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People living along polluted Thames file legal complaint to force water firm to act.
Sewage dumping creating health hazards, bills soar, profits multiply.
Possible buyers want no penalties for dumping until after 2040.
Crisis deepened by govt refusal to nationalise, end profit motive.
Sewage dumping creating health hazards, bills soar, profits multiply.
Possible buyers want no penalties for dumping until after 2040.
Crisis deepened by govt refusal to nationalise, end profit motive.
People living along polluted Thames file legal complaint to force water firm to act
Residents claim raw sewage and poorly treated effluent as result of Thames Water’s failings are threat to health
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
People living along polluted Thames file legal complaint to force water firm to act.
Sewage dumping creating health hazards, bills soar, profits multiply.
Possible buyers want no penalties for dumping until after 2040.
Crisis deepened by govt refusal to nationalise, end profit motive.
Sewage dumping creating health hazards, bills soar, profits multiply.
Possible buyers want no penalties for dumping until after 2040.
Crisis deepened by govt refusal to nationalise, end profit motive.
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I guess the US travel ban will have to include the U.K. then, given it was immigrants from here who flooded the US, killed the inhabitants there and leeched off their land and resources.
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I guess the US travel ban will have to include the U.K. then, given it was immigrants from here who flooded the US, killed the inhabitants there and leeched off their land and resources.
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BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements.
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements Ahead of Review
The Bank of England has cut its estimate of how much capital the UK’s banking sector needs for the first time in a decade, and signaled a consultation that could free up extra lending and higher payou...
www.bloomberg.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 AM
BOE Cuts Banks’ Benchmark Capital Requirements.
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
Just as the AI bubble readies to burst, and shadow banking is running amok.
Lower buffers will reduce bank ability to absorb shocks.
Guess who will bail out banks? We haven't recovered from the last crash.
archive.ph/ivAJV
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Here's the unvarnished reality of yesterday's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA: Labour caved in. Folded. Blew it.
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Here's the unvarnished reality of yesterday's pharmaceutical trade deal with the USA: Labour caved in. Folded. Blew it.
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
To avoid Trump's tariffs, they have committed the NHS to paying very significantly more for new drugs ie all the lifesaving medicines of the future.
archive.ph/2025.12.01-1...
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This is great from @peterhyman.bsky.social . The government mantra should be “education education education” not “immigration immigration immigration”. Change is urgently needed and it’s what genuinely animates Starmer peterhyman21.substack.com/p/make-educa...
Make education the number one priority again
Bold curriculum and assessment reform is essential if we want to thrive in a fast-changing world
peterhyman21.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:45 AM
This is great from @peterhyman.bsky.social . The government mantra should be “education education education” not “immigration immigration immigration”. Change is urgently needed and it’s what genuinely animates Starmer peterhyman21.substack.com/p/make-educa...
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Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging Britain'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK'
Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"
www.mirror.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging Britain'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nice one, Private Eye! 👍
October 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Nice one, Private Eye! 👍
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But I am confused here, the Pied Piper of racism promised Brexit would secure our borders.
Now it's leaving the ECHR.
It's almost like he is destroying relationships and rights, under cover of border security. What's next, our right to vote? He is literally on the way to fooling many people twice.
Now it's leaving the ECHR.
It's almost like he is destroying relationships and rights, under cover of border security. What's next, our right to vote? He is literally on the way to fooling many people twice.
October 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
But I am confused here, the Pied Piper of racism promised Brexit would secure our borders.
Now it's leaving the ECHR.
It's almost like he is destroying relationships and rights, under cover of border security. What's next, our right to vote? He is literally on the way to fooling many people twice.
Now it's leaving the ECHR.
It's almost like he is destroying relationships and rights, under cover of border security. What's next, our right to vote? He is literally on the way to fooling many people twice.
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I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I've written for the Metro on how Starmer's latest attempt to look 'tough' on asylum seeker hotels has exposed him as a coward.
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
A government spending more just in order to inflict greater misery on refugees is beyond contempt - & that contempt is showing up in the polls. metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
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Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
October 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Prime example of white privilege in plain sight.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
Black kids get called adults to justify blame, while white adults get called “kids” to excuse their hate. They’re not boys and girls, they’re grown-ass men and women, and the receipts are in writing.
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Toe curling, stomach churningly embarrassing
Just weeks after publicly disowning Epstein in 2011, Sarah Ferguson wrote him a gushing private message calling him a 'steadfast, generous & supreme friend' – & admitting she only distanced herself from him to save her own reputation...& her book deal
Just weeks after publicly disowning Epstein in 2011, Sarah Ferguson wrote him a gushing private message calling him a 'steadfast, generous & supreme friend' – & admitting she only distanced herself from him to save her own reputation...& her book deal
September 20, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Toe curling, stomach churningly embarrassing
Just weeks after publicly disowning Epstein in 2011, Sarah Ferguson wrote him a gushing private message calling him a 'steadfast, generous & supreme friend' – & admitting she only distanced herself from him to save her own reputation...& her book deal
Just weeks after publicly disowning Epstein in 2011, Sarah Ferguson wrote him a gushing private message calling him a 'steadfast, generous & supreme friend' – & admitting she only distanced herself from him to save her own reputation...& her book deal
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In the 1990s I thought “I’d consider voting Labour to get shot of the Tories“.
In the naughties I thought the same.
For half of the next decade I thought the same.
Then came Corbyn & Brexit & I stopped thinking that
Now I find myself actively repelled by Labour on Immigration, Palestine & Brexit
In the naughties I thought the same.
For half of the next decade I thought the same.
Then came Corbyn & Brexit & I stopped thinking that
Now I find myself actively repelled by Labour on Immigration, Palestine & Brexit
"The new home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, is expected to move Labour further to the right on migration. She is likely to want to reform the European Convention on Human Rights with a source saying she would “start with the unthinkable and work backwards”."
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Farage rows back on promise to stop small boats within two weeks if he becomes PM – UK politics live
Reform UK leader clarifies that, if he wins election, he will have to wait until law passed to deport people more quickly, which could take months
www.theguardian.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
In the 1990s I thought “I’d consider voting Labour to get shot of the Tories“.
In the naughties I thought the same.
For half of the next decade I thought the same.
Then came Corbyn & Brexit & I stopped thinking that
Now I find myself actively repelled by Labour on Immigration, Palestine & Brexit
In the naughties I thought the same.
For half of the next decade I thought the same.
Then came Corbyn & Brexit & I stopped thinking that
Now I find myself actively repelled by Labour on Immigration, Palestine & Brexit
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They should ALWAYS ask him what Russia AND America agreed in the Budapest Memorandum and then enquire why anyone would take either of them seriously now?
Witkoff claims Putin agreed to "legislative enshrinement within the Russian Federation not to go after any other territories when the peace deal is codified " and "legislative enshrinement in the Russian Federation not to go after any other European countries."
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
August 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
They should ALWAYS ask him what Russia AND America agreed in the Budapest Memorandum and then enquire why anyone would take either of them seriously now?
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In a rich country schools function as food banks.
Two-thirds (67%) of teachers in England expect children in their class to go hungry over summer holidays,
675,000 school-aged children in England might go hungry.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Poverty is a political choice
Two-thirds (67%) of teachers in England expect children in their class to go hungry over summer holidays,
675,000 school-aged children in England might go hungry.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Poverty is a political choice
Inside the schools turning into food banks to stave off holiday hunger
“Something has to change, because mums are actually going hungry because they're making sure their babies are eating."
www.bigissue.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
In a rich country schools function as food banks.
Two-thirds (67%) of teachers in England expect children in their class to go hungry over summer holidays,
675,000 school-aged children in England might go hungry.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Poverty is a political choice
Two-thirds (67%) of teachers in England expect children in their class to go hungry over summer holidays,
675,000 school-aged children in England might go hungry.
1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Poverty is a political choice
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The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
August 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The rich must be incentivised; the poor must be disciplined.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
The political economy of the super-elite in one headline.
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The rich don’t get rich by working harder. They get rich because the tax system is designed to reward wealth, not work.
This article explains how – and what we could do instead.
Based on a blog post by Prof Richard Murphy.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
This article explains how – and what we could do instead.
Based on a blog post by Prof Richard Murphy.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Why are the wealthy so well off?
The accumulation of wealth has been driving inequality for decades. In the first of two articles we explain the injustice of our wealth taxation
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The rich don’t get rich by working harder. They get rich because the tax system is designed to reward wealth, not work.
This article explains how – and what we could do instead.
Based on a blog post by Prof Richard Murphy.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
This article explains how – and what we could do instead.
Based on a blog post by Prof Richard Murphy.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
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This is what happens in Capitalism when you have no competition.
They just the prices up and up and up.
And you have no choice but to pay as they own every single supplier, just under dozens of different names.
They just the prices up and up and up.
And you have no choice but to pay as they own every single supplier, just under dozens of different names.
August 5, 2025 at 1:39 AM
This is what happens in Capitalism when you have no competition.
They just the prices up and up and up.
And you have no choice but to pay as they own every single supplier, just under dozens of different names.
They just the prices up and up and up.
And you have no choice but to pay as they own every single supplier, just under dozens of different names.
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This is hardly a surprise, Brexit has been a complete failure!
Only 29% would back Brexit now — poll suggests tables have turned
We asked Britain about Europe, China and their least favourite world leaders, but one answer stands out
www.thetimes.com
August 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is hardly a surprise, Brexit has been a complete failure!
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When we have a far right government in the UK , it will be because Keir Starmer has tried so hard to lose Labour voters - i am utterly bamboozled
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Hillsborough bereaved urge Starmer not to appoint ex-Sun editor to senior role
Labour figures also have concerns about appointing David Dinsmore as permanent secretary for communications
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
When we have a far right government in the UK , it will be because Keir Starmer has tried so hard to lose Labour voters - i am utterly bamboozled
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
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Orange Monday. Acrylic on canvas. 🍊
August 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Orange Monday. Acrylic on canvas. 🍊