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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reminder more bombs have been dropped on Gaza than Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Dresden combined. It is a far worse War Crime than any of them.

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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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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If Jim Ratcliffe wore 10 real £40,000 Rolex's on each arm, and they all got stolen, and he went into London every single day. It would take him 5,000 days, 13.7 years, and 100,000 Rolex's to pay back the £4bn he has dodged in taxes.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It's the billionaires who are ripping you off.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Imagine having more money than you could ever need and instead of using it to tackle poverty or disease you give it to a bunch of entitled grifters who don't give a shit about anyone but themselves.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Wildlife is being attacked, and left to suffer slow, painful deaths. Enough is enough.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 07/09/2026

The promise was more money for the NHS. Professor Nick Bloom’s research estimates that leaving the EU shrank the UK economy by 6–8% instead. Our Deputy CEO Emma Knaggs says closer ties with Europe offer a route to growth and stronger public services. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The USA has the worst, most expensive Healthcare system in the world. All to create profit for the 51 billionaires running it. That's the system 350,000,000 people deprived of Healthcare and driven into crippling debt and death. So 51 people can be ridiculously rich. That is Capitalism.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Return of the Blackshirts. Dozens of men dressed in black, wearing balaclavas blocked the road at Dover. Organised to frighten people Crime and Policing Act 2026: "the wearing or otherwise using of an item that conceals identity when in an area designated by police" is a criminal offence.

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Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

6.3m UK workers are in jobs with no guarantees of when they will work. How much they will earn, whether they will have enough hours or a job. More than half have lost money through short-notice and cancelled shifts, wasted transport/childcare costs. Millions can't buy a home, start a family.

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6.3 million workers in insecure jobs with short notice of shifts and cancellations costing some £500 a month

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Crazy that we hear about Train Drivers who get £60,000 a year for driving a train. But we never hear about the boss of Tesco who gets £30,000 a day and doesn't even pay tax in the UK. Or the £250m a day that the likes of Amazon, Vodafone, BP and Shell don't pay in tax.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Private equity choking UK health and social care. Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care. Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records. PE devours everything. Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.

lowdownnhs.info

Tracking the rise of private equity in health and social care - The Lowdown

GP records put private equity ownership in the spotlight The acquisition of Optum UK, the owner of EMIS, a major supplier of GP IT systems, for a reported $400 million (£293.5 million) by the US priva...

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Sarah Cowley @bournemouth4eu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Political funding is now so concentrated among the super-rich that in 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 individuals who each gave more than £1m. Without guard rails this will only get worse." democracyforsale.substack.com/p/burnham-is...

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Burnham is failing his first big test as PM

The prime minister has the chance to end the power of the super-rich in British politics – he’s not taking it

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Reminder of those in British politics who supported Trump. • Boris Johnson • Liz Truss • Suella Braverman • Andrea Jenkyns • Jacob Rees-Mogg • Nigel Farage • Lord Frost • John Hayes • Robert Jenrick • Sammy Wilson • Ian Paisley • Jake Berry • Kwasi Kwarteng • Tim Montgomerie

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

200,000 snares are thought to be in use across England's countryside at any one time, according to government figures, but the real number is likely higher. Gamekeepers use them on grouse moors to wipe out foxes, so more birds survive - to then be killed themselves.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It's a hot day and I'd like to have a second shower. But I'm really mindful that I'd depriving a data centre or a golf course of the water resources they so urgently need.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Left: Nigel Farage says he's beaten the establishment candidate in Clacton Right: Nigel Farage admits he's been part of the establishment for 33 years

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

England's water companies to hike customer bills by an extra £3.4bn. Over a trillion litres of water lost to leaky pipes Sewage dumped in rivers No new reservoirs since 1989 Exec pay and dividend bonanza Over 1,200 criminal convictions Still allowed to trade Captive customers fleeced.

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Water bills set to rise for many after firms permitted extra funding

Ofwat has given provisional approval for 13 water companies to charge customers more to pay for investments.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

£3.4bn is going on to YOUR Water Bill to subsidise Data Centres owned by trillionaire companies that don't pay tax in the UK. The UK is a failed Mafia State, that exists only to rob you.

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

New data from the Environment Agency shows that only 15% of rivers and under 7% of lakes are rated 'good’ condition. Half of rivers exceed safe phosphate levels, caused by farming and sewage.

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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Good Lord! Water leakage losses FAR exceed the water saved even if a hosepipe ban were imposed nationwide. The latter would 377 mill- 572 million litres a day if the restrictions were applied across the whole of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 v the 2.6 BILL litres lost every day through leaks apple.news/AN8mQDIXOTiO...

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Water farce as firms lose 2.6bn litres a day… more than hosepipe bans save — The i Paper

Leaky infrastructure means companies imposing hosepipe bans are losing enough water to supply millions of people

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

Don't forget that Audible is owned by Amazon and you should use @libro.fm instead, which allows you to support an indie bookstore in the process

libro.fm

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores

Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The one thing I can't posdibly do is mention that small boat crossings are down by 44% this year, because scare mongering about this is the central pillar of my whole grift.

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Don Comer @doncomer.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

In the 1960's, when the USA led the world w/ blue-chip companies in every field, the average CEO-to-worker pay ratio for major corps was 20-to-1. Now, CEO's are paid about 300 times as much as the typical worker. Those CEO's don't work any harder nor are they more deserving.

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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm old enough to remember when the entire British right had a month long meltdown about "foreign interference" when Obama said something mildly disobliging about Brexit. The Trump administration pouring millions of dollars into far right political groups in the UK? Not a peep

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 17/07/2026

Nature reserve attacked by vandals Bird watching hides vandalised northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

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Nature reserve attacked by vandals

Bird watching hides vandalised

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The word that should be in quotes here is 'wasted'. Because this money wasn't 'wasted' it is now sitting in a handful of people's bank accounts. Where is can be taken back from.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Left: Michael Gove on BBC News, "Some of the PPE we ordered was deficient, that's because we were maintaining high standards" Right: Nurses wearing bin bags for PPE

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Utter Wafflebollocks being spouted here by this complete wankspangle

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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

This is beyond telling. Not only does Farage check whether all media are ready for him to lay the wreath. He also rubs his hands when he's done. Whoever released the full footage - thank you. It shows everyone who he really is.

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Just me walking up the road so I can turn round and march back down again like a tit for the camera.

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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Farage kept laying flowers for his murdered ex colleague Ann Widdecombe undignified and disrespectful, by having GB News film it.. so he made it all about him No moral compass, no integrity, making it all about him being there just like Trump would do 😡 Clip from video below

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Mobile internet coverage in UK worse than any EU or G7 country. Inflation-busting price increases. UK ranks 57th for network performance. 70th for download speeds. 55th for the m quality needed for activities such as video calls, streaming and gaming.

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Mobile internet coverage in UK worse than any EU or G7 country, Which? says

Analysis finds services cheaper but country ranks 57th in network performance and 70th for download speeds

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

The Daily Mail is arguing that Andy Burnham won't have a mandate unless he calls a general election. Oddly enough, I don't remember them saying that about Truss and Sunak.

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