RichardMurphyUK
@richardmurphyuk.bsky.social
Pro equality. Anti Brexit. Anti right-wing. Atheist. Republican (but not the US variety). AFC.
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Girl who skipped dinner so parents could eat - the true reality of UK child poverty.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
Girl who skipped dinner so parents could eat - true reality of UK child poverty
Growing up Georgia Sullivan would force down food she didn't like – in case there was no food at home. Now the 26-year-old and four other young people are calling on the government to end child povert...
www.mirror.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Girl who skipped dinner so parents could eat - the true reality of UK child poverty.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
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Capitalism tends towards ever more inequality. The worst people accumulate obscene wealth, while the needs of the many are unmet. Time for socialism #SocialistSunday edition.cnn.com/2025/06/14/b...
Trump reports more than $600 million in income from crypto, golf, licensing fees | CNN Business
Donald Trump reported more than $600 million in income from crypto, golf clubs, licensing and other ventures in a public financial disclosure report released on Friday that provided a glimpse of the v...
edition.cnn.com
June 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Capitalism tends towards ever more inequality. The worst people accumulate obscene wealth, while the needs of the many are unmet. Time for socialism #SocialistSunday edition.cnn.com/2025/06/14/b...
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As MPs slam the defence spending review, so do campaign groups - just as the Commons' Speaker lays into Labour as well - because once again it leaked the details to the media before even taking it to parliament.
All very Tory, don't you think?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
All very Tory, don't you think?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Arms companies are the only winners from Labour's 'grotesque' defence spending review
As MPs slam the defence spending review, so do campaign groups - just as the Commons Speaker lays into Labour, too
www.thecanary.co
June 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
As MPs slam the defence spending review, so do campaign groups - just as the Commons' Speaker lays into Labour as well - because once again it leaked the details to the media before even taking it to parliament.
All very Tory, don't you think?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
All very Tory, don't you think?
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers.
Immigrants are vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.
The real threat workers face is not immigrants - it’s corporate greed.
Immigrants are vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.
The real threat workers face is not immigrants - it’s corporate greed.
Immigration
One in five workers in America wasn’t born here. Immigrants are America’s workers, vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.
deptofpeoplewhowork.org
June 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers.
Immigrants are vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.
The real threat workers face is not immigrants - it’s corporate greed.
Immigrants are vital to the fabric of our communities, our economy and our labor movement.
The real threat workers face is not immigrants - it’s corporate greed.
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Technology ‘genius’ Elon Musk has demonstrated that putting all your eggs in fewer baskets, cutting back to a skeleton staff and destroying employee morale may not be the best resilience strategy.
@addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire...
@addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire...
Fire breaks out at Oregon data center leased by Elon Musk's X
Causes "major global outage"
www.datacenterdynamics.com
May 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Technology ‘genius’ Elon Musk has demonstrated that putting all your eggs in fewer baskets, cutting back to a skeleton staff and destroying employee morale may not be the best resilience strategy.
@addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire...
@addyspectreai.bsky.social @rachey.bsky.social
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/fire...
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For those of you wondering if the anti-oligarchy sentiment and movement will spread to the UK, the answer is no.
#abolishthemonanarchy
#abolishthemonanarchy
April 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
For those of you wondering if the anti-oligarchy sentiment and movement will spread to the UK, the answer is no.
#abolishthemonanarchy
#abolishthemonanarchy
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Many areas of Japan are assessing new travel-related fees to fund building out infrastructure to fend off overtourism. However, some Japanese citizens and residents are fuming, as the new fees apply to everyone – not just the out-of-towners.
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#Japan
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#Japan
Japanese Citizens Fume as New Lodging Taxes Aimed at Overtourism Apply to Them, Too - Unseen Japan
Experts say that assessing a "foreigner only" lodging tax would involve changing the way people check into hotels here.
unseen-japan.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Many areas of Japan are assessing new travel-related fees to fund building out infrastructure to fend off overtourism. However, some Japanese citizens and residents are fuming, as the new fees apply to everyone – not just the out-of-towners.
buff.ly/K3r1awJ
#Japan
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#Japan
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Flashback: Human Trafficking In Japan (2004)
The victims were punished and the perps walked. Something had to change.
#Japan
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
The victims were punished and the perps walked. Something had to change.
#Japan
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
Flashback: Human Trafficking In Japan (2004)
The victims were punished and the perps walked. Something had to change.
open.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Flashback: Human Trafficking In Japan (2004)
The victims were punished and the perps walked. Something had to change.
#Japan
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
The victims were punished and the perps walked. Something had to change.
#Japan
open.substack.com/pub/tokyopal...
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Arsenal Analysed! Here's my breakdown of that epic win last night.
This piece contains a shooting stat that is seriously impressive...
www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal...
This piece contains a shooting stat that is seriously impressive...
www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal...
Arsenal Analysed: 5 ways we made it happen
Adrian Clarke has pored over the stats and footage to unearth the keys to our 3-0 victory at home to Real Madrid
www.arsenal.com
April 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Arsenal Analysed! Here's my breakdown of that epic win last night.
This piece contains a shooting stat that is seriously impressive...
www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal...
This piece contains a shooting stat that is seriously impressive...
www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal...
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If you say things like this, you should maybe google what the Great Arsenal of Democracy was doing in 1935, and spoiler alert, it was Jim Crow, denying immigration and citizenship to people on account of their race.
March 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you say things like this, you should maybe google what the Great Arsenal of Democracy was doing in 1935, and spoiler alert, it was Jim Crow, denying immigration and citizenship to people on account of their race.
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Haarlemmerstraat, Amsterdam in 1981 and today
March 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Haarlemmerstraat, Amsterdam in 1981 and today
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If you’re outraged by Trump & Vance and want to *do* something…
Join European Movement UK.
The UK needs to get back to being a full member state asap - as Europe needs to unite hard.
Join European Movement UK.
The UK needs to get back to being a full member state asap - as Europe needs to unite hard.
European Movement
We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 3:48 AM
If you’re outraged by Trump & Vance and want to *do* something…
Join European Movement UK.
The UK needs to get back to being a full member state asap - as Europe needs to unite hard.
Join European Movement UK.
The UK needs to get back to being a full member state asap - as Europe needs to unite hard.
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They won’t ever learn will they
February 15, 2025 at 7:29 PM
They won’t ever learn will they
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The Badenoch Brexit planning stuff is an excuse to repost this. From 2019. Held up quite well.
Short version: Brexit was never likely to create a new model for the British economy, instead it would likely mean just a worse version of the existing model.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Short version: Brexit was never likely to create a new model for the British economy, instead it would likely mean just a worse version of the existing model.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
The Badenoch Brexit planning stuff is an excuse to repost this. From 2019. Held up quite well.
Short version: Brexit was never likely to create a new model for the British economy, instead it would likely mean just a worse version of the existing model.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Short version: Brexit was never likely to create a new model for the British economy, instead it would likely mean just a worse version of the existing model.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded today when I asked which of the communities living in the UK she was referring to when she described them as "peasants"
January 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded today when I asked which of the communities living in the UK she was referring to when she described them as "peasants"
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4. I know I keep saying this - sorry - but our political systems were not designed for democracy. A public vote every 4 or 5 years has simply been tacked onto a highly hierarchical and concentrated power structure. That structure is innately incompatible with democracy.
November 30, 2024 at 10:57 AM
4. I know I keep saying this - sorry - but our political systems were not designed for democracy. A public vote every 4 or 5 years has simply been tacked onto a highly hierarchical and concentrated power structure. That structure is innately incompatible with democracy.
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A rather lovely read about the Shipping Forecast
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
‘We listen to it to remind us of home’: 100 years of the Shipping Forecast
An enigmatic nautical bulletin that has transmitted across dark waters for a whole century, it has beguiled everyone from Carol Ann Duffy to Blur – and offered a very British comfort to people across ...
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2024 at 3:56 PM
A rather lovely read about the Shipping Forecast
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/music/2024/d...
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First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Musk supports far right in Germany, plans to fund Reform in the UK.
We are all pawns in billionaires' game of thrones in a corrupt political system.
Backlash is long overdue.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Musk supports far right in Germany, plans to fund Reform in the UK.
We are all pawns in billionaires' game of thrones in a corrupt political system.
Backlash is long overdue.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund
Online retail giant’s founder Jeff Bezos joins Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg in making a generous donation to the president-elect
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2024 at 8:52 AM
First Zuckerberg, now Bezos: Amazon to donate $1m to Trump’s inaugural fund.
Musk supports far right in Germany, plans to fund Reform in the UK.
We are all pawns in billionaires' game of thrones in a corrupt political system.
Backlash is long overdue.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Musk supports far right in Germany, plans to fund Reform in the UK.
We are all pawns in billionaires' game of thrones in a corrupt political system.
Backlash is long overdue.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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UK govt wants people to save more for private pension.
How? Real average wage is lower than in 2008, rich have got richer.
50% of the population own less than 5% of wealth; the poorest 10% own 0.02%.
Is it redistribution or trickle-down?
Watch the Minister's reply
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDG...
How? Real average wage is lower than in 2008, rich have got richer.
50% of the population own less than 5% of wealth; the poorest 10% own 0.02%.
Is it redistribution or trickle-down?
Watch the Minister's reply
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDG...
House of Lords pension review phase 2 18 Dec 2024
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2024 at 11:43 AM
UK govt wants people to save more for private pension.
How? Real average wage is lower than in 2008, rich have got richer.
50% of the population own less than 5% of wealth; the poorest 10% own 0.02%.
Is it redistribution or trickle-down?
Watch the Minister's reply
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDG...
How? Real average wage is lower than in 2008, rich have got richer.
50% of the population own less than 5% of wealth; the poorest 10% own 0.02%.
Is it redistribution or trickle-down?
Watch the Minister's reply
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDG...
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Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Thames Water diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups to pay bonuses & dividends
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
187 criminal convictions since 1989, routinely dumps sewage in rivers/seas, neglects investment.
Protected by successive govts, customers fleeced.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Tribunal orders release of the confidential citations Boris Johnson supplied to justify giving peerages to Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell, following my 18-month FOI battle with House of Lords Appointments Commission.
December 19, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Tribunal orders release of the confidential citations Boris Johnson supplied to justify giving peerages to Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell, following my 18-month FOI battle with House of Lords Appointments Commission.
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