Paul Stenton
@paulstenton.bsky.social
Retired Scientific & Commercial Satellites. Europhile, Freedom of Movement. We're all the same on the inside, same hopes & fears. "c"onservative, Social Conscience. Landslide Gov't != Democracy. Loves Collies & Walking Highlands. Block empty profiles
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A new study finds that Palantir, which boasts of high profit margins in the U.S., barely scrapes a margin in Europe. It helps slash the company’s tax bill. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/pala...
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham is to meet Epstein survivors and may hold a full public enquiry into Epstein.
Burnham 'looking into' conducting Epstein inquiry, says victims minister
Alex Davies-Jones tells BBC Newsnight she discussed an inquiry with the PM when she was re-appointed as minister.
bbc.co.uk
⚡️US stocks of ATACMS, Precision Strike missiles at rock bottom after 'virtually all' used in Iran war, Reuters reports. Reuters' sources said the dramatic depletion may result in riskier bomber missions needed to strike targets that would otherwise be hit from a safe distance.
US stocks of ATACMS, Precision Strike missiles at rock bottom after 'virtually all' used in Iran war, Reuters reports
Reuters' sources said the dramatic depletion may result in riskier bomber missions needed to strike targets that would otherwise be hit from a safe distance.
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NATO's reliance on the "doctrines of World War II" and its slow adaptation to new forms of warfare make it unlikely Ukraine will ever join the alliance, said Kyiv's Ambassador to the U.K. and former Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi.
Kyiv’s former top commander says NATO is too outdated for Ukraine
The unusual rebuke reflects a growing shift in the country’s relationship with NATO, with Kyiv increasingly seen as a vital European security provider.
politico.eu
“Doomsday Scenario’: How Trump and Republicans Could Steal Power – Even If They Lose” Jan. 3 could be the new Jan. 6 if Republicans challenge election wins by Democrats and try to steal power in the House. Read Part 1 of our new ‘Start the Steal’ series:
‘Doomsday Scenario’: How Trump and Republicans Could Steal Power – Even If They Lose
Jan. 3 could be the new Jan. 6 if Republicans challenge election wins by Democrats and try to steal power in the House.
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One (doctor) sent Mr. Epstein’s sexual partners elsewhere for gonorrhea treatment so that when their cases were reported to public health authorities, they wouldn’t be tied to Mr. Epstein. Some doctors also shared patients’ private health information with him.”
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Come on BinFace If Farage’s Clacton baseline drops to ~30% due to stay-at-home fatigue and far-right splintering, and the opposition concentrates 35%+ of the total turnout onto Count Binface, Binface doesn't need a miracle—he just needs the tactical veto to execute cleanly on August 13.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
@chrischirp.bsky.social, a great email broadcast on covid on children, lockdowns, and education. I do feel you probably missed the biggest hit to education in the longterm however👇 There still aren't enough teachers. Infection and fearful teachers retiring early was and is devastating.
Paul Stenton@paulstenton.bsky.social · 3d agoThey also never talk of the 40k teaching staff that left the profession to protect themselves against a government that couldn't care less about them or their charges.
BREAKING Reform UK's Richard Tice is being investigated by the parliamentary standards watchdog over an allegation that he failed to declare an interest.
Over 600 teachers died before they stopped even counting us. Thousands of us were left with long covid and permanent damage to our bodies and brains. Many had to leave the profession. How many more do people think should have been sacrificed? NB Schools would have HAD to close due to lack of staff!
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
I remember doing TV interview where they asked 'why aren't we doing what Taiwan and Korea are doing?' and I laid out all the data intensive surveillance required to make it work epidemiologically and interviewer said 'well we can't possibly do that' and that basically sums up much UK coverage for me
Former Australia Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has a punchy letter in the Times defending compulsory voting: "Surely a key objective of a democracy is to maximise the participation of all the people, regardless of their wealth, education or enthusiasm for reading political columns in The Times"
As someone who sat on the Education Policy Institute’s working group on disadvantage gaps during covid, I’m under no illusions about the enormous educational and psychological harms of school closures – especially for working‑class and BME children. Those impacts are real and must not be downplayed.
Try this, Lewis. I would pay particular attention to the section by Peter Hotez. Comparing adult and childhood disease is a common strategy used by those with an agenda on this issue. It is deliberately avoiding the fact that kids are less likely to die, at all. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
COVID-19 and children
science.org
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.
Such a shame TheNewsagents podcast never referred to the Covid enquiry before spouting bollocks. @jonsopel1.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
This week proved that the wheels are now finally falling off the Reform bus. Here’s why Farage could be about to fall off with them www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/is-this-th...
Is This the End for Nigel Farage?
This week proved that the wheels are now finally falling off the Reform bus. Could Farage be about to fall off with them?
adambienkov.co.uk
It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...
Farage may well turn a popular phrase on its head. "Defeat from the Jaws of victory".🤣😉
THE NERVE@thenerve.news · 4d agoFarage, George Cottrell and Putin’s friend Abramovich: source reveals the convicted money launderer and Reform leader’s close ally worked for the now-sanctioned oligarch Report by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/george-cot...
The Greater Manchester mayoral results are in, and they tell a fascinating story. It isn't that Reform is dead and buried. It's that, for maybe the first time, a party that has thrived on an aura of inevitability has been measured against reality - and was found to be not that scary at all.
Turns Out Reform Isn't Inevitable After All
Reform came second, Labour won comfortably, the Conservatives somehow finished fifth, and the political story everyone expected never quite happened.
bearlypolitics.co.uk
Reasons to vote BinFace and ReFuk Farage. Bin the Hate & Othering. open.substack.com/pub/meettheu...
A Complete List of Count Binface's Policies
The Count has stood in six elections since 2019, released a different manifesto for most of them, and thus assembled what can only be described as a comprehensive legislative agenda.
open.substack.com
Reform scores hat trick of losses in Manchester despite the hype, the polling and the noise around Farage. Over to you now, Clacton. Deal the killer blow and vote Count Binface in August. The country could do with the laugh. And without that grifting loser. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
US drops Reflecting Pool case, admits damage due to botched renovation
US drops Reflecting Pool case, admits damage due to botched renovation
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Labour’s Bev Craig won the Greater Manchester mayoral by-election Friday night and will now succeed British Prime Minister Andy Burnham in the region’s top job.
Labour holds Greater Manchester mayoralty after counting goes to second round
Bev Craig will succeed Andy Burnham, whose departure for Westminster triggered the special election.
politico.eu
AND BinFace is near the top of the Clacton Ballot Paper. Tactical Vetoes don't need to look past the top of the paper to cast their X.
Paul Stenton@paulstenton.bsky.social · 5d agoIf you want to send a message to ReFuk, it's backers and trash the Garbage, put your 'X' next to the Bin.