GB Railways Privatisation Failure. I came across this article today about the failure of GB railways privatisation. www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...

More than half of all Premier League clubs are now sponsored by gambling / betting companies. Any advertisement for sports betting / gambling should be forbidden - not just on football jerseys but a flat out ban. It’s one of those random things that annoy me more than it should.

It absolutely is. They tell you the public service is a shocking waste of public money and if it was in private hands the costs would go down. Then somehow the investment would go up but the charge to the end user would go down. The sad thing is how many fall for this bullshit.

9 years on & I still can't get over how fucking stupid the UK was to leave the EU (SM/CU). As a Leeds 14 lad, I grew up with it & its (business & personal) expanding choices, freedoms & opportunities, that my parents could only dream of..all reversed back to that, at best, early 1970s time

@goodlawproject.org Please find out what taxes are for and what they’re not for. For all the great work you do, watching great defenders of people’s rights chasing their tails when it comes to the economics of govt spending and taxation is painful. Start with this best seller.

The IEA, the dark money pressure group that inspired Truss’ mini budget, is (finally) under investigation by the Charity Commission

British parents of young adults: be prepared to lose them to living & working in the EU somewhere if they fall in love with young EU adults over here on the 'youth mobility scheme'..They will find it is impossible for the vast majority to meet UK immigration requirements to settle in the UK together

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Today’s bulletin from a top US historian: the President doesn’t understand the constitution he’s sworn to defend but believes he can ignore it and the anti-vaxer he put in charge of health doesn’t believe in germ theory. Time for the UK to issue a travel advisory?

Yes, this is a real tweet.

Re: USA/UK Trade deal that Kid Starmer so badly wants. "The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is withdrawing a Biden-era rule requiring poultry companies to keep the levels of salmonella bacteria below a certain level in their meats to prevent illnesses commonly known as food poisoning."

The legacy of Thatcher and the cult of privatisation to emulate her beloved Reaganism. Everything sold off to give tax cuts to the already wealthy.

The stupidity in Trump’s new tariffs is apparently limitless. He has introduced a 10% tariff on the British Indian Ocean Territory. The only inhabited island there is Diego Garcia, home to US service personnel. TRUMP HAS PUT A TARIFF ON A US MILITARY BASE 🤡

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Also, once again, this is THE LAW IN FRANCE. These penalties exist, in statutes passed by the National Assembly, for reasons judged important by the elected legislators of the Republic. Fuck your "I'm so scared of right-wing extremism that I have to pander to it, unconditionally, all the time."

"The power of the people is greater than the people in power." Wael Ghonim Thank you, @booker.senate.gov For your 25 hr 5 min record-breaking speech. For your mental fortitude. For your openness. For being human. For speaking 25 hrs of TRUTH to cut through the thick fog of gaslighting & LIES. ✊🏼

🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

This is an important thread on how inaccessible Parliament is for too many. We need to let go of whatever romance or nostalgia that is holding people to the Palace of Westminster and build a parliament that is fit for purpose and people.

📢 UPDATE: the Home Office has signed ANOTHER contract with Fujitsu Services, this time worth £3.7m over the next 5 years. Sub-postmasters are still waiting for compensation and the government had a choice of 32 other suppliers. So why choose Fujitsu again? goodlawproject.org/it-firm-behi...

this is astonishing. These people are making cuts to benefits for people with disabilities and no one is even looking after MPs with disabilities. Parliament should move to a new home in the middle of the country that is fit for purpose.

Ah - “the markets” - the neoliberal monster-under-the-bed to scare us all into handing decisions over public policy to un-elected financiers. For decades, Japan has ignored the threat and set its own policy. Turns out there is no monster except in our heads. Imagine what we could achieve… #MMT

Our age of polarisation: too lazy to look up the law, too lazy to look at the facts, too lazy to read the judgment. But strong opinion that decision is political based on what we assume some will say (too lazy to identify the ‚some‘).

🔴 “My Party Today Would Not Create the NHS”: Labour MP Condemns Government Refusal to Look at 'Who Owns Our Water' “I’ve got a Government that has a computer for a political brain” says @labourlewis.bsky.social as Labour MPs line up to reject his Water Bill bylinetimes.com/2025/03/31/m...

Marine Le Pen is a criminal who stole millions in taxpayers money to facilitate the dismantling of the EU, she literally bit the hand that fed her to accelerate the rise of the far-right Thread

The desire to construct fancy spreadsheets that pretend subjective things are objective is normal. Quite another when that model becomes unchallengeable; worse still when it grows a consciousness and embeds itself within the highest level of government. Weird times.

🔴 “My Party Today Would Not Create the NHS”: Labour MP Condemns Government Refusal to Look at ‘Who Owns Our Water’ “I’ve got a Government that has a computer for a political brain” says Clive Lewis after fellow Labour MPs line up to reject his Water Bill bylinetimes.com/2025/03/31/m...

We love Gary - he cares about the right things - but his understanding of govt finance is woeful. Gary, mate, a state that freely issues its own currency cannot ever, ever, ever, go bankrupt in the currency it issues. Imagine how 💪🏻 Gary would be if he knew MMT? www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAb_...

Democracies used to tax the wealthy & do things to make everyone's lives better. Since Reagan/Thatcher the rich pay very little in taxes. Govts "borrow" from the rich and pay them interest. The rich get richer. Regular people fall further & further behind. This explains the rise of the right.

Pure Thatcher/Reagan propaganda here. Government is bad. Taxing the rich is bad. Government spending to benefit the public is bad. Boost the wealthy and it will trickle down. "Chancellor Rachel Reeves has ruled out "tax and spend" policies" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump to build 10 free cities each run by a corporation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCj_...

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Why does he even need to fly when it’s only 2 inches from SF to Houston?

I hadn’t heard this before, but it’s perfect. @alicejolly.bsky.social

"Utterly delusional" does not even come close. archive.ph/OVHMg

Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...

Glad Trump had the chance to waste millions of taxpayer dollars to fly over the Daytona 500 and then ride The Beast on the track as parts of West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee are underwater. Priorities.

If you're not familiar with Curtis Yarvin's project called RAGE (Retire All Government Employees) & how it causes a "Reboot" to a nation-state ruled by a CEO-Dictator, this is worth your time. The point is that Elon's not just breaking things: there's a *plan.*

There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit. The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.

The relentless platforming of him by the UK media is delivering gradually delivering results. Unregulated GB News & smart social media propaganda funded by an axis of malign actors is slowly convincing enough of the electorate that they are unhappy with their lives and that foreigners are to blame.

Let me get this right. The UK sold off its oil industry, phone company, trains, post office, water systems, buses, and so much more. Also many UK companies now have foreign owners. And now everything costs A LOT and the country complains about not having any way to bring in money? Go figure. /1

@pippacrerar.bsky.social backs Morgan McSweeney, the man who along with Peter Mandelson destroyed the left faction of the Labour Party and turned them into a right-wing carbon copy of the Tories. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

After the 2008 crash the Obama admin helped Wall Street take the homes of the people in debt. They refused to prosecute even one banker. "Investors" bought up many of the homes. Now housing is unaffordable and rent is really high. People wonder why people hate Dems, and we ended up with Trump.

I found this article from Byline Times on the dystopian future in the US should Trump implement Agenda 47 and Project 2025. bylinetimes.com/2024/11/04/d...