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Well, who'd have thought? "the [world's] richest 0.1%...... are heavily invested in disaster preparedness, recovery and reconstruction – a market that is projected to grow from $70bn to $92bn a year by 2029" Another win - win for the parasitic super-rich www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Well, that’s just peachy! What a thoroughly well deserved tribute. Well done, that man.

Consultants will walk out over successive below inflation pay rises, long hours and poor treatment. KONP stands with all NHS workers who have been battling for years now in an understaffed and underfunded system. Both patients and staff deserve so much better. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some good news at last....

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

The climate crisis in one sentence: We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice

I've just got down to Parliament to present my petition in Parliament tonight for a Windfall Tax on the banks at this week's Budget. Let's tax them and bail out ordinary people for once! There's still time to sign the petition at the link below! c.org/b2fyXDswpJ

Democracy in action 👇

Lula "We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results." So many countries have this problem and need to slay this beast.

The BBC needs to provide an explanation for this.

Coming soon, on 12th November, How Finance Extracts the Wealth You Create..at the Frontline Club, and starring yours truly.... www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-...

This is when you know an organisation is screwed. The company is collapsing and the boss blames the staff.

As though by act of fate, this post appeared in my feed directly after yours. Where can I begin ? bsky.app/profile/stur...

Watch this important video. And make sure your MP sees it too.

Since the beginning of Trump’s second term, American democracy has been unwound at frightening speed. Analysis by the V-Dem Institute shows the rate of democratic backsliding in US is faster than we saw in Hungary, India, Russia or Serbia And if we don’t take urgent action it could happen here too

🎯 George was spot on ….. #BBC #MemeForToday

If you're a chief executive on a telephone number salary, at least have the grace not to complain about the taxes the fund the benefits your workers have to claim because you refuse to pay them enough to live on

The #BBChave a lot to answer for. This is blatantly unbalanced, highly questionable and worthy of investigation. Has Farage used his millions to buy them?

Former Head of MI6 Sir John Sawers says the Russians tried to interfere with the Brexit referendum as they saw an opportunity to ‘weaken' Europe. “The leaders of the Leave campaign rather fell into it" 👇

🚨 A bombshell new House Judiciary Democrats report details allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, including five who accuse Trump of sexual assault. The report also alleges a sweeping DOJ cover-up. We broke down the explosive findings.

Watch the full video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCmV...

Shame on the BBC

It’s absolutely disgusting that reform get a platform from taxpayers money to spout lies and hatred

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In the UK we are facing an unprecedented coalition of hostile states, enormously wealthy far-right individuals prepared to spend many hundreds of £millions to swing elections & a media & social media ecosystem which they almost entirely control - we are simply not ready youtu.be/8ap3DObeNEs?...

Breaking news: the rule of law asserts itself. I look forward to the day we will bring the rule of law roaring back!

Freedom and democracy are on a roll. Let's keep it going.

Fine & thanks - but what George is saying is "do something about it!"

Meanwhile at the BBC …..

Trump's betrayal is cynical self-interest, globally dangerous & contemptible. Trump’s Molotov-Ribbentrop-style pact with Putin may fatally compromise the western alliance. Ukraine's fall would haunt Europe & the wider geopolitical biosphere for decades, www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

This is such a good point- a neat turnaround to my point. Bravo, well said @jonahblank.bsky.social

Patriots one and all 🤣🤣🤣

It should be illegal for the President, VP, and lawmakers in Congress to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

“While each of us (voted Brexit) for different reasons, we all believed that the UK could do a better job of running its own affairs than *unelected officials* in Brussels could." Ben Houchen... November 2020 Six years later 👇👇👇

Deadline to respond @houseoflords.parliament.uk inquiry on children's social care is 23.59 tonight www.parliament.uk/business/lor... Wales is phasing out profits Scotland capping profits on homes, removing profits from foster care England should follow their example weownit.org.uk/news/nearly-...

If Brazil can reject Trump, the Broligarchs and right-wing authoritarianism, so can we.

The stock markets and bond markets are no supporters of democracy, and we should never allow them to dictate the limits of politics.

Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE already controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in, PE doesn't pay.

In one day, two politicians - Bolsonaro in Brazil and Vucic in Serbia - with ties to Trump have lost surprise elections thanks to high turnout. The rise of the international far-right is not inevitable.

Our Co-Chair @drjohnpuntis.bsky.social said: "With the collapse of NHS dental provision, suffering patients now find themselves in a wild west populated by cowboy dentists seeking not just to extract teeth but maximum profit." www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/...

💯The case for democracy is not that voters are always right, or wise, or good. It's that they can correct their mistakes. That's why it's so dangerous to have billionaires controlling the media or regulating the flow of information. It shuts down the immune system of democracy.