@blayneydeborah.bsky.social
I recall we had a period of time where the response of Starmer and Cooper to concerns about these groups was ‘I like flags’
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
BBC News reporting on concerns about food security and water security We can all see the food and water crisis unfolding, why isn't our government doing everything possible to protect these two precious resources, our food and water supply?
Haven't been online much the last 24 hours, has this received any national coverage?
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · yesterdayLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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This is pure extraction of wealth from one group of people to another We urgently need: Windfall tax on oil giants Windfall tax on banks Both are creaming money off us during a cost of living crisis Even Thatcher had the balls to tax the banks Will you @andyburnham?
Must watch @zackpolanski.bsky.social press conference! Not much is more critical -will it get the attention and urgent action it warrants? @zackpolanski.bsky.social being deadly serious, leading the charge on the climate emergency, backed by experts on the frontline. www.youtube.com/live/QnygX67...
Green leader Polanski delivers 'urgent message to Burnham'
YouTube video by Sky News
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@theipaper.com reports: 'One of the legal team’s media experts wrote: “One of your good friends, a member of the Royal family, is calling you a pedophile… If gentle persuasion doesn’t work, it is my view that we need to turn up the heat even to the point of sending her a draft defamation lawsuit.”'
Inside Epstein’s plot to ‘blackmail’ Sarah Ferguson over paedophile comments
The financier considered leaking private emails from the Duchess of York after she publicly declared that she 'abhorred paedophilia' when asked about the sex offender
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Previously the NHS had claimed in a data protection impact assessment that only health-service staff could access identifiable individual info via the FDP. Palantir has also denied the ability to access NHS patient data. www.channel4.com/news/should-... [from 17 mins]
Should Britain trust Palantir? | The Full Interview
Palantir UK’s Louis Mosley on AI in Warfare, ICE Contracts and NHS data.
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🚨 NHS England apologises and admits that actually employees from Palantir can access indentifiable patient information via the Federated Data Platform (FDP). www.publictechnology.net/2026/08/03/h...
NHS apologises and admits Palantir engineers have access to identifiable patient data
The central health service body has acknowledged the inaccuracy of claims previously made in a transparency document which indicated that only NHS staff were able to see such sensitive information…
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NEW How the BBC turned the litigation table on Trump The president now faces a dilemma about revealing his business records By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
Another another climate-sceptic lobbyist has popped up in the Telegraph. This time John Constable which the article does not declare to its readers is on GWPF's "advisory council" and its "former energy editor". Frost was a GWPF trustee. Cosy. GWPF is a notorious dark-money lobby group
++WOW++ Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph: "Badenoch has chosen an abominable political moment to flirt with climate nihilism…The political Right needs to rediscover its philosophical compass…you have to conclude that the Tories have gone Trumpian on the existential issue of our time"
Goodhart and Goodwin remind me of the famous joke about double negatives...
According to the Daily Telegraph and David Goodhart it is all when it comes down to it about ethno-nationalism and race. A far cry from Britishness is all about values.
OMG Telegraph & David Goodhart of Policy Exchange (which promotes Trumpian Project 2029?) @sundersays.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social @stephenkb.bsky.social @krishgm.bsky.social @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social @arusbridger.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social
Gerry Hassan@gerryhassan.bsky.social · 7d agoAccording to the Daily Telegraph and David Goodhart it is all when it comes down to it about ethno-nationalism and race. A far cry from Britishness is all about values.
This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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There are several ways Burnham can safeguard our constitution, writes @conunitucl.bsky.social Lisa James Donation caps would prevent a small, wealthy group from enjoying disproportionate political influence, while reforms to stop PMs appointing as many Lords as they like would constrain patronage
The steps Burnham can take to safeguard our constitution
Over the past decade, political shocks like Brexit and Covid have combined with longer-term political, social and technological change to put the U...
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'[T]his contribution is to be welcomed and the paper should be widely read... Our constitutional arrangements are vulnerable and it is complacent to think otherwise.' @davidallengreen.bsky.social discusses our new report in @prospectmagazine.co.uk. Read it 👇️
Can we safeguard our constitution before the next general election?
We have time, but not that much time, to make changes before any incoming radically illiberal government
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The House of Lords Constitution Committee is starting a wide-ranging inquiry into strengthening our constitutional safeguards - as proposed by (Lord) Peter Hennessy. Look East, look West, and see the urgency. Written evidence requested by 28th of September. committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
The UK’s constitutional safeguards inquiry launched by Lords Constitution Committee - Committees - UK Parliament
The House of Lords Constitution Committee has today published a call for evidence for its inquiry into the UK’s constitutional safeguards. It is inviting interested individuals and organisations...
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Channel 4 News also has this... “On this episode of The Fourcast, Matt Frei is joined by environmentalist @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, @proflizbentley.bsky.social from the Royal Meteorological Society and Fiona Macklin, Head of Climate at Apolitical.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQat...
Europe is BURNING - why are politicians not acting?
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And here is some of that "Mediterranean lifestyle", as reported by today's Telegraph website...
The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."
Here's a quick recap of those five stages of climate denial... 1. Deny the problem exists 2. Deny we are the cause 3. Deny it is a problem 4. Deny we can solve it 5. Claim it is too late And we should probably squeeze in... 4.5. Claim we can just adapt www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The 5 stages of climate denial are on display ahead of the IPCC report | Dana Nuccitelli
Dana Nuccitelli: Climate contrarians appear to be running damage control in the media before the next IPCC report is published
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Additionally, the UK and French governments have also issued a similar statement on climate change: "[We] call on all countries to intensify their efforts to tackle its causes while boosting resilience to its effects" www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/en/presse-et...
++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...
