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A serial fraudster has registered dozens of fake “banks” at Companies House - with names like “UBS Group AG Ltd.” Every time he’s busted, he just does it again. Zero checks. Zero consequences. And a legit incorporation agent has enabled the fraud.
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July 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A serial fraudster has registered dozens of fake “banks” at Companies House - with names like “UBS Group AG Ltd.” Every time he’s busted, he just does it again. Zero checks. Zero consequences. And a legit incorporation agent has enabled the fraud.
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A basic income pilot in Wales focused on care leavers and gave them the support to begin their adult lives that many take for granted.
Care leavers were given free money, no strings attached. Here's what happened
www.bigissue.com
June 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
A basic income pilot in Wales focused on care leavers and gave them the support to begin their adult lives that many take for granted.
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1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
May 11, 2025 at 8:55 AM
1. This is Piles Copse, the largest remaining fragment of high-ground temperate rainforest on Dartmoor. It’s a tiny speck of green in a dismal, human-made desert. Prepare yourselves for a story of breathtaking perversity, told in this thread. (There’s a one-page version at the bottom). 🧵
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The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
May 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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⚠️ Mental ill health costs £300bn a year in England. That's double the NHS's entire budget.
The costs of under-investing are high - and they mostly fall on people struggling and their families. We're urging the Government to invest in mental health ahead of the #SpendingReview: tinyurl.com/ywteyz9v
The costs of under-investing are high - and they mostly fall on people struggling and their families. We're urging the Government to invest in mental health ahead of the #SpendingReview: tinyurl.com/ywteyz9v
May 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
⚠️ Mental ill health costs £300bn a year in England. That's double the NHS's entire budget.
The costs of under-investing are high - and they mostly fall on people struggling and their families. We're urging the Government to invest in mental health ahead of the #SpendingReview: tinyurl.com/ywteyz9v
The costs of under-investing are high - and they mostly fall on people struggling and their families. We're urging the Government to invest in mental health ahead of the #SpendingReview: tinyurl.com/ywteyz9v
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Matt Hancock intervened personally to help a pizza firm, owned by a Conservative donor, win a lucrative Covid PPE contract.
Two days before winning the deal, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/m...
Two days before winning the deal, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/m...
Matt Hancock Intervened to Help Conservative Donor's Pizza Firm Land Lucrative Covid PPE Contract
Two days before winning the contract, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed 'pizza' from its name
bylinetimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Matt Hancock intervened personally to help a pizza firm, owned by a Conservative donor, win a lucrative Covid PPE contract.
Two days before winning the deal, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/m...
Two days before winning the deal, the company, which had no previous experience of supplying medical equipment, removed ‘pizza’ from its name
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/11/m...
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1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
April 10, 2025 at 6:22 AM
1. Yesterday I wrote a thread about the dire warnings from food professionals on the state of supply chains. Comfortable folk might find it impossible to imagine an end to the current abundance. But we'd better start imagining it fast.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
THIS thread is about solutions - false ones and sound ones.
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Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.
April 7, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.
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Heaven help us
April 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Heaven help us
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Today, UK minimum wage has increased.
Worker over the age of 21 working a 35-hour week will earn £22,222 a year, £19,519 after tax & NIC.
For minimum living standard, a single person needs to earn £28,000; couple with 2 children need £69,400.
Millions will struggle with poverty rely on charity.
Worker over the age of 21 working a 35-hour week will earn £22,222 a year, £19,519 after tax & NIC.
For minimum living standard, a single person needs to earn £28,000; couple with 2 children need £69,400.
Millions will struggle with poverty rely on charity.
Prem Sikka: A boost in the minimum wage is welcome, but more must be done to improve people’s material conditions
'Despite the increase, the minimum wage will still be comparatively low, and millions will live below the minimum acceptable standard of living.'
leftfootforward.org
April 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Today, UK minimum wage has increased.
Worker over the age of 21 working a 35-hour week will earn £22,222 a year, £19,519 after tax & NIC.
For minimum living standard, a single person needs to earn £28,000; couple with 2 children need £69,400.
Millions will struggle with poverty rely on charity.
Worker over the age of 21 working a 35-hour week will earn £22,222 a year, £19,519 after tax & NIC.
For minimum living standard, a single person needs to earn £28,000; couple with 2 children need £69,400.
Millions will struggle with poverty rely on charity.
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Marine Le Pen is a criminal who stole millions in taxpayers money to facilitate the dismantling of the EU, she literally bit the hand that fed her to accelerate the rise of the far-right
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March 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Marine Le Pen is a criminal who stole millions in taxpayers money to facilitate the dismantling of the EU, she literally bit the hand that fed her to accelerate the rise of the far-right
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Being self-employed is hard graft at the best of times, and @gailmyerscough.bsky.social is (like many of us) feeling the pinch at the minute. If you like her amazingly brilliant designs please spread the word on here with a RePost, thank you xx 👍👍
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Get 20% off all individual prints until Monday.
Use code SPRING20 at the checkout
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/prints
Get 20% off all individual prints until Monday.
Use code SPRING20 at the checkout
www.gailmyerscough.co.uk/prints
March 29, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Being self-employed is hard graft at the best of times, and @gailmyerscough.bsky.social is (like many of us) feeling the pinch at the minute. If you like her amazingly brilliant designs please spread the word on here with a RePost, thank you xx 👍👍
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“We live in the sixth-richest country in the world where billionaires alone saw their wealth soar by £11bn last year. It is morally repugnant that children, disabled people and carers are the ones who are taking the hit.”
Record 4.5m children in poverty in UK as cuts condemned as ‘morally repugnant’
Data published on day after Labour announces cuts that analysts say will hit children and disabled people hardest
www.theguardian.com
March 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
“We live in the sixth-richest country in the world where billionaires alone saw their wealth soar by £11bn last year. It is morally repugnant that children, disabled people and carers are the ones who are taking the hit.”
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Every actor, director, and member of the Academy be like
March 26, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Every actor, director, and member of the Academy be like
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Jeez. The Government’s own impact assessment on welfare cuts finds they would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Jeez. The Government’s own impact assessment on welfare cuts finds they would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty
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Bizarre.
Even in meetings at Westminster today Ministers were unwilling to admit that benefit cuts will increase poverty
DWP doc, published by govt, page 4: "there will be an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty"
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
Even in meetings at Westminster today Ministers were unwilling to admit that benefit cuts will increase poverty
DWP doc, published by govt, page 4: "there will be an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty"
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
Reeves rejects own government’s findings of cuts pushing 250,000 into poverty
An impact assessment, published today by the Department of Work and Pensions, said 3.2 million families will lose an average of £1,720 a year as a result of the changes
www.independent.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Bizarre.
Even in meetings at Westminster today Ministers were unwilling to admit that benefit cuts will increase poverty
DWP doc, published by govt, page 4: "there will be an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty"
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
Even in meetings at Westminster today Ministers were unwilling to admit that benefit cuts will increase poverty
DWP doc, published by govt, page 4: "there will be an additional 250,000 people (including 50,000 children) in relative poverty"
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67e3fa...
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Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Did you come into politics to make poor people poorer?"
James Murray, "To put more money into people's pockets"
KGM, "250k people in poverty?"
JM, "Tackling child poverty is a priority for the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, for all of us"
KGM, "Not a very high priority"
James Murray, "To put more money into people's pockets"
KGM, "250k people in poverty?"
JM, "Tackling child poverty is a priority for the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, for all of us"
KGM, "Not a very high priority"
March 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Krishnan Guru-Murthy, "Did you come into politics to make poor people poorer?"
James Murray, "To put more money into people's pockets"
KGM, "250k people in poverty?"
JM, "Tackling child poverty is a priority for the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, for all of us"
KGM, "Not a very high priority"
James Murray, "To put more money into people's pockets"
KGM, "250k people in poverty?"
JM, "Tackling child poverty is a priority for the Prime Minister, the Chancellor, for all of us"
KGM, "Not a very high priority"
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An open letter to Bridget Phillipson on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) | Michelle Cook
@westenglandbylines.co.uk
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
@westenglandbylines.co.uk
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
An open letter to Bridget Phillipson on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
A parent’s response to Phillipson’s position on SEND funding
westenglandbylines.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 8:16 AM
An open letter to Bridget Phillipson on Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) | Michelle Cook
@westenglandbylines.co.uk
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
@westenglandbylines.co.uk
@bphillipsonmp.bsky.social
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It’s medieval.
HR said I was only allowed to have 3 seizures a month
Epilepsy can cost you your job, relationships, and even your life - and it affects over 600,000 people in the UK.
metro.co.uk
March 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It’s medieval.
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EveryDoctor is going to post the 5 MPs who have received the highest amount of donations from people + companies associated with the private health sector … follow @everydoctor.org.uk to find out 🚨💙
March 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
EveryDoctor is going to post the 5 MPs who have received the highest amount of donations from people + companies associated with the private health sector … follow @everydoctor.org.uk to find out 🚨💙
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A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge sprayed on to farmland? The answer won’t make you happy | George Monbiot
Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
March 21, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Massive cuts: who's affected, how much they might lose. Good moves on employment support but other changes could increase fear & sanctions. Thanks to @theifs.bsky.social @resfoundation.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social @carers-uk.bsky.social for speedy analysis!
www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-wha...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-wha...
So what do the welfare cuts mean for hunger & hardship?
Now we’ve had the Secretary of State’s speech and seen the Green Paper (but not the impact assessment – that comes next week), here’s what we currently estimate the main changes to amount to: First, m...
www.linkedin.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Massive cuts: who's affected, how much they might lose. Good moves on employment support but other changes could increase fear & sanctions. Thanks to @theifs.bsky.social @resfoundation.bsky.social @jrf-uk.bsky.social @carers-uk.bsky.social for speedy analysis!
www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-wha...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/so-wha...
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As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes.
March 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM
As mass murder and genocide escalate in #Gaza, the UK government should denounce them, cut off all support to Netanyahu's government and assist in its prosecution. Instead, Starmer silences his ministers. In doing so, he facilitates the crimes.
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Another deeply troubling attack on LGBT rights in Hungary, masquerading as the protection of so-called traditional values. The right to peaceful assembly is a cornerstone of any free society, and its suppression is an attack on fundamental human rights.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
Hungary bans Pride parade in crackdown on LGBTQ+ community
Lawmakers claim the annual march could harm children
www.independent.co.uk
March 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Another deeply troubling attack on LGBT rights in Hungary, masquerading as the protection of so-called traditional values. The right to peaceful assembly is a cornerstone of any free society, and its suppression is an attack on fundamental human rights.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...