@johngordonsinclair.bsky.social
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SING SING by the team behind JOCKEY- Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar and with amazing performances by Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin, is a powerful film- shot in 18 days with unstoppable faith and truth- please see it, if you can
February 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
SING SING by the team behind JOCKEY- Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar and with amazing performances by Colman Domingo and Clarence Maclin, is a powerful film- shot in 18 days with unstoppable faith and truth- please see it, if you can
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HBOS banking frauds dating back to 2002 not investigated by the FCA, Serious Fraud Office.
Lloyds Bank promised to do so in 2017, publish report in 2018.
To date, nothing. Now it wants to hide the full report. It also funded the City of London police
Any UK regulator not corrupt?
archive.ph/btDsi
Lloyds Bank promised to do so in 2017, publish report in 2018.
To date, nothing. Now it wants to hide the full report. It also funded the City of London police
Any UK regulator not corrupt?
archive.ph/btDsi
Campaigners call for Lloyds to publish unredacted report on fraud
Transparency Task Force writes to Dame Meg Hillier, chairwoman of the Treasury committee, expressing concern over the bank’s intentions
www.thetimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
HBOS banking frauds dating back to 2002 not investigated by the FCA, Serious Fraud Office.
Lloyds Bank promised to do so in 2017, publish report in 2018.
To date, nothing. Now it wants to hide the full report. It also funded the City of London police
Any UK regulator not corrupt?
archive.ph/btDsi
Lloyds Bank promised to do so in 2017, publish report in 2018.
To date, nothing. Now it wants to hide the full report. It also funded the City of London police
Any UK regulator not corrupt?
archive.ph/btDsi
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Many #Freshpet customers will be disappointed to learn that they've been advertising on GB News.
Surely this isn't the kind of thing they want to be associated with?
www.freshpet.com/en-gb/contact
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...
Surely this isn't the kind of thing they want to be associated with?
www.freshpet.com/en-gb/contact
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...
GB News Hit by Guest Boycott After Hosts Label LGBT+ People 'Paedos' and 'Deviants'
There was a flurry of Ofcom complaints after a series of offensive remarks by presenters on the right-wing channel
bylinetimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Many #Freshpet customers will be disappointed to learn that they've been advertising on GB News.
Surely this isn't the kind of thing they want to be associated with?
www.freshpet.com/en-gb/contact
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...
Surely this isn't the kind of thing they want to be associated with?
www.freshpet.com/en-gb/contact
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/31/g...
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Together we're pushing back against GB News - and it's working 👏👏👏
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news
February 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Together we're pushing back against GB News - and it's working 👏👏👏
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news
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UK fails to improve on record low ranking in global table of corruption.
More corrupt than Japan, Seychelles, Estonia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Singapore.
Want to hire legislators, get govt contracts, launder money, escape regulation enforcement ... UK is the place.
More corrupt than Japan, Seychelles, Estonia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Singapore.
Want to hire legislators, get govt contracts, launder money, escape regulation enforcement ... UK is the place.
Corruption Perceptions Index 2024
The Corruption Perceptions Index 2024 ranks 180 countries by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. Find out the scores and read our analysis.
www.transparency.org
February 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
UK fails to improve on record low ranking in global table of corruption.
More corrupt than Japan, Seychelles, Estonia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Singapore.
Want to hire legislators, get govt contracts, launder money, escape regulation enforcement ... UK is the place.
More corrupt than Japan, Seychelles, Estonia, Uruguay, Hong Kong, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Singapore.
Want to hire legislators, get govt contracts, launder money, escape regulation enforcement ... UK is the place.
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Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out.
That's what happens when companies self certify.
Sewage dumping under stated.
Will get worse, regulators required to promote growth i.e. keep quiet, fewer fines.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
That's what happens when companies self certify.
Sewage dumping under stated.
Will get worse, regulators required to promote growth i.e. keep quiet, fewer fines.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out
Analysis by campaign group finds utility company had highest rate of ‘no-flow’ samples of any water and sewerage firm in 2024
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Anglian Water passed thousands of pollution tests at sewage plants that weren’t carried out.
That's what happens when companies self certify.
Sewage dumping under stated.
Will get worse, regulators required to promote growth i.e. keep quiet, fewer fines.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
That's what happens when companies self certify.
Sewage dumping under stated.
Will get worse, regulators required to promote growth i.e. keep quiet, fewer fines.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Number crunching: Ticketmaster’s donation to Music Venues Trust v compensation package of Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
January 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Number crunching: Ticketmaster’s donation to Music Venues Trust v compensation package of Ticketmaster CEO Michael Rapino
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
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we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
January 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.
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Today's GB News advertisers include •Sky •TrailFinders •Body By Nature •Staysure •All Clear Travel •Boxt •The Polish National Tourist Office •Raging Bull Snacks •Belgica www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/g...
GB News branded a 'megaphone for extremism' following riots
"There can be no possible reason for Ofcom to delay in rescinding its UK broadcasting licence", one person argued.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Today's GB News advertisers include •Sky •TrailFinders •Body By Nature •Staysure •All Clear Travel •Boxt •The Polish National Tourist Office •Raging Bull Snacks •Belgica www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/g...
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Subscribe to Private Eye by Tuesday lunchtime to get next week’s issue delivered directly to your door.
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January 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Subscribe to Private Eye by Tuesday lunchtime to get next week’s issue delivered directly to your door.
➡️Subscriptions subsonline.co.uk
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Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
January 26, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Word of the day is ‘matutolypea’: extreme grumpiness in the morning.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
From the Latin ‘Matuta’, Roman goddess of the dawn, and the Greek ‘lype’, ‘grief’. Put them together and you get ‘morning grief’.
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Thames Water released raw sewage into a chalk stream for more than 1,000 hours over the past 6 weeks.
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
Thames Water pumps sewage into chalk stream for 1,000 hours
Pollution has created a ‘coating of brown sewage sludge’ on the River Ver
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Thames Water released raw sewage into a chalk stream for more than 1,000 hours over the past 6 weeks.
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
Execs will get a bonus. The company wants to pay higher dividends, record hike in customer prices.
Regulators do nothing. Govt can end the scam by nationalisation, but won't.
archive.ph/k7b60
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Together we're pushing back against GB News - and it's working: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news
After a surge in donations we're now nearly *60%* of the way to our target - with over 240 pledges so far. Thankyou again to everyone who's supported & shared our Crowdfunder!
After a surge in donations we're now nearly *60%* of the way to our target - with over 240 pledges so far. Thankyou again to everyone who's supported & shared our Crowdfunder!
January 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Together we're pushing back against GB News - and it's working: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/stop-gb-news
After a surge in donations we're now nearly *60%* of the way to our target - with over 240 pledges so far. Thankyou again to everyone who's supported & shared our Crowdfunder!
After a surge in donations we're now nearly *60%* of the way to our target - with over 240 pledges so far. Thankyou again to everyone who's supported & shared our Crowdfunder!
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Today's GB News advertisers include •Retirement Villages •All Clear Travel •BBN Supplements •Tonic Surgery •BullardsGin •Hafren Furnishers •Boxt •TrailFinders •Madison & Mayfair •Raging Bull Snack •P&O Cruises •The Polish National Travel Agency •Belgica www.thenational.scot/news/2478417...
GB News is an 'anti-Muslim hate channel', two-year study into output concludes
GB News “accounted for almost 50 per cent of all mentions of Muslims or Islam on UK news channels” in a two-year period, a study has found ...
www.thenational.scot
January 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Today's GB News advertisers include •Retirement Villages •All Clear Travel •BBN Supplements •Tonic Surgery •BullardsGin •Hafren Furnishers •Boxt •TrailFinders •Madison & Mayfair •Raging Bull Snack •P&O Cruises •The Polish National Travel Agency •Belgica www.thenational.scot/news/2478417...
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Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
January 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
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UK haunted by Johnson’s ‘botched Brexit deal’ and Labour’s plans don’t go far enough | Anand Menon and Joël Reland
UK haunted by Johnson’s ‘botched Brexit deal’ and Labour’s plans don’t go far enough | Anand Menon and Joël Reland
Five years on, it’s unclear how a proposed UK-EU relationship reset would repair damage to the economy
Five years since Brexit, the UK wants to reset the EU relationship. A simple question of sitting down with the EU and negotiating, surely?
Sort of,…
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
UK haunted by Johnson’s ‘botched Brexit deal’ and Labour’s plans don’t go far enough | Anand Menon and Joël Reland
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Thames Water credit rating slashed to negative, administration looms.
£23bn assets in urgent need of repair.
Uses obsolete technology.
£15bn+ debt, money borrowed to pay dividends, no new reservoir since 1989, dumps sewage in rivers.
Must be no public bailout
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
£23bn assets in urgent need of repair.
Uses obsolete technology.
£15bn+ debt, money borrowed to pay dividends, no new reservoir since 1989, dumps sewage in rivers.
Must be no public bailout
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water credit rating slashed as administrators approached
Moody’s changes outlook on firm from stable to negative as financial plans ‘do not provide attractive risk-return balance’
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thames Water credit rating slashed to negative, administration looms.
£23bn assets in urgent need of repair.
Uses obsolete technology.
£15bn+ debt, money borrowed to pay dividends, no new reservoir since 1989, dumps sewage in rivers.
Must be no public bailout
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
£23bn assets in urgent need of repair.
Uses obsolete technology.
£15bn+ debt, money borrowed to pay dividends, no new reservoir since 1989, dumps sewage in rivers.
Must be no public bailout
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Severn Trent Water dividends to rise, water bills go up.
A serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, has 62 criminal convictions.
BBC Panorama claimed Severn Trent inflated its investment by £1.68bn
Water bills to be hiked by 47% to 2030.
Who protects the people?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, has 62 criminal convictions.
BBC Panorama claimed Severn Trent inflated its investment by £1.68bn
Water bills to be hiked by 47% to 2030.
Who protects the people?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Severn Trent dividends to rise as water bills go up
It comes amid scrutiny over payouts in the sector against a backdrop of rising customer bills.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 24, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Severn Trent Water dividends to rise, water bills go up.
A serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, has 62 criminal convictions.
BBC Panorama claimed Severn Trent inflated its investment by £1.68bn
Water bills to be hiked by 47% to 2030.
Who protects the people?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, has 62 criminal convictions.
BBC Panorama claimed Severn Trent inflated its investment by £1.68bn
Water bills to be hiked by 47% to 2030.
Who protects the people?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Thames Water rescuers demand temporary renationalisation to cut debts, oust bosses..
After that they want reprivatisation, return to profiteering, dividends, exploitation.
Nothing will change until profit motive is eliminated.
Need public ownership.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
After that they want reprivatisation, return to profiteering, dividends, exploitation.
Nothing will change until profit motive is eliminated.
Need public ownership.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thames Water rescuers seek clean break before committing fresh funds
Exclusive: Some bidders demand temporary renationalisation to help cut debts and oust bosses
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Thames Water rescuers demand temporary renationalisation to cut debts, oust bosses..
After that they want reprivatisation, return to profiteering, dividends, exploitation.
Nothing will change until profit motive is eliminated.
Need public ownership.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
After that they want reprivatisation, return to profiteering, dividends, exploitation.
Nothing will change until profit motive is eliminated.
Need public ownership.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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If you took out the shots of people lighting fags, The Brutalist would be a crisp 50 mins.
January 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
If you took out the shots of people lighting fags, The Brutalist would be a crisp 50 mins.
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January 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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I’m on my way home from the Winter Fancy Foods Show in Las Vegas and here’s a thread with photos of my very favorite finds…
January 22, 2025 at 2:29 AM
I’m on my way home from the Winter Fancy Foods Show in Las Vegas and here’s a thread with photos of my very favorite finds…
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Rising UK State Pension age will push more dying people into poverty.
Ageing people suffer ill health due to low wages, poor food, housing, healthcare but can't retire.
92,000, mostly poor, die before getting pension. More will die as pension age rises.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/blog/rising-...
Ageing people suffer ill health due to low wages, poor food, housing, healthcare but can't retire.
92,000, mostly poor, die before getting pension. More will die as pension age rises.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/blog/rising-...
Rising State Pension age will push more dying people into poverty
Our analysis shows over 92,000 adults die each year before they can draw their pension. Rises in State Pension age will be felt most in local areas with the highest death rates at younger ages, the sa...
www.mariecurie.org.uk
January 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Rising UK State Pension age will push more dying people into poverty.
Ageing people suffer ill health due to low wages, poor food, housing, healthcare but can't retire.
92,000, mostly poor, die before getting pension. More will die as pension age rises.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/blog/rising-...
Ageing people suffer ill health due to low wages, poor food, housing, healthcare but can't retire.
92,000, mostly poor, die before getting pension. More will die as pension age rises.
www.mariecurie.org.uk/blog/rising-...
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Half of the 40 new hospitals pledged by former PM Boris Johnson won't be built until 2040.
Why can't Labour build them to sustain/improve NHS capacity?
Interferes with Streeting plan to hand more contracts to private sector. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Why can't Labour build them to sustain/improve NHS capacity?
Interferes with Streeting plan to hand more contracts to private sector. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Half of new hospitals promised by Boris Johnson will not be built for years
Exclusive: Labour to announce delay to many of 40 planned projects as costs spiral to estimated £30bn
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Half of the 40 new hospitals pledged by former PM Boris Johnson won't be built until 2040.
Why can't Labour build them to sustain/improve NHS capacity?
Interferes with Streeting plan to hand more contracts to private sector. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Why can't Labour build them to sustain/improve NHS capacity?
Interferes with Streeting plan to hand more contracts to private sector. 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books
January 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Hands up everyone who zooms in on every picture posted with a bookshelf in the background to check out the books