Phil Price
@philprice.bsky.social
Gardener, bumpkin,piffler and giver of unwanted advice. Dub lover and Scarlets sufferer. Consultant to the clouds.
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This is ringing bells as one of those extremely misleading stats that has been regularly debunked by more or less etc.
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
Fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity, according to a report that argues global inequality has reached such extremes that urgent action has become essential.
The authoritative World Inequality Report 2026, based on data compiled by 200 researchers, also found that the top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90% combined, while the poorest half captures less than 10% of total global earnings. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This is ringing bells as one of those extremely misleading stats that has been regularly debunked by more or less etc.
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We can only assume that Starmer is far right now , because he has completely sold out for power. That's crystal clear. His actions are loud now. The ex Human rights lawyer wants the EU to amend human rights for migrants. It's utterly ridiculous, but he has embraced Fascism clearly.
December 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
We can only assume that Starmer is far right now , because he has completely sold out for power. That's crystal clear. His actions are loud now. The ex Human rights lawyer wants the EU to amend human rights for migrants. It's utterly ridiculous, but he has embraced Fascism clearly.
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This is awful. Levels of tooth decay among adults in England are now similar to those last seen more than 25 years ago, according to new figures
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
English teeth are worse than they have been for 25 years
Experts said the findings are ‘deeply alarming’
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
This is awful. Levels of tooth decay among adults in England are now similar to those last seen more than 25 years ago, according to new figures
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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Human rights protect every one of us - they must never be rolled back.
😠 Farage wants to drag us out of the ECHR
✊ Plaid Cymru will always defend our rights.
Stop Farage's agenda and choose a Wales that puts fairness first - vote Plaid Cymru this May.
#HumanRightsDay #UDHR #ECHR
😠 Farage wants to drag us out of the ECHR
✊ Plaid Cymru will always defend our rights.
Stop Farage's agenda and choose a Wales that puts fairness first - vote Plaid Cymru this May.
#HumanRightsDay #UDHR #ECHR
December 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Human rights protect every one of us - they must never be rolled back.
😠 Farage wants to drag us out of the ECHR
✊ Plaid Cymru will always defend our rights.
Stop Farage's agenda and choose a Wales that puts fairness first - vote Plaid Cymru this May.
#HumanRightsDay #UDHR #ECHR
😠 Farage wants to drag us out of the ECHR
✊ Plaid Cymru will always defend our rights.
Stop Farage's agenda and choose a Wales that puts fairness first - vote Plaid Cymru this May.
#HumanRightsDay #UDHR #ECHR
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👉NEW -- Complicity – or conspiracy? Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide
by Martin Shaw
Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction.
www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-o...
by Martin Shaw
Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction.
www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-o...
Complicity - or conspiracy? Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide
Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction.
www.declassifieduk.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
👉NEW -- Complicity – or conspiracy? Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide
by Martin Shaw
Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction.
www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-o...
by Martin Shaw
Book review: Peter Oborne spares neither Labour nor the Conservatives in his searing history of Gaza’s destruction.
www.declassifieduk.org/complicity-o...
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Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.
www.declassifieduk.org/ruthless-ter...
www.declassifieduk.org/ruthless-ter...
‘Ruthless terror’ – When Labour aided genocide in Indonesia
Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.
www.declassifieduk.org
October 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sixty years ago, Harold Wilson’s government secretly conspired with the Indonesian military as it conducted one of the postwar world’s worst bloodbaths.
www.declassifieduk.org/ruthless-ter...
www.declassifieduk.org/ruthless-ter...
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This matters. It’s also another reason why we should be skeptical about the digital id plans.
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted dinner giving tech bosses access to UK minister
Exclusive: Six tech leaders dined with investment minister, documents reveal, underlining growing influence of ex-PM’s consultancy
Tony Blair and Nick Clegg hosted a private dinner earlier this year at which a select group of technology entrepreneurs were given access to a key minister, official documents have revealed.
The former prime minister, who is a champion of the tech industry, held the dinner in an upmarket London hotel in his capacity as the head of the Tony Blair Institute (TBI) political consultancy. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This matters. It’s also another reason why we should be skeptical about the digital id plans.
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Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Thatcher said "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
The trouble with capitalism is that if you run out of other people's money, you can do it again with a new limited company
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October 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
October 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏
PM Keir Starmer
PM Keir Starmer
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🇧🇪 #BREAKING | Around 200,000 people flooded the streets of Belgium to say end the genocide of Gaza.
October 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Social housing should be a so-called Labour government's top priority.
These figures suggest they're entirely ruled by big business and have zero answers on the housing crisis
#LabourIsDead
#StarmerOut
These figures suggest they're entirely ruled by big business and have zero answers on the housing crisis
#LabourIsDead
#StarmerOut
Stark example today of UK Housing:
£2.8bn spent on temporary housing for homeless households exceeds money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn)
Labour's planned spend in 26/27 is £2.6bn.
Tories spent £2.6bn in 22/23 and £3bn in 23/24 which was already far from enough.
£2.8bn spent on temporary housing for homeless households exceeds money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn)
Labour's planned spend in 26/27 is £2.6bn.
Tories spent £2.6bn in 22/23 and £3bn in 23/24 which was already far from enough.
September 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Social housing should be a so-called Labour government's top priority.
These figures suggest they're entirely ruled by big business and have zero answers on the housing crisis
#LabourIsDead
#StarmerOut
These figures suggest they're entirely ruled by big business and have zero answers on the housing crisis
#LabourIsDead
#StarmerOut
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September 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The PFI disaster
Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.
NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.
Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.
NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.
Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics
Exclusive: Consultants and lawyers hired to advise on using public-private partnerships to build ‘neighbourhood health centres’ in England
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The PFI disaster
Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.
NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.
Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers.
NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed.
Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value.
Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.
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I’m old enough to remember something like this being career-ending. An unprompted comparison of paracetamol and *thalidomide*??
"We were told thalidomide was a safe drug and it wasn't..."
Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.
Nigel Farage says he has 'no idea' if Donald Trump is right about paracetamol being linked to autism.
September 24, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I’m old enough to remember something like this being career-ending. An unprompted comparison of paracetamol and *thalidomide*??
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Phony gestures.
UK energy suppliers to offer tariff with lower standing charge but customers would then pay more for each unit of energy.
Profiteering continues unchecked.
20 energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Nationalise energy. Let customers vote on exec pay, dividends.
UK energy suppliers to offer tariff with lower standing charge but customers would then pay more for each unit of energy.
Profiteering continues unchecked.
20 energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Nationalise energy. Let customers vote on exec pay, dividends.
Energy standing charge options coming, but they might not cut bills
The regulator's plans could be in place by the end of January, but it warns total bills won't fall.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Phony gestures.
UK energy suppliers to offer tariff with lower standing charge but customers would then pay more for each unit of energy.
Profiteering continues unchecked.
20 energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Nationalise energy. Let customers vote on exec pay, dividends.
UK energy suppliers to offer tariff with lower standing charge but customers would then pay more for each unit of energy.
Profiteering continues unchecked.
20 energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Nationalise energy. Let customers vote on exec pay, dividends.
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"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history."
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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The Green Party got nearly 2 million votes at the last election.
There are 39 places where we are in second place.
Loved speaking with Newscast who asked me about Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
There are 39 places where we are in second place.
Loved speaking with Newscast who asked me about Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
September 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
The Green Party got nearly 2 million votes at the last election.
There are 39 places where we are in second place.
Loved speaking with Newscast who asked me about Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
There are 39 places where we are in second place.
Loved speaking with Newscast who asked me about Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann lays bare the origins of the scheme to take from the poor and give to the rich in his brilliant book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism. #MustRead @hartmannreport.com
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/from-reaga...
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/from-reaga...
From Reagan to Trump, the Hidden History of a Scheme
How Reagan gutted America through a corporate coup d’etat
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com
September 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The brilliant historian-cum-journalist Thom Hartmann lays bare the origins of the scheme to take from the poor and give to the rich in his brilliant book, The Hidden History of Neoliberalism. #MustRead @hartmannreport.com
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/from-reaga...
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/from-reaga...