Top of Middletown Hill looking towards Welshpool
RT: @implausibleblog Zack Polanski, "A wealth tax won't fix everything but it would be a very good place to start"
"1% on £10 million, and 2% on £1 billion, would raise around £15 billion a year"
"A clear message that those who have accumulated the most money will pay a little bit more"
"For a

Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets. Report by Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr
If you're in England, your #NHS medical data is due to be shared with #PeterThiel's military surveillance firm #Palantir.
Fyi, Palantir have already been using their access to US medical records to target people for #ICE, and #ReformUK have published their plans for ICE UK...
In case you — like me — object to this in the strongest of terms, the @goodlawproject have put together this handy tool to check your local NHS Trust's position, and to say no to this.
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116130138605094270
Today the EU Parliament said NO. ❌
Voluntary scanning by Outlook, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc. might come to an end on April 6 in the EU. Keep pushing everyone! 👏🥳
The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability
The EU’s Retreat on Corporate Accountability: Growth, Imperial Extraction, and the Limits of Regulation by Alice Puerto* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture In 2025, the European Union took what may prove to be a historic step backward. Under pressure from a consolidated right–far-right bloc in the European Parliament, led by the European People’s Party and allied with nationalist forces, the…
http://degrowthuk.org/2026/03/11/the-eus-retreat-on-corporate-accountability/

When Britain's most powerful political fixer was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu, we called it Yachtgate and moved on. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics, writes Tamsin Shaw