Yet again, Labour retreats from a planned tax increase on the rich in response to their threats of pushing back.

The right way to respond is with a counter threat. One idea is a special tax on income from British business that goes to non-taxed stockholders?

*Big oil spent $445m in last election cycle to [politicians] report says.*

A lot of this spending was on helping to influence (or fool) the public to vote for them.

UK agencies that support the public were supposed to use chatbots to talk with people seeking help, but they canceled several because they don't work reliably.

It is a nice thing that they had the decency to cancel these, rather than forcing them on people.

*"[The corruptor's] grifting tendencies": how [his] crypto ties could spur corruption.*

*Water companies in England "use greenwashing playbook to hide environmental harm."*

Privatizing water services was a terrible idea which has had only bad effects. It is very disappointing that Labour is not getting rid of them.