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This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC.
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This is what you don't hear every time this junktank appears on the BBC.
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
*Why not?*
Great exposure by Sam and @desmog.com
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Shareholder rebellions against executive pay packages doubled.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
Shareholder rebellions against executive pay doubled this year
The upturn in investor rebellions over top brass pay helped drive an 88 per cent rise in the total number of FTSE 100 businesses facing shareholder rebellions this year.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Shareholder rebellions against executive pay packages doubled.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
Makes no difference; votes are advisory, not binding. Too many shareholders have no social conscience - look at water, energy, internet....
Employees and customers have long term interest in companies, let them vote on exec pay.
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Reeves’ £150 cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs.
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
Reeves’ cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs, ex-Labour donor claims
Dale Vince’s claims over the impact of paying for Sizewell C on energy bills is one of a number of hidden costs which could see consumers pay higher bills - instead of £150 less
www.independent.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Reeves’ £150 cut in energy bills will be nuked by Sizewell costs.
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
Levies on bills to fund gas pipelines, electricity grid to rise.
Customers to pay years before construction even begins. Companies raise capital from customers, shareholders keep profits.
Privatisation facilitates rip off practices
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The EU has fined Elon Musk's hideous creation €120m. We have asked Ofcom: when will you act? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
X is not above the law
goodlawproject.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The EU has fined Elon Musk's hideous creation €120m. We have asked Ofcom: when will you act? goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/...
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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National Insurance Dodge
UK employers pay national insurance on employee/director wages.
That doesn't apply to profits (instead of wages) extracted by partners in partnerships.
Billions dodged. I asked the Minister whether that policy was wrong.
Watch how he dodges the question.
UK employers pay national insurance on employee/director wages.
That doesn't apply to profits (instead of wages) extracted by partners in partnerships.
Billions dodged. I asked the Minister whether that policy was wrong.
Watch how he dodges the question.
November 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
National Insurance Dodge
UK employers pay national insurance on employee/director wages.
That doesn't apply to profits (instead of wages) extracted by partners in partnerships.
Billions dodged. I asked the Minister whether that policy was wrong.
Watch how he dodges the question.
UK employers pay national insurance on employee/director wages.
That doesn't apply to profits (instead of wages) extracted by partners in partnerships.
Billions dodged. I asked the Minister whether that policy was wrong.
Watch how he dodges the question.
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Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing
It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Bad patents already do enough damage. PERA makes it easier to get them and harder to challenge them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
PERA Remains a Serious Threat to Efforts Against Bad Patents
PERA would overturn long-standing court decisions that have helped keep some of the most problematic patents in check. This includes the Supreme Court’s Alice v. CLS Bank decision, which bars patents
www.eff.org
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Bad patents already do enough damage. PERA makes it easier to get them and harder to challenge them. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache.
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:52 AM
City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache.
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
But silence on its own role in economic crisis.
Short-termism and lack of investment
Endless financial scandals
Pushed for privatization.
Urged deal wage/benefit cuts
Opposes redistribution of income and wealth
Unchecked fat-cattery
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State support for UK banks
Bailouts: Govts found £1162bn (£133bn cash+£1,029bn guarantees) in 2008
£895bn QE
State is the lender of last resort
£85k bank deposit safety guarantee
PFI profits
£22bn a year interest on reserves deposited with Bank of England
Who else gets this level of state support?
Bailouts: Govts found £1162bn (£133bn cash+£1,029bn guarantees) in 2008
£895bn QE
State is the lender of last resort
£85k bank deposit safety guarantee
PFI profits
£22bn a year interest on reserves deposited with Bank of England
Who else gets this level of state support?
Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty
Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.
leftfootforward.org
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
State support for UK banks
Bailouts: Govts found £1162bn (£133bn cash+£1,029bn guarantees) in 2008
£895bn QE
State is the lender of last resort
£85k bank deposit safety guarantee
PFI profits
£22bn a year interest on reserves deposited with Bank of England
Who else gets this level of state support?
Bailouts: Govts found £1162bn (£133bn cash+£1,029bn guarantees) in 2008
£895bn QE
State is the lender of last resort
£85k bank deposit safety guarantee
PFI profits
£22bn a year interest on reserves deposited with Bank of England
Who else gets this level of state support?
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A statue of Hercules admired by millions has disappeared from Kew Gardens. @arusbridger.bsky.social asks: why has King Charles decided to remove a prime piece of public art?
The curious case of the King and the statue
A statue of Hercules admired by millions has disappeared from Kew Gardens. Why has Charles decided to remove a prime piece of public art?
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A statue of Hercules admired by millions has disappeared from Kew Gardens. @arusbridger.bsky.social asks: why has King Charles decided to remove a prime piece of public art?
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In 2024, UK’s big four banks HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, & National Westminster made £45.9bn profit.
Since 2021/22 profit margins up by 21%.
2022 -2024: Big four banks paid £124bn in dividends, £32bn in share buybacks.
They oppose possible tax increase, publish misleading tax numbers.
Tax them.
Since 2021/22 profit margins up by 21%.
2022 -2024: Big four banks paid £124bn in dividends, £32bn in share buybacks.
They oppose possible tax increase, publish misleading tax numbers.
Tax them.
Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty
Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.
leftfootforward.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
In 2024, UK’s big four banks HSBC, Barclays, Lloyds, & National Westminster made £45.9bn profit.
Since 2021/22 profit margins up by 21%.
2022 -2024: Big four banks paid £124bn in dividends, £32bn in share buybacks.
They oppose possible tax increase, publish misleading tax numbers.
Tax them.
Since 2021/22 profit margins up by 21%.
2022 -2024: Big four banks paid £124bn in dividends, £32bn in share buybacks.
They oppose possible tax increase, publish misleading tax numbers.
Tax them.
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EFF was created for scary moments like the one we’re facing now. For 35 years, EFF has fought to ensure your rights follow you online and wherever you use technology, and we're here and ready to Take Back CTRL. Join us at www.takebackctrl.org.
Music: how the future dies by mobygratis.
Music: how the future dies by mobygratis.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
EFF was created for scary moments like the one we’re facing now. For 35 years, EFF has fought to ensure your rights follow you online and wherever you use technology, and we're here and ready to Take Back CTRL. Join us at www.takebackctrl.org.
Music: how the future dies by mobygratis.
Music: how the future dies by mobygratis.
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Die MAGA-Bewegung will in Großbritannien eine autoritäre Wende nach amerikanischem Vorbild einläuten. Die Voraussetzungen dafür sind erschreckend gut, wie @annettedittert.bsky.social erläuert 👉 www.blaetter.de/podcast – und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.
October 28, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Die MAGA-Bewegung will in Großbritannien eine autoritäre Wende nach amerikanischem Vorbild einläuten. Die Voraussetzungen dafür sind erschreckend gut, wie @annettedittert.bsky.social erläuert 👉 www.blaetter.de/podcast – und überall, wo es Podcasts gibt.
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Vital and important step by Germany , Huge hard work by Patrick Breyer. www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-p...
Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy
In a major breakthrough for the digital rights movement, the German government has refused to back the EU's controversial Chat Control regulation yesterday after facing massive public pressure. The go...
www.patrick-breyer.de
October 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Vital and important step by Germany , Huge hard work by Patrick Breyer. www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-p...
It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
As Labour flounders and dabbles in the politics of hatred to gain a point or two, it is those far from power who will suffer most, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It’s come to this: Keir Starmer is now just the warm-up act for Nigel Farage | Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC will obviously not show this, unlike the Mandela concert all those years ago, however YouTube have agreed to live stream tonight's Wembley Palestine support concert.
Up the streaming numbers, 7 pm (UK) today YouTube, Brian Eno's channel.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
Up the streaming numbers, 7 pm (UK) today YouTube, Brian Eno's channel.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
Together for Palestine
YouTube video by Brian Eno
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The BBC will obviously not show this, unlike the Mandela concert all those years ago, however YouTube have agreed to live stream tonight's Wembley Palestine support concert.
Up the streaming numbers, 7 pm (UK) today YouTube, Brian Eno's channel.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
Up the streaming numbers, 7 pm (UK) today YouTube, Brian Eno's channel.
www.youtube.com/live/RWBVHFv...
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High energy prices leave 1m UK households behind on bills.
Energy debts doubled in 12 yrs.
6.1m households in fuel poverty. 128,000 people die in fuel poverty.
Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Can't build economy on poverty and death.
End profiteering. Nationalise.
Energy debts doubled in 12 yrs.
6.1m households in fuel poverty. 128,000 people die in fuel poverty.
Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Can't build economy on poverty and death.
End profiteering. Nationalise.
Rise in energy prices leaves 1m UK households behind on bills
Energy debts have more than doubled in last 12 years, finds report, as Ofgem signals it will raise cap on bills
www.theguardian.com
September 10, 2025 at 6:55 AM
High energy prices leave 1m UK households behind on bills.
Energy debts doubled in 12 yrs.
6.1m households in fuel poverty. 128,000 people die in fuel poverty.
Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Can't build economy on poverty and death.
End profiteering. Nationalise.
Energy debts doubled in 12 yrs.
6.1m households in fuel poverty. 128,000 people die in fuel poverty.
Energy companies made £514bn operating profit since 2020.
Can't build economy on poverty and death.
End profiteering. Nationalise.
Palestine Action lawyers accuse Yvette Cooper of ‘cynical media campaign’
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Palestine Action lawyers accuse Yvette Cooper of ‘cynical media campaign’
Exclusive: Home secretary ‘breaching duty to court’ by making claims about reason for group’s ban that she has not disclosed in legal case
www.theguardian.com
August 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Palestine Action lawyers accuse Yvette Cooper of ‘cynical media campaign’
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Neoliberal destruction of the NHS
UK has 2.4 hospital beds per 1,000 people
Germany 7.6
OECD average 4.6
Worse in many places. Hackney in London 0.9, lower than Mexico. Bedfordshire 1.7, same as Colombia.
Sick people can't work. Can't boost GDP & productivity without better healthcare.
UK has 2.4 hospital beds per 1,000 people
Germany 7.6
OECD average 4.6
Worse in many places. Hackney in London 0.9, lower than Mexico. Bedfordshire 1.7, same as Colombia.
Sick people can't work. Can't boost GDP & productivity without better healthcare.
Our state has become a guarantor of corporate profits
Equitable distribution of income and wealth would go a long way towards stimulating domestic demand and investment...
leftfootforward.org
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Neoliberal destruction of the NHS
UK has 2.4 hospital beds per 1,000 people
Germany 7.6
OECD average 4.6
Worse in many places. Hackney in London 0.9, lower than Mexico. Bedfordshire 1.7, same as Colombia.
Sick people can't work. Can't boost GDP & productivity without better healthcare.
UK has 2.4 hospital beds per 1,000 people
Germany 7.6
OECD average 4.6
Worse in many places. Hackney in London 0.9, lower than Mexico. Bedfordshire 1.7, same as Colombia.
Sick people can't work. Can't boost GDP & productivity without better healthcare.
As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall
The puerile standoff between the US and Russia ought to alert a slumbering public to a risk that is in many ways greater than during the cold war, says Simon Tisdall, a Guardian foreign affairs commen...
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
As the world hurtles ever closer to nuclear oblivion, where is the opposition? | Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Melrose CEO got £45m pay package. He and outgoing CEO received £100m.
CEO and three others received a combined £208m.
CEO pay is 1,112 times more than the average worker.
Two-thirds of shareholders opposed exec pay.
Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary, do nothing to curb fat-cattery.
CEO and three others received a combined £208m.
CEO pay is 1,112 times more than the average worker.
Two-thirds of shareholders opposed exec pay.
Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary, do nothing to curb fat-cattery.
Ex-Army helicopter pilot tops 'Fat Cat' City league with £45m pay
Pascal Soriot, who runs drugs giant AstraZeneca, has slipped to third place in our annual survey, after being replaced by the relatively unknown Dilnot.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Melrose CEO got £45m pay package. He and outgoing CEO received £100m.
CEO and three others received a combined £208m.
CEO pay is 1,112 times more than the average worker.
Two-thirds of shareholders opposed exec pay.
Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary, do nothing to curb fat-cattery.
CEO and three others received a combined £208m.
CEO pay is 1,112 times more than the average worker.
Two-thirds of shareholders opposed exec pay.
Govts tell workers wage rises are inflationary, do nothing to curb fat-cattery.
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FTSE 100 CEOs netted £550m in pay packets, 11% hike.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
FTSE 100 bosses rake in a record £550m haul
The number of significant shareholder protests has more than doubled so far this year compared with a year ago, with 11 FTSE 100 companies seeing revolts of more than 20 per cent.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
FTSE 100 CEOs netted £550m in pay packets, 11% hike.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
