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Stop Rosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

BREAKING 🚨: COP30 is flooded with 1,600 fossil fuel lobbyists. One in every 25 people inside the climate talks is working for the industry that caused this crisis. They outnumber almost every country, including those losing lives to storms, drought and heat.

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Unite the union @unitetheunion.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🥳 Good news!! (As long as you are a banker) “Better-than-expected results from big banks” Barclays today announced income of £7.2bn - up 9% year-on-year; pre-tax profits of £2.1bn for 3 months to the end of Sep; and a £500mn share buyback! 🕙 Time to tax excessive wealth and profits

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Generation Rent @generationrent.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Our research found millions of renters are missing out on hundreds of £s a year due to the out of date deposit system. In @thetimes.com our @danwilsoncraw.bsky.social sets out some simple solutions to make the system fairer and put more money in renters' pockets. ⬇️ www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

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Renters lose money — and landlords pocket the interest

Unreasonable deductions and a broken deposit system mean renters are denied hundreds of pounds every year

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 29/07/2025

1.2 million extra pensioners will be privately renting by the 2040s and it is set to cost the Treasury an extra £2bn in housing benefit.

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Sky-high cost of rent means ageing tenants 'won't be able to retire'

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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 24/07/2025

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol made 6,666 times more than the typical Starbucks worker. All while baristas are not able to pay their rent and bills, or get the hours they need to qualify for healthcare. This company can afford fair union contracts. No more excuses, Brian!

CNN Business: "This company's CEO made 6,666 more than its typical worker." "Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol was paid far more than the typical worker at the company."

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Renters' Reform Coalition @rentersreformco.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

If the price of everyday items had grown as fast as rents since 1988, a supermarket chicken would now set you back £53.76. The bill won't address this affordability crisis - we need further action. RRC campaigner @rosiedutch.bsky.social explained on LBC News earlier this week.

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 16/07/2025

In the face of record rents in the UK, will renters face more surges as the cost of living crisis continues to hit households?

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Why are rents so high and will they keep going up?

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

I spoke to the CEO of a company that has a nearly $12 million contract to provide barriers to "Alligator Alcatraz." He told me that he didn't know his products were going to the facility. I offered to show him the contract. He declined to look at it. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/contrac...

In a conversation with TPM on Tuesday evening, Peter Whitford, Meridian's CEO, suggested that his company was unaware where state officials were using its products.
"When we supply the Division of Emergency Management out of Florida, we supply product to them," Whitford told TPM. "What they do with that product is not part of our purview.
"You're reading a contract I have no visibility to," he added.
Whitford declined to review the contract TPM obtained via the FACTS system.
"I do not need to see any document other than what I get from the division of Homeland Security," he said. "I do not know what they're doing with that. I do not know if one set is going there or 100 sets are going there. So, for me to make a comment on hypothetically where they're going would not be appropriate."

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 10/07/2025

1.2 million extra pensioners will be privately renting by the 2040s and it is set to cost the Treasury an extra £2bn in housing benefit.

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Sky-high cost of rent means ageing tenants 'won't be able to retire'

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 09/06/2025

WATCH: Los Angeles police officer in riot gear shoots Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi with a rubber bullet for no apparent reason.

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Trust for London @trustforlondon.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

26% of Londoners are living in poverty. That's around 2.3 million people - including 700,000 children. And this means that London once again has the highest poverty rate in England. The latest data & which groups are most affected...

A chart showing poverty rates by region in England for 2023/24, both before and after housing costs. London has the highest poverty rate after housing costs

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/06/2025

🚨Breaking 🚨 Government's water report, released today, has a gaping hole in it! No mention of public ownership as a solution. There's a reason 90% of the world runs water in public hands - it works. ✅ PS think BBC has confused @hugofearnley with @HugoSAS 😂 #waterreport

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 03/06/2025

'When nearly half of people are so financially fragile that they are living in fear of a £100 bill, something has gone very wrong'

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Nearly half of Brits only £100 away from being overdue on their rent or mortgage: 'On a knife edge'

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 03/06/2025

Under-investment in social housing has meant that many low-income households instead live in the private rental sector. More than a third of housing support is now paid to private landlords. Read more➡️ buff.ly/iPgoNzv

chart shows more than a third of housing support in England, or nearly £12 billion, was paid by the state to private landlords in 2023-24. The cost to the state of subsidising rent paid to private sector landlords has risen by 64 per cent in real-terms since the mid-1990s, compared to a 54 per cent rise in the total cost of subsidising households living in social rental accommodation, which totalled just over £20 billion in 2023-24.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

"Shameful" The Inquiry hears from expert virologist Prof. Deenan Pillay that the Government chose to spend billions on private consultants from Deloitte instead of listening to experts. The labs they set up have since been dismantled. 'We've been left with nothing'.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

The Tax Justice Network lists three former British colonies, now overseas dependencies, as the most complicit jurisdictions in global tax abuse. They help deprive governments of $87bn per year, over 5 times the UK’s aid programme: www.declassifieduk.org/the-empire-n...

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The Empire never died

The British Empire is still with us, in the UK’s island outposts and military bases, in the plunder of other countries’ resources, and in UK officials’ imperial mindset.

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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 26/05/2025

This is about the human cost of plastic. They work in the shadows of toxic dumpsites, sorting through the world’s waste - but no one sees them. @greenpeaceafrica.org’s new documentary gives waste pickers the spotlight they’ve always deserved. Watch it on bit.ly/44TrRKs #GlobalPlasticTreaty

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Financial crime in the UK. $2trn to $5.5trn dirty money laundered globally. 40% through the UK, its Crown Dependencies, Overseas Territories. Govt can take out Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs) to chase crooks. 2017-2025: 7 UWOs, none since 2019, no prosecutions. Laws not enforced on the City.

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Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power

Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

37% of the people (2.7m) on Universal Credit are in employment. Work does not pay enough. Public purse is boosting corporate profits, dividends, exec pay. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined and oppose redistribution. What do they gain from consigning millions to misery?

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Universal Credit statistics, 29 April 2013 to 9 January 2025

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Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈 @chimeracoder.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money. This is murder. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Cost-cutting tactics

The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative.

Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients.

The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays.

Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Astonishing evidence at the Covid Inquiry. The Government repeatedly ignored offers from the Crick Institute to provide mass testing on a national scale. Instead, the Government paid Deloitte consultants to project manage, not yet established, privately run labs. 1/2

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

War on the poor. If the DWP makes error and overpays certain benefits, the Bill allows Ministers to recover money from the claimant’s bank account. No court order is needed. What if benefit claimants can't afford to repay, or face hardship? No equivalent law for fraudsters and scammers.

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A new bill will lead to mass state surveillance for the most vulnerable. We must act.

This bill grants the government powers of surveillance on the bank accounts of the poor, old, sick and disabled people receiving specified benefits

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Shelter Scotland @shelterscotland.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Scotland’s #HousingEmergency is now affecting 2.3 million people. From unsafe conditions to rising rents, insecurity, discrimination, and lack of suitable homes – it touches every part of life. This is not good enough. 🏠✊ It’s time for change. Will you join the fight? ✊ shelterscotland.org/ActNow

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Shelter Scotland @shelterscotland.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Last weeks Programme for Government didn’t give Scotland the programme for secure homes it so desperately needs, but it did give us a programme for homelessness. The #HousingEmergency can only be ended with a real plan. Help us make that clear to the Scottish Gov. 📣 shelterscotland.org/ActNow

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Median UK annual wage for employees is £30,252. Net pay of £25,301 attacked by corporate profiteering. Hard to survive, raise family even with two wage earners. 1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Can't revive economy without boosting purchasing power of the bottom 50%.

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Earnings and employment from Pay As You Earn Real Time Information, UK - Office for National Statistics

Monthly estimates of payrolled employees and their pay from HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC’s) Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Real Time Information (RTI) data.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🔴 Remember the £330million contract given to Trump donor Peter Thiel's firm Palantir to build an NHS data platform? Well we've found out that most English hospitals aren't using it - because it's not very good Scoop on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/palantirs-...

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Palantir's NHS data platform rejected by most hospitals

US spy tech firm's £330million software isn't much cop, experts say

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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

‘Britains asylum hotel King Billionaire’. Making Big Money from Misery. Interestingly this piece explores the number of people crossing to claim asylum. Even the number of visa applications. And not once does it mention the Tory asylum ban. archive.ph/OIYeP

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Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

To celebrate reaching 6000 followers, I am going to give away a free copy of my book The Road to Mons Graupius, which charts my journey along a Roman road through Scotland! To enter, follow me, then like and repost this post. I will choose a winner at random on Friday 16th May... #RomanSiteSaturday

My hand holding a copy of my book, the Road to Mons Graupius

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 28/04/2025

London councils face bankruptcy over £330m overspend on homelessness

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London councils face bankruptcy over £330m overspend on homelessness

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Covid-19 Bereaved Families For Justice UK @cbffjuk.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Justice for the Covid Bereaved isn't just about learning lessons. It's about ensuring all those who were negligent or corrupt are held accountable. That includes criminal charges for those who profited at the expense of public health. We look forward to more arrests.

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International Federation of Pedestrians @ifpedestrians.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Research from Sweden puts the lifetime cost of car ownership at nearly £500,000 - of which 41% is shouldered by society. From air pollution to road deaths, congestion to climate emissions, the damage caused by our car-first culture extends far beyond individual drivers. www.eta.co.uk/news/the-hid...

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The hidden cost of car dependency: Why walking and cycling pay dividends for society | ETA

car dependency

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Shelter Scotland @shelterscotland.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

🚨 A second Scottish city joins Edinburgh in having more children living in temporary accommodation than in all of Wales. That city is Glasgow, with 3,503 children compared to 2,679 in Wales. A shocking stat that shows the scale of Scotland's #HousingEmergency. More info shelterscotland.org/GLAvWAL

A photo of a busy Buchanan Street in Glasgow, with text overlay that says "There are more children in temporary accommodation in Glasgow than all of Wales"

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 10/02/2025

"Councils can’t cope with the level of demand we are now seeing." More than 118,000 teens and young adults faced homelessness last year, a report from youth homelessness charity Centrepoint has found 🏠 👇 bit.ly/4jPYk9u

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.” A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

More English councils declared effective bankruptcy in the past three years than in the preceding three decades, amid a financial crisis triggered by austerity-driven cuts and local missteps.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Most zero-hours workers ‘with same employer for more than a year’. 1m people on insecure contracts – 130,000 not having full rights after 10 years. Average zero-hours contract worker earns a third less. Can't plan spending, loans/mortgage with insecure work. People forced to use food banks.

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Most zero-hours workers ‘with same employer for more than a year’

TUC says 1m people are on the insecure contracts – with 130,000 still not having full rights after 10 years

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Shelter Scotland @shelterscotland.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Shockingly, 42 children are made homeless every single day in Scotland, but it doesn't need to be that way. With your help and support, we can tackle the #HousingEmergency together. 🔗 shelterscotland.org/donate

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

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...

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‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages

Retail assistants on low pay using YoungOnes platform docked cash or told to wait up to 30 days for earnings

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

The Mump Oligarchy – A Glossary 1/10. Mump regime. Musk plus Trump. Mu...mp. The real centibillionaire and the fake rich person in the proper order.

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Big Issue @bigissue.com · 11/12/2024

Renters are paying a staggering £3,240 more a year since the pandemic 💷 It's pushing them to their limits. The government must "slam the brakes on rising rents," @generationrent.bsky.social urge ⬇️ buff.ly/4fh8Ym2

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Mike Middleton @wulfgarthebard.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

For #TombTuesday I offer a view of the corbeled roof of one of the chambers in the Cuween Hill, Chambered Cairn in Orkney. Around 500 years after its construction, 24 dog skulls were placed in the tomb. 📷 My own. #Archaeology

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David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🌲9️⃣🎁 9ᵗʰ c. S-MOR-001 (Brodie Castle, Moray, Scotland) ]ᚓᚇᚇᚐᚏᚏᚅᚑᚅᚅ[ -]EDDARRNONN[- ‘…Ethernan…’ Found in 1781 while laying the foundations for a new church in Dyke and Moy, the stone, also known as ‘Rodney’s Stone’, is now located on the approach way to Brodie Castle. It is the longest of all… ᚐ

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I am once again asking TV producers to remember there are dynasties and royal courts where you can set great drama other than the TUDORS

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