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Enjoying skywriting. No wing walking planned. Vomit bags supplied on request. Grumpy old lady, quietly watching the clouds go by. Unsolicited DMs = instant block.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5h
Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Palantir is worming its way into the British state – it’s time to curb this controversial US company’s influence | George Monbiot
Tom Watson has said ‘mob rule’ must not decide public contracts. Perhaps he should take a look at his new employer, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 2h
via Harry Eccles
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 4h
Private water companies are trying to convince you that taking our water into public ownership is too expensive But we can bring water into public hands for LESS than they will siphon out of our bills over the next 5 years Public ownership now!
Graphic that says "Water privatisation is a scam. Public ownership now. £14 billion the cost of bringing water into public ownership, according to Moody's in 2019 VS £22 billion amount banks and shareholders will take out of our water bill in the next 5 years"
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 18h
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 5h
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that Palantir poses to our NHS goodlawproject.org/forced-out-of-a-…
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Forced out of a job in the NHS for speaking out on Palantir | Good Law Project
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that a US spy-tech company poses to our NHS
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 3h
Just like AbsenteeMan Nigel Farage Reform UK supporting posts have been disappearing along with (completely unconnected of course) Russian bots .. "Bots have been controlling the patriot narrative for a while – let's see what happens after the Russian bot farm destruction" via The UK Against Hate
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 21h
Well said Burnham. This is how we should expose the conman, the liar and the wrecker. He doesn't love this country and even the out of touch cultists who support him, he loves himself and the very rich who fill his pockets. Let's keep exposing him. #ExposeFarage #GetFarageOut
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 1h
This ought to be a joke If @ofwat.bsky.social seriously wanted to stop poor performance it - would have said NO to 36% bill rise last year - would have said NO to £3.4 billion bill rise on top - would be taking private water companies into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...
independent.co.uk
Households to see water bills cut as regulator fines failing suppliers
Ofwat stressed that changes to bills are ‘affected by a range of factors and the effect will vary by company and customer type’
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21h
I like Emily.
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Scrap Brexit without a second referendum, says senior London Labour MP Emily Thornberry — The Standard
‘I don't think we need to have another referendum, but what we can do is have it in the manifesto, and then people can have a choice,’ says Dame Emily
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h
Royal Mail losing 400 postal workers a week, says union. Fewer workers lead to more pressure on those remaining. Low morale. Parcels prioritised over letter delivery. Letter delivery targets not met even when lowered, prices hiked. Can RM survive?
bbc.co.uk
Royal Mail losing 400 postal workers a week, says union
The CWU says more posties are leaving since a new delivery system was brought in, that it claims is not working in hundreds of offices.
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DefinitelyDelilah 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😵‍💫 @definitelydelilah.bsky.social · 51m
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social You’ve lost my confidence re unbiased news. People are catching on. Stop bringing GB News into our BBC.
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Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
UK could be fast-tracked back into EU, pro-Brussels group argues Best for Britain says alignment between London and bloc would speed up any rejoining process as Andy Burnham prepares ‘options’ #RejoinEU #JoinEU www.ft.com/content/3aa9...
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UK could be fast-tracked back into EU, pro-Brussels group argues
Best for Britain says alignment between London and bloc would speed up any rejoining process as Andy Burnham prepares ‘options’
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 11/10/2026
One of South London’s very best. Great to see plans for London to celebrate David Bowie’s extraordinary legacy as we look ahead to what would have been his 80th birthday.
standard.co.uk
David Bowie’s 80th birthday will be marked with major London celebrations
The Starman would have turned 80 in a few months - and London is already gearing up to celebrate his enduring legacy
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Simon Parker @sparkerworld.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Unfortunately one Putin bot account appears to be still active
Nigel Farage tries to distract attention from news that he and his various political parties are heavily implicated in Russian attempts to destabilise Western democracies and weaken support for Ukraine
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Monty Dodge @montyofdodgington.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@badassmutha.bsky.social @donmcgowan.bsky.social Russian interference update. Farage called Burnham a liar! Will someone please ram this down his throat? ⬇️
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm gobsmacked by ministers' failure to defend Burnham's claim about Russian interference in Brexit (and Tories' claim that he has no proof of it) when there were well-documented troll farms, funded by Russia, spewing out aggressive pro-Brexit attacks on social media at the time
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Let’s just dismantle this outdated and expensive institution and return all properties and land to public ownership. Time’s up. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
mirror.co.uk
'Spineless MPs have failed to tackle Royal gravy train as your bills go up'
Writing for The Mirror, author and former Lib Dem MP Norman Baker has criticised the government for approving a £100million-a-year Sovereign Grant for the Royal Family
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DefinitelyDelilah 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😵‍💫 @definitelydelilah.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just read that someone called it Operation Quiet Piggy. Fan bloody tastic. 👏👏👏👏
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
💥A must read💥 We can join the EU within a parliament 👇
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Deloitte in Cyprus helped in falsifying documents to hide Roman Abramovich's wealth and evade tax, Leaked documents show transactions backdated and tailored. Assets spirited away to BVI. Big four accounting firms advise UK govts, get public contracts, routinely implicated in scandals.
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Deloitte helped in falsifying documents to evade tax on Abramovich’s wealth
Backdated paperwork also made the Russian oligarch’s yachts and mansions disappear from accounts, BBC finds.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 11/10/2026
Barry Gardiner MP has the receipts; showing that England's water companies are persistently failing in their statutory duties. As Secretary of State for the Environment Angela Eagle already has the power to take them into Special Administration. "She can. She should."
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
theferret.scot
The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 08/10/2026
If you don't know what folic acid does when added to flour, do look it up, and marvel at the fact Restore has decided to campaign against it.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We are currently generating 100% of our electricity demand from net-zero sources, with a further 10% being exported (plus 10% more from legacy gas). At a cost of just £8.27/MWh. Yet the Tories and Refuk want to take us backwards to more fossil fuel pollution and higher prices... grid.iamkate.com
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/10/2026
The idea that rejoining the EU would take the UK a decade is a myth. Finland went from application to full membership in less time than it took us to negotiate and sign a trade deal with India. bestforbritain.org/uk-rejoin-eu-sin…
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UK could rejoin EU within a single Parliament, experts confirm - Best for Britain
The UK could rejoin the European Union (EU) within a single Parliament, and complete negotiations in less time than it t
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good….keep it up 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
independent.co.uk
Ukraine-Russia war live: Zelensky bombs Russian oil hub hours after Trump-Putin deal
Ukrainian negotiators travelled to the US on Friday for talks with their American counterparts
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure on the UK rejoining the European Union tells the BBC, "Come back. Anytime" My view: Across Europe, the message to Britain is increasingly simple: come back. We are stronger working with our closest neighbours — economically and in our shared defence.
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Before he did Not put his butt fingers on the Bible to get sworn in & take THE OATH, he knew & protected his billionaires that he pimped, smiling and clapping for their Gold. Our Gold. Standing beside and behind him. He Never gave a wink about Maga Cult. They laughed at his ‘Big billionaire Bill🤣🤬
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/10/2026
🚨Our new research reveals the UK could rejoin the EU within a single Parliament. Reports that accession would take a decade are wide of the mark. Read more in the @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/3aa9...
ft.com
UK could be fast-tracked back into EU, pro-Brussels group argues
Best for Britain says alignment between London and bloc would speed up any rejoining process as Andy Burnham prepares ‘options’
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/10/2026
I refuse to allow the poison of hatred and prejudice to drip into our communities. That’s why I’ve invested £17 million in initiatives to tackle hate crime. This National Hate Crime Awareness Week reminds us why it’s important to build a London where everyone feels safe, welcome, and valued.
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Mayor announces record new funding to help Londoners stand up to hate and extremism following rise in antisemitic and anti Muslim hate - London Post
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has today announced further funding to tackle hate crime and extremism in all its forms, as reports of antisemitism and anti-Muslim hate continue to rise in London and...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
60% of those who responded to the Bank of England consultation called for pictures of wildlife on bank notes. Does he think the British people are conducting a "slow, steady and relentless attack" on themselves?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
With each additional news report following yesterday's shocking announcement, it will become even clearer which side of the war in Europe America is now on
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 09/10/2026
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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to "Russia’s Google"
One damaged data center has supercomputers used for training Yandex’s AI model.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump is a goddamned coward and a traitor to his country
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
just when you thought it couldn’t get worse
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The BBC to their credit on the lunchtime news have not held back in their condemnation of the traitors in the White House. Watching families in Ukraine suffer during this segment was even more powerful. We must rejoin the EU and Canada asap and never ever forgive the USA.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 10/10/2026
Last week South West Water were fined £8m for >200 sewage discharges in Devon & Cornwall over a 5 year period. Their mantra is “1 pollution is too many”. In the first 11 weeks of 2026, water companies had already dumped over 69,000 hours of sewage into bathing waters. ENOUGH. Public ownership now.
Photo of George Monbiot accompanying a quote from The Guardian, July 2025: "Instead of borrowing to pay for infrastructure improvement, water companies borrowed to pay for dividends. Just as the water companies dump their sewage in the rivers, they have also dumped their liabilities on the public. The country becomes their dustbin."
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Truth 👇
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 09/10/2026
Isn’t it strange how, when you start being paid by private companies instead of elected by the public, the people become the “mob”? Palantir’s record deserves scrutiny – from politicians and the public. bit.ly/47avtHW
theguardian.com
Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts
Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mick Lynch "Zack Polanski isn't inciting hatred for Jews he believes he is an agent of peace and that Israel is carrying out Mass Murder in Gaza and the West Bank, and I believe that too." When Mick Lynch speaks sense, he speaks sense.
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Richard, Toad the Just, Earl of Sausagetoad 🇬🇧 🇺🇸🌊 @richardlordtoad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They all knew, but sucked-up anyway...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
United States of America brings back public executions courtesy of Pete Hegseth. The sort of tyrannical behaviour that ISIS and the Taliban engage in. baynews9.com/fl/tampa/mil...
baynews9.com
Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the execution would be "public"
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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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