Dolcie-Mae from #Newport has been diagnosed with HLH - a life-threatening blood disorder. A stem cell transplant is her only hope for survival but she currently has no matching donor. 💔
🔄 SHARE and register as a stem cell donor at dkms.org.uk/dolciemae_tw to help find her hero🙏
Quite telling that Byline Times (well, me) was the only outlet to ask about the phone hacking settlement at lobby with No 10 just now... 🤐
England's children's homes run by private equity rake in millions.
Private firms own 83% of homes.
Average charge for a child in care is £281,000 a year. Some charge £63,000 a week per child.
For-profit homes provide the worse care.
End privatisation scam.
www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
A fascinating academic paper analysing where SpAds go once they get ditched. Mostly, to lobbying organisations but the least popular choice for them was a career 'in public service' journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Did your child lose their book collection in the Los Angeles fires? Are you a teacher at a school that lost its library or your classroom library? Whether you need one book or a whole library, we can replace your books. 📚
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The “growth plan” for Brexit was that it would “unleash” UK from the “shackles” of EU.
And therein is the clue why there has been no growth.
The plan was no more substantial than vivid words deployed in some newspaper column or political speech.
Flimsy boosterish rhetoric, and nothing more.
Always my favourite thing when academics do the hard work to prove the thing your gut already knew to be clear and true.
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If you have a weekly LOCAL PAPER ~ please check the ‘letters’ page.
We are now regularly seeing letters from rightwing Reform supporters. The policy is to gain traction before council elections.
It is VITAL we respond
I am always happy to help!
Here’s one I write earlier!
#farageriots
Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
This is a straightforward breach of the BBC Charter. I do not know what what is going on at their news division but this is not the first time this has happened on the news website and it is completely unacceptable.
Re: Home Office guidance supposedly issued in 2008 advising police not to intervene in child grooming cases because victims had ‘made an informed choice about their sexual behaviour’?
BBC Verify found no evidence any document containing that advice exists
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out
Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
To honor one of the most compassionate Americans we've ever known, consider an act of kindness today, for a loved one or even a stranger, however small.
Be the reason someone feels seen today. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word or a sincere gesture.
It will make Jimmy smile.
Today Guardian and Observer journalists are on strike over plans to sell the Observer to a loss-making digital start up and put its journalism behind a paywall. 🧵
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The Sheer Scale of the Conservative Local Government Auditing Scandal Is Only Now Becoming Clear.
Tories abolished the Audit Commission. With funding cuts, no regulator, councils went bust. Billions of spending unaccounted.
Tory achievement: More services privatised
bylinetimes.com/2024/11/27/t...
The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition...
www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...
Three thousand followers already!
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I’m honoured.
Thank you.
Great space, Bluesky.
Now, all we need is the politicians etc here too.
We need the discussion, not necessarily agreement.
Am I wrong?
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Jacqueline Carey, "In March 2020 40% of 111 calls went unanswered, and by September 2021, 25% of NHS 111 calls were abandoned"
Sajid Javid, "Yes'
Surreal that this is what the Conservatives did to the NHS 111 service
Jacob Rees-Mogg claims that nobody cares about #partygate anymore.
The BBC say the documentary only makes people angry.
The truth is it shows everyone what lying assholes the Conservatives are.
So do you care?
Feel free to RP to show that you do.
If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟
And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
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It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question:
Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from?
The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised.
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“Bluesky is an echo chamber!”
Our Reply: Echo chamber? Nah, we prefer to call it surround sound for facts.
Important context here:
● over half of farms are less than 49 acres (20 hectares)
● "a big farm" is 217 acres.
Now let's see who's angry:
● Clarkson farm is 1,000 acres
● Lloyd Webber farms 4,000 acres
● Viscount Rothermere (Mail owner) 4,700 acres
● Dyson owns 36,000 acres
