38 Degrees

@38degrees.bsky.social

People-powered campaigning for a fairer, more sustainable UK 🧡 Start your petition 👉 http://38d.gs/oOo Media enquiries 📧 press@38degrees.org.uk

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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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 👏

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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.

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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.

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.

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💰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.

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.

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