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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 5h

Pembrokeshire Weather ☔️ It rained overnight and has continued all day and it’s still persisting down…. We took Lili the neighbours dog for a walk and we all arrived back home soaking wet.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.

theguardian.com

Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC

Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue

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sbarlster @sbarlster.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Psychotruck driver kills again. 😢 Ford Ranger is an unsafe vehicle that should require special licence to use. Users of sensible vehicles pay the price with their children’s lives. Actual dangerous product. I’m now waiting for our MPs to demand such classification? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Girl, 9, killed in two-vehicle crash in the Highlands

Police say the girl was a rear seat passenger of a car involved in the collision south of Inverness.

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Pembrokeshire Life Nice walk along the estuary and beach in the drizzle and the mist came rolling in. Hunger knock prompted a cry for lunch. The drive is along the scenic route but all obscured in the mist and on arrival we had to walk through the Christmas Stuff! Yo Ho Ho!

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.

news.sky.com

Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds

A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If you see billionaire-owned media outlets huffing and puffing about politicians opposing NHS privatisation being “ideological”, remember that all politicians are ideological. But only a few oppose private company shareholders getting rich from delivering NHS patient care🚨💙

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

England's water infrastructure at breaking point. Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old. Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.

standard.co.uk

MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week

London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.

bbc.co.uk

Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills

Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.

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Will cycles slower than you 🇿🇦🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️ @williamnb.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026

#WillCycle #Throwback: 8 biggest Op Snap report mistakes Op Snap is the system available in England and Wales, where cyclists can report bad driving by uploading video from their helmet cam. However, not all Op Snap report... www.willcycle.com/adventure/8-bigge…

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.

theguardian.com

Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says

Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On yesterday’s walk along the estuary into Parrog we got soaked. we needed our waterproof boots on instead of summer walking trainers. The cafe was open but we walked onwards and had to find shelter under the tress further along the coast path. Eventually it cleared and the sun came out 😎

Clouds and rain moving east and the sun mad a welcome appearance

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Comparison of state pension in G7 shows that the UK state pension is the least generous. Countries have wide variance in how retirement incomes are funded and how returns are calculated. Purists might want more nuanced data but this is what we have. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.

cityam.com

Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'

Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

UK household energy bills forecast to rise 16%, or £276, in January. Household energy debt expected to hit £7bn soon. Heating v Eating dilemma. 120,000 a year die in poverty. Companies profiteer, fuelling costs, inflation, poverty. Public ownership gives govt more policy options.

bbc.co.uk

Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years

A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Richest 1% of Britons owns more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 richest families hold more wealth than the poorest half of the population combined. The concentration of wealth in fewer hands has not provided the necessary economic stimulus. Need redistribution.

leftfootforward.org

This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship

Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Business 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/h0pVc

ft.com

Business groups urge John Healey to show restraint on raising UK’s minimum wage

Companies warn that a steep rise in labour costs will fuel inflation and cut jobs for young people

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Let’s hope so!! Link to article: www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... jujuliagrace.substack.com

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Well this would be great. But the biggest question in my mind is whether this system would turn into a massive cash cow for private companies, at the expense of the taxpayer: www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

bbc.com

PM proposes NHS style social care system

Burnham wants to offer access to free social care services in England. He'll put his plans before voters at the next general election.

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pembrokeshire Cycling Nice day for a bike ride chasing shadows

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Imagine the outcry from the ‘War on Cars’ brigade if this was being rolled out in the UK. Road Safety is a joke in this Country

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Pembrokeshire cycling My GoPro edit from yesterdays ride.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pembrokeshire Cycling I can’t resist the very short off route down to Tafarn Sinc the popular corrugated tin pub and just look at the creepy manikins out back. On the list to ride the gravel bridleways up the mountain and to the old quarry

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pembrokeshire Cycling Take your time……

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Carney's approval rating is 70+%. He's become so popular by treating people like intelligent adults. No populism, no appealing to base instincs, no talking to us as if we're children. He doesn't make stupid people his core audience. He understands there's a supermajority beyond the knuckle-draggers.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026

🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.

meidasnews.com

Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote

The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.uk

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Pembrokeshire Life A heavy box has just been delivered. MrsZ ordered it and I’ll need it after finally finishing the gravel laid on gravel grids. Hard work and good job Arwel the farmer helped and sorted the wonky stock fencing posts. I’m built for cycling not hard manual labour. Cheers 🍻

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Crypto billionaires must be stopped from undermining democracy. This is more than that. Politicians are bought by corporations and the super rich. Normal people can't compete in the auction. Must ban all political donations. Let parties be funded by modest membership fees and public money.

theguardian.com

The Guardian view on Reform UK: crypto billionaires must be stopped from undermining democracy | Editorial

Editorial: The vast sums given to Nigel Farage’s party in recent days must lead to action on political funding

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OB Cycler @obcycler.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Fucking coward blocked me.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons. Planet earth bristling with deadly weapons, now space too. Others will do the same to nullify the threat or gain advantage. No end to the madness. Ultimately, no one is safe in the death race.

bbc.co.uk

US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons

The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.

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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I see we are back into one of the intermittent periods of media moral panics about cycling. It is presumably a matter of days before someone calls for mandatory registration and insurance. Please do wake me up if anyone writes something we haven't already read 10,000 times before.

Celia Walden

Failure to act on e-bikes is now wilful negligence

Reckless pests are becoming more brazen and the injuries – and deaths – they cause will only rise if the Government does nothing

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

History Brother in law has sent me a link to the house where I was born. Family home for 40 years How it looked in 1910 and no motor vehicles!

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Pembrokeshire Cycling. Lovely and warm 😎So out for bimble on the gravel bike enjoying the hum of the new Carbon wheels. More stopping and talking than riding so cut the ride short as the 2:30 school run had started. Lane in the village closed. Head on RTA! 🚗 I

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Dread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you follow the logic that both drivers & cyclists pose an equivalent danger to pedestrians because both cause fatalities, which ignores relative risk & context, you end up at the conclusion that both tomatoes & tigers are also as dangerous to human life as drivers & as cyclists & as each other.

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Pembrokeshire Life Back to wet and windy in West Wales and as I was expecting a ton of gravel to be delivered, jumped on the Wahoo kickr with the garage door open for an easy session so I wouldn’t collapse getting off the bike if I was doing a race when the load landed. It’s now coming Monday

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Mike Cookson 🔶 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mikecookson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

We've got 20 parking spaces and you've taken one away. You're not being fair. WhAT aBoUt My CaR? @andy-singer.bsky.social

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pembrokeshire. No Cycling I was in no fit state to ride after yesterdays gravel moving. So off to the builders merchant to buy gravel grids and another ton of, gravel. Never ending Farmer Llewelyn arrived to cut the side hedge and we had to go Narberth. Lunch 😋 Ironman Wales Crew having a break

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

JP Morgan billionaire CEO with $43m pay meets Burnham and Healey to oppose UK bank tax rise. Banks making record profits from high charges, measly payment to savers, speculation, wars. What chance of the poor meeting PM/Chancellor to make their case?

theguardian.com

JP Morgan boss meets Burnham and Healey to warn against bank tax rise

Jamie Dimon tells UK politicians before October budget that investment could be at risk, it is understood

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

UK PM urged to target banks' bumper profits with windfall tax to ease cost-of-living pain. Half-year pre-tax profits of more than £29bn, expected to hit £55.3bn for the year. Made from high charges, low interest on savings, speculation. Many town centres, villages have no bank branches.

independent.co.uk

‘There might be a few less Porsches’: TUC boss urges Burnham to bring in bank tax

The general secretary of the TUC Paul Nowak called on the Labour leader to go ‘further and faster’ on cutting bills

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pembrokeshire Not Cycling. Mr Llewelyn called who is our local farmer and asked if I’m in. Yes. Hedge cutting, moving gravel, gravel grids to lay and back filled with gravel. It’s raining so I got stuck in to help. Soaked, tired and run out of materials… on the bright side, my club jersey arrived!

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Cycling Chris @cadencechris.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Tourist Tax Where does the money go? The demand on the NHS here is high and worse when the holiday season arrives. Building decent and well staffed hospitals would be a good use of the extra income It’ll never happen

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/09/2026

"SPAIN is leading calls for the EU to tax private jets and the profits of fossil fuel companies to bankroll a Europe-wide climate resilience fund, including extra money to fight wildfires" Excellent idea, and importantly, avoids the Norway problem where widespread fossil $$ makes us ❤️🛢️

theolivepress.es

Spain wants private jet and fossil fuel tax to fight wildfires

Spain has called for a permanent EU climate emergency response system after a summer marred by extreme heat and wildfires.

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