JuneSim63 💚
@junesim63.bsky.social
Retired researcher living in Nottinghamshire, England. Native of Hull.
#Socialism #Politics #Cats #Gardening #ClassicalMusic #Environment #GreenParty
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#Socialism #Politics #Cats #Gardening #ClassicalMusic #Environment #GreenParty
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UK gambling industry made £15.6bn in 2024 (£16.8bn in 2025)
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
UK's Online Gambling Industry: The £3.8 Billion Tax Question Nobody's Answering
UK's online gambling industry generates £15.6bn annually but pays minimal tax. With £3.8bn in receipts, experts say it's time for reform Here's why.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:57 PM
UK gambling industry made £15.6bn in 2024 (£16.8bn in 2025)
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
Most companies holed up in Gibraltar & Malta, dodge UK taxes. Some pay corporation tax at the rate of 3%-4%. No VAT on gambling.
Public bears the cost of gambling addiction.
Firms resent paying extra tax to clear their mess.
Tax them.
This is how the occupation has turned childhood in Gaza from a dream into a nightmare.
After more than two years of bombardment, displacement, and starvation, these children are now enduring the very same suffering for a third consecutive year.
After more than two years of bombardment, displacement, and starvation, these children are now enduring the very same suffering for a third consecutive year.
November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Interesting article on how states emerged before agriculture and not as a result of it and how cereal crops were key to state formation.
#Agriculture #History #Archaeology #States
The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
#Agriculture #History #Archaeology #States
The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
New findings add weight to the theory that states didn’t just spring up from any kind of farming – it had to be grain.
theconversation.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Interesting article on how states emerged before agriculture and not as a result of it and how cereal crops were key to state formation.
#Agriculture #History #Archaeology #States
The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
#Agriculture #History #Archaeology #States
The real reason states first emerged thousands of years ago – new research
theconversation.com/the-real-rea...
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The people powerful enough to make heads roll at the BBC are also telling us the BBC is anti-Israel. It isn't. It's vigorously anti-Palestinian, as film-maker Richard Sanders explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROB...
Israel Lobby EXPOSED: What REALLY Happened at the BBC
YouTube video by Double Down News
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
The people powerful enough to make heads roll at the BBC are also telling us the BBC is anti-Israel. It isn't. It's vigorously anti-Palestinian, as film-maker Richard Sanders explains: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ROB...
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Israeli group B’Tselem notes that, since a supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has:
* killed 345 Palestinians,
* denied food to 70% of the population who need it,
* demolished a further 1,500 buildings.
All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.
* killed 345 Palestinians,
* denied food to 70% of the population who need it,
* demolished a further 1,500 buildings.
All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.
November 25, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Israeli group B’Tselem notes that, since a supposed “ceasefire” in Gaza, Israel has:
* killed 345 Palestinians,
* denied food to 70% of the population who need it,
* demolished a further 1,500 buildings.
All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.
* killed 345 Palestinians,
* denied food to 70% of the population who need it,
* demolished a further 1,500 buildings.
All of this is in blatant violation of the agreement.
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If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
November 25, 2025 at 10:39 PM
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.
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Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Bloomberg has audio files of Trump envoy Steve Witkoff coaching the Russians how to pitch their extreme Ukraine demands to Trump as a peace plan.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
Should rule him out of holding public office ever again. This entire exercise is thoroughly compromised.
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Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of a major Atlantic Ocean current system a national security concern and an existential threat, enabling its government to strategize for worst-case scenarios, the country's climate minister told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Iceland has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) a national security concern and an existential threat.
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Yet still fossil fuel usage continues to grow, and they barely agreed to *name* the problem at #COP30.
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
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Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up.
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/review-jud...
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/review-jud...
Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up
Having a ruling from a panel of three judges is a desperate attempt to create a veneer of judicial authority in support of the actions of Keir Starmer's outlaw government
jonathancook.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Review judge pulled from Palestine Action hearing at last hour, in patent stitch-up.
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/review-jud...
Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/review-jud...
Yet again this govt tries to solve a problem ( in this case an 80k backlog of cases awaiting trial) by choosing the most authoritarian option. A gift to Reform UK.
#Justice #JuryTrial #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#Justice #JuryTrial #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
MoJ to remove right to trial by jury for thousands of cases in controversial overhaul
Exclusive: Courts minister says change needed to stop criminals opting for juries to delay cases, sometimes by years, and clear huge backlog
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Yet again this govt tries to solve a problem ( in this case an 80k backlog of cases awaiting trial) by choosing the most authoritarian option. A gift to Reform UK.
#Justice #JuryTrial #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
#Justice #JuryTrial #UKPolitics
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...
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This was a National Front march In the 70’s
Does the person circled in red look familiar???
Would we expect a leopard to be able to changes its spots?
Does the person circled in red look familiar???
Would we expect a leopard to be able to changes its spots?
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This was a National Front march In the 70’s
Does the person circled in red look familiar???
Would we expect a leopard to be able to changes its spots?
Does the person circled in red look familiar???
Would we expect a leopard to be able to changes its spots?
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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
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At present the issue is how to reinforce existing infrastructure or fortify shoreline, or relocate, Indigenous villages. In future decades major coastal cities around the world will face the same dilemma. Metres of sea-level rise are committed, even if we succeed in reaching net zero.
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.
Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 8:12 AM
At present the issue is how to reinforce existing infrastructure or fortify shoreline, or relocate, Indigenous villages. In future decades major coastal cities around the world will face the same dilemma. Metres of sea-level rise are committed, even if we succeed in reaching net zero.
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absolutely batshit insane for a government to drag out the fuel duty "freeze" (annual tax cut) even further
When can you declare an emergency over?
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
The 5p “emergency” petrol tax cut was introduced in March 2022, to offset a spike in prices
They are now about 30p down on that month, & about 50p down on the absolute peak
November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
absolutely batshit insane for a government to drag out the fuel duty "freeze" (annual tax cut) even further
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Will be a “tough sell” in interviews to explain how continuing to reduce fuel duty while imposing a new charge on EVs fits with the EV transition
November 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Will be a “tough sell” in interviews to explain how continuing to reduce fuel duty while imposing a new charge on EVs fits with the EV transition
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We will never forget the role this government played in the genocide in Gaza.
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
We will never forget the role this government played in the genocide in Gaza.
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Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.
How new asylum policies will affect child refugees
Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.
tcnv.link
November 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Child refugees could live their entire childhoods in Britain with no guarantee that they will remain in the place they have come to think of as home.
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Gove is entirely right about this. The scale of the exemptions being proposed for Biodiversity Net Gain rules would deal a huge blow to a sector that is starting to work, while imposing very minimal costs on developers.
November 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Gove is entirely right about this. The scale of the exemptions being proposed for Biodiversity Net Gain rules would deal a huge blow to a sector that is starting to work, while imposing very minimal costs on developers.
"He wanted ex-National Front candidates to run and I said, 'I'm not sure about that,' and he said, 'There's no need to worry about the n****r vote. The n*g-n*gs will never vote for us.'"
Alan Sked quoting Nigel Farage’s 1997 racism.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
#NigelFarage #Racism
Alan Sked quoting Nigel Farage’s 1997 racism.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
#NigelFarage #Racism
Ukip founder Alan Sked: 'The party has become a Frankenstein's monster'
He may have founded Ukip, but Alan Sked's moderate, Brussels-boycotting party has gone rogue. Stuart Jeffries meets the academic who's desperate to stop the bandwagon he first set rolling
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
"He wanted ex-National Front candidates to run and I said, 'I'm not sure about that,' and he said, 'There's no need to worry about the n****r vote. The n*g-n*gs will never vote for us.'"
Alan Sked quoting Nigel Farage’s 1997 racism.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
#NigelFarage #Racism
Alan Sked quoting Nigel Farage’s 1997 racism.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
#NigelFarage #Racism
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In a few hours, I'll join a group of people to write letters of support to Israeli conscientious objectors, young people in jail for refusing to serve in the IDF and contribute to the genocide.
Anything I should say or mention in my letters?
Anything I should say or mention in my letters?
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In a few hours, I'll join a group of people to write letters of support to Israeli conscientious objectors, young people in jail for refusing to serve in the IDF and contribute to the genocide.
Anything I should say or mention in my letters?
Anything I should say or mention in my letters?
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@chadbourn.bsky.social
Am I late to the party on this - finally someone somewhere is taking a hard look at crypto and pretend companies.
2 arrested and a statement saying the company didn't exist.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Am I late to the party on this - finally someone somewhere is taking a hard look at crypto and pretend companies.
2 arrested and a statement saying the company didn't exist.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
SFO announces investigation into $28 million crypto scheme
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) launches first major cryptocurrency investigation into suspected fraud.
www.gov.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
@chadbourn.bsky.social
Am I late to the party on this - finally someone somewhere is taking a hard look at crypto and pretend companies.
2 arrested and a statement saying the company didn't exist.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Am I late to the party on this - finally someone somewhere is taking a hard look at crypto and pretend companies.
2 arrested and a statement saying the company didn't exist.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Gaza war death toll surges to 69,775 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-surges-69775
Gaza war death toll surges to 69,775
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<p>The sources said the number of wounded had risen to 170,965, while many people remain trapped under rubble, with ambulance and rescue teams unable to reach them because of dangerous conditions and widespread destruction.</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Gaza war death toll surges to 69,775 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/gaza-death-toll-surges-69775
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Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Are you a PhD student & interested in using museum collections in your teaching or research?
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/
We're running a *free* doctoral training programme for students at any institution to learn about working with collections.
Find out more:
collections.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/