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🔴The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent” @josiah.writes.news reports bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

submitted 13 hours ago • 30 comments

Water Follies In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since. Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

submitted 20 hours ago • 18 comments

Three-quarters of pensioners to get winter fuel payment. Welcome U-turn after losses at recent elections. What will means-testing cost? Must abandon two-child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts, cuts to public services. Must redistribute, improve spending power of the bottom 50% of population.

submitted 23 hours ago • 16 comments

An important but under-funded way to boost the amount of social housing is for councils to buy existing homes into their stock. It pays off in rents, less benefit £ and huge wider gains, and it helped the Mayor of London achieve his housing targets. I call it Buy the Supply. 🧵

submitted 22 hours ago • 9 comments

MPs ask minister if he will claw back Thames Water exec bonuses. £18.5m bonus, 50% of base pay, already paid to 21 execs to circumvent ban, out of £3bn loan. TW plan to pay bonus of 200% of base pay next year. Rewards for fleecing people, dumping sewage.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Thames Water is teetering on the edge of collapse, surviving by borrowing, dumping sewage in rivers & exploiting customers. When will the Govt recognise that privatisation has failed and public ownership is the only effective way forward? Watch the Minister's reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmD...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Deserts are spreading across Britain, yet scarcely anyone in public life even seems to have noticed. This week's column seeks to open our eyes to something that has been too big to see. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Disability cut impact could be even worse than expected warns food bank charity Research commissioned @trusselluk.bsky.social found that 340,000 people in disabled households will be pushed into severe hardship by benefit changes being brought in by the Government www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Israeli forces have boarded Madleen - the volunteer-crewed ship trying to break siege to deliver aid to starving people in Gaza - and abducted the crew. If you are a citizen of any country whose citizens are on board (France/Germany/Brazil/Sweden), please watch this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjMd...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Very interesting - especially in relation to issues on Dartmoor www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Since the start of Russia’s war in Ukraine, nearly 5 million acres of forest have burned due to rockets, shelling, and other explosions, with huge carbon emissions. Experts say it’s an opportunity to rethink how Ukraine manages its forests in the future, with climate change in mind.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The dangerous decline of child vaccination in England. Such a worrying trend at several levels.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Jeremy Bowen's long, measured, objective, but ultimately entirely clear and conclusive essay on Israeli war crimes. As Jonathan Sumption puts it: "These things make genocide the most plausible explanation for what is now happening." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

Conservationists call for Lake District to lose Unesco world heritage status

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EXCLUSIVE: Neil Kinnock accuses Labour of showing “paralytic caution” and calls out Treasury orthodoxy, timid taxation and poor messaging on immigration. His verdict? Labour has an “audacity deficit.” www.prospectmagazine...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

🔴‘Keir Starmer’s Timid Refusal to Nationalise Failing Water Companies is a Symptom of a Government Cast Adrift’ Starmer’s administration is proving itself to be “devoid of moral compass or political courage”, argues Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/06/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

submitted 6 days ago • 410 comments

Wow 10/10! Thank you Film Threat! The Invisible Doctrine with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social is now available for streaming on: On Apple TV On Google Play On Vimeo on Demand On Journeyman TV filmthreat.com/reviews/the-...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"Across the country, irreplaceable and often internationally important natural sites could be lost as a result of cuts to habitat protections." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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“I was running an operating list with 10 people on it and every day at least half were under the age of 11 - it's barbaric.” Dr Victoria Rose, who has just returned from working in Gaza, tells @cathynewman.bsky.social what it was like. Read and watch: www.channel4.com/news/gazan-c...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Has Trump just breached the only trade deal he struck? At the time, British PM Starmer described the deal as one that "will remove tariffs on British steel and aluminium, reducing them to zero." Yet Trump just announced that they'll get a 25% tariff. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 7 days ago • 125 comments

Millions of people are worried about paying their rent, feeding their kids or losing vital disability benefits. If the government cared about people's security, it would reverse cruel cuts, end child poverty and pursue an agenda for peace. Let's fund welfare, not warfare.

submitted 8 days ago • 128 comments

We’re standing firm against Labour’s shift to the right — and rising to the threat of Reform. Thanks Cllr Graham Golding for recognising the urgency. We’re ready to speak to the voters others ignore #TogetherWeWin

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

'The rollout of heat pumps will slow down and could cost the Government more if funding is cut at the spending review next week, industry experts have warned' inews.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

CO₂ at Mauna Loa just reached a monthly average of >430 ppm for the first time. That's possibly higher than in over 3.3 million years. The global RATE of increase is off the chart. It's hard to exaggerate how unprecedented this is!

submitted 9 days ago • 12 comments

This is how it’s done! FRIDAY: South Park, San Diego, neighbors weren’t having it. When ICE rolled up on an Italian restaurant in unmarked cars and started grabbing workers, the community hit the streets. (Sound up)

submitted 10 days ago • 1266 comments