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High Court hearing today on Thames Water plan to borrow another £3bn. Already has £17bn debt, mostly to fund dividends, wants 53% price hike. Nearly a third of customer bill covers interest payments. More debt= higher bills. Let it go bankrupt. Nationalise at nominal price.

submitted 29 days ago • 69 comments

2019-2024: £44bn lost to fraud in UK Govt depts under the Tories - often run by members now in Badenoch's Shadow Cabinet. Contracts for cronies, PPE procurement, COVID loans & furlough scheme, Eat Out to Help Out, R&D tax credits. Ministers ignored concerns. Who is called to account?

submitted 30 days ago • 36 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 32 days ago • 510 comments

At a speech in the UK, at the Heritage Foundation, Suella Braverman has said that in 20 years from now the UK could be "the first Islamist nation with nuclear weapons" and "the greatest strategic threat to the USA". Quotes attached.

submitted 35 days ago • 141 comments

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submitted 39 days ago • 3 comments

Great reporting. The Israeli army said that most people killed in bombing a Beirut apartment block were Hezbollah. The BBC found that nearly all were in fact civilians, and a third were children. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 39 days ago • 55 comments

104 MPs are now involved in EveryDoctor’s emergency meeting for the NHS🚨. That’s nearly 1 in 6 of all MPs across the UK. Many attended our meeting to hear powerful testimony from NHS staff yesterday, others have requested our briefing document. Here are their names 👍 Abtisam Mohamed Adam Dance …

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submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Here, the English King, in a land his ancestors invaded, wearing the traditional dress the same family once outlawed, visits a foodbank, that exists only because of the same harms his class inflict on the poor today. Normal Island, where no injustice goes unrewarded!

submitted 46 days ago • 9 comments

Reeves defends China visit, hails £600m UK investment over next 5 yrs. What? Can get £100bn boost by joining the EU HMRC failed to collect £500bn tax since 2010 Can boost economy by equitable distribution of income/wealth, but not on govt agenda. Need policy change www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 51 days ago • 57 comments

EMERGENCY PLEASE HELP🚨- guys the NHS is in a state of absolute emergency. We’re running a massive campaign calling for change to safeguard lives and we need your help. If every person who saw this could donate £1, we’d hit our goal 🤞. Can we do this? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-conti...

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

Gig workers forced to pay fee to receive wages. YoungOnes charges gig workers 4.8% of wages to be paid in one minute, 2.9% to be paid in 3 days, or wait 30 days. At Emma Sleep workers await November/December wages. Execs don't have to wait. Govt must prosecute www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 51 days ago • 30 comments

I know nothing about this man except he's sitting on the floor in Green Park station with a dog that growled at me when I tried to pet her but if you're hiring plumbers maybe call him and have a chat idk

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I feel hopeless about what is happening to the NHS and what people are doing about it. I think we either need to go all in, find the millions of people who care and get a *lot* louder, or we give up. I want to go all in, but I can’t go all in alone. Share if you think we need to fight.

submitted 51 days ago • 30 comments

This is a great explainer of how Medicare and Medicare Advantage works. www.linkedin.com/posts/ericbr...

submitted 52 days ago • 793 comments

How Tory Policies and Liz Truss Contributed to Britain's Gas Storage Shortfall - Dorset Eye dorseteye.com/how-tory-pol... #GasStorage #Tories #Gas

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

Austerity has been discredited & 330,000+ deaths prove its deadly impact. Yet benefit cuts are being briefed & disabled people are again made to pay the price for “calming” the markets. Austerity with a red rosette is still austerity. This isn’t the “change” people voted for.

submitted 52 days ago • 39 comments

Reeves Eyes Spending Cuts If UK Bond Slump Eats Up Headroom. Wrong choice. Govt can create money -found £895bn of QE for speculators. Can levy windfall taxes on banks, levy wealth tax, tax capital gains and dividends at the same rate as wages. Must rebuild social infrastructure. archive.ph/NIgoo

submitted 54 days ago • 30 comments