Mark Hebden
@unionlib.bsky.social
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
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Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Ofwat says off-shore payments to Yorkshire Water boss do not flout bonus ban
Campaigners have slammed Ofwat after the water regulator found that the undisclosed off-shore payment of £660,000 to Yorkshire Water boss Nicola Shaw did not flout the Government’s bonus ban rule.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company.
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet.
Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced.
Let customers vote on exec pay.
archive.ph/9rYlp
Why can't journalists do basic fact checking? Defamation suits have to be brought within 12 months of the offending publication. Donald Trump can't sue the BBC, its just bluster.
November 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Why can't journalists do basic fact checking? Defamation suits have to be brought within 12 months of the offending publication. Donald Trump can't sue the BBC, its just bluster.
See also The Labour Party
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 PM
See also The Labour Party
I wrote about the BBC in 2022 when the Tories were proposing major changes to the funding model - my opinion hasn't changed and this shows a snapshot in one random week about the BBC's worthwhile output:
libegalfrat.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/t...
libegalfrat.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/t...
The Proposed Abolition of the BBC
This weekend, out of desperation and “dead cat” politics so favoured by our government the Tories have announced a freeze of the BBC licence fee and that it will come to an end in five …
libegalfrat.wordpress.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I wrote about the BBC in 2022 when the Tories were proposing major changes to the funding model - my opinion hasn't changed and this shows a snapshot in one random week about the BBC's worthwhile output:
libegalfrat.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/t...
libegalfrat.wordpress.com/2022/01/17/t...
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not actually sure how the BBC could get *more* transphobic, but i guess we're about to find out.
November 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
not actually sure how the BBC could get *more* transphobic, but i guess we're about to find out.
Today on GB News: Why the BBC has a left wing bias, On our panelL
Jeremy Clarkson
Nigel Farage
Rupert Murdoch's flaccid cock
and the reanimated corpse of General Pinochet
Jeremy Clarkson
Nigel Farage
Rupert Murdoch's flaccid cock
and the reanimated corpse of General Pinochet
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Today on GB News: Why the BBC has a left wing bias, On our panelL
Jeremy Clarkson
Nigel Farage
Rupert Murdoch's flaccid cock
and the reanimated corpse of General Pinochet
Jeremy Clarkson
Nigel Farage
Rupert Murdoch's flaccid cock
and the reanimated corpse of General Pinochet
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Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Revealed: Brexit group covered up its targeting of right-wing extremists
Brexit-backer Arron Banks repeatedly denied that Leave.EU appealed to National Front supporters - in a bid to get the BBC to drop an investigation
www.channel4.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Robbie Gibb who cancelled a BBC investigation into Farage's Leave dot EU campaign shortly before the EU Ref
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
Arron Banks thanked him for it
"Robbie Gibb is being quite helpful and says he’s trying to hose it down."
- @channel4news.bsky.social in 2019
I think people who call for the BBC to abolished entirely don't understand the level of ferocity they'd face from regular listeners to Choral Evensong
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
I think people who call for the BBC to abolished entirely don't understand the level of ferocity they'd face from regular listeners to Choral Evensong
Well I've just put this on, because I'm some kind of masochist
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Well I've just put this on, because I'm some kind of masochist
Remembering fondly that time the BBC apologised to Jeremy Corbyn after Newsnight portrayed him as Lord Voldemort and placed his image on the set background in deepest red infront of the Kremlin. Oh wait, that apology never came. If only Corbyn had been a Nazi Paedophile, apologies all round then.
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Remembering fondly that time the BBC apologised to Jeremy Corbyn after Newsnight portrayed him as Lord Voldemort and placed his image on the set background in deepest red infront of the Kremlin. Oh wait, that apology never came. If only Corbyn had been a Nazi Paedophile, apologies all round then.
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I listened to the first 3 episodes of BBC's "Anatomy of a Cancellation," and I don't know how the interviewer didn't laugh at Kate Clanchy when she said that "slanty eyes" wasn't in her book, it was "slantED, sparking, black eyes," so that was okay.
The podcast completely vindicates the criticisms.
The podcast completely vindicates the criticisms.
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I listened to the first 3 episodes of BBC's "Anatomy of a Cancellation," and I don't know how the interviewer didn't laugh at Kate Clanchy when she said that "slanty eyes" wasn't in her book, it was "slantED, sparking, black eyes," so that was okay.
The podcast completely vindicates the criticisms.
The podcast completely vindicates the criticisms.
Ah yes, the "left wing" BBC... inviting a racist liar on to their show to discuss honesty.
Hang on!! BBC breakfast have got Kelvin Mackenzie on to talk about HONESTY in relation to news reporting, ARE YOU HAVING A FUCKING LAUGH!!!?
November 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Ah yes, the "left wing" BBC... inviting a racist liar on to their show to discuss honesty.
Watching the worst people in the country saying with a straight face that the BBC has a pro-Palestinian bias. We all watched the BBC invite guest after guest onto prime time shows to cheerlead for a genocide. This is gaslighting in its most egregious form.
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Watching the worst people in the country saying with a straight face that the BBC has a pro-Palestinian bias. We all watched the BBC invite guest after guest onto prime time shows to cheerlead for a genocide. This is gaslighting in its most egregious form.
Something laughable about former Conservative Party member Nick Robinson saying the BBC has a left wing bias this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Something laughable about former Conservative Party member Nick Robinson saying the BBC has a left wing bias this morning.
Bit disappointed Ed Davey didn't zip-line in to lay his wreath.
November 9, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Bit disappointed Ed Davey didn't zip-line in to lay his wreath.
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Again, whatever the truth is, it’s a shit snow and the lack of transparency is there or all to see, she should have left when she accused them of being a sexist boys club - no one credible believes anything any of them say anymore
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Stand-off over £800,000 Your Party funds held by Zarah Sultana
Your Party officials accuse Zarah Sultana of withholding funds despite publicly agreeing to transfer the money.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Again, whatever the truth is, it’s a shit snow and the lack of transparency is there or all to see, she should have left when she accused them of being a sexist boys club - no one credible believes anything any of them say anymore
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.
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Let’s have a 12 month moratorium on supermarkets raising prices or reducing volumes, portion sizes or quality, shall we? A freeze on profit margin, is that unreasonable? Also let’s penalise them if they lay workers off or reduce take home wages.
We're told inflation is 3.8% so riddle me this. My local co-op has a range of frozen meals that have just gone up from £1.80 to £2.00 overnight, an increase of over 11% - it's almost as though what we're told isn't actually true and supermarkets are profiteering shitbags.
November 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Let’s have a 12 month moratorium on supermarkets raising prices or reducing volumes, portion sizes or quality, shall we? A freeze on profit margin, is that unreasonable? Also let’s penalise them if they lay workers off or reduce take home wages.
A Palestinian hostage was literally raped to death in an Israeli prison, the soliders who did it were on video boasting about it. All sexual assault in war is a war crime and ALL examples should be reported fully.
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A Palestinian hostage was literally raped to death in an Israeli prison, the soliders who did it were on video boasting about it. All sexual assault in war is a war crime and ALL examples should be reported fully.
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Big naturals is BBC exec slang for any new David Attenborough series
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Big naturals is BBC exec slang for any new David Attenborough series
November 6, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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I just saw the teaser trailer for that new Michael Jackson biopic and it pisses me off so much that it's his NEPHEW playing him when there are THOUSANDS of real talented Hollywood peadophiles available.
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I just saw the teaser trailer for that new Michael Jackson biopic and it pisses me off so much that it's his NEPHEW playing him when there are THOUSANDS of real talented Hollywood peadophiles available.