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Corridor care: Progress at last but the NHS still lacks the resources to end it – EveryDoctor Patients being treated in hospital corridors is a sign of an NHS under extreme pressure. For months, clinicians, patients and campaigners have been raising the alarm about corridor care. The…

The NHS will soon publish national data on corridor care for the first time.

Transparency matters but measuring patients treated in corridors won’t fix the crisis.

Patients need safe spaces, enough staff and enough beds.

Read our article for a full analysis: everydoctor.org.uk/reports/corr...

12.03.2026 20:01 👍 26 🔁 22 💬 1 📌 0

🚨 Asked about council tax promises, Nigel Farage just shouts:

“Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!”

Then threatens to end the interview with Beth Rigby.

The man who sold Britain “the easiest deal in history” still struggles with basic questions about the consequences.

12.03.2026 13:20 👍 498 🔁 162 💬 31 📌 4

I swear, if the British diverted just a little bit of the time and energy they spend discussing the likes of TV baking shows, animals on bank notes, Wagatha Christie and the weather then it would be the richest most dynamic country in the world.

12.03.2026 07:23 👍 97 🔁 16 💬 16 📌 5

If we just got on and built some wind farms and solar fields we could dispense with all of this nonsense.

12.03.2026 17:10 👍 903 🔁 188 💬 50 📌 8
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Actually, this on a banknote

11.03.2026 21:49 👍 1213 🔁 204 💬 38 📌 12
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Unite announces cut to Labour membership fees by £580,000 UK union cutting contributions as talks with Birmingham council fail to reach resolution over bin strike

Labour’s incompetent behaviour in Birmingham has come on the back of a failed economic strategy, that has left our industrial base fighting for its life. Oil & gas workers facing decimation, buy British defence promises broken, the public sector undervalued and the elderly and disabled under attack.

12.03.2026 17:57 👍 76 🔁 23 💬 17 📌 2
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The Guardian view on Kemi Badenoch and the Iran war: confusion reveals a lack of serious thinking | Editorial Editorial: The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism

“Reform and the Tories are now ideological satellites of extreme US conservatism, adopting Maga-coded positions on culture war issues and foreign policy by default”

Badenoch was clumsier on Iran than Farage. But both paraded just how dangerously useless they are.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

12.03.2026 07:30 👍 574 🔁 187 💬 30 📌 2

Simple yes.
And indeed far too simple....
Tax of course, pays for nothing and is the principal way government prevents inflation, That's pretty simple...

12.03.2026 21:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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@jeremycorbyn.bsky.social to govt minister Darren Jones: "I find this faux outrage about Mandelson really astonishing. He was a man who was closely involved with the current PM & the leadership of the Labour party ever since Tony Blair"

Not every leader, eh Jeremy!

11.03.2026 15:05 👍 206 🔁 61 💬 11 📌 4
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The US drops a 15 ton bomb in Iran.

These are those 'defensive' strikes.

11.03.2026 20:59 👍 83 🔁 68 💬 8 📌 2

PSA:

Trump is a cunt.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

12.03.2026 11:37 👍 532 🔁 61 💬 30 📌 1
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🔮 No strait, no problem – Solar supercycle and the end of chokepoint geopolitics While politics is powerful, the laws of physics will always win

Solar does not care about the Strait of Hormuz.

Oil flows through chokepoints. Solar follows a learning curve.
Great piece @azeem.bsky.social

www.exponentialview.co/p/solar-supe...

12.03.2026 17:04 👍 1696 🔁 492 💬 60 📌 33

Once again, Badenoch endorses Mahmood's "earned settlement" proposals.

If the government - against public opinion and all the evidence - continue to pursue them, they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.

12.03.2026 14:52 👍 171 🔁 71 💬 6 📌 2

BREAKING: Kash Patel has obtained an intact Iranian drone on a California beach. Worryingly, it bears the words "Made in Iran" and "Death to America" written in marker pen. He blew up a nearby fishing boat just to be safe.

12.03.2026 16:51 👍 76 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
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Having taken control of so many councils last May, Reform now has to run them – and in many cases (Durham excepted) isn’t making a terribly good fist of things. A 9 per cent council tax rise in Worcestershire!

spectator.com/article/has-...

12.03.2026 13:35 👍 227 🔁 83 💬 31 📌 5

Complaining about & blaming Keir Starmer for a long-scheduled, still uncertain, six month distant increase in fuel prices literally *hours* after calling for more war in the Middle East is quite the flex. These are not serious people.

12.03.2026 09:21 👍 2706 🔁 513 💬 103 📌 10
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Ah, The Times, Britain's most dishonest newspaper, with a story which curiously omits all mention of the fact it is a Good Law Project case.

12.03.2026 20:38 👍 273 🔁 44 💬 7 📌 0
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Palantir’s NHS England contract ‘opens door to government abuse of power’, health bosses told Health justice charity Medact says data-sharing potential could be used for UK version of US immigration raids

No to Palantir.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

12.03.2026 10:26 👍 2115 🔁 720 💬 56 📌 39
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Man who rammed vehicle into Michigan synagogue killed by security staff No serious casualties among those at Temple Israel, and explosives reportedly found in suspect’s vehicle

Deeply concerned about this attack on a synagogue, what's worse is thete was a school attached.

We must stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers and sisters and work to heal the divides in our societies

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

12.03.2026 20:10 👍 73 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0
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"Winston Churchill is a hero. He’s earned his place on our Five Pound Note. He must not be replaced with an Otter."

I'm increasingly convinced that this whole campaign is in fact an elaborate joke.

12.03.2026 17:04 👍 248 🔁 36 💬 52 📌 25
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Court rules in favour of Owen Jones calling BBC's coverage on the Middle East biased.

12.03.2026 14:34 👍 255 🔁 86 💬 9 📌 6
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12.03.2026 18:20 👍 419 🔁 111 💬 8 📌 2
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I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

12.03.2026 02:09 👍 34083 🔁 9846 💬 1251 📌 601
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Doocy: You just said it is a little excursion and you said it is a war, so which one is it? 
President Trump: Well, it's both. It's an excursion that will keep us out of war. "
Below is his photo, speaking to someone.

Post by Acyn. " Doocy: You just said it is a little excursion and you said it is a war, so which one is it? President Trump: Well, it's both. It's an excursion that will keep us out of war. " Below is his photo, speaking to someone.

I hope we see you soon in front of a tribunal for committing excursion crimes contrary to the Geneva Convention.

12.03.2026 01:24 👍 2010 🔁 451 💬 211 📌 36
Irene Montero (right), speaking to reporters in Madrid, Spain. (Photo By Diego Radames/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Irene Montero (right), speaking to reporters in Madrid, Spain. (Photo By Diego Radames/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Spain MEP Irene Montero: “Send your son, Donald Trump — If you want war, send your own people to the front line. We in Spain want our children, our daughters, & our loved ones at home, safe. We don’t want war — those who want war should send their own children”

11.03.2026 15:37 👍 8595 🔁 2135 💬 226 📌 161
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Trump team realizes immigration terror campaign is bad politics The Trump administration has reportedly issued a directive to congressional Republicans to stop speaking about “mass deportation.” The edict comes as voters turn away from President Donald Trump ...

Trump team realizes immigration terror campaign is bad politics www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

12.03.2026 12:56 👍 367 🔁 122 💬 52 📌 15
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War in Iran: 'Sailors are not just stuck in the Strait of Hormuz, they are prisoners on their ships' Nearly 20,000 sailors remain stranded in the Arabian-Persian Gulf as Tehran blocks the maritime corridor. With international tensions escalating, seafaring is becoming far more perilous, writes Julien Bouissou.

War in Iran: 'Sailors are not just stuck in the Strait of Hormuz, they are prisoners on their ships'

11.03.2026 22:52 👍 14 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

Apparently Question Time is heading to Clacton.

That’s a sure fire way of ensuring Nigel Farage won’t be on it…

#NigelMirage

11.03.2026 10:46 👍 630 🔁 131 💬 28 📌 5
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10.03.2026 23:37 👍 236 🔁 65 💬 3 📌 1

Telling how confident Starmer now feels in owning his Iran decision. His best outing against Badenoch at PMQs in months. KB not alone in shifting her position. Many of those in the press and politics demanding war and condemning Starmer loudest have been far quieter since the inevitable chaos began.

11.03.2026 12:15 👍 1244 🔁 250 💬 58 📌 8