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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 14/10/2026
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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
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.
theguardian.com
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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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h
Water companies in England failed to report more than 50,000 sewage dumpings within the time required. Water companies routinely ignore laws, have 1,200+ criminal convictions, no exec prosecuted, no licence cancelled. Customers fleeced, human health damaged, environment harmed. Govts do nothing.
news.sky.com
England's water companies failed to report more than 50,000 sewage spills in time, charity claims
All nine of the country's suppliers failed to meet the legal reporting requirement of one hour, as more than 4,000 of the delayed reports affected designated bathing waters.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17h
Private equity has hollowed-out high streets. Famous names, jobs, supply chains destroyed. Aided by the state: PE gets tax relief on interest payments. No tax on dividends paid to owners holed up in tax havens. No inquiry into serial bankruptcies. It is gangster capitalism. archive.ph/zisBU
heraldscotland.com
The high street is dying: blame the Goodfellas of private equity, says Neil Mackay
Private Equity firms are treating British brands like the gangsters in the movie Goodfellas. We need to fix the system or just sink deeper into irrelevance, our Writer at Large argues
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18h
UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows. GB News, owned by hedge fund manager, is the propaganda arm of Reform/Farage. Politicians must be scrutinized, and not allowed to present news or current affairs programmes.
theguardian.com
UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows
Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
63% of voters back wealth tax for mega-rich. Wealth tax can be: Tax on accumulated wealth Higher rates on dividends & capital gains Mansion tax Investment income surcharge Cap tax relief on pension contributions by the mega rich What will Chancellor get-off his bended-knees?
mirror.co.uk
More than 60% of voters back wealth tax for mega-rich, Healey told before Budget
Polling released ahead of Chancellor John Healey's first Budget found that 63% of voters want increased taxes on people with over £10million in assets - a move campaigners believe would pay ...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Heathrow makes £3.5bn a year. How much did Margaret Thatcher sell it for? Sorry it's a trick question, she gave it away for free.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
UK Chancellor rejects calls to equalise capital gains and income tax rates. Could have generated £14bn a year. This perk benefits less than 1% of the people, mostly in London and South East England. Workers taxed at higher rates than the wealthy. archive.ph/cGk2B
ft.com
Healey rejects calls to equalise capital gains and income tax rates
UK proposal had been backed by senior Labour figures, triggering nervousness among entrepreneurs and investors
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Towns in England at risk of running out of water until 2027. Over one trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. No new reservoirs since privatisation. Record customer bills. Polluted rivers. No national planning. No national grid. Crisis deepened by privatisation. archive.ph/0XI5H
inews.co.uk
The UK towns at risk of running out of water until 2027
Extreme dry conditions are set to stay through the winter, experts warn
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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...
theguardian.com
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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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Some Reform supporters are arguing that Sagal Abdi-Wali shouldn't be an MP because she wasn't born in Britain. Does the same logic apply to Nadim Zahawi?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Does this beggar belief? No. It is no surprise whatsoever The fossil fuel sector has been suppressing the truth for 3/4 of a century www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report
AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
418,986 professionally qualified accountants in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, about 28,000 in ROI. UK has the highest number of accountants per capita in the world. Dud audits, fraud, fiddles, tax abuse rife. Wasted social investment, damaging the UK economy, focus on short term returns.
frc.org.uk
Key Facts and Trends in the Accountancy Profession 2026
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nathan Gill - Reform's leader in Wales - is serving a ten-year prison sentence for accepting Russian bribes. And still Farage insists that that Russia doesn't attempt to influence British politics.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Margaret Thatcher called bin Laden a 'freedom fighter', Mandela a 'terrorist', Pinochet a 'good friend' and trade unions 'the enemy within'. And Jimmy Savile 'Sir'.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The Refugee Council has said Reform’s proposals are "unworkable" and would "cause chaos"
leftfootforward.org
Reform blasted over plan to close asylum system for five years if it wins power
The Refugee Council has said Reform’s proposals are "unworkable" and would "cause chaos"
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I keep reading that 'nobody should be forced to pay for the BBC'. Meanwhile, I'm forced to pay for the royal family, nuclear weapons, religiously-affiliated schools and the House of Lords.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Right now Israel is invading Gaza and breaking the Ceasefire to blow up the last few habitable buildings and complete their Ethnic Cleansing so they can move onto completing their Genocide. And there is silence, TOTAL SILENCE. The West are as guilty of Genocide as Israel.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Corporate Welfare Tory tax break for banks cost UK public purse £6bn In 2023 Tory govt cut the bank surcharge from 8% to 3%. Current govt hasn't reversed it. Record profits, exec pay, dividends at banks Reversing the surcharge would raise billions.
theguardian.com
Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The planet isn't "dying" of natural causes. Forests don't just disappear. They are logged. Oceans don't just choke. They are polluted. Rivers don't just dry up. They are diverted. This is not a tragedy. It's ecocide. And ecocide should be a crime. #StopEcocide
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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.
theguardian.com
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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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?...
youtu.be
Understanding Economics: What is inflation?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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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
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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The United States are not the champions of freedom they pretend to be, but rather the main culprits of the oppression and misery of the world's peoples." - Che Guevara, UN, 1964.
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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...
taxresearch.org.uk
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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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Labour’s victory was not the ‘crushing defeat’ for the Greens that the media is making it out to be leftfootforward.org/2026/10/anal...
leftfootforward.org
Analysis: How close was the Holborn and St Pancras by-election?
Labour’s victory was not the ‘crushing defeat’ for the Greens that the media is making it out to be
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Elon Musk told us to mark this. But he accidentally deleted it. So just for him I have recovered it and posted it.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 08/10/2026
Nigel Farage is a sitting MP and the leader of a political party. Why does he have his own GB News show? Sign our petition to Ofcom ⬇️ bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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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 ...
theguardian.com
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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Donald Trump has banned international monitors for the upcoming the election in the USA. The first time they have been blocked since 2000. I wonder why you would do that?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Is France jettisoning neoliberalism? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
taxresearch.org.uk
Is France jettisoning neoliberalism?
I watched a series of news broadcasts last night, all of which referred to what is now being called a polycrisis in France. As a consequence, the thought occurred to me that France might be leading th...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From the new Private Eye
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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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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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is Burnham’s government planning a crime against society? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/10...
taxresearch.org.uk
Is Burnham’s government planning a crime against society?
The Guardian has reported this morning that: Ministers are working up sweeping plans for welfare changes including scrapping a key disability benefit for under-25s and replacing it with a multibillio...
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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.
youtu.be
How the AI boom could make you poorer
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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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?
gmb.org.uk
£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These aren't 'spills', they are deliberate releases of sewage to protect profits. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
South West Water fined £8m for hundreds of sewage spills in Cornwall and Devon
District judge orders record fine for region and says incidents of pollution cannot be tolerated
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 NEW Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban By Byline Times Team Read below. ↓
bylinetimes.com
Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Peter Thiel is a cancer on the world. Our govts are buying into his far-right ideological bullshit, and the software his company Palantir makes to commit genocide, destroy critical infrastructure, and spy on every aspect of our lives We are truly in the upside down m.youtube.com/watch?v=BCFX...
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Billionaire Pervert Accidentally Tells The Truth | The Kyle Kulinski Show
YouTube video by Secular Talk
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our planet is heating faster than at any time in the geological record. That's terrifying. But here's the hopeful part: most of us are worried and want action — we just stay silent, assuming no one else cares. 7 in 10 people rarely or never talk about it. So the silence feeds itself
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Deloitte paid its UK-based partners £1.125m. Firm has 784 equity partners. Due to self-employed status of partners, employer national insurance (ENI) is not paid on profits shared. 150,000 ENI avoided on every £1m of profits shared. Billions lost across the country. Must end this privilege.
cityam.com
Deloitte UK advisory arm rebounds to growth as new boss insists AI 'can’t replace lived experience'
Big Four giant Deloitte's new UK boss, Darren Graves, insisted AI “can’t replace lived experience” as the firm's advisory arms return to growth.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Andy Burnham has said the new water bill will “start a 10-year journey to a very different water system". He has an open goal with Thames Water. The company is insolvent. The legislation already exists to effect the transition to public ownership. Don't kick the can down the road - start now.
independent.co.uk
PM announces new law to allow public ownership of water firms
Mayors will also be given new powers to hold failing water firms to account.
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