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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 11h
Former 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?
Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14h
America right now is the maddest place on earth. Like watching a David Lynch film.
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cara giaimo @cjgiaimo.bsky.social · 23h
i was fortunate enough to profile Margaret Hamilton in 2019. A really kind and curious person. This was my favorite story she told me:
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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 15h
I will be giving an introduction to the aquatic wildlife around Buckfastleigh including Dippers, Lampreys and Kingfishers at this free event. Moor Imagination Centre, Chapel Street, Buckfastleigh TQ11 0AB on Saturday 10 October 2026 at 11 am
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 15h
Neoliberalism is failing, but what is it? This is a new version of our infographic on neoliberalism. AI drew the image. I wrote the text.
An infographic on neoliberalism
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16h
Is France signalling the end of neoliberalism? As a matter of fact, people will only stand for abuse from a financial system designed to oppress them for so long. France and maybe Spain seem to be indicating they've had enough. youtu.be/CpRl1ajsj-k?...
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Is France signalling the end of neoliberalism?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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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.
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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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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 06/10/2026
Donations are down. Costs are up. We’re operating at a growing monthly deficit which used to be annually resolved by our funding partners who have mostly vanished due to market changes. We need £5k ASAP just to pay a few invoices. Looking for a miracle here. protect.earth/act-now/gene...
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Donate | Protect Earth
Creating and restoring ecosystems in the UK
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Seymour Strangely @seymourstrangely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
psst, hey BBC Politics webpages - you seem to have forgotten to publish anything about Farage being investigated by the Standards Committee. I'm sure this is just an accident.. maybe your reporters are all off sick today?
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Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Two people were reported dead on Sunday, with at least one person missing, after torrential rain triggered flooding in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region." www.dw.com/en/torrentia...
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Torrential rain and flooding leave 2 dead and 1 missing in Spain's Catalonia region
Authorities warned of extreme danger around Barcelona and Girona, with rivers at risk of overflowing and residents urged to stay indoors.
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™ @trahias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Albert Edelfet, At sea, 1883. Oil on canvas. Göteborgs konstmuseum - Göteborg - Sweden. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm with Carl Sagan on this:
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Absolutely love this
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 The NHS is trying to silence us for criticising Palantir, but we’re not bowing down to the pressure goodlawproject.org/is-this-the-firs…
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Is this the first ever SLAPP by our own Government? | Good Law Project
The Department for Health and Social Care has written to us demanding we take down our video criticising Palantir’s NHS contract – we won’t
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CBMWC @cbmwc.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
✨ Our #MarineConservation Team 👯‍♂️💙 🦈 Cerys Hartland - Marine Conservation Assistant 🐬 Dr Sarah Perry - Marine Conservation and Research Manager 🐧 Steve Hartley - CBMWC Founder 🐙 Laura Evans - Marine Conservation Project Officer @wtsww.bsky.social #PodSquad #SquadGoals
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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Whilst on my break from caring for my ancient mother this morning, I walked around Lewes, noticing the body parts on beautiful doorways. A face, a hand, to delight the passer by
A blue door with two round windows like eyes a knocker like a nose and a letterbox mouth A putty coloured door with a black metal hand door knocker above which is an oval enamel number plate with a number 4 on it
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Jocky Wulsin 🌹 @britainscot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is bloody funny.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rise of 'mega-dairies' pushing nature to breaking point. Tighter rules on intensive dairy farms and increased support for farmers to cut pollution, restore nature and build a more resilient sector are urgently needed, say The Wildlife Trusts.. www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/rise-me...
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Rise of 'mega-dairies' pushing nature to breaking point | The Wildlife Trusts
Tighter rules on intensive dairy farms and increased support for farmers to cut pollution, restore nature and build a more resilient sector are urgently needed, say The Wildlife Trusts
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Dividends paid to UK citizens taxed at rates of 8.75% to 39.35%, lower rate than wages. Dividends mostly go to the top 1%. £6bn a year raised if dividends taxed at the same rate as wages. More if NIC levied. Unlike the US, France, Germany, no UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign investors.
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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 · 02/10/2026
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children. Some people charged up to £104 extra. Neoliberals routinely moan about regulation but are silent on customer rip-off schemes. If businesses were ethical we wouldn't need regulation.
theguardian.com
UK airlines to be banned from charging parents to sit with children
Planned rule change forms part of Burnham’s bid to crack down on the ‘little charges that add up’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK law firm partners collect record pay, up to £2.5m per equity partner. Partners treated as self-employed. Firms don't pay employer national insurance (ENI) on profit taken by partners. £150k ENI dodged for every £1m profit shared. Public purse deprived. Must end this tax perk. archive.ph/vJCIj
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Top UK law firm partners take home record pay
Spate of listings in Hong Kong boosted IPO work and related transactions
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Sustainable Us @havantenviro.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Continued climate destruction in Switzerland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Swiss glaciers suffer 'disastrous' year of ice loss
Scientists say such rapid melting is no longer surprising given the pace of climate change.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
How the AI boom could make you poorer youtu.be/7nDJ23DK_Eo?... You may not use AI, but it's going to cost you dearly, from increasing the price of your mortgage or rent to hiking the price of electricity. AI will not be coming cheap.
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How the AI boom could make you poorer
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯🤔...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CHAOS IN LIVERPOOL Here’s a whole minute of Mersey Police struggling to contain peaceful signholders, mostly pensioners, who police suspect of committing terrorism offences. They’ve lost. It’s over. This law is unenforceable. @labouruk.bsky.social - Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. (27/09/26)
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action.. bestforbritain.org/petition/far...
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Dave Edwards @drepemb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A video by a Woodworking YouTuber, not really about woodworking! www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxZ...
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If you think something is weird at Festool, you’re absolutely right.
YouTube video by Jesper Makes
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 28/09/2026
Just saw someone zoom by on a Solar powered recumbent e-bike, clearly homemade. I barely got a photo before he was away. Just commuting to work in Chippenham I think? Legend.
Industrial estate with a small grainy cyclist turning the corner, laying back on a recumbent bike, and two flexible solar panels making a roof over the top.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Leave the leaves! 🍂 🍁 Leaves are habitat that support pollinators and other invertebrates and provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter... xerces.org/blog/leave-t...
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Leave the Leaves!
One of the most valuable ways to support pollinators and other invertebrates is to provide them with the shelter they need to survive the winter. Thankfully, all you need to do is do less yard work.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund. Banks making £50bn profits a year receive subsidies, long ended by the EU. UK Treasury will payout over £150bn over a five-year period from 2023 to 2028. No justification for handling billions to banks. End bank subsidies, help people.
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Interest on Reserves: The £100bn UK Bank Subsidy You Fund
The Bank of England has paid commercial banks £100bn in interest on reserves in three years. The EU stopped doing it in 2023 – Dale Vince says Britain must too.
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John Walters @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Female Curlew Numenius arquata beautifully camouflaged amongst Sea Lavender and a Little Egret Egretta garzetta fishing, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight. The egret showed a behaviour I haven't seen before rippling the waters' surface to imitate feeding fishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX0aT30YuOo
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Little Egret Egretta garzetta and Curlew Numenius arquata Yarmouth, Isle of Wight 13 September 2026
YouTube video by John Walters
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 25/09/2026
Fine I’ll sneak out this one beaver video of matey just milling around, but if you want to see matey boy washing their belly and being cute as hell you gotta follow @protect.earth first.
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Liza Adamczewski aka the accidental ecologist @lizaadamczewski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m thinking, wouldn’t it be nice to paint a message under the blackbirds toes on the white banded area. The purchaser could choose the words, perfect for themselves or the recipient if it’s a gift. Blackbird & Ivy Bee icon available now. Dm for details
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another clip of the stunning pale common buzzard I posted yesterday I wondered briefly if it could be a rough-legged buzzard, but this brilliant video from @btobirds.bsky.social explains the differences, and ours doesn't have the 'dark belly patch'. BTO video: www.bto.org/learn/skills...
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Your mental health is getting worse because you live in a hostile economy
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sign the petition. Let water companies go bust. Ofwat approved 36% bill increases for 2025-2030, companies want more. Prices doubled - in real terms - since privatisation. We got sewage in rivers, water outages, hosepipe bans. Need public ownership.
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We're telling Ofwat: let water companies go bust!
consultation to reject proposed water company bill increases. Ofwat.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I only want to hear from Hampshire Police when they have nicked Danny Tommo and had him remanded in custody. There are so MANY criminal offences - including very serious ones- caught on video It would be utterly inexcusable not to act and charge him appropriately.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The politics of blame is replacing solution-focused politics youtu.be/4YuXncPwuow?... . This is bad politics that answers no questions, demands nothing of politicians, and leaves us all worse off. So why are we falling for it?
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The politics of blame is replacing solution-focused politics
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Possession of an offensive weapon, reckless endangerment, criminal damage ... Let's hope the police take this seriously. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 22/09/2026
I’ve got beaver-cam footage to show you but only if you get @protect.earth up to 500 followers. We’ve been blocked from BlueSky for months, but we’re back now. Get us that count and I’ll show you a big fat furry river baby. 🫡
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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When I visited France, I had to go to Provence to see if the lavender fields there were as beautiful as I had heard. They were, indeed! I was immediately captivated by the rolling plains of purple lavender rows. Hills of Provence by Erin Hanson, 2026 Oil on canvas 28 x 36 in #art #impressionism
When I visited France to visit the locales the impressionists had painted, I had to stop by Provence to see if the lavender fields there were as beautiful as I had heard. When I drove up onto the high and windy plateaus of Provence, with the Swiss Alps far in the distance, I was immediately captivated by the rolling plains of purple lavender rows. This painting captures the feeling of being in Provence, surrounded by beauty in every direction.

Hills of Provence
by Erin Hanson, 2026
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 in
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Dr Toby Driver @drtobydriver.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Island life in 1889 😮 A view published by Roscoe Howells in 1968 of ponies being loaded into a boat on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, for transit to Skokholm Island in 1889 That trip of 4 miles would take a good hour in a modern boat - I'm pleased to see at least they have a calm morning! 🌞😬
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What is business? For most people, it isn't what they think it is. youtu.be/GXfjEmHto8c?... Business is not about profit, companies or capitalism. It is about people organising themselves to meet needs, and that distinction matters.
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What is business? For most people, it isn't what they think it is.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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