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· Apr 7
Abigail Disney: ‘Every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath’
She is one of the heirs to the Walt Disney fortune – and has long argued for rich people like her to pay more tax. Now she is working out how best to meet the challenge of Trump, Musk and the politics...
www.theguardian.com
“… every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath… over a billion dollars makes money so fast that it’s almost impossible to get rid of… just sitting on your hands, you become more of a billionaire until you’re a double billionaire.” #wealthtax
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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September 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years, study finds
Localised rises in temperature caused by land clearance cause 28,330 heat-related deaths a year, researchers find
www.theguardian.com
August 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Deforestation has killed half a million people in past 20 years.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms.
Starbucks CEO collected $95.8m, 6,666 times as much as the company’s $14,674 median pay.
Workers rely on food banks and charity for survival whilst company engaged in union busting.
Starbucks CEO collected $95.8m, 6,666 times as much as the company’s $14,674 median pay.
Workers rely on food banks and charity for survival whilst company engaged in union busting.
CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms, study shows
At 100 firms in S&P 500 with lowest median pay, executives’ comp increased by average of nearly 35% over five years
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 6:52 AM
CEO-to-worker pay gap surges to 632 to 1 at US’s lowest-paying large firms.
Starbucks CEO collected $95.8m, 6,666 times as much as the company’s $14,674 median pay.
Workers rely on food banks and charity for survival whilst company engaged in union busting.
Starbucks CEO collected $95.8m, 6,666 times as much as the company’s $14,674 median pay.
Workers rely on food banks and charity for survival whilst company engaged in union busting.
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Hong Kong billionaire, owner of Northumbrian Water, touted as Thames Water bidder.
He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment.
Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home.
Public ownership is the only way ahead.
archive.ph/NCYXf
He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment.
Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home.
Public ownership is the only way ahead.
archive.ph/NCYXf
Chinese suitor ‘would cut billions from Thames Water investment’
CK Infrastructure touted as likely buyer if debt-laden water company is nationalised
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Hong Kong billionaire, owner of Northumbrian Water, touted as Thames Water bidder.
He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment.
Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home.
Public ownership is the only way ahead.
archive.ph/NCYXf
He won't provide necessary infrastructure investment.
Any private owner would want profit, main cause of the crisis. Profits go abroad, misery stays home.
Public ownership is the only way ahead.
archive.ph/NCYXf
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US Senate Report Shows Private Equity 'Devastates' healthcare.
Squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices,
High debt, staff cuts, asset-stripping, profiteering, low quality care
PE expanding in UK, owns hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes; cataract, hip/knee replacement surgeries.
Squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices,
High debt, staff cuts, asset-stripping, profiteering, low quality care
PE expanding in UK, owns hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes; cataract, hip/knee replacement surgeries.
New Senate Report Details How Private Equity 'Devastates' Hospital Systems | Common Dreams
US Senator Chris Murphy exposes how private equity firms destroyed hospitals in his home state.
www.commondreams.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
US Senate Report Shows Private Equity 'Devastates' healthcare.
Squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices,
High debt, staff cuts, asset-stripping, profiteering, low quality care
PE expanding in UK, owns hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes; cataract, hip/knee replacement surgeries.
Squeezes the life out of hospitals and doctor's offices,
High debt, staff cuts, asset-stripping, profiteering, low quality care
PE expanding in UK, owns hospitals, GP surgeries, care homes; cataract, hip/knee replacement surgeries.
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Naziification of the UK.
Reform UK would:
Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus).
Repeal the UK Human Rights Act.
Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
Cancel the Good Friday Agreement.
No one will be safe.
Reform UK would:
Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus).
Repeal the UK Human Rights Act.
Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
Cancel the Good Friday Agreement.
No one will be safe.
August 26, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Naziification of the UK.
Reform UK would:
Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus).
Repeal the UK Human Rights Act.
Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
Cancel the Good Friday Agreement.
No one will be safe.
Reform UK would:
Leave ECHR (join Russia and Belarus).
Repeal the UK Human Rights Act.
Disapply the 1951 Refugee convention. UN Convention Against Torture. the Council of Europe Anti-Trafficking Convention.
Cancel the Good Friday Agreement.
No one will be safe.
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Trump said: “a lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator", claims he isn’t one.
Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever
Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries.
A dictator did that in the 1930s.
Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever
Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries.
A dictator did that in the 1930s.
Trump says he is not a dictator but insists many people think the US could use one
President criticized Democratic-led cities of being ungrateful for his administration deploying federal law enforcement to help curtail crime
www.independent.co.uk
August 26, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Trump said: “a lot of people are saying ‘maybe we’d like a dictator", claims he isn’t one.
Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever
Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries.
A dictator did that in the 1930s.
Since the election he has probably made more laws than Congress; thinks he is King, will rule forever
Sent soldiers into US cities, wants to annexe other countries.
A dictator did that in the 1930s.
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UK electricity/gas infrastructure companies have spent £490m a year less than budgeted on maintaining system reliability and preventing failures.
Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated.
Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.
Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated.
Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.
Profiting Amid the Energy Crisis: The Distribution Networks at the Heart of the UK's Gas and Electricity System
www.common-wealth.org
August 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
UK electricity/gas infrastructure companies have spent £490m a year less than budgeted on maintaining system reliability and preventing failures.
Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated.
Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.
Gas privatised in 1986, electricity in 1990. Assets sweated.
Electricity/Gas distribution companies have the highest profit margins in the UK.
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Contrast two #Scotland wind projects: Beinn an Tuirc, owned by Scottish Power Renewables, returns about £2,500 per megawatt to the community whilst Tilley, a single turbine owned by the Tiree Community Development Trust, returns over £263,000 per megawatt.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
Scotland - 'the Saudi Arabia of renewables'? - not yet
The Scottish Government must reform their approach to the development of offshore wind if there is to be any meaningful and last economic footprint…
www.heraldscotland.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Contrast two #Scotland wind projects: Beinn an Tuirc, owned by Scottish Power Renewables, returns about £2,500 per megawatt to the community whilst Tilley, a single turbine owned by the Tiree Community Development Trust, returns over £263,000 per megawatt.
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
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Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
August 18, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Climate models since the 1970s nailed it—most predicted global warming almost exactly as it happened.
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Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea
Fishing club chaired by singer threatens court action over abstraction it says is putting rare trout population at risk
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Feargal Sharkey accuses Environment Agency of illegally draining River Lea
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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👆💯
Any day now, oil giant Equinor is expected to reapply to develop Rosebank: the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK.
Now it’s up to this government to make the right call and reject Rosebank.
👉 Join the #StopRosebank Day of Action, Sat 6th Sep. Link in bio.
Any day now, oil giant Equinor is expected to reapply to develop Rosebank: the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK.
Now it’s up to this government to make the right call and reject Rosebank.
👉 Join the #StopRosebank Day of Action, Sat 6th Sep. Link in bio.
August 18, 2025 at 8:09 AM
👆💯
Any day now, oil giant Equinor is expected to reapply to develop Rosebank: the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK.
Now it’s up to this government to make the right call and reject Rosebank.
👉 Join the #StopRosebank Day of Action, Sat 6th Sep. Link in bio.
Any day now, oil giant Equinor is expected to reapply to develop Rosebank: the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK.
Now it’s up to this government to make the right call and reject Rosebank.
👉 Join the #StopRosebank Day of Action, Sat 6th Sep. Link in bio.
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🥦 UK farmers face devastating crop losses, with broccoli yields down 50% due to heatwaves and climate extremes.
🚨 The climate crisis is a food security crisis. We need urgent, updated laws to protect farming and food production.
🐝 Join the campaign for the Climate and Nature Bill 👉 zerohour.uk
🚨 The climate crisis is a food security crisis. We need urgent, updated laws to protect farming and food production.
🐝 Join the campaign for the Climate and Nature Bill 👉 zerohour.uk
Herefordshire farmer sees broccoli harvest hit by heatwave and lack of water
The British Growers Association warns that supplies of broccoli are 'tight' thanks to the heatwave.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🥦 UK farmers face devastating crop losses, with broccoli yields down 50% due to heatwaves and climate extremes.
🚨 The climate crisis is a food security crisis. We need urgent, updated laws to protect farming and food production.
🐝 Join the campaign for the Climate and Nature Bill 👉 zerohour.uk
🚨 The climate crisis is a food security crisis. We need urgent, updated laws to protect farming and food production.
🐝 Join the campaign for the Climate and Nature Bill 👉 zerohour.uk
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Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits
Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...
leftfootforward.org
August 18, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Successive UK govts have expected the City of London to revive the economy. This faith is misplaced.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
In 2024, £25.3bn new shares issued on the London Stock Exchange
£92.1bn paid in dividends
£57.1bn paid in share buybacks.
Companies sweat assets, leads to low productivity.
Yet no govt reforms.
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Sometimes there’s nearly as much plastic as seaweed … 😢 insideclimatenews.org/news/1508202...
August 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Sometimes there’s nearly as much plastic as seaweed … 😢 insideclimatenews.org/news/1508202...
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Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social
Working temperature legislation is absolutely essential as summer heat is ever more supercharged
Failure will lead to many deaths and a massive drop in productivity
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Working temperature legislation is absolutely essential as summer heat is ever more supercharged
Failure will lead to many deaths and a massive drop in productivity
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John Harris
There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Great piece by @johnharris1969.bsky.social
Working temperature legislation is absolutely essential as summer heat is ever more supercharged
Failure will lead to many deaths and a massive drop in productivity
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Working temperature legislation is absolutely essential as summer heat is ever more supercharged
Failure will lead to many deaths and a massive drop in productivity
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Latest from me: on the bafflingly overlooked issue of work and rising heat
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As summers of extreme heat become more common, the UK must protect its workers | John Harris
There’s been fury in Spain over the tragic death of a street cleaner. It’s not hard to imagine something similar playing out in the UK, says Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Latest from me: on the bafflingly overlooked issue of work and rising heat
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Everyone with even the slightest interest in the #climate should read the State of the Climate report 2024
It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of climate breakdown and its manifold impacts
www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...
It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of climate breakdown and its manifold impacts
www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...
State of the Climate
An international, peer-reviewed publication released each summer, the State of the Climate is the authoritative annual summary of the global climate published as a supplement to the Bulletin of the Am...
www.ametsoc.org
August 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Everyone with even the slightest interest in the #climate should read the State of the Climate report 2024
It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of climate breakdown and its manifold impacts
www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...
It provides the most comprehensive global analysis of climate breakdown and its manifold impacts
www.ametsoc.org/ams/publicat...
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Temperatures and carbon emissions continue to rise
The Center for Carbon Management in Energy's director, Uni of Houston: “If all we do is keep inviting politicians to fancy hotels around the world to talk, we’re not going to get anywhere"
insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202...
More & more & more:
The Center for Carbon Management in Energy's director, Uni of Houston: “If all we do is keep inviting politicians to fancy hotels around the world to talk, we’re not going to get anywhere"
insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202...
More & more & more:
August 17, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Temperatures and carbon emissions continue to rise
The Center for Carbon Management in Energy's director, Uni of Houston: “If all we do is keep inviting politicians to fancy hotels around the world to talk, we’re not going to get anywhere"
insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202...
More & more & more:
The Center for Carbon Management in Energy's director, Uni of Houston: “If all we do is keep inviting politicians to fancy hotels around the world to talk, we’re not going to get anywhere"
insideclimatenews.org/news/1408202...
More & more & more:
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#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
August 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
#OtD 8 Aug 1845 UK Parliament passed an enclosure act taking away public land and appointing officials who could enclose more land without approval from MPs – one of 5,000 such acts passed. This dispossession created the working class stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1076...
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Israel killing all the journalists is just like the mafia killing all the eye witnesses
Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-kil...
Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-kil...
Israel killing all the journalists is just like the mafia killing all the eye witnesses
Yesterday Israel murdered prominent Palestinian journalist Anas Al Sharif along with his entire Al Jazeera crew: correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal, and...
www.councilestatemedia.uk
August 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Israel killing all the journalists is just like the mafia killing all the eye witnesses
Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-kil...
Ricky Hale and Council Estate Media
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-kil...
What @premnsikka.bsky.social says 👇
Come on @theguardian.com - get your correspondents to do their job properly!
Come on @theguardian.com - get your correspondents to do their job properly!
August 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
What @premnsikka.bsky.social says 👇
Come on @theguardian.com - get your correspondents to do their job properly!
Come on @theguardian.com - get your correspondents to do their job properly!
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🌍 Policy gap on climate action
UN Environment Assembly attendees thought only 37% of people would give 1% of income to fight climate change. The real figure? 69%.
The public is more ready than they think.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#ClimateAction 🧪 #SciComm
UN Environment Assembly attendees thought only 37% of people would give 1% of income to fight climate change. The real figure? 69%.
The public is more ready than they think.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#ClimateAction 🧪 #SciComm
United Nations Environment Assembly attendees underestimate public willingness to contribute to climate action - Communications Earth & Environment
Policy officials often believe that only a minority of the public is willing to contribute to addressing climate change, but climate actions have broader public support, according to an analysis that ...
www.nature.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
🌍 Policy gap on climate action
UN Environment Assembly attendees thought only 37% of people would give 1% of income to fight climate change. The real figure? 69%.
The public is more ready than they think.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#ClimateAction 🧪 #SciComm
UN Environment Assembly attendees thought only 37% of people would give 1% of income to fight climate change. The real figure? 69%.
The public is more ready than they think.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
#ClimateAction 🧪 #SciComm
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#Biodiversity - how little we understand about the world we are fast trashing
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
New species teem in Cambodia's threatened karst
A biologist might go a lifetime without discovering a new species. It took a team exploring Cambodia's limestone karst a single night to find three.
www.rfi.fr
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
#Biodiversity - how little we understand about the world we are fast trashing
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
www.rfi.fr/en/internati...
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Why is Angela Rayner rubber-stamping the sell off of ANY allotments? We need more not fewer
Allotments help with cost of living, food insecurity, physical + mental health, climate
STOP SELLING OFF THE FAMILY SILVER, end austerity, fund councils properly
weownit.org.uk/news/hands-o...
Allotments help with cost of living, food insecurity, physical + mental health, climate
STOP SELLING OFF THE FAMILY SILVER, end austerity, fund councils properly
weownit.org.uk/news/hands-o...
Hands off our allotments | We Own It
Recent media reports have pointed out that Angela Rayner has permitted the sell-off of eight allotment sites since taking office. We believe that one allotment sold is one too many.
weownit.org.uk
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Why is Angela Rayner rubber-stamping the sell off of ANY allotments? We need more not fewer
Allotments help with cost of living, food insecurity, physical + mental health, climate
STOP SELLING OFF THE FAMILY SILVER, end austerity, fund councils properly
weownit.org.uk/news/hands-o...
Allotments help with cost of living, food insecurity, physical + mental health, climate
STOP SELLING OFF THE FAMILY SILVER, end austerity, fund councils properly
weownit.org.uk/news/hands-o...