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Dr Richard Mills retweeted
Just like you and I commercial companies have credit ratings.
S&P, one of the big global corporate credit rating agencies have just downgraded Thames Water's rating to CCC-.
Meaning? Get your money the hell out of there, if you invest this company highly likely you're gonna loose it. Run like the wind bullseye.
Meanwhile 15 million customers are trapped with nowhere to run.
reuters.com/business/sp-push…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
This is what we've come to.
A retired couple had to spend £1m of their own money taking both the @EnvAgency and @NaturalEngland to the High Court simply to force both of these charlatans to do their job, safeguard one of our nation's most legally heavily protected bits of countryside.
And the environment charities does what exactly?
thetimes.com/uk/environment/…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
Thames Water is due to run out of money (again) over the next few weeks. A year and a half ago it was given a £3 billion bailout now it's asking for another £2.4 billion.
We really are being taken for mugs.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
Latest @newswatchbbc discusses: allegations about BBCQT audience vetting/bias, calling Lord Archer a "criminal" in obit headlines & whether Celebrity Traitors is "news". Sat 745am @bbcbreakfast or link from Fri midnight: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00330d…
See you for book my launch of The Beatles & Black Music at the ICC on 29 January, 2027. Please click Instagram link for further details. X instagram.com/reel/DeKYpewRO…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
On tonight's @BBCFrontRow: @Johnny_Marr 🎸, Booker nominee Rebecca Perry, Monet's letters & Jeffrey Archer remembered.. 715pm or link after: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0032h8…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
So good to see @BrendaBKennedy down at the launch of the @SoundOfBelfast festival in the @OhYeahCentre tonight. Brenda’s written a beautiful book about the life of her husband, the great #BapKennedy, and I’m delighted to be hosting the launch night on November 9th. Can’t wait.
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"Southern Water fined £2.4m over multiple incidents of sewage pollution in Kent."
That of course is on top of the £7.1 million they were fined back in July, the £90 million they were fined back in 2021, or the 107 environmental offences they've been found guilty of in the last 15 years.
Really, what is the point?
itv.com/news/meridian/2026-0…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
Ladies and gentlemen I give you the very fabulous Michael Dugher and Blackbird, well, well worth a listen, go on spoil yourself, you know you want to… 👏👏👏
Never mind Beyoncé… A while back, I recorded a version of Blackbird by The Beatles, produced by Cameron Craig, the 2X Grammy Award winning engineer. Today it is ‘released’ on all streaming services. Check it out!
open.spotify.com/track/6Mk7H…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
I’m absolutely thrilled! My NEW podcast launches on today. Please share and subscribe @zeteouk - thank you x
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: The award-winning journalist and broadcaster Sangita Myska is joing Zeteo UK with her new podcast, 'Sangita Meets'.
@SangitaMyska will sit down with leading British cultural figures for the kind of candid consversations you won't hear anywhere else.
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"Why DEFRA hates Feargal Sharkey."
ME!!!! WHAT!!!! Surely not?
scribehound.com/why-defra-ha…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"Public ownership of water industry could save £22billion, MPs are told."
Oh look, you were lied to, nationalising the water industry isn't going to cost you billions, it could in fact save you £22 billion.
Who'd have guessed it.
mirror.co.uk/money/water-ind…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"Thames Water will have incurred almost £2bn in financing costs and advisory fees over the 18 months to the end of September".
So here's what it's come to, it's now being demanded, not asked but demanded, that Thames Water's customers are being forced to fund their continued exploitation and abuse at the hands of American vulture capitalists.
What a world. Time to put an end to it, time to put Thames Water and its customers out of their misery.
ft.com/content/527d760c-3159…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"Ofwat seeks £13m independent monitor for Thames Water turnaround."
There we go boys and girls, £13 million of your money to be spent by Ofwat monitoring the "operational performance, financial resilience and [Thames Water's] progress with its turnaround programme".
Time to put an end to this nonsense.
watermagazine.co.uk/2026/09/…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
9 water industry fat cats were invited to have a swim at their local bathing spot, all said NO!
Wonder why?
inews.co.uk/news/water-firm-…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"‘It was all about selling things off. Sell, sell, sell’."
A tale of how Thames Water, its customers and now govt got screwed. By someone who was there...
the-londoner.co.uk/why-thame…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
Just to add to Henry’s ire the £1.8 million a year CEO of Anglian Water, is Mark Thurston former CEO of, wait for it, wait for it, HS2.
I’ll just leave that thought there shall I.
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"Andy Burnham is considering ripping up the country’s insolvency laws to make it easier to bring key utilities such as Thames Water under public control."
Now that my friends would be very, very good news.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
The very brilliant, tenacious, redoubtable journalist that is @gillplimmer1 of the @FT describes her decent into a sewage scandal that has rocked the nation, the making of new friends, I am honoured to be one of them and the threats, the bullying, the cajoling of the water companies all in a failed attempt to get her to stop.
Fabulous, fabulous read...
ft.com/content/9399b276-d8b7…
Dr Richard Mills retweeted
"Britain’s only desalination plant remains idle during drought."
Yep, built at a cost of £250 million to Thames Water customers and it doesn't work.
newscientist.com/article/258…
