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Veterinary surgeon, pharmacovigilance consultant. Views expressed purely personal and will (almost/probably) never be related to either of the above. Rutherglen I don't do DMs and will block accounts that send them unsolicited

“I understand people having to make themselves known and felt and seen,” she told Billboard. “And of course Black lives matter. Do we think our little white asses are the only ones that matter? No!” - Dolly Parton #RIP theblackwallsttimes.com/2026/08/25/d...

Dolly Parton, Country Icon Who Reached Across Racial Divides, Dies At 80

"The Queen of Country," Dolly Parton, dies at 80. Her legacy includes music that touched millions and efforts that crossed racial divides.

theblackwallsttimes.com

She wasn’t “neutral” …. She stood up for women’s rights, LGBT rights, for Black equality … her “coat of many colors” spread wide. (Maybe you meant she was neutral with “partisan” politics, but that’s different from being “neutral.” She wasn’t. )

Yeah you can't say she was staying neutral and then talk about how much she supported transgender rights. She was hugely supportive of the LGBT community. That isn't neutrality when the other option is discrimination.

Our country isn't poor. We're being ripped off. The Labour Government backed Trump's war in Iran and refused to break our dependence on oil and gas - while we have such huge potential for homegrown renewable energy. We can end Rip Off Britain by making different choices.

House energy prices will rise to three year high

When I see someone characterize cis men disrupting and harassing women’s basketball players as “protecting” women’s sports, I think about how last year at a women’s soccer game some young men behind me paid for tickets just to heckle the women on the field. It’s all blatantly misogynistic.

The White House’s official response to Rosie O’Donnell hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live was to call her a “nasty woman,” and I’d like to remind everyone that if you get called a nasty woman by the Trump administration, then you’re doing something extremely right.

Divide-and-rule - the strategy of spreading fear, anger, hatred against immigrants, people of a different colour, religion, accent, gender, age has been used by millionaires to retain their obscene wealth and corrupt power for centuries meme via The UK Against Hate

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Trump is claiming a Census report proves 24,000+ noncitizens voted in 2020, but experts say the methodology used to produce the report could produce false positives, while the report lacks key details on error rates, databases and verification. They just make their own data up.

Rank Group warns tax hike could force bingo, casino closures. Rank is controlled by a Malaysian billionaire via GuoLine Capital Assets based in Jersey. Digital gaming business based in Gibraltar, links to Malta. UK dividends paid without withholding tax. Why is Rank silent on its tax affairs.

Rank Group warns tax hike could force bingo hall and casino closures

Richard Harris, chief executive of Rank Group, said tax rises could mean that ‘much-loved bingo halls and casinos will be forced to close’

independent.co.uk

'In August 2014, AB Produce, of which Bridgen was director, was warned by the Environment Agency that it could lose its licence if it did not remove a "urine-like" smell from two "lagoons" of putrid vegetable matter on the site.' The smell faded away when he'd gone.

force becomes “compliance,” accountability is apparently an optional accessory. ICE wanted a tool that could make people comply quickly.It may have found one.What it has not demonstrated why a civil immigration agency needs to dress its officers like electrically enhanced bouncers in the first place

Just completed NE England HaveYourSay transport survey at northeast-ca.gov.uk/haveyoursay My general line being 1 Nationalise all public transport 2 Abolish fares 3 Expand co-ordinated service 4 Franchising still profiteering, whether in greater fares, worse stock, worse training & lower wages

AstraZeneca in talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn (£300bn) merger. Concentration of economic power. Bigger ability to hold people/govts to ransom. AstraZeneca CEO already threatened to withhold drugs from NHS unless it paid more. Govt capitulated. Promised UK investment didn't materialise.

AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on $400bn merger

Tie-up would be one of the biggest-ever pharmaceutical deals and create the world’s fourth-largest drugmaker

theguardian.com