Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
🚨Sun Times:
Richard Tice’s companies appear to have failed to pay £100,000+ in corporation tax on profits, while funnelling over £1 million in donations to Reform UK.
Tice calls it a “technicality” but critics say it looks like aggressive tax avoidance benefiting both him personally and his party.
Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts.
Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. Donations to Ministers pay dividends.
£1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses
Health service “taken for a ride”.
Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity
It's utterly shocking how the UK government is abandoning free speech in order to support Israel's genocide. Shameful.
Question for you…
700+ killed by Israel in Gaza during “ceasefire”
250+ killed by Israel in Lebanon during “ceasefire”
Would any other country enjoy the “ceasefire” label while massacring this many people?
…we all know the answer by now.
UK Defence Intelligence prepared scenarios in which war with Russia was envisaged after countries in central and eastern Europe joined Nato, declassified files show.
This was 26 years before Russia invaded Ukraine.
www.declassifieduk.org/uk-knew-nato...
🚨🚨In the massive geopolitical chaos caused by the #Trump presidency's war-mongering and #Russian invasion of #Ukraine more and more countries flock to the EU as the last bastion of peace, security and econonomic prosperity. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/mont...
The French government ditches windows for Linux in order to disentangle itself from US tech dependency. What we really need is a solid Linux based OS financed by the EU.
As fast as filling up with petrol.
Not just charging stations but that sort of battery too…
The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.
The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.
Words aren't enough - it's time for action.
Donald Trump post threatening Iran, saying “a whole civilisation will die tonight.”
After Trump's latest shocking threats, Keir Starmer faces a choice.
Withdraw US access now to UK air bases, or risk letting British soil be used to commit war crimes.
The BBC is meant to be a public service broadcaster, sharing info with us so we can make good decisions and understand the world around us. Instead, it continues to fail the public, publishing half baked articles which expose people to bad info which leaves them vulnerable to grifters. (1/n)
Translation: “I don’t want to help the UK by paying tax”.
I am really growing very tired of hearing advice from super-wealthy people who so obviously put themselves first but pretend otherwise.
A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.
FACTCHECK UPDATE: No, the UK can't "be more like Norway" in the North Sea
🇬🇧 extracted most of its oil & gas after privatisation
🇳🇴 has much more left due to state stewardship
🤔Lawson spent UK windfall on tax cuts; Norway got a sovereign wealth fund
www.carbonbrief.org/...
Right on time to manipulate the markets, along with a threat to commit war crimes and terrorize civilians and noncombatants.
![The plumbing has been a can of worms. Even when she became a councillor in Trafford, in 2023,
"the Tories were saying I didn't have a proper job.
The Conservative group leader at the council - he's a landlord with however many houses. Whatever you think about that, he thought that I didn't do a proper job. Good job getting your houses checked [by a tradesperson] when you look down your nose at all the people who keep this country turning. They're the people in charge, they're the people that make the decisions, they're the people that run the country. It's alarming."
During the campaign, she invited Reform's candidate, Matt Goodwin, to do a day's work with her. "I said: I'd just love for you to genuinely see what it's like, experience a day in people's lives.
Doing work. Getting your hands dirty." What did he say? She laughs. "He didn't say anything." Time and again, Spencer's plumbing hinterland unearthed nothing except a reflexive contempt the](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q434kn7qa3kizd7d7st6n3ng/bafkreicmwt5vofvys2ly2rtmw6bicndae2owlft53ubbsubqgtg3izp6pu)
The plumbing has been a can of worms. Even when she became a councillor in Trafford, in 2023, "the Tories were saying I didn't have a proper job. The Conservative group leader at the council - he's a landlord with however many houses. Whatever you think about that, he thought that I didn't do a proper job. Good job getting your houses checked [by a tradesperson] when you look down your nose at all the people who keep this country turning. They're the people in charge, they're the people that make the decisions, they're the people that run the country. It's alarming." During the campaign, she invited Reform's candidate, Matt Goodwin, to do a day's work with her. "I said: I'd just love for you to genuinely see what it's like, experience a day in people's lives. Doing work. Getting your hands dirty." What did he say? She laughs. "He didn't say anything." Time and again, Spencer's plumbing hinterland unearthed nothing except a reflexive contempt the
The #oligarchy: looking down on "improper" trades while their empires rot without them. It’s a special brand of stupidity to hold the 99% in contempt when they’re the only ones keeping your lights on. Detached, arrogant, and dangerously clueless.
Wealth "creators".
Vote against them. #WealthTax
Also bad news sells. I mean why is this story not today's headlines: www.goodnewsnetwork.org/weve-been-ov...
Well done again @channel4news.bsky.social. They've just shown a clip of Trump's cabinet meeting and labelled it 'Operation Epic Sycophancy'. They're the only UK media outlet challenging Trump's ridiculous narrative in Iran.
Ever wonder why most of the media provide wall-to-wall coverage of everything the far right does or says, while ignoring far bigger rallies and events and far more interesting discussions elsewhere on the political spectrum?
There's no mystery. It's because they want the far right to triumph.
Two engraved drawings showing people working underground in a coal mine. The first image shows two people pushing a wagon. The second image shows people working with a pit pony to wind something.
These images of people working in coal mines are from an 1841 commissioned report into child employees in Derbyshire coal mines. They give some idea of how hard the work was and even show a pit pony in action.
Stunningly horrible tweet from the Home Office.
Tars everyone from 4 countries with
the same brush.
Dear. Sweet. Christ. I mean, I’m all for diversity of opinion, but this sort of fact-free fatuousness is to critical thinking what homeopathy is to medical science.
Has anyone ever seen a Better Together campaigner from 2014 haranguing the UK Government about the failure of all the promises made by them in 2024, particularly after the 2016 UK Brexit decision?
So vocal in 2014 and utterly silent ever since.
Scotland was absolutely skinned.
We need change.
Add your name to People's AI Manifesto action.eko.org/a/the-people...
Jared Kushner is claiming to be a "volunteer" in his work as an envoy.
But I don't think someone qualifies as a "volunteer" in a job where they are trying to shake down everyone they deal with for monetary compensation.
