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Angel in Grey Socks
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Biochemist, in niche area of food industry. Still furious about Brexit & venal politicians. Bad science grinds my gears.
Starting to wind down from corporate life, eventually won’t need this alias to keep personal stuff separate🙏
mundus sine caesaribus 🦋
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To anyone considering buying or leasing a Tesla:
Be aware that, although they may not say it to your face, many people you know will be judging you as someone prepared to contribute to fascist coffers and comfortable with being seen to do so.

#teslatakedown
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If there was ever a man suited for Reform, it’s Jonathan Gullis - between him, Dorries and Kruger, the party is truly getting filled with the exact sort of politicians you’d expect.
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Marvellous 👏👏👏
🚨Some personal news.

I'm thrilled to announce that I've just filed my first copy for The New Yorker.

A profile of Jonathan Gullis.

"You get the sense that offstage, Jonathan Gullis struggles with being Jonathan Gullis."

open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...
Jonathan Gullis, The Seagull's Lament
A New Yorker Profile
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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👏 Keir Starmer PM: "How Brexit was sold and delivered was wrong. Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled."

"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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What’s the point of Keir Starmer employing an economics advisor if he ignores her on the biggest economic issue of the day?
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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There you go.

Parliament will now consider debate on calls for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
November 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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What I would really like to see from any of the so-called radicals in UK politics is to move from their comfort zones and actually home in on real unaddressed issues like the overwhelming government bias towards the largest companies - which could make a real difference.
November 30, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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It’s my birthday!
Bunty has given me breakfast in bed allowing me to smear jam on her croissants.
Later on Jill in the village shop is giving me a taste of her Lemon drizzle.
Then Bunty & I will settle down & watch our DVD of Liz Truss’s greatest moments! 🥳
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This would be a war crime even if there were an actual war and these people were actual combatants, which there isn't and they weren't.

It's unquestionably an unlawful homicide under any form of law you wish to apply: military or civilian, domestic or international, federal or state. ...
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing

"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."

Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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David Lammy was right in 2020 when he called the jury system fundamental to our constitution.

Now the government wants to remove juries from all but the most serious cases. It is dangerous and wrong and the Prime Minister must reverse it.
November 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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🧵/ Today a damning parliamentary report on the state of palliative care services in England was published.

Services are patchy, underfunded & “ill-equipped” to address end-of-life needs.

Bereavement support is “frequently inaccessible.

The palliative care workforce is in a “critical” situation”.
November 28, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?

The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
Why do they want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)?
The Government moots leaving the ECHR as a pragmatic solution to an immigration “crisis”, but is there a more sinister motive behind the push?
westenglandbylines.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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LibDem Calum Miller, "The biggest opportunity the UK has to grow is to restore our relationship with the European Union"

"The National Bureau Of Economic Research in the US says the UK loses £90 billion a year in tax revenue"

#RejoinEU #BBCQT
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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‘Speaking outside his chateau in France, former Brexit Party and UKIP MEP Coburn answered "no" when a BBC journalist asked him whether he had ever been paid to give a speech to promote pro-Russian campaigners.’

Great work from @BBCWales. Keep going
November 28, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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Given that the BBC endlessly gives platforms to lobbyists from the dark money junktanks without revealing their interests, shouldn't we be seeing such apologies every day?

Better still, how about not doing it? If they want to appear, we should know on whose behalf they are speaking.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.

Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Today's Budget should have been a turning point for the UK economy. Instead the Government avoided the single biggest thing we could do to turbocharge economic growth - fixing our broken relationship with Europe and closing the estimated £90 billion Brexit black hole.
November 26, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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In all the years I've been campaigning, this is the first where I've feared retaliation - but even X is not above the law. That's why we've referred X to Ofcom for horrific posts that, having taken legal advice, we believe are illegal under the Online Safety Act. goodlaw.social/wk2q
X is not above the law
goodlaw.social
November 26, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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You can find THE TRAWL anywhere you get your podcasts ✌🏾
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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At their best and boldest, cartoonists don’t “obey in advance” and that can land them in trouble. Donate today to defend their human rights. cartoonistsrights.org/donate
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM