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In case anyone is still uncertain whether Trump and Musk are allied to Putin — @bylinetimes.bsky.social has been covering the Trump alliance for six years, and we cottoned onto Musk quite quickly

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Billionaires' wealth 'soars by over £230billion in first month of 2025 alone' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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Please do follow @thepitchinspection.bsky.social we’ve got lots of new and interesting stories coming soon ⤵️

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Subscribe (it’s free) to The Pitch Inspection here ⬇️⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...

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🚨 SCOOP: Labour MP Preet Kaur Gill accepted £10,000 from firm that has helped wealthy Russians obtain 'golden visas' since the war in Ukraine Calls for Labour to investigate donation to Business sec Johnathan Reynolds' PPS New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/labour-mp-...

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One from the archives: Exclusive: Half of Premier League teams breaching gambling rules aimed at protecting children 10 clubs were advertising gambling logos on web pages aimed at under-18s - potentially breaching the league's code of conduct on sponsorship 👀⤵️ open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...

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Elon Musk does a Nazi salute. Trump advocates ethnic cleansing. Judges sacked, the state gutted, JD Vance pushing the AfD and Trump now playing footsie with Putin. Now Steve Bannon does his own fascist salute. It’s hard to deny the fascist trajectory of the US administration x.com/josheakle/st...

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Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.

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One from the archive: Hundreds of school playing fields sold off by last government The UK government authorised sales of school playing fields on at least 279 occasions between 2010 and 2023 - according to recently published data analysed by The Pitch Inspection open.substack.com/pub/thepitch...

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“I recently saw a Southern Water riverbank sign badged brightly with a blue logo reading ‘Water For Life’ – and instructing passersby to ‘avoid contact with the water…If you’ve had contact with the water, please wash your hands before eating or drinking.’ Worth a read ⤵️

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Today's Teesside Lead... Middlesbrough FC owner, and former Labour backer, Steve Gibson has invited Kemi Badenoch to his home for dinner.

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👀⤵️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

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👀⤵️ Another great report by @leighsus.bsky.social. ⤵️

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🆕 BLOG 🆕 As the UK remains at its lowest ever #CPI2024 score and the global fight against corruption hitting a plateau, urgent action is needed to strengthen anti-corruption frameworks here and abroad. Read more on our blog ⤵️ www.transparency.org.uk/news/cpi-202...

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An important story ⤵️

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EXC: How UK's biggest companies lock autistic people out of jobs with personality tests ➡️Morrison's, John Lewis, McDonald's, Co-op +more using tests ➡️"I just don't stand a chance" say autistic jobseekers, as charities tell @bigissue.com tests may be discriminatory www.bigissue.com/news/employm...

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👀Comment from Treasury Minister on PPE disputes: “On entering government, we found £674 million of contracts in dispute, but we inherited a recommendation from the previous Government that any attempt to reclaim that money should be abandoned”. “Abandoned” 👀 Glad HMT are not abandoning (yet).

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In the UK betting firms are prohibited from using top flight footballers in marketing material.👀 Roobet’s twitter feed (available in the UK) contains multiple posts containing 3 Chelsea player 🤦🏻‍♂️ Full report here ⤵️

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PM Starmer & former Tory PM Cameron phrase their ambitions identically seeking a “bonfire of red tape” attacking environmental campaigners Starmer “casts, for instance, those with questions about disposal of nuclear waste are indistinguishable from other nimbys” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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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.

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Today's Teesside Lead... MPs have this week warned the government its investment in carbon capture is "risky". What does it mean for Teesside where the ink isn't yet dry on a multi-billion pound deal the government just signed?

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The appeal has been sent 🤨⤵️

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All week the North York Moors have been ablaze with heather burning. We all have to breath the smoke filled air just so a few rich people can obliterate grouse with a shotgun. Its 2025!!

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For months I’ve been hearing behind the scenes that Labour won’t act on money in politics because donors oppose it (I wrote this in @londonreview.bsky.social) Now we can see the full scale of what’s happened. Big money Labour donors changing party policy. This is incredibly serious

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Once upon a time the fourth estate stood outside power and held it to account. Now they’re in the room to oblige with the photo-opportunities. Photo proudly appears in Murdoch’s own NY Post.

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Interesting report from the guardian. Worth noting that Equinor (Rosebank developers) hired Labour linked lobbying firm - Arden Strategies to lobby government during Starmer’s first 3 months in office.

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Great to appear on @mrjamesob.bsky.social show on LBC this week to talk about Democracy for Sale's Prigozhin scoop, how London has become the libel capital of the world, and what needs to be done about Slapps www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaK4...

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🚨The government just refused our FOI request for a copy of the infamous UEFA letter to Minister Lisa Nandy regarding the Independent Football regulator They also refused to provide a copy of any meeting minutes with UEFA. They claim it’s not in the “public interest” 🥵⤵️

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Great work by @hopenothate.org.uk Well worth a read ⤵️

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Stop Musk! This petition to prevent overseas billionaires meddling in our politics is now at 94,000 signatures - having leapt up from just 30k a day ago. It’s so close now to triggering a parliamentary debate - let’s get it over the 100k mark by the end of today! bsky.app/profile/guys...

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👇 Really important story breaking this morning. The Solicitors Regulation Authority's decision not to take any action in “the most open and shut example of a #SLAPP lawsuit imaginable” is deeply concerning. We need more transparent and robust regulatory action to tackle this kind of #lawfare.

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For self styled masters of the universe, the tech bros really are incredibly craven Exhibit #3624

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Leeds becomes first Russell Group university to quit X but will stay on other platforms like Bluesky. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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This is a very interesting report on FOI by @georgegreenwood.bsky.social Worth a read ⤵️ relightmyfoia.blog/2025/01/20/w...

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Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin (Collaboration with @politicalbeauty.bsky.social )

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Ridiculous ⤵️ Met police are now raiding houses for “thinking” about protest 🤦🏻‍♂️

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According to @transparencyuk.bsky.social, £38.6m in UK political donations since 2010 came from unincorporated associations with little to no transparency. Yesterday, APPG member @philbrickellmp.bsky.social called on the Government to close donation loopholes and safeguard our democracy 👇

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Excellent new front cover from @privateeyenews.bsky.social

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👀 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I’m sure it’s a great idea to let Thiel’s company (Palantir) control large swathes of UK health and police data. 😬🤦🏻‍♂️⤵️

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MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned. Prime duty of MPs is to serve the people, not corporations or their bank accounts. Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...

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So Liz Truss - who is constantly defending far-right hate as 'free speech' - is trying to stop anyone remarking how she crashed the UK economy with a chilling SLAPP threat of legal action

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