Reposted by JoPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Private equity puts PizzaExpress, Morrisons and Itsu up for sale. All devoured and declining brands, asset-stripped. PE has no long-term commitment to any product, people or place. Chances are another PE group will see opportunity for scavenging. archive.ph/DFYPqft.comPrivate equity puts string of UK high street names up for saleOwners of PizzaExpress, Morrisons and Itsu seeking exits as buyout groups cool on sector 64697328
Reposted by JoClive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom? 621029341
Reposted by JoLyam Mc @lyamelbandino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Remember the Tories don’t care about people, they never did and this will never change. All the issue we face started with them forcing Neoliberalism on us. 😡 29753248
Reposted by JoEmma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Last chance to join my bird illustration & mental health workshop on zoom this Sat I'll teach you how: 🪶...to draw several different bird species using my simple formula 🧠...creative activity (incl drawing) alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird... 28933
Reposted by JoMike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The Tories subjected us to 14 years of austerity 'to get the national debt under control' - but more than doubled the debt. They now say they must impose more austerity (welfare cuts) to fund defence - but their track record is of spending less on defence as a % of GDP over their time in power. 🤔 15422
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Extend cuts? Yeah, cos that went so well last time of course 🤔 021
Reposted by JoAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 03/10/2026Another attack overnight on a tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. This is the 6th attack this week, and still getting almost no coverage!! The human price for transiting the Strait seems to be being priced into business costs. 14922
Reposted by JoDale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/10/2026Was just explaining this to someone at Labour’s conference - Crown Estate owns the coast and seabed and charges for the use of it for green energy projects - pushing up energy bills. 710448
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026#Reform have said they want their own DOGE, I wonder how our checks and balances would hold out www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.com‘Elon is my prophet’: how Musk’s Doge team took a wrecking ball to WashingtonWhen the new ‘department of government efficiency’ sent young techies to disrupt federal agencies, not everyone complied. Here’s what happened when one worker fought to protect immigrant data 122
Reposted by JoMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Most TV is just this now. 17572731996
Reposted by JoEsheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 28/09/2026“I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.” - James Baldwin. @theguardian.com you reported gleefully that Ed Millburn said the UK Labour government fell short, this is nothing to be gleeful about. This also isn’t falling short, it’s a derelection of duty 1214597
Reposted by JoAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 28/09/2026So this is the UK in 2026? Actively wishing desperate poor people to die, and not hiding it. Putting it all out in public for people to see... How do we even come back from this? How do we deradicalise and deprogram a proportion of an entire population to return their humanity and empathy? 145614
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You inspired me to stop doom scrolling and have a wander on the beach. I feel so much better now, thank you 😊 021
Reposted by JoBen Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718... 15557207
Reposted by JoPrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage. They claim lifting people out of poverty is inflationary. Can't recall millionaires restraining on profiteering, exec pay, dividends, share buybacks. Have they tried living on minimum wage? archive.ph/h0pVcft.comBusiness groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wageCompanies warn that a steep rise in labour costs will fuel inflation and cut jobs for young people 45611227
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026What’s wrong with paying more tax anyway? I’d rather do that than lose my home 151
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 26/09/2026This is me, I do this all the time. I’m very easily distracted 😆 020
Reposted by JoHelen McCookerybook (aka Helen McCallum, aka Helen Reddington) @mccookerybook.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Doc'n'Roll punk Brighton documentary (also will be screened in Brighton on 28th October) Rio Dalston, 29th October That's me in the red checked shirt at the end of the line next to Johnny Piranha! riocinema.org.uk/Rio.dll/What...riocinema.org.ukDoc N' Roll: Punk Brighton + Q&A | Rio CinemaShowing from Thu 29 Oct 021
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Especially given how dentist provision in the UK is shocking and may even be a contributing factor why people think that the government is not working for them 030
Reposted by JoAsh Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/20261/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions. 26897468
Reposted by JoBladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Palantir should not have a seat in the house of Lords. Tom Watson shouldn't be allowed to work for Palantir and be a Lord he should be fired ASAP. 20676239
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This one tho 😉 m.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NO...m.youtube.comJesus Is My Friend by SonseedYouTube video by lostepiphany79 000
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Maybe they should let the Iranians self regulate their nuclear program? 000
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026There’s outrage in Gosport for similar reasons, just across the harbour from Portsmouth 😉 100
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Why are LBC news legitimising the ridiculous news from Piddington? They’re reporting it in the same way Brexit was reported #lbc 020
Reposted by JoRMT Union @rmtunion.bsky.social · 15/09/2026“We’ve sold off all of our assets but kept all of the liabilities… our national debt is a limit on our democracy, we have given a veto to foreign capital, we have got to do something about that." RMT General Secretary Eddie Dempsey at #TUC26 1177
Reposted by JoPolitical Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Its just a goosestep to the right…. 1124
Reposted by JoThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda) 15246382043
Reposted by JoPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Crypto billionaires don’t become crypto billionaires by being generous or altruistic. They become crypto billionaires by being greedy, selfish, amoral, dishonest, untrustworthy shites. They don’t give away money for the common good. Is that who should control our politics? 20541163
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I don’t understand why workers rights are a bad thing, or at least how working people have been sold this as a fact. Bloody Thatcher 0111
Reposted by JoTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄. 3730131004
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026These people have been radicalised, why won’t the government take notice? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPoole Old Lifeboat Museum shuts after protesters target volunteersThe museum in Poole says it will remain closed until until the anti-migrant protests stop. 010
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I live in a southern coastal town but my partner lives in London so I spend a lot of time there. I feel safer in London, even more so since the small boat protests of last weekend 0120
Reposted by JoFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties 361419547
Reposted by JoDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I was around in the 1970s. I don't recall even the most rightwing Tory politicians downplaying National Front marches as some kind of justifiable expression of popular discontent. 22445103
Reposted by JoFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Well well @neso-energy.bsky.social Did YOU fall for the “Dangle then gobble” too? What Government advice did you get? From whom? But keep it quiet. Now why would you do that? Our National Energy Operating systems in hoc to them too? Disgusted. www.ft.com/content/f6a2...ft.comBritain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bidsNeso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative 713181
Reposted by JoHappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 08/09/2026Easy to follow guide from the British press 81633505
Reposted by JoHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵 17744463
Jo @buncharliedid.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Sent a little money to the RNLI, the least we can do considering #rnli 020
Reposted by JoMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 07/09/2026Big fan of how Russia can shut down a major UK port for half a day with just 5kg of cocaine and 100 severely divorced men. 18668177
