Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Today, the energy price cap set by Ofgem goes up yet again.

¼ of your bill was taken as profit by energy companies in 2024 — an average of £416 per household.

Families are squeezed to pad the pockets of shareholders.

🧵 Here’s how the public has been turned into a cash machine.

How the simmering UK freedom of speech row reached boiling point How did we reach a point where the UK is being compared to a 'tin pot Third World dictatorship'?

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.

There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.

Passengers not profit: a vision for the Railways Bill. Statement from Dr Grace Brown, Researcher at University of Glasgow. "Since privatisation, Rolling Stock Operating Companies (ROSCOs) - the companies that own the trains in our railway - have extracted billions in profits – up to 25% of every ticket sold – while reinvesting little in new trains. This leaves passengers with outdated fleets, even though ROSCO dividends between 2012-18 could have paid for 700 new vehicles. Time to end the rip-off."

3 Rolling Stock Operating Companies own most of the 15,200 vehicles that run on Britain’s railways, making huge profits for their overseas shareholders.

They are the gravy train - and they have to go.

Read our new report on the future of our railways today👇
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When business groups judge a government has firmly decided to do something they don't like, they often cut their losses and stop criticising it because their cost-benefit analysis says that speaking out won't stop it but could piss off the government, get them frozen out, or worse.

See: Brexit.

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Farage cries betrayal over access to fish stocks. But NEVER FORGET he stood down hundreds of Brexit Party PPCs to help Johnson win big in 2019 and it was Johnson who negotiated the access. There's no change to access, just an extension on existing deal for 12 years. If it's on anyone, it's Farage

DYSON strawberries in @sainsbury.bsky.social

No thank you.

Boycott Dyson.

#boycottdyson

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Land of Hope and Dreams

@hcrichardson.bsky.social please post this video of Springsteen’s inspiring words at his Manchester concert:

youtu.be/6ZHWIYHlXOs?...

A couple of things.

Asylum Seekers can't claim benefits, the money for their accommodation goes straight to the rich Conservative Hotel owners, they can't get Council Houses, and they WANT to work.

Good day.

Here is a radical suggestion.Perhaps party strategists all over the UK should step back from their focus groups for two minutes and think less about how to campaign, and more why they want to win. What is your plan for the country? Make up your mind, then try to sell it.
Old-fashioned, I know.

The rule of law is democracy's last shield, that's why would-be strongmen or women - from Trump to Le Pen, Orban and Erdogan to Netanyahu, work so hard to undermine it

www.ft.com/content/85c8...

Last week I had a delivery which took over an hour. Offered the driver tea/coffee/water/loo. He said pre Covid everyone offered coffee etc. Since Covid it hardly ever happened.

Sanders: I'm not a mathematician but I do know that 99% is a hell of a lot bigger number than 1%. I do know that if we stand together, we are the vast majority of people. We can defeat trumpism

Lord Bamford owes £500,000,000 to HMRC he has retired from the House of Lords and fled.

He expects his debt just like Michelle Mone's £232,000,000 debt to be written off.

We must recover every penny from these thieves, and toss them in jail.

“I was hungry” and you cut $1 Billion in funding to schools and food banks.

“I was sick” and you worked to gut medicaid, depriving me of healthcare.

“I was a stranger” and you defined my humanity by legal status.

“What ever you do to the least of these, you do unto me.”-Jesus

Hats off to the genius behind this.

London does indeed rock.

Find a cool product on Amazon? That company exists OFF Amazon, too. 1) Google company name. 2) Order from their site. 2a) Can usually find a 10% code! 3) Still get product in 2-8 days. 4) Company avoids losing 25% margin share to Amazon. 5) You avoid giving money to Bezos.

🎯

Local cheese shop offers unmissable deal this weekend.

THE FASTEST GROWING HEAT PUMP MARKET IN THE WORLD:

The UK heat pump market grew by 63% in 2024.

As far as I know it is currently the fastest growing heat pump market in the world.

Find a cool product on Amazon? That company exists OFF Amazon, too. 1. Google company name 2. Order from their site 2a. Can usually find a 10% code! 3. Can still get product in 2 - 8 days. 4. Company avoids losing 25% margin share to Amazon. 5. You avoid giving money to Bezos.

Time to use Amazon like they used to use brick-and-mortar book stores!

Donald Trump says stopping military aid is the best way to get peace, except in the middle East where apparently it's best to keep arming Israel

I’ve visited the US multiple times, have loved it and the lovely people

I won’t be visiting for the next 4 years or so

I’m sure they won’t miss me or my family

But they might miss everyone else

Trump tax!

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

The EU wasn’t formed to screw anyone. Quite the opposite. It was formed to maintain peace, to build respect among our nations, to create free and fair trade, and to strengthen our transatlantic friendship. As simple as that. 🇪🇺🇺🇸

Trump’s bestie Putin jailed and murdered the last guy that ran against him.

After poisoning him.

If you haven’t downloaded the #LBC app, I implore you do so, and listen to the first 20+ minutes of @mrjamesob.bsky.social today.