Tom Killick

Infographic with Thames Water logo overlaid on a pie chart: 36% believe that shareholders should not receive any compensation if the entire water sector comes into special administration.

The Government has said it would cost £99 billion to nationalise the water sector, but refusing shareholders compensation would put the cost of public ownership of water well below this. The true cost in law is closer to zero. 1/3

Qualco UK and Thames Water announced partnership - Credit Connect Thames Water Partners with Qualco UK to Advance Customer Engagement and Affordability Management Qualco UK, part of Qualco Group, has announced a

"One of the most demanding customer environments in the UK" 👇

That's one way of describing a bill increase of 40% by a company whose own shareholders have walked away

TAKE THAMES WATER BACK, stop the state sanctioned rip off

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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Banning Dissent and Criminalizing Palestine Activism Palestine Action's Huda Ammori speaks about the group's terror designation being decommissioned in the UK. Carrie Prejean Boller discusses her ouster from Trump's religious liberty commission.

Banning Dissent and Criminalizing Palestine Activism

Palestine Action's Huda Ammori speaks about the group's terror designation being decommissioned in the UK.

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Why dispute ruling on Palestine Action, but accept legal challenge on elections? | Brief letters Brief letters: Legal muddles | Woody Guthrie | Cabbage queen | Ode to pigeons | The mystery of birth

Why dispute ruling on Palestine Action, but accept legal challenge on elections?

Why is it that the law, both in the UK and internationally, can always be ignored when it comes to Palestine?

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‘Political pressure’ on CPS to charge activists MINISTERS are applying political pressure on the CPS to prosecute Palestine Action supporters after the High Court ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully when it banned the direct action group un...

‘Political pressure’ on CPS to charge activists

“If the director of public prosecutions and CPS are willing to so blatantly go against both a High Court ruling and the public interest, questions need to be asked about where this pressure is coming from?”

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A reminder that the UK Government was willing to let some of these young people DIE rather than simply meet with them to discuss their unfair treatment in prison

They have been held for over a year and a half without trial, only to be acquitted and have ‘terror links’ disproven.

‘Political pressure’ on CPS to charge activists MINISTERS are applying political pressure on the CPS to prosecute Palestine Action supporters after the High Court ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully when it banned the direct action group un...

"Ministers are applying political pressure on the CPS to prosecute Palestine Action supporters after the High Court ruled that the Home Office acted unlawfully when it banned the direct action group under terror laws last summer." @defendourjuries.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/poli...

Stop the attack on our right to protest The government is planning new powers that could seriously restrict your right to protest. Under these proposals, police could limit or block protests based on the so-called “cumulative impact” of pas...

Our right to protest is under threat. I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition to stop new police powers that could shut down many peaceful protests and weaken our democratic rights. Add your name too: foe.uk/1tjku

‘Jordan is next’: West Bank annexation signals ‘silent transfer’ Jordan warns of war as Israel's 'silent transfer' in the occupied West Bank becomes an operational reality.

Jordan "has traditionally maintained a cold peace with the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah while shunning Hamas and other resistance factions, a policy Oraib al-Rantawi [from a Jordanian think-tank] believes has been a strategic error." www.aljazeera.com/features/202...

Keir Starmer promised ‘change’ but his government is as sleazy as the Tories The Labour Party is gruesome indeed – no wonder trust in it is plummeting, writes Paul Kavanagh

"Starmer’s promise of change was always a sham. Starmer himself, a man with all the human warmth and emotional depth of an AI-generated crypto-coin advert on social media, was never going to bring humanity and compassion into government." www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Palestine Action ruling shows Labour can’t just rewrite the rules The Labour Government has ironically been found to have acted unlawfully in an attempt to outlaw opposition to the genocide in Gaza

"Yet this is more than just a legal loss for the Labour Government. It is indicative of a political mission rooted in entitlement, poor judgement and a willingness to persecute those who oppose them." www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Dirty Business — could this TV drama be the next Mr Bates vs the Post Office? David Thewlis and Jason Watkins star in a powerful new Channel 4 series about the scandal of river pollution and its tragic consequences

Excited to watch this!

As @jason-watkins.bsky.social rightly says "I absolutely agree fundamentally that privatisation of the water industry has been a disaster"

Dirty Business begins on (publicly owned!) Channel 4 on 23 Feb, 9pm 📺

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MP urged to oppose plan letting Thames Water discharge illegal sewage until 2040 Campaigners urge MPs and Ofwat to reject Thames Water’s deal allowing illegal sewage discharges until 2040, citing environmental and public health…

"letting water companies decide the terms of their own regulation would set an incredibly dangerous new precedent for the water industry."

Thank you to the 24 MPs who signed our open letter to Ofwat, and said NO to Thames Water setting their own rules.

We're still waiting for Ofwat's response.

Infographic with Thames Water logo overlaid on a pie chart: 53% said that it would be reasonable for Thames Water customers to stop paying their bills.

Our polling of Thames Water customers revealed that affordability is a major concern.

People are sick of paying for a broken water system, while watching shareholders as they extract eyewatering profits.

We need Thames Water in public hands, away from the private profiteers.

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BREAKING NEWS: James McAsh defects to the Green Party, seven months after his Southwark Labour leadership victory was overturned James McAsh has defected to the Greens, seven months after his victory in Southwark Council's leadership election was overturned by

Yet another Labour councillor in London joins Greens. Here it's James McAsh in Southwark. southwarknews.co.uk/featured/bre...

Disgraceful - the government should remove South West Water's licence

Last year it was rated red ("significantly below target") for environmental performance for the *14th year in a row*

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

Act now to stop the London CIV's divestment U-turn! The London CIV is setting up a new "responsible investment matrix" on 1 April. Act now to call on the chair of your borough's pension committee to demand this new matrix makes divestment from genoci...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Act now to stop the London CIV's divestment U-turn!. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/act-...

Swiss broadcaster calls out Israel's genocide in Gaza during Winter Olympics coverage COVERAGE from a Swiss public broadcaster has gone viral online after a commentator highlighted an Israeli athlete’s past comments supporting…

"Coverage from a Swiss public broadcaster has gone viral online after a commentator highlighted an Israeli athlete’s past comments supporting Israel’s “morally just” genocide in Gaza while competing at the Winter Olympics." Good!!! #FreePalestine www.thenational.scot/news/2586063...

Green watchdog loses fight to hide key information about its bosses The Environment Agency has to reveal its area directors' financial interests after a two-year battle with a clean water charity.

💰The Environment Agency allows its staff to hold shares in the companies it regulates.

⁉️And we're supposed to believe that regulation is going to fix the water crisis?!

🎉Huge congratulations to WASP on their victory - directors in the EA will now have to reveal their financial interests

Sewage spills in London and South East worse than ever this year Some overflows have been releasing sewage into rivers non-stop for over a week as the network struggles to deal with wet weather

This government promised to be tough on sewage pollution.

Thames Water has polluted for 80,000 hours in the first six weeks of 2026 alone.

That's a 75% increase on the same period last year.

Regulation has FAILED. It's time for public ownership of water.

Screenshot of a Facebook post by Martin Lewis, dated 25 April 2025: Today's Poll: Should the water industry in the UK be in private ownership or public/state run? "Private" click LIKE emoticon "Public/State run" click LOVE emoticon "Don't care" click CARE emoticon

Last April, Martin Lewis asked people on Facebook whether water should be in private or public ownership. The response was unanimous.
🅾️NO support for private ownership
💯Total support for public ownership
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UN defends rapporteur Albanese after calls for her resignation THE United Nations stepped up its support today for the world body’s special rapporteur on Palestine who is facing calls to resign.UN Human Rights Office spokesperson Marta Hurtado has hit back at con...

“The fact [is] that instead of stopping Israel, most of the world has armed, given Israel political excuses, political sheltering, economic and financial support.” Well said Francesca Albanese. @franceskalbs.bsky.social morningstaronline.co.uk/article/un-d...

After High Court victory, Palestine Action founder says UK ban ‘backfired’ Huda Ammori celebrates 'victory for Palestine' as top court rules proscription as a 'terror' organisation was unlawful.

Palestine Action cofounder Ammori after High Court win: UK ban ‘backfired’

Huda Ammori celebrates ‘victory for Palestine’ as top court rules proscription as a ‘terror’ organisation was unlawful

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The Representation of the People Bill MUST scrap First Past the Post First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped. Yet the new Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our rotten voting system, which lea...

First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.

Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.

Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
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Over 50 Academics Warn That Voting System Is Not Fit For Multi-Party Politics Dozens of academics have written to the government to warn that the current voting system risks producing distorted results on an 'unprecedented' s...

"Fragmentation of the electorate reached breaking point in May’s local elections – with winners elected on as little as 19% of the vote – and since then polling has moved ever deeper into uncharted territory" said @alexsobel.co.uk. @makevotesmatter.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Defend Our Juries Co-Founder Tim Crosland explains what the High Court ruling showing over the Palestine Action ban means in real terms.

He adds a renewed call for a meeting with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to discuss the harm that has been done since this ban was introduced.

@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social explains the high court ruling has shown those thousands of people arrested for peacefully protesting their opposition to the proscription of Palestine Action were right.

Reverend Sue Parfitt became a symbol of the Lift The Ban campaign after her arrest in July. She shares her thoughts on the proscribing of Palestine Action.

“It’s the duty of all of us to resist.”

This video was filmed prior to the announcement that the ban is unlawful.

Palestine Action Has Defeated the Government: What Happens Next? | Harriet Williamson The group’s proscription as a terrorist organisation was unlawful and ‘disproportionate’, judges have ruled. But the fight isn’t quite over yet. Harriet Williamson reports.

Palestine Action Has Defeated the Government: What Happens Next?

Police forces that made arrests under the Palestine Action ban could be hit with a wave of lawsuits following the group’s “monumental victory” in court, legal experts have said.

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