In May this year, Peter Hendy pressured my now-former employer Systra to sack me by threatening them. Why did he do this? Because I'd highlighted safety and accessibility issues at Euston station. He is unfit for office and should resign. www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...
Peter Hendy threatened to withhold public contracts while seeking disciplinary action.
Keir Starmer says he won’t shy away from “unpopular decisions” but it’s funny how the decisions are never unpopular to the super rich. After a decade of austerity, Labour’s “tough choices” can’t yet again fall on the working class. It’s time someone else made some sacrifices.
The UK has lost £bn in R&D tax fraud. £100m of this was thanks to "tax specialist" firm Green Jellyfish. They hired unqualified creative writing graduates as "technical experts" and gave them briefings claiming that garden design was R&D. Thread with evidence:
👇’UK trains running in 2021-22 were 74.3% on time, which is worse than the last days of British Rail when it was 89.6%.’ And British Rail had been run into the ground by the end, as the Tories prepared to flog it off. Privatisation = efficiency is a myth. Renationalisation can’t arrive soon enough.
The government wants to renationalise railways. Will it be any better this time round? Two public transport experts on how to make it work | Marcus Mayers & David Bamford
The government wants to renationalise railways. Will it be any better this time round? Two public transport experts on how to make it work
This meme is causing considerable disquiet. Our @bylinesnetwork.bsky.social account shared it to make a political point, in a comical way. But the original image, wherever it's from, used AI art, and that's upset a lot of people. 1/6
