NEW report: Across Europe, our infrastructure is in desperate need of investment - but our politicians are placing all their faith in private finance despite the risks to our economy, society and environment.
Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely
Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending
For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!
No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...
Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
Released 47 years ago today
Jimmy Jimmy, the third single by the Northern Irish band The Undertones
Jimmy Jimmy - The Undertones (Old Grey Whistle Test 1979)
#punk #punks #punkrock #theundertones #jimmyjimmy #history #punkrockhistory #otd
This is real, on the I-Player 20/04/26, Breakfast News 6 minutes 20ish into the programme. This is enraging and hard to believe anyone thought this was impartial.
“UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip."
"We call for responsible reporting that sheds a light on systemic injustices and highlights the voices of those most affected by them."
The Quaker Asylum and Refugee Network have signed this joint statement 👇
Can we finally agree that burning wood for energy is a terrible idea and won't be carbon neutral, let alone carbon negative, in our lifetimes? BECCS using wood certainly shouldn't qualify as CO₂ removal (CDR).
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David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS!
“Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.”
Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry
#SecretGarden
Too be clear who this guy is:
Baron Offord of Garvel, Merchant banker & Private equity funds, Tory until 2025, likes homophobic jokes.
Advisory Board at IDS's Centre for Social Justice, in 2009, he wrote a paper calling for 'reforms' to public spending.
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Take five minutes and make sure you're registered 👇
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Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.
We must get rid of Palantir altogether.
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More good news about vaccines. 👏
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young person in possession of a good job, must be in want of a house.
This is great news 👏
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #TheArchers
BBC today correct Nigel Farage's false claim to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking (13th February 2026) that net migration was only down due to an "exodus" of people leaving the UK since 90% of net migration fall was a fall in immigration. After my 3rd complaint!
www.bbc.co.uk/helpandfeedb...
It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/
Text of an email Impartiality in reporting migration stories (2) I sent you an email an hour or so ago, suggesting that your reporting of abuse in the immigration system would have an impact in the current election campaign. Now, you invite Zia Yusuf to prove my point. Ed Wilson
Email just sent to today @ bbc . co . uk
#R4Today
This is excellent
🚨 We can reveal the true cost of the UK-US pharma deal is nearly £64bn, NOT the £1bn the government claims.
Researchers predict 330,000 excess NHS deaths by 2036 – that's more than the first two years of Covid.
Parliament hasn't seen the deal.
Freedom Of Information requests refused.
In a speech this week, former Nato Secretary General George Robertson called for more military spending. But war is never the answer. As a nation, let’s spend money on the things that make us all safer.
@quaker.org.uk
#WarCostsUsTheEarth #GDAMS
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An advert promoting an AI company at Bristol Airport has been pulled after backlash.
The advert showed a female AI worker who will 'never ask for a raise'.
I don't follow doctrinal positions any more, but I certainly back this one.
BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.
Very important thread. We are shamefully neglecting our children.
I've been leaked a letter from the Telegraph's new owners.
It's now mandatory for the Telegraph's journalists to support Israel.
And their new owner's record is deeply disturbing 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/at-the-tel...
Cornwall Council is foisting the use of damaging pesticides on Parish Councils with punitive threats for noncompliance after a successful push to cut them back.
Details in the comments.
Please sign the petition if you're a Cornish resident.
c.org/NNwgx6k25J
Europe v the US? There is much talk of a possible collapse of Nato but other big stuff in a gathering transatlantic civil war is invisible – or little noticed. France took a strategic step last week towards reducing its dependence on American tech giants. 1/
www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es...
