shelagh9.bsky.social

B-Side: Exposing the Covid care home scandal 😱 How care homes became death traps 🛡️ The “protective ring” lie 🆘 Has anything changed since? With @sturdyalex.bsky.social @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/1eoT... 🍎 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

All rivers spill their stories to the sea: a River Tees pollution story. Part Three In Part Three, the final part, I’ll describe what happened on the first day of the event, 25 September 2021 northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

Imagine living in a world where news channels, talk shows/radios all took the time to assess a situation, research the facts and present the same to their audience without some ridiculous attempt to seek 'balance'. Anyway here's a link to @quietriotpod.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/2bwx...

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

'Otters' in ink by Jackie Morris, artist, author who lives and works in a small cottage by the sea in Wales #WomensArt #Monday

In addition to two fascists losing elections in Serbia and Brazil yesterday, Oxford Street in London was closed to vehicular traffic and transformed into a pedestrian zone. 🥳

Palantir’s technology sits at the heart of a major NHS data programme. Campaigners want it out. Their objections go far beyond patient privacy – taking in Gaza, ICE, lobbying, procurement and the revolving door between politics and business. Report by Aidan Baker

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

🔴 NEW Mod-Backed Drone Maker Bought by US Group Is Now Developing Attack Drones for Israel By @nafeez.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Private equity buys UK fertility clinics. PE already controls social care, hospitals, GP surgeries, dentistry, child fostering. Usual business model. High debt, quality of care declines, prices increase, high profits. When things go wrong, NHS has to step in, PE doesn't pay.

As the cost-of-living crisis pushes households to the brink and climate breakdown places further stress on public services, only the Green Party are pushing for genuine action at the Budget this week.

The Conviction of Estonia’s ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ Links Russian Intelligence to Moscow’s Interference on Brexit A 'diplomat' who launched the 'Conservative Friends of… https://bylinetimes.com/2026/10/26/the-conviction-of-estonias-lord-haw-haw-links-russian-intelligence-to-moscows-interference-on-brexit/

In the coming century, there will be very few people who have seen a coral reef or a glacier.

In a little-noticed webpage update, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a plan to decommission its online web archive at the end of the year, a move that would wipe tens of thousands of publicly available environmental resources from the web.

Why has a company providing one of society's most basic services reached a position where so much needs to be spent putting the system right? | Mick Channon

Some of Europe’s highest energy costs expected in Britain this winter. Since privatisation UK gas storage capacity reduced to about 8 - 12 days, EU has 80 -120 days. UK is net importer of electricity. Wars, privatisation and profiteering take toll.

What if the internet simply stopped working? Our banks, courts and public services depend on fragile technology few of us understand. Ben Smith explains how vulnerable our digital world really is. eastangliabylines.co.uk/technology/t...

Turning Point UK was supposed to be a youth movement All it's ever done is appeal to middle aged thugs

Missiles strike Kyiv shortly after Russia says it is ready to hold talks with Ukraine and US. As Trump's envoy Witkoff called Putin a "humanitarian", residents of Ukraine's capital fled into shelters during the overnight barrage of missile strikes tinyurl.com/47w9htch

NEW: our latest work, in partnership with @neweconomics.bsky.social details just how much longer we are working to afford the same stuff. Do have a rummage through this fascinating report 👇

Kolam, a complex geometric drawing art form using rice flour or chalk relating to philosophic and religious motifs, widely practised by female family members in many parts of India, also in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand #womensart

Won’t lower energy bills. Won’t boost energy security And creates just 27 jobs. Compared to all the benefits of investing in renewables and insulating our homes. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/zac...

Just to be clear, Elon Musk’s disabling of starlink/starshield helps Putin target civilians rather than Ukrainian forces. By hampering air defences, he’s not just helping Russia’s military. He’s helping it commit war crimes

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

UK Tory govt failures led to Covid spreading ‘like wildfire’ in care homes. Ministers lied. Residents sent home without protection. 43,000 died from Covid-19 in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022. 2016 Exercise Cygnus showed NHS couldn't cope with a flu pandemic. Govt did nothing.

A lack of PPE meant staff had to resort to workarounds, including bin bags, festival waterproof ponchos and painters' overalls. The report is also critical of the way hospital COVID patients were moved to care homes to make space for others.

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

Byline Times has led the charge tracing a 'Dark Enlightenment' network of Epstein elites, tech bros, and 'race realists' with dystopian ambitions. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money. #LightUpTheDark ⬇️ subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...

NEW: Our latest research has found that more than 200,000 children attended A&E or were hospitalised with breathing difficulties last year across 11 English cities, including #London, #GreaterManchester & #Birmingham. We cannot keep treating dirty air as inevitable or acceptable. 📸: Ron Fassbender

Insulating homes better for people, cost of living and UK economy than drilling new oilfield www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔴 NEW A Short History of Trump’s Long-Held Connections to Russia By @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social Read below. ↓

Our NHS has been hollowed out over the last few decades. Thank you @premnsikka.bsky.social The UK has 2.4 NHS beds PER 1,000 people Japan: 12.6 Germany: 7.7 Austria: 6.6 France: 5.4 OECD average: 4.2 This is why we have the disgrace of corridor care. It's time to invest and rebuild our NHS

Palantir’s influence across Europe. The most revealing report yet into the AI company’s business across the continent, by @FTM_eu, reveals the extent of contracts – but doubts are growing about it as a partner Sebastiaan Brommersma reports, with an introduction by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social

“It looks dangerously like the construction of an internal spying agency...” "It’s also a weapon that the government will likely use against not only undocumented immigrants, but everyone else, too. That includes political enemies, intelligence experts said... prospect.org/2026/10/14/i...

📌 ICYMI — How Reform UK’s Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists — @nafeez.bsky.social As Nigel Farage's party faces a new racism scandal, investigations reveal how Nigel Farage and his senior colleagues have long cultivated extremist allies and promoted their far-right ideas

Of all the many evil betrayals I’ve seen in the last 60 years I’ve been alive, I’m struggling to think of any that match what Trump and Musk did to innocent Ukrainian citizens while Putin was sending missiles this way. A trio to live on in infamy well after I am gone

Britain are way behind Denmark on AI protections

‘Shocking and sobering’: UK bird populations fall to lowest level on record Nearly 1/2 of species are in decline, with farmland birds and seabirds the worst hit, conservation bodies say @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️🐦 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

📌 ICYMI — Brexit Turning Point as MPs Line Up to Make the Case for Rejoining the EU — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Parliamentarians cite Russian interference and post-Brexit red tape, as Andy Burnham opens up a debate which Westminster has avoided for a decade

How much do you know about the health of your local river? Even those that look beautiful can still be in trouble. Read our 2026 #StateOfOurRivers Report to learn what's happening in our rivers, the solutions we need, & how you can help your local river. ✊ theriverstrust.org/rivers-repor...

Exactly this. It's what Russia has done for 100+ years. Disinformation and meddling are what Russian intelligence does.

My take with @goldbergradio.bsky.social and @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social on Andy Burnham and why it took so long for the British Government to come clean about Putin’s role in Brexit youtu.be/M8hVq-skssI

As Farage bleats about a Russian hoax & calls our PM a liar - I urge you to read this from @bylinetimes.bsky.social from June 24. Let’s just say he would say that, wouldn’t he, given his cosy & lucrative relationship with Russia, who swore to undermine the EU? bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...

More information on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism website. Abramovich’s inner circle presented high court with sham documents and misleading testimony Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit. 👇👇👇👇

When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear & the internet becomes friendlier. So much of politics is driven by the internet & so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it

“The status quo is not good enough for Britain.” Andy Burnham will tell MPs today that the government has a duty to pursue closer ties with the EU. We agree — the UK deserves the growth and opportunities that a stronger relationship with Europe would bring.

“Tom Watson has taken a job lobbying for Palantir. Revolving doors. They really are a problem in British politics.” Natalie Bennett criticises the links between politicians and powerful corporations, and Watson’s comments about “mob rule" deciding government contracts.