Sharon Payne

50 years ago it was accepted by everyone that Water, Energy, Public Transport, Social Housing, Child Social Care, Telecoms and much more was all owned by the Government (you) and was free from profit.

We need to make that normal again, as it is the source of most of the problems

We are certainly living in topsy turvy times!

TfL wants to create a publicly owned bus company for London If established, it would be the first major publicly owned bus company to operate in the capital for thirty years.

Amazing news! 🎉🚌🎉🚌🎉🚌

Well done @mayoroflondon.bsky.social "If a private company is making profit, would it not be nice if it was run by us, and we made the profit and reinvested it in public transport rather than in our shareholders getting dividends?" 👏👏👏

www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...

Definitely worth a few minutes of your time

I missed all the kerfuffle around this in the MSM

Maybe I read the wrong papers? 🤭

The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.

Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.

The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today

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I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it

An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

Keyless ignition - the most pointless invention we didn’t need!

Just listening to R4 this morning & thinking exactly this!

Graphic with the headline “London is the greatest city in the world” set against a bright view of the River Thames with the Shard, Tower Bridge and the city skyline. The text celebrates what makes London special: regularly voted the number one city in the world, incredible diversity with over 300 languages spoken, world-class transport, world leader in finance tech and life sciences, best museums and galleries many free to visit, world-leading nightlife, food sport and music for every taste, host to the world’s best sporting events, home to seven Premier League clubs, globally-ranked universities, a city where you can be yourself and love who you love, and a place for everyone.

Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐

Our own @pimlicat.bsky.social explaining why giving Musk a foothold in our energy infrastructure is a REALLY bad idea, to @lewisgoodall.com on @lbc.co.uk just now.

"If you were a UK regulator, why would you think somebody who has said 'I don't give a damn about regulations' is fit and proper?" ~AA

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We published a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza. It made an impact globally – and created controversy | Elisabeth Ribbans Initially, we did not know that Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq had existing health needs. But his medical details do not diminish his suffering, or that of other children in Gaza

We published a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza. It made an impact globally – and created controversy | Elisabeth Ribbans

A 'good constituency MP'? how ‘hard working local politicians’ are facilitating a genocide I ran into my MP today...

I wrote this up - how “hard working local MPs” are facilitating a genocide:

open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...

London's crime rate now is half of what it was in 1990 and nearly a quarter of 1975.

But all Farage has is BS and lies.

Burnham’s alternative welfare reform for Greater Manchester Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, proposes a new model of support for people in his area, based on their needs

Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, proposes a new model of support for people in his area, based on their needs.

“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.

This is unsurprisingly very good, although we should be clear that the narrative of Jenrick, Goodhart and Goodwin that immigration has ruined London is no different in either its factual basis or its racist motivation from Trump/Vance's "Haitians are eating your pets".

Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.

But he didn't.

Don't RT 🤣

They hate London because it is beautiful Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.

Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London.

"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."

open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Good information to know.

So true!

This is excellent, if you are already weary of Google AIsplaining everything.

Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target” The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.

Dismissed FAA staffer Ronicsa Chambers said her team members — five Black women and one white man with a disability — were told they would be reassigned but remain without work.

“As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.”

New, @davidmcswane.bsky.social @propublica.org

Not in our name: Women in support of the trans+ community Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Please sign this petition in solidarity with trans people. Trans sisters are our sisters!

chng.it/QgKrTzJKbY

Also, UK publishing is worth £11bn and yet our IP and creative resources are being given away...

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@timharris57.bsky.social

A headline from The Times, with Nick Clegg saying that requiring permission from copyright holders to train AI on their word would 'kill' the AI industry. Boo fecking hoo.

My plans for a major retail emporium are being threatend by wholesalers who won't let me steal the stock.