Peter Beal
@peterpaddler.bsky.social
Usually found with a coffee cup in hand
Landscape Photographer
My opinions are my own but I'm not afraid of hearing those of others & I'm willing to change all be it after a struggle
Landscape Photographer
My opinions are my own but I'm not afraid of hearing those of others & I'm willing to change all be it after a struggle
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Compassion & class from Ed Davey.
#HopeNotHate
#HopeNotHate
My heart goes out to the Prime Minister on the loss of his dad.
From our conversations he sounded like a wonderful man.
My prayers are with his whole family as they mourn together.
From our conversations he sounded like a wonderful man.
My prayers are with his whole family as they mourn together.
September 14, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Compassion & class from Ed Davey.
#HopeNotHate
#HopeNotHate
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Peer demands action on DWP subpostmaster prosecutions in duty of candour debate.
The Post Office scandal is 30+ years old. Around 100 were prosecuted by DWP.
Despite promises there has been no review and no reviewer has been appointed.
People await justice. Please write to your MP.
The Post Office scandal is 30+ years old. Around 100 were prosecuted by DWP.
Despite promises there has been no review and no reviewer has been appointed.
People await justice. Please write to your MP.
Peer demands action on DWP subpostmaster prosecutions in duty of candour debate | Computer Weekly
Post Office scandal featured heavily as the House of Lords debated duty of candour Bill.
www.computerweekly.com
September 6, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Peer demands action on DWP subpostmaster prosecutions in duty of candour debate.
The Post Office scandal is 30+ years old. Around 100 were prosecuted by DWP.
Despite promises there has been no review and no reviewer has been appointed.
People await justice. Please write to your MP.
The Post Office scandal is 30+ years old. Around 100 were prosecuted by DWP.
Despite promises there has been no review and no reviewer has been appointed.
People await justice. Please write to your MP.
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The Teesworks Freeport accounts are a disaster.
Auditors are refusing to sign them off.
STDC carries £420m in debt.
There are no formal contracts covering any of it.
This is an absolute free zones scandal, and the MSM won't touch it. Why? 🧵
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deregu...
Auditors are refusing to sign them off.
STDC carries £420m in debt.
There are no formal contracts covering any of it.
This is an absolute free zones scandal, and the MSM won't touch it. Why? 🧵
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deregu...
The Deregulated Free Zone Is What the Clearance Was For
The Teesworks accounts, the Anthropic data centre, and eight years of evidence that nobody in power wants to examine.
europeanpowell.substack.com
August 24, 2026 at 9:14 AM
The Teesworks Freeport accounts are a disaster.
Auditors are refusing to sign them off.
STDC carries £420m in debt.
There are no formal contracts covering any of it.
This is an absolute free zones scandal, and the MSM won't touch it. Why? 🧵
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deregu...
Auditors are refusing to sign them off.
STDC carries £420m in debt.
There are no formal contracts covering any of it.
This is an absolute free zones scandal, and the MSM won't touch it. Why? 🧵
europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deregu...
Excellent response from Prem
Burnham received £350,000 in donations in months before becoming PM.
Only the rich, corporations and big unions can play this game. Normal people can't buy influence.
Scandal ridden Ernst & Young seconded staff.
How will these debts be repaid?
Only the rich, corporations and big unions can play this game. Normal people can't buy influence.
Scandal ridden Ernst & Young seconded staff.
How will these debts be repaid?
Burnham declares almost £350,000 in donations in months before becoming PM
MPs’ register of interests shows hospitality and trips worth more than £12,000 and contributions from longstanding Labour donors
www.theguardian.com
August 19, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Excellent response from Prem
You can’t be reminded of this stuff often enough
UK economy grew by 0.4% in last quarter.
Is it trickling down?
1975: workers share of gross value added, 71.9%; now 59.3%
Average real wage stagnant since 2008.
25.3m live below minimum income standard.
Healthy life expectancy falling.
Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
Is it trickling down?
1975: workers share of gross value added, 71.9%; now 59.3%
Average real wage stagnant since 2008.
25.3m live below minimum income standard.
Healthy life expectancy falling.
Richest 1% have more wealth than 70% of population combined.
UK economy grows between April and June but experts warn of challenges in coming months
The UK economy grew by 0.4% with some firms reporting hot weather and sports helped growth in June.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 13, 2026 at 10:17 AM
You can’t be reminded of this stuff often enough
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August 10, 2026 at 8:41 AM
😆🤣😁
Rupert Lowe declines to say King Charles is British. The Tories say social housing tenants must be British.
How long before the Tories propose evicting the King?
How long before the Tories propose evicting the King?
August 9, 2026 at 8:38 PM
😆🤣😁
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Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal.
Complex corporate structures, intragroup transactions used to shift profits to the Bahamas and Switzerland.
Taxes dodged in many countries, including the UK.
Govt inaction is protecting secret subsidies.
archive.ph/Cqq2L
Complex corporate structures, intragroup transactions used to shift profits to the Bahamas and Switzerland.
Taxes dodged in many countries, including the UK.
Govt inaction is protecting secret subsidies.
archive.ph/Cqq2L
Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal
Leaked financial reports show how Shell moved profits through tax havens such as the Bahamas and Switzerland – potentially depriving developing nations of hundreds of millions of euros. While some of ...
www.ftm.eu
August 6, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal.
Complex corporate structures, intragroup transactions used to shift profits to the Bahamas and Switzerland.
Taxes dodged in many countries, including the UK.
Govt inaction is protecting secret subsidies.
archive.ph/Cqq2L
Complex corporate structures, intragroup transactions used to shift profits to the Bahamas and Switzerland.
Taxes dodged in many countries, including the UK.
Govt inaction is protecting secret subsidies.
archive.ph/Cqq2L
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AstraZeneca in talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn (£300bn) merger.
Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom.
AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.
Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom.
AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.
AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger
Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM
AstraZeneca in talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn (£300bn) merger.
Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom.
AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.
Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom.
AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.
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Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development.
Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper.
UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr.
Must check corporate abuse.
Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper.
UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr.
Must check corporate abuse.
Countries to gain $500bn more tax a year under UN ‘pay-where-you-play’ plan - Tax Justice Network
UN tax convention commitment to scrap 100-year-old corporate tax approach will unleash new economic era without increasing taxes, experts say Countries can collect US$500 billion more in corporate tax...
taxjustice.net
August 5, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Multinational corporations dodge $500bn tax by shifting profits to low/no tax jurisdictions. Stifle social development.
Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper.
UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr.
Must check corporate abuse.
Need a simple change - must pay tax where they actually create profit, instead of where they pretend to on paper.
UK can collect extra $16.9bn a yr.
Must check corporate abuse.
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Andy Burnham cabinet consists of neoliberal foot-soldiers.
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rules
Sticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.
leftfootforward.org
July 26, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Andy Burnham cabinet consists of neoliberal foot-soldiers.
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
All supported
Privatisation of the NHS by stealth
Greater role for private equity
PFI
Corporate profiteering
Benefit cuts
Higher taxes on the poor
Erosion of jury trials
Damaging fiscal rules
What will change?
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Gary Lineker among millionaires asking Andy Burnham to tax them more.
Support for a 2% tax on wealth over £10m.
Refreshing antidote to the right-wing claim of 'they will leave'.
The poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
Support for a 2% tax on wealth over £10m.
Refreshing antidote to the right-wing claim of 'they will leave'.
The poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
Gary Lineker among millionaires asking Andy Burnham to tax them more
A group including the former England footballer write to the new PM telling him "we can afford it".
www.bbc.co.uk
July 23, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Gary Lineker among millionaires asking Andy Burnham to tax them more.
Support for a 2% tax on wealth over £10m.
Refreshing antidote to the right-wing claim of 'they will leave'.
The poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
Support for a 2% tax on wealth over £10m.
Refreshing antidote to the right-wing claim of 'they will leave'.
The poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct and indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
Finally some good news for a change
Ex-Southern Water boss among four charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests and avoid paying penalties.
Southern Water separately been charged with dozens of offences.
No water company is pristine. All have violated their licence conditions.
They all need to be scrutinized.
Southern Water separately been charged with dozens of offences.
No water company is pristine. All have violated their licence conditions.
They all need to be scrutinized.
Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests
Matthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 22, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Finally some good news for a change
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Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years.
Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26.
UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance.
Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.
Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26.
UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance.
Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.
Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years - High Pay Centre
The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows the Median FTSE 100 CEO to median UK worker pay ratio rose to 130:1 in 2025/26, the highest for 8 years and up from 124:1 last year...
highpaycentre.org
July 20, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years.
Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26.
UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance.
Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.
Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26.
UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance.
Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.
I shouldn’t be shocked but somehow they find a way to stoop lower than I can imagine
UK pension insurers raise exposure to opaque private credit.
Risking your savings for higher profits, exec bonuses.
Insurers not required to disclose location of borrowers, sectors of exposure or how the debt is held.
Who will bear the ultimate cost of higher risks?
archive.ph/8q9UD
Risking your savings for higher profits, exec bonuses.
Insurers not required to disclose location of borrowers, sectors of exposure or how the debt is held.
Who will bear the ultimate cost of higher risks?
archive.ph/8q9UD
UK pension insurers raise exposure to opaque private credit
S&P warns on hard-to-price private assets that make up over 10% of portfolios at L&G, Standard Life and Just Group
www.ft.com
July 20, 2026 at 5:12 PM
I shouldn’t be shocked but somehow they find a way to stoop lower than I can imagine
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Wessex Water, owned by a Malaysian entity via Jersey, CEO got 14% base salary increase despite bonus ban over sewage spill.
3.5% for workers
WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily.
Dumps sewage in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 21%
Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment
3.5% for workers
WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily.
Dumps sewage in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 21%
Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment
Wessex Water chief pockets above-inflation pay rise despite bonus ban over sewage spills
CEO’s pay packet surges to £791,000 as union says public ‘sick of obscene pay’ and bosses ‘feathering own nests’
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Wessex Water, owned by a Malaysian entity via Jersey, CEO got 14% base salary increase despite bonus ban over sewage spill.
3.5% for workers
WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily.
Dumps sewage in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 21%
Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment
3.5% for workers
WW loses 70m litres of water to leaks daily.
Dumps sewage in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 21%
Bosses rewarded for robbing people, damaging the environment
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Govt asks private equity bosses why they are not listing UK companies in London.
Not asked to explain devouring of town centres, water, energy vets, care homes, NHS, supermarkets
Invited to discuss tax perks, deregulation, boost City commissions
Poor not asked to discuss poverty.
archive.ph/S2VHC
Not asked to explain devouring of town centres, water, energy vets, care homes, NHS, supermarkets
Invited to discuss tax perks, deregulation, boost City commissions
Poor not asked to discuss poverty.
archive.ph/S2VHC
Downing Street calls in private equity bosses amid London listing woes
Government wants to encourage UK IPOs of portfolio companies as FTSE exodus continues
www.ft.com
July 17, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Govt asks private equity bosses why they are not listing UK companies in London.
Not asked to explain devouring of town centres, water, energy vets, care homes, NHS, supermarkets
Invited to discuss tax perks, deregulation, boost City commissions
Poor not asked to discuss poverty.
archive.ph/S2VHC
Not asked to explain devouring of town centres, water, energy vets, care homes, NHS, supermarkets
Invited to discuss tax perks, deregulation, boost City commissions
Poor not asked to discuss poverty.
archive.ph/S2VHC
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2700+ people in England & Wales died from heat-related causes during May and June.
Most likely to be the poor, old.
Yet there are climate change deniers who relentlessly push fossil fuels.
Earth will be cinders by the time last drop of oil/gas is burnt.
Most likely to be the poor, old.
Yet there are climate change deniers who relentlessly push fossil fuels.
Earth will be cinders by the time last drop of oil/gas is burnt.
More than 2,700 deaths linked to May and June heatwaves, study suggests
The analysis found that 42% died as a result of the extra heat caused by human activity - mostly burning fossil fuels.
news.sky.com
July 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
2700+ people in England & Wales died from heat-related causes during May and June.
Most likely to be the poor, old.
Yet there are climate change deniers who relentlessly push fossil fuels.
Earth will be cinders by the time last drop of oil/gas is burnt.
Most likely to be the poor, old.
Yet there are climate change deniers who relentlessly push fossil fuels.
Earth will be cinders by the time last drop of oil/gas is burnt.
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John Stealer
This is Priti Patel Tory MP & the most treacherous Israeli asset
Sir Alan Duncan described her in these terms when she had a series of secret meetings in Israel
“compromised,” “deceitful,” “morally corrupt,” “contemptible” and “quite despicable”
Whose interests does she serve?
This is Priti Patel Tory MP & the most treacherous Israeli asset
Sir Alan Duncan described her in these terms when she had a series of secret meetings in Israel
“compromised,” “deceitful,” “morally corrupt,” “contemptible” and “quite despicable”
Whose interests does she serve?
July 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
John Stealer
This is Priti Patel Tory MP & the most treacherous Israeli asset
Sir Alan Duncan described her in these terms when she had a series of secret meetings in Israel
“compromised,” “deceitful,” “morally corrupt,” “contemptible” and “quite despicable”
Whose interests does she serve?
This is Priti Patel Tory MP & the most treacherous Israeli asset
Sir Alan Duncan described her in these terms when she had a series of secret meetings in Israel
“compromised,” “deceitful,” “morally corrupt,” “contemptible” and “quite despicable”
Whose interests does she serve?
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Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears.
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue
www.theguardian.com
July 12, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears.
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
UK electricity privatised in 1990. National Grid paid £28bn in dividends since 1990.
Still poor transmission and storage infrastructure.
Yet record high prices and profiteering.
Does anyone call companies to account?
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Politico: Labour donor Dale Vince has offered to put cash behind the Count Binface campaign in an attempt to defeat Nigel Farage in Clacton
This is shaping up to be an interesting by-election after all...
This is shaping up to be an interesting by-election after all...
July 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
Politico: Labour donor Dale Vince has offered to put cash behind the Count Binface campaign in an attempt to defeat Nigel Farage in Clacton
This is shaping up to be an interesting by-election after all...
This is shaping up to be an interesting by-election after all...
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Curse of private equity
Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs, Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure.
Private equity loaded it with debt after its 2021 acquisition.
Paid interest of £730m, £2.2bn since 2021.
Assets stripped, real wages cut, market share shrinking.
Future?
Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs, Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure.
Private equity loaded it with debt after its 2021 acquisition.
Paid interest of £730m, £2.2bn since 2021.
Assets stripped, real wages cut, market share shrinking.
Future?
Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs as Retailer Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure – International Supermarket News
internationalsupermarketnews.com
July 3, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Curse of private equity
Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs, Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure.
Private equity loaded it with debt after its 2021 acquisition.
Paid interest of £730m, £2.2bn since 2021.
Assets stripped, real wages cut, market share shrinking.
Future?
Asda Cuts 7,500 Jobs, Accelerates Restructuring Under Financial Pressure.
Private equity loaded it with debt after its 2021 acquisition.
Paid interest of £730m, £2.2bn since 2021.
Assets stripped, real wages cut, market share shrinking.
Future?
A Labour government!!
Bonanza for broadband companies.
UK Govt, at the behest of companies, considers ending Freeview TV in 2034.
You will need to pay £400 a year for broadband link (today's price) + TV licence to watch TV.
Many areas have poor signal. Broadband price increases exceed rate of inflation.
Say NO.
UK Govt, at the behest of companies, considers ending Freeview TV in 2034.
You will need to pay £400 a year for broadband link (today's price) + TV licence to watch TV.
Many areas have poor signal. Broadband price increases exceed rate of inflation.
Say NO.
Watch this space: a new strategic direction for UK media - green paper and public consultation
www.gov.uk
June 27, 2026 at 6:51 AM
A Labour government!!