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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.
theguardian.com
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
theguardian.com
Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Never forget these two delivered Brexit. They screwed the country, they crippled the economy, they made people poorer, they gave people funds to their mates and they are still free. They should be in prison.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
So Tom Watson has been on Palantir payroll since Nov 2024 but has only just gone on leave of absence to be a FT Vice Chairman Lord Watson of Wyre Forest is a paid adviser to US data mining company given a £330 million contract to create a controversial patient data system in the UK archive.ph/VXY6b
thetimes.com
Tom Watson on payroll of tech firm Palantir in NHS privacy row
Lord Watson of Wyre Forest is a paid adviser to the US data mining company given a £330 million contract to create a controversial patient data system in the UK
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says. Lost for words at the insanity in Trumpistan, a truly sick dictatorship. Like medieval times, executions offered as a public spectacle in a country that claims to be Christian. What next?
bbc.co.uk
Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed, Pentagon says
Pete Hegseth says the execution will be public, but a legal expert says the "unprecedented" decision is on "uncertain legal terrain".
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For 14yrs, the Tories cratered our economy, added thousands to our cost of living, melted down public services and brexited us into decades of eye-watering expense and lost opportunity. That’s still their plan. With tax breaks for the super rich paid for by welfare cuts. So what TF is this headline?
THE TIMES

Thursday October 8 2026 | thetimes.com | No 75158

Tories will make you better off
Badenoch vows to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and abolish Labour's levy on properties worth more than £2m
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Cheri Jacobus @cherijacobus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Read history. The ONLY time the people have ever benefited is when the Left Wing wins. When the Right wins all you ever get is poverty and war.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UK water companies made £340m by pouring billions of litres of industrial/commercial wastewater into sewage treatment works. Treatment works are not designed to remove most chemicals, leaving pollutants to pass into rivers, seas and farmland. Investment neglected. Practices are mostly unregulated.
theguardian.com
Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ofwat appoints Grant Thornton to help improve South East Water performance l £6m wasted. Similar exercise at Thames Water yielded zilch. SEW has £1.7bn debt, can't raise new money, loses 100m litres of water a day to leaks, customers fleeced for decades. End the scam. Nationalise water.
news.sky.com
Ofwat lines up independent monitor for troubled South East Water
The water regulator plans to appoint Grant Thornton to a multimillion-pound contract overseeing the utility's performance and turnaround plan, Sky News learns.
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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Badenoch claims £2,700 a month from the taxpayer to rent a grade II-listed farmhouse with six bedrooms. The property sits within the highest council tax bracket, costing over £4,000 in council tax a year, which the Essex MP also claims on expenses. "Best welfare" is being an MP.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Failures of privatisation. Royal Mail to cut up to 2,500 jobs Foreign-owned RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets even after regulator lowered them. Postage: 1st class, £1.80, 2nd class 91p. When privatized in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p. Poor service at triple price. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
Royal Mail plans to cut 2,500 head office jobs
The postal service firm wants to cut the head office and other jobs by the end of 2027.
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The Vertlartnic @thev.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There’s No Need To Worry About Hospitals Closed By This Covid Wave Because Everyone Is Immune To Covid Now
A happy doctor
Headline:
There’s No Need To Worry About Hospitals Closed By This Covid Wave Because Everyone Is Immune To Covid Now
Story by Lucas Parthenon and Melanie Omer

Photo from Adobe
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Dr Ben King 🌍 @benking01.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Things I learnt as I got my annual Flu vaccination (Free of charge on the NHS): 1. More people are wearing FFP2/3 (N95) respirators in and around Totnes - I saw 3 myself around town today; 2. The pharmacy has had an increased demand for Covid Lateral Flow Tests this week; 3...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brexit has been a Tory masterclass in ideological madness. It’s widely accepted by the country as a barrelling shitshow but *still* their entitled little reps strut about insisting we can’t be allowed to vote on it again. Who TF does this person think she is? And why TF should she decide anything?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Voters loathed the Tory party when they booted them out in 2024.They really needed to shake off their disgrace with humility and better ideas. They haven’t. They’ve doubled down. More Brexit, more austerity, more anti-immigration ugliness, more tedious arrogance… and no good reason to vote for them.
Party seems to have learnt nothing from 2024 defeat
John Oxley

The Conservative Party is keen to show it is now ready to return to government, two and a half years after a
historic defeat.Their self-soothing explanation posits that defeat came from not being able to do what they wanted 

No such pivot is happening at the current conference. The Tories have come to Birmingham calling for a return to orthodoxy, with similar lines about cutting benefits and regulation. Even so, they seem trapped by the same contradictions
- pledging to cut benefits, but not the winter fuel payments and triple lock on pensions that go to their voters.
There is no "hug-a-hoodie" moment in Birmingham. The Conservative Party is not indicating that it has changed or seeking to broaden its appeal. It is doing the opposite: it is a party returning to its core, restating all the old ideas voters have rejected but louder.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
For policy reasons relating to Europe, immigrants and economics Harold Macmillan Anthony Eden Ted Heath Benjamin Disraeli William Gladstone David Cameron Alec Douglas-Home and Winston Churchill wouldn't have been allowed in your cabinet, you feckless wazzock www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
I'm a classic old school Conservative, says Kemi Badenoch
The Tory leader seeks to echo Margaret Thatcher as she sets out her guiding political principles.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BT to buy the broadband supplier TalkTalk in a £400m deal. BT is already the biggest provider with 30% of the market. If the deal is approved by the competition regulator, it would be bad news for customers. Less competition, less choice, higher prices.
theguardian.com
BT to buy broadband supplier TalkTalk in £400m rescue deal, saving 900 jobs
Virgin Media O2 complains of ‘stitch-up’ over rival provider, which has 1.5m customers
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Waiting for the WHO tweet “FACT: plague is not airborne; keep washing hands”. (Plague is airborne)
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Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
July 2020, Cleveland: 'A mild case of COVID-19 is not a mild case of the flu: Long-haulers’ symptoms linger for months, and lasting effects are still a mystery' “Anyone can be a long hauler...we don’t know why this is happening.” - Dr. Christopher Babiuch www.cleveland.com/coronavirus/...
cleveland.com
A mild case of COVID-19 is not a mild case of the flu: Long-haulers’ symptoms linger for months, and lasting effects are still a mystery
COVID-19 patients who call themselves “long haulers" are defined as patients with persistent symptoms that last more than two weeks.Symptoms include extreme fatigues, shortness of breath and brain fog...
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 05/10/2026
With pneumonic plague threatening, it reminds us that we are in a worse place if another pandemic strikes: 🔸Mitigations has been minimised 🔸Masks are political 🔸'Normal' has been pushed at all cost 🔸Compliance with public health is lower 🔸Disinformation is prominent AND the immune damage from Cvid
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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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please join me for a free event. "In search of the good life: can Business Schools help?" 7 October 2026, 18:00 - 19:30 Anglia Ruskin University. Chelmsford, Essex. Get your free ticket here www.aru.ac.uk/events/in-se...
aru.ac.uk
In search of the good life: can Business Schools help? - ARU
What does it mean to live a good life in today's world? And what role should business schools play in helping society get there? Hear more at ARU in Chelmsford.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 05/10/2026
ICE has been dumping photos and licence plate numbers of protesters into a Palantir database. Reminder: this is the company running our NHS health records 👀 www.wired.com/story/ice-has-been-du…
wired.com
ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Members of the Patriotic Alliance are stopping cars with non-white people in them and harassing them like this. This is a hate crime, arrest these people.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK chancellor to meet bank bosses for a pre-budget summit to discuss possible tax raid. Banks profiteering but resent windfall tax. Any chance of ending bank subsidies? Any chance of meeting pensioners, disabled, sick, poor to hear their concerns?
news.sky.com
Healey summons UK bank chiefs to pre-budget summit next week
The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.
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Danny Fearns @dannyfearns.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Tory Party spent 15 yrs running down public services. They hollowed out every public service to the point of collapse, they profited enormously from the Covid pandemic, they went through Prime Ministers like a game of musical chairs. They're saying they will get it right next time.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bearing in mind they’ve almost tanked both Durham and Kent in 100 days, the chances aren’t looking good.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I do wonder what some politicians are scared of ….
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Older adults hospitalized for COVID at increased risk for stroke, data show" A study of 1.2 million people aged 50+ found COVID hospitalisation was linked to a 23% higher stroke risk, rising to 35% in the first 3 months after infection. Vaccination had a 21% lower likelihood of experiencing stroke
cidrap.umn.edu
Older adults hospitalized for COVID at increased risk for stroke, data show
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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 30/09/2026
We're only just starting to understand the life-long risks & impacts of viral infection.
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to mid-September. XFG.* "Stratus" variants remained dominant, and grew to 47% frequency. The JN.1.* + DeFLuQE lineages (almost all PJ.2.1) fell slightly to 4%. 🧵
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Braverman blathering on about who can be English, Farage starting his me-me-me tour of the country telling audiences he’ll fix the country in 100 days or they’ll all sack themselves… apart from him… and Yusuf fanboying that racist thug who got refused bail… A moron festival. Come on, UK. Enough now.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the Convention [ECHR]. It is whether, in an increasingly dangerous world, we can afford not to” Political liars and lightweights, like Badenoch and Farage, must never be allowed to take that risk. www.lawgazette.co.uk/commentary-a...
The Law Society
Gazette

In short, if Britain were to leave the ECHR, it would not be
'taking back control. It would be surrendering influence over the rules and institutions that help keep us safe.
The debate about the ECHR is too often conducted as though it were a choice between national sovereignty and international law. That is a false choice.
The Convention advances British interests because it reflects British values: liberty under law, democratic government and the accountability of power.
Walking away would not make Britain freer. It would make Britain weaker.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 01/10/2026
“How are you supposed to sleep when your whole flat is vibrating?”: Slough residents tell Brenna Spain about the unsettling noise pollution from the data centres next door www.thenerve.news/p/slough-dat...
Sleepless in Slough: the residents who fear for their failing health in Europe’s data centre capital. Red and yellow illustration of an under-construction Equinix data centre in Slough, England
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity?
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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 · 01/10/2026
Super-rich UK energy/food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises Working-class face soaring prices, worsening climate impacts. Billionaires owning food/energy companies profit from hardship The same class funds political parties, uses tax havens, preaches low wages to workers.
theguardian.com
Super-rich UK energy and food magnates’ wealth skyrockets amid global crises
Analysis has shown the costs of daily essentials soaring in recent years, thanks in part to climate shocks, wars and geopolitical tensions
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just tax the compute. Datacentre? Cool. Fund your own power generation and water reservoirs, and then pay tax for every computational act your datacentre does. And we'll use the tax income to offset societal and job damage. Overnight, AI becomes something AI giants are desperate to restrict.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
President Macron, "Brexit has cost the UK 8% of GDP.. Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years" My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater prosperity: less bureaucracy, more money, new trade opportunities Instead, Britain put new barriers between itself and its largest trading market.
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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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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Burnham: "Homes, water, energy, transport, care, broken up and sold off." "The British right talk about taking back control. Never let them forget they are the ones. That gave it away in the first place."
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NHS drug cost is ballooning out of control and it is one of the biggest factors the NHS has 'no money'. But of course this benefit to billionaires isn't unaffordable. It isn't even mentioned.
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