OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
Didn't see this coming 25 days ago, nope, not at all.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last mo.And yesterday Trump demanded that Ukraine stop bombing Russian refineries.
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 3w agoThe pitch here seems to be, ‘we’ll build the houses and infrastructure we failed to build during the 14 years we were in government, but we’ll do it in the most damaging and lowest quality way possible’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
At least everyone can stop wetting their pants over guardiola now. He convieniently left the season they get found guilty and won the league with a team of illegally assembled superstars, what an achievement
You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women:
This is why you don’t drop your best goalkeeper. At some point they’ll realise that Pickford is miles better than the rest
You should already know he’s a cunt but if you didn’t just take a look at this
Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · last mo.Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum. Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
This was the point I emphasised about Palantir when I wrote about tech soverignty - their model is to make bits of the state dependent on them and them jack up the price. samf.substack.com/p/sovereignt...
Sovereignty for sale
Tech monopolies and the future of the nation state
samf.substack.com
Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · 2mo agoBritain’s state-owned electricity system operator has awarded Palantir a £21mn contract without inviting rival bids, arguing critical processes are too reliant on its tech to run a competitive procurement process Latest for @financialtimes.com: as.ft.com/r/7fe6c0b7-2...
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
No idea how we’re not winning this game, let alone fucking losing. I fucking hate Bournemouth
Rishi Sunak announced Teesworks as his flagship Brexit freeport as Chancellor in 2021. Over £600m in public money followed. The freeport is now effectively closed. The site is being repurposed as an AI Growth Zone. The named partner: Anthropic. europeanpowell.substack.com/p/sunak-buil...
Sunak Built Teesside Freeport. Now He Advises Anthropic, The Company Positioned To Take the Profit.
In 2021, Rishi Sunak stood at Teesworks and announced his flagship Brexit freeport.
europeanpowell.substack.com
NHS England to offer women ‘gamechanging’ free home testing kits for cervical cancer
NHS England to offer women ‘gamechanging’ free home testing kits for cervical cancer
NHS has target of eliminating the cancer by 2040, but up to 4 million eligible women are not up to date with screening Millions of women in England who have missed cervical screening appointments will be offered free home testing kits on the NHS. The move comes amid concerns that only two-thirds of women attend in-person cervical screening appointments when asked to do so, leaving as many as 4 million women not up to date. Continue reading...
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Why we are utterly fucked as a race beautifully summarised in one headline:
Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.
👀 Having an estimated invoice like that would have a huge impact on perceptions and would net the NHS millions in donations every year @andyburnham.bsky.social and @zackpolanski.bsky.social are you watching?
Dawny B@dawnbritten.bsky.social · 2mo ago
I’m on a train to Edinburgh and it’s just occurred to me it might not be 35 and sunny as it was in London. I might be horribly underdressed
Nice to see the frames IKEA labels as A3 aren’t actually A3. Serves me right for buying a cheap frame but why label something A3 if the dimensions are not actually A3.
People who don't think the NHS is worth protecting are thicker than a whale omelette.
Cas Mudde@casmudde.bsky.social · 3mo agoI need an MRI for my shoulder. These are the costs if you have “good health care” in the U.S.
Anyone in Edinburgh for the fringe, treat yourself to this. Only a tenner.
Hope Diego Simione was watching when his son smashed the ball over the bar.
First time England have conceded three since the Senegal friendly. The Goalkeeper that day. Henderson. Before that Germany in 22. The Keeper. Pope. #blamepickford
Thames Water increased its bonus payouts to £4.1m for senior managers. It has £19.7bn debt, fleeces customers, dumps sewage in rivers, loses billions of litres of water to leaky pipes. Numerous criminal convictions, licence not revoked. But bosses rewarded .. for what? Govt/Ofwat do nothing.
Thames Water increases bonus payments to £4m despite uncertainty over future
Annual results show struggling firm’s net debt has risen to £19.7bn, up from £17.7bn a year earlier
theguardian.com
