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Ruth Badley

@ruthbadley.bsky.social

Award-winning indie author of Where are the grown-ups? https://amzn.eu/d/7gGzy6I Travel memoir, Bite-sized World https://amzn.to/3n8Y1dz Massive Springsteen fan. Reader, cook and enthusiastic diner.

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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2w ago

Police investigate donations by Tice company to Reform UK. Britain Means Business, solely owned by Tice, received £1m from Fiona Cottrell, mother of a convicted fraudster. BMB donated £500,000 to Reform in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

Police investigate donations by Richard Tice company to Reform UK

Britain Means Business, owned by the party’s deputy leader Richard Tice, made two donations of £250,000 in the run-up to the 2024 general election.

bbc.co.uk

Adil Ray@adilray.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A plea to my fellow professionals in the media. Please put Trump’s racism on the top of your news agendas? Where is it? The leader of the “free world” is using his racism to make all of our lives worse instead of better. A racist is a threat to us all. Whatever else he is doing, holds no worth.

Paul Lewis@realpaullewis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Peter Thiel, once Elon Musk's business partner, whose company, Palantir, is absolutely knee deep in our NHS and Military, chatting about tearing the world apart for the benefit of billionaires with Jeffrey Epstein days after the Brexit vote... “Brexit, Just the beginning"

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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 2y ago

Nigel Farage ‘very pleased’ Elon Musk backs Reform UK, calling him a ‘hero’. The man who promoted Brexit and hatred of foreigners to inflict enormous damage to UK economy now welcomes money from a foreigner to advance his prejudices. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Nigel Farage ‘very pleased’ Elon Musk backs Reform UK, calling him a ‘hero’

Speaking at party conference, its leader calls reports of tech mogul’s potential $100m donation ‘somewhat overexaggerated’

theguardian.com

Lorelei King@loreleiking.bsky.social · 2y ago

People made fortunes from substandard and unusable PPE while our loved ones died for lack of it. "The Department for Health and Social Care lost three-quarters of the £12bn it spent on PPE in the first year of the pandemic, largely due to inflated prices and kit that did not meet requirements."

UK National Covid Memorial Wall@covidmemorialwall.bsky.social · 2y ago

The new covid corruption commissioner has started work this week. We wish him well in his investigations. State failures led to many of the hearts on our wall, and those responsible must pay. Justice must be done - we owe it to those who we mourn. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...