UK businesses pay the highest electricity price in the developed world, Twice the EU average, 2.6 times of Korea, four times more than the US, China. Energy profiteering is destroying households and businesses. Yet govts do nothing. Nationalise energy. leftfootforward.org/2025/04/with-b…

Race-to-the-Bottom. UK govt to deregulate private equity, hedge funds. Lifts regulation threshold. Will encourage more nefarious practices. PE managers already enjoy tax breaks, will get even richer. When it goes belly-up people will bear the cost. archive.ph/EHNWx

Harrowing account of the dire situation at Al Aqsa Hospital by Abubaker Abed (Link to full story in reply)

The French would like to thank the UK for funding to them. 2020-2024: EDF owned by the French state made £91bn operating profit in the UK, subsidises French households/industry. UK govts oppose public ownership but let foreign govts own UK infrastructure leftfootforward.org/2025/04/with-b…

🇨🇳China accounts for 3/4 of US imports of smartphones & laptops. 🇺🇸Trump’s retention of 125% tariff on China will, on its own, significantly raise US prices & probably inflation expectations (though some offset from oil price weakness) 🇺🇸📉It’s far from over. 🤷‍♂️

Indiscriminate killing.

Fun with numbers: Trump's reversal on his "Liberation Day" tariffs generated $5 trillion in stock wealth. If he let his buddies know in advance and they got 10% of the take, that would be $500 billion cepr.net/publications/w…

Craig Murray – Trump, Tariffs and Trade: "Those viewing Trump’s tariff proposals as a joke need to say what they would do about the US trade deficit. Because the world is not going to supply them free goods forever." braveneweurope.com/craig-murray-t…

This is how inaccurate AI is. I haven’t publicly spoken about my experience of cancer treatment and returning to work after a period of absence. That’s because I haven’t had cancer. This has been scraped from a tweet I did about a colleague returning to work after cancer and an

Gary Lineker on Gaza, "It's the worst thing I have seen in my lifetime. Constant images day in, day out of children losing their lives." "But the minute you raise your voice against it, you get accused of being a supporter of Hamas."

Hussam Abu Safiya is facing increasingly "inhumane conditions" and torture, according to his lawyer. Gheed Kassem said that she has visited the paediatrician in prison three times, with "each visit being more difficult than the one before" pulse.ly/styljerpy6

Monthly UK state pension for post-2016 retiree £997.75. 27% get it Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK spends less on pension than OECD GDP average almondfinancial.co.uk/pension-breake…

James Foster The full context starts WAY before October 7th. Not a line you hear on the BBC, and neither do you hear the full details of that context.

Civil Defence “Tens of people have been KILLED and WOUNDED in Israeli bombing east of Al Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City are still TRAPPED under rubble of their homes are CALLING FOR HELP. “Our teams are unable to reach them as Israeli occupation forces are targeting anyone

“Germany & the United States supply 99% of the weapons exported to Israel.” “They could stop this conflict overnight if they stopped the weapons that K!LL the Palestinians.” —UN Special Rapporteur, Prof Ben Saul

Gaza's malnourished children cannot wait. They need food now | Haaretz Editorial haaretz.com/opinion/editor…

Israel’s latest war on Gaza is killing Palestinians at four times the rate of past attacks — experts say it’s likely intentional, with Israeli forces using the most powerful weapons to deliberately maximise death and destruction.

Thames Water never recovered from previous private equity ownership. Shareholders now want to hand TW to KKR, another private equity group, Its business model is profiteering, high debt, low investment, asset-stripping. More abuses inevitable. archive.ph/7tRgo

This week, we’re revisiting our 2020 interview with Nancy MacLean | Author, Democracy in Chains, who exposed how billionaire-backed economist James Buchanan helped sabotage our democracy to protect extreme wealth—and we’re still living with the consequences. 🎧Listen here: bit.ly/NancyMac