Power

🏛️ London elects one highly visible mayor, but policing, housing, taxation and local services remain divided. How much power does the Mayor actually possess? 💷

💷 Billionaires take the credit, corporations take the profits, and the public finances the foundations. From the iPhone to Musk’s companies and Britain’s AI ambitions, who carries the risk when the great technological bet fails?

⚖️ Allegations against Jason Arday became a public verdict before the facts were settled, revealing Britain’s deeper presumption of Black illegitimacy.

🛢️ Saudi Arabia doesn’t simply have oil. It controls it. When prices rise, enormous resource revenues flow through a state-built system designed to capture the value at national scale.

🛢️ Andy Burnham says North Sea oil can build the bridge to green energy. But who owns the resources? Who controls the profits? And who exactly is “we”? Political promises mean very little if nobody asks who holds the power.

🇬🇧 A billionaire living in Monaco says Britain has been “colonised” by immigrants. But the country wasn’t taken by workers. It was hollowed out — through ownership, privatisation, asset sales and the transfer of economic power. 💷

🍪 Britain has spent forty years arguing over the crumbs. From Thatcherism and Murdoch to wealth creators, benefit scroungers and the algorithmic outrage machine — someone is always telling you who wants your cookie.

🇬🇧 Britain sold the assets, privatised the infrastructure and outsourced the services. Now ordinary life arrives as a stream of rents, fees, charges and subscriptions — paid to use what we once owned. 💳