Politicians should look at the UK economy as a CEO would, says Lloyds Bank CEO
From a bank that hasn't investigated HBOS frauds.
No thank you. Companies enrich shareholders. Countries have entirely different purpose, governance, accountability. Must not be treated as corporations.
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Green MSP Kate Nevens and SNP MP Lara Bird have been kidnapped by Israel for trying to enter Palestine.
The Prime Minister should be demanding their immediate release.
History’s first Trillionaire was made while people are wondering how to afford food and rent. While people are barely getting by, autocrats and rich technology billionaires set our planet on fire.
From Brazil to Brussels ,from France to India people are marching in the streets.
WE ALL SAY ENOUGH
“People are demanding action on rents, the cost of the climate emergency and about how we can bring people's bills down and yet what we're about to see is just the same old.”
Hannah Spencer on the government's approach to Wednesday's Budget, speaking at the Cost of Living rally.
>>Don't appease.
Don't triangulate.
Don't grovel.<<
This is ironic! 100% hypocritical of George Monbiot who appeased and grovelled to pro-Israel Zionists by attacking Greens for their resolution "Zionism is racism".
He believes that Zionists have "legitimate" grounds for displacing Palestinians.
Since his ennoblement in Boris Johnson’s 2023 resignation list, Tees Valley regional mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen has claimed more than £25,000 in tax-free daily “attendance” allowances from the House of Lords for 73 days when he hasn’t voted, spoken or performed any recorded parliamentary activity.
🚨 Andy Burnham must say no to the Rosebank oilfield.
🟢 Instead, he should invest in energy efficiency measures that protect the environment, bring down bills and create good green jobs.
For 25 years, @greenparty.org.uk has been campaigning for car-free zones, cleaner air, and safer neighbourhoods for Londoners.
Now in 2026, Labour is finally getting on board with major pedestrianisation projects.
#OxfordStreet#LondonGreens#Pedestrianisation#CarFree
Lula "We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."
So many countries have this problem and need to slay this beast.
Authors donate to Sally Rooney after books removed from shelves
Children’s laureates for both Ireland and Wales have announced they are donating their royalties to fiction author Sally Rooney in a "show of solidarity".
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From Lula’s victory speech. Hard to argue. 🇧🇷
“We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously large corporations earning millions and billions, paying no taxes to this country and trying to steer our election results.”
I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
Entry-level jobs are vanishing in the fields most exposed to AI, per PFNYC
Design, media & writing: -40.6%
Customer support: -34.4%
Clerical and administrative: -30.5%
Business management and operations: -26.8%
Finance: -23.4%
Social analysis and planning: -12.7%
Sales: -10.4
NEW: A Florida cybersecurity company promised to help clients recover data from ransomware attackers.
In a 2019 story, we found the company was making secret payments to hackers and pocketing hefty fees from clients.
The CEO was just indicted for fraud.
The president doesn’t have some mysterious ability to do whatever he wants
Republicans at every level - Senate, House, appointees, State and Local officials, midterm candidates — enable him, have chosen not to stop him
even though they could
Left wing leaders all over the world have congratulated Lula on his win over the Bolsonaro's, Trump, Israel and the fascist big tech billionaires.
Silence from Andy Burnham.
4 DAYS TO GO until Thames Water creditors meet to agree *another* bailout at our expense
Voters will not forgive @andyburnham.bsky.social if he lets a bunch of US hedge funds get away with this
Take back Thames Water, slash the debt, bring it into PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
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Honestly, I wish these over monied dickheads that clearly hate living in central London & London's key entertainment & tourist district would stop spoiling it for everyone else & piss off to some posh sleepy suburb where they can have all the peace & quiet their hearts desire
EXCL: The Soho Society is trying to stop the redevelopment of a deserted office because it would make Soho too busy.
They claim that adding new bars, restaurants and cheap office space would alter its "established character as a quieter civic and green space".
My @the-londoner.bsky.social scoop:
Another ludicrous gas bag in Downing Street. The point of being Prime Minister is to make decisions. By all means seek a mandate by including substantive proposals in a Labour manifesto but ducking the issue by handing it over to the ignorant is what got us in this mess in the first place.
'I will never move ahead of the British public when it comes to Brexit'
Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he will not return the UK to EU freedom of movement rules without a referendum, after his call at the weekend for an “honest discussion” on the issue
It would be incredibly useful for a country like Brazil to just outright ban Facebook and x. Show it can be done. Or at least apply regulatory standards that hucksters like musk and Zuckerberg can't meet. Make them rack up the fines every time some nazi posts.
In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.
Reject the Board of Deputies
The Board of Deputies' declaration that The Green Party of England & Wales is a "racist" party would be laughable if it wasn't so disgusting.
Andy Burnham has suggested people could have 'a glass or two' of wine to help them through an emergency, as he defended UK Government advice for households to stockpile essential supplies
After World War 2, people who'd supported the Nazis said they'd known nothing about concentration camps and expressed regret (feigned or not)
During the obliteration of Gaza, Tory & Labour Cabinets selling arms to Israel know they're aiding the mass murder of 22,000 children, ...
via Susan McKinlay
Rates of support in Universal Credit are detached from reality. Great to give evidence to APPG for Ending the Need for Food Banks inquiry on this on behalf of @jrf-uk.bsky.social. We need an independent process to help set UC rates based on actual evidence of essential living costs.
Now obviously this is an extremely intense form of McCarthyism, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that these people are primarily just horrible, very right wing psychos.
I wonder if Nigel Farage is having the same problems
but just not telling us, just as he won't admit to
the almost complete non-appearance
of all the promised 'Brexit benefits
because then he might have to
#ApologiseForBrexit
"Crazy set of circumstances."
via Joshua ABD