Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

1. Hello everyone, Happy New Year. I’m back from a lovely time, though now stricken by a nasty bug.
Right, back to it:
In my catch-up reading, there are several articles about the “collapse of democracy”. Was 2024 the year in which it began to die? But NONE of them seeks to define democracy. 🧵

Please follow the *new* EveryDoctor account- we will be sharing a list of the MPs who are involved in our campaign later! 115 MPs involved in total now and this is so important because the NHS is in a state of absolute emergency 🚨

Follow here! @everydoctor.org.uk 🌟

Please repost this too! 🤞💙

Hello! My name is Julia but everyone calls me Ju. I’m a doctor but I gave up my medical career to fight for the NHS. Right now the non-profit I run (EveryDoctor) is running a really important campaign and 102 MPs are involved so far.

Could you possibly help me to reach more people on Bluesky?🤞💙

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Who is Neil Record? Meet the Climate Change Sceptic Think-Tanker Bankrolling Kemi Badenoch's Campaign

Conservative leadership favourite Kemi Badenoch is running her campaign from the home of a wealthy Tufton Street donor, reports Olly Haynes

bylinetimes.com/2024/10/22/n...

We have built a data set showing 2495 examples of NHS outsourcing and privatisation, and have been encouraging people to email their MPs about their concerns about NHS privatisation, with a link to our data. Almost 1000 people have done so already.

We are alarmed to note that some MPs are …

Reminder: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

And let's not forget the deafening silence when the education secretary implied that assaulting government officials is acceptable behaviour.

What Hunt got wrong, and what the budget should have looked like. 99-percent.org/a-good-news-...

Its pronouncements are treated as gospel by the government, and have led to disastrous infringements on our freedoms. www.desmog.com/2023/06/29/r...

The story this government minister picked up and ran with, leading to a succesful libel action, was seeded by the dark-money junktank @policyexchange. It demands freedom of speech and action for its allies, while attacking the freedoms of its opponents.🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Interesting article on why we should stop describing the rise of right wing extremists as populism.
theconversation.com/the-word-pop...