Lucy Fyson
@lucyfyson.bsky.social
Cynical Optimist. Docs Filmmaker Trade Unionist. Studs Terkel & MillwallFC fan. South London 🌹
Last month, I joined a cross-party group of MPs calling on the Prime Minister to reject the Rosebank oil field. Approving Rosebank would be a grave mistake. It would undermine the UK's climate commitments, and lock us into further fossil fuel dependence when we should be focusing on clean energy.
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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The climate crisis is existential - and the devastating evidence is all around us. If they go ahead with this, Labour would deserve to lose seats. @andyburnham.bsky.social
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoLabour ‘could lose up to 50 seats’ to Greens if new drilling in North Sea approved
Shocking to discover designating AI data centres as “National Critical Infrastructure” means water companies are prohibited from restricting water to them even in times of drought. Households will lose water first. Thanks to @olliehayes.bsky.social at @globalactionplan.bsky.social for joining me
Data Centres vs. Drinking Water: What Matters To Us Most?
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min
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1/2 The Financial Conduct Authority's proof-of-concept deal with Palantir moves us in the wrong direction. A company facing allegations of human rights abuses and associated with significant data privacy and national security concerns should not be gaining a greater foothold in our public sector.
📌 ICYMI @nafeez.bsky.social Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how his former boss in the City became the party's treasurer vetting…
‘Posh George’, Two Passports, and a Fraudulent Identity: Convicted Fraudster and Nigel Farage Funder’s Connections to Reform UK’s Murky Financial Structures
Why did Reform UK change from being a privately-owned company to a non-profit company limited by guarantee in 2025? Nafeez Ahmed investigates a fraudulent identity used by George Cottrell – and how his former boss in the City became the party's treasurer vetting donations
bylinetimes.com
1/🧵EXCLUSIVE: @bylinetimes.bsky.social's six-month investigation into Reform UK's policy chief: a secret donation from Peter Thiel, Thiel's life-changing offers to Cambridge scholars, and a far-right, theocratic student recruitment drive in breach of safeguarding bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed
The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and foreign influence at...
bylinetimes.com
The only effective response to the USA’s breathtaking corruption is for the remaining countries to walk away. Let them have their own football “World Series” where the only entrants are from the US, and the only international spectator is Infantino.
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
When they said, "wear a suit," I just assumed… Find a public pool near you at nycgovparks.org.
In France 6 out of 10 households are served by publicly owned energy company EDF 💡 EDF just announced it will invest €80 million on cooling systems for schools, nurseries and daycare centres ❄️ This is why we need ambitious PUBLIC OWNERSHIP www.euronews.com/health/2026/...
French power utility pledges €80mn to cooling schools and nurseries
France’s state-owned power utility Électricité de France (EDF) will invest €80 million to equip schools, nurseries and daycare centers with cooling systems as the country faces increasingly severe hea...
euronews.com
A prime minister resigning always leaves the country in an unsettled position. Under our system, the public votes for a political party rather than a leader directly. When a prime minister steps down mid-term, it understandably raises questions about democratic legitimacy. (1/7)
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. The seventh richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
Sorry for the plug but I feel obliged to reshare this. Farage told a podcast before running for election: “There’s no money in politics, there’s no money if you’re straight [i.e. not corrupt]." Around the time he got £5 million from a crypto billionaire before going on to back crypto deregulation.
Nigel Farage Claimed There's 'No Money in Politics' Just Before Running for £91,000+ MP Job
EXCLUSIVE: Unearthed comments show Reform UK leader dismissing MP salary, just weeks before becoming Britain's highest-earning parliamentarian
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Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
The UK govt is Palantir’s 2nd biggest customer. Why? Or, more to the point, how? Our latest @thenerve_news investigation reveals a web of cronyism into the highest levels of govt. But Palantir also has a spin machine that uses political journalists to launder its PR 1/
Carole Cadwalladr@carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 6mo agoNEW: Palantir’s revolving door. A new investigation by @thenerve.news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption. 1/ Link ⬇️
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
"Every major step forward in this country has depended on people being able to gather, march and speak." Today, MPs must vote against Lords Amendment 312 and reject this vast expansion of anti-protest powers. tribunemag.co.uk/2026/04/prot...
Protest Is Not a Privilege
Next week, MPs will vote on a bill to give police unprecedented powers to ban recurring protests, turning a fundamental freedom into a privilege granted by the state. It must be opposed.
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More Fascism from the "land of the free".👇
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe FBI is “proactively” identifying “domestic terrorists,” including anyone with critical views on “capitalism,” “Americanism,” “Christianity,” “migration,” “race,” “gender,” and “family.” Essentially, every single Bluesky user. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/fbis-new-p...
London. Waiting for the massive anti far right demo to start. @togetheralliance.bsky.social & sending solidarity to our US friends #NoKings
Palantir has no place in our NHS. The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now. Listen to what health workers are saying. news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...
NHS hospitals urged to reject £330m data platform part-owned by Trump ally
The NHS Federated Data Platform is designed to collate information from across the service so hospitals can analyse it more easily and improve how care is delivered and supporters say it is already he...
news.sky.com
#RegulateAI #RegulateBigTech #ai www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’
theguardian.com
Lucy Fyson@lucyfyson.bsky.social · 11mo agoAre the Labour government still - naively - intent on "injecting ai into the uk public's veins" ??!! 👇👇 FFS #RegulateBigTech #ai www.theguardian.com/politics/202... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
#RegulateAI #RegulateBigTech #ai www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Revealed: UK’s multibillion AI drive is built on ‘phantom investments’
Exclusive: Rented datacentres and unrealised supercomputer site raise questions for Starmer’s push to ‘mainline AI into veins of economy’
theguardian.com
Lucy Fyson@lucyfyson.bsky.social · 11mo agoAre the Labour government still - naively - intent on "injecting ai into the uk public's veins" ??!! 👇👇 FFS #RegulateBigTech #ai www.theguardian.com/politics/202... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Freezing rail fares = step in right direction But if Keir Starmer wants to "put train travel back into the service of passengers not profits" he must 🚄bring ROLLING STOCK into public ownership 🚄give PASSENGERS a real say 🚄kick ALL private profits out www.cityam.com/rail-fares-f...
Rail fares frozen in first pause for 30 years
A freeze on regulated rail fares has come into effect with ministers claiming the move will save passengers around £600m over the coming year.
cityam.com
