This from former British diplomat @alexhh.bsky.social, who now is now based in the US, really hits home about the nightmare currently playing out in Trump's America bylinetimes.com/2026/01/15/a...

England nationalized rail passenger services lease carriages from rolling stock companies (ROSCOs). 87% of rolling stock controlled by 3 Luxembourg companies. Paid £1.282bn dividends in last 3 yrs. Not taxed in UK. Privatization has hollowed out the UK - Taxes lost, it is all about exploitation.

Reform…. crooks of a feather stick together… farridge and house buying tax dodge !!?

Surely some good investigative journalism is needed here @bylinetimes.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social on your stunning victory. Your campaign took on the rich and powerful, stood up for the dignity of all marginalised communities, and gave people hope! Real change is coming. I look forward to working with you to bring about a fairer, kinder world.

Nick Robinson on #R4Today blithely stating that everyone (in the UK) "is against the ECHR". Absolute biased prick

Murdering journalists is a war crime.

It's murdering for its own sake

There's been a bigger scandal over a BBC documentary about the horrors inflicted by Israel against Palestinian children, over an irrelevant detail, than the horrors inflicted by Israel against Palestinian children. The world turned on its head. Depraved. Deranged.

🚨SHOCKING new data shows nearly 14 MILLION ADULTS unable to access NHS dentistry in England Some forced to pull out their own teeth with pliers - thats not Victorian, it’s medieval! I’m joining BDA in calling for an urgent & proportionate response to save NHS dentistry youtu.be/VpcNJ4HIStc?...

There must be millions of socialists who are disappointed that the current Labour Party are not leading us back into the EU. The Greens are offering as a Core Commitment, Full Membership As Soon As Possible. On this point alone, they’ll get my vote. One must have an objective rather than hope. You?

Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.

It’s been 9 years since the Brexit vote. If you’re still flying the 🇪🇺 flag in your heart ❤️… change your profile and make today a Blue Monday! #RejoinDay #TeamEU #BrexitRebels

SEN. PADILLA: “Saying I lunged is a lie, but that’s par for the course for this administration… I was behind the cameras listening, and at a certain point hearing Noem say they had to rescue LA from the Governor and Mayor was too much to take. So I raise my voice to ask a question.”

This article is beginning to get traction… m.economictimes.com/news/interna...

Norfolk villagers to lose their homes under mass CPO order. South Norfolk, along with other parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, is part of a designated and deregulated investment zone, a type of SEZ under the UK government’s flagship program. Thread www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

This company needs to be returned to public ownership and it must be the owners not the workers who pay the price for its failure. 2/2 🔚

🚨 Thames Water 💬 We can all see that the privatisation of water has been a disaster. We now need to stop to companies like Thames Water treating workers and communities with contempt once and for all. This fine for paying out dividends is just too little, too late. 1/2 ⤵️

CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

🇳🇴 Norway took its oil wealth and built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — investing in pensions, healthcare, and the future. 🇬🇧 Britain sold ours off in the 1980s, handed control to private corporations, and spent the revenues on short-term tax cuts.

200k #NHS workers were offered a 3.6% pay rise yet there's people in the system pulling in 200k?! For every one of these salaries you could place 5-6 full time Registered Nurses in the system Thats 1500-1800 extra Nurses, mull that over!

... but I did find this report in Middle East Eye "Half a million march to Downing Street to urge Starmer to cut ties with Israel" www.middleeasteye.net/news/half-mi...

Shame on Labour. Time to replace Keir Starmer.

To be absolutely clear, I will not vote for Labour if they continue to support Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. I won’t be voting tactically I don’t care who that lets into power I’m not voting for a Party that can permit the wilful starvation of innocent people.

Which bank accounts received the cash? Who has pocketed £20billion? Can it be traced? List of companies and individuals would be appreciated.

Private gas-fired stations charge 100 times normal rates for electricity when renewable energy in short supply. Private equity, foreign state-owned companies make huge profits. End the scam. Nationalise UK gas plants & entire energy production. Lower energy bills reduce poverty, business costs.

I have some pretty astonishing news about the upcoming exposure of the UK duopoly's rollout of 86 free zones...watch this space!

A number of Tory peers and ministers appear used the Covid crisis as an opportunity to funnel enormous sums of money to corporate cronies. So far they have faced virtually no consequences.

This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

Despicable BBC bias

What's happening across the UK is an infrastructural hollowing out of all public services, the carving up of the UK into patchworks of corporate sovereignties, we are witnessing the privatisation of the entire country. I call it Zone Fever. substack.com/profile/1751...

Goodnight, good people. Here’s a thought. Maybe we’re only as good as the people we choose to interact with. 🤷‍♂️ In which case… I’ll sleep quite soundly. See you in the morrow. 🙌

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

IT’S HERE 💙💥 DOES YOUR MP HAVE FINANCIAL LINKS TO THE PRIVATE HEALTHCARE SECTOR? EveryDoctor has built a map, so that you can find out if your MP has been accepting donations from people and companies linked to the private healthcare sector🚨 PLS SHARE💙🌟 👉https://privatisation.everydoctor.org.uk/

Anthony Seldon, "There are three great trading blocs in the world, America, China and the EU" "The EU is going to be really important for Britain's future"

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

Correct.

Make it make sense

"Israeli police have arrested more than 20 people at a demonstration in Haifa calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza. The protesters carried banners denouncing Israels ongoing attacks which were torn up by police. Some of the demonstrators were severely beaten"

Everyday I think about the fact that iceland jailed the people responsible for their financial crisis

Dunning-Kruger Effect: ▪️ People of low ability. ▪️ Metacognitive inability to recognize their ineptitude. ▪️ Assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. ▪️ Cannot evaluate their incompetence. ▪️ Illusory superiority. Trump is the poster boy of this cognitive bias.

Sounds like a plan