I hate this so much. Farage said this would be immigration week, and here are all the headlines talking immigration, and not positively. Could someone in power, for once, just stand up to this shit 🤬
@speckle48.bsky.social
Multilayered protections for everyone. Yearning for the days when public health protected public health.
Well that's a vote of confidence for all Tory councillors.
I’ve signed a letter calling for Angela Eagle and Ofwat to reject the last-ditch deal from Thames Water's creditors. Can you sign and share it as well? weownit.org.uk/act-now/sign...
Sign our open letter to Angela Eagle
I’ve signed a letter calling for Angela Eagle and Ofwat to reject the last-ditch deal from Thames Water's creditors. Can you sign and share it as well?
weownit.org.uk
When mild isn't "MILD", Jonathan 🤦🏻♂️
Jonathan Douglas PhD CPsych@jonathanconp.bsky.social · yesterdayCognitive dysfunction and fatigue remain prevalent at least 3 years post-infection, particularly affecting attention, processing speed, and working memory. Pts included both hospitalized and non-hospitalized.
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
theguardian.com
While wildfires rage, oil bosses are laughing all the way to the bank thanks to Donald Trump’s idiotic Iran war. People across the country are facing sky high energy bills. If Burnham is struggling to find the money to help families with those bills, I’d start here.
Sky News@news.sky.com · yesterdayOil giant BP profits more than double due to Iran war - again
Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.
Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · yesterdayBP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...
@london.gov.uk please can you help persuade @andyburnham.bsky.social that we need Hepa filters in our schools in Bedfordshire as you’ve proven the benefit to all in London schools? Our air quality in villages under the flight paths will also be detrimentally affected and no one seems to care
Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · yesterday@andyburnham.bsky.social Children’s health should matter more than an airport expansion. Labour clearly aren’t interested in preventing #ClimateChange #NoToLutonAirportExpansion www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/...
@andyburnham.bsky.social Children’s health should matter more than an airport expansion. Labour clearly aren’t interested in preventing #ClimateChange #NoToLutonAirportExpansion www.lutontoday.co.uk/news/people/...
One in 20 deaths in Luton due to air pollution
One in 20 adult deaths in Luton were caused by air pollution in 2023, new figures suggest.
lutontoday.co.uk
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
It's been an absolute honour to visit Clacton fewer times than I've visited America, hold zero surgeries and do fuck all for the town.
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
A Reform UK council candidate's account has posted that 'a vote for Labour is a vote for Muslim rule' as well as bizarre conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and the World Economic Forum She is hoping to win a by-election later this month
Merseyside Reform candidate said 'Bill Gates wants to make us all vegan'
Karen Hatch is aiming to be the latest Reform councillor in St Helens, but concerns have been raised about comments linked to her social media account
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In 2023, Time magazine covered the immune damage from Covid. The research is just getting more concerning now three years on and it’s very troubling that we are still being told it’s ok for us to catch this. Catching Covid will make you more vulnerable to infections. time.com/6265510/covi...
Getting COVID-19 Could Weaken Your Immune System
A study illustrates how SARS-CoV-2 can damage your immune response
time.com
And yet the evidence in the UK covid inquiry showed all these infections were unnecessary because Covid was known to be airborne from day 1. We must keep fighting for this evidence to be wide knowledge. #CleantheAir
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 4d agoWhen covid surged schools couldn’t stay open. That’s just what happened.
‘Palantir’s market capitalisation has risen to $320 billion, 150 times earnings. The 𝘌𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘵 has speculated that “Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @lucasamin.bsky.social on Palantir’s NHS contract. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
lrb.co.uk
No they weren’t safe enough and the evidence in the covid inquiry shows that covid was known to be airborne from day 1. So why weren’t they mitigated for airborne risks and given covid is still vascular and airborne, why aren’t they now??
Dr Zubaida Haque@zubhaque.bsky.social · 3d agoBut it was never simply a question of “should schools be open or shut?” during the pandemic. The key question pre‑vaccine was: were schools safe enough to be open - for teachers, vulnerable children and whole communities – given the wholly inadequate mitigations the Johnson government put in place.
The funniest - and least discussed - aspect of this is that Farage, having reportedly told RefUK he'd only lead them if compensated for the £1m a year income he had outside politics, pocketed their five million, then kept earning from outside interests at the same rate anyway. He scammed even them.
Alex Andreou@sturdyalex.bsky.social · 3d agoImportant, because Farage's defence for not declaring Harborne's £5m 'gift' has always been very specific: he did not decide to stand until 3rd of June. Turns out this deal was struck mid-May (confirmed by RefUK) and facilitated by Farage's other big donor, convicted felon 'Posh' George Cotrell. 🧐
Covid is airborne- fact stated in Covid inquiry. Covid is vascular, as stated by BMJ @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social Who is monitoring the children for post infection vascular risks?
Esther@elhopkins.bsky.social · 4mo agowww.youtube.com/watch?v=3wT4... “No one in government took the necessary steps to protect children” long Covid.
@andyburnham.bsky.social please will you give clean air at last to all our teachers and children????
Dr Noor Bari@njbbari3.bsky.social · 3d agoTell that to the dead teachers. And no. It’s not ok that they died at the same rate as many other groups, because 2020 was such a spectacular pandemic response fail with a horrible death toll that it was ALL AWFUL. www.tes.com/magazine/arc...
Tell that to the dead teachers. And no. It’s not ok that they died at the same rate as many other groups, because 2020 was such a spectacular pandemic response fail with a horrible death toll that it was ALL AWFUL. www.tes.com/magazine/arc...
139 teacher and education worker Covid deaths in 2020
New Office for National Statistics data finds similar Covid death rates in teaching compared to other professions
tes.com
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 5d ago@lewisgoodall.com / @jonsopel1.bsky.social said "I am not sure that even in the first lockdown, school closures for any length of time were a price worth paying." But no discussion of the alternative. The alternative was never "schools open and everything else the same". 2/12
The World Cup without UEFA means no Mbappe, no Bellingham, no Haaland, no Olise, no Yamal It means no England, France, Spain, Germany, Belgium It means no Zidane, Tuchel, Klopp The World Cup this year without Europe would have just been Argentina & Egypt in the final 8 UEFA must hold firm
This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
theguardian.com
Kingfishers. Water voles. Beavers. They're all part of the future we’re working towards for London's rivers and waterways. Over the next decade, our new plan will tackle pollution, restore habitats and help Londoners reconnect with nature.
My mother had Alzheimer's, and it lasted a decade. That wilderness she descended into was made far worse by a state that essentially said "good luck" and "goodbye" having to navigate care and selling her house and worrying that we'd run out of money to finance it all. If anyone can fix it, good.
I'm old enough to remember when polio put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. What RFK Jr. is doing to public health in America is a disgrace.
