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Westminster's business appointments watchdog Acoba has no power to sanction forward ministers who break its rules. Even Acoba's former chair has described it as "toothless". So where is the ethics and integrity commission that Keir Starmer promised? democracyforsale.substack.com/p/conservati...

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Staggering profiteering from the 5 main private companies providing cataract removals to the NHS. £169 million in 2023-24 alone - a profit margin of 32%. This is taxpayers' money being squandered on private payouts. Efficiency, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social? www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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I’m glad to see this article but it’s after 24 hours of unchallenged corporate guff dominating the news cycle. Tony Blair is a tech lobbyist who is literally writing naive, venal & dangerous policy for Starmer’s government. Call it out. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

1. The UK has announced autism tests for all transgender youth. In the United States, RFK Jr. is pushing autism registries. Fearmongering is spreading about autistic trans people. S. Baum in their latest breaks down the autism-trans scare. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Chat live with the cast of Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring (ft. Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes) www.bylinesupplement.com/p/chat-live-...

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I had a great conversation with Reed Galen on 'The Home Front' podcast talking about the history behind what brought us to this moment and why conservatives and Russia both want to upend fiat currency. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ab1...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

Hi All, just sent out this free piece. Trump is actively working with Putin to see Ukrainian civilians killed, some now and more in the future. He is depriving Ukraine of vital anti air defense, which the Ukrainians are willing to buy (helping the US economy) open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 24 days ago • 40 comments

Tireless investigators like @jennacorderoy.bsky.social really shouldn’t have to spend four years - and go to court - to prise documents out of government. But we are so lucky that she does (and I’m so lucky to work with her at Democracy for Sale) democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-uk-...

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AI’s environmental footprint is massive. A new data centre in Slough will use twice the electricity of Heathrow Airport. What does this mean for the planet? Read Stephen McNair's take on AI’s hidden costs. 🌍 #SustainableTech

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The Easter holidays are here, so I have a copy of Primary Reading Simplified to give away. Just repost this post to have a chance to win. The winner will be selected 19th April.

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🚨🚨🚨Tesla has opened a pop-up store on Oxford Street today and it's only open for a week. So our #London #TeslaTakedown protest tomorrow is moving. 📅 5 April ⏰11am 📍Future Stores, 95 Oxford Street, W1D 2AD PLEASE RETWEET We'll have people in Park Royal to redirect, but please, please share.

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

If you are fed up with Meta's intrusive advertising, if you want to defund Zuckerberg, here's what to do... goodlaw.social/htfc

submitted 37 days ago • 19 comments

Last year @georgemonbiot.bsky.social wrote for us about Labour’s enthusiastically inherited plans for carbon capture. Now, we’ve started legal action to challenge their £10bn subsidy for a carbon capture plant in Teesside: goodlaw.social/9sgq

submitted 38 days ago • 9 comments

Absolutely spot on. I have fumed since watching this show and this sums up why

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You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

submitted 42 days ago • 129 comments

The Rockbridge Network is a “donor organization to finance right-wing news stories, voter turnout operations & election polls...” It was co-founded by JD Vance & Chris Buskirk & is reportedly backed by Thiel & Mercer who … www.reuters.com/world/us/tec... .. previously backed Vance’s senate race. 1/

submitted 44 days ago • 26 comments

NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/

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BREAKING: A high level information security source inside the Department of Defense says they were ordered by political appointees to ignore information security regulations and install Signal on government phones for senior leaders.

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In case you missed it, I found out this weekend on FB I had been arrested by police and possibly died. I am not the only one, hundreds of ppl are having their photos used to launch crypto scams using Meta's ad platform. Read about it > marcowenjones.substack.com/p/today-i-fo... #disinformation

submitted 49 days ago • 11 comments

'The Blair Rich Project'!!! 🤣

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I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too?

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Today let's remember that austerity kills. 🧵 Researchers at the University of Glasgow, found that an additional 335,000 deaths occurred in Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 compared to what was expected based on previous trends. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 53 days ago • 9 comments

Under-22s with long-term illnesses or disabilities will no longer be able to claim health top-up on universal credit under UK govt plans. 66,000 18 to 21-year-olds will lose it. People can't easily see GP, dentist, get access to hospital but will lose benefit. This is reckless and brutal.

submitted 53 days ago • 26 comments

new theory: wonder if a lot of the journalistic/political scepticism towards ADHD/autism diagnoses comes from the fact that those people work in industries absolutely full of neurodivergent people, so much easier to go "duh, aren't most people like that" when you're surrounded by....people like that

submitted 54 days ago • 75 comments

🔴Media Storm Investigates: Are Universities Protecting Predatory Professors? Universities have turned the complaints process into a ‘warning not to challenge the behaviour of men and the institutions that protect them’, reports Mathilda Mallinson bylinetimes.com/2025/03/17/m...

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On a day where Laura Trott MP, shadow education secretary has claimed on #BBCLauraK that Multi Academy Trusts need to retain their independence due to their freedom to employ unqualified teachers, we look at research relating to their employment practices. @warwickmansell.bsky.social #EduSky

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‘The Media is Misreporting Why People Aren’t Having Children’ These are the real reasons birthrates are falling, argues Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia

submitted 61 days ago • 16 comments

UK spent more money than most countries on Covid pandemic help; ended with more sickness, mental health problems, life expectancy drop. Looted in frauds, contracts for cronies. Poor, already struggling suffered most. Govts still fuelling inequalities, making the poor vulnerable.

submitted 62 days ago • 16 comments

NEW: My piece for the Observer on how I was so deep into my investigation into Cambridge Analytica that I failed to realise that Hannah - my ex's daughter - was facing a human version of it: a stalker who was harvesting her data and weaponising it against her. 1/ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Who is funding Reform U.K.? A New York Times analysis shows that Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration right-wing party is drawing rich donors from Britain’s once-dominant Conservatives.

submitted 64 days ago • 24 comments

Yet again another Times columnist - this time Emma Duncan - makes a blatantly false claim about disability benefits "At present you can get signed off sick simply through a phone consultation with a GP." Just shockingly bad journalism, again and again and again. archive.ph/It3VS

submitted 65 days ago • 41 comments

🔴How Russian Information Warfare Primed the World for Trump and Musk's Tech Autocracy The seeds for today's dawning tech dystopia were sown more than a decade ago, reveals Peter Jukes in this piece from the Byline Times archives www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-russia...

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🔴Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules Covid Inquiry evidence reveals the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm bylinetimes.com/2025/03/05/m...

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🚨 'I Cannot Help', Podcast Finale Out Catch the last episode of 'Sergei & The Westminster Spy Ring', where Carole, Peter and Sergei reflect on the story they’ve fought to uncover for so long. dispatch.the-citizens.com/i-cannot-help/

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 67 days ago • 155 comments

After Leicestershire Police removed details of a deal with the controversial US spy-tech firm, three quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir. New investigation by @mc00.bsky.social 🔍 goodlaw.social/3svh

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