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Peter Beal

@peterpaddler.bsky.social
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Usually found with a coffee cup in hand Landscape Photographer My opinions are my own but I'm not afraid of hearing those of others & I'm willing to change all be it after a struggle

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Around 40% of the world's dirty money, proceeds of corruption and crime, is laundered through the UK, its Crown Dependencies and Overseas Territories. Successive govts promise new laws and enforcement but they make little impact. Why do govts continue to fail? Watch the Minister's reply.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The powers-to-be are tinkering with minor reform of the UK House of Lords. That won't do. I urged the Govt to replace the House with an elected second chamber, subject to constitutional safeguards. Watch the video.
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Lucky buggers. I wish the rest of us had the option to leave
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Les Howard @leshoward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Compassion & class from Ed Davey. #HopeNotHate
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Peer demands action on DWP subpostmaster prosecutions in duty of candour debate. The Post Office scandal is 30+ years old. Around 100 were prosecuted by DWP. Despite promises there has been no review and no reviewer has been appointed. People await justice. Please write to your MP.
computerweekly.com
Peer demands action on DWP subpostmaster prosecutions in duty of candour debate | Computer Weekly
Post Office scandal featured heavily as the House of Lords debated duty of candour Bill.
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Judging from the way ppl have historically voted in this country I think we’re in a minority
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Albanese urges international protection force for Gaza, West Bank
New York, Aug. 24 (SANA) UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese called for the urgent deployment of an international protection force in the occupied
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Teesworks Freeport accounts are a disaster. Auditors are refusing to sign them off. STDC carries £420m in debt. There are no formal contracts covering any of it. This is an absolute free zones scandal, and the MSM won't touch it. Why? 🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deregu...
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The Deregulated Free Zone Is What the Clearance Was For
The Teesworks accounts, the Anthropic data centre, and eight years of evidence that nobody in power wants to examine.
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No bank managers in your cupboard these days
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Excellent response from Prem
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
He needs to invoke the War Powers Act followed by for ever wars. Then he and his children stay in power forever
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
You can’t be reminded of this stuff often enough
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You think bad-enough is going to go to her mp’s and ask them to give up there jobs without a fight? Unless you mean a confidence and supply agreement post election then it’s possible I suppose
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The workers ask a question... #ukpolitics #Clacton #r4today #wato #Farage #millionaires
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
😆🤣😁
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal. Complex corporate structures, intragroup transactions used to shift profits to the Bahamas and Switzerland. Taxes dodged in many countries, including the UK. Govt inaction is protecting secret subsidies. archive.ph/Cqq2L
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Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal
Leaked financial reports show how Shell moved profits through tax havens such as the Bahamas and Switzerland – potentially depriving developing nations of hundreds of millions of euros. While some of ...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
AstraZeneca in talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn (£300bn) merger. Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom. AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.
theguardian.com
AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger
Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development. Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper. UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr. Must check corporate abuse.
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Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network
UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Yes. It’s almost as if they were a bunch of grifters
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Andy Burnham cabinet consists of neoliberal foot-soldiers. All supported Privatisation of the NHS by stealth Greater role for private equity PFI Corporate profiteering Benefit cuts Higher taxes on the poor Erosion of jury trials Damaging fiscal rules What will change?
leftfootforward.org
Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rules
Sticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve an idea. Let’s build a wall
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Gary Lineker among millionaires asking Andy Burnham to tax them more. Support for a 2% tax on wealth over £10m. Refreshing antidote to the right-wing claim of 'they will leave'. The poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
bbc.co.uk
Gary Lineker among millionaires asking Andy Burnham to tax them more
A group including the former England footballer write to the new PM telling him "we can afford it".
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Nothing a good dose of renationalisation couldn’t fix
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Mysteriously, a group statistically more likely to vote for climate deniers
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Finally some good news for a change
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years. Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26. UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance. Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.
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Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years - High Pay Centre
The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows the Median FTSE 100 CEO to median UK worker pay ratio rose to 130:1 in 2025/26, the highest for 8 years and up from 124:1 last year...
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I shouldn’t be shocked but somehow they find a way to stoop lower than I can imagine
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Wessex Water, owned by a Malaysian entity via Jersey, CEO got 14% base salary increase despite bonus ban over sewage spill. 3.5% for workers WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily. Dumps sewage in rivers. Customer bills to rise 21% Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment
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Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills
CEO’s pay packet surges to £791,000 as union says public ‘sick of obscene pay’ and bosses ‘feathering own nests’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Govt asks private equity bosses why they are not listing UK companies in London. Not asked to explain devouring of town centres, water, energy vets, care homes, NHS, supermarkets Invited to discuss tax perks, deregulation, boost City commissions Poor not asked to discuss poverty. archive.ph/S2VHC
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Downing Street calls in private equity bosses amid London listing woes
Government wants to encourage UK IPOs of portfolio companies as FTSE exodus continues
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
2700+ people in England & Wales died from heat-related causes during May and June. Most likely to be the poor, old. Yet there are climate change deniers who relentlessly push fossil fuels. Earth will be cinders by the time last drop of oil/gas is burnt.
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More than 2,700 deaths linked to May and June heatwaves, study suggests
The analysis found that 42% died as a result of the extra heat caused by human activity - mostly burning fossil fuels.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
John Stealer This is Priti Patel Tory MP & the most treacherous Israeli asset Sir Alan Duncan described her in these terms when she had a series of secret meetings in Israel “compromised,” “deceitful,” “morally corrupt,” “contemptible” and “quite despicable” Whose interests does she serve?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears. UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990. Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure. Yet record high prices and profiteering. Does anyone call companies to account?
theguardian.com
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Politico: Labour donor Dale Vince has offered to put cash behind the Count Binface campaign in an attempt to defeat Nigel Farage in Clacton This is shaping up to be an interesting by-election after all...
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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We need to abolish state-sanctioned poverty
No one is ever born poor. They are condemned to poverty by societal policies which prevent millions from realising their full physical, mental, and intellectual capacities potentialities.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Curse of private equity Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs, Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure. Private equity loaded it with debt after its 2021 acquisition. Paid interest of £730m, £2.2bn since 2021. Assets stripped, real wages cut, market share shrinking. Future?
internationalsupermarketnews.com
Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs as Retailer Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure – International Supermarket News
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A Labour government!!
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Now this my kind of day out 😊
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The gods of metaphor seem to be working overtime.
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Danny Blanchflower @dannyblanchy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Great Starmer is on the way out. He had the chance to prepare for government to change things and did none of the hard work. He came into office unprepared and it showed. Burnham has to start to rip up the old models but will need help many of us are ready…..! Not least what to do about the NEETS
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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I’ll keep posting for a while: Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37 They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such And:
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
“restrictions on pro-Palestinian speech and protest, when justified by invocations of Jewish safety, will backfire and weaken social cohesion and potentially increase antisemitism”. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...
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Conflation of Jewish identity with Israel driving antisemitism, Jewish Council says in submission to royal commission
Progressive Jewish group calls for more focus on the threat from the far right and the recognition of a diversity of views within the community
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
*surprised face* 🙃
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
So that’s where our high street went
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Tory plan to end the rule of law. Will strip judges of powers to rule on asylum seekers’ appeals. Ministers will decide. No check on unlawful decisions. What next- arbitrary arrests, detentions because Ministers wish it? On the road to totalitarianism as Tories chase the Reform vote.
theguardian.com
Refugee groups condemn Tory plan to remove judges from asylum appeals
Conservatives accused of attack on ‘crucial safeguards’ and of fostering ‘climate of hostility’ towards judiciary
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record. All down to Trump's wars, Brexit and British deindustrialisation. Too much reliance on imports. The state can easily mitigate by manufacturing generic drugs. It was a Labour 2019 manifesto pledge.
theguardian.com
NHS patients face worst drug shortages on record, say pharmacists and GPs
Supply problems pose risk to health, with common painkillers, epilepsy medication and HRT affected
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Industry has been campaigning hard to get chemical regulation eased in the EU. If you find it concerning that politicians were considering allowing cancer-causing chemicals in toiletries, @chemtrust.bsky.social is a great feed for keeping up-to-date with developments, + how to oppose them.
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Peter Beal @peterpaddler.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Jesus I thought it must be April again
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 12/06/2026
Hundreds of strangers in Belfast working together. Doing shopping, providing accommodation, driving kids to school, people to hospital appointments. Have just been told of a woman close to us who hasn't left her house since Monday so we'll be sorting her out today and getting her anything she needs
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