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@elainescott.bsky.social
Retired Clinical Psychologist.
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Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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🍺 JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-­induced red tape.

https://m.independent.ie/business/wetherspoon-uses-ireland-to-skirt-brexit-red-tape-for-eu-expansion/a1911675912.html
Wetherspoon uses Ireland to skirt Brexit red tape for EU expansion
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-­induced red tape...
m.independent.ie
November 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Boris set up the inquiry & now has accused its chair Baroness Heather Hallett of being "hopelessly incoherent" & relying on "hysterical predictions" about COVID deaths.

He calls the inquiry “completely muddled”.

Anything to avoid responsibility for the blood on his hands!

#CovidInquiry
November 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Covid bereaved families call for all Boris Johnson’s privileges received as a former prime minister including his ministerial pension, his place on the privy council & access to the public duty costs allowance to be withdrawn.

He should also not be made a sir!

#Covidinquiry
Covid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report
Campaign group says it will pursue all legal means to ensure personal accountability for ‘grave betrayal’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Ryan Bridge key figure behind the Raise the Colours movement is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group according to The Mirror

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Flag campaign chief praised by Tommy Robinson facing jail over ‘holiday scam’
Ryan Bridge, ringleader of the Raise the Colours movement heralded by ex-EDL leader Tommy Robinson, is being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain
www.mirror.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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On top of a reported £1 million per year to write a weekly column for the Daily Mail.

(This isn’t ‘politics of envy’ btw. If there wasn’t a cost of living crisis & rising poverty, if he’d done even a half decent job as PM or written anything vaguely coherent for the Mail I’d not mention).
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
www.adambienkov.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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In this tough and moving essay, Caroline Kennedy's 35-year-old daughter Tatiana Schlossberg reveals that she is terminally ill with leukemia. She has some choice words about how her cousin Bobby has made the limited time she has left worse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Today, 31 Ukrainian citizens returned to Ukraine from Belarus prisons.

This was negotiated with the participation of the United States. Thank you!

Those first phone calls home...so touching.
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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EXCL with @geraldinemckelvie.bsky.social

Johnson told Covid inquiry of the Feb 2020 half-term: "I was working throughout the period and the tempo did increase.”

But log shows at country house Chevening, Johnson did not conduct any official government business on 15, 16, 17 and 21 February.
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Threatening Greenland, defunding NATO, extending Putin’s deadline again and again (did it ever come?), his sons outwardly mocking Zelenskyy, the Oval Office episode;

All of it works to Putin’s favour.

As does the “peace deal” he’s demanding Ukraine sign now.
November 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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I hope we’re not losing sight of the fact Trump pretended to be talking tough on Putin, threatened him with sanctions, told the media he was losing patience with him <— but all that was *words*.

This whole time the *actions* he took were always aggressively in Russia’s favour.
November 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Richard Tice, March 2025:
"I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The NHS would literally collapse if this mindless anti-migrant bashing continues.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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It's clear the US is in danger of no longer being a democracy, let alone protector of democracy.

The majority of Americans support Ukraine or are certainly anti-Putin.
Even the majority of elected Republicans such as Rep Brian Fitz, but can they force Trump to stop supporting Russia?
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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I spent a lot of last night chatting to Ukrainian friends, garnering reactions to Trump's order to surrender, & also to Zelenskyy's words in that emotional address to the nation.

Later, I'll bring some of their thoughts, but the thing they all agree on is Trump is a Russian asset.
November 22, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Rewarding a dictator-aggressor always leads to another war. One that is usually even worse.
November 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Nish Kumar, "I think Shabana Mahmood's plan is insane" #HIGNFY

"All we ever talk about in this country is immigration"

"Meanwhile we have people paying too much on bills, a climate crisis, I think we now have to reframe everything through the prism of immigration"
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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From the past. A look back to on this day 22nd November with our farmily of farm animals & friends
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Than you @martinmckee.bsky.social - hugely important thread 👇
1/ How does the COVID Inquiry's Module 2 report align with what we said in @independentsage.bsky.social at the time? A 🧵on Transparency, Early & Decisive Action, Scientific Advice, Integration of Social & Economic Harms, Communication and Behavioural Science, Governance, Data and Preparedness
November 22, 2025 at 6:36 AM