ddraigdee.bsky.social

Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

RefUK, RW media, & Eurofash are plainly trying to whip up a panic about this. Any serious report must begin by explaining that Ceuta is in Africa - not mainland Spain - and 48k+ of the 50k crossers were already returned. It is frightening how many still don't know this. Please share on all socials.

Elsewhere on the BBC: Waterstones bosss says UK not reading enough Wetherspoons boss says UK not drinking enough Next boss says UK not buying enough clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's happening www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/uk-worl...

UK public service contracts account for 10% of Palantir’s Global Revenue….but it pays less tax here than countries with smaller outlays, such as S Korea, France, Japan, Germany. And markedly less than the 25% rate for companies of its size.

Very useful discussion on the curse that is the private equity sector. This focuses on the UK. (Ronan Farrow is also discussing its deadly impact on nursing homes & 🏥 in the US too.) Link to podcast convo at the end. Thanks to @bylinetimes.bsky.social www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-financ...

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵

✍️Write to your local paper now. 👏 Take action and help supercharge our economy. 👇👇👇 https://letter-to-the-editor.vercel.app/c/secure-eu-membership

Under cover of the World Cup, ICE rounded up 10,000 people in five days www.yacnews.com/under-cover-...

When I head to Washington, I will be the first woman in Congress with a science PhD. That matters. At a time when science is under attack, Congress needs more leaders who understand the value of evidence-based decision-making.

"The overall findings are emphatic: Brexit has made the UK poorer than it would have been had the UK remained in the EU." https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/brexit-10-brexit-has-been-an-economic-failure/

“‘So, if you’re happy to go ahead,’ the staff member said, ‘I’ll need proof that you have £300,000 in assets and can afford the £8,200 monthly fees.’ Relief…quickly turned to panic. A few seconds of mental arithmetic told me we were looking at almost £100,000 a year. ” apple.news/A57wghANzQUe...

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.

France accuses Israeli firm of interfering in Scottish elections and targeting SNP

Congo's Ebola surge traps women as unpaid caregivers facing highest infection risk with only cheap masks while authorities withhold protective gear from clinics. #CongoWomenRisk

👉NEW -- UK media fails to disclose defence industry ties of most military commentators by Amy Killingbeck & @iainoverton.bsky.social Former military officers are weighing in on wars and defence spending without public awareness of their commercial interests www.declassifieduk.org/uk-media-fai...

New dystopia just dropped

BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender.

NEW: Today we roll out Quiet Riot: B-SIDE! @laylamoran.bsky.social - the only Palestinian MP in Westminster, speaks with authority, sense and of course immense passion in today’s interview about settlements in the West Bank, the Balfour declaration & why Britain should be doing more. 🎧👇

Farage has devastated our country. His Brexit campaign has crippled our growth, our businesses, and our opportunities. His rhetoric on immigration has poisoned our political debate and sowed deep division in our nation. He can never be allowed to enter Number 10.

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

How to change this debate. " Being outside the EU costs every UK household an average of £8,300 every year. But being inside again would only cost each UK household £38 every year. Do you still think we should stay out? "

Has anyone in the press picked up what happened in 2019. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reported, Farage and Johnson colluding with US based Bannon to topple May. According to Ben Habib, Thailand based Harborne paying Johnson and Farage to stitch up 2019 elections bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Trump brought the NVIDIA CEO on his trip to China to lobby Xi Jinping to buy advanced AI chips, even though it would create a U.S. national security threat. It turns out Trump also bought millions in NVIDIA's stock. The President's corruption is a national security disaster.

If you totted up the sums for every financial scandal in British politics (£2k per parliamentary question for cash-for-questions, £200k for Johnson’s No 10 renovation, the cost of that very nice campervan) even with second tier stuff like Rayner and Polanski, would you get close to £5mn *in total*?

Israel just dropped bombs on a medical center in Qsaibeh, South Lebanon. Not a battlefield. Not a weapons depot. A medical center. Israel is hunting and killing the people who save lives. This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

#BBCNews - 'Millions' of pounds saved by replacing Palantir tech in refugee system www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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/

Read our new report in @thenerve.news. Palantir has been able to take root in the UK because lobbying & spinning is so easy here. We have a tiny journo-political class that incessantly overlaps, a hotbed for cronyism that’s enabled Palantir to infiltrate every aspect of state 5/

Aside from the morally corrupt leadership is the impact Palantir has on UK innovation. We’ve some of the best computer engineers & data scientists in the world & could absolutely build the tooling Palantir provides right here, benefiting the UK economy. But we’ve allowed Palantir to crowd them out.

Good piece of sleuthing here tracking down the real identity of “Kardo Ranya” an Iraqi-Kurdish people smuggler whose network offers to transport migrants all the way from Iraq to the U.K. for €17,000. For that 100 people might be forced into boats designed for 20 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"We're no longer in Europe, we no longer have a data-sharing agreement with many of the countries in Europe. So we don't see lower level [criminal] records," the union's Lucy Moreton told BBC Radio 4.”

“Since Brexit, getting access to some information about potential criminals has been more difficult, says the Immigration Services Union.”

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

Momentum is building in our conversation on EU membership. Help keep to it going. We want to see letters in every local paper across the UK.

Starmer is well aware of what needs to be done. Here is what he said when voting for Johnson's UK-EU deal. Services "a gaping hole", "lack of ambition", "Imperfect", "thin", "a basis to build on". Share, to show the PM that you back him going further and faster to improve our deal with the EU. ~AA

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

Britain should rejoin EU, says man who led Brexit department Philip Rycroft, who oversaw the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to 2019, said none of Leave’s ‘heady promises’ had materialised www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

An influential pro-Israel lobby group named ELNET has been quietly taking UK journalists on propaganda tours of Israel, @john-mcevoy.bsky.social reveals. The journalists who participated have written for the Telegraph, Spectator, and Mail on Sunday. www.declassifieduk.org/lobby-group-...

🚨🚨Great news: EU forges ahead with membership for #Ukraine and #Moldova after #Orbán’s exit. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/eu-f...

🚨🚨New @bestforbritain.org report argues I think convincingly that a push for UK membership of the EU would galvanise support among progressive voters, recognising that other halfway options such as customs union or EEA are would offer to limited benefits. 🧵 www.bestforbritain.org/push_for_eu_...

How surprising! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

And another one www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Philip Rycroft, who ran the Dept for Exiting the EU, says the U.K. should rejoin 👏 www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

We’re digging into the links between MPs and private healthcare. Rishi Sunak took a £15.9k donation from a firm making £135M+ in Dept of Health contracts. Politicians shouldn't have ties to private healthcare sector. Support our investigation to expose the truth: link in bio.