I know 😔

I had the same problem once when I went to make lentil soup ..... oh the shame!

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."

My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.

Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.

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The Royal Navy threatened legal action to block publication of information about radioactive pollution at the Coulport nuclear bomb base on the Clyde, The Ferret can reveal ⬇️

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Vote for competent leaders, not entertainers – that’s what I wish the Covid report could say | Devi Sridhar To prevent a future pandemic we’d need agile leadership, smart decision-making, humility and trustworthiness. How does one build those into a political system, asks Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global ...

Some reflections www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Exceptional warmth persists in The Gulf of Guinea.
Minimums temperatures are very high everywhere up to 28.2C at Cotonou in Benin with extreme moisture.

Over 150 countries are currently breaking heat records for November.
We are seeing the most record breaking weeks in history

If UK suffers from shortage of truckers, why are drivers leaving the industry? Amidst an HGV driver shortage, more and more drivers enter the industry only to leave it very soon after. Why?

This from earlier in the year, and with the cold weather settling in, we have to look after our truckers.

#HGV
#Truckers
#Transport
#Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Bridging the gap: the campaign to make Diss station accessible The need for lifts at the Diss station is obvious and the locals are petitioning to demand that authorities respond

Every mainline station between London and Norwich has step-free access – except one. Diss, which serves more than 600,000 people a year, remains stuck on the wrong side of the tracks.

Here's how the campaign for access is growing ⤵️

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years

Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks

By Nafeez Ahmed

Millionaires call on Rachel Reeves to raise their taxes in Budget Two wealthy businessmen say the chancellor should make them pay more ahead of the Budget.

UK millionaires say 'we want to pay more tax'.

Why is that UK govts only listen to the rich who resent paying tax and decent wages?

The rich can't feel secure whilst masses live in poverty. Poor people can't buy goods/services to boost the economy.

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing

Ultra processed food does harm to every major organ in your body. But hey, it makes them some very large profits, so the lobbyists keep working hard to sell it to you.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

This is an excellent thread 👇

Cruelty does nothing to secure our borders.

It's good that the Home Secretary has definitively ruled out confiscating jewellery from refugees - but our focus must now be on building a fair asylum system that prioritises safe and legal routes, not more Tory-style ineffective cruelty.

Every child killed is a war crime
and needs investigation, trial & punishment

Anglican bishop shaken ‘to the core’ by home secretary’s asylum seeker comments Bishop of Edmonton says people coming to UK are being ‘scapegoated’ for years of policy failures

It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If Tommy Robinson is celebrating Labour, then the party deserves to die The UK government’s new asylum and immigration rules are the antithesis of everything Labour is supposed to represent, Neil Mackay argues. By…

Labour under Keir Starmer is now so far from its roots that it is no longer Labour; it has journeyed so far from the shore upon which it began its journey that the point of departure is no longer visible. The price it will pay for abandoning its beliefs is destruction

In @heraldscotland.bsky.social

If Tommy Robinson is celebrating Labour, then the party deserves to die The UK government’s new asylum and immigration rules are the antithesis of everything Labour is supposed to represent, Neil Mackay argues. By…

It’s strange that so many politicians claim to be Christian. Christ would be on a beach today welcoming refugees off small boats with tea and blankets. He’d be hated by Reform, hated by the Tories and hated by the tabloids. Christ was woke, after all

My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column

We don't need to "protect our borders"

Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.

From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.

The threat isn't the "outsider"

It's the concentrated power already inside.

People are probably calling Labour racist because Labour keep being racist. If they want to stop being called racist they should stop doing racist things.

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

In 2023-24 HMRC issued 456 penalties to wealthy individuals for £5.8m, 25 prosecuted.

Tax scams designed by accountants, lawyers; five prosecutions in 2023-2024.

Govt taking powers to snoop on benefit claimants' bank accounts; mainly poor, old, sick. Nothing equivalent on tax abuse industry.

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3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills.

#Medieval #Manuscript

Meal do naidheachd! A very happy birthday to you!

Trump got an apology. Gaza got silence: Why I quit as a BBC correspondent THAT was the breaking point. I resigned from the BBC, effective immediately ...

BBC coverage was never balanced. Palestinians “die”, but Israelis are “killed”. “Clashes” replaced “bombardments”. “Conflict” replaced “siege”.
War crimes were softened or buried. Pro-Israel voices spoke freely, International law was treated as optional.

www.thenational.scot/politics/256...

The reality is that new nuclear power in Scotland would mean massive costs, a poisoned legacy to future generation and yet more radioactive pollution of our air and seas, writes Dr Ian Fairlie ✍️

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Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.

@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social

Will Scottish independence improve Scotland’s healthcare? Egalitarian ideals shape Scotland’s distinct health policies, but independence raises a key question: party agenda or public belief?

"Already, England has privatised much of the NHS. Indeed, my colleagues down south consider that NHS England is too far gone to bring it back under public ownership. Certainly, with the direction of UK politics, such an opinion seems warranted."

Up to £2,500 for 2-4 weeks in 2026. Open to postdoctoral researchers, or those with comparable records of research.

Patriotic Millionaires bring tax-the-rich campaign to Newcastle ahead of Autumn Budget Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"

Patriotic Millionaires bring tax-the-rich campaign to Newcastle ahead of Autumn Budget

Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich"

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