You'll want to be sitting down for this bit.
Water companies are currently £82.7 billion in debt, have paid themselves £85 billion in dividends, leak over a trillion of litres of water per year, dump sewage for almost 4 million hours per year, have been convicted of over 1,200 criminal acts since 1989 and an average of 35% of your bill goes on nothing but paying more interest and yet more dividends.
And not a single company has ever lost their operating licence. 👇
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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@GaryLineker@alanshearer@MicahRichards@RestIsFootball Is it just me who likes what Carsley's doing? Let's be honest, Nation's league doesn't matter and he's trying to improve our pressing and play attacking football with our best players. Southgate had years to develop the way he played, it's not going to be perfect after 2 games!
I had to watch this 3 times to be fully clear on what I’d just listened to
Today’s evidence at the Covid Inquiry effectively lays the blame for 25,000 additional Covid deaths to at least a significant degree at the feet of Boris Johnson
Horrifying
“Why can’t we know the names of all those fined in Downing Street?” demands Sun. “Is your deputy editor one of them?” asks Eye. “We’re not telling you” responds Sun. Full story in the new Private Eye, out today.
How corruption works:
Owen Paterson is paid £100,000 a year to lobby for Randox. Owen Paterson sits in on a meeting between Randox and Lord Bethell. Randox get over £500m of contracts in a closed process. Bethell deletes his WhatsApp messages.
The £37 billion given to Dido Harding (not the NHS) for Test & Trace is more than the estimated cost to vaccinate the *world*
Where on earth did it go?
Shouldn’t this be a priority for the government’s anti-corruption tsar? Who is? *checks notes* Dido Harding’s husband. Oh
Hi @BorisJohnson,
Remember the Singh inquiry that investigated Islamophobia and other forms of racism in your party? Well, your appointment of @NadineDorries suggests that you have probably forgotten, so we decided to make your job a little easier for you [a thread].
Who do you trust? Sajid Javid? Or @chrischirp? This was from @IndependentSage’s Friday briefing & she couldn’t have put it any clearer. The government’s plan is ‘a terrible plan’
When I was 15, my first contact with the UK was through @BritishCouncil and their excellent Active Citizens programme. It turned me into an anglophile. Any UK government that can find £200m for a royal yacht, but not £10m for British Council has its priorities completely wrong.