ProPublica used leaked tax returns to calculate that through complex tax avoidance schemes, Jeff Bezos pays a tax rate of 0.98% www.propublica.org/article/the-... So if we doubled the taxes he pays, that would mean he'd still be paying less than 2%.

Speaking of how it was before 2026 – 40 x 30cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas The title is from Beckett, the retrospective construction that mirrors its companion, Speaking of How It Will Be After 2026. davidpowell.nl/speaking-of-... Painting as a laboratory, the generic logic of managed enclosure.

The Green Party are the party that can stop Reform. They have billionaire donors. But we have people power. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

🚨Trump just named Marc Andreessen’s wife to the SF Presidio Trust board, along with other MAGA allies & ultra-wealthy tech figures. Meanwhile, the Tech Bros have made it clear that they want to build a “Freedom City” in the Presidio. sfstandard.com/2026/05/14/t...

A few images on and off 2026 – 50 x 40cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas

What does this mean on the ground? Facilities that consume as much electricity as 100,000 homes. Water usage matching entire cities. Industrial noise levels reaching 90 decibels, equivalent to a chainsaw running 24/7.

The first victims are already being lined up: Culham in Oxfordshire is ground zero, Wales is getting nine data centers alongside eight Special Economic Zones and two Freeports, and Dorset is actively positioning itself to be next in line. No one voted for this.

Soaring energy bills for local residents who get to subsidize the infrastructure while tech giants get 10 year tax breaks. And property values plummeting by 5-15% as once-peaceful communities are transformed into industrial zones.

Reminder In Jan 2025, Keir Starmer launched AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites to date) This is the largest industrial land grab in a generation, and most communities have no idea it’s happening. Thread europeanpowell.substack.com/p/britains-a...

Reminder In Jan 2025, Keir Starmer launched AI Growth Zones (200 bids on sites to date) This is the largest industrial land grab in a generation, and most communities have no idea it’s happening. Thread europeanpowell.substack.com/p/britains-a...

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." This is how Keir Starmer's policies are biting him on the arse, and he absolutely deserves his comeuppance.

The day comes we come to the day 2026 – 170 x 136cm, oil and acrylic on canvas My latest flower painting. The day is arriving from below, not yet here, displacing the night that occupies the lower zones of the canvas with the patience of something that has been there longest and knows it will remain

Wes Streeting wants new laws to force your GP to share your medical records. The bill was not in Labour's Manifesto and Palantir has explicitly said, under a new Government, it would be happy to use medical data for other purposes. Be afraid.

I just did a YouGov survey, and Zack Polanski was the *only* politician to be named in a question. Specifically in this question. No other party leader or MP was mentioned by name in any other section of the entire survey. I complained in the free text feedback box at the end 🙄

What is Second Empire Building? Gaza is where the theory meets the rubble. Trump’s “Board of Peace,” unveiled at Davos in January 2026, is the most brazen articulation yet of second empire building as active foreign policy. open.substack.com/pub/european...

The Tories and Labour colluded on the nationwide free zones rollout; they were implemented via secondary legislation, meaning zero debate in Parliament, zero consultation with the public, and zero notification of the press. Do you get it now?

ISDS and LCIA are corporate justice mechanisms within the 25 year contracts of Freeports/SEZs, I know this because FOIs I sent asking about them came back denied. Companies can bypass domestic courts and sue the Government for breach of contract. ISDS was embedded in many post Brexit deals.

All UK free zones have licenses for £25 years, this is why Keir Starmer said 'there will be no rejoining the EU in my lifetime" open.substack.com/pub/european...

Sunak's flagship Brexit Freeport was Teesside; it overspent 22 times more than the official State aid figure, a whopping £560 million, and get this, the profits were split 9 - 10 in favour of the private sector. More about that here. open.substack.com/pub/european...

The UK is being carved up into patchworks of corporate sovereignties, with deregulation on steroids, and UK State aid is exploited for profit motive, which is BTW illegal in the EU, why? open.substack.com/pub/european...

🚨 Don’t forget your photo ID when going to vote today. It’s time to vote for candidates who only have two vested interests – people and planet. Why not head down to the polls on your lunch break? 🗳️

The Same Trick, Twice: How Tata, the Guardian, and Post-Brexit State Aid Are Carving Up Britain Starmer's changed Labour Party is fleecing the public money pot on Sunak's free zones, despite astonishingly underwhelming returns for the public sector. open.substack.com/pub/european...

After 45 years of neoliberalism the UK isn't self-sufficient in food, energy, drugs, auto, steel, bricks, cement, semiconductors, and more. The state cannot guarantee clean rivers, safe wastewater disposal, affordable energy, timely healthcare, good housing, decent roads. Taking back control?

I have referred Sky News and GMB to Ofcom over disgraceful and baseless smears that have been made about me. There is nothing antisemitic about supporting the people of Palestine. I will continue to speak out against racism, apartheid and genocide. novaramedia.com/2026/05/05/j...

The Same Trick, Twice: How Tata, the Guardian, and Post-Brexit State Aid Are Carving Up Britain Starmer's changed Labour Party is fleecing the public money pot on Sunak's free zones, despite astonishingly underwhelming returns for the public sector. open.substack.com/pub/european...

Never forget what Israel has done and continues to do in full view of the entire world. Each back the way he came 2026 – 24 x 18cm, acrylic, pencil on canvas

To beguile a moment of this vast season 2026 - 200x145cm, oil, acrylic on canvas The title comes from Beckett's novel How It Is, it holds the intimate and the cosmic in the same breath without allowing either to dominate. I will be showing paintings from this series at my Belgian gallery this year

2/2 The entire administration continues to refuse adherence to the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Now the Zorro Ranch has been bought by a Trump-supporting donor, and former Texas senator. The property is to be converted into a 'Christian' retreat.

Trump and the Epstein's elite child sex ring cover-up extends to the DOJ, the Supreme Court, the FBI, and all governmental agencies therein. 1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiTD...

"Now, sources are claiming producers think Ed Balls “lost his cool” during the row and are facing pressure to “distance” the show from him." www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/itv-...

If you think 'Sov Corps' are not happening in the UK, think again. Starmer tweeted that the UK Govt was in an official Govt partnership with Blackrock, who just happen to be the most criminally corrupt shadow bank in the world. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-neorea...

Once wasn’t enough for you 2026 – 18 x 24cm, acrylic, spray paint on canvas I will be showing new flower paintings in my Belgian gallery, dates to be confirmed soon. www.sabinewachters.com

My flower, Crinum Powelli

Instead of a $400 million ballroom, how about ‘thoughts and prayers’ instead?

The gauntlet of tulips 2026 – 29 x 42cm, pencil, acrylic, watercolour, spray paint on paper This series began in 2013 when I started to erase human beings from my paintings, replacing them with flowers.

There is an 88% probability that Elon Musk will become a trillionaire by next year.

I published an article in BylinesCymru all about Drakeford’s Faustian pact with the Tories, and Singham’s. There are 10 articles in total. bylines.cymru/freeports-ga...

Palantir wants you to be afraid. But the @purgepalantir.bsky.social campaign is helping people to fight back. The people should not be afraid of the billionaires. The billionaires should be afraid of the people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN7g...

Enterprise Zones are not created by Acts of Parliament subject to full parliamentary debate. They are designated by statutory instrument, secondary legislation, under Schedule 32 to the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.

Sam Altman touts AI replacing humans in the workplace as the gateway to Universal Basic Income (UBI). The companies own the robots, with a political promise attached that has no enforcement mechanism, no legislative basis, and no timeline. UBI, in this framing, is not a right. It is a gift. . 1/3

Watch as Ghislaine Maxwell gets pardoned by Trump, she sent a USB stick to the DOJ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1mA...

Israel’s murderous rampage across the Middle East will only accelerate because the majority of our government leaders are too corrupted to call it out. The journalists who dedicated their lives exposing the Zionist regimes heinous acts must never be forgotten.

Palantir must be destroyed. My interview with @cydhayes.bsky.social of the @sf.gazetteer.co sf.gazetteer.co/reading-pala...

So this article from the latest Private Eye states that Teesside Freeport is going to close down. I have said all along that free zones are Ponzi schemes for the asset classes in rip-off Britain. Thread

Refugees 2013 – 200 x 140cm, oil and acrylic on canvas Room once full of sounds 2024 – 175 x 120cm, oil on canvas I will be showing flower paintings at my Belgian gallery this year

Trump is trying to make Federal Judges concoct a scheme to steal tax payers money, and hand it over to the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys January 6th insurrectionists. 1/2

The Zonal Betrayal: How Labour is Carving Up Britain for Corporate Profiteering From electricity to groceries to entire regions - dynamic pricing is coming to the UK. Same product, different prices to shoppers in the same shop! Thread europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-zonal-...

If Teesside required £560 million to fail, what's the true cost across the entire programme? Labour has inherited and expanded this architecture without apparent scrutiny of Teesside's financial implosion. How can the 9-10 private profit split be justified when public entities carry the debt?

Teesside freeport was lavished with £560 million in state aid, profits generated by this were 9 - 10 split in favour of the private sector.

The Reckoning Comes on 7 May Labour is about to lose its cities. The Greens are the reason why. On 7 May 2026, the Labour Party is going to be evicted from the cities it has occupied for decades, not by the right, but by the left it abandoned. open.substack.com/pub/european...