Offord on the telly again talking about getting '800,000 economically inactive people back to work'.
High time journalists start properly interrogating this abject nonsense.
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🔥🇺🇦The 11th Separate Army Aviation Brigade "Kherson" demonstrated how the crew of a Yak-52 light aircraft destroys Russian Shahed/Geran drones.
"As the UK braces for further economic turbulence, triggered by conflict and volatile energy markets, Greece’s family basket offers a model worth studying."
Whilst lots of people think this is a completely unworkable policy, interestingly, they have price controls on some key foodstuffs in Greece >>> theconversation.com/could-the-mi...
"Just at a fundamental level it feels wrong for sewage to be going into rivers”: we spoke to @alexlipp.github.io about the importance of open data, and how sewagemap.co.uk uses our WriteToThem service to get people to convince their MPs of that too!
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It's not just the source of the wood. Burning any wood without using the heat produced by the plant (like at Drax) is terrible for the climate. It is astonishing that the firm has been enabled to claim these huge public subsidies for so long.
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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/
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This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era.
Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/
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“Google’s AI Overviews are peddling misinformation on a scale that may be virtually unprecedented in human history.
A recent analysis conducted at the behest of The New York Times found that the AI-generated summaries, which appear above Google search results, are accurate around 91% of the time.”
BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists
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So here is the video of the question I asked Goodwin, and his response
The key question - how much he will lose financially if MCC is wound up - is not answered
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Private firms providing services to NHS made £1.6bn profit in two years
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#MedSky
Sounds like a SLAPP, basically.Kudos to these people for ignoring the threats.
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The deputy leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, owns a property company - Quidnet REIT.
From 2020 to 2022 it paid Tice and his trust £600k in dividends. Quidnet should have paid £120k of tax on those dividends. It didn't.
A 🧵 with evidence from the company's own filings:
Reform donor Ben Delo, who has given £4 million to the party, is making legal threats to those who reference his 2022 US conviction for failing to implement anti-money laundering laws, prior to a pardon by President Trump.
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Among Reform UK’s biggest donors is the Crypto billionaire Ben Delo, who was handed a fawning spread in the Telegraph this week to explain why he is giving £4m to the party.
What is buried in the piece that Delo is a convicted criminal who pled guilty to violating money laundering law in the US
A tiny firm - so small it doesn’t have to publish audited accounts - with £81k in cash made 7 donations totalling £200k to Reform UK.
We now know the firm has had long-term dealings in Iran, including a €145m deal with the Iranian state-owned telecoms company.
Reform have more questions to answer.
Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.
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This is tremendous work on land ownership in Scotland from The Hutton Institute. If only we had more open datasets...
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🚨NEW: Scotland’s ‘social contract’ keeps 65,000 children out of poverty
Child poverty would be significantly higher if Scotland’s poverty rate matched the UK’s.
But there’s more work to do ⬇️
Round up by @juliacushion.bsky.social of the case against restricting FOI www.mysociety.org/2026/04/08/t...
“the head of Palantir UK, Louis Mosley, indicated that NHS data could be used for immigration enforcement. Mosley said that if Reform won with a “clear public mandate” for it, the company would execute plans for Reform to use NHS records.”
#NoToPalantir
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Solidarity with the great folks at ProPublica. It’s truly wild how much effort it takes behind every story and video, yet most of my favorite journalists don’t have a fair deal.
