US justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files, filing reveals Federal law required majority of documents to be released by 19 December, but only 125,575 pages have been published

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Mone-linked firm PPE Medpro owes £39m in tax Administrator's report shows firm owes £39m to HMRC on top of £148m owed to Department of Health

A company linked to Baroness Michelle Mone and her husband Doug Barrowman owes £39m in tax on top of the £148m it was ordered to pay the government for breaching a contract to supply PPE.
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Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to close care homes and day centres to sell off land Questions about potential conflict of interest as council’s Reform cabinet member for social care owns private care company

Who said “Reform Councillors are all as dodgy AF”❗️

Lancashire’s Reform-run council plans to turf old ppl out closing 5 council-run care homes & 5 day centres to sell off the land for £4 million

And get this - a cabinet member owns a private care company with his wife so could make £’s from it
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People complaining about Socialism always use Capitalism as the example.

OK, not a surprise of course, but a nice trickle of chilli sauce to go with today's US roasting of la Farage.

Plenty of our American cousins see him for what he is. They are specialists in this sort of political cancer but the UK really, REALLY, needs to up its game

Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax

"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich."

My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity.

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Let’s go for it! Tell everyone you know to join @bsky.app and TOGETHER let’s send them packing

I wonder if we could hit 500 reposts of this post 👇. This is important 🚨

The shortest honeymoon in history.

Baroness Hazarika, "Donald Trump's party, particularly Elon Musk, having such close relations with the AfD, amplifying their message"

"What America is trying to do right now, they want this big ideological war in Europe between progressive western values and these MAGA values they want to promote"

#SocialistSunday

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools

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It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world. Oh - and getting g more dangerous by the day.
Trying not to feel defeated by it all. Mostly succeeding. So far.

Me too!

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Private equity reduces patient care while enriching investors, Senate report finds The bipartisan investigation of hospital systems purchased by Apollo Global Management and Leonard Green & Partners reinforced the findings of past academic research.

Private equity reduces patient healthcare, enriches investors, US Senate report finds.

Cuts staffing/wages, profiteers, neglects investment, harms patients.

Yet UK handed, social care, GP surgeries, NHS to PE.

30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.

End the scam.
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Today's PMQs was slightly curious in that to anyone watching the entire thing, it would seem a clear Starmer win. Badenoch's concession she had never previously mentioned grooming gangs in the Commons was almost excruciating. And yet the Tories will get the 'they blocked an inquiry' clips they want.

Trump is the new Hitler.

Seeks territorial expansion,
Bullies less powerful nations,
Wants to deport millions,
Deny citizenship to local born,
Silence critical voices,
Supported by the rich.

Has admirers in the UK.

Massive failure of western education/politics.

Save the future. Oppose fascism.

Thread on X from former Chief Crown Prosecutor on the work former DPP Keir Starmer did to improve operations within the CPS to prosecute grooming gang child abusers

For those unaware…

It's corruption dressed up as donations and the reason why the rich keep accumulating more wealth while the majority get poorer.

Happy anniversary to you both 🙂

How secure is Britain’s food supply? Our food system is vulnerable and it's time to make some radical changes

“the latest Government data shows Britain has a £36.7 billion food trade gap.”

Big Pharma ripoff isn't just in the USA, it is very real in the UK too.

2010-2024 Inflation was 75%

2010 28 tablets of 5mg Dextroamphetamine £3.00
2024 28 tablets of 5mg Dextroamphetamine £24.85

728% inflation, and voila the NHS has no money.

Musk Doubles Down on Support for German Far-Right Party The world’s richest man, a key adviser to President-elect Donald J. Trump, ridicules critics over his backing of the German extremist party AfD, as Germany prepares for elections.

So the world’s richest man, who grew up under apartheid in South Africa and now pulls the mentally deteriorating incoming U.S. president’s strings, has written an op-ed urging Germans to elect a neo-Nazi government. Got that?

Amity

Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future

“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”