Richard at UKverified

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I don't claim the past was better but progress isn't what it used to be with inequality, poverty and political disillusionment on the rise. Interests: Politics, news and current affairs.

Should the Conservatives by given a second chance, Kemi Badenoch certainly believes so but what about ordinary voters? My message to concerned voters would be not to worry as it will all work out alt right in the end. www.lbc.co.uk/article/bade...

Kemi Badenoch 'gives second chance' to local election candidate jailed for harassing Jewish MP | LBC

Joshua Bonehill-Paine was jailed in 2016, after he was convicted of racially aggravated harassment.

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Palantir the company from over there, over here. Except for when it comes paying tax on profits from revenue made from working for the UK government. Avoiding tax seems to be something Palantir are very good at but at they as successful in their day job? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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

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Surely, it is about time that Spain handed back its North African Territories, especially given their conviction that the UK should hand back Gibraltar? For comparison in 2025 there were about 40,000 migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta in 24 hours, Spanish territory's leader says

Spain's prime minister described the situation as an "attack" on its North African territory and said all illegal migrants would be returned to Morocco.

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Unreported World: The scale of illegal sewage dumping by England's privatised water companies. Enforcement: A quicker way of bringing about change in the water industry - instead of fining water companies why not fine water executives responsible for any illegality? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Secret court documents reveal potential scale of illegal sewage spilling

The new analysis from a prominent water campaigner emerged after secret court documents were leaked.

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England's privatised water industry, a dirty old business. Four former Southern Water executives have been charged with fiddling the data to preserve the company's bottom line and their bonuses. If it happened at Southern Water then what chance it happened at others? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests

Matthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.

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A damning report into Scottish football, in particular the Old Firm and the police. Will the authorities grasp the thistle and take the necessary firm action or will that have to wait until someone dies as a result of fan disorder? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Old Firm disorder report damning - how will authorities respond?

It took four months to land but, when it did, the independent review of crowd disorder at the Old Firm Scottish Cup quarter-final at Ibrox in March arrived with a mighty thud, writes Tom English.

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