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Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform UK in Wales, charged with bribery following an investigation by counter terrorism police. news.sky.com/story/nathan...

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BREAKING: The USDA, under DOGE orders, has accidentally fired staff working to combat bird flu. It’s now trying to rehire them. It follows the accidental firing of nuclear safety staff last Friday. And the accidental firing of FAA’s experienced aviation safety staff. Incompetence will be deadly.

submitted 4 days ago • 168 comments

BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... by @allansmith.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 194 comments

Breaking news Welsh Gov plan to ban greyhound racing on animal welfare grounds. Deputy FM Huw Irranca-Davies said: “I want a ban to come into force as soon as practicably possible' adding he was "proud" Wales will be the 1st UK nation to do so. This follows a consultation & 35k Senedd petition.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

What do people think happens to public infrastructure when corporations don't pay their fair share in taxes? Your taxes will go up as corporate taxes go down. Look what happened with the water companies. Your bills will go up as you pay to clear up their mess. 1/2

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Why has Wes Streeting surrounded himself with champions of the NHS privatisation experiment that resulted in the worst-rated, least caring hospital ever? And why do you maybe not know that an NHS privatisation experiment resulted in the worst-rated, least caring hospital ever? A thread 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

NHS leaders have acknowledged a recovery plan for dentistry in England, launched by the previous Conservative government a year ago, has comprehensively failed www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

UK govt data on annual median state pension. For retirees before April 2016 Male £11,436 Female £9,934 Post-2016 retirees Male £11,490 Female £11,467 Median state pension is less than 50% of minimum wage. 2m pensioners live in poverty. In 2022, 110,000 died in fuel poverty. What future?

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

The Government is continuing to put Post Office victims through "hell" in fight for redress says Sir Alan Bates Government officials are living in "ivory towers totally removed from the hell the victims have gone through day after day, year after year" news.sky.com/story/sub-po...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

The Labour Party went into the 2024 election promising to reform the discredited NHS contract fuelling the current crisis According to @thebda.bsky.social there has been no material progress to date & its deeply concerned the Treasury is now standing in the way of progress youtu.be/Hu0Okad5O1w?...

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

🙌 Well done everyone! 🙌 Read (and share!) this piece by Robert McMaster, who started the petition:

submitted 10 days ago • 91 comments

Hundreds of innocent postmasters were prosecuted for false accounting. It's a serious crime. So what happens to a company's directors when they're caught forging, not one line, but whole of their accounts? And the High Court has said the accounts were forged?

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Really not far to go now. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 12 days ago • 97 comments

He's right, Brexit is a disaster.

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

⚠️ ICYMI: What Is Ethnic Cleansing? #BrokenNews Explains! 🙏🏻 Please like and share this helpful video! youtu.be/XFG4IE6XsYQ?...

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

“Above all, electoral reform could incentivise so many apathetic voters back to the polls. It could also steer them away from populist politicians who would be all too glad to exploit public exasperation at under-representation and wasted votes” eastangliabylines.co.uk/democracy/is...

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

Racist Labour minister wished death on voters. Here's why no one's shocked The Forde Report uncovered Labour's institutional racism years ago - so why has Andrew Gwynne's behaviour surprised anyone? www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Our new report: the world's most convincing fake company - and how it tried to seize a gold mine in Ukraine That leads to 60 fake companies, £300bn of fake gold & even a fake country. With backing from the Duke & Duchess of Cambridge, Nadhim Zahawi and Baroness Mone. All fake.

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

‘Mutual free movement’ for UK and EU citizens supported by 84% of Brits, in stunning new poll Omnisis poll suggests opposition to free movement was based on lack of awareness and the UK government failing to enforce the rules yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...

submitted 15 days ago • 42 comments

#DragonsDen I just bought a Beevive keyring - these people deserve to do so well @deborahmeaden.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/5rckKaV

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

After 50 years, can’t we shut down this cult of Margaret Thatcher? Just look at the mess she made of Britain | Polly Toynbee

submitted 16 days ago • 37 comments

My experience of him - Starmer sending grumpy texts - is the same as Owen's. And Starmer's 180 degree pivots suggest he is an empty vessel to be filled (a point I made on James O'Brien's podcast years back). And anyone with eyes can see how far right he has moved. In short, Owen has it right.

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Seems prudent Greenland plans to ban foreign political donations after Donald Trump’s threats - on.ft.com/4jH4R6k via @data.ft.com

submitted 19 days ago • 9 comments

High Court hearing today on Thames Water plan to borrow another £3bn. Already has £17bn debt, mostly to fund dividends, wants 53% price hike. Nearly a third of customer bill covers interest payments. More debt= higher bills. Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise at nominal price.

submitted 20 days ago • 69 comments

This is what happens if you search on Companies House for companies with the word "banque". Some real French/Swiss banks... and then a cavalcade of fraud.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

JUST IN:—Canada's Ontario bans US firms from govt contracts, dumps Starlink deal.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Wanted: those prepared to ignore the evidence of their own eyes.

submitted 21 days ago • 231 comments

UK govt targets old, sick, disabled. Long-term sick need to find jobs. Face benefit cuts of £5k a year. This after two child benefit cap, winter fuel payment cut. 6.3m await hospital appointment, 2.8m chronically ill Govt won't tax wealth; increase capital gains, corporate tax archive.ph/zDPGT

submitted 22 days ago • 85 comments

Clive Lewis leads 30 MPs calling for toxic Thames Water to be placed into Special Administration Its persistent financial and operational failings have led to repeated breaches of statutory duties and conditions. Only publicly-scrutinised restructuring will do. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

150,000 Koreans in U.S. subject to Trump's deportation order: Report koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-01...

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Thirty MPs demand Ofwat puts Thames Water into special measures

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

The world's biggest company isn’t Apple or Amazon—it’s a UK firm called Novateur, with £100 trillion in assets. Incredible? Yes. True? Kind of. Real? Not remotely. It's a blatant fraud. Here’s how Companies House missed it - and how they could stop these frauds for good.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

Trump put a freeze on hiring air traffic controllers and, on Musk’s instruction, fired the FAA chief early without replacing him. This should be the only thing Dems are saying today. They should all be out on media saying this.

submitted 23 days ago • 432 comments

World champion Russian figure skaters confirmed as being on board crashed US plane

submitted 24 days ago • 25 comments

In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 24 days ago • 122 comments

only one in five LEAVE voters think that Brexit has been more of a success than a failure, that is nuts

submitted 24 days ago • 83 comments

The average annual water bill will rise by 26% or £123 in the next financial year alone, according to industry figures covering England and Wales. This comes at a time when many other bills are also tipped to go up sharply news.sky.com/story/water-...

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

Millions of Londoners face staggering £200-plus rise in water bills this year How long are we going to tolerate this? www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...

submitted 24 days ago • 54 comments

🚨Let’s protect democracy by tightening the rules on political donations. Please sign this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 25 days ago • 57 comments

Lord Heseltine has called for the UK to rejoin the EU, saying that Brexiteers sold Britain a “pack of lies”. He said that the UK should be “at the heart of Europe” and rejoining would be “in the best interests of a generation of young British people”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

🔥 A new Left-Right scale of MPs has been published. All MPs are mapped... the most left wing being Nadia Whittome and the most right wing being Suella Braverman. This was all based on a new approach by Royal Holloway & Survation -- using 1,000 councillors to answer pair-wise comparisons of MPs.

submitted 28 days ago • 51 comments