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submitted 1 day ago • 581 comments

Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

🚨🚨If you use kindle, Download your books before Amazon removes the ability next week. That is your money you spent and those are your books. 🚨🚨

submitted 3 days ago • 190 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 5 days ago • 1924 comments

Court approves Thames Water £3bn loan at 9.75%, adds to £19bn debt. Temporary reprieve. Thames Water banking on new equity investment (unlikely) and higher customer bills. Over one-third of customer bills cover interest payments. Sewage dumping, dividends will continue.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 7 days ago • 404 comments

Nothing says the ‘NHS is for sale’ like dusting off old finance initiatives that bankrupted NHS hospitals…🚨 👉https://open.substack.com/pub/jujuliagrace/p/nothing-says-the-nhs-is-for-sale?r=2654ap&utm_medium=ios

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

I saw illegality and complicity with war crimes. That’s why I quit the UK Foreign Office, a devastating account by a UK diplomat who quit in Aug 2024. Ministers & senior officials protected arms deals facilitating death and horror in Gaza and Yemen. Parliament emasculated. No one held to account.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

I've just found out from this article that my whip still hasn't been restored. Turns out speaking up for Palestine is still a punishable offence. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 18 days ago • 154 comments

My cartoon for Wednesday's Metro

submitted 19 days ago • 314 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 221 comments

Starmer doesn’t look diplomatic or pragmatic in his behaviour towards Donald Trump. He looks like a weak leader lacking moral substance.

submitted 26 days ago • 24 comments

UK Health Secretary Wes Streeting says the NHS will remain 1. publicly funded. 2. free at the point of delivery. Silent on what is happening in-between. NHS becoming a shell, handing contacts to private sector. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less. Say NO to NHS privatisation.

submitted 26 days ago • 33 comments

This threatening tweet was deleted by Trump’s dumbest son 20 minutes after he posted it.

submitted 28 days ago • 1699 comments

3-1. Great result. Just hope Chelsea don't somehow equalise by scoring two overnight or tomorrow morning. You know it has become really hard for us to hold on to a lead these days.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Before the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights After the inauguration: Chop wood, carry water, support trans rights

submitted 33 days ago • 53 comments

Well to all my friends in NI please let's be sure to avoid Hinch distilleries. Shameful, absolutely shameful.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

New: Meta has deleted trans and nonbinary Messenger themes, as well as the blog posts announcing them. Happens the same week that it has changed its rules to allow users to say LGBTQ+ people are "mentally ill" www.404media.co/meta-deletes...

submitted 44 days ago • 301 comments

It snowed. It’s not like there’s a violent mob outside beating up cops who are desperately trying to protect members of Congress inside.

submitted 48 days ago • 2939 comments

Scott Carson being put on stand-by to get ready to come on, looking like a middle-aged man sitting on the sofa, remote in hand, watching TV, who's just been asked by his wife to take out the garbage and calmly responds "ok hun" as he switches the channel and takes another swig of his beer.

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

Apparently Elon Musk is angry about being called President Musk. He doesn't think his ownership of America should ever come to a vote.

submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

It drives me mad when people are enormously privileged, and then tell themselves and others that they ‘deserve’ the stuff they have - the status, the wealth, access to things. We live in a society with a gradient of access and privilege which is completely unfair, and it needs to get levelled out.

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

What they expect you to believe.

submitted 63 days ago • 14 comments

Starmer's authoritarianism is leading to poor policy choices by govt. Party membership emasculated. MPs showing dissent silenced. Parliamentary select committees stuffed with novices. Left purged. Lack of diversity leads to poor policy choices. leftfootforward.org/2024/12/labo...

submitted 63 days ago • 35 comments

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it's forever." - Carl Sagan, in Cosmos (1980) Visualisation of our galactic cluster 💫😲💫✨💫🌌💫 NASA

submitted 64 days ago • 131 comments

THIS is how it’s done, folks.

submitted 71 days ago • 2306 comments

Indescribable how it feels to see Georgians go to the street for their future shot at EU membership, while my own fuckwit compatriots flushed the actual prize itself down the drain at the behest of a bunch of plastic pound shop demagogues and lying sacks of shit......

submitted 82 days ago • 5 comments

Trickle down economics has been nothing short of a disaster. Get our union-printed shirt now and help @rbreich.bsky.social and Inequality Media get out the truth about this economic scam: inequalitymedia.goodstockcompany.com/product/YGBc...

submitted 83 days ago • 212 comments

Hmm. Dune: Prophecy is channelling Rasputin...

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

‘Tax wealth, not work’ would be a powerful message for Starmer and Reeves – are they bold enough to pursue it? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 83 days ago • 45 comments

Five of the best science fiction books of 2024

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

I can take or leave LOTR, The Silmarillion, what have you, but if he wrote nothing other than the postscript to this invitation card, J.R.R. Tolkien would have a secure place in history.

submitted 84 days ago • 69 comments

NHS funding per patient is now more than 6% lower than in 2010. The NHS does not have 'more money than ever' as is constantly repeated. This is a lie, RP so everyone knows.

submitted 84 days ago • 28 comments

Lols have just seen a graph on the telegraph website entitled ‘public sector pay is already climbing fast’. The graph starts in 2020 and completely ignores what happened during the previous decade 🤣

submitted 85 days ago • 8 comments

It’s amazing to see Bluesky grow!!! This counter is cool👇 bsky-users.theo.io

submitted 88 days ago • 11 comments