Tony McTavish
@mctav.bsky.social
Even older, still can’t find the door
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Private equity celebrates UK govt capitulation.
Chancellor promised to tax bosses share of profits as income, backtracks and will tax it as capital gains, at lower rates than wages.
Govt cutting disability benefits
Asset-stripping private equity behind closure of 60% of high street retailers.
Chancellor promised to tax bosses share of profits as income, backtracks and will tax it as capital gains, at lower rates than wages.
Govt cutting disability benefits
Asset-stripping private equity behind closure of 60% of high street retailers.
Carried interest: London's dealmakers bask in rare lobbying win
Rachel Reeves had promised to close the "carried interest loophole" by private equity execs. But so far the sector has avoided such a fate.
www.cityam.com
June 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Private equity celebrates UK govt capitulation.
Chancellor promised to tax bosses share of profits as income, backtracks and will tax it as capital gains, at lower rates than wages.
Govt cutting disability benefits
Asset-stripping private equity behind closure of 60% of high street retailers.
Chancellor promised to tax bosses share of profits as income, backtracks and will tax it as capital gains, at lower rates than wages.
Govt cutting disability benefits
Asset-stripping private equity behind closure of 60% of high street retailers.
Yesterday evenings visitor, waiting for a treat
May 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Yesterday evenings visitor, waiting for a treat
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Left: unthinkable NHS cuts to 'balance books' including sacking doctors, nurses and cutting frontline services.
Right: profits for private health care companies reach an all time high in the UK.
Right: profits for private health care companies reach an all time high in the UK.
May 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Left: unthinkable NHS cuts to 'balance books' including sacking doctors, nurses and cutting frontline services.
Right: profits for private health care companies reach an all time high in the UK.
Right: profits for private health care companies reach an all time high in the UK.
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Why is it that workers and communities are always made to pay the price for crisis after crisis not of their making?
We can’t keep making workers and communities pay.
It’s time for different choices. ⤵️
We can’t keep making workers and communities pay.
It’s time for different choices. ⤵️
April 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Why is it that workers and communities are always made to pay the price for crisis after crisis not of their making?
We can’t keep making workers and communities pay.
It’s time for different choices. ⤵️
We can’t keep making workers and communities pay.
It’s time for different choices. ⤵️
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Wes Streeting is gutting the NHS of its ability to survive by destroying the management on which it is dependent to deliver the healthcare we need. This is not austerity. This is madness, Elon Musk style, and if he succeeds, there will be no NHS left to save. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
Streeting’s NHS madness
I tried to work out how to summarise Roy Lilley's morning email this morning on the madness that Wes Streeting is unleashing on the NHS, and failed. So I am copying it with a suggestion that this is w...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
April 14, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Wes Streeting is gutting the NHS of its ability to survive by destroying the management on which it is dependent to deliver the healthcare we need. This is not austerity. This is madness, Elon Musk style, and if he succeeds, there will be no NHS left to save. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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Despite what they tell you, no matter how hard they try, the film clip doesn’t lie…
January 21, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Despite what they tell you, no matter how hard they try, the film clip doesn’t lie…
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Curse of Private Equity
PE has devoured water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers, schools/hospitals through the PFI scheme.
Govts are handing GP surgeries, dental services & the NHS to it.
Result will be the same. Govts serve money not people.
archive.ph/N5eKT
PE has devoured water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers, schools/hospitals through the PFI scheme.
Govts are handing GP surgeries, dental services & the NHS to it.
Result will be the same. Govts serve money not people.
archive.ph/N5eKT
Private equity firms need to stay away from the British tech industry - Ben Moorhouse
The UK has become a prime target for Private Equity (PE). For years, PE firms from overseas have poured money into our water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers and ...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Curse of Private Equity
PE has devoured water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers, schools/hospitals through the PFI scheme.
Govts are handing GP surgeries, dental services & the NHS to it.
Result will be the same. Govts serve money not people.
archive.ph/N5eKT
PE has devoured water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers, schools/hospitals through the PFI scheme.
Govts are handing GP surgeries, dental services & the NHS to it.
Result will be the same. Govts serve money not people.
archive.ph/N5eKT
Yes, I’m afraid it’s true sir, they have belittled the honours given too political giants like Williamson, Mone, and Coffey, by bestowing a knighthood on that fellow Sadiq Khan. Nepotism sir, no doubt about it.
December 31, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Yes, I’m afraid it’s true sir, they have belittled the honours given too political giants like Williamson, Mone, and Coffey, by bestowing a knighthood on that fellow Sadiq Khan. Nepotism sir, no doubt about it.
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Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
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Shared this earlier - knocked it into a more shareable format. Feel free to nick it and share it.
December 13, 2024 at 8:52 AM
Shared this earlier - knocked it into a more shareable format. Feel free to nick it and share it.
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We don’t need a reset or a strengthening of ties… we need this government to give its head a wobble and then get down on bended knee and plead with the EU to take us back!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Rachel Reeves says closer UK and EU ties will boost economic growth
Labour has ruled out rejoining the European Union but wants to
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2024 at 5:59 PM
We don’t need a reset or a strengthening of ties… we need this government to give its head a wobble and then get down on bended knee and plead with the EU to take us back!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!
weownit.org.uk
December 7, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
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“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
December 4, 2024 at 10:29 AM
“Yes, it’s a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
(Location: Parliament Square, London. Read full statement below)
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In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
December 2, 2024 at 7:12 PM
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Shouldn't it be possible to have better palliative care AND less protracted dying?
November 29, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Shouldn't it be possible to have better palliative care AND less protracted dying?
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What have I been saying for the last 5 years? Deregulated SEZs and Freports are the gateways to privatising the UK.
BlackRock will privatise Britain – our housing, education, health, nature and green energy – with our taxpayer money as sweetener.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
BlackRock will privatise Britain – our housing, education, health, nature and green energy – with our taxpayer money as sweetener.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour is putting its plans for Britain in the hands of private finance. It could end badly | Daniela Gabor
Handing vital infrastructure to big finance will generate windfalls for investors and leave the rest of us worse off. We need a better plan, says Daniela Gabor, a professor of economics and macrofinan...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:57 AM
What have I been saying for the last 5 years? Deregulated SEZs and Freports are the gateways to privatising the UK.
BlackRock will privatise Britain – our housing, education, health, nature and green energy – with our taxpayer money as sweetener.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
BlackRock will privatise Britain – our housing, education, health, nature and green energy – with our taxpayer money as sweetener.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Children accounted for the biggest rise of any social group falling into poverty a shocking new report has found - a record 36%, or 5.2 million children are now in deprivation
Child poverty is the big issue of our time. We have got to end it
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Child poverty is the big issue of our time. We have got to end it
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
More than one in three children in poverty as UK deprivation hits record high
Exclusive: Study finds almost quarter of UK population living in poverty, reaching the highest level this century
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Children accounted for the biggest rise of any social group falling into poverty a shocking new report has found - a record 36%, or 5.2 million children are now in deprivation
Child poverty is the big issue of our time. We have got to end it
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Child poverty is the big issue of our time. We have got to end it
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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A really clever visualization of ignoring climate change
November 15, 2024 at 9:37 AM
A really clever visualization of ignoring climate change
Finally got here, the other place now seems like a repository for all the conspiracy, and propaganda accounts
November 12, 2024 at 11:37 PM
Finally got here, the other place now seems like a repository for all the conspiracy, and propaganda accounts