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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · 6d

This is wild. People go through the mill taking on crappy employers in employment tribunals, win and then just... don't get the money. Really important investigation.

Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.

This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...

Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards

The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 28d

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 28d

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksy’s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 5

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Sep 2

Police swooped on 5 members of Defend Our Juries this morning as they were about to announce that 1,000 people have signed up to defy the ban at their next protest novaramedia.com/2025/09/02/p...

Police Arrest Key Members of Protest Group Defying Palestine Action Ban After Dawn Raids | Novara Media

Counter-terror police arrested five key spokespeople for Defend Our Juries just hours before the group announced its latest protest. Simon Childs reports.

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Aug 6

Rolex-Wearing Union Leader Faces Allegations of Union-Busting novaramedia.com/2025/08/06/r...

Rolex-Wearing Union Leader Faces Allegations of Union-Busting | Novara Media

Staff at the International Transport Workers’ Federation stand up for the rights of millions of workers across the world. Now they’re being subjected to a ‘sham’ redundancy process. Simon Childs repor...

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · Jul 13

Not every day you meet the iconic comedian behind the world's most famous joke

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Cllr Liam Shrivastava @liamshrivastava.bsky.social · Jun 28

🧵How @lewishamlabour.bsky.social suppress Palestine solidarity and crush dissent

Report in @novaramedia.com lays out how Chief Whip Eva Stamirowski punished me for speaking out on Israel's genocide

Also carried in @salamandernews.org 🦎 www.salamandernews.org/lewisham-cou...

REPORT By Simon Childs

Exposed: Labour Party Forced Councillors Into Silence on Gaza By Threatening Discipline

'Uncomradely' behaviour and formal warnings for being anti-genocide.

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Jun 24

As Palestine Action faces being branded a terrorist group for throwing paint around, I took a look at the implications for the broader left novaramedia.com/2025/06/24/h...

Here’s How the Palestine Action Ban Could Affect You | Novara Media

Meeting with even two other people and expressing support for the protest group could land you in prison for up to 14 years if Yvette Cooper's proscription of it goes into effect. Simon Childs on what...

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Jun 19

Folkies 1, Lockheed Martin 0 novaramedia.com/2025/06/19/a...

A Group of Musicians Took on an Arms Company – And Won | Novara Media

London music venue Kings Place quietly cut a Lockheed Martin-sponsored event after performers began cancelling shows. Maybe there’s hope for this world after all, writes Simon Childs.

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · May 14

I explained the UK government's fool-proof strategy to defeat the far-right by enacting all their policies while everyone on all sides of the political spectrum despise them for it, for the latest edition of Hell World c/o @lukeoneil47.bsky.social

www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...

The next turn of the ratchet

The right will never be satisfied with diet bigotry

www.welcometohellworld.com

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · May 13

Today @simonchilds.bsky.social writes on the increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and further shift to the right from Labour and Keir Starmer. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-next-tur...

The next turn of the ratchet

The right will never be satisfied with diet bigotry

www.welcometohellworld.com

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · May 13

The court has heard that F35s are described by their manufacturer as "the most lethal jets in the world" and the Israeli Air Force said it had logged 15,000 flight hours, as of march, while increasing the payload of the jets.

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · May 13

In the High Court where Palestinian NGO Al Haq is challenging the legality of the government's "carve out" to send parts of lethal F35 jets to Israel. The court is packed, I'm in the overspill room which is also packed...

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Joe Lo @joeloclimate.bsky.social · Mar 30

A controversial British company, which burns wood for electricity and receives lots of taxpayer subsidies, says it has a “revolving door” with government - @simonchilds.bsky.social reports novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/g...

Greenwashing Power Station Executive Admits ‘Revolving Door’ With Government | Novara Media

An executive for Drax said the greenwashing power plant has a ‘revolving door’ with the civil service, as its massive lobbying budget is revealed.

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 27

Austerity under the coalition government in 2011 was met with the biggest public sector strikes in a generation. Now that we're getting austerity 2.0, similar strikes may be difficult because Labour is delaying getting rid of Tory anti-union laws. novaramedia.com/2025/03/27/l...

Labour Delays Repeal of Anti-Trade Union Law Ahead of Austerity 2.0 | Novara Media

The government is backsliding over reforms to Tory anti-strike laws. Perhaps it has something to do with the fresh round of cuts they have planned. Polly Smythe reports.

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 19

Meanwhile the repression continues. Here's my latest on the massive scale of an operation to stop a climate protest against Drax novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...

Revealed: Police Spent £3m Shutting Down Climate Protest | Novara Media

Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media c...

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 19

We tried to take a nuanced and detailed look at the ways that the state has tried to repress the movement. You can listen here or wherever you get your podcasts:
novaramedia.com/2024/10/03/t...

This Is How the British State Is Trying to Crush the Palestine Movement | Novara Media

For the past year, the British state has been waging its own war on the Palestine solidarity movement, attempting to silence protest while colluding with the Israeli war machine. Novara FM investigate...

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 19

Chuffed to have been nominated for an @amnestyuk.bsky.social
Media Award for the podcast documentary we made about the state repression of the Palestine movement! 🍾🥂

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Sam Walton @samwalton.bsky.social · Mar 19

£125,000+ per arrest at Reclaim the Power camp at Drax in August.

Ridiculous repression as @netpol.org says.

novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...

More great work from @simonchilds.bsky.social

Revealed: Police Spent £3m Shutting Down Climate Protest | Novara Media

Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media c...

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 18

Last August, when far-right racist riots gripped the country, the police swooped on climate protesters transporting compost toilets and wheelchair ramps to a protest camp, making 24 arrests. The massive cost and scale of the operation can now be revealed: novaramedia.com/2025/03/18/r...

Revealed: Police Spent £3m Shutting Down Climate Protest | Novara Media

Exclusive: Police spent over £3m and deployed over 1,000 officers from nearly every force in the country in order to arrest 24 climate activists protesting a greenwashing power station, Novara Media c...

novaramedia.com

Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 18

Exclusive: Police spent over £3m, deploying over 1,000 officers from almost every constabulary to shut down a climate protest at Drax, the "renewable" power station that burns trees ...

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 17

Lots of juicy gossip coming out of an employment tribunal involving everyone's favourite tree-burning renewable power station, Drax. Here's a write up from me: novaramedia.com/2025/03/17/u...

UK’s Biggest ‘Renewable’ Power Station Sacked Employee Who Blew Whistle on Environmental Claims | Novara Media

The head of public affairs at Drax raised concerns about the company’s environmental credentials. It cost her her job, an employment tribunal has heard. Simon Childs reports.

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Great Editor @simonchilds.bsky.social · Mar 11

"But we do need to fine or de-arrest as we will get a complaint off the back of this."

- Police officer explains that it's not illegal to shout "who elected him?" about the King, but he's going to make a charge anyway

novaramedia.com/2025/03/11/p...

Police Officer Who Arrested Anti-Monarchy Protester ‘Was Aware’ No Offence Had Been Committed | Novara Media

A police officer said ‘We will get a complaint off the back of this’ before charging a man who shouted ‘Who elected him?’ at a royal event.

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