss is increasingly reminding me of that scene in Goodfellas where the bar buys the alcohol, the mafia goons immediately sell it at knock-off prices out the back, and then torch the place when the debt gets unsustainable
September 20, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Society of - and I can't emphasize this strongly enough - rackets #societyofrackets
Must just be a coincidence that two of Reform's main donors have been convicted of money laundering related offences (Delo and George Cottrell).
🚨 BREAKING: Crypto billionaire Ben Delo has donated £36m to Reform UK - the biggest ever donation to a UK political party
September 11, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Society of - and I can't emphasize this strongly enough - rackets #societyofrackets