Is it just me? When I hear Privatisation and Freeports I hear theft and more theft.

Private Healthcare.

"Seven days of continuous sewage discharge recorded." Sewage dumping has nothing whatsoever to do with heavy rain. It's caused by greed, profiteering, financial engineering and regulatory incompetence, fix those you fix the sewage scandal. March for Clean Water, Sat, 26th Sep,

Sewage dumping has nothing whatsoever to do with heavy rain. It is caused by greed, profiteering, financial engineering and regulatory incompetence, fix those you fix the sewage scandal. Time to turn that outrage into action. Sign up today marchforcleanwater.org

Thanks to @cbeditions for publishing this new collection of poems and essays. Out on October 8. Order now from cbeditions.com

Angela Raynor dancing isn't news. Kier starmer moving a picture isn't news. This is distraction from the fact that thousands of Palestinians are being slaughtered, billions are being stolen by big business, and the NHS is being sold off.

44 Labour MPs are private landlords. No wonder Labour blocked rent controls last month.

Sunday morning reading. 22-page poetry pamphlet Flat White, a sheer delight by Luke Kennard, published Periplum Press. Next: The Point of Distraction, Will Eaves’s meditation on composition, an account/exploration of writing eight new pieces after yrs away from keyboard.The TLS

“Incredibly tough decisions” means: the poor will pay. They’re never that tough for the very rich, are they? Or for landlords, or failing privatised utilities.

Many, many congratulations, Keith. I wish you both another twenty years, at least, of happiness together.

When we went to the polls in June , X’s were put in boxes for a reinstatement of democracy in the UK . This is not what we voted for The Labour Party Home Office Yvette Cooper . . . theguardian.com/world/article/…. Please support Liberty to address this injustice

How come the economy didn’t collapse when we paid out billions in furlough , gave Harding 37 billion for useless track and trace and paid billions more for useless PPE ?

I gave this warning back in January. After what we have seen in the riots in our own country this summer & in the elections in Germany yesterday it seems more relevant now than ever. I fear any return to austerity could be the spark that lights this fire. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

this plant has overtaken the entire space the events were held on in May/June. Including the football pitches. No new grass at all. What are the plans to reseed and get this part of Brockwell Park repaired and looking like it did a few years ago? Lambeth Council Lambeth Labour

Former govt adviser said water renationalisation is “relatively easy, as with the revenues from the water bills, the government would have sufficient income to pay for the assets it acquired”. Companies are almost bankrupt and can be bought for little. leftfootforward.org/2024/08/the-go…

It’s interesting that 4 years on from the beginning of covid, there’s been no investigation into any of the track and trace, PPE, testing or business relief swindles which have taken place. The £400 Billion has just vanished forever into offshore bank accounts.

By moving rightwards, you do not defuse the political threat from the right. On the contrary, you validate its positions and embolden it to become ever more extreme. This is what Germany has just discovered - again.

We thought the future would be flying cars, living forever and never working. Instead it will be sickness and destitution in a dying world, killed by people who just want another trillion dollars.

Keep down the prison population by not jailing people for peaceful protests. Or even for being subpostmasters.

The insane, soul-destroying complexity of trying to organise an Royal Mail redelivery. The new red card through the door no longer gives you the location where the parcel is being held, so you can't just pick it up. #privatisation