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Mary Breeze

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The question that keeps occurring to me is this: If a group of people had taken office with the deliberate intention of destroying the global standing, democratic claims, credibility and power of the United States, what would they do differently? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Trump says every adult American will get $5,000 if Republicans win midterms
Speaking at a party convention, the US president gave no details on how the plan would work or where the money would come from.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
JP Morgan billionaire CEO with $43m pay meets Burnham and Healey to oppose UK bank tax rise. Banks making record profits from high charges, measly payment to savers, speculation, wars. What chance of the poor meeting PM/Chancellor to make their case?
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JP Morgan boss meets Burnham and Healey to warn against bank tax rise
Jamie Dimon tells UK politicians before October budget that investment could be at risk, it is understood
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire in £1.03bn takeover by hedge fund Toscafund known as “the Rottweiler” Value driven by NHS contracts. Spire has 45% gross profit margin New owner will be aggressive. Privatisation bleeds the NHS, money buys less. Must increase NHS capacity.
theguardian.com
UK’s biggest private hospital firm Spire agrees £1bn takeover by hedge fund
Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’, signs deal amid fears over creeping privatisation of NHS
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It seems odd that law enforcement appears to be unaware of this guy's activities
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the most typical @jazzpomegranate.com · 23/08/2026
LOL
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I Traced Every Condo in This LA Skyscraper. The Rumor Is True
YouTube video by Yoonj Kim
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What an appalling waste of £456m. The article doesn’t even say what KPMG and EY will be training civil servants in, except “AI use”. In ‘The Big Con’ @mazzucatom.bsky.social reveals Big 4 firms dupe governments by charging huge fees despite lacking relevant knowledge, while infantilising the state
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UK government to pay KPMG and EY up to £456mn to train civil servants
Deal marks largest contract awarded to Big Four firms in at least a decade
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Part of the wealthiest grave assemblage of a woman in Iron Age Europe. It dates to 500 BC. This is the Celts. It specifically references Greek and Celtic motifs. It is an incredibly important item, and it has to be found.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
England water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban - public fury over bills & pollution. All circumventing rules, reclassifying bonuses as retention payments, making payments through other companies in the group. Govt was forewarned. Why no enforcement, fines, prosecutions?
theguardian.com
Water bosses’ pay rises despite bonus ban and public fury over bills and pollution
Exclusive: Eight companies expect to be covered by the ban for 2025-26, the Guardian can reveal
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The first photo is an artwork titled Atomic Picnic (2008) by the Mexican-American artist and photographer Daniela Edburg. The second was taken by photojournalist Maximilien Lamy for AFP / Getty Images showing beachgoers on Moutchic beach at Lake Lacanau in Gironde, France in summer 2026.
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
No arrivals by small boats for the last 10 days now. As of yesterday, 12,469 people had arrived so far this year across the Channel, down over 11,000 (47%) on the same time last year. More than 10% down on 2023 as well, which was when crossings were, by comparison to other years, lower.
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Ofcom board: Chair - ex Barclays UK chair Deputy chair - ex JWT CEO CEO - ex HMRC boss Exec dir - ex trade commissioner Exec dir - ex Freshfields lawyer NED - ex FCA director NED - ex Morgan Stanley MD NED - ex fund mgr NED - ex KPMG / Global Media exec NED - current VC NED - ex ITV journo
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Ofcom's Board provides strategic direction for the organisation.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
theguardian.com
Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future
Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier
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Parker @parkertron.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Important point that there are no democratic process within the Reform party, including the selection or removal of its leader and the selection of candidates.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Never before has a politician announced their intention to run for re-election on an explicitly pro-sleaze, anti-transparency ticket. Never before has a politician gloried in having enriched themselves by breaking the rules, and then demanded a mandate to continue doing so indefinitely
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Nigel Farage’s 'Pro-Sleaze' By-Election Is A Sign Of Terminal Weakness
The Reform leader's desperate decision to call a back-me-or-sack-me by-election is a sign of a politician who knows he is finally being exposed for the man he really is, argues Adam Bienkov
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Hush-Kit aviation news, history & satire @hushkit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from. Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com
A Sea Harrier FA.2 facing the camera on a post that says: Spent years building up a big following on Twitter, essential for publicising my aviation blog, which I live from.  Desperate to leave it & publicise on nicer platforms, but I have too few follows. If you want to help me escape, do give this a share. Much obliged. My blog here: hushkit.substack.com
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
'A soup of toxic waste': E.coli levels in Thames '30x higher than usual' after sewage discharges during heatwave. Execs are rewarded for endangering biodiversity, human and marine life. Sewage dumping the result of decades of infrastructure neglect. Customers fleeced to pay dividends.
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'A soup of toxic waste': E.coli levels in Thames '30x higher than usual' after sewage discharges during heatwave | LBC
A level of 58,000 E. coli per 100ml of river water was found following heavy rainfall earlier this week
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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Hey, remember when actions had consequences? Crazy times."
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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I guess I'm happy the semester is over and I do not have to tell env'l policy students learning about states helping fill the climate policy gaps left by the federal government about this joke. I don't know man, between this and the OMB grants stuff, where are the grown ups? What are we even doing?
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 21/05/2026
WHAT IF I TOLD YOU THERE'S VIDEO OF THESE TWO!!!! 🐣 🪶
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Can I just ask, #r4today, as you seem to be very keen to talk about and investigate Polanski’s council tax issue, why not the same feverish scrutiny over the far more troubling and glaringly corrupt £5M bribe Farage took from that crypto billionaire, Harborne? We can hear your strings being pulled.
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
A little summary of some events. Version 1.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
His closest aide sentenced to 10.5 years for spying for the Russians. Failing to disclose £5m donation and how he bought a house in Clacton. A decade of school antisemitism and racism. Cavorting with Neo Nazis and planning mass deportations. What is the media love about Farage?
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We're in the Ranking Pedophiles phase of rationalization.
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Born in Iran, Ashkan Asadian came to the UK in 1999, and now has British citizenship. His two children live in Golders Green. He said that as he risked his life to save Moshe Shine, geopolitics had not crossed his mind. "Jewish or non Jewish, just [they are] human." www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
'I was trying to save a life,' man who intervened in Golders Green attack tells BBC
Ashkan Asadian said he acted on the spur of the moment without thinking about the danger of the situation.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Public Duty Cost Allowance (PDCA) given to multi-millionaire former UK PMs in 2024-25. John Major £115,000 Tony Blair £115,000 Gordon Brown £114,644 David Cameron £85,054 Theresa May £114,319 Liz Truss £97,152 Boris Johnson £115,000 Rishi Sunak declined. All supported means-testing for benefits.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Think about how little Washington is paying attention to this & then imagine if any other nation did it. Israel just kidnapped nearly 200 people from around the world in international waters near Greece. And it did what many are calling "piracy" all to defend its other crime: its blockade of Gaza.
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'Piracy': Israel Kidnaps Nearly 200 Peace Activists Aboard Flotilla 600 Miles Away From Gaza
Zeteo contributor Alex Colston is among those Israel abducted, as activists accuse Greece, a NATO member, of complicity after Israeli forces intercepted 22 boats in international waters near Crete.
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Independent MP Iqbal Mohamed raises this story at #PMQs Starmer claims it will just be done by other staff ... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closes due to cuts
Exclusive: Officials warn department will also lose access to database of 26,000 verified incidents due to cuts
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Zev Cohen @zac50.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Former Mossad chief says settler violence makes him 'ashamed to be a Jew'
The Former Mossad Chief Was Accompanied by Other Former High-ranking IDF Officials on a Tour of Palestinians Villages Raided by Israeli Settlers. 'What I Saw Is the Existential Threat Against Israel,'...
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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 22/04/2026
"A thousand dead humanitarians in three years - when did that become normal?" United Nations Under-Secretary-General Tom Fletcher on the violence facing humanitarian workers in conflict zones. Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/4cDWXbb
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Before Margaret Thatcher the UK had much cheaper rail, much cheaper mail, some of the cheapest Energy and Fossil Fuel in Europe and the cheapest water in Europe. Because we owned it.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Fascinating, Zelensky coming out publicly more and more and saying that Trump is working with/for Putin. The Ukrainians seem to have determined that telling the truth is preferable to lying to please Trump.
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Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
"In the attempt to try to prevent Iran from developing ​a weapon of mass destruction, the U.S. handed Iran a weapon of mass disruption.” www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive: US intelligence warns Iran unlikely to ease Hormuz Strait chokehold soon, sources say
Recent U.S. intelligence reports warn that Iran is unlikely to open the Strait of Hormuz any time soon ​because its grip on the world’s most vital oil artery provides the only real leverage it has ove...
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 30/03/2026
Brexit promised control. What it delivered was drift. Now, writes Niall Ó Conghaile, comes the harder task: deciding Britain’s future in Europe. eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/brexit/...
A woman stands in a crowd of protesters outside Westminster Station with a banner that says: "Get Brexit Undone"
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No, incrediblly, Witkoff and Kushner have NEVER been to Ukraine. Witkoff, on the other hand, has been to Russia NINE times. These are the people supposed to be negotiating a Russia-Ukraine peace deal! Like Trump, they are Russian assets in bed with Putin.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This is great news: an immediate ban on political donations in cryptocurrency & a £100k cap on donations from UK citizens abroad. Yes, there's more that needs doing, & the door is left open to crypto in future. But we should celebrate (& applaud) the wins when they come. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Cap on donations from overseas electors and ban on crypto donations to protect democracy
Landmark changes to protect UK democracy from scourge of foreign actors and financial influence are set to come into force.
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God @thegodshow.com · 18/03/2026
Right now there are children being held in ICE concentration camps in the United States. This is a crime against humanity. They must be freed.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Just a reminder that in January of this year, Trump and Hegseth decommissioned EVERY US mine sweeper. Yep. Every. Last. One. Evidently they could never imagine a scenario in which the US needed minesweepers. In Trump's America, we are governed by idiots.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Govt may allow environment officers to search premises without a warrant, seize assets, arrest those suspected of fly-tipping. The biggest culprits are England's water companies - execs get bonus for dumping sewage, companies falsify records, company fines waived, no exec penalized.
bbc.co.uk
Fly-tipping: Plan to give environment officers police-style powers
The move would allow officers to search premises without a warrant, seize assets and arrest those suspected of criminality.
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Curse of Private Equity US evidence shows: When private equity incentives collide with clinical care, patients—especially those who are sicker, poorer, or harder to treat—are more likely to be killed or harmed. Yet UK handing more of the NHS to PE, enabling it to make profits.
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When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care
Peer-reviewed studies link private equity takeovers to more deaths and medical complications in nearly every corner of healthcare.
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Mary Breeze @marybreeze.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Tim Montgomerie on Sky News tonight? Is he ill?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Nigel Farage makes Robert Jenrick, who he previously said was a "fraud", and told his followers that "this man is not to be trusted", his Shadow Chancellor
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/02/2026
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)
image from today's hearing
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