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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.
April 9, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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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?
March 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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It’s insane to think that the Trump administration was more welcoming this week to the Tate brothers than to the President of Ukraine.
March 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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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
So fucking gross
February 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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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

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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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
February 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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“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.
February 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM