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Agreed; now all we need to do is convince the BBC to stop giving them credibility.

But our press continues to give that person a free ride

Some people have more than one job & get paid by companies that advise already obscenely wealthy people just how to avoid paying tax bsky.app/profile/maxb...

​​Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million

Matt Hancock used his personal email account to help a 'VIP' supplier win a £25 million PPE Covid contract

The company, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of completely unusable PPE, later went bust, owing taxpayers millions

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Please read and share widely.

Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen!
Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉
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This thread shows how close US is now getting to a constitutional crisis - as opposed to constitutional drama.

Once the executive freely disregards court orders without sanction then US pretty much has a constitutional crisis.

Things are coming to a head.

Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all, says Gordon Brown, the UN’s special envoy for global e...

Gordon Brown is right on this

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Mugshots of the offenders in a Glasgow child sex abuse ring.

Grooming gangs and csa are weaponised as part of certain bad faith actors attempts to make them seem race, religion or "integration" based. They aren't. Main offenders are actually white anyway. When you make them about race you risk ignoring other abusers like these.
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Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics Opinium survey of 2,000 adults found concern about the impact of growing wealth inequality in the UK

Nearly two-thirds of Britons say very rich have too much influence on politics www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Rachel Reeves: Why is she suddenly in a rush, asks Laura Kuenssberg The chancellor raised taxes in the Budget - but now she wants to get rid of barriers to business. Why the change of focus?

Why do BBC give Laura Kuenssberg free rein to write this drivel?

"The big picture is tough. The country's debts are massive and taxes are huge."

It's not even wrong/biased. It's just vacuous twaddle that adds absolutely nothing to public understanding of the issues.

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I found a lot of the Faithful this time really unattractive personalities; bullying and shouting at their chosen victim. Minah, then Alexander and Alex were my hoped for winners.

Trump's first week: The Real Story Let it be known

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A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country.

We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.

Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

🔴Twenty Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

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Trump will overplay his hand. Be ready for when he does. Friends,

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Jan. 6 rioter declines Trump pardon: ‘We were wrong that day’ Pamela Hemphill, who served prison time for actions she took on Jan. 6, 2021, said she will not accept President Trump’s pardon and that his supporters were “wrong” for storming the Capitol four ye…

WOW: Pamela Hemphill, who served prison time for Jan. 6 said she will not accept Trump’s pardon. “We were wrong that day. We broke the law. Accepting a pardon would only insult the Capitol Police officers, rule of law and, of course, our nation,” Hemphill told the BBC. thehill.com/regulation/c...

This is the problem; the moans of the rich are always heard because they are loud and always listened to; the rest of us not so much.

The jig is up Global corporations are now ending the pretense that they’re socially responsible. That’s progress, in a way.

I hope he’s right; there’s not much other hope around
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A word for America. See also UK under the Tories

This is the only flag I’m flying today. For Janey. #Trumpisacunt Let’s make it trend.

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Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit?

Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

Difficult to see what was wrong with that. Those awkwardly ‘biased’ facts…

Dear BlueSkyers. Sadly I'm getting many reports of scammers pretending to be me here, incl messaging people with 'investments' . Pls share/help me spread word that, as you know, THIS IS MY ONLY BLUE SKY account (proved as my handle is an official MoneySavingExpert one). All others are scams

Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban In an instant, Sam Pordale went from a world of privilege to becoming a refugee in imminent danger. He talks about how he lost everything and began to rebuild his life On 15 August 2021, 21-year-old Sam Pordale and his father found themselves part of a…

Six days on a small boat in rough seas: my terrifying, death-defying escape from the Taliban