"This is an important thing to think about."

Nick Robinson really is a terrible interviewer, far keener to get his views across & get a gotcha moment than in listening to what his interviewees have to say. #r4today

Obviously got good guessing head on today

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FTSE bosses receive 18% pay bump this year in global fight for talent Companies are also watering down ESG elements of pay plans as boards reassess whether such awards ‘make sense’

FTSE 100 CEO average pay up 18% to £5.89m, less weight attached to environmental, social, governance targets.

Did your pay rise by 18%?

Workers produce wealth but get crumbs.

Need worker elected directors, worker vote on exec pay to secure equitable distribution.
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Reform would review all asylum claims from the last five years The current Labour government has already announced major crackdowns on immigration, including disrupting gangs.

Reform UK pledges review of asylum claims for the last 5 years if it wins the next general election.

400,000, including those legally settled could be deported.

Will people be plucked in streets, sent to concentration camps?

Farage inflicted Brexit, now importing Trump racism and terror.

Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services.

This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.

Labour warned against ‘ill-thought-out’ welfare cuts to boost defence budget The suggestion has been branded ‘extremely concerning’

Wes Streeting supports welfare cuts to fund defence.

He lets private equity make billions from outsourcing NHS, social care.

Silence on corporate welfare spending.

Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect £500bn in taxes. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.

This makes the scale of Rayner's alleged error - for which Reform hauled her over the coals - look like monopoly money

#RISEUP We must be what they fear. The #USA is an evil Empire of corporate interests. There is no republic, no great leader coming to our rescue. Just regional managers as far as the eye can see.

Stop letting water companies delay fines, urges Oxfordshire MP Henley and Thame MP Freddie van Mierlo says the law currently

MP introduces Bill to prevent England water companies from "delaying" payment of fines.

Companies negotiate fines, which are later deferred/waived. It is a licence to abuse.

Execs rewarded for boosting profits through illegal practices, face no fines.

Bill won't become law. Govt/Tories oppose it.

England fans facing hugely inflated prices to get to New Jersey's MetLife Stadium for World Cup games The cost of getting the train from New York to the venue, where the Three Lions play Panama in their final group game, will be £111 - nearly 12 times the usual fare.

Dear fellow Brits, from this Brit-American:

Please don't come here. It's dangerous. You may be targeted, arrested and unlawfully detained - likely courtesy of ICE - without access to legal representation.

I've told my family to stay away.

Please boycott America. 🇬🇧💙

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@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social "It’s the tax Tice failed to pay on profits from his property firm deposited in 4 shell entities: Tisun 1, 2, 3, 4.Their parent then donated to Reform."Just checked #BBCNews #website no sign UK, Home, Politics. Why? #BBCiplayer Laura Kuenssberg asked about it on her show. Please excuse me for not being able to reproduce all of a very long piece. I posted important clips yesterday on Bluesky.

@gabrielpogrund.bsky.social "It’s the tax Tice failed to pay on profits from his property firm deposited in 4 shell entities: Tisun 1, 2, 3, 4.Their parent then donated to Reform."Just checked #BBCNews #website no sign UK, Home, Politics. Why?
#BBCiplayer Laura Kuenssberg asked about it on her show.

When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.

Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform

She was twice Conservative Home Secretary, in charge of immigration. We need a new definition of right-wing low level IQ. Her level is more than pure imbecility.

Slava Ukraine!!

We need a broadcasting rule that any interview is subsequently fact-checked. Any falsehoods must then be corrected at the start of the next interview with the same broadcaster.

We should be learning from other countries...

Mike Johnson

In Dec 2024 his firm burned waste in a skip to “cut costs”. Council prosecuted company for illegal waste disposal + operating without environmental permit. Suleman admitted the offences. Company fined £8,500+ in June 2025.
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Only a stupid stupid stupid bought and paid for cunt would let Palantir anywhere near the health service...Mr Streeting.

I wonder why people who profess to be horrified by the practice aren’t shouting their delight from the rooftops…

I try think you’re safe now

"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV

Trump warns US-UK trade deal ‘can always be changed’ with relations in ‘sad state’ President says he gave Britain ‘better deal than I had to’ but ally was ‘not there when we needed them’ on Iran

Trump threatens to end US-UK trade deal because UK won't join his illegal Iran war.

There is no special relationship. It is subservience to the US.

Don't make agreements with Trump. He doesn't honour them.

The King's visit should be cancelled.

UK must rejoin the EU, build alliances with others.

Britain's Ofwat board split over approval for Thames Water rescue deal, Bloomberg News reports The board of UK water regulator Ofwat is split over whether ​to approve a rescue deal offered by the ‌creditors of Thames Water, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the m...

Whoever it is on @ofwat.bsky.social's board saying NO to Thames Water setting its own rules - THANK YOU! 👏👏👏

If Thames Water is allowed to pollute more, that would set a precedent for more sewage across England

Please keep defending households and the environment

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Donald Trump is acting like a Mafia boss running a protection racket. "Nice trade deal you got there. Shame if something happened to it."

This must be the final straw. We can't reward Trump with a state visit from our King.

Inside the £64bn pharma deal that could cost more lives than Covid With the NHS on its knees, the UK has struck a secretive new drugs deal. But how was it made – and what will it really cost?

£64bn is the cost of UK capitulation to pharmaceutical companies and Trump.

Secret deal commits the NHS to pay higher price for new and existing drugs

No debate in parliament.

Govt can tax the rich, cut other services, let people die, start manufacturing drugs and become self-reliant.