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“Britain is in the grip of an economic and social crisis. Corporate greed, the relentless pursuit of unsustainable growth, and the misguided attempt to replicate the economic model of the United States have driven inequality to new extremes.” 👏👏👏 💯

submitted 11 hours ago • 25 comments

A vote for Farage is a vote for chlorinated chicken. bsky.app/profile/theg...

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

submitted 2 days ago • 1052 comments

Speaking truth to the BBC about its role in promoting Farage and far right politics, fact-checking claims about immigration and holding them to account for not getting it right./1 #TruthToPower @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @Docrussjackson.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/the...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Has anyone else received an email/survey from the BBC yet re 'shaping the future' of the organisation? Well worth completing if you do - a rare opportunity for us to have our say. I've certainly let rip with my responses.....😉

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Random consumer tips for no reason. Argos has the best and fastest delivery service in the UK for so much stuff. If you don’t use eSims for data while travelling abroad you’re crazy, never pay roaming charges but keep your main number active Continuing this thread I posted when no used Bluesky.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Note to Labour MPs - associating Starmer with Trump in any positive way, however well-meaning, is utterly and irredeemably stupid.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

In the UK, business and finance leaders stayed largely silent about what they knew was an absolutely disastrous Johnson/Frost Brexit deal but have not shut up about Labour’s NI hike or stronger employee protections. It always boils down to fear and greed, of course.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Exactly. Every piece of “red tape” is a response to an incident, death, food poisoning, mass disease outbreak, avoidable pregnancy deformation, Grenfell burning, money laundering, tax avoidance etc Anyone (looking at you , Brexiters) who wants to remove them values money more than life.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Last year South West Water was the worst offender for dumping raw sewage 💩 Jo Bateman tells us what that means for her daily swim 🏊

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Watching obscenely rich people and their friends blast off into (not quite) space for a jolly is bizarre when there’s so much to fix here on earth. This song by Gil Scot Heron song does a good job of summing it up…

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Trans people make up less than 1% population. Now imagine if just a tiny fraction of the effort that has been put into the debate around defining trans women & women, online, in the media, & in law, were put into educating young men on on consent - now that would have an effect on women’s safety

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🔴The Sheer Scale of the COVID ‘VIP Lane’ PPE Scandal Has Still Not Been Revealed Five Years On New evidence published by the COVID Inquiry suggests that at least 20 more politically-connected suppliers received contracts worth £1 billion bylinetimes.com/2025/04/16/c...

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

The White House has kicked global wire services Reuters and Bloomberg out of the permanent press pool. Trump isn’t keen on scrutiny.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

Trump's tariffs have cost the US nearly $30 trillion, this translates to an additional $300,000 per family of four. That’s more damage than any economic policy pursued by any president in US history. He's bankrupting the country in real time. fortune.com/2025/04/04/l...

submitted 6 days ago • 113 comments

🚨Following last weeks report by @jennacorderoy.bsky.social, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & me: Cabinet Office just refused my request for emails between Gove & Candy: “The legitimate interest” to disclosure are “overridden by the reasonable expectations of privacy of the individual[s] concerned” 🤦🏻‍♂️

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

The Ice Man Cometh Trump's Gestapo is here. It operates throughout the country. It can suddenly arrest anyone, with no crime alleged, and deport them for permanent imprisonment overseas. Will anyone stop this? open.substack.com/pub/tristans...

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

Earlier this month, we learned that some of Devon's beaches are the most polluted in England. Then bills rose by as much as 56% for South West Water customers. Then we heard that former Exmouth MP Simon Jupp will be the new South West Water advisor on "community engagement". The whole thing stinks.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

‘The last thread connecting people to services’: why vets are risking all to care for Gaza’s donkeys

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

#SkyNews allowing Jenrick a lengthy monologue about non-existent two-tier policing, without challenging him sufficiently. The media in the UK is dire.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A former Conservative MP, senior Conservative aides and a Conservative member of the Welsh parliament have all been charged by the Gambling Commission with criminal cheating, after placing bets on the date of the general election with insider knowledge www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

The financing and transparency of "think tanks" & lobby groups in the UK is an absolute disgrace. It needs root-and-branch reform, starting with full disclosure of donors and an immediate ban on foreign funding. Having broken their own democracy, MAGA plutocrats should not be able to buy up ours.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

The main reason UK electricity prices are so high isn’t net zero but the fact that gas sets the price 98% of the time.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Have just turned on the TV and ex IEA chief Mark Littlewood - who now works for Liz Truss - is on the BBC talking about why Labour should revive Rwanda policy. Why is Littlewood still given airtime?

submitted 8 days ago • 57 comments

A useful exchange here: the Liberal Democrat Daisy Cooper warns that the govt is taking "huge and unconstrained powers, which could set a very dangerous precedent." She asks Jonathan Reynolds to time-limit and review those powers - and he gives that undertaking. parliamentlive.tv/event/index/...

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Welcome to the Theocracy. The Christian Taliban salutes you.

submitted 10 days ago • 62 comments

My latest report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social ⤵️

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The Conservatives’ likely next leader Robert Jenrick has gone full on MAGA in a way that should disturb all UK citizens. He’s naming and highlighting independent UK judges he considers “Far Left”. His dog whistle reaches some of the most violent Far Right people in the country.

submitted 10 days ago • 37 comments

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

submitted 11 days ago • 416 comments

🔍UPDATE: A mysterious offshore entity under the control of Reform MP, Richard Tice, has now folded months after Good Law Project exposed its existence in a wider investigation into his financial interests with @mirror.co.uk 🧵 goodlawproject.org/reform-mp-ri...

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments