“Private equity’s role is to make profits for its investors. And you can’t, in the care home business, just make profits. You’ve got to take into account something that is more important, which is people’s lives.”
Lives have been monetised by private #SocialCare
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
If only the Labour government would! They must do something to stop this #SewageScandal.
The government’s current approach is to force councils to grant permission to build new houses that have no connection to mains sewerage.
LibDems believe in building infrastructure first, before houses.
#BookSky
“What book can you think of that is as dangerous as an iPhone?” novelist Ann Patchett asked the crowd, noting how mobile devices can flood a child’s life with anxiety and suicidal thoughts.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It’s not a vote winner, but the regime doesn’t plan any more elections.
The LibDems have a plan to #EndTheGreatSewageCoverUp
This is essential reading. It makes clear that the Conservative government had left the NHS in a precarious position by starving it of funding and that its inept handling of the pandemic almost saw it collapse completely
The pandemic isn’t over until government learns the lessons and takes necessary precautions to avoid the next one.
Essentials of life in Blighty, the HWB. Even the cat has one here.
If it’s fresh white pepper, it must have a wonderful aroma!
In the UK, it’s streaming on BBC iPlayer:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Have been lookjng for this. Thanks to you for revealing it is streaming on BBC iPlayer now:
www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Packed to the rafters when this Brecht/Weill classic was playing there last month, showing us the way to the next whisky bar. It’s a blaring opera so every word was audible, though reliable sources say ENO amplifies the music.
www.eno.org/events/rise-...
We’ve had lots of ladybugs in our house this week.
“For more than three decades, our water industry has operated on a model that allows private companies to extract profit from a basic necessity while the public carries the risk. Bills rise. Investment falls short. Pollution becomes routine. Regulators are co-opted into collusion.”
Don't believe the spin. Sewage spills are down to water companies, whatever the weather.
And dry spills can be worse: more concentrated, more damaging.
So the root problem of privatisation remains.
The public is paying to clean up our water. We should own it.
“What kind of country allows this to happen? And what kind of country decides it will not allow it to happen again? These 2 questions define the scale of what this Labour government faces”
#DirtyBusiness
#SewageScandal
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#LittleBritain: Former justice minister Crispin Blunt has been fined for
“possessing illegal drugs after he told a court he entered the world of chemsex parties to help inform government policy.”
youtube.com/watch?v=REpN...
As true of Britain as it is of the USA
Well he should know.
He’s a felon and a fraud.
..we are reminded of the moral advantages of discipline and education.
Insider dealing. One of many under this weasels leadershit
BREAKING: “you know what we were promised in the Brexit referendum which was incidentally a pack of lies .. frictionless trade. Give me frictionless trade however you want it and do it fast”
Trade Minister Sir Chris Bryant
“It’s hard to prove causality . . . but you have to wonder who would have been relatively aggressive at selling futures at that point . . .”
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I wonder if the Taoiseach, Micheál Martin, raised the case of Seamus Culleton when he visited the White House this month for St Patrick’s Day celebrations?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
They’re doing similar things in the new US concentration camps right now!
On a train by someone “under a train”, and reading this sad statistic:
“According to the Office for National Statistics, suicide was the leading cause of death among young people aged 20 to 34 in England and Wales in 2024.”
Why does it take a royal to make news?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
“What is strange about being in America .. is how ordinary it is, how what was unimaginable just over a year ago is suddenly, shockingly no longer a surprise.”
– Colm Tóibín
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
#BookSky: “What is strange about being in America .. is how ordinary it is, how what was unimaginable just over a year ago is suddenly, shockingly no longer a surprise.”
– Colm Tóibín
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
