@mkm-y.bsky.social
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🚨💸Multinationals get an ave 63% tax discount on IP-generated profits, the equivalent of workers paying no income tax for 7 months. Patent box rules cost countries billions & fuel global profit shifting. It’s time for pay-where-you-play taxation with a #UNTaxConvention. bit.ly/3KhmNaR
December 2, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🚨💸Multinationals get an ave 63% tax discount on IP-generated profits, the equivalent of workers paying no income tax for 7 months. Patent box rules cost countries billions & fuel global profit shifting. It’s time for pay-where-you-play taxation with a #UNTaxConvention. bit.ly/3KhmNaR
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📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.15 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
📢 #INEQUALITY GRAPH OF THE WEEK (No.15)
✅ More #equal countries have much higher levels of child
wellbeing across a broad range of indicators.
❌ UK and US perform poorly.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
✅ More #equal countries have much higher levels of child
wellbeing across a broad range of indicators.
❌ UK and US perform poorly.
Source: Profs Wilkinson & Pickett and The Equality Trust ♥️.
For full details ➡️ equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...
December 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
📢 WE'RE POSTING our 'Inequality Graph of the Week' series from 'The Spirit Level at 15 dataset', one graph a day (give or take...), up until Christmas. Please share widely and help us spread the word that more equal societies are fairer, greener, and healthier for everyone. No.15 🔽
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
Thank You! 👍♥️✊
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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2025: Keir Starmer, "The Brexit vote was a fair democratic expression"
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit" - UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
Keir Starmer now telling lies like Boris Johnson, sad
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit" - UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
Keir Starmer now telling lies like Boris Johnson, sad
December 1, 2025 at 10:44 PM
2025: Keir Starmer, "The Brexit vote was a fair democratic expression"
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit" - UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
Keir Starmer now telling lies like Boris Johnson, sad
2020: Stewart Hosie, "The UK gov actively avoided looking for evidence that Russia interfered in Brexit" - UK's Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament
Keir Starmer now telling lies like Boris Johnson, sad
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No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
No that's not *your* on *our behalf*. Your job is to report the story, presenting all sides fairly and then *we* call it. What Mason is saying here is fundamentally not what the bbc is for!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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What happened about Nathan Gill and the Russian bribes?
Nathan Gill, one of Farage's mates. Standing behind him on the morning after the Brexit referendum results.
@ottoenglish.bsky.social
BBC News - Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes
www.bbc.com/news/article...
@ottoenglish.bsky.social
BBC News - Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Reform Wales: Ex-Reform UK Wales leader bribed by Russia - court
The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.
www.bbc.com
May 24, 2025 at 2:10 PM
What happened about Nathan Gill and the Russian bribes?
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The majority of doctors supported the recent strike. So why did the Department of Health suggest the opposite?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The majority of doctors supported the recent strike. So why did the Department of Health suggest the opposite? | Peter Kellner
It would seem that poll data was cherrypicked and then used to brief the Times. Such distortion of facts from a public body should alarm us all, says former president of YouGov Peter Kellner
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
The majority of doctors supported the recent strike. So why did the Department of Health suggest the opposite?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel."
Defending our national treasure: the voice of the nation
Politicians see the BBC through the lens of TV news, but those who want to undermine it threaten a central plank of our national culture
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"For a century, the BBC has been our classroom, our concert hall, our stage, our storyteller and our window on the world. Politicians need reminding: its much more than a news channel."
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When people can't get their heads round the difference in scale between millions and billions, show them this. as for trillions, guess we're talking 'In the beginning was the word...' (no, not really...)
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When people can't get their heads round the difference in scale between millions and billions, show them this. as for trillions, guess we're talking 'In the beginning was the word...' (no, not really...)
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Eurovision, FIFA, Strictly, Celebrity - wherever there are Israeli supporting contestants, expect Mossad & Palantir dirty tricks
"Israeli government & citizens known to have abused the voting system at the Eurovision contest forces changes to next year's voting systems"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Israeli government & citizens known to have abused the voting system at the Eurovision contest forces changes to next year's voting systems"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Eurovision Song Contest changes rules after Israel voting controversy
There are new rules about government campaigns, as well as the number of votes each fan can cast.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Eurovision, FIFA, Strictly, Celebrity - wherever there are Israeli supporting contestants, expect Mossad & Palantir dirty tricks
"Israeli government & citizens known to have abused the voting system at the Eurovision contest forces changes to next year's voting systems"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"Israeli government & citizens known to have abused the voting system at the Eurovision contest forces changes to next year's voting systems"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE. For shame, Mr Johnson and the team you pretended to lead. Preventable deaths on your hands. They will not return to us. You live on, rich and vainglorious.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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When we had billionaires like Gates that funded charity we were relaxed about them. But some of us warned you: it's still just one man's whim. He could defund the work instantly. Musk proves the point. The way to ensure billionaires' money isn't used for ill is through taxation
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
When we had billionaires like Gates that funded charity we were relaxed about them. But some of us warned you: it's still just one man's whim. He could defund the work instantly. Musk proves the point. The way to ensure billionaires' money isn't used for ill is through taxation
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“Let’s carry on being human with each other. The problem is not our humanity, it is a traumatising system that requires us not to care.
We care.
We are here.
We will win so everyone can win.“
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/19/w...
We care.
We are here.
We will win so everyone can win.“
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/19/w...
Why is peace so threatening to the UK government?
The ‘Defend our Juries’ campaign write that: “Local police forces have made arrests at all nine Lift The Ban actions in England and Wales today (Tuesday 18 November), whereas Police Scotland did no…
bellacaledonia.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
“Let’s carry on being human with each other. The problem is not our humanity, it is a traumatising system that requires us not to care.
We care.
We are here.
We will win so everyone can win.“
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/19/w...
We care.
We are here.
We will win so everyone can win.“
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/11/19/w...
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🕐In just over a week Rachel Reeves will be revealing the Autumn budget.
We’re making sure the government knows that its proposals for private finance are not welcome in our NHS.
✍️Write to your MP - give them all the facts about NHS private finance by reading our briefing.
We’re making sure the government knows that its proposals for private finance are not welcome in our NHS.
✍️Write to your MP - give them all the facts about NHS private finance by reading our briefing.
🕐In just over a week Rachel Reeves will be revealing the Autumn budget.
We’re making sure the government knows that its proposals for private finance are not welcome in our NHS.
✍️Write to your MP - give them all the facts about NHS private finance by reading our briefing.
This government is considering introducing more private finance into our NHS, with a decision to be made at the Autumn Budget.
weownit.org.uk
November 18, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🕐In just over a week Rachel Reeves will be revealing the Autumn budget.
We’re making sure the government knows that its proposals for private finance are not welcome in our NHS.
✍️Write to your MP - give them all the facts about NHS private finance by reading our briefing.
We’re making sure the government knows that its proposals for private finance are not welcome in our NHS.
✍️Write to your MP - give them all the facts about NHS private finance by reading our briefing.
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English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books
Survey finds 60% of key cities councils are planning to sell assets to meet costs of adult and children’s social care
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
English councils plan to sell off social clubs and sports centres to balance books.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
Social spaces lost forever. Libraries, community centres, school playgrounds, parks closed/sold as council funding cut in real terms to appease the rich.
Social vandalism.
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🌟 WIN 🌟
After we lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has now launched a formal compliance case.
https://goodlawproject.org/charities-regulator-opens-case-against-policy-exchange
After we lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has now launched a formal compliance case.
https://goodlawproject.org/charities-regulator-opens-case-against-policy-exchange
After Good Law Project lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has launched a formal compliance case.
After Good Law Project lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has launched a formal compliance case.
goodlawproject.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:29 AM
🌟 WIN 🌟
After we lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has now launched a formal compliance case.
https://goodlawproject.org/charities-regulator-opens-case-against-policy-exchange
After we lodged a complaint against the rightwing lobby group Policy Exchange, the Charity Commission has now launched a formal compliance case.
https://goodlawproject.org/charities-regulator-opens-case-against-policy-exchange
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Bectu, the biggest union in the BBC, has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Chair of the BBC Board Samir Shah demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
"Many BBC staff are concerned that Gibb is a direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence."
"Many BBC staff are concerned that Gibb is a direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence."
November 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Bectu, the biggest union in the BBC, has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Chair of the BBC Board Samir Shah demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board.
"Many BBC staff are concerned that Gibb is a direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence."
"Many BBC staff are concerned that Gibb is a direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence."
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I like the fact that Channel 4 News really gets up his nose, he's very snarky about the best, award winning, News programme in the UK.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I like the fact that Channel 4 News really gets up his nose, he's very snarky about the best, award winning, News programme in the UK.
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Surely the intrinsic reward of getting to produce such high-quality journalism, the thrill of inteprid original reporting, is reward enough?
Dunno mate, if you're earning that much I feel like you're probably enjoying life a lot more for getting up in the morning than someone who isn't paying that rate of tax.
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Surely the intrinsic reward of getting to produce such high-quality journalism, the thrill of inteprid original reporting, is reward enough?
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Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
November 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
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"Nigel Farage's ubiquity isn't just about charisma or controversy. It's an indication of a very worrying transformation in British journalism."
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
youtu.be/pfl0mxXoQss
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
youtu.be/pfl0mxXoQss
How Nigel Farage Took Over British Politics.
YouTube video by Byline TV
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"Nigel Farage's ubiquity isn't just about charisma or controversy. It's an indication of a very worrying transformation in British journalism."
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
youtu.be/pfl0mxXoQss
@jamesbloodworth.bsky.social
youtu.be/pfl0mxXoQss
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The government must remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC board immediately – and end the practice of political appointments, which so badly undermines the BBC, altogether.
November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
The government must remove Robbie Gibb from the BBC board immediately – and end the practice of political appointments, which so badly undermines the BBC, altogether.
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Love it or loath it, an independent news broadcaster like the BBC plays an important role in our democracy.
Trump and Farage want to destroy it.
That should worry us all.
Trump and Farage want to destroy it.
That should worry us all.
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Love it or loath it, an independent news broadcaster like the BBC plays an important role in our democracy.
Trump and Farage want to destroy it.
That should worry us all.
Trump and Farage want to destroy it.
That should worry us all.
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With artists like Dua Lipa and Coldplay calling on Keir Starmer to take action against ticket touts, the publicly overwhelmingly back a govt proposal from January to cap resold ticket prices at 30% higher than the original
Support: 83%
Oppose: 6%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Support: 83%
Oppose: 6%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
With artists like Dua Lipa and Coldplay calling on Keir Starmer to take action against ticket touts, the publicly overwhelmingly back a govt proposal from January to cap resold ticket prices at 30% higher than the original
Support: 83%
Oppose: 6%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Support: 83%
Oppose: 6%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...