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Melissa Eco Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @melissamary2012.bsky.social · 4h
Company behind AI data centre proposal for Chapelcross owned by Tory
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4h
Bank of England governor tells the UK chancellor to agree a budget that reassures financial markets. Govt told to serve markets, speculators, corporations. Healthcare, education, social justice, housing is secondary in neoliberalism. Wither democracy.
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Bank governor urges John Healey to use budget to allay market fears amid bond turmoil
Andrew Bailey tells chancellor ‘whatever the stance of fiscal policy, it must be credible and be seen as such by financial markets’
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🌻Sheila 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺✌️ @sheilzz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 5h
Any comment on this Mr prime minister.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 4h
THE FERRET: The company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal – and one of the largest in the world – is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via a Caribbean tax haven
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allunderonebanner.bsky.social @allunderonebanner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Aye that is strange 🤔 👇 #EndLondonRule #ScottishIndependence #AllUnderOneBanner #UnitedForIndependence
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Understanding Economics: What is inflation? You would think we'd know by now, and that the Bank of England would know how to manage it. Unfortunately, they don't, and we pay an enormous price for that. youtu.be/dHeC4HsD3rA?...
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Understanding Economics: What is inflation?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 6h
Guy Standing: Why we all deserve a social dividend. In my latest podcast, I talk to Guy about the precariat, universal basic income, the rentier economy and the need to reclaim the commons. This is a very different view of the world. youtu.be/2CX2wlTWFDk?...
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Guy Standing: Why we all deserve a social dividend
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 5h
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.
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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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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Donald Trump's deal with Russia to secure diesel shows that the moment of desperation in the international economy is approaching very fast. We're edging toward meltdown, and our politicians are still ignoring that fact. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
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The moment of desperation is approaching very fast
Trump did a deal yesterday with Russia to supposedly release 3 million tonnes of diesel from Russia’s reserves over the next few months. I do not know the price, but the sum is significant because thi...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A statue of Nelson Mandela has been unveiled in Glasgow city centre, nearly 40 years after the city renamed a street in his honour 🙌 In a fitting tribute to the revolutionary and former President of South Africa, the sculpture now stands on a plinth of South African granite on Nelson Mandela Place
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Nelson Mandela, unveiled on Nelson Mandela Place.
Bronze statue of Mandela. He raises his right fist, while his left hand is open. He is wearing a magnificent shirt.The same statue, from behind; the street sign "Nelson Mandela Pl." is visible in the background.
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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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No matter how they try Scotland is not having England’s maternity crisis – It’s just a review
BBC Scotland’s Lisa Summers trying to keep up the exaggerated image of the significance of Scotland’s National Maternity Review interviewing the Chair, Professor Christine McCourt and c…
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The SNP @snp.org · 09/10/2026
Every day, the SNP as the Scottish Government acts as a shield, protecting the people of Scotland from the worst fallout of Westminster’s short-sighted choices. www.snp.org/scotland-one-of-safest-…
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Scotland ‘one of safest places in world’, say BBC — Scottish National Party
The evidence on justice is in, the results are clear, and the conclusion is inescapable: Scotland makes better decisions when Scotland decides for itself.
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Lady J of Tay @ladyjoftay.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
SNP hold on to Midstocket and Rosemount with Aberdeen by-election win www.thenational.scot/news/2662125...
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SNP hold on to Midstocket and Rosemount with Aberdeen by-election win
THE SNP have held on to Midstocket and Rosemount, with Jeff Diack elected as Aberdeen’s newest councillor
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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.
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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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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When will politicians turn to MMT? The answer is: in a time of crisis when it is apparent that neoliberalism has failed. And when will that be? Quite soon, on the basis of current progress. youtu.be/0S5Ad4WpCCE?...
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When will politicians turn to MMT?
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The great challenge this country will face soon is deciding who runs it and for whom. Is it run by central banks for financial markets, or by elected governments for people? That is the question. Resolving it may be ugly, but it will have to happen. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
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Andrew Bailey thinks financial markets rule. They don’t, but he did define the conflict to come.
Andrew Bailey, the Governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech yesterday about the state of the world’s financial markets and the threats that they now face. Much of what he said was entirely ortho...
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LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦 @ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pretty Awesome 👍
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026
The finns are justifiably very pissed about Google razing a forest to erect a chatbot building lnkd.in/p/eKFXmtE9
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Google refuses to answer why they cut down 1,8×1,8km of forest for data center even Finnish authorities said not to do it. So our journalist went to Google offices to demand answers. None were given, guard was summoned.
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
There’s something very on the nose about the BBC cutting two shows with ‘thinking’ in the title. The odd and interesting things are being killed. Meanwhile, in the shallows of BBC Sounds, some absolute shit is being commissioned. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours
The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...
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'Delighted': Yorkshire businessman's care home company seals £1.1bn deal with US firm
A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yet more evidence of BBC being British Establishment propaganda wing - reward for editor of programme telling blatant lies 'The BBC just handed the newsroom to the editor who signed off the 2019 Panorama that treated “Is Labour Anti-Semitic?” as a closed case ...' www.facebook.com/TheDailyPoli...
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This Is My Glasgow @thisismyglasgow.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This morning's sunrise in the Botanic Gardens in the West End of Glasgow. #glasgow #sunrise #kibblepalace #botanicgardens #architecture #architecturephotography #glasshouse #glasgowtoday
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The science is not ambiguous. A forest does not “make way” for progress. It is the progress: rainfall, carbon storage, food, and species that exist nowhere else. Clear the Congo Basin and you export drought to the people least able to absorb it.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...
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Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn
Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They call it development. But development doesn't trigger droughts, starve farmers, and drive gorillas to extinction. That's ecocide. #CongoBasin
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The super-power of Nigel Farage ... "AbsenteeMan" meme via Stephen Fisher
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JointheDots @joiningupthedots.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Helen Whateley: Kemi (Badenoch) has published an essay called The Right Way, really thinking about what's gone wrong with the country" This image as we died in our droves is forged in my mind.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wall Street profits and bonuses are poised to hit a record high. CEO pay is up. Corporate profits are skyrocketing. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. Meanwhile, inflation eats up the paychecks of working people as the social safety net is cut out from underneath them. Trumponomics.
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Wall Street Eyes Record Bonuses as Profit Heads Past $90 Billion
A blockbuster year for New York’s trading and investment-banking firms is poised to deliver record earnings for the industry, with profit on pace to exceed $90 billion, and bonuses expected to reach a...
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Pro-Palestine rallies led by students and staff have taken place at Edinburgh and Glasgow universities this afternoon 👇
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Ringo Starr, encountering an earlier version of Jeffrey Archer in the 1960s, described him as “the kind of bloke who would bottle your piss and sell it”. www.ft.com/content/5235...
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Jeffrey Archer, author and politician, 1940-2026
Best-selling novelist and Tory MP was defined both by his great successes and his headline-grabbing scandals
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 06/10/2026
Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
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Finland orders halt to work on Google data centers over environmental concerns
Regulators have ordered the company representing the US web giant in Finland to stop building data centers until it can demonstrate compliance with environmental laws. Officials are investigating whether trees and soil were cleared before the company carried out an impact study.
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Blairer @haggisblarer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A reminder that Labour blocked zonal pricing in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 as it didn't want 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 families and businesses to get cheaper bills than those in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 . We now see exactly how this ‘union’ works because it’s clear that Labour is an 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 First Party. 👇👇
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effinshoite.bsky.social @effinshoite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Get Boris Johnson tae fuck!”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
".. the govt did respond with attacks on Hamas" They dropped 2,000lb bombs on densely populated refugee camps. Was that attacking Hamas?
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DottieB 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dottieb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Awesome by Scottish Government. Bairns r us
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Conor Sewell @ccsewell.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The fundamental issue with 99% of AI in education use cases is that they don’t seem to understand the very, very key point that learning things does in fact require a human being to process the information they’re trying to learn
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Remember: Wealth cannot be separated from power. We're seeing in real time how the extreme concentration of wealth is distorting our politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people. Taxing the rich isn't just an economic issue, it's a defense of our democracy.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Seriously 💥 🤣
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 07/10/2026
Do I really need to spell it out? English choral music is NOT part of British or UK cultural heritage. It's part of England's. Written by a member of the B̶r̶i̶t̶i̶s̶h̶ U̶K̶ English Parliament. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/o...
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Choral evensong has been on our airwaves for 100 years today. Long may this vibrant, thriving art form continue | Jonathan Davies
One hundred years since the BBC first broadcast choral evensong, MP and former chorister Jonathan Davies hymns a beautiful and empowering collective experience that we should praise – and protect
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Boots sold to Canadian billionaire Weston family www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Boots sold in £7bn deal to Canadian billionaire family
The sale of the High Street chain was announced on Wednesday.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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