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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Why governments keep failing youtu.be/F3mcah3KPno?... Why have we failed to tackle climate change and so much else when we knew what had to be done? Could it be that vested interests are comfortable with the way things are, despite the consequences for most people and the planet?

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Why governments keep failing

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13/05/2026

Don't tell Pete Hegseth, but the most lethal and effective fighting force in the world today might be Ukraine.

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Let’s Re-Do the Math on Ukraine

The deadly arithmetic of Russian casualties may add up to Putin’s defeat.

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We are delighted that many people use the Doughnut diagrams in their work - so pls do help us spread awareness of this new version by reposting this thread, many thanks!

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The transatlantic relationship is dysfunctional, and will be until Trumpism is gone. Time for the UK to embrace a European future. Time to set course to rejoin the EU! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Trump rebukes Starmer again for not letting US attack Iran from UK bases

US president criticises prime minister for third time 24 hours, describing him as ‘not Churchill’ over initial refusal

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Private investors have extracted more than £523 million in profit and interest payments from NHS PFI contracts…🚨

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences www.politico.eu/article/medi...

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Media must stop normalizing the far right

Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Banks make $26bn in a decade of financing deforesting companies. Destruction of the world’s forests reached the highest level - agricultural expansion, mining, infrastructure, logging. Profits before climate change, human lives and the planet. The cult of deregulation will make matters worse.

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Banks make $26bn in decade of financing deforesting companies

US, EU and UK banks have made over $10 billion in income since Paris Agreement by financing companies involved in deforestation, new analysis ahead of COP30 reveals

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

The UK govt is STILL “friends” of the genocidal racist nation of Israel. They are complicit in this. They should never get a moment’s rest. And neither should our rancid media. It shames all of us.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Ofwat/Govt promised this to England's water company investors. “right to collect” revenues from customers, “opportunities for upside”, “capped liabilities” and “investment positive” ... “no exposure to competitive or market stranding risks” This is a licence to fleece people. archive.ph/brCru

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UK water watchdog woos investors with ‘guaranteed revenues’ as it seeks £50bn

Funds are needed to back projects to improve Britain’s crumbling water infrastructure

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Charles Fourier @charlesfourier.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"What is happening may well come to define one of its [the world's] darkest eras. One that casts a stain on humanity which will endure for generations." ITV News aerial footage of Gaza.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

The death toll of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza is now estimated at 100,000 The list is 1,227 pages long. The first 11 pages are names of babies dead before the age of 6 months. The first 381 pages are all children. archive.is/2025.06.28-0...

On Monday of this week, Hamas' Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip published an updated list of those killed in the war, a 1,227-page chart, arranged from youngest to oldest. The Arabic-language document includes the deceased person's full name, the names of the father and grandfather, date of birth and ID number.
Unlike previous lists, this compilation notes the precise age of children who were under the age of one year when they were killed. Mahmoud al-Maranakh and seven more children died on the same day they were born. Four more children were killed on the day after they entered the world, five others lived to the age of two days. Not until page 11, following 486 names, does the name appear of the first child who was more than six months old when he was killed.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Anyone else seeing the link between cutting the internet in Gaza… …and starting a war with Iran? The Netanyahu government is sick & criminal.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Everyone should write to their MP saying: Israel’s attack on Iran is insane. It is also being used to distract from Gaza, where internet has been cut, and the West Bank, where settlements are aggressively expanding. The UK government MUST recognise the State of Palestine now. Does your MP agree?

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

How is this not a war crime? How this not a green light for Iran to target Israeli or U.S. civilian scientists in return?

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Russia & Israel are the greatest threats to world peace and stability right now. The US might not be far behind.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wondering why, after many weeks of drought, Ireland is suddenly getting dumped with non-stop rain? There's an anomalous patch of super heated sea right off our coast. It's a new world of extreme swings. And unless we act, RIGHT NOW, this is only a taste of what's coming. #ClimateBreakdown.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

This is an absolutely must-read piece. Do it now. 👇

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool driver was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

England has the only privatised Water in Europe, the most water pollution, and the most expensive water. The UK has the only fully privatised energy, and the most expensive. England has privatised rail, the slowest, least reliable and of course the most expensive in Europe.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Why doesn't Gaza have a Nelson Mandela? The Media asks. As if they don't know Israel is dropping bombs on or starving them all to death.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Margaret Thatcher. RT if you still do too.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

“The Overton window has shifted. Sir Keir is telling Labour’s own story at last: he is on the front foot, and he has declined to make any concessions in the argument with Brexiters. So it is left to them to rage impotently from the sidelines” 👏 eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...

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Pecksniff: EU deal: Glass half full, but Starmer’s chance to fill it to the brim

In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Fruits of privatisation. Another crisis in strategic steel industry. Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in 4 years. Bailout likely. Profiteering by energy and water companies has made steel making impossible. Nationalise steel, energy, water.

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Liberty Steel’s South Yorkshire operations lost £340m in four years

Exclusive: court documents lay bare crisis at Sanjeev Gupta’s steelworks as it struggles to find buyers in face of looming liquidation

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Keir Starmer denies pushing anti-migrant policies in order to chase Reform, saying that "I'm doing this because it is right, because it is fair and because it is what I believe". A reminder of what he said he believed when he was running for Labour leader.

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Tea Pain has lived a long time, and suffice it to say, last week was the stupidest thing he has ever seen.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Israel is so protected they could machinegun 15 unarmed Aid Workers and have it shown on every TV, and still no one would condemn them. Oh wait...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Only Israel could machinegun 15 Ambulance Workers with video evidence, and STILL have all the Media defending them. They are utterly sick as are all the people who lie for them.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

If you open a history book and look for a time when things changed because everybody followed the rules... You will find that has never happened, ever. Because the rules are created so that things can't change.

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Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Joint statement from myself and Abtisam Mohamed MP.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Squeeze of low/middle income families is part of a deeper malaise. Political system is captured by big business and the rich. They fund political parties; control media & industry. Govts reluctant to cut corporate welfare, tax the rich. Power of corporations/rich is cause of austerity/poverty.

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Why austerity is a political choice not an economic necessity

Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Ch...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

North London: @chrischirp.bsky.social has lost her cat. Please check your garden, shed, garage etc. Full contact details below.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

“...That’s just the sort of policy that might encourage me to start paying tax again” From the new Private Eye, out now.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/03/2025

If you were excusing your support for Trump by claiming that "institutions" would keep him in check, you were admitting that he's dangerous. And, well, so far it looks like you were wrong. @monacharen.bsky.social from the archives: plus.thebulwark.com/p/checks-and...

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Checks and Balances Won’t Save Us from Trump

Our institutions have already proved weak.

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

It was said that charging VAT on private school fees would result in a flood of children moving into state schools. It hasn't and it won't. Status is worth some extra tax to the well-off. We should tax it more. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

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The rich don’t change their behaviour because of a bit of additional tax

As the Guardian has noted this morning: Predictions that adding VAT to private school fees would set off a wave of parents moving children to the state sector have been proved wrong at their first key...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Poverty charity urges Keir Starmer to focus on living standards instead of culture wars and immigration “people switching away from Labour since last year’s general election landslide were more likely to be worried about their finances” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Labour losing support fastest among voters worried over finances, study finds

Poverty charity urges Keir Starmer to focus on living standards instead of culture wars and immigration

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“In a continent losing the security we relied on all our lives, trade disputes become trivial, Brexit an irrelevance. Merz is calling for Europe to come together in foreign, trade & security policy. Starmer ought to seize the chance and abandon fears of Brexiters” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Starmer has the backing of Britons to stand up to Trumpism. At the White House, he should do so | Polly Toynbee

The PM will not and should not pick a fight with the president. But it is his duty to go there upholding British and European values, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It’s quite simple. President Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous ACTUAL dictator called Vladimir Putin

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

You know what? The EU & UK should put tariffs on US goods (from red states) in solidarity with Canada and Mexico. Rather than watching others get bullied and waiting our turn - we should unify against this bullying until the bully drops that behaviour.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...

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NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Corporations holding Govts to ransom. Astrazeneca demands subsidy or ... threatens to abandon UK investment plan. You can raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, but companies have no loyalty to any place. Time to revive the Corbyn plan - produce our own generic drugs.

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AstraZeneca ditches £450m investment in UK plant

The drugs giant blames

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