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If you're going insist that certain groups are going to have to accept a "reduction in their rights" then you're going to have accept the reaction you get to that may not necessarily come in the form of polite letter writing and debate.

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

Gypsy, Roma & Traveller communities are missing from the Mayor's health inequalities implementation plan. These communities want to be counted & included so that their needs can be understood & addressed.

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"We need Thames Water to be brought back into public ownership... its clear that privatisation is a failed experiment. We need publicly owned water" Laura Reineke from Friends of the Thames. Spot on! #GMB

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Free school meals for 500,000 more children from 2026 if family claims Universal Credit. Great. Can lift 100,000 children out of poverty. But those not eligible for UC? If families earn marginally more, children will lose free meals. Universal right means, no one loses. Adjust the tax system.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Is UK sacrificing its creative industry to get a US trade deal? VP JD Vance: "Trump Administration is troubled by reports that some foreign governments are considering tightening the screws on U.S. tech companies with international footprints. Now, America cannot and will not accept that". 👎👎👎

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Reeves given £27,000 donation from lobbying firm linked to Thames Water bidder KKR. Companies don't donate, they buy access to policymakers to advance their interests. No matter what politicians say, people see this as corruption. Must ban all political donations. archive.ph/BMaQ9

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

Keir Starmer facing scrutiny over failure to establish new ethics watchdog. Feather-duster rules won't stop sale of parties/legislators to corporations/rich, cash for questions/access. Public scepticism will grow until political donations, freebies, sham consultancies are outlawed.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Lots we could say here about how the British political/media class basically drove each other insane at threats to their status and with their fury at being called wankers on Twitter dot com, but let’s pause to marvel at “Equality commissioner instructs minority to accept reduced rights”.

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

TLDR version; "one long-running tech pyramid scam is about to be unexpectedly run over by another, even longer-running, tech pyramid scam." With any luck they'll collide with the LLM bubble and turn it into a three-car pileup and fuel tank conflagration: oh dear, how sad, never mind.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

I can't believe people think that using LLMs to write isn't destroying their critical thinking abilities. I'm like 5% dumber just because of spellcheck.

submitted 4 days ago • 78 comments

Keir Starmer can find billions for weapons factories, drones and a submarine but not for disability benefits or the two child limit. One more time for those at the back: Poverty Is A Political Choice.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

The “AI jobs apocalypse” heralded by AI CEOs like Dario Amodei and Sam Altman is a story with one particular audience in mind: the bosses who are eager to see it happen

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

We’re building a movement Everyday more people are joining the Green Party. And with the right leadership more MPs will too.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

We need to make the Labour Government more scared of losing votes and seats to the Green Party than to Reform. I'm in this week's @bigissue.com talking about how we can make this happen. 1/2

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Trump shares baseless conspiracy that Joe Biden died and was replaced by a clone. He seems mentally ill and needs help. That possibly explains abuse of power and tantrums. Dangerous - has finger on the nuclear button. How long before he is impeached?

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

What do I mean by eco-populism? In @theindependent.bsky.social 👇🏽 #BackZack www.independent.co.uk/voices/green...

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

Burberry new boss got £2.6m in 9 months, axed 1,700 jobs. This year he could earn up to £5.6m. In line for £25,000 a month “housing allowance” plus £135,171 to help him find a new home, £120,655 towards removal costs. Workers produce wealth, get fired; CEOs take the cream.

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

UK Govt sells final shares in NatWest 17 years after £45bn bailout. Divestment went on for some years. Public purse made £10bn loss. Govts bail out lame ducks but once they recover they are sold back to the City, which always wins. Why do govts not keep what is profitable?

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Reform should never appear on TV without a fact checker. And they should never be able to try & rubbish climate action without someone saying 92% of their external donations came from fossil fuel & climate denying companies. Party for the billionaires. Fact check below from @desmog.com

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

If you want to see a green party leader that will take the fight to Reform, then vote for Zack to be leader. backzack.com #backzack

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: More than half of disabled people with daily living needs in parts of England and Wales could lose out under planned cuts At least 50% of PIP daily living allowance claimants in ten constituencies could lose this benefit By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Decent politicians need to push back against Farage's comments on Lucy Connelly. "millions of mothers after Southport feeling exactly the same way"? No. Millions did NOT feel the need to call for mass murder of asylum seekers & we simply cannot allow the idea to be normalised.

submitted 10 days ago • 52 comments

An apology to Keir Starmer:

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

“The illusion Labour relies on – that there is no money – has gone up in a puff of smoke. If there’s cash to keep pensioners warm in winter, why aren’t there ways to raise funds to do the same for children or disabled people?” My col. on Starmer’s u-turns. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

"The two child benefit cap is immoral, its obscene... we need to give children as great a chance as possible to thrive... when it comes to buying bombs there's always a limitless amount of money" Nels Abbey on #GMB

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Between 2011 and 2023, 816 care homes in England were forcibly closed by the regulator for poor standards and harms to residents. 804 were owned by for-profit entities. 30% -40% of fees vanish in profits, leaving less for services. Profits and care don't mix.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Scandals within The Post Office (TPO) scandal Alan Bates offered 49.2% of his compensation claim. Postmasters bullied to accept less. Public purse to bear cost of £1.8bn+. No contribution from TPO execs, Fujitsu, TPO lawyers, auditors. When will the scandal end? archive.ph/OP10x

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

UK public purse to make £10bn loss from £45bn bailout of NatWest bank in 2008. Govt selling last of its shares, could have used it to fund SME/infrastructure investment. Boss who crashed the bank gets £600k a year pension. Bailouts for the City, benefit cuts for the poor.

submitted 11 days ago • 31 comments

The turning point that wasn't: the way the world talks about Israel's war has changed. Nothing else has | Nesrine Malik

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

Slow news day at The Daily Rowling? In fact, I've been publicly engaging with trans issues for longer than the bigoted billionaire. And, amazingly, no mention of crybaby JK ('no one loves free speech more than I do') Rowling's threat to get her lawyers onto me if I don't mind my Ps and Qs.

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

South Western Railway marks renationalisation of passenger services. Welcome. Some were already run by the state. Rolling stock remains privatised. Govt will rent carriages, pay billions, mostly to companies holed up in tax havens. Freight also remains privatised. Must renationalise the lot.

submitted 11 days ago • 18 comments

Some more inconvenient evidence for you to ignore, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social? Still, what matters a few more dead kids if you minimise negative press from The Daily Rowling.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

"We haven't had any medical aid to us since the 2nd of March, so we're running out of all sorts of consumables" British surgeon Victoria Rose speaking from Gaza

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A British surgeon currently in Gaza: "These children are so malnourished they are wasting away. Its shocking to see this degree of malnutrition..." Israel is deliberately starving over 2 million people. Half of them are children. And the UK govt is helping them while they do it.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

"Can public ownership fix Britains trains?" A bit difficult when we don't own them. Under the govts 'public ownership' plans the trains will continue to be owned by private rolling stock companies that extract hundreds of millions of pounds each year from our railways #GMB

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

It's the New York Times baby! No need to ask any of the god damn workers who use the ai tools if it'll help them, ask their managers!

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work A tale as old as capitalism: you create the tools that are used to disrupt other people's lives, only to have capital then turn those tools on their creators. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/b...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

SOS 🆘 two West Bank Palestinian communities in risk of immediate expulsion - Ras al-Ayn and Mu'arajjat - east of Ramallah. Settlers attacking to complete the area's ethnic cleansing Via @omerarvili.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Standing as leader of the @greenparty.org.uk, @zackpolanski.bsky.social tells #bbclaurak “We’ve got growing inequality in our society”, he calls for taxing multi millionaires and billionaires. @bbclaurak.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

It is as if Labour hate children and most especially children with needs or those in poverty, and is intent on doing everything they can to make life as hard as possible for them and all those who care for them. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Yes, this is because the current situation - nasty authoritarians vs the posh National Front - did not spring from the public, and it has little connection to them. It was imposed from above by Britain’s abysmal political/media class, in their own interest.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Financial crime in the UK. $2trn to $5.5trn dirty money laundered globally. 40% through the UK, its Crown Dependencies, Overseas Territories. Govt can take out Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) to chase crooks. 2017-2025: 7 UWOs, none since 2019, no prosecutions. Laws not enforced on the City.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

This lunacy is not confined to the Telegraph: several days ago the FT published a story "On free speech, Britain can learn from America." Mind blowing - and true.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

"The UK economy has become a machine for the upward redistribution of wealth. Using Sunday Times Rich List data, the report found that the 50 wealthiest UK families now own more than the poorest half of the population combined." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments