Asking customers to telephone is now a punishment, and increasingly used as a way to discourage us from pursuing our rights because telephoning organisations is so often a terrible experience.

Latest businesses I refuse to phone:
- #BarclaysBank, to claim their poultry £100 compensation
- #Wickes, to get a refund on an item they sent knowing it was broken

Business needs to compete for customers on service, not punish us to accept derisory offers. #ConsumerRights

Apple Ends iPhone Upgrade Program in the UK

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.macrumors.com/2026/01/30/apple-ends-iphone-upgrade-program-in-the-uk/

By Joe Ware
ST ALBANS CATHEDRAL called in the police on Sunday to deal with protestors from #ChristianClimateAction, who were holding a prayer vigil urging the cathedral to cease its banking arrangements with #BarclaysBank
Members of Christian Climate Action were grouped outside the west front, holding a banner that called for the cathedral to pursue a more #ethicalbankingpolicy
#Barclays has extensive ties to the #fossilfuels industry in Europe

https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/27-june/news/uk/climate-activists-demand-st-albans-cathedral-cease-banking-with-barclays

"You are Earth's most famous Peado and I want to help you"

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/11/jes-staley-jeffrey-epstein-jp-morgan-barclays-bank

#Epstein #BarclaysBank #JPMorgan

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#MetalSucks
Scowl, Speed, and More Drop Out of Download Festival in Boycott of Sponsor with Ties to Israel
If all the bands drop out, I’m sure Disturbed would be down to drop whatever they’re doing and fill in.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2024/06/11/scowl-speed-and-more-drop-out-of-download-festival-in-boycott-of-sponsor-with-ties-to-israel/

#DownloadFestival #PestControl #Scowl #SPEED #Zulu #PalestineSolidarityCampaign #BandsBoycottBarclays #BarclaysBank #Israel #Gaza #War #Boycott #Protest

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Ithaca the Latest Band to Back Out of Download Festival in Protest of Sponsor’s Israeli Ties
And another one drops off the bill.

https://www.metalsucks.net/2024/06/11/ithaca-the-latest-band-to-back-out-of-download-festival-in-protest-of-sponsors-israeli-ties/

#DownloadFestival #Gaza #Israel #Ithaca #BarclaysBank #Palestine #Solidarity #Boycott #MusicFestival #HumanRights #FreePalestine

Shut The System
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/10/shut-the-system-and-palestine-action-smash-20-barclays-branches/

Elbit - Who Profits ? https://www.whoprofits.org/index.php?/companies/company/3794

AFSC on Elbit
https://investigate.afsc.org/company/elbit-systems

CAAT on Barclays Bank
https://caat.org.uk/app/uploads/2024/05/Barclays-report-May-2024-v3-FINAL.pdf

Palestine Action
https://palestineaction.org/

#antimilitarism #BarclaysBank #ceasefire #Elbit #Gaza #MilitaryIndustrialComplex #Palestine
#AFSC #WhoProfits #CAAT #ShutTheSystem #PalestineAction

Barclays says that its two bank branches at Tottenham Court Road will both be permanently closing down this year.

A notice in the window of the bank at 154-155 Tottenham Court Road says the branch will be closing at 12pm on Friday 10 May 2024.

This closure will be followed by the other branch at 15-17 Tottenham Court Road which is due to permanently close at 12pm on Friday 1 November 2024.

Notices in the windows of both branches are directing customers to use the 15-17 Great Portland Street branch after that date.

Barclays says that when the branches opened “visiting us in person was one of the only ways to do your banking”.

In a statement giving reasons for the closures the bank says “we’re seeing many customers choosing to bank using our app, and online or telephone banking. This has had a big impact on the number of customers coming in to see us”.

According to the bank, 96 percent of its customers at both the branches also use online or telephone banking. It said less than 10 customers use the 154-155 Tottenham Court Road branch regularly as the only way to do their banking, and that less than 40 customers use the 15-17 Tottenham Court Road branch.

The consumer website Money Saving Expert reported last month that “Barclays will shut at least another 99 bank branches throughout 2024 and 2025 after announcing 22 more closures. This is in addition to the 177 branches it closed in 2023.”

After the closures Barclays will be the only one of the “big four banks” not to have a single branch on Tottenham Court Road.

https://fitzrovianews.com/2024/03/14/barclays-to-close-both-its-tottenham-court-road-bank-branches/

#bankClosures #banking #banks #BarclaysBank #TottenhamCourtRoad