In the news

In short because I trust in the C.C. having attempted to do their job properly on this.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/regulator-announces-statutory-inquiry-into-the-captain-tom-foundation

Previous Engagement Prior to the inquiry opening, the Commission
engaged with the charity on the following issues:

In March 2021 the charity requested the regulator’s permission to
employ Hannah Ingram-Moore, a former trustee, on a salary of £60,000
per year, for 3 days a week. The Commission requested evidence of the
benchmarking exercise undertaken. The charity provided the Commission
with this evidence and a revised proposal to appoint Hannah
Ingram-Moore on a salary of £100,000 on a full-time basis. In July
2021 the regulator refused permission to employ Hannah Ingram-Moore as
chief executive on a salary of £100,000, considering the proposed
salary neither reasonable nor justifiable. In August 2021 the
Commission permitted the charity to appoint Hannah Ingram-Moore as
interim CEO on a salary of £85,000 per year, on a 3-month rolling
contract, for a maximum of 9 months whilst the trustees conducted an
open recruitment process. This period has now ended and the charity
has recruited a new CEO.

Either that or this is a witch hunt conspiracy against are Sir Captain Tom and we should all march on our front gardens in outrage.

£100k/year seems very cheap for a self described "leader in every field"

And she provides "omnichannel strategic advice "

What percentage of the chairities income was spent on salaries? (The answer is less than 1% for that time window)

I don't really see how this is a relevant test for whether salaries are too high or too low.

Yeh if the CC is getting involved, you can bet there’s an actual case to be answered.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/29/canadian-radio-station-rage-against-the-machine-song-nonstop

Listen: http://radio.garden/listen/kiss-radio-fm-107-7/8DT223lt

Disappointing: City-killing asteroid won't hit Earth in 2052 after all

Wait no that's good news isn't it

Yeh if the CC is getting involved, you can bet there’s an actual case to be answered.

Sure. So let's see whether any rules or laws have been broken rather than "no smoke without fire".

Slightly annoying that it is the radio edit. Clearly not that pissed off.

omnichannel

My wife is lecturer in fashion management and marketing, she's says "Omnichannel" a lot!

Yeah I noticed that on first listen. I guess whoever is playing it doesn't want to get laid off...

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/vancouver-kiss-fm-rage-against-the-machine-protest-layoffs-1376288/

Omnichannel

I can't hear omnichannel without thinking omnishambles

Omni Trio for me.

https://youtu.be/kLxrHtT2LS0

Brrrrr... omnichannel makes me shiver the crap buzzword to end crap buzzwords

Yehh Omni Trio is the best

That must be unbearable

I was looking at it within the context of her being a self described leader in all fields, some sort of latter day, do gooding Jonathan Millar with her talent only outstripped by her modesty.

I expect there are other gems to be mined from her website

If it's not clear there are effectively two charity's; Tom's original appeal was under umbrella of NHS charities and completely separate to the Captain Tom charity itself which is 'raising awareness' (red flag) and I believe spent more on expenses that it did on charitable work.

It looks like the 'Captain Tom' charity paid for the rights to use Captain Tom imagery and so forth. The company it paid for the rights is / was owned by the daughter and son in law, who also happen to run the 'Captain Tom' charity. Or something.

Yeah you can see the accounts to 31/5/21 show £1m received, £160k in grants given and £240k spent on admin and fundraising including those payments to related companies.

They also filed at the end of May to extend their accounting period to Nov-22 so no-one will see what they were up to till then.

I hope they are just a bit naive / stupid rather than bent. Let's see.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/30/luxembourg-same-sex-husband-seated-viktor-orban-nato-summit?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Good. Fuck Orban.

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Nadine Dorries will literally say any words put in front of her. I think her team are in Anchorman territory.

In St Helens too LOL

https://mobile.twitter.com/danroan/status/1542503588559085569

Oh dear.