"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."
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Iran - A Recap
#illegalwar #presidentmoron
Find a screening near you. Urgent viewing.
A walking long weekend 🙂
As views go...
Fair cop? Last year, City of London police doubled the number of cyclists they fined for running red lights, but the Met failed to catch any drivers involved in car-on-bike hit-and-run incidents in the capital.
What gives?
Full story: cycling-weekly.visitlink.me/oAW0__
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When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
doubt he reads books
Walking the beautiful Mawddach Trail in mid-Wales / South Snowdonia
Hard to beat a funicular 😎
Robert Doisneau, 1972
Concern grows for Suella Braverman as she completely forgets she spent nine years as part of the Conservative government, including two periods as Home Secretary, responsible for immigration.
Tomorrow- Sunday! ☀️
Birmingham - so many music memories. Music college, Dexys, Too-Rye-Ay, Don’t Stand Me Down, The Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony - to name just a few.
I’ll be chatting with Pete Paphides about some of these. Hope to see you there x
Back in 1982-ish, ITV World of Sport did a Tour de France cycling montage set to Ride Like the Wind and as a teenager hearing this for the first time, it was the coolest think ever and life changed forever 🙂
I gave the Green Party a donation to help fight Gorton and Denton and the hope the Green Party gave me by winning (and seeing Labour get hammered) made it worth every single penny.
I've just done the same for the local elections. I want to feel that hope again on May 8th
“Did you never call? I waited for your call…”
On this day in 1984, “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” was released as the first single from Reckoning. The video was directed by Howard Libov and filmed at Reflection Studio in Charlotte.
We have research showing that coverage of traffic violence reinforces the misperception that crashes are isolated, unavoidable accidents. Not mentioning that someone killed by a driver had previously been severely injured by a driver is a great example of this.
We came.
We saw.
We ate*
* a lot
A wonderful wrong answer on The Chase.
This is absolutely not a story about AI but about people deciding to live above Heaven nightclub and then trying to close it down as ‘their window overlooked the entrance of the club and they were disturbed by the noise of music and customers at the venue’
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It’s also available in your local bookshop and Amazon
"Cro-ckerrrrrr"
Similarly, on The Chase
"What Canadian rapper..." it's Drake. It's always Drake :)
and there's an argument that has been made that side 2 of the Bunnymen's Ocean Rain is the best side ever made
Could be a (odd) pairing :)
Corporate Welfare
Drax claimed £999m subsidy for burning trees in 2025 to produce electricity.
£8.7bn since 2012, more to come. Its electricity is the most expensive.
Company made operating profit of £947m in 2025.
Biggest single polluter in the UK.
Blast from the past
Headstart for Happiness 🎶
The visuals don’t really pick up on the superb drumming from Steve White 🥁
youtu.be/k08RlmdDsyQ?...
