Water company United Utilities enjoys 131% rise in profits after bills go up £112. UU has 205+ criminal convictions. Loses over 175bn litres of water to leaks. In 2024 dumped sewage 450,778 hours in rivers//akes. No exec prosecuted/fined Rewarded with higher price and profit. archive.ph/7aP8O

Thank you @bylinesnetwork.co.uk for supporting my journalism and for not capitulating to transphobic bullies who pretend to be professionals. northwestbylines.co.uk/news/equalit...

Scapegoating migrants just lets billionaires off the hook. Instead of pursuing ever-harsher stances on refugees and migration, we should tax the real culprits driving inequality and exploitation.

Some of us remember when Maitlis said that primary age school kids are having gender confirmation surgery. The BBC anti Trans bias goes back nearly a decade #BBCTransphobia

"We're going to keep killing you with 'respect and dignity,' but at least you won't be able to play with your phone in school." - UK "Labour" Party

It just dawned on me. This means trans kids will have no support in schools. The Labour government brought in Section 28 2.0 so school staff can't be there to support trans kids. Now they are cutting off contact with the outside world. So for the duration of school trans kids are alone. Truly sick.

Yorkshire Water flouted director pay rules, secretly handed £660k bonus through offshore parent company. Regulator OFWAT says that is OK, govt quiet. Law is just a paper tiger. Abuses continue. Customers fleeced. Let customers vote on exec pay. archive.ph/9rYlp

There are young Trans+ people on suicide watch today because of what this woman has done "Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy” - Gustave M. Gilbert

@remembrancewatch.bsky.social Digital display signs on the ring road in Coventry have been alternating between directions and respect for the past few days. Lest we forget, to exit at the next junction.

How is it that healthcare decisions for trans people are influenced so heavily by cis people *with absolutely no relevant expertise, training or experience*? In no other area of healthcare would this be tolerated. FOR GOOD REASON.

Remember in the UK it's not: Transphobia, it's gender critical Islamaphobia, it's Muslim critical Racism, it's race critical Homophobia, it's same sex critical All dogwhistles used to undermine and gaslight minorities.

#LandValueTax #PropertyTax They can’t move their land and property offshore While we’re at it: #AbolishTheMonarchy

It was ever thus. Some politicians are trying to get you to worry about migrants, woke, trans people. This is what you should be angry about. 25 years after this poem France were sweeping their rich aristocrats away. We didn't.

Lisa Nandy called out for LYING to the uk parliament about the reasons that the Police gave for recommending the banning of the Maccabi hooligans Nandy’s response is to accuse the Police of LYING about the reasons they gave 🇬🇧 Red Tory LYING with bells on 🔔

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHcN... Every night, the lights are bright, the headlines loud — but the real news is missing. While the media fixates on Trump, Farage and the Royals, Britain’s children go hungry, families can’t afford homes, and carers are exhausted.

This is what Starmer's grovelling to the Tangerine Tyrant has brought, the most right-wing BBC in our lifetimes (it's practically Farage TV already) will now be controlled by the Maga-Lago Cult. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The “Democratic Republic of Korea” is undemocratic, “Georgian Dream” is a nightmare, The “United States” is disunited, “Gender-critical” bigots are uncritical of gender, The “Labour Party” is the party of capital, BBC “News” is just propaganda, Landlords don’t “provide housing” they ration it

I am of the firm opinion that “gender-critical” transphobia is fascism. And not just “fascism adjacent” or “fascist enabling” but fascism front & centre. Owning slaves, invading other peoples’ countries and starving people to death are not “contentious”, they are fascism.

So Tim Davie has resigned from the BBC over a failure to be impartial in relation to Trump. Once. The BBC has failed to be impartial about trans people since Davie's tenure started. Systematically and regularly. So why did he not resign over these?

Not a single reference made by Prescott about pro-trans “bias” was substantiated. Prescott did the same thing the BBC does in reporting on trans topics: - ask a handful of transphobic ‘gender critical’ ideologues for their opinions - ignore evidence - publish their bigotry verbatim as “facts” 😖

In contrast, Robbie Gibb “was identified by former BBC Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis in 2022 as an “active agent of the Conservative party” and also drew controversy for his role at the Reform-supporting GB News.” It’s the wrong person who has quit the BBC!

BBC Bosses Draw Up Plans to Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output The same Reform voters that are famously anti-trans!? Prescott claimed the BBC was biased TOWARDS trans people based on hearsay from a couple of ‘gender critical’ transphobes, while IGNORING the EVIDENCE! 😖

Memo to Donald Trump There is no link between paracetamol in pregnancy and autism or ADHD in children. But Trump, the felon, is a danger, spreading hate and poverty, threatening other countries, sending troops to US cities; ignoring laws and treaties and climate change.

So the Telegraph’s “BBC bias dossier” - supposedly written by ex-BBC adviser Michael Prescott - is being used to claim there’s a rogue LGBT+ unit “censoring” gender-critical voices inside the BBC. Let’s look at what’s actually in it. Spoiler: it’s nothing but recycled transphobic talking points! 🧵

It's getting worse.

A London family wants £180k a year tutor for one-year old child to help him become an English gentleman. Tutor must have gone to "the right kinds of schools", knowledge of horse riding, skiing, the arts and music. This is the real island of strangers where class wars are inculcated at young age.

What is it with smug, privileged, TERFs and their stupid cheesy photo-shoots with the right-wing trans-hostile media!? 😖🤮 Also, why do they CONSTANTLY erase the 60K+ women who SUPPORT trans-inclusion - instead, picking a cis man as representative of those who oppose their transphobia!?

Great to see @zackpolanski.bsky.social on @skynewsrss.bsky.social this morning standing up for trans people. It’s clear that Trevor Phillips was trying to trap Zack by not giving him all the facts! Martine Croxall not only eye rolled, she changed a direct quote - unethical for a journalist!

The Gender Critical have moved the goal posts again. It is now not enough for them to exclude trans people from single-sex spaces. They are now complaining about trans people existing in any space with them [even a public space]. They're not protecting women. They're eradicating trans people.

We all value ‘the rule of law’. But whose law & rules? Corporations/Rich v Masses. The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few. A few crumbs are thrown to pacify the masses but these are concessions and can be withdrawn. See the linked article.

The Humber bridge at night. Shortly before I swam across the Humber and back.

As a result of Labour's piss poor governance and policy of further deregulation to planning laws , investment in UK and private healthcare contracts ,lobbyists are in control and we have ended up with a profiteering and cost of greed of crisis which is much worse.

Today would have been Brianna Ghey’s 19th birthday.

Primeministers and Ministers who damage our economy and country for the worse and do not govern in the national interest should not receive a life long pension. This applies to all the Primeministers who wrecked the country post Brexit and Sunak for signing 25 year contracts with Freeports.

Thank you to the Greens in Bristol! 😊 "Green councillors held up pro-trans rights banners and pride flags from their seats in Bristol City Council chamber as a war of words with women’s rights campaigners [transphobes] reignited." www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol...

And look at how well they are doing because of that. Lesson the Libdems and Labour could learn from.

Why can’t they tell us the truth … where has all the UK money gone? It’s not gone into public services. It can’t just be HS2, Covid fraud, benefit scroungers, disabled benefits, state pensions, and Brexit! 15 years of austerity and we’re poorer than when we started.

It's gone on crony contracts and US Lobbyists and private companies running Freeports. US companies have been given expensive contracts in NHS , Police and Freeports. They've wasted so much money and lost trillions of revenue that we got from financial services pre Brexit.

Corruption in Westminster in both main parties has completely broken the political system and our economy. Lobbyist culture is responsible for the mess we are in. Reform would be even worse as they would completely cut public services in favour of full privatisation, only the wealthy benefit.

I am very angry with the Tories and Labour and Farage for wrecking our country with Brexit and post Brexit deregulation and corruption which has smashed public services and hurt every sector in our economy. Rachel Reeves made the wrong decisions too because she listened to Lobbyists.

Exactly. We have had no say on tax payers money going to private companies running Freeports. The merger of borough Councils into one big authority is a ruse. Council tax will go up to pay for Freeports too and poorer services for us.

Labour could have attacked the Tories and Sunak for saddling us with 25 year Freeports contracts that enable companies to sue the Govt if they are broken. Companies in Freeports are given tax relief, don't pay Customs and Excise tax & follow their own rules. Tax payers money has gone to Freeports.

Labour cannot run away from this fact. They did nothing to stop this in opposition, they went along with it.

“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” Robert H. Schuller Hope reminds us that even when life feels uncertain, there’s still something waiting that can move us forward. 🧡 #kindness #positivity #hope #learning Picture by Katie Abey

The same is also happening in the #UK. The rich are getting richer, everyone else is getting squeezed, foodbank use is increasing yearly. Our system is broken too, but the establishment parties of #Labour, #Tories & #Reform will not do anything to help. They don't care, they're not on our side.

Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high-value donors. Tory leader has plans to reinstate group that provided top donors with direct access to senior ministers. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

21 out of 33 Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords have paid jobs outside Parliament. Shadow ministers paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise. Conflict of interest institutionalized. Paymasters served. Can't get good society without ending political bribery.

Labour is going after everything. They won't get in again. They are finished. The damage they are leaving behind is a concern. They are punishing the poorest , working and middle classes. But the super wealthy aren't being taxed. Companies in Freeports get tax relief.

They became Tories and they govern for their lobbyists.

Another attempt to squeeze as much free labour as possible from “the workers”. But it will backfire - the workers who make businesses and corporations rich must have a parity of reward - after all they are the wealth makers too.