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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The first Russian diesel cargo heading for the US left St Petersburg on September 22, two weeks *before* Trump announced the deal with Putin, Windward reports. The Greek-flagged tanker Minerva Zen carrying 275,000 barrels of diesel/gasoil is due at the US East Coast around 11–12 October.
Map of tanker’s route
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Former Tory chancellor Kwarteng wants people to pay for private insurance to access NHS services. A plan to deny healthcare to millions. People already pay taxes, NIC. NHS drained by privatisation. Needs investment. Privatisation hikes cost - water, energy, social care.
thecanary.co
Kwarteng says people will need to pay private insurance to access future NHS services
Tory Kwarteng told GMB that private health insurance must "play a part" in the NHS's future, signalling a move away from a free public service
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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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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
NHS England refuses Palantir review NHS England has once again confirmed that patients cannot opt out from having their personal data handled by US spy firm Palantir By @willem-moore.bsky.social
thecanary.co
NHS England refuses Palantir review
NHS England has once again confirmed that patients cannot opt out from having their personal data handled by US spy firm Palantir
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The number of known UK enablers of tax avoidance schemes up by 34%. HMRC didn't collect £59bn last yr, £500bn since 2010. 5 enablers prosecuted in 2023-24. In 2025, one firm charged with failing to prevent facilitation of tax evasion, result awaited. Make enablers personally liable for lost taxes
ifamagazine.com
The number of promoters of tax avoidance schemes in the UK jumps by 34% in a year to 183 - IFA Magazine
The number of known promoters and suppliers of tax avoidance schemes in the UK has increased by 34% in the last year from 137 businesses to 183* (as of June
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Not compatible with Net Zero. What devolution/democracy? Local councils bypassed, people ignored by Ministers chasing growth. Datacentres produce few long-term jobs, guzzle energy.
theguardian.com
Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint
Exclusive: Planning documents show annual emissions from North Ockendon project would be equivalent to 8,480 flights to New York
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2028 Blue Wave 🌊🌊💙 🇺🇸 @2028-bluewave.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This should be much bigger news.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
theguardian.com
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 22/07/2026
🚨BREAKING: Ex-Southern Water CEO charged with FRAUD for manipulating wastewater tests before discharges into our rivers This doesn't happen if they worked for us, not shareholders Sign our letter to DEFRA Sec @angelaeagle1.bsky.social to take Thames Water into public hands: vist.ly/5c3ft
Screenshot of Sky News headline that says "Ex-CEO of Southern Water among four charged with conspiracy to defraud"
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young. All part of a right wing coup. Foreign money to spread Trumpism, subvert UK public choices. Puppets wrap themselves in the flag.
theguardian.com
Trump administration to grant $12m to groups founded by UK conservatives Jacob Rees-Mogg and Toby Young
Exclusive: Controversial grants are part of package criticised as misuse of public money to influence European politics
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Deeply pathetic that BBC is reporting this as a Reform power struggle rather than explaining that Reform's policies would require deporting people -including pensioners - who have lived and worked here legally for decades. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Yusuf in clash with Jenrick over Reform's deportation policy
Reform's home affairs chief has publicly disagreed with its Treasury spokesman over what party policy is.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Reinstate windfall tax on banks after surge in profits, TUC urges. Banks will make bigger profits from interest rate hikes, without any additional effort. Claw them back. Energy companies are profiteering too, and must pay windfall taxes.
theguardian.com
Reinstate windfall tax on banks after surge in profits, TUC urges
Unions group wants rate returned from 3% to 8% after big four UK lenders reveal £14bn total profit in first quarter
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
After 45 years of neoliberalism the UK isn't self-sufficient in food, energy, drugs, auto, steel, bricks, cement, semiconductors, and more. The state cannot guarantee clean rivers, safe wastewater disposal, affordable energy, timely healthcare, good housing, decent roads. Taking back control?
leftfootforward.org
Waging war on poverty and exploitation is the only way to build a resilient society
The problems caused by neoliberalism cannot be addressed by bigger doses of neoliberal policies which prioritise profits and corporate interests over people’s welfare
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos gets £120m govt subsidy to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth. Ratcliffe is worth $14.7bn (£11bn). Can he not invest? Will he be back for more? Govt is not taking any equity stake. £120m is not repayable.
theguardian.com
Government invests £120m to save UK’s last ethylene plant
Funding for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos plant in Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🚨 “Can I tell you how many times in the last 45 years the European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the UK when it comes to deporting people from this country - only 13 times - in 45 years” Hugely important point made by @vicderbyshire.bsky.social 👏
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure, says The Telegraph. Brexit Effect: UK GDP down 8% Investment down 18% Productivity down 4% Employment down 4% Immigration not cut No trade benefits No regulatory freedom Why do some still vote for Farage? archive.ph/L2Gqp
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I will remind you the Government promised this would all be invested in rebuilding infrastructure. What a lie.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 03/12/2025
🤑Thames Water's profits are soaring. 😟While we struggle to pay our bills. 💧While water infrastructure crumbles. 💩While our rivers fill with sewage. 😡Absolutely disgraceful. The privatised water scam must end.
theguardian.com
Thames Water faces collapse as crisis talks take ‘longer than expected’
Debt-ridden utility company warns of ‘material uncertainty’ despite seeing profits rise to more than £400m
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Half of jury trials to disappear under government reforms Barristers warned the changes would bring a “wrecking ball” to a system that had been in place for generations www.channel4.com/news/half-of...
channel4.com
Half of jury trials to disappear under government reforms
Crimes like burglary and threatening to kill will no longer be tried before juries in England and Wales, under reforms announced today by the Justice Secretary David Lammy.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 02/12/2025
Oxford City Council recently passed a motion calling for Thames Water to be brought into public ownership. During the debate Councillor Djafari-Marbini identified why changes to regulation of water companies just won't work. Agree? Send our template letter to DEFRA today! vist.ly/4guwt
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT BEING TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THEIR LAND Across the UK, vast swathes of countryside, farmland, national parks, green spaces, digital infrastructure, and even local democratic powers are being reorganised into free zones. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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Forest City: The Ideological Coalition That Should Never Exist
Behind the glossy green washing brochures of 'Forest Cities' lies a libertarian charter cities pattern the MSM is blindly embracing and refusing to investigate.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 55,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 25/11/2025
🚨BREAKING: The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors. Email your MP now to oppose this plan: weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
weownit.org.uk
Just days to STOP new NHS private finance debts - take action now
Your MP can help STOP plans for new private finance debts in our NHS in the Autumn Budget
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
The cost of food has risen by 37% in five years. Meanwhile, Tesco’s operating profit jumped from £1.8bn in 2021 to £3.1bn in 2024/25, an increase of 72%. Call it what it really is - GREEDFLATION.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The rule of law for whom? Private equity managers taxed at lower rates. NHS drugs prices be hiked by 25% to appease companies. Bankers' bonus cap abolished. Chancellor ready to override Supreme Court judgment, cut compensation to victims of car loan scandals. Bank frauds not investigated.
leftfootforward.org
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15/11/2025
The problem of PFI explained in 60 seconds 👇
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🎥 Political editor @jamesrball.com breaks down The New World's exclusive that Michael Prescott - author of the dossier into the BBC - himself doctored Trump quotes in the report. It's an extraordinary revelation that calls into question Prescott’s journalistic judgement Read now 👉 buff.ly/lRs7cws
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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The UK Corporate Coup - What They’re Not Telling You
I’ve spent several years researching UK Freeports and “free zones.” What I found is the largest transfer of sovereignty from democratic institutions to private corporations in British history.
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Paul Marshall @pmarsha11.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The disturbing escalation of the assault on the BBC should be alarming to anyone who cares about truth, accountability and democracy. Influential board member, Robbie Gibb, former GBNews adviser, Brexit endorser and previous owner of the Jewish Chronicle, is orchestrating this assault from within.
theguardian.com
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I'm not sure if others have noticed this, but interesting that one of the Prescott criticisms of the BBC is based on those of the 'History Reclaimed' group, which is also associated with the 'Restore Trust' group's attacks on & so far unsuccessful attempts to take control of the National Trust. 1/3
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company. Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet. Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced. Let customers vote on exec pay. archive.ph/9rYlp
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 09/11/2025
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust will have to pay back 27X what was borrowed under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI). We can't let the rip off continue. ✍️Sign now and say NO to new NHS private finance.
weownit.org.uk
Petition: No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services
Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 09/11/2025
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job. To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
A social media post by Karoline Leavitt (The White House Press Secretary) showing two news headlines side-by-side. The left headline, under a caption that reads "Shot" reads: "Trump goes to war with 'fake news' BBC," and the right headline under a caption that reads "Chaser" reads: "Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general over Trump documentary edit."
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In November 2024 Starrmer announced that his government is in partnership with US Blackrock, a mega corporation that buys up just about anything with pension funds, and money from investors/shareholders at a higher-than-market-value value price. Thread
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This whole millionaire/billionaire/trillionaire infiltration of the highest levels of government has to be the most singularly destructive threat to western democracy we have ever faced in our history.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 07/11/2025
💰💰💰PFI cost us £80bn for just £13bn of actual investment in our NHS 🤯 And now the government want to use MORE private finance ?!? ❌ We say no to the private finance rip off. We're handing in this petition to the Treasury on the 18th November. Make sure your name is on it.
weownit.org.uk
Petition: No new PFI in Neighbourhood Health Services
Wes Streeting: do not use a “Public Private Partnership” to finance Neighbourhood Health Centres
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Nearly there! We need around 50 signatures to push my petition calling for transparency and a review of deregulated free zones to 10,000. Please sign and share across your social media platforms. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
UK energy companies made £30bn profit. Gas extractors £10.8bn Electricity generators £9.7bn Transmission/Distribution £6.8 bn Retail suppliers £2.8 bn £500 a yr profit from average household Bills up 42% since 2021. Direct cause of inflation and poverty. 128,000 people a year die in fuel poverty.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
URGENT: 6 WEEKS LEFT - We're 743 signatures away from forcing a Government response The UK Government is rolling out freeports and free zones nationwide with billions in taxpayer money, yet operates with an alarming lack of transparency. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
What Reeves and Starmer know but are not telling you is why they won't rejoin the EU, because Brexit put up an EU barrier in the form of 12 Freeports, 74 SEZs, and AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites so far). Thread
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"Free at the point of use" is not the bar People voted for this Labour government to defend patients not profits e.g. 🏥reinstating the NHS as a fully public service 🏥saving £10 million a week by ending outsourcing 🏥ending all private finance deals labourlist.org/2025/10/star...
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Public trust Keir Starmer far more than Farage to keep NHS free – poll - LabourList
Keir Starmer is far more trusted with members of the public to keep the NHS free at the point of use than Nigel Farage
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Reform UK copies Trump Promises to ignore international law Mass firing of civil servants - which jobs/regulations would go? Cronies would be hired. Attack trade unions, employment rights Attack LGBT rights, anyone who shows solidarity "Hell is empty and all the devils are here", said Shakespeare.
independent.co.uk
Reform’s Kruger under fire for warning of ‘LGBT-supporting’ left-wing parties
East Wiltshire MP Danny Kruger said the UK could be led by an ‘appalling Hamas-supporting, LGBT-supporting nationalist party’.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
“The wealth gap is choking off growth, funnelling resources into property and financial assets rather than productive investment. It is worsening the housing crisis, which now stands as both a symptom and a driver of broader inequality” @fairness.bsky.social fairnessfoundation.com/risks-2025
fairnessfoundation.com
Wealth Gap Risk Register 2025
An online resource that collates evidence about the impacts of wealth inequality, the solutions and public attitudes to all of the above
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
My petition should be soaring past the 10,000 mark. Please help me share it as widely as possible. What's at stake is an abnormal proliferation of tax havens and feudal enclaves petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Transparency and Review of the free zones and ports impacts
To ensure full transparency by releasing data on governance, funding, and operations of free zones. Plus a public review to assess impacts, such as job displacement and value for taxpayers money
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out. Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out. Then share. Thank you. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Pleased to be part of this hugely significant legal challenge. The Boris Johnson Govt first suppressed the Russia report & then refused to act on it. As evidence mounts of Putin’s hybrid warfare, it’s vital that we can be confident in the robustness of our democratic systems
thenational.scot
UK Russian interference case heads to 'Europe's Supreme Court'
THREE former MPs have lodged a case with “Europe’s Supreme Court”, accusing the UK Government of failing in its duty to protect elections from…
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It's Peter Mandelson's birthday today. He's 72 years old. Here's a picture of 'Petie' sharing a birthday celebration with his good pal, Jeffrey Epstein. Repost if you think Mandelson should probably be spending his next birthday behind bars. #InvestigateMandelson #EpsteinFiles
Peter Mandelson, left, and Jeffrey Epstein, right, celebrating a birthday at Epstein’s Paris apartment in January 2007
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
25-year licenses. Corporate sovereignty. Bypassing Parliament. Both Tories and Labour parties complicit. I've been researching this or 8 years while media stays silent.
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