@charlottevilliers
Professor of Company Law and Corporate Governance, University of Bristol. Interested in sustainability and law and the interactions between corporate law and employment and labour law. Also interested in politics, art, music, science - everything really 😊
Starmer is against restoring Freedom of Movement.
Please repost if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.
We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
The left needs to fight the murderous austerity regime of Starmer, Reeves and Kendall.
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The United States will be a source of chaos and volatility for the next several years. The first month of 2025 has set the scene. Events so far have included imperial gangsterism against both a poor Latin American country (Colombia) and a rich northern European one (Denmark); a long-overdue ceasefire ending a genocidal military campaign (Gaza); the most expensive natural disaster in US history with climate-fuelled wildfires destroying homes (California); a trillion dollar sell off in the AI bubble in reaction to a Chinese firm's innovation from behind the chips blockade; and the outbreak of a virus (H5N1) that has killed hundreds of millions of US chickens, sending egg prices soaring and raising concerns among scientists of another pandemic. OK, doomer.
This @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter first paragraph omg (“imperial gangsterism” 🔥) — and does not even include everything
Awful situation across the University sector 🥲 qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...
Someone needs to invent some kind of online calculator whereby we Brits can put in our recent healthcare appointments/meds/experiences and it’ll calculate what it would cost on average in the USA. Just to hammer home how bloody lucky we are to have the NHS and how fiercely we need to protect it.
He was clearly not impressed by his Christmas outfit 😬
Three cute little dogs in Christmas outfits
Bath Christmas market and the owner of these doggies let me take a picture -expression on face of doggie at the back 😂😂
Pretty winter morning sunshine through the trees in the park
On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis
A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country
A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation
Echoes of our privatisation of public services in UK. The Tories want even less public interest considerations as they rule in favour of the wealthy.
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This is bad news. Fink will run rings round him.
Starmer is clearly beholden to the US and his corporate donors, one of whom is BlackRock, itself heavily invested in the Nevatim corridor and the annexation of Gaza’ gas fields.
That Starmer is in bed with this malign planet destroying Trump loving company that pretty much owns everything is cause for extremely urgent investigation.
The MSM must give the public the facts about Blackrock, the UK’s future is with the EU not US planet destroyers like Blackrock.
The latest issue of Legal Studies is now online! A range of fascinating pieces!
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Devastating report but some small reason for optimism as “There are political leaders, as well as activists, scientists, renewable energy innovators and regular citizens doing all they can to turn things around…They deserve our support and our partnership.” bylinetimes.com/2024/11/20/c...
Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k
Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0
A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes
I’ll offer more later in articles and interviews but these are some of the things I’m thinking about.
I’ll be talking about this (and more!) on Thurs, Nov 21 with some of my favourite people to think with - join us!
RSVP for the online event, hosted by @haymarketbooks.bsky.social
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A very good Rest is Money two episode podcast on this topic - worth listening. Hope of interest
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Heart-breaking photo essay on women’s lives in Afghanistan: “their hearts are tightened not only by the weight of repression but by the indifference of a world that seems to have forgotten them. Their stories deserve to be heard.”
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Sunlight and shadows on an autumn forest path.
Trump tapped into people’s fears and immiseration. He exploited their anger and frustration. The Democrats offered nothing, no real change.
Of course, Trump is lying but people are desperate for change.
After yesterday’s news here’s a little picture to bring some cheer. Not a brilliant photo but I managed to get the lovely squirrel to look in my direction for a second 😍
We're on the cusp of seeing the effect play out of an extended lack of access to dental care.
With preventative and ordinary care unavailable to many, they have to seek out accessible routes which are emergency care.
Lou Haigh’s comments on P&O explicitly represent govt policy on fire and rehire and PM’s views. It’s not her own view, it’s the government’s stated position. Starmer should have the integrity to stand by her or ditch the policy.
The ministers were right to criticise P&O Ferries. I remember the Parliamentary Select Committee hearings back in March 2022 - such disdain for the workforce from the CEO. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
He/she’s gorgeous 🥰🥰
Excellent article on the profit maximisation and financial engineering tricks of the private equity firms, often at the expense of the most vulnerable. Greedy and immoral vulture capitalism.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Europe’s environmental programme faces a backlash from political and business interests fixated on growing the economy | Natalie Bennett
That £22bn is literally being poured, down a long pipe, into a black hole. The money will stay in the geological strata, even if the carbon dioxide won't.
This is absolute madness. Carbon capture and storage has failed time and again. Labour has slashed reliable green programmes, to pour vast sums of our money into a complete crock. The only possible explanation is lobbying by fossil fuel companies.🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...