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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

UK households paid extra £13961 on bills since 2021 amid soaring inflation Has your net income risen by the same? Income tax personal allowance frozen since 2021. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%. Hitting the less well-off is normalized.

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UK households have paid extra £13,961 on bills since 2021 amid soaring inflation, TUC says

Trades Union Congress urges chancellor to tackle rising additional living costs in this month’s budget

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 19h

None of them should hold public office. Resigning from Reform and staying as ‘independent’ is unacceptable for people holding such abhorrent views.

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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.

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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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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seems the Tories have found their magic money tree again to fund their bungs to the wealthy. We await the press taking them to task over their maths….not.

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also grew up Sheffield. Watched the forge lights go out down the Don Valley under her ‘reign’. Grandad lived in Kiverton. The community is still fractured after the strike. That’s why I cannot stand Thatcher idolisation.

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

@octopus.energy We await an octopus engineer to EV charge circuit modified by one of your engineers on 23/9/2026. After his visit our Ohme charger failed & requires replacing. It is a legal requirement of anyone working on domestic electrics to sign off and test any modifications to the circuit.

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks Kat. Lots more cycling and fully back to music practice, cooking for Lizzy who is 6 months begin in her retirement plans, and more natural history wanders.

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am now retired from the UoB where I researched and taught for 34 yrs. A strange feeling.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’; accompanied by deregulation of the City, weaken the authority of the courts. That would be the return on donations by the super-rich. Cost borne by the old, sick, disabled, unfortunate; cuts to public services.

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Reform-linked thinktank ‘to call for big tax cuts for the rich’

Centre for a Better Britain will urge abolishing inheritance tax and phasing out capital gains tax, report says

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Shirley Willliams was instrumental in shaping that view.

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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

NEW EPISODE: The Big Bung Theory! Reform U.K. is awash with cash so we talk all things spending rules, changes to donation law, and what it all means for our democracy. 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q... 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/34B3...

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The Big Bung Theory

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 17 September · 53min

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Touché. And Alba and parts of Cornwall. And the deepest parts of the Black Country. I should have said England.

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Mate multi lingual is not a native UK trait. All power to all of you who can think in more than one language.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22

Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

“This film is where the beginning of Nolan’s career meets the apex. A 'Memento' for The Ages, in which our hero keeps recovering fragments of lost memories, sharing his confusion with the audience, as he discovers that his role in the epic may not be as heroic as he - or we - first thought.”

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Privatisation of water & energy has failed its customers & the country. The fact that these parasites can walk away passing on their debt to customers tells you all you need to know about the Tories who created the mess and the greed of the companies. Insufficient safeguards and clauses. Appalling.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🟡 MAGAZINE: A Letter to the Old Country on America’s 250th Birthday: We’re a Mess, But Still Worth Fighting For The United States is a country that has always faced itself eventually – for Republican campaigner Rick Wilson, it’s what keeps him going in the dark… Read the full story below.

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A Letter to the Old Country on America’s 250th Birthday: We're a Mess, But Still Worth Fighting For – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition

The United States is a country that has always faced itself eventually – for Republican campaigner Rick Wilson, it’s what keeps him going in the dark moments living through Trump’s America

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Heatwaves are killing thousands in this country. Fossil fuels are an economic dead end. Approving new oil and gas drilling would be environmentally disastrous and economically illiterate.

Jackdaw gas field would create only 17 full time jobs, green campaigners say

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In summary: He's panicked accountability is coming 11/3/26.

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Scott Robeson @indianaclimate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

We think 2026 has been unusually hot. #climate

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“We need to talk about how ludicrous it is to speak of defence in terms of % of GDP. If the UK economy were to massively expand, you wouldn’t suddenly need billions more to protect it. And if it shrank, you couldn’t defend it for less. The expression of a budget as a % of GDP is utterly arbitrary.”

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Sunday School: A Bin-Bin Situation

Podcast Episode · Quiet Riot · 12 July · 1hr 2min

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ScouseLakes @scouselakes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Channel 4 News: “Police have asked the public not to speculate. However, Nigel Farage has done just that, which is why we will not be showing his words.”

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

An important paper about protecting science from political interference. Europe needs to defend its science against the kind of attacks unfurling in the US. By Martin McKee, Christina Pagel & Tiago Correia in the European Journal of Public Health: academic.oup.com/eurpub/artic...

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Europe must learn from America’s assault on science

In June 2026, several prominent diabetes researchers, including Steven Kahn, editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, were removed by police from the annual meeti

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Sending virtual battery hugs.

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 11/06/2026

Should X be banned? Yes. And it should have happened in January when non-consensual sexual imagery proliferated on the site. The government’s inaction on what is becoming increasingly a vehicle for violence and hate is appalling. Much more needs to be done. And quickly.

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Republication: Is Banning X Really Censorship - or Long-Delayed Accountability?

Why governments should no longer be willing to ignore a platform architected for harm.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's hard to convey just how monstrous the privatisation of children's care homes has become. Highly vulnerable children have been turned into cash machines, with devastating impacts on their wellbeing. Please sit down before reading this week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Horrific, unregulated, and very profitable. The companies making cash from England’s children in care | George Monbiot

Councils are sending vulnerable kids to homes ran by money-grabbing cowboys and private-equity vultures, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The other high was the cameras panning to woman in the audience, every one of them shaking their heads at his comments.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Foreign money funding Reform UK. Another 7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires - £4m from Hong Kong-based billionaire, £3m from Thailand. Tax exiles shaping UK politics. Modern equivalent of representation without taxation. What have they been promised? Must ban political donations.

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Crypto billionaires help Reform cement fundraising lead

The party received £7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires earlier this year, figures show

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism. It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.

Sky News: Henry Nowak's murder has highlighted tbe debate on whether the police are anti-white

Telegraph: Anti-white racism is real, and there')) be more Henry Nowaks until it is crushdd

Henry Nowak and the corrosive effect of DeI on policing

Spectator: why can we rage against George Floyd's death but not Henry Nowak's?

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Same. 62 years in and the most scary and depressing time I can remember. Even Thatcher’s misery seems better.

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Jon S @jonpsadler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I am not so sure. He speaks to large group with his hateful shit. I have last count how many times people have used the white lives matter trope when discussing racist.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 30/05/2026

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

Just your regular reminder that our "decent state pension" is less than half of what the ONS tells us it costs to live in this country; we're at the very bottom of the G7 & bumbling at the bottom of Europe, where we have the 5th highest cost of living. It's a disaster.