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Laura Purkess

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Award-winning freelance financial journalist & writer. Likes politics, policy & personal finance 🌻 β“‹ muckrack.com/laurapurkess also investinginsiders.co.uk/authors/laura

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Mirror publisher Reach swings to loss in 2025, cuts costs further | AJ Bell Reach PLC on Tuesday said it swung to a hefty loss in 2025 after a Β£222.8 million non-cash impairment charge, as revenue f

oh that’s weird, our incessant β€œcost cutting” drive where we sacked all our journalists and now produce unreadable AI slop hasn’t worked…. Don’t worry though we’ll just cut costs further. What’s that sorry? Produce half-decent output that adds value? Nah www.ajbell.co.uk/news/article...

03.03.2026 14:04 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

just saw it was 10 past 12 and dropped my cheese thinking I’d accidentally missed the statement - crisis averted. Sounds like it might be the Spring Under-Statement but we’ll see!!

03.03.2026 12:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

me, a serious journalist, standing in my kitchen in my dressing gown cutting myself slices of double Gloucester cheese at midday while Whatsapping economists

03.03.2026 12:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while holding a piece of meat in his hand . ALT: a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while holding a piece of meat in his hand .

not me writing 50 articles about the upcoming self assessment filing deadline and then personally missing the self assessment filing deadline

03.02.2026 12:20 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Read the full transcript of Carney’s speech to World Economic Forum - National | Globalnews.ca Prime Minister Mark Carney gave a forceful speech in Davos, Switzerland, on the 'new world order' and how middle powers like Canada can benefit by working together.

The Carney speech is worth reading in full: globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

20.01.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 717 πŸ” 262 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 61
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.

18.01.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 14531 πŸ” 4641 πŸ’¬ 482 πŸ“Œ 541
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The threat against Greenland shows that we need to stop appeasing Trump The world must unite in standing up to imperial bullying and preserving the rules-based order.

www.aljazeera.com/amp/opinions...

18.01.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New York City turned OUT.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❀️

11.01.2026 19:31 πŸ‘ 25308 πŸ” 6119 πŸ’¬ 455 πŸ“Œ 288
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Ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura: β€œWe’re a 3rd world country now. I know. I’ve been to β€˜em. I spent 17 months in SE Asia while the draft dodger was playing golf… that’s what happens in a dictatorship. In comes the military. That’s what’s happening here.” πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

09.01.2026 00:43 πŸ‘ 29852 πŸ” 10443 πŸ’¬ 789 πŸ“Œ 797
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

09.01.2026 14:15 πŸ‘ 35569 πŸ” 13616 πŸ’¬ 4722 πŸ“Œ 2596

ABC reporting a β€œperiod of rising tension between the United States and Venezuela”

Venezuela hasn’t done anything. There is no rising tension, it’s just Trump.

03.01.2026 09:33 πŸ‘ 1314 πŸ” 318 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 11

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

03.01.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 15691 πŸ” 3469 πŸ’¬ 213 πŸ“Œ 135

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

03.01.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 16478 πŸ” 5553 πŸ’¬ 215 πŸ“Œ 129
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So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves

01.01.2026 10:50 πŸ‘ 3569 πŸ” 683 πŸ’¬ 87 πŸ“Œ 166

And this is why I do not listen to podcasts

02.01.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

well they certainly won’t get any with that 🫣

01.01.2026 20:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Sorry but what on earth is going on - Β£35k a year to be the *senior editor* of a respected trade magazine, based three days a week in central London? And companies complain about a lack of strong candidates - you’ll only get juniors applying if you advertise junior-level salaries 🀯

01.01.2026 20:05 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I have a lot of respect for the Knives Out movies just as an exercise in people making solid B+ level entertainment where everyone seems to be enjoying the experience without it needing it to win Oscar’s or make 3 billion dollars. It’s like going to a good steakhouse.

29.12.2025 21:34 πŸ‘ 4302 πŸ” 305 πŸ’¬ 78 πŸ“Œ 32

Obviously Cherwell Valley Greggs has run out of everything, because we can’t have nice things

29.12.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Driving in the UK is a joyless and thankless experience

29.12.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Driving home from family Christmas and frankly I give up, the M40 has defeated me. Might spend the night crying in my car at Cherwell Valley services

29.12.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Farmers' anger grows as
Australian beeffloods
into Britain


Meat imports surge 80pc as free-
trade deal sparks criticism over
impact on local producers

Farmers' anger grows as Australian beeffloods into Britain Meat imports surge 80pc as free- trade deal sparks criticism over impact on local producers

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

27.12.2025 09:42 πŸ‘ 3887 πŸ” 1175 πŸ’¬ 283 πŸ“Œ 97
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Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Merry Christmas 😊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.12.2025 11:39 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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This guy disarming the terrorist at Bondi Beach, Australia, can only be described as hero.

14.12.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 4770 πŸ” 972 πŸ’¬ 154 πŸ“Œ 129
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pretty sure I’ve never seen this once in 10 years living in London 🌈😡

12.12.2025 12:40 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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MPs defy whip on Brexit with vote for UK rejoining customs union The β€˜advisory’ Liberal Democrat bill passed the Commons with a majority of one

β€œ[Brexit] choked business investment, shattered economic resilience, strangled trade, shrunk the economy and left every single one of us poorer” πŸ’―
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

10.12.2025 07:47 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This budget could have been a pdf

26.11.2025 12:19 πŸ‘ 66 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

What do you mean sorry?

26.11.2025 12:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What a shitshow obr.uk/docs/dlm_upl...

26.11.2025 12:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0