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  1. HASLAM CONCERNED OVER PALACE REFIT AMIDST PUBLIC DISQUIET

    Nicky Haslam questions Buckingham Palace refit. 56% of Britons oppose taxpayer funding for the £369 million renovation. See why it matters.

    #BuckinghamPalace, #RoyalRenovation, #TaxpayerMoney, #UKPolitics, #NickyHaslam

    newsletter.tf/buckingham-palac

  2. The Public Purse as a Campaign War Chest

    US House members use taxpayer money for ads. This started after rules changed in 2021. Challengers can't do this. Find out how it affects elections.

    #FrankingPrivilege, #ElectionReform, #TaxpayerMoney, #USPolitics, #CampaignFinance

    newsletter.tf/us-house-members

  3. #Trump is so fanatically opposed to #windpower (and/or in the pocket of the #fossilfuel industry) that he is literally willing to bribe an energy company a billion dollars of #taxpayermoney to walk away from already awarded offshore wind leases.

    apnews.com/article/trump-offsh

  4. Tell me again how a convicted felon can travel abroad to places like … say … Scotland?

    #travel #trump #republicans #doj #scotland #taxpayermoney

  5. “…in just his first month in office, Trump spent about $10.7 million in taxpayer money playing golf.”
    —Heather Cox Richardson, March 6, 2025
    #trump #golf #taxpayermoney

  6. 🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: Goodbye, 18F—the "gold standard" of civic tech (or so they say) has been canned. 🚪👋 Now taxpayers can enjoy their money being squandered more effectively without all those pesky "effective" projects. Way to save the day, DOGE—er, I mean, government! 🙄✨
    18f.org/ #BreakingNews #CivicTech #GovernmentSpending #TaxpayerMoney #18F #HackerNews #ngated

  7. Sayed Ahmed Alwadaei, director of Bird, said that by failing to mention deaths in custody of three detainees in 2021, or the torture of political prisoners, the Foreign Office has misled the public.

    Last October, HRW and Bird published a joint report claiming Bahrain security services supported by the UK have been accused of “serious and persistent” human rights abuses. It said people had been tortured at Bahrain’s interior ministry and that two other bodies receiving UK backing, the interior ministry’s special investigations unit and ombudsman, both failed to properly investigate the allegations, as they are obliged to do. At the time, the Bahrain embassy in London said the country had a “zero tolerance policy towards mistreatment of any kind” and had put in place human rights safeguards and checks and balances.

    The FCDO’s latest report praises Bahrain for its restorative justice law for children as a “progressive step” without mentioning failures to protect key rights, the letter said. The new law increased the age of criminal responsibility to 15, but does not prohibit interrogating children without a parent or lawyer present and allows children to be detained for participating in unlicensed public gatherings.

    #kids #abuse #interrogation #politics #taxpayermoney #childabuse

  8. I've got to say that the term #characterisation is the new #Conservative whitewash to deflect attention on any given issue. Firstly we had #Williamson churn that term out, now we've #Sunak regurgitating it for the example of #Raab's apparent bullying behaviour. Is it really too much to ask to have a #Government that doesn't waste #taxpayermoney, which tells the #truth and which gets on with making this nation a better place in which to live? #BritishPolitics #ukpolitics #GeneralElectionNow