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debsbostock.bsky.social @debsbostock.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Nails it. x.com/robggill/sta...
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debsbostock.bsky.social @debsbostock.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🙌 youtu.be/Jk0nUUqG_Ag
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The Art of The Deal
YouTube video by Jonathan Pie
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Court approves Thames Water £3bn loan at 9.75%, adds to £19bn debt. Temporary reprieve. Thames Water banking on new equity investment (unlikely) and higher customer bills. Over one-third of customer bills cover interest payments. Sewage dumping, dividends will continue.
theguardian.com
Thames Water wins court backing for £3bn debt package
Deal approved at high court gives company £1.5bn in upfront cash to stave off collapse
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
'England's beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'. Sewage dumping illegal in the EU, is normalized. More houses built without water infrastructure investment. Companies boost profits by abusing people and there is no effective regulator archive.ph/cXAAl
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'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'
The EU previously acted as a watchdog on sewage pollution
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Possibilities of democracy have been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites like Elon Musk. Political donations are effectively bribes to shape public choices, with no accountability of the donors. The only effective remedy is to ban all donations/bribes. leftfootforward.org/2025/01/how-...
leftfootforward.org
How our democracy has been hijacked by corporations and wealthy elites
The only effective remedy is to ban all private donations, or bribes, to political parties.
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Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This article depicts a battle ‘within the National Trust’ but RT2021Ltd or Restore Trust is a private company with 4 directors, The National Trust is a 129-year-old charity which has 5.5m members, all of whom have democratic voting rights. www.thetimes.com/article/26a1...
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Battle over National Trust decision not to restore ruined Clandon Park
Charity plans to showcase country house, which was gutted in a devastating 2015 blaze, as a fire-damaged shell but traditionalists demand it be restored
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
🔴Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers’ Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on “free speech” reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/17/c...
bylinetimes.com
Conservative MPs Want to Scrap Workers' Rights to Paid Holiday and Annual Leave
They are also seeking to overturn workplace protections from sexual harassment, calling them an attack on "free speech"
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debsbostock.bsky.social @debsbostock.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In one week I finished CJ Sansom’s first Shardlake novel, Dissolution, and then watched final episode of the magnificent Wolf Hall series. Fascination with Tudor England reignited.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
BBC Farming Today reports that the Office for Environmental Protection believes Defra may have broken environmental laws in 2023/2024… …by allowing neonicotinoid pesticides known to be harmful to bees & insects. The last govt gave emergency authorisation for use on sugar beet for last 4 years.
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Where are all the insects?
Can you really have a picnic without wasps these days? And is it true there are fewer bees and butterflies than before?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out." 💩
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Was there ever ‘shareholder support’ for Thames Water?
New writer Stanley Root’s analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out
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Guardian NUJ @gonuj.org · 04/12/2024
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵 How can you support us? SHARE our posts WRITE to guardian.readers@theguardian.com JOIN US - there's cake!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
If you’ve had it with water profiteers getting dividends totalling £85 billion for their shareholders & millions in executive bonuses whilst you get a 40% hike in your water bills (some areas as high 84%) say absolute boll**** to that by signing/sharing this👇 actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...?
actionnetwork.org
84% Hike for Sewage in Rivers? Tell OFWAT: Enough is Enough!
On 19th December, OFWAT will announce one of the biggest water bill hikes in history. Despite overwhelming public opposition, water bosses are pressuring our regulator to approve a staggering 40% ave...
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Here's an important petition from @sascampaigns.bsky.social on banning bail out of water companies. Why should we keep paying them to do a very bad job? Please sign! www.sas.org.uk/water-qualit...
sas.org.uk
Ban the Bailouts
The Government is trying to pass a law that could force the public to bailout failing water companies. Help stop this scandal, before it’s too late.
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Dame Ali J @june22ali.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
This, 100% 👇 Fuck Murdoch, Rothermere and all of them.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Czech billionaire set to buy Royal Mail for £3.6bn. The story so far: 1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p Benefit of Privatisation: Higher price, worse service. The same rip-off will continue. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Royal Mail: Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky closes in on takeover deal
Daniel Kretinsky is understood to have offered a series of concessions to the UK government.
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Lisa Burton 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @lisaburton.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Without a doubt, misinformation is the greatest threat to society and democracy. It is out of control, it’s poisoning minds, and many people have lost the ability to recognise fact, or think critically. It’s a world wide crisis @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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How the UK became a nation of misinformation and disinformation
Like many other parts of the world, the UK is in the firm grip of an epidemic of disinformation and misinformation
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In 2011 the private sector treated 3% of NHS patients. Today they treat 10% of patients, and receive 20% of the NHS budget (£29,000,000,000) Privitisation is happening right here, right now.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Tory Govt sewage-dumping South West Water £453m subsidy; £40m a yr since 2013. Company paid over £1.5bn dividends. It has 174 criminal convictions, paid fines of £4.54m. People fleeced - high bills, subsidies. Labour opposes public ownership of water democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
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Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm
New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into the ocean
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debsbostock.bsky.social @debsbostock.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Such an interesting thread, with equally thought-provoking comments.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
1. I’m thinking aloud here, as I really don’t have the answers. This is a thread about the political challenge of the very large numbers of young men now supporting the far right. I’m writing it without blame or derision. I’m just trying to find a way through. 🧵
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Private Equity has devoured Bernard Matthews Body Shop Casual Dining Cath Kidson Comet Debenhams Flybe Four Seasons Health Care Maplin Monarch Airlines Paperchase Poundworld Southern Cross Thames Water Toys R Us With further deregulation of finance, what next? leftfootforward.org/2024/11/exce...
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Excessive deregulation means that the UK is hurtling towards the next crash
Deregulation creates opportunities for bankers to take reckless risks with other people’s money, collect bonuses and destabilise economies.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 23/11/2024
The Conservatives left our dental services to rot, leaving people waiting in pain for basic services. After years of underfunding by the former Conservative government, the Chancellor has a real opportunity to properly invest in health and care services to save them from breaking point.
Graphic of various cartoon dental tools surrounding the headline 'Our Plan to Restore NHS Dentistry' - the three headers are:  Bring back dentists from the private sector by fixing the broken NHS dental contract, Use flexible commissioning to meet patient needs and Introduce an emergency scheme to guarantee access to free NHS check-ups for those eligible.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Why did the UK Government agree to sell the ghost station to an oligarch already suspected of money laundering for the Russian underworld? Why did senior Conservative Party figures accept large donations from such a man? Why hasn’t there been a full official inquiry? bylinetimes.com/2020/02/25/u...
bylinetimes.com
Underground Russian Influence: Johnson and the Ghost Station
Turlough Conway on how a new legal case against Boris Johnson raises more questions about money laundered in London and Conservative connections to Russia.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
BlackRock accused of contributing to climate & human rights abuses. It has received contracts from successive UK govts. Now in line for housing, education, health, nature and green energy contracts. Does anyone do due diligence, 'fit and proper' person tests? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
BlackRock accused of contributing to climate and human rights abuses
OECD complaint alleges top firm has increased investments in companies implicated in environmental devastation
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Severn Trent Water six month pre-tax profit up from £71m to £192m. CEO got £3.2m, company fined £2m for dumping 260m litres of sewage. Long-term debt £12bn. Dividend up from 46.74p per share to 48.68p. It wants a 50% price rise in customer bills. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Severn Trent’s profits triple as it fails drinking water safety test
Half-year profits of £192m come despite being ‘in penalty’ over quality
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debsbostock.bsky.social @debsbostock.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Worth getting up early this morning, not just to leave time to defrost car.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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debsbostock.bsky.social @debsbostock.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
1st post ~ my membership cards can introduce me: RHS 🌱, The NT, Watts Gallery, local library. Need to re-new my ArtPass. Subscribe to @bylinetimes.bsky.social (superior puzzle page btw). Pro EU, NHS, deprivitisation of our water.
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