Phil Clarke
@philclarke9.bsky.social
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No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap…
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
No doubt all the people who printed, posted or broadcast this now disproved story respect their readers/viewers/listeners/followers enough to correct the record asap…
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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Every single sentence in this piece denotes a kind of tone-deafness and solipsistic ignorance of the rest of society that only comes to the privileged who can't understand why they are not more privileged than they already are.
It’s about time high earners had a tax break
A salary of £100,000 is not the lavish payday it used to be — politicians need to stop penalising the aspirational
www.thetimes.com
October 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Every single sentence in this piece denotes a kind of tone-deafness and solipsistic ignorance of the rest of society that only comes to the privileged who can't understand why they are not more privileged than they already are.
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The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2026 at 5:56 AM
The pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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England's water infrastructure at breaking point.
Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago.
Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs.
40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old.
Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago.
Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs.
40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old.
Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week
London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure
www.standard.co.uk
October 5, 2026 at 6:25 AM
England's water infrastructure at breaking point.
Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago.
Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs.
40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old.
Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago.
Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs.
40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old.
Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
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Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills.
Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits.
Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits.
Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills
Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 5, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills.
Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits.
Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits.
Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
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Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse.
Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed.
Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed.
Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse.
Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed.
Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed.
Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
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Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed.
So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations.
Will they be persecuted, imprisoned?
Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations.
Will they be persecuted, imprisoned?
Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
humanists.uk
September 28, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed.
So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations.
Will they be persecuted, imprisoned?
Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations.
Will they be persecuted, imprisoned?
Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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On a packed train with my family. Couple across the aisle both alternatively playing social media videos on speakers at full volume. Managed not to say anything until the woman started playing a documentary about serial killers. I'm here with my daughter.
I politely said...
I politely said...
September 27, 2026 at 2:37 PM
On a packed train with my family. Couple across the aisle both alternatively playing social media videos on speakers at full volume. Managed not to say anything until the woman started playing a documentary about serial killers. I'm here with my daughter.
I politely said...
I politely said...
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This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack.
Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
September 26, 2026 at 3:02 PM
This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack.
Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
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Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette)
September 25, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Shot (BBC) / chaser (Basingstoke Gazette)
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The 'dream bus', an initiative by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, tours all the governorates of the Gaza Strip, trying to bring some relief to children living in displacement camps.
September 26, 2026 at 1:46 AM
The 'dream bus', an initiative by the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, tours all the governorates of the Gaza Strip, trying to bring some relief to children living in displacement camps.
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Netanyahu after the UNGA emptied out ahead of his speech: "If there any other moral cowards who have not left the hall, please do so now."
September 24, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Netanyahu after the UNGA emptied out ahead of his speech: "If there any other moral cowards who have not left the hall, please do so now."
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🔴 Royal British Legion Says It Wants ‘No Association’ With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
Exclusive: The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group’s ‘Raise the Poppies’ appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/22/r...
Exclusive: The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group’s ‘Raise the Poppies’ appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/22/r...
Royal British Legion Says It Wants 'No Association' With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group's 'Raise the Poppies' appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
bylinetimes.com
September 22, 2026 at 12:45 PM
🔴 Royal British Legion Says It Wants ‘No Association’ With Anti-Migrant Group Behind Poppy Fundraisers
Exclusive: The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group’s ‘Raise the Poppies’ appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/22/r...
Exclusive: The charity says it never authorised a Hampshire group’s ‘Raise the Poppies’ appeal, as crowdfunding sites take pages down
bylinetimes.com/2026/09/22/r...
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Liz Truss has received £319,925 in ‘public duty allowance’ since her exit from Downing Street, figures from the Cabinet Office annual reports show.
September 21, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Liz Truss has received £319,925 in ‘public duty allowance’ since her exit from Downing Street, figures from the Cabinet Office annual reports show.
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Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK.
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 19, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK.
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium.
Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
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Does that mean the government (central funding) doesn't have to fund them any longer?... Ya'know, they could stop funding them as a bit of a quirky little joke, but something tells me they wouldn't find it very funny!
September 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Does that mean the government (central funding) doesn't have to fund them any longer?... Ya'know, they could stop funding them as a bit of a quirky little joke, but something tells me they wouldn't find it very funny!
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Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk.
It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...
It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...
Passport to Piddington
Last week an Oxfordshire village declared independence from the United Kingdom - ostensibly in protest at a local refugee centre. But is something darker going on?
www.noosphere.app
September 18, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Piddington's independence ref is being presented as a quaint 'crumpets and muffins' comedy of plucky country folk.
It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...
It's much darker and nastier than that and shows how deeply entrenched the bigoted 'fighting aged men on boats' narrative runs. Me for @noosphere.app
www.noosphere.app/passport-to-...
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"They pretend their job is to just take the pulse, because it's easier than trying to save the patient."
I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...
September 17, 2026 at 1:25 PM
"They pretend their job is to just take the pulse, because it's easier than trying to save the patient."
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Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
September 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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This, my friends, is one of your legislators. We didn't elect him, but he sits in the House of Lords as a reward for bringing us Brexit, injecting his bigotry, perversity and ignorance into our lives. Daniel Hannan in the Daily Mail today, once again grossly misrepresenting history.
September 16, 2026 at 6:46 AM
This, my friends, is one of your legislators. We didn't elect him, but he sits in the House of Lords as a reward for bringing us Brexit, injecting his bigotry, perversity and ignorance into our lives. Daniel Hannan in the Daily Mail today, once again grossly misrepresenting history.
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The very fact of there being billionaires in the world
while millions of people are dying of hunger or curable
diseases or living in abject poverty is itself obscene
meme via Share Love To All
while millions of people are dying of hunger or curable
diseases or living in abject poverty is itself obscene
meme via Share Love To All
September 15, 2026 at 8:59 AM
The very fact of there being billionaires in the world
while millions of people are dying of hunger or curable
diseases or living in abject poverty is itself obscene
meme via Share Love To All
while millions of people are dying of hunger or curable
diseases or living in abject poverty is itself obscene
meme via Share Love To All
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Govt set to nationalise Speciality Steel UK, the third-largest steelworks.
SSUK has been in administration. Govt paying £3.5m a month to keep it going.
Public purse cleaning up the mess left by private enterprise.
Story of capitalism: Profits privatised, cost socialised.
SSUK has been in administration. Govt paying £3.5m a month to keep it going.
Public purse cleaning up the mess left by private enterprise.
Story of capitalism: Profits privatised, cost socialised.
Government set to nationalise troubled steel firm, minister says
Production at SSUK sites in South Yorkshire and the West Midlands was paused earlier this year.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 15, 2026 at 6:21 AM
Govt set to nationalise Speciality Steel UK, the third-largest steelworks.
SSUK has been in administration. Govt paying £3.5m a month to keep it going.
Public purse cleaning up the mess left by private enterprise.
Story of capitalism: Profits privatised, cost socialised.
SSUK has been in administration. Govt paying £3.5m a month to keep it going.
Public purse cleaning up the mess left by private enterprise.
Story of capitalism: Profits privatised, cost socialised.
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I predicted a month ago that Trump was going to say exactly this. I said he was going to try and blame Ukraine for diesel prices and tell Zelenskyy to stop. And here it is. bsky.app/profile/atru...
September 13, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I predicted a month ago that Trump was going to say exactly this. I said he was going to try and blame Ukraine for diesel prices and tell Zelenskyy to stop. And here it is. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Essentially indistinguishable from Putin propaganda
Kushner on Ukraine:
“President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.”
Putin’s brain cell
“President Putin's laid out his line of what he wants to achieve. If Ukraine, you know, wanted to withdraw to that line, then obviously, you know, we have the rest of the deal set up and put together. Ukraine right now does not want to do that.”
Putin’s brain cell
September 13, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Essentially indistinguishable from Putin propaganda