Angry Badger
@badgercooper.bsky.social
Hard working Dad, dab hand freelance Documentary Editor and tireless foe of downright evil right wing freeloaders, bigots and their enablers. Passionate LFC fan, adores RPG’s and Boardgames and Crazy Cat Dad.
Palantir hoovering up European defence and NHS contracts whilst funnelling earnings back to the US to pay negligible corporate tax is a complete failure of digital sovereignty. European states must stop enriching tech firms that drain public coffers. Is it time to ban them? #FBPE
Palantir funnels earnings to US to avoid European taxes, report finds
A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe, which helps slash its tax bill.
politico.eu
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite £247m revenue, £25.3m profit. Doesn't pay much anywhere, effective global tax rate is 1.4% Shifts profits through intragroup transactions, enjoys tax breaks. UK Govt rewarding it with public contracts, enriching execs & shareholders.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
Software group benefits from global systems and accounting practices ‘that enable tax to be shirked’, says union boss
theguardian.com
🚨Giovanni Leoni: After 10 months, I’m back on the pitch. But I feel really good, in the last weeks I felt really good. The knee is looking good & I'm feeling the knee really good, so I can’t wait to be back with the team as soon as possible & then come back to play games in front of the fans. #LFC
Badenoch playing dress up to promote her policy of 1,000 new police officers. I wonder if the police like me feel conned, when under the Tories they cut thousands of police, still the right wing press ignore the facts to promote a lie.
Kemi Badenoch on Today defending the neo-Nazi council candidate by saying that it is right to give those who have previously been radicalised a chance. Badenoch on Shamima Begum, whom was groomed by Islamic State when a child, "Citizenship is a privilege, she forfeited it." 🤔
So Badenoch would recruit a neo-Nazi but *not* someone who didn’t want to leave the ECHR or someone who supported our NetZero commitments. Second chances for this guy but not Dominic Grieve. The Tory party is truly wretched. It’s screwed the country, betrayed its own and lost its tiny mind.
![Badenoch defends former neo-Nazi pick as council candidate
By Will Meakin-Durrant
Kemi Badenoch has said her party
"believes in second chances".
, after
the Conservatives selected a former neo-Nazi once jailed for harassing a Jewish former MP as a local election candidate.
Joshua Bonehill-Paine
posted on social media that he was "tremendously proud" that he has been chosen to stand for election to Somerset Coun-cil, in the Crewkerne South ward.
Bonehill-Paine (inset) was jailed in 2016 after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.
He wrote several blog posts about the former Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, Baroness Luciana Berger, labelling her "an evil money-grabber" with a "deep-rooted hatred of men".
He was previously jailed for producing an ad illustrated with a picture of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz, which promised "an absolute gas" at a rally in Golders Green, north London.
Badenoch said: "I want to be very clear - and I think people can look at me and know that I'm not a person who would be recruiting neo-Nazis.
"Josh is someone who actually has been certified by the Home Office to train police officers on antisemitism and on countering extremism.
"Yes, he [has] previously convicted but he has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.
"And the Conservative Party believes in second chances."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:c4xtyto7nrklhfkroyrsce2w/bafkreicb7ehutwjwq4iundbhvecrngv57va75dd54vru2qurb7gq2ve3xa)
Badenoch represents double-down conservatism. Never apologise or moderate. Insult your opponents. Patronise journalists when challenged. Contradict yourself, lie, whatever it takes, but never back down. And that's how you end up creating an extremely avoidable Tory antisemitism scandal overnight
The Premier League returns this month. As a lifelong Red, I’ve written to Liverpool FC about links to six sponsors implicated in Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians. The club has not yet responded. Liverpool must answer supporters and end complicity in apartheid and genocide.
I absolutely agree. #FreePalestine #YNWA #LFC
Zarah Sultana MP@zarahsultana.bsky.social · yesterdayThe Premier League returns this month. As a lifelong Red, I’ve written to Liverpool FC about links to six sponsors implicated in Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians. The club has not yet responded. Liverpool must answer supporters and end complicity in apartheid and genocide.
Russia's MoD claims air defense shot down 1,158 Ukrainian drones in 24 hours. With what, Wildberries warehouses and oil refineries?
I’m not the type of fan who believes every problem is solved by the transfer market but apart from the potential marquee signing of Barcola which has a strong chance it won’t happen, there’s radio silence Utter negligence on the part of the board At least 1 versatile defender needed #LFC
every single time this happens the next reporter should ask the same question. and then the next. and the next. he’s not going to cut off access. he craves attention too much for that. call his fucking bluff.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
China’s carmakers spent decades watching, learning and investing. Now they’re building better-equipped electric cars at lower prices than Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes-Benz. It’s a growing problem for German Chancellor Friedrich Merz. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/chin...
Unreal that three games into pre-season and we’re lining up with Chambers and Ndukwe at CB 😱🙈 #LFC
Four great B/W films Great Expectations Duck Soup Yojimbo A Touch Of Evil #FourGreatBWFilms
Duke@silverduke.bsky.social · 3d agoFour great B/W films: 12 Angry Men Kind Hearts and Coronets Rashomon Roman Holiday
A quick word on science literacy. If you are able to grasp that reducing man-made air pollution can impact global climates, then you MUST be able to grasp that man-made greenhouse emissions can do the same. You cannot "trust the science" on one and not the other 21/
I need to sleep but after all this World Cup malarkey it’s so good to have my true love #LFC playing again.
Bollocks. Bill Oddie can't be dead, because that means only one Goodie remains. And because the song that always plays in my head when I hear his name feels all wrong today. Bill Oddie Bill Oddie Put your hands all over my body. I hope he'd laugh at that. He made my childhood gleeful. RIP
The Torygraph really has gone from respectable broadsheet to bat shit crazy conspiracy theorist culture wars obsessed RW rag for posh twats.
And yeah, immigration is complicated - with winners and losers and increased supply and increased demand - by it is fascinating to see people make such noise about tiny sums on ie bus fares when they never think to ask about the massive economic effects of one of our main policy areas.
Yes. A good example is the financial havoc this Government & the previous Tory Government is inflicting on the university sector through restricting international student numbers.
Similarly in the debate about net zero (a very popular policy) "but what if you ask if people are prepared for higher prices to pay for it?" / "need to be honest with voters about the costs" - noone ever does this re: cutting migration.
My instinct when someone says this shit is not 'you're so hardcore', it's 'you are not going to perform well'.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w agoJapan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has said she gets just “zero to three hours” of sleep a night, prompting a debate in the country over work-life balance.