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Here we go again. Rueful & Co will be trying to take over again but you know what to do to stop them. Don’t ignore your emails from the NT with links to votes. Don’t split the vote (easiest to select the NT preferred selection of both members & motions) And get all family members to vote too!

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...

After weeks of the story not breaking through, for whatever reason, Al Jazeera is reporting that a tanker that was hit (supposedly by a mine but not confirmed) did cause a spill. That spill is still causing beaches to be closed and is having a large environmental impact. #TheHormuzCrisis

"I read through and broke down Reform UK’s 50-page PIP policy paper down so you don’t have to" via JBE Politics "Reform UK’s PIP Plan will create a ‘Poverty Trap’ for disabled people" '...2.89 million people will lose out on PIP...' www.jacobbarclayevans.com/reform-uks-p...

From 7 @lbc.co.uk: two party politics is dead, long live two party politics! We’ll ask why the Online Safety act is failing kids? And what kind of Budget do you expect on Wednesday? 📞0345 6060973 x

The media have ignored the Covid Inquiry outcome. All those deaths directly caused by Johnson and Hancock ignoring advice. They need banging up. But we are moving on. Because the media say we should. Failed 6yrs on by our media colluding with the vile Tories. Never forget.

A carefully planned Russian propaganda operation is underway. Having starved people in Oleshky for months, Russia, with the 'intervention' of Melania, will allow people to leave and pretend Ukraine was at fault. Read @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/analysis/88041

We’ve put together a guide to the laws, the regulations and the rules that apply if you’re filmed without your consent – and the things you can do to protect your privacy 👀 https://goodlawproject.org/resource/filmed-without-your-consent/

🔴 REVEALED: Palantir led closed-door review of how MoD buys software The review was presented to defence minister Luke Pollard by Palantir UK boss Louis Mosley in Feb and has mostly been implemented None of this was made public New investigation🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

The new Chair of OfCom has rather oddly suggested I should set up a left wing version of GB News. This suggests he doesn’t quite know what his job is. But I have taken him at his word. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75420/...

The banks say they’re overtaxed. The TUC says they’re undertaxed. We did the sums across nine countries, and we're going to annoy *everyone*. The UK isn’t a high-tax outlier. There *is* a case for increasing bank tax. But it comes with risks - and could hit households. 🧵:

If you think this thread is weird, it only scratches the surface. The full story, and all the original documents, is here: buff.ly/uwnZCHY

Fracking was never banned in the UK. It's paused, with a loophole companies are already using. The new energy law is being written now. Tell the PM: ban all fracking, for good, in law. act.350.org/sign/ban-fra...

Hello UK friends! A heads-up that there’s another chance to catch my Ottoman Empire by Train series on @channel4.bsky.social at 7pm tonight. Then stay tuned for my wonderful friend @bettanyhughes.bsky.social with her BRAND NEW Secrets of a Viking Ship!

6,000 jobs at Nissan's Washington plant (& 30k supply-chain roles) rely on 🇬🇧 joining the EU's 'Made in Europe' scheme, notes this Sunderland Echo ✉️. "Get Brexit Done" was a misnomer. To stop North East industry being collateral damage, we must #RejoinEU! 🇪🇺👇 #Sunderland #UKPolitics

I think Fartrage is toast. Dark money see his vulnerabilities and know his appeal is starting to unravel. Issue being that they will move on to the next version of RtWng sh!te. We need to get much better at taking them down as soon as they show their disgusting colours.

Obama visits UK and draws an enormous audience. Zelenskyy visits UK, gets an honour guard in Downing Street and meets King Charles III, AGAIN. tRump will be going even further out of his tiny mind. Well done 🇬🇧

For a while I made Christmas video messages for people (usually as Geoffrey Geoff-Geoffrey) which were a lot of fun and quite popular. For various reasons I haven’t been able to do them for a couple of years but I think I’ll have time this year if anyone is interested? ko-fi.com/mattgreencom...

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.

Remember when Elon Musk decided not to end world hunger in 2021?

During a debate held to discuss giving the RNLI the Freedom of the City, Portsmouth city councillors heard about the abuse that crew members had received in the city, including being confronted in pubs, yacht clubs & shops + two said their children had been bullied at school Reform UK opposed it.

"As the camera panned around as Trump spoke earlier this month, the upper tier was sparsely populated. Trump himself noticed from the podium, blustering to explain away the gaps like a schoolchild claiming they really did have a girlfriend, only she goes to another school. In Canada."

This is becoming a national emergency. Add your name and share for others to sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...

New Substack - the two tv appearances that finished my career as a tv pundit - tashthinks.substack.com/p/the-two-tv...

She really did! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

So .. a Far Right Watch update after the weekend. An 'A' List of 53 'anonymous' far right user accounts, - the very worst offenders: All posting threats of violence, rape or death. All reported - but that's just the beginning.

I think Fartrage is toast. Dark money see his vulnerabilities and know his appeal is starting to unravel. Issue being that they will move on to the next version of RtWng sh!te. We need to get much better at taking them down as soon as they show their disgusting colours.

BRAZIL 🇧🇷: A judge ordered META to stop intentionally helping Bolsonaro (son of an insurrectionist) against Progressive President Lula. Tech oligarchs meddling with elections across the globe. www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...

I will never not be astonished and grateful when looking at the News Podcast Charts and seeing our little podcast nestled next to titles from huge brands like Sky, BBC, The Telegraph, The Times etc… THANK YOU TO ALL OUR AMAZING TRAWLERS 💓❤️ Quite literally would not be there without you xxx

‘Fountain Of Youth’ - Radio 4, 8.00pm I’m on this tonight, giving my views. ✌️

The only other logical explanation for Trump going all in to support Putin right now (apart from the Kompromat/Krasnov theory) is that he needs Russian hacking/information warfare help in the mid terms. Which just underlies how much they helped in the past

"When Hepatitis B kills, it can do so gruesomely: most commonly through cirrhosis of the liver, or liver cancer. Without comprehensive and top-quality medical and hospice care – which is often lacking in a country like Guinea-Bissau – either is a truly agonising and awful way to die."

🔴 NEW 🔴 Simon Dudley was apparently sacked by Reform in April after making - in the words of Farage - “shocking” comments about Grenfell. Now, just a few months later, it seems he’s back in the fold

Trump, Musk, Weidel, Le Pen: These are collaborator-populists who triumph at the ballot box and yet would sell their country to a Russian despot iandunt.substack.com/p/these-are-...

So they're at it again 🙄 Torturing valid HMRC data to create wildly misleading headlines, designed to invoke fear and anger about immigrants. Same old, same old... (and you'll see just how old shortly!) 🧵1/28

How has the world come to this? As @iandunt.bsky.social put it: "Neither the US government nor a tech billionaire should be able to dictate the fortunes of a European war. This was another sign, if one was needed, that Europe urgently needs to develop its own alternatives."

“Look in the mirror, 🇺🇸”. No matter how many times you say “this is not who we are as a country”; right now it IS. 🇺🇸 has twice elected a corrupt, selfish bully who abandons allies, deals with enemies, rejects science and medicine, attacks other countries, harms the vulnerable and pardons criminals.

Apparently they were "happy" to set out the correct position🤔 (At the back of the paper where no one will bother reading it, and at the bottom of the months-old online version which no one is going to re-read) The damage is done with the headline. The correction will never undo it 25/

They've all been at it. I wonder whether being able to point to a "report" that made the misleading claim will give them some cover? I guess we'll find out... 27/

“UK ‘an outlier in Europe’ for letting Farage and other politicians present TV shows. Analysis of countries’ broadcasting rules confirms Ofcom code is highly unusual, amid concerns about impartiality” Lisa Nandy beyond feeble in her role. OfCom needs changing! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...?

Private equity has hollowed-out high streets. Famous names, jobs, supply chains destroyed. Aided by the state: PE gets tax relief on interest payments. No tax on dividends paid to owners holed up in tax havens. No inquiry into serial bankruptcies. It is gangster capitalism. archive.ph/zisBU

See also, private equity in - UK defence procurement - NHS - children's homes - education - etc etc Ripping off the public purse with abandon because right wing govts (and some nominally left wing ones) use their "business experience" to legalise what anywhere else would be called *theft*.

"The Russian government has sought to influence democracy in the United Kingdom through disinformation, cyber hacking, and corruption." - United States Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations, January 2018 framerusercontent.com/assets/Xl8Rb...

Our new piece on physician assistants. It would appear there are some attempts to move the goalposts following the Leng Review. @martinmckee.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/395/...

Lyme disease can be hard to diagnose, and if untreated for some time, patients may suffer chronic symptoms, known as post treatment Lyme disease syndrome | Victoria Cairns

Nigel Farage went on Tucker Carlson's Fox News show in December 2016 and said we couldn't blame Putin for being angry that Ukraine might join the EU.

I still don't understand how anyone gets past 2014 Nigel Farage openly defending Vladimir Putin and telling Prince Charles that he's wrong to compare the Russian President to Hitler just because he annexed Crimea. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/21/u...

OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/