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Privatised rail Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCOs) make huge profits..
All holed-up in tax havens.
Paid £409.7m dividend last year. Profit margin of 41.6%. UK taxes dodged.
UK Govt's rail nationalisation plans will not apply to ROSCOs.
Why might that be?
leftfootforward.org/2024/07/…
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Me: Ima download this list and sort out Wikidata's peer records.
Parliament dot uk: no.
members.parliament.uk/member…
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Fortunately, Wikipedia's List of members of the House of Lords looks like a fantastic & well maintained page.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
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Knocking off peers faster than Kind Hearts and Coronets; now at 921 from about 3.5k.
Need to reduce this to about 810 & then add some eligibility qualifiers. Mainly victims of the House of Lords Act 1999 cull, and the odd stray bishop.
* w.wiki/AeGV
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Hindi Wikipedia does Rambot, 20 years later, but using a much more dodgy source. What could go wrong?
Paper: "Automatically Generating Hindi Wikipedia Pages using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph: A Domain-Specific Template Sentences Approach" doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452…
ALT excerpt from Agarwal et al. 2023
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22 years. Rambot is the little hill of beans around 2003.
* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
Interesting period, those early years: huge growth on a very small base; then years of moaning about decline, then we just stopped measuring things.
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Okay, so maybe we still do count things (new content pages per month). And actually, that's not looking too shabby.
* stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wik…
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Wikidata represents that ~450k dead people are current holders of positions (like MP, mayor of this, CEO of that, or whatever).
That's probably not good.
For instance, says there are ~3,000 people sitting in the UK House of Lords right now.
* w.wiki/AdQE
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Tagishsimon retweeted
The new Tony Blair Institute report finds huge time savings for the public sector from the use of AI tools... by asking GPT-4 what tasks can or cannot be automated 😵💫
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Tagishsimon retweeted
Rachel Reeves coming out and saying "there's no money" while drawing up plans to eat £billions of private sector debt from Thames Water without taking the utility back into public ownership.
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Tagishsimon retweeted
BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures.
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Tagishsimon retweeted
"Almost two decades ago he was the pro PFI health secretary - now he and his family trouser millions from his consultancy work for private healthcare interests"
Article by @SolHughesWriter on Alan Milburn from a couple of years ago
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Sorry to see @wesstreeting won. I hope he understands the message here: people think his NHS reforms stink.
Wow. Look at how close @LeanneMohamad came to unseating Wes Streeting.
This is remarkable for somebody to come from nowhere and nearly take a seat from someone with a national profile.
She must keep building in her community.
Well done, Leanne. Hold your head high.
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.@vaughangething let's be clear if a professional footballer had taken a £200,000 bung from an obviously dodgy opponent team, they'd rightly be banned from the game.
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In which @UKLabour memory holes the grey book costings for the 2019 general election manifesto.
As promised, we have identified how much our plans will cost and also explained where the money will come from to pay for them. To find out more see our new grey book ‘Funding Real Change’: labour.org.uk/fundingrealcha…
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The Wayback Machine gives an indication of when this happened: in the last six months.
* web.archive.org/web/20241101…
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