Thousands of 38 Degrees supporters have now filed formal legal objections demanding NHS England block US spy-tech firm Palantir from handling their private medical records.
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Andy Burnham slashing VAT from energy bills is a great step in the right direction, but much more still needs to be done to tackle Britain's cost of living crisis.
Today, on the International Day of Action against Palantir, we handed in 295,348 petition signatures to Downing Street demanding the Government end US spy-tech company Palantir’s contract and stop our private health data being accessed by them.
Andy Burnham admits Brexit has done "more harm than good". Would you back Burnham if he committed to re-join the EU?
HUGE WIN: Andy Burnham is scrapping Thatcher’s ban on public ownership of water! Now let’s end private profit from sewage for good.
From tomorrow, UK household energy bills go up by the biggest rise in 4 years! Make sure to submit a meter reading before tomorrow to ensure your supplier doesn’t overcharge and consider switching to a fixed tariff if you can to avoid potential winter increases!
What if getting older or needing care didn’t mean worrying about whether you could afford it? Andy Burnham has announced plans for an NHS-style National Care Service, free at the point of use and funded by everyone. It could be a huge step towards fixing England’s broken social care system.
Today at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, we joined forces with Fairtrade Foundation, Kenyan coffee farmer Martin Kinyua, and drag star Tia Kofi to send a message to the PM: ‘wake up and smell the inequality in the coffee’ and make sure farmers get paid fairly for what they grow.
Andy Burnham has proposed an NHS-style social care system. Would you support scrapping the triple lock to pay for it?
Don't want your private health records handed over to a foreign spy-tech corporation? You have a legal right to object to your health data being used in Palantir’s national database, and by law, NHS England must reply to every single submission.
Why won’t the Government share this secret climate change report when the findings show it’s a critical threat to national security? 👀
Our new 8,000-person mega MRP poll with @survation.bsky.social shows that fixing the cost of living unites people from every single one of Great Britain’s 631 constituencies. home.38degrees.org.uk/2026/09/24/c...
Tony Blair wants Britain to rejoin the EU within 10 years. If Labour promised to rejoin, would it change your support?
NEW: Our new mega MRP poll carried out by @survation.bsky.social, shared in @theguardian.com, shows Andy Burnham is starting to attract a significant number of left-leaning voters back to Labour in hope of blocking Nigel Farage. by @jessicaelgot.bsky.social and Ashley Kirk
Wealthy people pay less tax on artwork and property sales than teachers and nurses pay on their wages. 👏 tax 👏 capital 👏 gains 👏 wealth 👏 the 👏 same 👏 as 👏 work 👏
NEW: Without public funding, 63% of BBC TV and drama would disappear or go behind paywalls. Our new report with the Social Market Foundation reveals that ending public funding could wipe out 40% of the BBC’s £411m drama budget and reduce the £64m Arts & Music budget to just £3m.
We’re launching our biggest anti-Palantir tactic yet: a mass legal objection to keep spy-tech out of our NHS. You have a legal right to object to your health data being used in Palantir’s national database - and by law, NHS England must reply to every single submission. See below for the link.
Ofwat has provisionally approved £3.4 BILLION in extra water bill hikes. Why are we paying for corporate failure? Bring them into public ownership now.
Burnham is considering a tax cut for lower earners, funded by higher Capital Gains Tax. Is this the budget fix we need?
It's time for decision makers to take this seriously. We need new laws to protect the people, not Big Tech.
Heather Preen’s mum says she “won’t stop until something changes” after her eight-year-old daughter died of E. coli contracted on a Devon beach.
Millionaires are begging to be taxed more. If you loved the UK, wouldn’t you also want to help save it?
Why is the Government giving confidential patient data to a foreign surveillance firm?
Energy bills go up AGAIN in two weeks time. Is it time to slash standing charges or is there a better solution?
As if forcing households to foot higher water bills for data centres guzzling millions of litres a day wasn't enough, Big Tech is now triggering a "tidal wave" of toxic forever chemicals.
💰Hoarded wealth is holding us all back. That's why we've sent Burnham a message in a bottle from 150,000 of you, with a treasure map to track it down. We can turn the UK around, but we have to end the failed austerity experiment & finally invest properly in our country.
Yesterday we delivered a 180,000-strong petition to Andy Burnham’s new No10 North office in Manchester alongside @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social, @oxfamgb.bsky.social and @patmillsuk.bsky.social 📸 Photo credit: Mark Waugh
Nottingham has officially banned balaclavas in the city centre with £70 fines. Should this rule be rolled out nationwide?
Trump's America isn't going to protect us from reckless AI advances. And when the very scientists building AI are terrified of what comes next, allowing unregulated AI to run unchecked isn't progress, it's reckless.