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#NoisePollution, #LightPollution, long and irregular working hours, poor housing - so many potential areas of damage for #PublicHealth www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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The problem with the UK is previous Governments sold this country off years ago, that's why the Water companies and Energy companies are ripping us off and it will only get worse with Freeports and Healthcare. Everything is so corrupt and against consumer rights. Brexshit made it worse too.

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Media coverage of the shooting of two Israeli tourists who were mistaken for Palestinians ignored the root cause of the violence: Zionism. https://buff.ly/41qweKC #Palestine #Israel

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The #FinancialSector - centre of dysfunction and risk to the security of us all #TooMuchFinance www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

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James McMurdock denies he’s the man who kicked his girlfriend repeatedly when drunk and imprisoned for the violent assault 🤥👇🏼 As he bangs on about what a fab guy he is and what he’s achieved (besides giving a woman a kicking) he omits conning voters by not disclosing the historical offence❗️🥴

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Freedom of Movement was robbed from us by a successful Russian influence operation and the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. Please repost if you want it restored.

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“Slump”. @theguardian.com and others need to stop talking about reduced corporate profits as some form of decline.

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#Privatisation - a few profit and the rest of us pay www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Magic Money Tree. UK govt to hand £130bn to Bank of England to pay stealth subsidy to banks. Govts gave £895bn QE to speculators, banks profited. Govt reversing QE, selling bonds at loss, covering BoE losses from rising interest rates and the unwinding of QE, banks make billions.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Rachel Reeves is an intermediary for the corporate coup. Starmer has announced to 700 lobbyists that they can now enjoy corporate governance powers while the Labour Party takes a secondary position.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Anyone else getting tired of the people who pushed Starmer into power shouting LOOKKK AT TRUMPPPP as a massive distraction technique while our own Prime Minister funnels yet more money into the private healthcare sector (etc etc)?

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We need an education for life, not just exams. True for political education, and many other subjects. And more of an argument for #VotesAt16 www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Labour under Attlee, with far greater economic challenges than today, had boldness, vision & a compelling story. Starmer’s Labour fails on all 3 counts, which amounts to laying out a welcome mat to Farage. On eve of publication of #AnotherEngland in paperback, I write for @prospectmagazine.co.uk👇

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HSBC made $32.3bn profit before tax in 2024. $26.9bn given to shareholders in buybacks & dividends. Jobs/branches slashed Banks fleece customers, engage in illicit financial flows; no curbs on profiteering, exec pay, dividends. Their profit is our poverty. Govt deregulated.

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Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline. Inequalities; poverty; poor access to good food, housing, healthcare, dentists; junk food take toll. Austerity kills. Govts obsessed with it. Redistribution is off the political agenda.

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The state needs defence from neoliberals as well as fascists www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... If the state is to be defended from the attacks it now faces, we have to understand why it is failing, and that is by neoliberal choice. This one is wonkish, I admit, but should be worth your effort.

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Five more water companies in England appeal against Ofwat’s curb on bill rises. OFWAT permitted average price rise of 36%. They want more People can't appeal, have to pay up, put up with sewage in rivers, exploitation. Corporations rule and no one is protecting people.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Labour corrupt shits, no wonder there is a sewerage problem.

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Any normal country would put all of Thames Water's management in jail, repossess the lot, and not pay a penny.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

What’s up?

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this is how germany is responding to the u.n. special rapporteur on palestine meeting with amnesty international: with riot cops

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Is this the moment when everything changes? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/02... Has the US withdrawal from supporting Europe created the moment when we can discuss what is necessary, which is the demise of neoliberalism and its replacement by a new political order?

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

youtu.be/-hjLUdpFzig

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Only watch this one short do not waste your time today on others. youtube.com/shorts/CiXEH...

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it seems absurd that I’m making a sign for tomorrow’s protest that says JEWS AGAINST ETHNIC CLEANSING when one would think that’s just self explanatory

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"We once had a dream. It was the dream of what Europe could be. We dreamed of Europe as a Project of Peace with Justice. That dream was lost, evaporated, dissolved, succumbed to the ghost of fascism, to the specter of war."

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Poorest fifth in England pay 4.8% of income in council tax; richest fifth 1.5%. 27% real term cut in council funding since 2010, govt hand tax cuts to corporations/rich. Poor hit with regressive taxes VAT Fuel duty Wages taxed at higher rates than dividends, capital gains. Need tax justice.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

Not even six hours apart.

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Julianne Moore in ‘Great Shock’ After Donald Trump Bans Her Children’s Book ‘Freckleface Strawberry’ From Schools: ‘I Can’t Help But Wonder What Is So Controversial’ variety.com/2025/film/ne...

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