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Too much politics! But also knitting. And cats of course. Cambs and Norfolk.

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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone else had a couple of letters from DHSC inviting them to supply info on their kids' eating habits, or a sample of adult residents pee over 24 hours, in exchange for vouchers? Yeah like I'll just tell Palantir everything they want for £20! /s
Photo of a letter from Dept of Health & Social Care requesting a questionnaire, then 2 visits from 'trained biomedical fieldworkers' to collect 24 hours of pee.  'Discreetly' is misspelled. In exchange get a £20 voucher.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
theguardian.com
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, it was bought by Broken Spoon, which has been buying up all the Internet companies that used to be good to bleed the remaining users. They fire employees and replace them with a small team using AI, then radically increase the subscription fee - and they have your data hostage. Same with Vimeo
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Bending Spoons marks the *global* private-equity translation of the old Internet's remnants into ugly capital: AOL, Airtable, Vimeo, WeTransfer, Meetup, Streamyard, Remini, and now Evernote. They read @doctorow.pluralistic.net and decided to be the late stage of enshittification coming for us all.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026
Amazon is ramping up its program to give delivery drivers smart glasses. The device captures still images constantly from the moment the driver leaves his van and walks to your door, potentially thousands per shift. You can’t opt out www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
bloomberg.com
Amazon Drivers’ Smart Glasses Are Going to Be an Image Problem
Coming soon up a garden path near you: an Amazon.com Inc. driver wearing smart glasses, almost constantly taking pictures and sending them back to the company to be analyzed by humans and fed into an ...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’ By Heidi Cuda Read below. ↓
bylinesupplement.com
Hot Type: ‘Holy Fascism’
Heidi Siegmund Cuda reflects on how the Trump regime’s cynical use of ‘God’ as cover for its greedy, bloody, and criminal actions mirrors fascist regimes, both past and present
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UK chancellor to meet bank bosses for a pre-budget summit to discuss possible tax raid. Banks profiteering but resent windfall tax. Any chance of ending bank subsidies? Any chance of meeting pensioners, disabled, sick, poor to hear their concerns?
news.sky.com
Healey summons UK bank chiefs to pre-budget summit next week
The chancellor, John Healey, has called in the CEOs of lenders including Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest for talks ahead of his crucial budget statement.
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LESams @lsam22.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Great Fen @greatfen.org.uk · 02/10/2026
Looking for an opportunity to gain practical conservation skills and meet likeminded young people? Join our Youth Rangers🌿 Our next monthly session is on Wednesday 28th October! 🫵 Aged 11-17 and want to get involved? 🔗 For more info & to book upcoming sessions check the events link below
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Tony Blair Institute - closely associated with Trump & now using Trumpian plays to avoid scrutiny of their dodgy dealings. #TBI
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity?
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?
gmb.org.uk
£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year
We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In 2021, income tax personal allowance was frozen at £12,570. If aligned with inflation, it would now be £16,070. A minimum wage earner in England will pay extra £980 in income tax & NIC in 2026-27. Govt can easily increase personal allowance by £3,000, worth £600 to basic rate taxpayer.
leftfootforward.org
This is how the Chancellor can increase the personal allowance and lift millions out of hardship
Sustained economic growth can’t be achieved without a major boost to the purchasing power of the bottom 50% of the population
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is the result of my daughter scanning her water bottles, crates, and cans into a machine at the supermarket in Germany. She got €10.75. Apparently this gives homeless people an income, collecting other people's rubbish too. Why do we not have this??!!
Machine showing pictures of bottles, cans, and a crate; and €10.75. Text in German
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Neoliberals want to end the triple-lock on state pension They inflict low wages, consign millions to poverty. Govt spending on state pension as % of GDP in G7 countries. Italy 12.8 France 12 Germany 9.8 Japan 8.9 USA 6.6 Canada 4.7 UK 4.7 UK has one of the least generous pensions in the G7.
adviserservices.fidelity.co.uk
How does the UK State Pension measure up globally?
A global comparison of State Pension provision highlights the onus on individuals in the UK to build pension savings for their retirement, rather than leaving
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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.
theguardian.com
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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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 21/09/2026
And yes, the fact that we still have the government using X is unacceptable - the right time to leave was when Musk’s robot started making non-consensual sexualised images of woman and girls. Easy as that.
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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...
lrb.co.uk
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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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So those £36million 'donations' to Reform UK were actually speculative investments ... "Analysis seen by The Independent reveals the wealthiest crypto investors would get £100million a year in tax relief from Nigel Farage’s party" trib.al/P2B8D6C
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"In mainland China a 100-day campaign has been launched to prepare for extreme weather and help safeguard harvests against the opposing extremes of drought and intense rainfall" And in the UK????? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Forcing a reckoning’: How Asia is preparing for a ‘supersized’ El Niño
From Sri Lanka to South Korea, governments are preparing for droughts, wildfires, typhoons and floods – with climate plans facing their biggest challenge to date
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/09/2026
The new wild cat species is about the size of a domestic kitten and lives in Bolivia.
nbcnews.to
New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say
A type of tiger cat, the animal is smaller than a house cat, slender and spotted. It lives in the Bolivian cloud forest.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
US Justice Dept and Reform donor Ben Delo. Pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Built a company designed to flout US law; willfully failed to implement and maintain even basic anti-money laundering policies. $10 million criminal fine. 30 months of probation, waived by Trump.
justice.gov
 
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
You don't think this is some kind of sabotage? Cos it certainly doesn't look good! #ReformAreNotYourFriends BBC News - Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Reform receives second £36m donation in two days as crypto investor matches record
Christopher Harborne says he has equalled a donation from Ben Delo - the single largest gift to a UK political party.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
French EDF Energy in talks to buy British So Energy as UK supply market consolidates. EDF is owned by the French govt. UK profits exported to reduce French household energy bills. Nationalisation of energy would give UK govt more economic options.
euronews.com
French EDF Energy in talks to acquire smaller British rival So Energy
France's EDF Energy is reportedly in discussions to buy So Energy, the smaller British supplier whose Irish parent company has put it up for sale, in a deal that would add to a renewed wave of consoli...
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just after Miliband's announcement, and the same across Europe... Obviously just a coincidence 🤔 BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6... Flight delays and cancellations at number of UK airports due to air traffic control issue - BBC News
bbc.co.uk
Flight delays and cancellations at number of UK airports due to air traffic control issue
Air traffic controller Nats says an issue with its "flight processing system" is causing flight disruption across UK airports, adding that "recovery will take some time".
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
nature.com
The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Wealthy want UK govt to ditch pensions triple lock, cut welfare spending. Silence on corporate welfare Oil/gas, water, energy profiteering HMRC not collecting £59bn last yr Poorest 20% paying higher proportion in income in taxes than the richest 20%. It is always about hitting the poor, old, sick.
independent.co.uk
Ditch pensions triple lock and cut welfare spending to calm markets, Burnham told
Bond market shock has ramifications for new prime minister’s first Budget, his former adviser warns
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Duncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think you are naive if you don't think granddads can be violent thugs. The people who were in the "intercity crews" of the 1980s or were in the skinhead gangs .... they are all granddads now. Aging has not changed who they are.
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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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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is just awful. I hope they get these people out, sooner rather than later, as they're an appalling example in other countries. open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
open.substack.com
Hate will never make America great
After days of hints, videos of old-school gaming cords being plugged into old televisions, and messages that something big was coming, the official White House account posted one final teaser: “It’s t...
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Netweather @netweather.tv · 05/09/2026
As 2026 produces the strongest El Nino in decades, the world faces more intense weather events in an already heating climate. As the UK government considers storms and power outages, how should households and communities prepare?
netweather.tv
Packing a grab bag, and three days of food and water supplies as a supersized El Nino develops
As 2026 produces the strongest El Nino in decades, the world faces more intense weather events in an already heating climate. As the UK government considers storms and power outages, how should households and communities prepare?
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
'My wife doesn't work' poster (c.1976) by See Red Women's Workshop, London. One of thd many artists Interviewed in the newest womensart book.... #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We’re prepared to change the Insolvency law to reform water industry, says Angela Eagle. That's a distraction. Companies have over 1,200 criminal convictions. Ministers can revoke their licence, place them in special administration, followed by bankruptcy and nationalisation at low price.
theguardian.com
We’re prepared to change the law to reform water industry, says Angela Eagle
Exclusive: New environment secretary insists ‘nothing is off the table’ in dealing with ailing Thames Water
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning
Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Lloyds Bank says £160m Ponzi scheme at Godwin Capital was 'legitimate investment', won't reimburse victims. Liquidators say it was a Ponzi scheme. Lloyds buried frauds at HBOS, promised a report by 2017. Nothing published. Silence of the FCA, SFO, successive govts facilitates illicit practices
lbc.co.uk
Lloyds call £160 million Ponzi scheme a 'legitimate investment' in refusal to reimburse victims | LBC
Although insolvency practitioners allege Godwin Capital was a Ponzi scheme, Lloyds Banking Group have called it "legitimate", saying it does not meet the criteria for mandatory financial reimbursement
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Recruiter places ‘phoenix’ firm in liquidation months after repurchase erased £3m debt, including £647k to HMRC. Back in business 3 days later by buying same assets. Process repeated. Employees, creditors, HMRC robbed Happens all too often, assets sold to connected persons. Need prosecutions.
theguardian.com
Recruiter places ‘phoenix’ firm into liquidation just months after repurchase erased millions in debt
New company reportedly quickly fell behind with promised repayments to administrator
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Clearly this is aimed at the more conservative outer boroughs - but even there surely most people now have a ULEZ-compliant car so scrapping it would make no difference?
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Cambridgeshire @cambridgeshireuk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Concern as council-owned This Land loses another £11.9million #Cambridge
cambridgeindependent.co.uk
Concern as council-owned This Land loses another £11.9million
This Land says it acknowledges concern regarding its financial position.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
We were promised that privatised water companies would increase investment in infrastructure fixing leaks & building reservoirs They lied Instead they paid £millions into shareholders tax-avoiding off-shore accounts Renatiolaise without compensation #SocialistSunday
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
England's water companies have nearly 1,200 criminal convictions. Fines announced, quietly deferred/waived. No exec prosecuted. Regulator can ban exec bonuses. Companies reclassify exec bonuses as “retention payments” and “signing-on fees”. No action taken No end to abuses. Nationalise water.
leftfootforward.org
The case for nationalisation of water companies
England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 29/08/2026
Water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. And we're paying for it. Find out just how much of your money is funding 💩 💩 water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/em…
water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org
Stop the water industry rip-off
The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name.
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suetthemam.bsky.social @suetthemam.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Oooh nearly two years to go, so what's he running from? BBC News - Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Cleverly quits shadow cabinet to run for London mayor
The capital is not set to vote on a new mayor until 2028.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Since privatisation, England's water companies have borrowed £83bn, paid £88.4bn in dividends. 35% of customer bills cover financial costs. Under-investment is the norm At the current rate of investment it will take 700 years to replace the water network. Govts obsessed with privatisation.
leftfootforward.org
The case for nationalisation of water companies
England’s privatised water companies are leaders of predatory practices. In 1989, the industry was privatised for £7.6bn and had no debts. It joined Chile and a few US states&...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In what looks suspiciously like a rerun of Keir Stamer's time as Labour leader & PM ... Andy Burnham supports excellent policies Gets elected Ditches excellent promises "Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Remember this? Seems fairly prophetic. Burnham ≠ change Burnham = #ContinuityKeir For real change: #VoteGreen ✅
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