@mickrab.bsky.social
Europhile boomer who appreciates how lucky I am. London accent with Yorkshire twinges, but heart in Galway. Savage cynic, a bit sweary, no prisoners. Tax is the price you pay for a civilised society.
Journo criticises ban on spads speaking to journos. No shit, Sherlock!
PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 15h ago"Attempting to gag spads on day one will not work." ✍️ Journalist and former special adviser Peter Cardwell
Let us be clear stealing land and forcing people out of their homes is ethnic cleansing. Such actions are outright wrong whichever community is the victim and anyone remaining silent needs to ask themselves what they would do if it happened to a Jewish or Christian community.
Charles Keener@charleskeener.bsky.social · 23h ago
There have been a number of reports like this over the last 20 years - and mostly ignored. www.chpi.org.uk/blog/investo...
Investors are making a fortune from UK healthcare. Why is nobody holding private equity to account? — Centre for Health and the Public Interest
If you are in a vulnerable situation in the UK because of your age, personal circumstances, violent crime or ill health, there is a strong chance that somebody somewhere – most likely an offshore priv...
chpi.org.uk
🔎 From the archive: The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social 🔁 Relevant again: As the right wing think tank propaganda about 'losing millionaires' returns
The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
bylinetimes.com
Same goes for ID cards. Other countries have models that work well for them, so we don't have to reinvent the wheel. But then other countries aren't paranoid.
John Cotter@drjohncotter.bsky.social · 4d agoI obviously welcome the idea in principle, but am on holiday so won’t have the time nor the energy to point out continuously that there are models other than the US and those models do work fine if conditions x, y, and z are also in place.
I can’t believe that Reform UK turned out to be financed by a bunch of money laundering fronts for Russia. It’s just so unexpected.
💯 Putin has been using and directing migrant populations across and throughout Europe to stretch and hurt governments, with an ongoing eye to driving wedges between EU nations. Much of the migration traffic Europe deals with is instigated by Russian propaganda, offers and straight up bribes.
I'm absolutely furious that facts and information like this are allowed on social media while every Reform MP is working so hard to spread misinformation and lies and stir up our gullible supporters who will believe any old bollocks.
@chrisbjohns.bsky.social Have you read the comment on the Covid Report in the current Private Eye? I saw the extract below and it floored me. Procurement officials spending billions need training to negotiate contract terms?? FFS, this is exactly what I was doing at NCB 40 years ago! Unbelievable!
Just read this in the Eye. WTF is going on? 'Training procurement officials to negotiate contract terms...' FFS! THAT IS THE ACTUAL JOB (that I was doing in the NCB 45 years ago)! Who are the officials? Cleaners? Electricians? Chefs? It's the basic requirement of the fucking job!!!
Have you heard of HS3? Heathrow Shambles on Runway 3. Private Eye finds the curse of the consultants strikes again: 'Tell us what result you want and we'll justify it for you.' Another white elephant in the room!
"Hands up if you threw your mayoral candidate under a bus by making all their canvassers go to Clacton to help you fight a bin"
Heat...kitchen.
PoliticsHome@politicshome.bsky.social · 5d agoAn annual survey of MP staff, shared with PolHome, shows a record level of distress since the survey began in 2000 50.9 per cent of MPs' staff working across Parliament & constituency offices are experiencing psychological distress – higher than during the pandemic, reports @zoecrowther.bsky.social
Alternative headline: 'Without UEFA, FIFA is Fuck All - and never forget it!'
Alan Stedman@alanjstedman.bsky.social · 5d agoHeadline should read: "Infantino saves his skin. Trump removes him from his Christmas card list" BBC News - Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Carers' Allowance is capped at £86 a week. Or £70,000 a year if you're a private equity firm that has bought a care home.
Getting increasingly annoyed as my mum ages that the tech industry after decades of the personal computing & smart phone revolutions still thinks changing stuff like interfaces is just a cool thing to do without giving a shit how it effects folks just clinging on to understanding how stuff works.
✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton
@thegrenoblegirl.bsky.social Did you know?
🇨🇵 Clare Price-Jones 🇪🇺@clucksky.bsky.social · 6d agoI love that here in France there are strictly enforced rules regarding the time of day one can use garden machinery. Not before 9.00. Not between 12.00 & 14.00. Not after 19.00. Only 10.00 to 12.00 on Sundays & public holidays.
“With Nigel Farage locked away on a self-imposed witness protection programme, Richard Tice on an Accountancy for Dummies summer course & Zia Yusuf on a never-ending anger management retreat, the Reform front-of-house recess duties have been left to Robert Jenrick.”
Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football | John Crace
Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?
theguardian.com
WAR CRIME ALERT🚨🇮🇱 An Israeli soldier shot a journalist point-blank in the chest with live ammunition while he covered protests against a new illegal jewish settler outpost. Western media will not report this.
Boom. Direct hit, center of the target.
M Meerkat@kackbro.bsky.social · 6d agoNO 👇 LIES DETECTED.......
Well done to all at Byline Times for your dogged determination to expose the lies and times of Nigel Farage and his corrupt, crypto associates. In my view this is outstanding, investigative journalism. Please can the Metropolitan Police catch up.
Peter Jukes@peterjukes.bsky.social · 7d agoI think a lot of people have missed this. Until the police investigation in February last year, Reform UK’s financial structures were all tied up with Cottrell and his Montenegro base bylinetimes.com/2026/07/23/p...