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NHS spending 'maxed out' This is a con. Money syphoned off to private profit. Rich get richer. Poor get poorer and health inequalities widen. This was bad from the Tories. It's heartbreaking from Labour. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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For 100 days I've been saying "why are we even trying, we should focus on Europe", and loads of people have told me I'm foolish. I'm definitely foolish about lots of things. But I'm right on this. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

🔴 Whitehall departments responded in full to just 29% of Freedom of Information requests in 2024 - an all time low A Labour MP calls on government ‘to put an end to the culture of obfuscation’ open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

🚨 Civil Servants Felt Pressured Into Giving ‘Special Treatment’ to Conservative-Connected COVID PPE Supplier Emails reveal officials felt threatened by firms benefiting from “back-scratching” by Conservative ministers My latest report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/03/21/c...

submitted 53 days ago • 4 comments

The UK commons—our green spaces, public infrastructure, and democratic institutions—are under siege by a neoliberal power grab, orchestrated by financial giants like BlackRock and enabled by Keir Starmer’s changed Labour Party. Please read the entire thread

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

🚨🏘️ The UK is the world's top destination for property speculators. It's no coincidence that we are also in a housing crisis. Despite this, two types of company used by property speculators are exempt from tax when buying homes. I'm tabling proposals to end that tax break.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Labour's 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents Rachel Reeves seems intent on diverting more resources away from public housing and towards private investment via the Build to Rent market - which is already out of control www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

submitted 79 days ago • 7 comments

Labour’s 1.5m homes will be dominated by private equity firms charging huge rents, embedding neoliberalism in housing. Increasing asset value at the point of sale, costs are born by increasing tenants rents or by replacing them with richer tenants. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

submitted 78 days ago • 12 comments

Publication day! A social & architectural history of post-war Scottish new towns: planning & buildings plus community, family, gender, work, education, home. The ebook is FREE via bit.ly/4hLkxn9. Print copy (more attractive!) via www.bloomsbury.com/uk/building-... - do ask libraries to purchase

submitted 96 days ago • 11 comments

📣 Clarion Housing Association ordered to pay significant compensation for discriminating against tenant 📣 Ms Feeney was represented by Nick Bano of the GCC #HousingLaw Team, instructed by Serdar Celebi & Anna Jones of Islington Law Centre. Read on here 🔽 gardencourtchambers.co.uk/clarion-hous...

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Regardless of who is in power, the UK gov are obsessed with building new houses, mostly on greenbelt land. Not talking about the hundreds of thousands of homes that are empty. Not talking about rebuilding on existing sites. Not talking about landlords, or 2nd homes. Not talking about social housing.

submitted 101 days ago • 7 comments

An outrage: private rents have risen by as much as 72% in just TEN years The latest figures show that private landlords are profiteering more than even from the lack of social housing - extorting tenants to the hilt www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever you see anybody's plan for growth in the UK and it involves absolutely no social housing, you know who they want the benefits of growth to go to.

submitted 110 days ago • 0 comments

Sad how severely neglected social housing has gotten in the UK, either ignored by the local council or governed by housing groups that essentially make a profit off welfare slums that encase every tenant with black mold

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

📣 Nick Bano of the Garden Court Chambers #HousingLaw Team writes in @theguardian.com : 'England’s renters are about to gain more rights, but until then landlords may exploit weak regulation even more cruelly' 🏘️ Read on here 🔽 theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

🔴A Total Eclipse of The Sun Why the refusal by the British press and politicians to touch revelations of serious criminality at The Sun tells us everything we need to know about how power really works in the UK www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/a-total-ec...

submitted 108 days ago • 42 comments

“So the stage was set for the next evolution of Big Tech – the full Matrix. Not only do these tech monopolies covertly feed off our data for energy and finance, they play back to us a tailored reality to disguise their real role” bylinetimes.com/2025/01/25/h...

submitted 108 days ago • 3 comments

This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors. Except it's all a lie. Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.

submitted 108 days ago • 39 comments

1. The UK government’s pursuit of GDP growth at all costs is an assault on our natural wealth, which will impoverish us all. It might be able to massage the headline figures by converting the living world into money, but it does not improve our lives.🧵

submitted 110 days ago • 71 comments

No Govt has cut public spending, cut services, jobs, wages & secured economic growth. UK PM says he will be "ruthless" in cutting public spending People will spend less. Due to lack of good food, housing, healthcare, education many won't be able to work Madness leftfootforward.org/2025/01/labo...

submitted 114 days ago • 52 comments

Why is child homelessness still rising? Because the net number of social homes is still falling. That is why. It’s a political choice. Please email your MP to change that choice in the #SpendingReview this Spring using our quick & easy #Shelter tool ⬇️ campaigns.shelter.org.uk/end-child-ho...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

So it turns out they spent £715 million on sending a grand total of FOUR volunteers to Rwanda. For comparison, this is more than you could expect to spend on building an entire brand new hospital in the UK

submitted 162 days ago • 96 comments

Too many UK MPs take second jobs, serve corporations, get rich. Claim it helps to serve people. Oh ... Hardly any volunteer to work for charities, hospices, food banks, housing associations ... there is no money in it. Must ban second jobs for MPs. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...

submitted 118 days ago • 29 comments

The UK’s housing costs are sucking life out of our economy youtu.be/yMB9HsJCWmg?... The UK has housing costs 44% more than in similar countries. That means instead of fueling growth and providing for children, the younger people who pay these costs are fueling growing inequality.

submitted 117 days ago • 12 comments

Farage attending the launch of a new staunch climate denial group in the UK that has taken funds from oil giant ExxonMobil ? Not particularly out of character , since Dec 2019 92% of donations to Reform UK were from fossil fuel interest groups or climate deniers , per @desmog.bsky.social .

submitted 118 days ago • 39 comments

The Housing Forum has responded to the Government's consultation on the Right to Buy. The proposed reforms, will reduce sales, so help retain social housing stock. forum/https://housingforum.org.uk/right-to-buy-consultation-response-from-the-housing-forum/

submitted 118 days ago • 1 comment

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, our healthcare, and the information we receive. Many are now currying favor with Trump to avoid accountability and maintain their power. This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 118 days ago • 141 comments

The Government’s own shocking data shows a staggering 97% of new patients who try to get an NHS dental appointment fail to get one We all need to back the @thebda.bsky.social in its call for urgent action to save NHS dentistry youtu.be/UtqAtGAnuC0?...

submitted 118 days ago • 22 comments

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submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting development. We’ll see how many councils follow suit with full licensing schemes. www.landlordzone.co.uk/news/london-...

submitted 119 days ago • 4 comments

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Solar panels are becoming so cheap the Swiss are looking at installing them between train tracks !!! www.pv-magazine.com/2024/10/04/s...

submitted 120 days ago • 3 comments

Number crunching: Hike in water bills for Southern Water customers v CEO salary. From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

submitted 120 days ago • 36 comments

In opposition, Labour rightly said that giving NHS contract to private healthcare weakens the NHS, provided a worse service and costs the tax payer more. Then private healthcare donated a ton of money to Labour. Now labour have given a huge increase in NHS contracts to private healthcare.

submitted 120 days ago • 15 comments

Jeez. Aren't you glad we voted the Tories out and ended the years of cuts and austerity 😅🤦 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 120 days ago • 7 comments

At what point do we say enough is enough? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments