I've just emailed my MP asking them to reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep hold of Thames Water. Take 2 mins to email your MP now: weownit.org.uk/angela-eagle... #WeOwnIt

Write to your MP: reject the creditors' last-ditch attempt to keep Thames Water privatised

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1/2 NHS England’s apology over Palantir engineers accessing identifiable patient data shows corporate convenience overriding the core Caldicott principle of "no surprises" in health privacy. 🚨 ​How can patient consent survive hidden vendor access? #HealthTech

NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data

The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information ...

publictechnology.net

Palantir calling its Q2 profits "otherworldly" is one way to describe powering state surveillance. 🛸 ​Turns out dodging "parasitic" AI models pays far better than worrying about human rights! #Palantir

‘This quarter was otherworldly’: Palantir earnings surge past expectations

Shares soar as yearly revenue up 93%, even as opposition grows to company’s role in Trump immigration agenda

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fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU@fife4europe.bsky.social · 7h ago

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

Dass #Palantir europäische Verteidigungs- und NHS-Aufträge an sich reißt und gleichzeitig Gewinne in die USA zurückfließen lässt. Völliges Versagen der digitalen Souveränität. Die EU müssen aufhören, Tech-Unternehmen zu bereichern, die die öffentlichen Kassen leeren.

fife4europe #FBPE #RejoinEU@fife4europe.bsky.social · 7h ago

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

Global warming has started to affect Europe as well! Cattle in Switzerland, France and Germany have been infected with the Orthobunya virus. It is typical for Africa, Australia an Oceania. www.watson.ch/schweiz/gesu...

Rätsel um kranke Kühe gelöst: Neues Virus bei Schweizer Rindern nachgewiesen

Das Institut für Virologie und Immunologie hat in Proben von erkrankten Rindern ein neues Orthobunyavirus der Simbu-Serogruppe entdeckt.

watson.ch

Tax laws for corporate thieves need to change in the EU and UK big time

Living on this planet, especially as a member of a privileged society, our lives are intimately bound with the lives of others, including those who live thousands of miles away. We cannot excuse ourselves from the responsibilities we owe to each other.

I fear we might see a new alignment between a radical right death cult and a rural revivalist "simplicity" drive, which views collapse and a return to "organic" communities as a solution to decadent urbanism. A century ago this convergence led to a very bad place. www.monbiot.com/2023/10/04/t...

The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed People

The astonishing story of how a movement’s quest for rural simplicity drifted into a formula for mass death

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How the banks enabled Epstein.

Susan@lablady1.bsky.social · 9h ago

THEY LOOKED THE OTHER WAY open.substack.com/pub/closerto...

And now Sarah Pochin… Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand

Investigate Reform MP Over Donation, Campaigners Demand

Sarah Pochin, Reform UK MP for Runcorn and Helsby, is facing pressure over a £5,000 donation from food industry millionaires that stand to benefit from her campaigning.  According to an investigation…

desmog.com

In @bradfordtanda.bsky.social 📰: PM #AndyBurnham must break #Brexit silence. Ignoring £182bn annual #UKEconomy hit makes better public services impossible. @europeanmovement.co.uk: This isn't time to sideline #EU reset! #Bradford #UKPolitics #RejoinEU 👇 Also view & share via @bestforbritain.org 👇

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · yesterday

EU membership is the best way to grow the UK economy. 🔊 'Mr Burnham cannot present himself as a "step forward" while sliding backwards on Europe. To fund social care without raising taxes or borrowing, he urgently needs economic growth.'

Let's all support the brave protesters in Georgia who are fighting the pro-Russian government in Tblisi 24/7 and want to join the #EU because they are Europeans and detest Putin and his oligarchs! You can find them by following the hashtag #GeorgiaProtests. Picture: @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social

Farage faces local opposition in Clacton [from Facebook]

LadyFluffyOrca 🫍📎 🇬🇧🇵🇸🇺🇦@ladyfluffyorca.bsky.social · 7h ago

I think we may’ve spoilt his promo video, they were filming on my drive so I said oi you can't film there unless you pay me £5 million

A MUST READ for UK residents in Spain when travelling "Valid TIE holders are fully exempt from EES. Use the EU/EEA/Swiss citizens and residents lane, present both passport and TIE at a manned desk, and NEVER use the e-gates" #Euronews #🇪🇦 euroweeklynews.com/2026/08/03/t...

TIE holders in Spain still confused by EES gates

Valid TIE holders are fully exempt from EES. Use the EU/EEA/Swiss citizens and residents lane, present both passport and TIE at the desk, & never use the e-gates

euroweeklynews.com

Has-bin: This could be the end of Nigel Farage

Has-bin: This could be the end of Nigel Farage

Reform’s leader expects to win Clacton comfortably – but scandals that could envelop the party are widening

thenewworld.co.uk

The EU's enlargement toolkit is not sufficient to face the threat of Russian interference 🧰 As aspiring member states prepare to enter the EU, what else can the Union do to protect them? CEP's Marko Todorović shares his views in Episode 4️⃣ of #InvigoratEU Talks🎙️ open.spotify.com/episode/5TaT...

A £240m contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £330m deal with the NHS, but only £2m of tax in the UK 🤔 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/05/palantir-corporation-tax-uk-2024-accounting-practices

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

Critics said the president’s latest AI fantasy crossed a line.

‘Stolen Valor’: Trump Ripped Over AI Pic Of Himself With Medals He Never Earned

Critics said the president’s latest AI fantasy crossed a line.

huffpost.com

I can’t believe we’re still having a debate about whether there’s a trade off between job creation and measures to green the economy. There isn’t. The evidence was clear years ago - a green economy creates far more jobs than the fossil fuel economy it replaces. Come on Labour, catch up …

Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules

Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups

theguardian.com

How the Ceuta border crossing incident immediately played into the hands of Spain’s far right The imagination is where a country’s attitude to migration is built northeastbylines.co.uk/news/world-n...

How the Ceuta border crossing incident immediately played into the hands of Spain’s far right

The imagination is where a country’s attitude to migration is built.

northeastbylines.co.uk

Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.

Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 7h ago

It's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.

Might be helpful to read today's column in conjunction with this one, from January, as they point to the same root cause: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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As an aside, if any other professionals were as incompetent as certain journalists, they'd be sacked and disbarred. But in the rightwing press, gross incompetence appears to be a qualification. After all, without its bullshitters for hire, how else would capital deny, deflect and distract?

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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#ClimateCrisis #ClimateCrisis

Reuters@reuters.com · 7h ago

Strong El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, UN agency says reut.rs/3RJibxX

Strong El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, UN agency says reut.rs/3RJibxX

Strong El Niño could push 49 million more people into acute hunger, UN agency says

A powerful El Niño weather event could push an additional nearly 49 million people into acute food insecurity across ‌some of the world's most vulnerable regions by the end of next year, the World Food Programme said on Wednesday.

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As the US government has given signals it would support a Moroccan invasion of Spanish territory to punish PM Sanchez, Rabat has been increasingly emboldened. Despite being an integral part of Spain, Ceuta & Melilla are not covered by NATO's article 5 because they're not in Europe or North America.

Spain sweats over its isolated territories in Africa

There are increasing doubts over who will have Madrid’s back if Morocco makes a move on the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla.

politico.eu

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🌞 Want proof that making polluters pay works? Malta has just secured EU funding to renovate homes, expand clean transport and help vulnerable households break free from fossil fuels. That's exactly what the EU ETS2 is designed to do. ✍️ Sign our petition to defend it: life-effect.org/petition/

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