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

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BREAKING: FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning a divisive plan to sell World Cup profits to private equity after massive pushback.

Infantino abandons plans to sell World Cup profits to private equity following massive pushback

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is abandoning his divisive plan to sell World Cup profits to private equity after receiving pushback from all corners of the soccer world.

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thewire.in/world/andy-b... - Burnham’s reform agenda is embedded in key think tanks that in turn are embedded in Atlanticism - a pattern traceable back to PM clement Attlee who built the welfare state as well as NATO and the Anglo-American alliance

Andy Burnham’s Brains Trust: Progressive Think Tanks and the Limits of Reform in the Struggle Against Far Right

The intellectual groundwork for a more regionally attuned, post-neoliberal Labour politics is in place. Its success will depend on whether it can transcend the constraints of the very power structures...

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ldd.news/london/globa... - Coexistence of old and new forms of power in London has created a distinct financial oligarchy that is increasingly oblivious of the people, write Professor Inderjeet Parmar and Dr. Sasikumar Sundaram

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Trump, Liberal Crisis Machines, Elite Decay, and the Global Far Right – E-International Relations

As US hegemony weakens, rival powers rise, and governing elites struggle to maintain authority, the world is mired in a period of turbulence and uncertainty.

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Do 'journalists' actually think we swallow this shit, or do they just not care? 'The UK has allowed the US to launch "defensive" operations from British bases hosting American personnel and aircraft, while refusing to cooperate in offensive operations against Iran.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wes Streeting: UK not intimidated by Iran's 'sabre rattling'

The defence secretary warns Britain "stands ready to respond to any attacks Iran wishes to wage against this country or our allies".

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​Colombian President Gustavo Petro to Trump: "Instead of arresting the President of Venezuela over oil, you should have arrested Netanyahu, the genocide leader wanted by the International Criminal Court." #cdnpoli

Burnham wants to do what he did in Greater Manchester for the whole of the UK? But what does that mean for the people - not the property developers? Its time to end Rip off Britain. Join.greenparty.org.uk

House Democrats who voted against cutting $3.3 billion in aid to Israel received 3 times as much money from pro-Israel donors as those who voted in favor. www.stephensemler.com/p/why-98-dem...

theconversation.com/iran-is-turn... - This is a new normal for a US foreign policy establishment that retains militarist mindsets, a massive global military capacity and footprint, and values global primacy in an age of power shifts towards a more multi-polar world.

Iran is turning into the sort of ‘forever war’ that Donald Trump promised to avoid

There is no end in sight to the conflict between the US and Iran.

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Water companies reclassify bonus as retention payments, circumvent rules. Anglian Water CEO gets £1.3m retention pay. AW won't meet its regulatory targets. 44% rise in customer bills, sewage in rivers, 182m litres a day lost to leaks, criminal convictions. Govt/Ofwat do nothing. archive.ph/kmZz8

Anglian Water hands chief £1.3mn in retention pay despite bonus curbs

Nearly two-thirds of £1.9mn pay package paid by parent company unregulated by Ofwat

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histphil.org/2026/07/15/i... - “Evidence presented in the main article underscores a damning reality: liberal philanthropy’s ‘resistance’ is performative and bounded, easily subordinated to class and hegemonic imperatives.”

Inderjeet Parmar on the Hewlett Foundation

Editors’ Note: In this post, Inderjeet Parmar summarizes a journal article he wrote on the Hewlett Foundation, as part of a special section on “The Pathologies of Philanthropy,” edited …

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Can a city-region’s governing philosophy - ‘Manchesterism’ shape Britain’s approach to the Middle East? Our latest co-authored piece alongside leading Prof @usempire.bsky.social for @theamargi.bsky.social explores exactly that question.

Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism meets the Middle East

Whoever leads a G7 nation inherits responsibilities that reach far beyond domestic politics. For any British Prime Minister, the job demands navigating relationships with Washington and Brussels while...

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After this morning’s fatal ICE shooting, the community has come together to demand justice-NOT only for this latest loss of life, but for the broader pattern of deadly incidents reported nationwide🇺🇸 Hart28.com

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism meets the Middle East www.theamargi.com/posts/andy-b... has proved it can reshape Britain from the ground up. The unanswered question is whether it can also navigate an increasingly unstable world.

Lindsey Graham: A Faithful Servant of the American Foreign Policy Establishment. The article argues that Lindsey Graham is more than an individual political figure—he represents the remarkable continuity of the American foreign policy establishment across changing administrations.

Our latest piece with leading Prof @usempire.bsky.social for @thewire.in is now out: Read the full piece here: m.thewire.in/article/worl...

thewire.in/world/lindse... A critical reckoning demands not eulogies for such figures but scrutiny of system that produced/rewarded them. As US confronts relative decline, Graham’s hawkish adaptability offers a cautionary tale: one of hubris, costly overreach, and a refusal to learn from failure.

Lindsey Graham: A Faithful Servant of the American Foreign Policy Establishment

As the US confronts relative decline, Graham’s brand of hawkish adaptability offers a cautionary tale: one of hubris, costly overreach, and a refusal to learn from failure.

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thewire.in/world/andy-b... - energy.Advertisement Critically, however, this embeds Manchesterism within the national security state and Atlanticist priorities. Increased defence investment risks subordinating social investment to militarised Keynesianism

From Peterloo to Post-Neoliberalism: Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism or Managed Reform?

Manchesterism may humanise and localise British capitalism; whether it can fundamentally transform it remains the open, critical question.

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Liking Governor Newsom.......

In my latest article for @theamargi.bsky.social , co-authored with leading Professor @usempire.bsky.social , we examine how the World Cup has evolved into a mirror of America’s place in an increasingly multipolar world.

80% of Americans oppose the war in Iran. 93% of Israelis support the war in Iran. AMERICAN TAXPAYERS FUNDED ISRAEL IF ISRAEL WANTS A WAR MAYBE THEY NEED TO WORK HARDER SO THEY CAN AFFORD IT AMERICANS NEED TO PAY FOR HEALTHCARE COLLEGE HOUSING ETC. WE CUT USAID TIME TO CUT OFF ISRAEL

Happy 4th of July to all those celebrating #IndependenceDay. Our latest piece for @thewire.in is now live: “As the US Marks the 250th Anniversary of Its Founding Moment, a Profound Irony Emerges.” m.thewire.in/article/worl...

Many thanks to my leading co-author, Professor @usempire.bsky.social , for another stimulating collaboration. I’d be delighted to hear your thoughts. #July4 #USA250 #USPolitics #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience #EliteTheory #Democracy #ForeignPolicy #TheWire #Geopolitics

thewire.in/world/as-the... - Attention must be paid to the 'No Kings' movement’s nuanced reclamation of 1776, its battle against Trump’s hegemonic project, and the challenges and possibilities it faces in reshaping America’s democratic future.

As the US Marks the 250th Anniversary of Its Founding Moment, a Profound Irony Emerges

Attention must be paid to the 'No Kings' movement’s nuanced reclamation of 1776, its battle against Trump’s hegemonic project, and the challenges and possibilities it faces in reshaping America’s demo...

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thewire.in/world/emerge... The expansion of executive emergency powers and the rise of mass protest reveal deeper tensions over democracy, legitimacy and American global leadership.

Emergency Powers, Mass Protest and the Crisis of American Hegemony

The expansion of executive emergency powers and the rise of mass protest reveal deeper tensions over democracy, legitimacy and American global leadership.

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