Voters want Palantir out of the NHS, and ministers may have a good excuse to make that happen in the next 12 months By @willem-moore.bsky.social

NHS to reevaluate Palantir effectiveness following pushback

Voters want Palantir out of the NHS, and ministers may have a good excuse to make that happen in the next 12 months

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Right-wing newspapers are blaming Europe's blazing wildfires on anything but climate change and its human-made causes by @cjmbaillie.bsky.social

Right-wing press blame anything but human-made climate change for deadly wildfires

Right-wing newspapers are blaming Europe's blazing wildfires on anything but climate change and its human-made causes.

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A data center was just shut down in Wisconsin after the town council refused to have private talks with the developer and told them everything would include public approval That’s how it’s done, folks

It's been an absolute honour to visit Clacton fewer times than I've visited America, hold zero surgeries and do fuck all for the town.

Major oil firms make $93bn profits in just 3 months amid war and climate crisis. They shift profits, dodge taxes, fuel poverty and inflation. They don't bear the social cost of their business. Forever holding people/govts to ransom. Polluters must pay. Need windfall tax now.

Revealed: major oil firms make $93bn profits amid war and climate crisis

Iran conflict windfall over three months reignites calls for companies ‘cashing in on human misery’ to pay for environmental damage

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How the hell have journalists allowed Farage and Yusuf to pretend that their Royal Navy idea is a ‘humanitarian’ mission if ‘innocent’ immigrants are taken back to France, but a full-scale war-like ‘invasion’ of ‘illegals’ if coming our way? I mean, seriously. Please don’t be this hopeless…

"Dear Diary The launch of our scheme to use the Royal Navy to stop small boats has gone exactly to plan. It is so patently absurd that it is all anyone can talk about, providing the perfect distraction from all our dodgy financial dealings"

BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.

BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring

Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record

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This is what Reform UK have done to our country - aided and abetted by the media

£324,233 the average amount Councils have to pay for every one of the more than 50,000 children in private care. £80,000 the amount of profit they take per child which is never spent on anything. This con is one of the reasons Council have no money.

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy. Datacentre prioritised over building affordable homes. Little attention to environmental issues. Govt overturning local council refusal is not devolution or democracy. Big business always wins.

Approval of east London datacentre labelled ‘slap in the face’ for local democracy

Campaigners decry Angela Rayner’s backing for Brick Lane project that has only 11 affordable homes

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I guess he's just lucky there's no record of him supporting Net Zero

The explosion of 'Asylum Seekers coincided with... Brexit. It wasn't a coincidence, Nigel CAUSED it. Are some people still this unenlightened and bereft of Critical Thinking?

Prosecute water company execs. #Renationalise water.

Good Law Project@goodlawproject.org · 2d ago

Since 2021, the 10 largest private water companies in the UK have hiked up their bills by an average of 56% while spilling sewage more than 1.8 million times 💰💩 Find out what the sewage scandal has cost you – and send Andy Burnham a message 👇 https://goodlaw.social/4rcc

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election. Convictions for assaulting police officer, burglary of a police station, malicious communications, anti-semitism, racially aggravated harassment, harrasing MPs. Tories chasing Reform vote.

Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election

Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP

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Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him

Curse of Private Equity Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms – fees are up, food is frozen. Usual PE practices. Build local monopolies, high debt and prices, profiteering, worst services, high exec pay, shareholder returns. Parents/Children abused. Govts do nothing. archive.ph/Yk4Eh

Our nurseries were bought by private equity firms - fees are up and food is frozen

Nurseries are spending millions on their investors – at parents' expense, analysis shows

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We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.

Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d ago

And why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?

Fascinating change in BBC news bulletins about Reform. Farage announcement on small boats only gets the third spot and is balanced by critics saying he's trying to distract from allegations over his finances. Quite the change from the uncritical coverage earlier this year.

Make no mistake, this woman is a shit-stirring idiot.

This ban is both ridiculous and authoritarian. #SortItBurnham

Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 4d ago

AMAZING MOMENT A woman came back still wearing a custody tshirt having been released for a terrorism arrest. While being arrested for declaring support for Palestine Action a second time, another woman came back to do the same. The opposition to this ban cannot be contained.

A few facts about Water Nationalisation. 1. We don't need to pay for it. 2. We don't need to pay THEIR debts. 3. They don't invest anything, that is YOUR money that they steal almost all of, then the tiny bit they don't is 'investment'. Freeze bills, fine them. Nationalise for free.

MPs are trying to push Thames Water into a 'cooperative model'. Basically they have a babysitter from the State who sits with them until they behave, then in a few years it is back to business as usual. NO, end the con, Nationalise.

Nigel Farage secretly agreed to return as Reform's leader months before the 2024 general election, according to a Sunday Times investigation, an agreement that directly contradicts his own account of when he decided to come back.

Crumbling infrastructure & lack of water jeopardising govt plans for new homes. Privatisation of England's water prioritised shareholder returns. No new reservoirs, desalination plants, or national grid of water. Companies don't do national planning. Yet govts intoxicated with privatisation

‘We cannot magic up more water’: the supply problems putting housing targets in England at risk

Council leaders say crumbling infrastructure and lack of water are jeopardising government’s plans for new homes

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Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as Reform leader months before the election, and showed it to the treasurer in May 2024.So the man who claimed he “wasn’t involved in politics” and therefore didn’t need to declare gifts was already cutting leadership deals behind the scenes.😆

It just keeps on coming… Farage struck deal to return as leader long before Sunak called surprise 2024 vote, so his claim that he wasn’t involved in politics when he got his £5million “gift” is, of course, another grubby lie. The man is garbage. Grifting, lying, cheating garbage. (Sunday Times)

Oh look… Farage is in trouble… time to turn up the volume on anti-immigration howling and hatemongering… It’s so predictable, it’s pitiful. Both in terms of the party and its supporters. The racist get-out-of-jail-free card for the corrupt, the hard-of-thinking and the haters.

HERE’S WHAT REALLY HAPPENED The Met Police are desperate to save face following their unjustified attack on peaceful protesters yesterday. 152 people were arrested outside Westminster Magistrates Court, most of whom had a court listing in their name for a “terrorism” charge.