London Heathrow airport owned by private/state investors from Australia, China, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain. Similar to steel, auto, ports, shipbuilding, care homes, hospitals, GP surgeries, veterinary services. Dividends not taxed in the UK. Govts have fewer economic levers.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country? Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide. It undermines police and the law.

Left: JD Vance, "Under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer them in the public square" Right: President Trump celebrating the cancelling of the Jimmy Kimmel Show after he mocked Trump's response to the murder to Charlie Kirk

They’ve done it again…

Eh? She ‘condemned’ me (on the same show) for explaining that she didn’t become ‘working class’ when she did a shift in McDonalds…

Appalled to see this image of Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein projected onto Windsor Castle. Please... for the love of all that is good, do not share it on all your social media channels... because it simply wouldn't be done to remind the world of the association

Free speech banned in Windsor prior to Trump visit bit.ly/4pnBOrr I cannot see how this accurate photo is ‘malicious communication’ which must be indecent, grossly offensive, or menacing but I guess the police needed an arrest to take it down.

UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study

Following at least 10 votes last night, the Labour government pushed back on the attempts by the Lords, Tories, Lib Dems & Reform to water down the Employment Rights Bill. Labour stood firm & rejected the amendments that would have weakened bans on exploitative zero hours contracts & day 1 rights.

Tesla boss Elon Musk wants to overthrow UK govt. Big pharma wants the NHS to pay higher drugs prices or else. Banks warn govt not to levy higher taxes on them, cut worker wages they say. People bear cost of corporate pollution, abuses. Choice - Curb corporate power and slavery or democracy.

Car seats being sold online in UK that risk lives of children, Which? finds. In pursuit of profits, businesses ignore laws/safety. They object to consumer rights. The so-called 'red tape' is someone's life. Left to itself capitalism devours all. Say NO to profits before people.

Privatizations have created a rentier economy. England's water companies privatized in 1989 for £6.1bn. Little shareholder investment since. No new reservoirs, sewage dumped in rivers, poor infrastructure, customers ripped-off, £85.2bn extracted in dividends. Why do govts cling to privatization.

PFI is back – and it will be at cost to us all www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/09... Wes Streeting is planning to bring back the very worst of Gordon Brown's ideas to create a disaster in hospital funding all over again.

NHS becoming a shell doling out contracts to private sector. Cataract surgery contracts have profit margins of 32% - 43%, leaves less for other NHS services. Govts won't expand NHS capacity. Neighbourhood Health Centres to be handed to private sector. State sponsored profiteering.

The proscription of Palestine Action is a shameful and expensive mistake which both threatens the right to free speech and political protest & takes attention away from the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Parliament must revisit the decision immediately.

Spot on from the TUC. I've long called for wealth taxes on the super rich to urgently provide funding for our public services. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In the 1890's to 1940's there was a reckoning. The billionaires of that time were forced to sell up to the Government because the people demanded it. The reckoning needs to come again.

My recommendation is simple turn off all the Media that isn't reporting Nigel Farage's colossal embarrassment yesterday. It's just lies and always will be.

Graph provides glimpse of England's housing problems. Social housing vanished. 2m council homes sold. 40% ended-up with private landlords, increasingly corporations. Housing seen as investment, high private rents, more poverty & need for benefits. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

Farage dodged parliament, went to the US, slagged off the UK, lied to Congress, grifted for donations and hoped to persuade the US to punish us for the Online Safety Act. And got his arse handed back to him. You’d think our ‘patriotic’ media would go nuts. But no. Some quiet mumbling. Beyond feeble.

HMRC pays debt collectors hundred of pounds to chase people who owe as little as £89, losing hundreds of pounds on each case. But it has let a £500,000,000 debt from Lord Bamford build up over more than 10 years. HMRC isn't about collecting money.

Let’s settle this, is Nigel Farage a racist? Like if he is. RT if he is a traitor.

Zack Polanski has been on Question Time 0 times. Nigel Farage has been on Question Time 38 times. But they both lead parties with 4 MP's. When is Zack getting his 38 appearances?

Ed Davey taking a strong moral stance that he won’t banquet with Trump - the man who is able to end the starvation & massacres of Gazans - when he visits in September. Trump receiving honours is honouring a genocide. We cannot let it go by without protest #r4today

The Times says Reform “has no track record to weigh it down”… Other than: Islamophobia, racism, inept councillors, MP absenteeism, admiration for Putin, love of Trump, brazen grifting, idiotic manifesto, dodgy donations and Brexit… the single stupidest thing the country has done in our lifetimes.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

Instead fixing Thames Water at the billpayers’ expense just to flog it off to another vulture capitalist … Why not simply bring it back into public ownership? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

Goldman Sachs boss wants more deregulation, tax cuts for the rich Post-2008 crash bank reforms being reversed. Govts bail out banks, guarantee their profits (PFI); tax capital gains, dividends, private equity bosses at lower rates than wages; rarely prosecute bankers for abuses. They want more.

For the period 1995 to 2015, finance industry made a negative contribution of £4,500bn to the UK economy. Nearly two years GDP was wiped out and living standards have not recovered. But UK govts are again deregulating. It won't end differently.

This is chilling stuff. Protester told by the police that holding up a banner opposing genocide in Gaza and supporting Palestine creates a "suspicion" that they may support a proscribed group and so could be arrested for terrorism offences

Labour quickly on their way to literally doing 1984

Reeves to say cuts to City red tape will bring trickle-down benefits to households. Don't do it. Most post-2008 regs repealed. Regulators now requiredd to promote growth of City. Capital requirements diluted. Will end in tears. Boost manufacturing. Redistribute wealth to rebuild economy.

Feargal Sharkey: Cunliffe thinks the issue in the water industry is about trust when its actually "corporate greed, manipulation, profiteering, financial engineering, £74bn worth of debt & £84bn worth of dividends that this companies have ram raided out of our bank accounts" #GMB

British politics in all its diversity on display this morning

I truly hate being this person, but HOW, really how can it be #r4today headline news that Nigel Farage has claimed if he was king we’d all be twice as safe & happy ffs 😫 what are you doing?

Nothing like the media obsessing over wannabe trump, flogging his gaslit nostalgia, blaming poor people for all our problems and promising to ship them overseas in inevitable UK ICE raids. Just wish the media spent as much time investigating him and his funding.

Farage is never interviewed on politics programmes, he just appears on them and speaks. A level of scrutiny that would embarrass a hack on Smash Hits or Hello. #r4today

Reform has 4 MPs, including the 15 stone bag of pork scratchings Anderson and the bonkers Runcorn woman. The Lib Dems have 74 MPs and could easily form a credible Cabinet. Guess who the hackery think will form the next government?

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Deport the whole family. Isn't that how it goes?

Computer outages that blocked customer access due to lack of investment, Lloyds Bank director admits bit.ly/4ly0cnn if only it had made profits it could have used…oh, wait a minute

📍Glastonbury

Corporate Welfare 2012-2027: £11bn subsidy for Drax, produces electricity by burning trees at double the price from gas. 2024 operating profit £1.06bn £869m subsidy. £97m dividend paid; £300m share buyback. Will get free money until 2031. No means testing. Contrast with welfare of people.

If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place

Today the IDF have already killed 23 Palestinians seeking aid. The IDF have now announce a 'major offensive' in the North, meaning a further massacre is on the way. The IDF are murdering innocent Palestinians seeking aid. This must end. End the genocide now. Free Palestine.

Not just excess, it’s a system built to keep people hungry so the rich can keep feasting. But the masses are waking up. Powerful video…

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One of the things that Blair's Labour got absolutely right was Sure Start - of course the Tories killed it. And sadly it's exactly the kind of state intervention that Starmer seems allergic to. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/22/sure-start-centres-saved-uk-government-2-for-every-1-s