
Health & wealth inequality. Campaigns Manager @TaxJusticeUK. Prev @STOPAIDS, @youth4tpnw SC. DMs open. Views own. RTs/likes ≠ agree. He/him. Also on BlueSky 🦋
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Billions of us (mainly young people) have been denied a future after decades of inaction. Fossil fuel giants, lobbyists, aligned vested interests & the right have enriched the wealthy whilst killing any meaningful climate action.
Ahead of us: higher prices, conflict, famine. Or…
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Lula victory speech:
"We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate.
We cannot have monstrously huge corporations earning millions & billions, paying no taxes to this country & trying to steer this country's election results."
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O bolsonarismo é a maior organização criminosa do mundo.
Cabo de energia é cortado de propósito e deixa colégio eleitoral sem energia em Fortaleza glo.bo/z3tq8zy
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BREAKING 🇧🇷 The Supreme Court of Brazil has recognized Bolsonaro’s widespread effort to suppress the popular vote by shutting down public transit – and extended the vote by 2 hours. But scores of stations have already closed – and cannot now reopen to the public.
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This is a coup attempt. They’re turning off traffic lights and canceling bus routes and flights and ferries on election day. The world needs to be paying attention
Great to see. Every UK billionaire or billionaire with a UK tax footprint being supported to ensure they are paying their fair share like every PAYE or small business.
Clamping down on tax abuse in this way is good for all of us.
“There is no point in trying to end my ideas, they are already lingering in the air and you can't arrest them.
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There is no point in thinking that everything will stop when I have a heart attack…because my heart shall beat through your hearts, and they are millions of hearts.”
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Israel First Mike Rogers’ career is cooked after this Abdul El Sayed ad. This is brilliant.
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Lowk this letter from Mayor Beame to Mayor Mamdani makes me sad, what potential we have squandered. May we fight for a world where we can make good on those aspirations
Bevan was spied on whilst speaking at an anti-Nazi rally in 1934; very illustrative of who the security services consider as threats.
MI5 spied on Nye Bevan for more than 20 years, newly released files show bbc.in/4zMMzYD
This isn’t true @MccailColl.
Lots of new jobs for firefighters will be also created!
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So @Meta employees now admit the tech giant restricted the reach of pro Lula accounts and favoured pro-Bolsonaro ones. US tech giants are interfering in Brazil’s elections
Empleados de Meta admiten en mensajes internos que el alcance de las cuentas de Lula fue restringido y el de Bolsonaro favorecido elpais.com/america/2026-10-1…
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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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I have responded to @lewishamlabour, @vickyfoxcroft, @Ese_Journo, @elliereeves and @JanetDaby regarding the green party's Zionism is Racism motion
Update the leaderboard of evil (again).
EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Starlink in Ukraine, The Telegraph can reveal.
The billionaire tech entrepreneur approached the US president with the proposal to introduce speed limits on the system, which hampered Ukraine’s drone defences, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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“Hello and welcome to Newsnight. Tonight, we’re joined by Faiza Shaheen, director of Tax Justice UK. Faiza is an economist and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the London School of Economics. Faiza’s previous roles include Program Head for the Inequality and Exclusion Grand Challenge of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University, Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, Head of Inequality and Sustainable Development at Save the Children, and Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation. Faiza holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Manchester and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from St John’s College, Oxford University.
She is the author of a range of materials and publications covering the most salient social and economic debates of our times, including inequality, austerity, immigration, and social mobility. Faiza has over 15 years of experience researching the trends and consequences of inequality, as well as designing policies and campaigns to address the causes of inequality and exclusion. Her book, ‘Know your place: How society sets us up to fail and what we can do about it’ was published in July 2023 by Simon & Schuster.
To speak over her, we’ve invited Winston Marshall, a podcaster and former member of Mumford and Sons.
We hope you enjoy the programme.”
"If you want to lift up the poor, you have to create wealth."
"How's that going?"
Podcaster and former Mumford & Sons member Winston Marshall discusses taxes with economist and Green Party supporter Faiza Shaheen.
#Newsnight
Cannot wait for 12 days time to be put out of pre-Budget misery and have some breathing space, only to be thrown into post-Budget misery as energy bills spike in the winter.
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EXCL: John Healey poised to tax Britain’s banks in his 28 October budget to help offset the damage inflicted on the public finances by war in the Middle East, the Guardian understands.
The chancellor is in Bangkok, where the IMF has praised the UK’s progress towards balancing the books, urging him to “stay the course”.
To keep the Treasury’s deficit reduction plans on track in the face of rising government borrowing costs, Healey is understood to have decided to tap the financial sector for additional revenue.
One option understood to be under discussion – reversing cuts to the bank surcharge made by Jeremy Hunt – would raise upwards of £2bn a year.
Lenders have logged strong earnings on back of rising interest rates, with UK’s four largest lenders – HSBC, NatWest, Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group – alone having generated £200bn in pre-tax profits over past five years.
More from economics editor Heather Stewart, @jessicaelgot & Kayleena Markoff 👇
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