Shadow Banks.
Bank of England grills lenders over collapsed mortgage provider MFS.
Fraud alleged. Shadow Banks not regulated but enmeshed with regulated sectors.
Govt deregulating entire banking sector.
Bubble will burst. Guess who will bail them out.
archive.ph/cjBr5
UK recruiter emerges from insolvency for third time, avoiding millions owed in tax.
Companies run up debts, declare bankruptcy, debts shed, new company formed with same management/owners ... rinsed and repeated.
HMRC loses £836m a year. Creditors, including SMEs, lose millions.
The Telegraph @Telegraph •2h "If Donald Trump can stay the course, remain focused and tolerate the short-term market turmoil, a glittering prize awaits." | Telegraph View
Remember folks: opposing 25 years of escalating war, slaughter and horror is insanely extreme and possibly treasonous, a threat that the police need to crack down hard upon. Cheering it all on and baying for more is Sensible, Moderate and patriotic.
Petrol forecourts 'profiteering' as fuel prices jump nearly 9p a litre.
Opportunistic profiteering
Companies quick to increase prices, slow to bring them down.
Govt must act. Also clawback excess profits through windfall taxes.
This week's top posts: LibDems rocked by councillor attack on Sutton leader Lewis insidecroydon.com/2026/03/03/l... #Sutton #LocalElections2026 @britainelects.com @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @politicsjoe.bsky.social
My heart bleeds…
This whole 'Starmer has stood up to Trump' thing is really weird.
Starmer originally said the US couldn't use UK bases, then u-turned. How is that 'standing up to Trump'?
UK public opinion is overwhelmingly against and Starmer still capitulated.
Crackdowns on peaceful protest
Support for Conservative benefit cuts
Blaming migrants for failing public services
As Labour keeps moving right. The question is: How low do they want to go?
Energy insecurity. Higher bills. Exposure to catastrophic economic consequences of Trump's wars.
That's what happens when you fail to shift fast enough to renewables, and cut back on support for clean energy.
Let's cut bills & create jobs through a clean power revolution.
Zack Polanski says NHS figure lobbying for Palantir 'absolutely stinks'
He’s right
Damning verdict on England social care as peer says system needs a 'reckoning'.
22 major reviews over 3 decades. Govts do nothing.
No integrated healthcare system. Social care privatised. Corporations profiteering. Public money buys less. Govt handing the NHS to them as well
End privatisation.
Water firms sent bailiffs to tens of thousands of homes for debts under £1,000.
Exorbitant water bills. One-third covers interest & dividend payments
Companies paid over £85bn in dividends, borrowed billions to pay. Sewage dumped in rivers, fines waived. No bailiff ever sent. No exec punished
GSK CEO got 50% pay rise to £15.6m.
Did you?
Neoliberals moan about rise in minimum wage. Govts preach pay restraint to workers. Silence on profiteering, hikes in exec pay/perks, dividends, share buybacks.
The state devoted to welfare of the super rich.
Privatization picking our pockets.
Another Royal Mail price hike: Form 7 April 2026 1st class postage price £1.80, 2nd class 91p.
When privatized in 2013 by Tory/LibDem Govt: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Fines passed to customers. Execs get bonuses.
UK democracy in action
The state unable/unwilling to provide people with clean water, timely healthcare, social care, decent housing, pension, affordable education, energy, decent roads.
Corporate profits guaranteed through PFI, privatisations, outsourcing, subsidies, regulatory inaction.
BP’s new CEO to take home £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor.
Daily pay > annual median pay of UK employee.
CEO pay at one company is a benchmark for another. Others will want more.
Govts, BOE, CBI and other neoliberals talk about wage inflation, but silence on fat-cattery.
"We believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place."
Britain continues its rapid descent towards fascism.
Israeli forces launching massive airstrikes in southern Beirut only hours after issuing an evacuation order for the over 500,000 people living there displays an utter disregard for civilian lives. We saw these patterns in Gaza - it cannot happen again in Lebanon.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Spectator @spectator X.com Those school children and students of ten years ago, with their highly moralistic, Manichean politics and otherworldly theories on gender and race, are now the voters of today. They are also our first post-literate generation, a demographic which doesn't read newspapers, which doesn't read books willingly, who instead get their politics on their smartphones from emotive TikTok videos devoid of nuance, depth and context. This is the demographic with a reduced attention span that doesn't even listen to radio bulletins or watch the news from reputed broadcasting organisations. & Patrick West
Post-2008 crash Britain has been quite the intensive experiment in seeing how long you can hold back spring by cutting all the flowers, hasn’t it. How much longer will that work for, do we think?
Reform found to be most unpopular UK political party
leftfootforward.org/2026/03/5-re...
Starmer, Shellbrooke, Taylor should be ashamed.
Desperate, they know their time as MPs is up so they're lashing out hoping to score some political points.
@greenparty.org.uk is going to replace them!
The majority of the UK is with me, no more illegal wars!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Regulator investigates £8.4bn private dentistry UK market.
Private equity dominates the market - rip-off charges, profiteering, local monopolies.
No body voted for private equity takeover, loss of NHS dentistry.
It happens because Govts favour corporations.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
UK arts must not be sacrificed for speculative AI gains, peers say
Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:
"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
🚨EXCLUSIVE: Palantir’s Double Conflict of Interest in the War Against Iran
War was inevitable claimed the three most senior figures in the AI analytics firm, which both provided the justification for US/Israeli strikes and profits from the conflict
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/05/p...
When the Prime Minister spreads lies about people - there are consequences.
He's made some outrageous smears. It's debasing our politics.
Anything to try to quieten dissent about the US and Israel starting an illegal war.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Left can't resist being on wrong side of a war Whether it's Jeremy Corbyn or Zack Polanski, their foreign policy stances terrify voters outside core supporters
Well, here’s the thing about being antiwar as an ethical belief: it means you end up opposing most wars. Almost all of them, in fact. This is quite common in people who have consistent beliefs but looks insane to people who have none, or mostly just believe superior people should make the decisions.
The post mortem of 2024 is a classic in only acknowledging the top line result, rather than thinking what par would have been for the starting position. Hemorrhaging votes in solid Labour areas should have been a massive warning light. Will Jennings @drjenni... • 32m Deluded. Labour lost about ten points during the course of the 2024 campaign. A strategic triumph it was not.
The key here is to recognise: none of this results from a failure of understanding. They knew very well what they were doing; they expected it would do well but they are not at all deterred by it being a disaster. They are fine with this, and they will continue doing what they always wanted to.
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
