Hylder Adox
@hylderadox.bsky.social
The only thing to be intolerant of is intolerance. PR supporting. Green member. Opinions my own.
Palantir paid just £2m corporation tax in UK in 2024 despite lucrative public sector contracts
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 The software group Palantir paid just £2m in corporation tax in the UK in 2024, despite holding public sector contracts worth hundreds of millions, thanks to tax breaks that are likely to reduce its contributions to governments around the world for years to come. The US-headquartered company, which has harnessed AI to secure lucrative work for the NHS and the Ministry of Defence, is growing exponentially. Continue reading...
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Bloody short sighted ideologically corrupt idiots.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 18h agoThe UK government is scrapping Net Zero and environmental criteria from procurement rules.
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · yesterdaynews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026. Result of profiteering and govt policies. Sufficient to increase frozen personal income tax allowance by nearly £2,000. Banks paid out £25bn in bonuses in the year to March, can easily pay more tax.
Windfall tax on colossal bank profits could raise £19bn in 2026
Burnham urged to resist lobbyists and tax banks to pay for his cost of living measures
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BP's quarterly profits more than doubled to £4.2 billion in the three months to the end of June. These are the profits of war and climate chaos. It's time to make the biggest polluters pay.
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterdayBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
They've fallen down the conspiracy hole and have definitely ended up basically making tropes. Are there several influential pro Israel groups in the UK, yes. Are they all Zionist, no. Do they have complete control of political parties, no. Also, I like Zack, but this sounds personality cultish.
James Austin@jamesdaustin.bsky.social · yesterdayA party that was actually anti-racist would be kicking this person out, not allowing them to run for the Governing Committee. There are many decent Greens who will be disgusted by this and I wish them all power fighting back against it. We know from experiance how hard that is.
We could and should be dealing with our own waste, what can't be recycled can be used to produce hydrogen helping the move away from fossil fuels.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayUK plastic ‘waste colonialism’ found to be polluting Turkey’s farming heartland
True, also not helped by Labour deciding everyone with a conscience engaging in climate or anti genocide activism is a terrorist.
Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · yesterdayThe state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
'Certified by the Home Office to train police'... Looks at the Home Office and state of police forces, yeah a Nazi makes sense.
Tom Roberts@tpgroberts.bsky.social · yesterdayAbsolutely crackers, extremely self serving as a defence as there is absolutely no chance she'd extend this same benefit of the doubt elsewhere, which becomes obvious in the, factually incorrect, statement on early release she can't resist tagging on at the end.
Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/far-rig...
Far right thug who marched as "defender of women" battered his own mum
Alan Miller took to streets on march to "Protect Our Women and Kids". We can now reveal that he was convicted of assaulting his own mum at her home
dailyrecord.co.uk
Left: Yvette Cooper saying something about small boats Right: Yvette Cooper's legacy is a policy which saw the daughter of a Holocaust survivor arrested a couple of days ago, "This is not what my parents died for.. I'm glad they didn't live to see this"
Resigning a chair is one thing, but the Cody Butler is also leaving the party - I think his statement that chasing Reform's voters with Reform's politics does Reform's work for it, is extremely insightful <side-eye to Labour's Red Wall and Blue Labour tendencies>
1/4 The Government's own National Security Assessment identifies biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse as imminent risks to our security, resilience and prosperity.
Ask your damn AI what this all means and what to do about it FFS. youtu.be/uw--rQBsi8E Expect a LOT more news like this, with very few fingers being pointed at who’s been responsible for decades. Nobody can pretend they weren’t warned. But lets do more North Sea gas yeah? FFS.
Romania blasts Danube River to protect nuclear plant cooling
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Nature burns while fossil fuel companies make obscene profits... westcountryvoices.co.uk/make-pollute...
Make polluters pay - West Country Voices
Bournemouth and Poole Greenpeace calls on Government to “Make Polluters Pay” as Shell announces bumper profits. Activists from Bournemouth and Poole Greenpeace staged protests outside two Shell petrol...
westcountryvoices.co.uk
will just point out that The Guardian asked Reform and the Tories for comment but not the Green Party, the only one actually led by a Jewish person
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoFormer neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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
inews.co.uk
Why should we compensate failing companies when they don't deliver the services we all rely on? They took the risk - they should pay the price.
The Japanese steelmaker JFE Steel has announced that it has successfully produced a prototype of direct reduced iron (DRI) using ‘green’ hydrogen for the first time in the country. This was reported by Global Hydrogen Review. gmk.center/en/news/jfe-...
JFE Steel has produced the first DRI prototype using green hydrogen
The trials took place from 29 June to 1 July
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Rod Liddle, who once wrote in The Spectator that he couldn’t work as a teacher because he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from shagging the kids, has died aged 66. I won’t be shedding any tears, personally.
So, this is just rough numbers from searching online. The average UK farm is 198 acres, to minimally irrigate that for a month you need ~2.5k m3 of water (Olympic swimming pool basically). Would a series of cisterns and pumps integrated into an overhead or bifacial agrivoltaic systems be feasible?
‘A rough calculation finds that covering AI capex through identifiable AI income requires revenue on the order of $2.5trn per year, more than tech’s entire combined revenue today (and far higher than what would have been needed a year or so ago, when capex plans were more modest)’.
AI revenues are growing fast, but not fast enough
The returns on trillions of dollars of spending are deeply uncertain
economist.com
Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...
More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds
The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.
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