It really is something to see politicians, commentators and media outlets whose whole identity is based on being so-called ‘patriots’ frothing with excitement as they line up to back a deranged megalomaniac who consistently attempts to belittle and bully the country they claim to love
Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
History repeats.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to change how judges interpret the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that risks weakening everyone’s protections.
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
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Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
This is really important work…
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill may well transform workers’ rights. But only if people can access justice and enforcement of remedies can’t be dodged.
Do you really have rights at all, if the barriers to asserting them are so difficult to overcome?
Picture of Vance. Headline: The Collaborators The real "threat from within" comes from those fake British patriots loudly cheering...
Extract from article: Because the truth is that far from believing in the principle of sovereignty, Trump's useful British idiots have only ever believed in the right of might. And if Trump has the might to seize Gaza and Greenland, while turning over Ukraine to Putin, then all the better. Of course such hypocrisy should not surprise us. Brexit was always an attempt to sabotage the UK's national interest, in favour of those who would profit from it and all the attempts to define this project as a patriotic one should always have been treated with the contempt they deserved.
Patriotism? Sovereignty?
No. Our Brexit populists don’t believe in any of it. Just harvesting hatred for power. Profiteering. Doing what they want and to hell with the country, the law, international relations and humanity.
V good from @adambienkov.bsky.social
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JUSTIN WEBB “Beyond the bluster, Trump may be making America normal again”
Quote from his article: “The problem - whisper it - is that for many Americans, including a fair swathe of Democratic party voters, their party has become the extremists.”
Not convinced Justin Webb on #r4today should be leading a story on the definition of extremism, given his wild nonsense in the Sunday Times.
The difficulty in defining it is in no small part due to the rightwing goose-stepping off further to the right and resenting liberals for pointing that out.
For all the hot air on how Britain is cracking down on SLAPPs, this story by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social shows how nothing has changed. Russian warlord Prigozhin’s lawsuit against Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social ruled not a SLAPP
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All the pro-Trump Brexit sovereignty-fetishists being exposed again for the lying two-faced pieces of shit that they really are.
No way anyone remotely sane, decent or patriotic tolerates this anti-democratic fuckery from Musk.
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Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
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The i front page: EU tells Starmer: your Brexit reset is doomed without a better offer on fish and under-30s » European diplomats warn Keir Starmer that he still needs to make major concessions to the EU if he wants new deals on trade and security - with Brussels prepared to drive a hard bargain »Leaked negotiating documents show that the EU is demanding a new fishing agreement as a precondition to the start of any talks, plus easier migration for under 30s between the two sides » Brussels wants to make the UK adopt the bloc's laws in exchange for getting a veterinary agreement which would boost British farming and food trade, a key plank of Starmer's strategy » European diplomatic sources say most EU nations are happy with the status quo - and claim they are becoming exasperated by the UK making demands without offering concessions
If we’d been shown this headline in 2016, we may have struggled to believe such a mess could be possible. But here we are, 8 years on, being asked to consider concessions on fish and opportunities for young people.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
“My 2023 open letter to the BBC about Question Time, read by more than 300,000 people in 144 countries, was widely reported in the media. It even informed questions posed to the BBC’s director general Tim Davie at a parliamentary select committee.”
Patient Access is owned by EMIS - who are now owned by Optum…
…Optum are a subsidiary of United Health
You know that app many of us are now told to use to book your GP / other NHS appointments? The one that tries to upsell you a private medical appointment, instead of an NHS appointment? Can you guess who now owns it? Yep - US corporation United Health. www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/we...
Wow. This post from @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social has been shared 11,300 times & has 60,400 likes on @bsky.app. On X it has just 8 shares & 13 likes (despite a much larger following). Don’t tell me Musk isn’t throttling accounts. Thankfully the forecast going forward is BlueSky’s.
"There are an estimated 2.9m people in England with malnutrition.
Hospital admissions resulting in nutrition-related diagnoses in England increased by more than 39% over the past decade. Malnourished children are being treated for scurvy, bow legs, rickets and heart murmurs."
Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled.
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
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The nightmare continues.
Oldest Post Office scandal victim (92 years old) 'treated like dung'
Offered less than a third of compensation claimed.
Lost savings, earnings, job, whilst Post Office and Fujitsu directors collected mega pay/pension.
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This is a graphic illustration of why we must make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, say boll**** to Elon Musk & send him packing. We CAN do it
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Screenshot from the Independent Nigel Farage suggests MOs should debate rolling back abortion limit. Reform UK leader says it would be ‘worthy’ discussion and parliament should get more time ‘to debate things people talk about at home’.
No, Nigel Farage.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
Musk retweeting “yes” to a post saying Andrea Jenkyns has joined Reform - and that Reform will win the next election.
WTAF
That’s not trolling the UK govt anymore - that’s straight up campaigning for a political party in a foreign country.
It’s serious.
V sick of being force fed Tory ugliness. Even with a Labour govt, the rightwing media, culture war and prejudices still dominate our national debate, drag govt into their space, drown out liberal voices and stop us scrutinising the toxic shittery of their ideologies.
Was 14yrs of failure not enough?
YouGov poll and bar chart that shows that 3% of Britons say that “the earth is flat” is probably or definitely true.
The guy who set up that petition and thanks Elon Musk for his support of it, tells Kay Burley that “2.5 million people can’t be wrong”
Sorry what?
History and reality perform a massive eye roll.
Agreement (particularly with foreign bots) does not turn your opinion into fact.
Elon is not the world's greatest inventor, he is the greatest capitalist. He uses success in one industry to seek colossal funding for a related sector, links the two companies up and creates an overwhelming monopoly.
This is a thread on the true powers and dangers of Elon Musk 🧵
GP Crisis is a funding crisis
If @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social wants quick productivity results he should fund community care & GPs
There are potentially 3000 GPs (WTE) available now to work if the funding was made available
Plus Nurses & other community teams ready to employ staff
#MedSky
Free school breakfast clubs will start next year with extra childcare for parents
Some 750 schools in England will be picked for a year-long pilot starting in April, as part of a massive expansion of provision of free breakfast clubs across the country👏
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This from the co-owners of GB News says what many have suspected ....GB News is a political project
To be an Ofcom regulated broadcaster the station is specifically not allowed to be politically biased. It can have shows which lean one way or another, but the balance must exist across a schedule.
Heartbreaking. Autistic children at a UK school were shoved, restrained by the neck, left sitting in vomit, and confined in padded rooms for hours, some developing PTSD and epilepsy.
A police probe ended with NO CHARGES.
Families demand accountability.
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