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Anna Marriott

@annamarriott.bsky.social
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Passionate about healthcare for all and taxing the super rich

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Anna Marriott @annamarriott.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Love this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Fixing England’s water isn’t just the right thing to do – it can be the start of Labour’s fightback | Clive Lewis
There is an appetite in this country for policy that will change lives. What is more fundamental than the water we use and bills we pay, asks Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Kal Winston @zakkal.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"Growing inequality causes growing poverty. Protect your family: tax wealth not work." watch Gary' economics youtu.be/rAb_p5DCC3E?... (and read Thomas Picketty too)
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How to stop the economy from collapsing
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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Oxfam News Team @oxfamgbnews.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“It is morally bankrupt to make people living in poverty pay the greatest price for Government spending decisions, and it’s a false choice when the extreme wealth of the UK’s super rich is skyrocketing but goes untouched.” - Anna Marriott of @oxfamgb.bsky.social www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Rachel Reeves warned of 'moral bankruptcy' as she prepares cuts
The Chancellor is under fire from Jeremy Corbyn and charities warn against pushing people deeper into poverty with cuts to benefits and foreign aid
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Anna Marriott @annamarriott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Just found you @felixundstein.bsky.social
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Anna Marriott @annamarriott.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
More push back against blind optimism on blended finance in global health. = Expensive! Benefits favour large private actors Unclear benefits for intended beneficiaries. ⬆️evidence to ⛔but when did evidence alone ever stop powerful commercial interests? doi.org/10.1080/1744...
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Blended finance to the rescue? Subsidies, vaccine bonds and matching funds in global health
To close persistent global health financing gaps, policymakers have in recent years promoted the idea of ‘blended finance’, i.e. the strategic use of public funds to attract additional private sect...
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Anna Marriott @annamarriott.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We civil servants will cut UK aid if we are told to. But when people die, we’ll make sure everyone knows it | The civil servant www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We civil servants will cut UK aid if we are told to. But when people die, we’ll make sure everyone knows it | The civil servant
It’s not just Starmer’s policy is immoral and will be ineffective. It also sidesteps the safeguards we have to prevent calamitous decisions, says the secret civil servant
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Oxfam News Team @oxfamgbnews.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"I think most people would rather see wealthy #billionaires taxed, than see money being clawed back from children in #Sudan or children under rubble in #Gaza." - @oxfamgb.bsky.social's @halimabegum.bsky.social speaking to Sky News on the UK Government's aid cuts.
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Anna Marriott @annamarriott.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"Within a generation, we’ve lost a sense of public assets and public housing. But that means we can also get it back in a generation.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff of 2024, a crisis hidden in plain sight | Aditya Chakrabortty
Her right to buy policy enriched the private sector at taxpayers’ expense. Last year, it sparked another gold rush – and looming calamity for local authorities, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabo...
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Peter Maybarduk @maybarduk.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
BREAKING: We have an early limited win in our suit. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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US judge will enter "limited" temporary order blocking Trump from taking steps to dismantle USAID
A U.S. judge on Friday said he will enter a "very limited" temporary order blocking the Trump administration from taking certain steps to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Bluesky is garabge for videos but I have done one promise: Labour MP on Donald Trump youtube.com/shorts/3H906...
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Labour MP on Donald Trump 🌹❤️ #wsebag #labour #ukpolitics #uspolitics #donaldtrump #keristarmer
YouTube video by Will Sebag-Montefiore
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Anna Marriott @annamarriott.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
A coalition of leading African civil society groups call on the @worldbankgroup.bsky.social to exit its investments in for-profit hospitals following a Bloomberg News investigation @britishintinv.bsky.social @proparco.bsky.social @eib.org www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @bloomberg.com
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African NGOs Call on World Bank to Exit Hospital Investments
A coalition of leading African civil society groups called on the World Bank to exit its investments in for-profit hospitals, following a Bloomberg News investigation that found some facilities backed...
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Kathy M @marriottiw.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Focusing on this today- there is another way! And very proud of my sister @annamarriott.bsky.social for hard work on this more than ever important agenda
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Katerini T. Storeng @kstoreng.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New analysis of how financialisation shapes global health - by @collectivehealth.bsky.social members @benmhunter.bsky.social @felixundstein.bsky.social @annamarriott.bsky.social @dcmccoy11.bsky.social and others
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Anna Marriott @annamarriott.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We just can't afford billionaires! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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Revealed: how Roman Abramovich dodged taxes on cost of running his fleet of superyachts
Cyprus Confidential files suggest offshore scheme was used to evade tens of millions in VAT on long list of expenses
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Collective for the Political Determinants of Health @collectivehealth.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
@felixundstein.bsky.social &@benmhunter.bsky.social joined the Collective Conversation to discuss a new co-authored report Private Financial Actors & Financialisation in Global Health The event was chaired by Susan Erikson & co-organised by @unu-iigh.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=c94g...
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Private Finance and Financialisation: A Threat to Global Health
YouTube video by SUM Centre for Development and the Environment, UiO
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24/01/2025
X refuses to remove stabbing video watched by Southport killer www.ft.com/content/3c8923f3-9e30-4f…
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X refuses to remove stabbing video watched by Southport killer
Axel Rudakubana was able to view Australian clip before murdering three young children despite pleas from authorities
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 23/01/2025
“Like manipulative partners, the super-wealthy have legitimized an extremely unequal economic model by convincing us that we’d be worse off without them. But today, the jig is up. It’s become increasingly obvious that the world’s billionaires are takers, not makers.” zeteo.com/p/the-billio...
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The Billions vs. the Billionaires
Introducing Zeteo’s new column on economics and politics from acclaimed British commentator and author Grace Blakeley.
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@CHPIthinktank @chpithinktank.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Women are being forced down the private route for gynae care because of the underfunding of the NHS. The private sector knows this and so will turn it to their advantage including by raising prices. Our Director in today's Guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Women paying up to £11,000 for a hysterectomy amid NHS delays
Claims private sector taking advantage of long waits as cost of procedure rises sharply
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Collective for the Political Determinants of Health @collectivehealth.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Stay up to date with the members of the Collective for the Political Determinants of Health! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Action for Global Health @afghnetwork.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
💬 @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's @annamarriott.bsky.social: "Oxfam has been raising the alarm about the IFC’s investments in private healthcare for well over a decade. Their response, alongside the other development banks, has been inexcusably lackluster."
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Felix Stein @felixundstein.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New analysis of how #financialisation changes #globalhealth, by @benmhunter.bsky.social, @dcmccoy11.bsky.social @annamarriott.bsky.social Victor Roy, Benjamin Wood and me. collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10...
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Rob Yates @robyates123.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
South Africa's NHI reforms can definitely work if there is the political commitment to implement them mg.co.za/thought-lead...
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The National Health Insurance scheme can work, this is how – The Mail & Guardian
The NHI is a constitutional Imperative for universal healthcare
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Rebecca Riddell @rebeccariddell.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
If billionaires shouldn't exist, what to make of billionaire nepo babies?? Brilliant new report from @4taxfairness.bsky.social. Looks at beneficiaries of a rigged system that lets ungodly amounts of undertaxed wealth pass from one generation to the next. americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaire-...
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Billionaire Nepo Babies: How the Nation's Wealthiest Inheritors Are Spending Extreme Fortunes - Americans For Tax Fairness
Read the full report here. INTRODUCTION Descendants of some of America’s richest families are spending millions of dollars on expensive toys, extravagant celebrations, and vanity businesses and career...
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Equality Trust @equalitytrust.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This massive inequality isn't inevitable. The need for foodbanks has skyrocketed in the the UK – as has the number of billionaires and their wealth. These things are two sides of the same coin. Trussell do incredible, vital work, but this inequality shouldn't be how our country works.
A graph showing foodbank parcels distributed by the Trussell Trust rising from 41k in 2010 to 1m in 2015 and 3.1m in 2024, while over the same time billionaire wealth climbs from £205bn to £679bn.
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Jake Atkinson @jakeatkinson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The usual suspects - including the UK, US, Israel, & Canada - remain opposed to the #UNTaxConvention. Thanks to leadership from the Global South, particularly the Africa Group, it lives on. The UK says it wants genuine partnership with the Global South - time to deliver.
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Alex Cobham @alexcobham.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Is momentum with tax justice? Hot on the heels of yesterday's UN resolution triumph, we hear that Australia's parliament may be about to do a last minute deal to pass legislation for public country by country reporting by multinationals - a crucial tax transparency measure with global implications
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