Pinned
If that’s true, then things could get a lot more uncomfortable for anyone connected to the scandal. When investigations keep widening instead of wrapping up, it usually means there’s more beneath the surface — and some people may not be sleeping well tonight.
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Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
Keep out: what flags mean to community NHS workers
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes
centralbylines.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Frontline NHS staff are feeling an increasing sense of exclusion and intimidation from the surge of St George’s flags displayed on homes.
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we're still paying off PFI-1
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
we're still paying off PFI-1
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
PFI is a underhanded way of privatising the NHS
NHS should be publicly owned, publicly funded, free for the public to use
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Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget.
Thanks Farage.
Thanks Farage.
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Not only did Brexit not provide any extra money for the NHS - as liar-in-chief Boris Johnson promised - but Brexit is impoverishing the UK each year by an amount of money not far off the annual NHS budget.
Thanks Farage.
Thanks Farage.
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Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025
November 26, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Good to hear Rachel Reeves finally attack the 2 child benefit cap - but if Labour were so much against it, why’s it taken them so long to scrap it? And why were Labour MPs suspended for saying *exactly* the same last year? There’s no moral high ground here #budget2025
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Labour are going to be so embarrassed when they find out they suspended 7 of their own MPs for supporting Labour Party policy.
This has been a Labour policy since the Tories introduced it, so don’t go rushing to claim credit for it because the majority of the Labour backbenchers have been pushing this for a long time. Now they’re in government and in a position to remove it and they have done so.
November 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Labour are going to be so embarrassed when they find out they suspended 7 of their own MPs for supporting Labour Party policy.
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Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Alongside many campaigners, the Green Party have absolutely dragged the Labour Government to finally end the child cap.
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Labour politicians disgracefully defended it for far too long.
This shows why the Green Party membership rising and rising matters.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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You have to wonder what happens to UK government tax and housing strategies if it turns out that property prices have been underpinned by unsustainable financial market bubbles
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You have to wonder what happens to UK government tax and housing strategies if it turns out that property prices have been underpinned by unsustainable financial market bubbles
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My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
November 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.
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Farage has a long history of racism.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Farage has a long history of racism.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
Chris Mason will be along later to explain that “this is why Starmer must resign”.
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Keir Starmer has called for an investigation into Reform's ties with Russia.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
November 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Keir Starmer has called for an investigation into Reform's ties with Russia.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social is 'surprised' about who he’s called upon to lead it.
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“Starmer does 67” is a fucking Churnwell post jfc
November 25, 2025 at 9:27 AM
“Starmer does 67” is a fucking Churnwell post jfc
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I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Trans people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on how they look
The Times has seen the equalities watchdog’s final guidance, which Whitehall figures fear Bridget Phillipson is delaying to avoid a political backlash
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I thought I had low expectations for Kier Starmer but he is like an order of magnitude worse than I expected. arguably worse than his Tory predecessors on several issues www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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EveryDoctor has started gathering testimony from NHS staff about what’s actually happening on the NHS frontline, & we’re going to do this all winter to bring info into the public domain &hold Starmer+Streeting to account. Millions of patients+staff are being profoundly failed 🚨
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
EveryDoctor has started gathering testimony from NHS staff about what’s actually happening on the NHS frontline, & we’re going to do this all winter to bring info into the public domain &hold Starmer+Streeting to account. Millions of patients+staff are being profoundly failed 🚨
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I hadn't quite appreciated that every senior researcher involved in the NHS puberty blocker trial has direct ties to SEGM, a designated hate group. We have an anti-Trans, USA hard right backed group pulling the strings behind the UK NHS puberty blocker trial. It is rotten to its core. Zero Trust.
The puberty blocker trial is about to start according to the BBC, led by Dr Emily Simonoff. The same Dr who spoke at a symposium organised by Segm, a group designated an anti trans hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Centre /1
organizers-congress.org/frontend/ind...
organizers-congress.org/frontend/ind...
C3-Konferenzzeitplan – 21st international Congress of the ESCAP 2025
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November 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I hadn't quite appreciated that every senior researcher involved in the NHS puberty blocker trial has direct ties to SEGM, a designated hate group. We have an anti-Trans, USA hard right backed group pulling the strings behind the UK NHS puberty blocker trial. It is rotten to its core. Zero Trust.
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Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Cis people, how many times have you been asked to describe how you masturbate, and what you think about when you do, to access healthcare on the NHS?
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"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
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Mahmood has cost Labour my vote.
If I wanted Reform's racist policies, I'd have voted Reform.
No Reform voters will switch to Labour because Labour is now imitating Reform. Labour will never be Reform enough for Reform voters. But, Labour will stop being Labour enough for Labour voters.
If I wanted Reform's racist policies, I'd have voted Reform.
No Reform voters will switch to Labour because Labour is now imitating Reform. Labour will never be Reform enough for Reform voters. But, Labour will stop being Labour enough for Labour voters.
November 22, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Mahmood has cost Labour my vote.
If I wanted Reform's racist policies, I'd have voted Reform.
No Reform voters will switch to Labour because Labour is now imitating Reform. Labour will never be Reform enough for Reform voters. But, Labour will stop being Labour enough for Labour voters.
If I wanted Reform's racist policies, I'd have voted Reform.
No Reform voters will switch to Labour because Labour is now imitating Reform. Labour will never be Reform enough for Reform voters. But, Labour will stop being Labour enough for Labour voters.
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I can understand objecting to the Mail taking over the telegraph for basically competition reasons but on a purely political level it’s not exactly going to make it any more feral and right wing is it
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I can understand objecting to the Mail taking over the telegraph for basically competition reasons but on a purely political level it’s not exactly going to make it any more feral and right wing is it
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Reform’s previous leader in Wales had been handed a 10 year prison sentence for being a Russian asset.
Other prominent politicians happened to be making Kremlin adjacent statements at the same time, the question “why” should follow them around relentlessly.
Other prominent politicians happened to be making Kremlin adjacent statements at the same time, the question “why” should follow them around relentlessly.
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reform’s previous leader in Wales had been handed a 10 year prison sentence for being a Russian asset.
Other prominent politicians happened to be making Kremlin adjacent statements at the same time, the question “why” should follow them around relentlessly.
Other prominent politicians happened to be making Kremlin adjacent statements at the same time, the question “why” should follow them around relentlessly.
Sounds absolutely incredible — that’s exactly what a great rock show should be. When a band comes out heavier, louder, and more theatrical than their studio recordings, you know they’re the real deal. Total sensory overload in the best possible way. 🔥🎸
Halestorm were fantastic - everything I want in a hard rock band - ott theatrics, flames, smoke, glitter, capes and leather and bass so heavy it vibrates your ribs.
They were much heavier compared to their studio sound
They were much heavier compared to their studio sound
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Sounds absolutely incredible — that’s exactly what a great rock show should be. When a band comes out heavier, louder, and more theatrical than their studio recordings, you know they’re the real deal. Total sensory overload in the best possible way. 🔥🎸
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I read today that the police investigation into the Nathan Gill scandal is far from over. This will not be the best news for David Coburn.
November 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I read today that the police investigation into the Nathan Gill scandal is far from over. This will not be the best news for David Coburn.
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At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
November 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.
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The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.
November 20, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.
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Also 100% of Britons think that Daily Mail is the spiritual home of panic merchants and professional finger-waggers, churning out fear like it’s an assembly line.
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Also 100% of Britons think that Daily Mail is the spiritual home of panic merchants and professional finger-waggers, churning out fear like it’s an assembly line.
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The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure.
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November 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The latest Cloudflare and Amazon outages have got me thinking about utilities. We can't build modern software without dependencies. The days of running entirely on the client are over, which I see as a good thing. The cost is that we rely on infrastructure.
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