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A deeply concerning analysis by @richardjmurphy.bsky.social I'm not qualified to assess its merits, but it sounds as if we should at least be highly alert to the possibilities he raises. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...

One of the interesting tangential aspects of Trump's visit to China is that he can't control the media output. Some of the photos are UNREAL. Had to check this carefully suspecting it was altered or AI gen, but I have found it on three known press outlets with credit to a global photo agency. 😱

In Saudi Arabia’s Khamis Mushait prison, 200 Ethiopian men are awaiting execution. Most were sentenced in mass trials without legal representation, according to Ethiopia’s Tigray Youth Affairs Bureau. 🧵1/5

Oh my.

We’ve been doggedly reporting on Palantir’s contracts with UK state…& this latest one with Met police is both creepy & opaque. Met has used Palantir to spy on its own officers. If it can do this to its own employees…what about the rest of us? By @mc00.bsky.social & @luciaoc.bsky.social

🔎 From the archive: Revealed: Peter Mandelson's Russian Connections and Palantir Lobbying Links — Nafeez Ahmed, Peter Jukes, Josiah Mortimer and Adam Bienkov 🔁 Relevant again: Mandelson did not divest from Russian and Palantir interests as required when US Ambassador

Hello, little Mural #Glasgow

JD Vance called cutting Ukraine off "one of the things I'm proudest of." He also once said, "I don't really care what happens to Ukraine one way or another." This young man was just released from 4 years of Russian captivity Some Russian POWs have actually gained weight while in Ukrainian captivity.

The UK's biggest problem is Islamophobia not Antisemitism. No one will even mention this disgusting performance by Tommy Robinson. If it had been antisemitic the Police would have charged the stage.

Oh, don’t threaten me with a good time

Pieruska 🤗

Tommy Ten Names claims his Yew Knight the Kingdumb March was attended by "millions". Judge for yourself.

Foodbankbound #fuckneoliberalism

Zagadka fenomenu wypranych mozgow rozwiazana

Kis ponury bsky.app/profile/patr...

Moscow’s man takes to the streets of London…

Angielscy faszole wyszli poza schemat machania flagami i wzieli sie tez za robote misjonarska, no bo wiadomo - w Londynie szaleje prawo Szakiry ;) bsky.app/profile/blad...

Po pierwsze: Nie gmerać

Disastrous PFI pushed through the Highways (Financing) Bill to “fund large-scale road schemes.” Previous PFI schemes resulted in £6 repayment for every £1 of private investment. Govt guaranteeing corporate profits Cheaper alternatives: Govt borrowing Public bonds Tax corporations/rich

"Blessed are the pissmakers"

A warning ‼️ if you are in London today 🤨🤨

Archived from 2022 in the other place, this thread is a reminder of the opportunity Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney et al stole from us, The Many. Things could have, should have, been so very different. This was exactly the change we still seek...

Dziewczyna z zębem na przedzie #Pierożek #kotek

Policy Exchange continues with its programme to push Trumpism in the UK - and the hapless Charity Commission continues to funnel public money to Policy Exchange. A total joke.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Classic Saudis. 😔

Commuting by bicycle in Belgium pays off as employees earn compensation for every km they ride. 1 in 6 employees commute by bike and get a bicycle allowance of €0.28/km. People cycling to work in 2024 earned an average of around €460 net per year (some as high as €810), up 20% over the past year.

Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.

Willy Łąka

Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of Spire Healthcare, UK’s biggest private hospital operator. Your taxes boost value of Spire, make shareholders richer. Third of Spire’s revenues comes from NHS contracts - hip, knee, cataract surgery. Average profit margin estimated, up to 32%.

Why does Radio 4 always platform as its 'independent legal expert' Jonathan Sumption, known to be hostile to the European Convention on Human Rights? Especially as he wasn't a human rights lawyer? (A rhetorical question. It's the BBC the Tories created and Starmer is too clueless to push back.)

Nigel Farage is a GRIFTER - pass it on.

No one ever lost money telling billionaires what they want to hear. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.

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Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

Why are these Raise the Colours thugs allowed to behave on British streets like this with impunity, harassing and attacking locals like this? Almost a year of this! Oxfordshire banned them from spreading their flag measles. High time Birmingham followed suit. It's just monetised racist thuggery

"Transparency can replace obscurity. Customers of social media platforms could own their own data and determine what happens to it. They could influence, directly, the algorithms that determine what they see." bsky.app/profile/anne...

Other countries, be more like Germany.

Ostatnia chwila spokojnego siedzenia dupka w dupke

While all eyes are on Farage, we're overlooking something even worse: the building of the very tight and truly vile operation that is Restore Britain. This excellent essay/report by Simon Pearson should wake us up to the threat - and to what exactly it is. simonpearson1.substack.com/p/tory-30

Where’s the fury about rightwing antisemitism? The newspapers that call out leftwing antisemitism publish antisemitic cartoons and champion politicians with a record of antisemitic statements. So who is holding *them* to account? This week’s column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'Insects are disappearing, and they are leaving global food security gaps in their wake. Over the past 30yrs, bugs have been declining at an alarming rate across the 🌎— up to 1% per year, by some estimates. …some scientists have dubbed it an “insect apocalypse.”' www.livescience.com/animals/inse...

I predicted many times that Trump is going to sell out Taiwan during this presidency just as he has tried to do with Ukraine and Xi is well aware he has the first US president who can be taken advantage of.

Why the quotation marks BBC?

Szpice Glazgowice

Przyszedl do mnie kotek

It's been 16 months since I left X, and I feel so much better for it. I hadn't realised just how big an impact the daily tsunami of hate, trolling, sealioning and strategic incomprehension was having on my state of mind. I cannot understand why anyone who values their mental health is still there.

This illustrates everything wrong with Starmer's government: caving in the face of corporate power, putting oligarchs ahead of children's wellbeing, dithering, breaking promises, leaving us unprotected. Yet commentators claim to be mystified by his unpopularity. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...