The biggest UK energy companies have made over £500bn in PROFIT since the pandemic.

We're not in a cost of living crisis, we're in a cost of GREED crisis.

It's a cliché, but isn't it funny how "making tough decisions" in government always involves hurting people who are in no state to fight back, rather than those who would feel no pain through being taxed?

It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.

Vance’s grotesqueness aside, the whole thing is one of the most horrific acts of betrayal ever committed by a democratic state against another. Just a moral abomination and a permanent stain on everyone who supports it

This, from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social, is perhaps the clearest, and therefore the most chilling, summary I’ve read of what is happening today in America - namely, regime change.

@iandunt.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @sturdyalex.bsky.social

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“[Cuts to public services] might look like saving money here and now, but it makes all of us poorer and more insecure in the long term.”
 
Common Wealth’s Senior Research Fellow Eleanor Shearer on BBC Politics Live

“Foreign shareholders get money every time you pay a water bill ... it seems to me that the only time people start getting up in arms about it is when it’s poorer countries ... asking for their fair share.”

Common Wealth’s Eleanor Shearer on BBC Politics Live.