How can Cherie Blair work as ‘’ethics advisor’’ to a spyware firm? The whole business is rotten.10/7/2021 If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I admire Cherie Blair. Came from nothing she got a first in law and while creating a stellar legal career as a QC was mum to four children. Not to mention being spouse to the slippery Tony Blair. Since she’s not short of a few bob why on earth, among all the opportunities that come her way, did she decide to take up the role of ‘’ethics advisor’’ to the Israeli spyware firm NSO. NSO was set up by former members of Unit 8200, specialists in the Israeli Intelligence corps, responsible for collecting signals intelligence and code breaking. They hit the jackpot with a very dangerous piece of software, Pegasus. It works by users receiving an SMS which delivers malicious software that compromises the device with no user interaction required. The perpetrator is able to seize full control of messages, cameras, emails, microphone and other apps. Macron is among 14 serving, or former national leaders, who have been spied on in this way. The software hit the headlines yesterday when It was revealed that Dubai’s horse-loving ruler Sheik Mohammed, 72, had in effect used Pegasus to spy on his ex-wife and her divorce lawyer Baroness Shackleton, who has acted for Prince Charles and Prince Andrew. According to evidence in the High Court Ms Blair called Baroness Shackleton on behalf of NSO when they discovered Pegasus was being used against Shackleton. Click Here: Richard Burns saved £270 on his home insurance | Get the best price home insurance quote for your home now Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
What would have made Blair accept an offer from the spyware firm? She is called ‘’ethics advisor’. The whole basis of that business is unethical. I think she should disclose what she is being paid to give this alleged ‘’ethical advice’’ advice? I suspect it’s a hell of lot of money for very little work. My bet is there will be no change out of around £500K-a-year and the firm will be happy to pay it as she is a former PM’s missus and it gives them a cloak of respectability. Only the other day she and her husband were named in the Pandora Papers as having bought a house from a Middle East seller in such a way that it saved them £300,000 in stamp duty. That didn’t concern me. All I thought was that I too would like to be in that position. I don’t feel the same way about her connection with Pegasus. How would you feel if you partner or boss put that spyware on your phone? Unhappy I suspect. Blair claims she is a Socialist. I think being paid in this way would be considered quite wrong by Labour and Tory voters alike. Tear up that contract now Blair. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you.
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If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I have a shocking admission to make; I didn’t enjoy the James Bond film. With all the hoopla it had become a must. I was going to save an entire industry and enjoy myself at the same time. What was there not to like? The truth is outside a couple of great car chase scenes it felt like a movie from a bygone age. The suits, the ties, even the Aston Martins seemed like a throwback to the Sixties when the first Bond film came out. Even Daniel Craig at 53 appeared too old for the role of an all-action fighting, shooting hero. I saw No Time to Die in a small cinema but there was no love coming from the crowd. No whooping and hollering. Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now CLICK HERE: Brian, a truck driver from Derbyshire saved £400 on his energy bills | SEARCH FOR YOUR BEST CAR INSURANCE QUOTE NOW
This franchise is coming to an end. There is no more reason to believe a Bond will survive than a Mondeo. There have been 25 Bond films since Dr No in 1963. 007 has had a great run and made a fortune for everybody concerned. It’s hard to see who will take over from Craig. To my mind it doesn’t matter if it’s a woman, a black actor, trans or a child I just can’t see it working. On the way out the cinema manager wished us goodnight. Kind of him but my sense was that he was more concerned about the future of his job. With Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky and Apple+ producing such great television and with TVs being the size of small cinemas the days of going to the flicks are numbered. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. For two decades Steve Dix has been teaching at a technical college. He has an unblemished record. Back in 2018 as Mr Dix conducted his lesson he could see one of the students had his face down on the desk clearly asleep for at least 15 minutes. The student, still wearing his hoodie inside the class, did not even respond to his name being called out. To my mind that disgraceful act should have led to the student being suspended from Neath Port Talbot College in Wales. That didn’t happen. Instead in a bid to wake him Dix decided to gently lob a piece of cardboard at the teenager. And unbelievably this led to the college sacking Dix. So Dix went to an employment tribunal arguing that the firing was ‘’unduly harsh’’ but they rejected his claim saying he was ‘’reckless’’ in throwing the cardboard. I don’t agree. What should a lecturer do in the face of a sleeping student? Gently rouse him? Plead with him to wake up? Ask his student chums to read him the Iliad? CLICK HERE: Alwyn Williams saved £342 on his car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
Despite the ruling Dix won his claim for of unfair dismissal over the technical flaws in the investigation process. But he will receive no compensation because he would still have been sacked if the process had been fair. What a ridiculous judgment. Absurd that Dix was fired in the first place. Sure, it may have not been in the rules to throw stuff at thick and sleeping students but what harm was done. It was a piece of cardboard for God’s sake. The college could have simply taken him aside and sought an assurance that it should not happen again. What certainly should have happened is that the student have been at the minimum suspended and if I had my way be kicked out. The chances of that kid making anything of his life are nil and the fact that he has managed to destroy the life of a lecturer quite wrong. The college emerge shockingly. Why didn’t they stand by their employee? Be interested to hear from anybody with an inside track. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. If it were you and I the idea of buying a building and saving £312,000 in stamp duty would make it enormously attractive. But if you were a former Labour Prime Minister (yes a Labour PM) and your missus was a QC you might have thought you would think twice about it. After all when Tony Blair was in No.10 he campaigned about cracking down on tax loopholes for the super-rich but when faced with exactly the same position what did he do; he jumped in feet first and did the deal. This is all revealed in a great piece of financial investigation called the Pandora papers. It shows that back in 2017 Cheri Blair and husband Tony paid £6.7million for the four-floored building in Mayfair which was to become the HQ of her government advisory firm Omnia Strategy. Click Here: Jean Burnley saved £174 on her home insurance | Get your cheapest home insurance quote now Click Here: Save £££ on travel insurance | Make sure your holiday is covered | Compare cheap travel insurance now
The seller was a Bahraini minister and the Blairs acquired the property’s holding company and not the building and therefore avoided having to pay stamp duty. There is nothing illegal in what they did, a point the Blairs made in their response to the story. But being a Labour couple they surely have to be like Caesar’s wife, above suspicion. Or once he was out of Downing Street perhaps he no longer cared about his PR and his standing as a former Prime Minister. Shame on him if that is how he thinks. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I am indebted to Fiona Hamilton, Crime Editor of The Times, for revealing the astonishing fact that Sarah Everard’s killer Wayne Couzens will keep at least a third of his pension because rules do not allow him to be stripped of the money he had paid in. Apparently Home Office guidelines show an individual’s pension cannot be forfeited by more than the 65% which came from the police purse. Four judges, in separate cases, concluded it would be wrong to take the remaining 35% as it represented the officer’s own contributions. Allegedly to strip any of that would be a clear infringement if the officer’s rights under the European convention of Human Rights. Is this a joke? CLICK HERE: Andy Burgess, from Norwich, saved £100 on his car insurance | SAVE ON YOUR CAR INSURANCE NOW Click Here: Kurt, a salesman from Surrey, saved £300 on his home insurance | Get cheap quotes now
The man will go down in history as one of nation’s most cunning and vile killers and yet while languishing in jail his pension will sit there nice and secure and presumably increasing in value until it is time for him to collect. Surely the law should be changed so when the judge hands down the sentence to Couzens and other police officers he can take away the pension right. In Couzens case he was only in the Met for less than three years so the sums are not huge but it’s the message to the public that matters. As for his family do they really want to have anything to do with him ever again? Does he wife really want to pick up that money in say a decade’s time? Isn’t it tainted? Hasn’t that cash got blood all over it. I would have thought so. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. If you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. I found it incredible that as Wayne Couzens was sentenced by Lord Justice Fulford at the Old Bailey he began shaking. And kept his eyes firmly closed. How incredible that a vile and cunning killer of an innocent young woman simply walking home could show any ordinary emotion. What on earth would make him shake? Didn’t he think he was going to be locked up for the rest of his life? Or having seen the justice system in action did he believe that he would receive a years’ probation and £20 out of the poor box? As a long-time believer in the death penalty I wish there had been another outcome but now I know that Couzens, 48, feels fear I feel happier that he will receive a second more severe sentence from fellow prisoners. Yes, he will be in solitary for much of his time but the moment prison officers look away (and I do hope they look away) the prisoners will pounce. The murder of Sarah Everard will have wide-ranging effect on all police officers. I said in a tweet that Couzens no more represents police officers than Hitler represents Germans. One follower had a better analogy saying Couzens no more represents police officers than Shipman represents doctors. CLICK HERE: Jim, a radio presenter from Glasgow saved a whopping £600 on his car insurance | GET A QUOTE NOW Click Here: Save ££££ on your home insurance | Get a quote now
Unfortunately as in all organisations there are bad apples. And in the Met’s case some very apples indeed. The Times reports (and Mailonline then stole) that Couzens exchanged misogynistic, racist and homophobic material with colleagues on Whatsapp literally months before he kidnapped, raped and murdered poor Sarah Everard. Three serving Met officers, an officer from Norfolk constabulary and another from the civil nuclear constabulary are now being investigated for gross misconduct. Could I suggest to all serving police officers they no longer allow colleagues to send them these online ‘’gags.’’ It could cost them their good name and their career. It will lead to a tension between friends but better that than cost them their jobs. These are changing times. And the reality is that male officers either have to change or they have to go. Get the latest outspoken views and opinion from Kelvin MacKenzie straight to your inbox. Sign up here for the Kelvin MacKenzie newsletter. PS: So just to mention again but if you plan to buy either car or home insurance I wonder if you might look at my small price comparison site A Spokesman Said as we earn a little commission from each sale which helps fund the research and editorial costs of running the site. It has the same offer as the big ones like Go Compare. Thank you. |
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