Interesting Links for 02-07-2020

[andrewducker]

Water firms discharged raw sewage into England's rivers 200,000 times in 2019

(tags:UK rivers pollution water )

England's privatised water firms paid £57bn in dividends since 1991 (Scottish Water is, of course, publicly owned)

(tags:UK water capitalism )

Lego joins hundreds of companies and pulls ads on Facebook over hate speech

(tags:abuse advertising Facebook )

The government's "rough sex" law doesn't actually change anything

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1278411380836708353.html
(tags:law sex murder bdsm uk )

Sweeping climate-crisis plan would bring US to zero emissions in 30 years

(tags:USA globalwarming thefuture politics )

A Former BNP Councillor to Become Mayor of Stoke on Trent

(tags:racism UK politics OhForFucksSake bnp )

Finland′s air force logo drops swastika

(tags:logo Finland Nazis history )

Comments

Re: Privatised water firms

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that makes sense, and I can definitely see the advantages of scale and making them their own thing.