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Ian Fraser
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Author and journalist. Latest edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’, about the pivotal role of what's now called NatWest in the global banking crash, was reissued in 2024. Recovering financial editor.
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Post a book you love from the 1980s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
First edition of Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, pubished Faber & Faber, May 1989.
November 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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While the Telegraph's "Starmer faces Lords revolt over migrants’ secret court appeals" article has been corrected, an earlier one written by Isaac Crowson, Amy Gibbons and Tim Sigsworth still includes falsehoods about Sarah Pinder and Free Movement.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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The world needs more journalists like ABC chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce.
ABC journalist Mary Bruce quote tweets Jamal Khashoggi’s widow Hanan Elatr, who thanked her for her brave intervention in the Oval Office of the White House yesterday, when she asked Trump and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman questions about the brutal murder of fellow journalist Jamal Khashoggi On 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi was killed by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate. His body was dismembered and disposed of in some way that was never publicly revealed.
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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No, none of the House of Fraser Frasers are relations. If you're interested, here's more on Sir Hugh Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of Allander, who I think died one month before the Aviemore Centre opened

www.housefraserarchive.ac.uk/person/?id=p...
November 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Art gallery where Princess Eugénie is director charged with busting Russian sanctions.

The gallery's owners, Iwan Wirth and Manuela Hauser, also own the Groucho Club in London and Fife Arms in Braemar.

www.thetimes.com/article/6fbf...
November 12, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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The car was a right-hand drive Lancia 2000 Coupé belonging to Storm Thorgerson, founder of Hipgnosis, who designed the cover of Peter Gabriel‘s first solo album (“Car”). The photographer was Peter Christopherson.

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November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle in it.
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Updated edition of my book ‘Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain’—about why the world’s largest bank by assets collapsed in 2008 and took more than a decade to recover—available here:

www.amazon.co.uk/Shredded-Ins...

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/shre...

www.hive.co.uk/Product/Ian-...
Cover of the hardback edition of Shredded: Inside RBS The Bank That Broke Britain, by Ian Fraser published by Birlinn Ian Fraser’s Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain was named as Book of the Year by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Week and Huffington Post and one of best books of the decade by the Financial Times. Shredded has also been described as the “definitive account” of Royal Bank of Scotland’s collapse, one of the five best books on the global financial crisis, and “a model of the journalist’s craft”. The banking group that the book is about changed its name from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC to NatWest Group PLC on 22 July 2020. Paperback edition of Shredded: Inside RBS That Bank That Broke Britain, updated and revised edition publised in 2024. Ian Fraser’s Shredded: Inside RBS, The Bank That Broke Britain was named as Book of the Year by the Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Week and Huffington Post and one of best books of the decade by the Financial Times. Shredded has also been described as the “definitive account” of Royal Bank of Scotland’s collapse, one of the five best books on the global financial crisis, and “a model of the journalist’s craft”. The banking group that the book is about changed its name from The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC to NatWest Group PLC on 22 July 2020.
November 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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Recommended listening: Neil Collins and Jonathan Ford of A Long Time In Finance explore the life, legacy and deals of great pension purloiner (and father of Ghislaine) Robert Maxwell with his biographer, John Preston. @libraryofmistakes.bsky.social

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Robert Maxwell wearing a white tuxedo and black bow-tie with his daughter Ghislaine in a strapless dress in about 1987
November 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Who knew? South Lanarkshire Council HQ, originally Lanark County Buildings (1963) was in part modelled on the United Nations secretariat building in New York City, designed by a team that included Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer (1952).
The Lanark County Buildings, also referred to as the South Lanarkshire Council Headquarters, is a local government facility in Hamilton, Scotland. It currently serves as the headquarters and meeting place of South Lanarkshire Council. The building opened in 1963 and was modelled on the United National Secretariat building in New York City.
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Nigel Farage: the ultimate grifter.

@privateeyenews.bsky.social follows the crypto flows.
Image shows a Private Eye article from 31 October 2025 about Nigel Farage receiving generous freebies from Thai based British tech investor Christopher Harbourne and talking up the cryptocurrency he favours. The article says that Harborne is a “significant shareholder” in Tether.
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Straight outta Pyongyang
October 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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The consternation from other countries at the IMF meetings in Washington DC about the US’s behaviour on the world stage, and it's likely consequences, was palpable.
October 21, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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The idea that a mixed-race woman should present a football show is just too much for Spectator and Spiked columnist Patrick West. 🥴
A Spectator column on BBC football programmes written by Patrick West who mainly writes for Spiked
October 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Remarkable, in-depth investigative journalism from Richard Brooks in @privateeyenews.bsky.social exposing, among other things, “Teesside’s top trouserers.” Runs across eight pages in the current issue.
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Oh, look who was standing closest to Nigel Farage when a group of Brexit Party MEPs arrived in Strasbourg to take up their seats in July 2019
October 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Mikeno VI’s Turkish-born skipper Muhammad Kuchuktigin made history today when he successfully breached Israel’s eighteen-year blockade of Gaza.
October 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Flotilla tracker currently shows Mikeno IV, a 12m ketch, to be “sailing” and in Palestine’s territorial waters.

Almost all the other vessels in the Global Samud Flotilla have been intercepted by Israel and their arrested.
October 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Jack Anderton, the 24-year-old Farage adviser who thinks Britain would be better off if he hadn’t fought Nazi Germany in WWII has resurfaced with a column in the Daily Mail. And guess what? It's full of shit about Charlie Kirk.
October 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Daily Mirror on Trump’s UN speech "Deranged"

#tomorrowspaperstoday
September 23, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The New Yorker on Jimmy Kimmel.

@newyorker.com @jimmykimmel.com
September 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Of course Reform UK leader Nigel Farage didn’t avoid £44,000 in stamp duty on his Clacton-on-Sea constituency “home”.
September 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Yes, Stephen Flynn's right.

This is what Peter Mandelson, aka the Prince of Darkness, said to FT political editor @georgewparker.bsky.social on the train from London to Manchester.

www.ft.com/content/085e...
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Spotted on a table by the entrance @waterstones.bsky.social Salisbury. ‘Upon A White Horse’ by @peteralanross.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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GMB's Susannah Reid clearly furious with Kevin Maguire for telling the truth about asylum seekers.

Maguire was right and correct to say that Reid's fellow ITV presenter Rylan Clark "regurgitated a load of myths and lies" about asylum seekers.

Full item: youtu.be/PC7m5f_Ryp8?...
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM