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Two hundred UK companies are moving to a permanent four-day work week. The decision comes after a trial where businesses tested the model. Workers were happier and more productive, and the quality and quantity of work was unaffected or even improved. future4days.com/two-hundred-uk

submitted 34 days ago • 17 comments

Europe does desperately need the freshness of Eastern enlargement. We Georgians, Ukrainians, Moldovans and other brothers in struggle live under fear of death for our principled positions and are well aware of the importance of the truth vs bureaucracy and inertia that could eventually doom Europe.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

Recommending privatisation for the NHS crisis is like recommending alcohol for a hangover. Sure, it will offer a slight temporary reprieve - but it has serious long term implications.

submitted 35 days ago • 15 comments

Contact your MP now to support the change to Proportional Representation from FPTP in the UK's elections. actionnetwork.org/letters/pr-d...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

The major cause of under 10s' hospitalisation is dental decay says Gordon Brown on R4 BH & 70% of kids in poverty have working parents who can not afford to make ends meet. Speaking at Big House Multi Bank in Scotland he says 2 child benefit cap & Universal Credit must change. Our Sept report 👇

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

30 years ago Spitting Image dared to broadcast the truth about Israel. Now no one dares.

submitted 48 days ago • 40 comments

Over on X, I'm receiving antisemitic death threats and being told they don't break the platform's rules. To British MPs that follow me, this is a brazen violation of the Online Safety Act. Please ensure the rule of law is enforced against Elon Musk and X. No business should be above the law.

submitted 50 days ago • 77 comments

Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis The new jobs have been labelled a ‘total acceptance of failure’ as oxygen lines are installed outside wards www.thetimes.com/uk/article/h...

submitted 51 days ago • 44 comments

Wowzer, JC going full antisemitic - trying to throw the entirety of global Jewry under the bus to stop anyone having a breath of sympathy for any Palestinians. This is not even helpful to Israel. It’s pure desperation to assist a murderous Netanyahu.

submitted 61 days ago • 89 comments

Margaret Thatcher is by far the worst PM we ever had. She is the reason the water is filled with sewage and the Water Companies have £72bn debt. She is the reason Energy prices are among the worst in the world, trains are the slowest and most expensive Privatisation has to die

submitted 69 days ago • 46 comments

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

submitted 70 days ago • 23 comments

💥 NEW 💥 “Hannah Greer, campaign manager for Good Law Project, said that @desmog.bsky.social’s findings showed that ‘the well-greased revolving door between fossil fuel lobbyists and ministers has not stopped spinning despite the change in government.’” www.desmog.com/2024/12/10/l...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

if you kill a disfavored person in the street the leaders of the republican party will try to make you a national hero. absolutely not an ominous sign for the future.

submitted 80 days ago • 217 comments

"Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out." 💩

submitted 83 days ago • 33 comments

This will probably come as no surprise to anyone but… www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/o...

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submitted 83 days ago • 106 comments

A shocking revelation today in the #PhysicianAssociates scandal It turns out the Health Secretary is using tax payers money to pay the GMC’s costs in defending the legal action brought by @anaesunited.bsky.social to protect patient safety - an outrageous use of public money youtu.be/T-BDHQop1zk?...

submitted 84 days ago • 64 comments

The Greeks absolutely had it right when they included a chorus in their plays. They knew audiences are dumbasses who need to be told “THIS MAN IS BAD. HE IS HERE AS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT NOT TO DO. WOE TO THE BUMPTIOUS FOOL WHO WOULD IDOLIZE HIM. YOU ARE NOT, NOR DO YOU WANT TO BE, ALEX DELARGE”

submitted 84 days ago • 217 comments

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

submitted 98 days ago • 84 comments

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submitted 91 days ago • 14 comments

MUST WATCH: The race for the North Carolina Supreme Court isn't over. After the GOP candidate lost he requested two recounts that did not change the outcome. Now, he and the GOP are challenging the validity of over 60,000 ballots. Justice Riggs and I discuss. www.youtube.com/watch?v=54Dg...

submitted 85 days ago • 459 comments

Border resident: “No white people pick strawberries for any price. We’re going to be totally screwed.” 🍓

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submitted 86 days ago • 12 comments

Declassified intelligence alleged Moscow ran a sprawling drive comprising thousands of social media accounts to promote the pro-Russian candidate Călin Georgescu across platforms like TikTok and Telegram. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

A free & fair democracy no longer exists 66,000 fake accounts & paid for tic tok post shares Declassified information from Romania's intel agencies reveals sudden rise of populist hard-right candidate Calin Georgescu in first round of last month’s presidential election was "not a natural outcome"

submitted 88 days ago • 27 comments

If that disgusting racist and grifting liar Nigel Farage shouldn't have been on Question Time even once, nevermind 38 times. Give this a Like, or better yet a RP.

submitted 88 days ago • 90 comments

Universally ignored.

submitted 89 days ago • 31 comments

BREAKING: Keir Starmer Rejects Call for Fairer Votes Despite MPs Voting in Favour of Proportional Representation Keir Starmer is blocking reform after the House of Commons voted in favour of a more representative voting system bylinetimes.com/2024/12/04/k...

submitted 89 days ago • 33 comments

The UK State Pension is a benefit as classified by the Government, it makes up more than 60% of the cost of benefits. And because it is a benefit it could be abolished at any time by the Government if they wanted to. People need to know this, because it's the reality.

submitted 90 days ago • 20 comments

Guardian and Observer journalists have asked people not to share Guardian stories for 48 hours from midnight tonight (Tues), to respect their strike and the virtual picket line

submitted 90 days ago • 47 comments

Profiteering by energy companies increases poverty, business costs and deindustrialisation of the UK. High energy costs destroyed steel, shipbuilding, engineering and more. Can't revive the economy without reducing the cost of essentials - public ownership, not-for-profits.

submitted 91 days ago • 13 comments

The world is 700% richer than in 1970 but the average person is only 8% richer. Because the richest 0.01% are 4000% richer. We are all being robbed every second of every day, and it doesn't matter how much profit or growth there is. It will never reach you.

submitted 91 days ago • 74 comments

This is a graphic illustration of why we must make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, say boll**** to Elon Musk & send him packing. We CAN do it www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/12...

submitted 92 days ago • 80 comments

Mick Lynch "Nigel Farage is a racist." RT if Mick is right.

submitted 92 days ago • 95 comments

Road to the next UK financial crash. Bank stress tests to be run every 2 yrs, not yearly. No regulation of shadow banks. Capital adequacy of banks, insurance companies reduced. No cap on bankers' bonuses. Regulators to promote growth and competitiveness of finance industry What could go wrong?

submitted 93 days ago • 19 comments

Pro tip for bad guys: do not, in your efforts to evade detection, give @nixonnixoff.bsky.social an extra strong motivation to hunt you down and peel the layers of your opsec back like an onion, because she will fucking do it www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

submitted 94 days ago • 51 comments

Says a lot that about 90% of the traffic I’m seeing on X right now is absolutely convinced the British govt is about to embark on a mass programme of state murder of the elderly and vulnerable. What was until recently the town square of politics has become the preserve of the bad, mad and deranged.

submitted 93 days ago • 277 comments

This favourable piece on Javier Milei does include this key stat: austerity has increased Argentine poverty from 40% to 53% in a year. www.economist.com/leaders/2024...

submitted 93 days ago • 2 comments

Just insane that the left treated the tech industry with increasing hostility just because they undermined organized labor, flouted the regulatory state, and bragged that they were going to get rid of everybody's jobs for a decade straight.

submitted 94 days ago • 403 comments

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.

submitted 94 days ago • 78 comments

“Get in losers. We’re getting polio.”

submitted 95 days ago • 826 comments

The meme I didn't know I needed

submitted 95 days ago • 1004 comments

Bizarre thing happened to me yesterday that my teenage self would not believe. I was playing at the gig to celebrate the life of the genius that was Neil Innes. Whilst waiting backstage to go on, Michael Palin sang the lumberjack song to me, in German.

submitted 94 days ago • 380 comments

🚨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland’s cultural landscape is at risk of collapse. Ahead of the draft Budget on Weds 4 Dec, please sign the Campaign for the Arts petition to urge ministers to deliver on their arts funding pledges now. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sc...

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

After 8 years of asking, it’s official: the previous government’s claim that Leveson’s incentive for independent press regulation would 'ruin' newspapers had zero evidence to back it up. A manufactured myth unraveled. 📰 #MediaTransparency #Leveson www.hackedoff.org/blog-posts/t...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

Nigel Farage works for nomadcapitalist.com which helps millionaires/billionaires get 2nd/3rd citizenships in the UK while using Tax Havens so they don't pay any tax. Nigel Farage loves immigration and tax avoidance, he even earns money from it.

submitted 95 days ago • 21 comments