Tracey Leith
@sletts.bsky.social
Mother, business owner, cats protection volunteer, jazz and world sounds volunteer in Shetland
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HMRC won't admit how much tax is lost offshore.
Major corporations dodge taxes by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Wealthy use offshore havens.
Opacity means HMRC, Govt and tax abuse industry can't be held to account.
Normal people pay more in tax.
Major corporations dodge taxes by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Wealthy use offshore havens.
Opacity means HMRC, Govt and tax abuse industry can't be held to account.
Normal people pay more in tax.
HMRC won't admit how much tax is lost offshore
The taxman has the numbers needed to estimate how much cash is lost to overseas havens – but it isn't sharing the details
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
February 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM
HMRC won't admit how much tax is lost offshore.
Major corporations dodge taxes by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Wealthy use offshore havens.
Opacity means HMRC, Govt and tax abuse industry can't be held to account.
Normal people pay more in tax.
Major corporations dodge taxes by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Wealthy use offshore havens.
Opacity means HMRC, Govt and tax abuse industry can't be held to account.
Normal people pay more in tax.
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“Keir Starmer – how dare you speak about justice?”
This week, the PM waxed lyrical about how Epstein victims had suffered unacceptable barriers to justice.
All while HIS OWN GOVERNMENT has repeatedly blocked justice for Harrods trafficking & abuse victims.
The hypocrisy is wild.
This week, the PM waxed lyrical about how Epstein victims had suffered unacceptable barriers to justice.
All while HIS OWN GOVERNMENT has repeatedly blocked justice for Harrods trafficking & abuse victims.
The hypocrisy is wild.
Keir Starmer – how dare you speak about justice?
A letter to Keir Starmer from a Harrods abuse survivor
sussexbylines.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“Keir Starmer – how dare you speak about justice?”
This week, the PM waxed lyrical about how Epstein victims had suffered unacceptable barriers to justice.
All while HIS OWN GOVERNMENT has repeatedly blocked justice for Harrods trafficking & abuse victims.
The hypocrisy is wild.
This week, the PM waxed lyrical about how Epstein victims had suffered unacceptable barriers to justice.
All while HIS OWN GOVERNMENT has repeatedly blocked justice for Harrods trafficking & abuse victims.
The hypocrisy is wild.
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"We know she’s 15 because her name wasn’t redacted (I’ve chopped it off the screenshot). But then, that’s par for the course for these documents: only the men’s identities have been diligently obscured"
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:08 PM
"We know she’s 15 because her name wasn’t redacted (I’ve chopped it off the screenshot). But then, that’s par for the course for these documents: only the men’s identities have been diligently obscured"
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In honour of the woman who, more than anyone, is responsible for this moment of transparency with the #EpsteinFiles, we're removing the paywall from this profile
🟨‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/v...
🟨‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/v...
‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
Amy Wallace spent four years collaborating with Virginia Roberts Giuffre on her memoir, Nobody’s Girl, which has had a far-reaching impact in the fight for justice for the victims and survivors of Jef...
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February 7, 2026 at 4:33 PM
In honour of the woman who, more than anyone, is responsible for this moment of transparency with the #EpsteinFiles, we're removing the paywall from this profile
🟨‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/v...
🟨‘Virginia Roberts Giuffre Was an American Hero’ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/80/v...
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This is fascinating about Epstein’s protegee Masha Drokova, but it also relates to the Labour surveillance scandal reported by Peter Geoghegan earlier this week… follow me down the rabbit hole
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February 6, 2026 at 7:56 PM
This is fascinating about Epstein’s protegee Masha Drokova, but it also relates to the Labour surveillance scandal reported by Peter Geoghegan earlier this week… follow me down the rabbit hole
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world
The most disturbing revelation so far
open.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 11:26 AM
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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As Mandelson case exposes the risks of using US company Palantir for health data, how Nicola Sturgeon’s government made sure it didn’t happen in Scotland two years ago talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/06/a...
As Mandelson case exposes the risks of using US company Palantir for health data, how Nicola Sturgeon’s government made sure it didn’t happen in Scotland two years ago
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at: on the above. In the Guardian today: Labour should halt public contracts with the US tech company Palantir, opposition politicians have said, amid growing con…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
February 6, 2026 at 5:11 PM
As Mandelson case exposes the risks of using US company Palantir for health data, how Nicola Sturgeon’s government made sure it didn’t happen in Scotland two years ago talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2026/02/06/a...
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We think much of the use by the retail sector of Facewatch's malfunctioning technology is deeply problematic and we'd love for you to get in touch if you're affected.
Facial recognition error: Customer misidentified by Sainsbury's
Sainsbury's staff wrongly eject a man from a south London store over a facial recognition alert.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 10:31 PM
We think much of the use by the retail sector of Facewatch's malfunctioning technology is deeply problematic and we'd love for you to get in touch if you're affected.
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NEW: Trump's coup is almost complete. And the attack on the press is a central piece of it. Bezos's gutting of the Washington Post cannot be allowed to be just another blip in the news cycle.
We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press.
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We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press.
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Fight!
Fuck Bezos. The Washington Post can and must rise again.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:17 AM
NEW: Trump's coup is almost complete. And the attack on the press is a central piece of it. Bezos's gutting of the Washington Post cannot be allowed to be just another blip in the news cycle.
We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
We are all going to have to fight for a free and independent press.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The European Commission must decide by 2 March whether it intends to give legal follow-up to a European Citizens’ Initiative that gathered more than one million signatures in 2025. It would allow EU states to voluntarily fund women's abortion care when they need to travel from another EU state.
Pressure mounts on Commission as 170 groups back EU abortion initiative | Euractiv
Commission faces 2 March deadline on ‘My Voice, My Choice’ initiative
www.euractiv.com
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 AM
The European Commission must decide by 2 March whether it intends to give legal follow-up to a European Citizens’ Initiative that gathered more than one million signatures in 2025. It would allow EU states to voluntarily fund women's abortion care when they need to travel from another EU state.
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There was an agreement that the year would start with all political leaders being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg.
The Green Party were on Sunday.
Watch back 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmD...
The Green Party were on Sunday.
Watch back 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmD...
Green Party is the party "of the 99%", says leader Zack Polanski | Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
YouTube video by BBC Politics
m.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:05 AM
There was an agreement that the year would start with all political leaders being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg.
The Green Party were on Sunday.
Watch back 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmD...
The Green Party were on Sunday.
Watch back 👇🏼
m.youtube.com/watch?v=lMmD...
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I strongly suspect that a guilty verdict in this case was going to be @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social's long-awaited Big Reveal: "you see - this was the special knowledge I had proving that Palestine Action are terrorists". Because frankly she had nothing else.
And now she has nothing.
And now she has nothing.
February 4, 2026 at 3:21 PM
I strongly suspect that a guilty verdict in this case was going to be @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social's long-awaited Big Reveal: "you see - this was the special knowledge I had proving that Palestine Action are terrorists". Because frankly she had nothing else.
And now she has nothing.
And now she has nothing.
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(🚨) This is a personal investigation—after finding my name multiple times in the Epstein Files—that transformed into a novella. It changes how we must see the Trump-Epstein Scandal. It’s long, fully sourced, and harrowing.
And it goes places you’d never guess.
And it goes places you’d never guess.
Jeffrey Epstein Was Obsessed With My Tweets Just Before His Death—And Now I Know Why
The new Epstein Files drop reveals that just weeks before the arrest that would lead to his death, Epstein was focused on the thesis of my 2019 bestseller, Proof of Conspiracy. The reason shocked me.
sethabramson.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:59 AM
(🚨) This is a personal investigation—after finding my name multiple times in the Epstein Files—that transformed into a novella. It changes how we must see the Trump-Epstein Scandal. It’s long, fully sourced, and harrowing.
And it goes places you’d never guess.
And it goes places you’d never guess.
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England's water companies promise £104bn investment by 2030.
Shareholders won't pay, customers will. Shareholders will own resulting assets, income streams.
Customers already paid, companies handed £85bn dividend to shareholders.
35% of customer bills pays for debt interest and dividends.
Shareholders won't pay, customers will. Shareholders will own resulting assets, income streams.
Customers already paid, companies handed £85bn dividend to shareholders.
35% of customer bills pays for debt interest and dividends.
Public ownership of water is the only way to deliver security, efficiency, investment and value for money
37 years of privatisation has been a disaster
leftfootforward.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:49 AM
England's water companies promise £104bn investment by 2030.
Shareholders won't pay, customers will. Shareholders will own resulting assets, income streams.
Customers already paid, companies handed £85bn dividend to shareholders.
35% of customer bills pays for debt interest and dividends.
Shareholders won't pay, customers will. Shareholders will own resulting assets, income streams.
Customers already paid, companies handed £85bn dividend to shareholders.
35% of customer bills pays for debt interest and dividends.
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William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn
States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:28 AM
William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Palantir are embedding its spytech from the top down to local governance levels.
This is how you build a panopticon of constant 24/7 surveillance as per Shabana Mahmood’s plans.
This is how you build a panopticon of constant 24/7 surveillance as per Shabana Mahmood’s plans.
February 5, 2026 at 10:03 AM
Palantir are embedding its spytech from the top down to local governance levels.
This is how you build a panopticon of constant 24/7 surveillance as per Shabana Mahmood’s plans.
This is how you build a panopticon of constant 24/7 surveillance as per Shabana Mahmood’s plans.
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"Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network"
'... Robinson was hired as a “goodwill ambassador” for an unregistered charity fronting a secretive Russian propaganda network ...'
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/02/t...
via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
'... Robinson was hired as a “goodwill ambassador” for an unregistered charity fronting a secretive Russian propaganda network ...'
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/02/t...
via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network
Far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was appointed as an ambassador to an unregistered charity connected to a Russian 'black PR' operation
bylinetimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:10 AM
"Tommy Robinson and the London News Website Linked to a Putin-Backed Propaganda Network"
'... Robinson was hired as a “goodwill ambassador” for an unregistered charity fronting a secretive Russian propaganda network ...'
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/02/t...
via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
'... Robinson was hired as a “goodwill ambassador” for an unregistered charity fronting a secretive Russian propaganda network ...'
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/02/t...
via @bylinetimes.bsky.social
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This is a must read
📌 ICYMI — Jeffrey Epstein ‘Co-Owned’ Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund…
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-and-peter-thiel-co-owned-venture-fund-as-thiels-palantir-entered-uk-government/
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund…
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/02/04/jeffrey-epstein-and-peter-thiel-co-owned-venture-fund-as-thiels-palantir-entered-uk-government/
Jeffrey Epstein 'Co-Owned' Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government
The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson
bylinetimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:15 AM
This is a must read
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One of the fascinating things abt this Epstein email dump is finding tipster letters to the FBI:
"Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. He was killed by Giuliani and MA when Epstein found out about Giuliani's identity theft and campaign money embezzlement schemes."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
"Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. He was killed by Giuliani and MA when Epstein found out about Giuliani's identity theft and campaign money embezzlement schemes."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
www.justice.gov
February 3, 2026 at 8:55 PM
One of the fascinating things abt this Epstein email dump is finding tipster letters to the FBI:
"Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. He was killed by Giuliani and MA when Epstein found out about Giuliani's identity theft and campaign money embezzlement schemes."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
"Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. He was killed by Giuliani and MA when Epstein found out about Giuliani's identity theft and campaign money embezzlement schemes."
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
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On the other hand…
I would like to see the Met explain fully and clearly why documents being accessible to the public as well as to them is “prejudicial” to their investigation, and why it’s so harmful to their efforts that it serves the public interest to delay or stop disclosure.
In a statement, Commander Ella Marriott said:
“As with any investigation, securing and preserving any potential evidence is vital. For this reason, when approached by the UK Government today with their intent to publish material, we reviewed it immediately and advised that the release of...
“As with any investigation, securing and preserving any potential evidence is vital. For this reason, when approached by the UK Government today with their intent to publish material, we reviewed it immediately and advised that the release of...
February 4, 2026 at 6:23 PM
On the other hand…
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I am done with trump.
February 4, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I am done with trump.
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Since Bill Gates is back in the news:
"Michael Mann to Bill Gates: You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it" | Repost of my @thebulletin.org commentary by #MROnline: mronline.org/2025/11/04/m...
February 4, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Since Bill Gates is back in the news:
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One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
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Dear @washingtonpost.com
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.
Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.
Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊
Breaking News: The Washington Post began sweeping layoffs that were slated to shrink the scope of the publication.
Washington Post Begins Sweeping Layoffs
The layoffs are slated to shrink the newsroom by hundreds of journalists, cutting into The Post’s local, international and sports coverage.
nyti.ms
February 4, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Dear @washingtonpost.com
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.
Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.
Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊
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Ed Davey, "Polish gov believes Epstein may have been spying for Putin"
"Is the PM concerned that Peter Mandelson may have been leaking state secrets not just to pedophile American financier"
"But also a Russian agent"
Keir Starmer doesn't answer this questions
"Is the PM concerned that Peter Mandelson may have been leaking state secrets not just to pedophile American financier"
"But also a Russian agent"
Keir Starmer doesn't answer this questions
February 4, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Ed Davey, "Polish gov believes Epstein may have been spying for Putin"
"Is the PM concerned that Peter Mandelson may have been leaking state secrets not just to pedophile American financier"
"But also a Russian agent"
Keir Starmer doesn't answer this questions
"Is the PM concerned that Peter Mandelson may have been leaking state secrets not just to pedophile American financier"
"But also a Russian agent"
Keir Starmer doesn't answer this questions