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Ofwat should have to approve water firms’ bonuses and dividends, say MPs. Can't trust OFWAT, lackey of industry. End privatisation - no need to pay dividends. Put customer elected directors on boards of entities & regulators, let customers vote on exec pay; no exec will get undeserved pay/bonus.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

New travel initiative supports 16 and 17-year-olds in training or sixth-form education with free travel, as well as half price for NEETs #iwnews #IsleofWight

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

After years of Conservative neglect, the last thing our NHS needs is a £1.5bn Trump Tax on life-saving drugs. The PM must rule out NHS price hikes.

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As the Middle East burns and Washington deploys troops against its own citizens, flashback to Trump's inauguration speech, in which - having explained no wars would have happened if he had been in charge - he pledges to be "a peacemaker and unifier" to a standing ovation. ~AA

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The wilful disinformation being spread by Musk and others about the Minnesota assassinations on X is similar to what occurred after the UK's riots in summer 2024. Governments need to wake up to threats the platform poses to civil disorder and societal polarisation.

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Contrary to media reports after the 2025 local elections, there was no Reform UK landslide, just an outdated voting system that needs reforming.

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

⚠️ Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere break new records in human history We know that net zero emission pathways will help us limit global temperature increases. Why are they not a priority for politicians?

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

So the millionaire exodus was a complete work of fiction.... built on dodgy data from a company flogging golden passports to billionaires. Henley & Partners spun a PR stunt and the media ran with it. 10,000 headlines later, the truth emerges: less than 0.3% of UK millionaires left. buff.ly/W0MDULn

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8 years later and not a single person has been put on trial for Grenfell, even though a report a year ago listed all the people involved, and what they did or didn't do. They don't want to convict them, because they are rich.

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The UK Government has recently pledged £40 billion to support nuclear power and carbon capture and storage. Yet in the world as a whole these technologies hardly feature. New electricity generation is dominated by renewables! Who is out of step? davidtoke.substack.com/p/renewables...

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Think the biggest area of gross negligence from Sunak and Hunt in the dying days of their govt was cutting NI twice when they knew how totally fucked the public sector was, prisons in particular. But we look back and are supposed to think they were the 'sensibles' in the Tory party. No thanks.

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Do you lock your front door from inside? Can you always find the keys quickly in case there is a fire and you need to get out? Can everybody else find those keys as quickly? Children as well?

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For those in need of a smile, a reminder that one 19th-century name for a penguin was ‘arsefoot’.

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"His Commons appearances are infrequent, his extracurricular activities prolific, his party’s internal culture chaotic and its plans to 'fix' Britain largely theoretical and uncosted". And yet mainstream media consistently give him a free pass. Easy mode, indeed! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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5% of UK land is owned by farmers, 95% by the super rich, we need to tax it all off them in the next few generations.

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Footage of the Minnesota assassin Vance Luther Boelter, a life long registered republican and "Christian" nationalist incel that hated women. He's 100% MAGA.

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Mass protests against Trump across US as president holds military parade www.bbc.com/news/article...

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"The legacy of Grenfell must be justice, and the time for justice is now" - Grenfell United. All the evidence & still no charges. A scandal. Forever in our hearts 💚

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More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom. In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed. This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Britain just had its warmest spring ever (in recorded history) and the driest in over 50 years. Drought is surely coming. We need publicly owned water companies, more green energy, electric travel and to eat less meat. buff.ly/bfoSUks

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

⬇️ With GDP falling and the government needing growth...how was Brexit hurt our high street ?

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There's lots of talk about how to deliver growth at the moment. So it's worth remembering that Best for Britain/Frontier Economics research shows that a 'Commin Sense' Deal with the EU would deliver up to 1.5% GDP growth, even with Trump imposing tariffs. commonsensedeal.com

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Thinking today (and frankly, always) of Grenfell tower. Of the 72 people who lost their lives, their bereaved families, survivors and all those impacted by the fire. Justice must be served.

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A widely shared video claims to show a large number of asylum seekers on a Dover beach. But the footage isn’t from Dover. It appears to have been filmed on a popular beach in Goa, India.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Says the man who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, then killed thousands during Covid by being a dithering fool, then threw away his massive majority because he couldn't follow his own rules. Sit down and shut up you useless tit.

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The report HHS sent to congress to justify changes in vaccine recommendations for healthy non-elderly & pregnant people has all kinds of misrepresentations/errors as outlined by this report & clearly does not accurately reflect the state of the scientific literature kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Reflectively I want to hate this feature providing an AI summary of the 4,147 comments on this article, but I…quite like this?

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Trump has used roughly 2,000 seasonal immigrant workers at Mar-a-Lago and other golf clubs since 2008. His winery has hired 31 this year alone. Even as his administration is working to deport thousands every single day. https://trib.al/h7R8zLt