Ian Fraser
@Ian_Fraser
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Journalist and author of Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain.‘Read it & weep’ (Martin Wolf). Comms lead @FutureEconScot.
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Joined November 2009
The latest edition of my book Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain (@BirlinnBooks, May 2019) is now available in paperback and Kindle. This fully revised and updated edition includes four new chapters. #NatWest
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This Twitter account is to become largely dormant from Monday, 20 January 2025. To continue to follow me, please go to Bluesky or LinkedIn.
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@smerkinkones those attack ads of April 2023, and Keir Starmer's doubling down on them, were a particularly low point for Keir Starmer's Labour.
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“For months, Israel has persisted in committing genocidal acts, fully aware of the irreparable harm it is inflicting on Palestinians in Gaza,” says @amnesty secretary-general Agnès Callamard. The Amnesty report on the genocide in Gaza is NOT “fake news”.
Israeli spokesperson David Mencer says Amnesty’s genocide claim against Israel is "a classic example of antisemitism" and "Holocaust inversion" ⬇️
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@richard_cl30978 @shattenstone AFAIK, he still lives in Edinburgh. It's seven years old now, but this Daily Mail is probably still reasonably accurate.
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@tyillc @josiahmortimer When the CEO of the recently-formed FCA, Martin Wheatley, showed signs of actually wanting to properly regulate the UK financial services sector, he was sacked by chancellor George Osborne
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@Jenkoranian @BirlinnBooks Charles Jencks designed something similar near Dumfries (The Garden of Cosmic Speculation), but this one is (Cells of Life) at @jupiterartland west of Edinburgh.
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On this performance, I don't think Kemi Badenoch will last long as LOTO. #PMQs
Kemi Badenoch criticises the mandate to ban the sale of petrol cars, apparently forgetting that she was the one who introduced it.
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@frasermatthew This is pretty much what Robert Maxwell did when he owned the Mirror (though no algorithms were involved, just bullying), and we know how that ended.
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@Research_Act @jamiermann @atulkshah @FerretScot @premnsikka No worries - I should have mentioned that that Ferret article (dated 13th May 2021) was largely based on 'Democracy Denied: Audit and accountability failure in local government', an April 2021 research report from @Research_Act / @Gian_TCatt!
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MPs’ report concludes that financial regulator FCA is “incompetent at best, dishonest at worst,” that its actions are “slow and inadequate,” that its leaders are “opaque and unaccountable,” and that too often it fails to perform its functions.
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@Research_Act @jamiermann @atulkshah In @FerretScot, we also quoted @premnsikka saying that allowing “profit-seeking accounting firms” to audit in both the public and private sector is “always a problem, as their focus is to make more and more money”.
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