Jon Biddle
@jonthebids.bsky.social
Author - Perioperative practitioner - lecturer - veteran. I am a high impact human. I’ve been around the block, done some things and doing some things. Interested in story’s of what makes us tick.
Asylum costs about £5 to £6bn a year. Utilities and privatisation have drained £200bn. Forty times bigger. Migrants did not hike your bills or dump sewage in rivers. Water and energy companies did. Aim your anger at the real waste.
#AsylumFacts #FollowTheMoney #RealWaste
#AsylumFacts #FollowTheMoney #RealWaste
September 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Asylum costs about £5 to £6bn a year. Utilities and privatisation have drained £200bn. Forty times bigger. Migrants did not hike your bills or dump sewage in rivers. Water and energy companies did. Aim your anger at the real waste.
#AsylumFacts #FollowTheMoney #RealWaste
#AsylumFacts #FollowTheMoney #RealWaste
If only Reform, Tommy Robinson and his ilk focussed their attention to something like this, to bring tangible change. Imagine what 110k of people demanding the heads of the CEO’s of the public utilities would do.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation – study
Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
If only Reform, Tommy Robinson and his ilk focussed their attention to something like this, to bring tangible change. Imagine what 110k of people demanding the heads of the CEO’s of the public utilities would do.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Slimey Shapps at it again. What an oily snivelling, oderous little cunt www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ex-defence secretary Shapps criticised as he is cleared to join missiles start-up
Former defence secretary allowed to take role as chair of Cambridge Aerospace, as long as he avoids defence matters
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Slimey Shapps at it again. What an oily snivelling, oderous little cunt www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I’m no trade expert, but this doesn’t feel like a win for Europe. More like dodging a bullet while still being held at gunpoint. Trump’s tariff tantrums have already warped the playing field. What’s being celebrated herea lesser evil
#Trump #Trade #Europe #AmericaFirst
economist.com/finance-and-...
#Trump #Trade #Europe #AmericaFirst
economist.com/finance-and-...
Europe averts its Trumpian trade nightmare
A deal with America chooses certain tariffs over risky retaliation
economist.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
I’m no trade expert, but this doesn’t feel like a win for Europe. More like dodging a bullet while still being held at gunpoint. Trump’s tariff tantrums have already warped the playing field. What’s being celebrated herea lesser evil
#Trump #Trade #Europe #AmericaFirst
economist.com/finance-and-...
#Trump #Trade #Europe #AmericaFirst
economist.com/finance-and-...
He was high. He had a gun. He robbed a fast food joint. Those are facts. But serving life on a technicality under an IPP sentence? That’s not justice. That’s a system drunk on its own cruelty. Reform isn’t optional. It’s overdue. IPP #PrisonReform #JusticeMatters
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
UK jail escape trial reignites debate over indefinite sentences
Joe Outlaw, who climbed on to a prison roof, is using the mental toll of indeterminate detention as a legal defence
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
He was high. He had a gun. He robbed a fast food joint. Those are facts. But serving life on a technicality under an IPP sentence? That’s not justice. That’s a system drunk on its own cruelty. Reform isn’t optional. It’s overdue. IPP #PrisonReform #JusticeMatters
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
They go from nothing to six figures in ten years. As healthcare practitioner, they should be ashamed!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Resident doctors begin five days of strikes in England over pay – UK politics live
The BMA says resident doctors have seen their pay fall by a much greater amount in real terms since 2008-09 than the rest of the population
www.theguardian.com
July 25, 2025 at 8:46 AM
They go from nothing to six figures in ten years. As healthcare practitioner, they should be ashamed!
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
I just read this article about Fiona Phillips. It broke my heart. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #Alzheimers
Remember When by Fiona Phillips review – an unsparing insight into early-onset Alzheimer’s
The journalist’s memoir of events leading up to her diagnosis, aged 61, is a moving account of a life slowly unravelling
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I just read this article about Fiona Phillips. It broke my heart. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... #Alzheimers
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Ozzy Osbourne, the wailing Black Sabbath singer-turned-solo act who took the “Crazy Train” from a bleak childhood in working-class Birmingham, England, to heavy metal stardom, has died, his family says.
nbcnews.to/3IZmccA
nbcnews.to/3IZmccA
July 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Ozzy Osbourne, the wailing Black Sabbath singer-turned-solo act who took the “Crazy Train” from a bleak childhood in working-class Birmingham, England, to heavy metal stardom, has died, his family says.
nbcnews.to/3IZmccA
nbcnews.to/3IZmccA
Well, he can fuck right off! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
JD Vance to spend summer family holiday in the Cotswolds
US vice-president also plans to visit London and Scotland next month
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Well, he can fuck right off! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Doctors may get student debt relief. Fine. But what about nurses? ODPs? Paramedics? It’s time we stopped feeding the Treasury and started demanding tax relief or debt forgiveness for all NHS staff. We hold the line too.
#NursesMatter #DebtReliefNow #WesStreeting #NHS #TaxJustice
#NursesMatter #DebtReliefNow #WesStreeting #NHS #TaxJustice
July 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Doctors may get student debt relief. Fine. But what about nurses? ODPs? Paramedics? It’s time we stopped feeding the Treasury and started demanding tax relief or debt forgiveness for all NHS staff. We hold the line too.
#NursesMatter #DebtReliefNow #WesStreeting #NHS #TaxJustice
#NursesMatter #DebtReliefNow #WesStreeting #NHS #TaxJustice
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I would be ashamed not to stand up for trans folks, not just because there are trans folks I like and love, but because everyone should get to live with the same personal freedom and dignity I get simply for existing. Who are we if we do not wish for others every right and privilege we have.
Thank you for being a straight cis man with some amount of fame and platform who pushes back on that sort of thing. Marginalization usually only changes when people NOT in the marginalized group start to push back on the hate and move the Overton window.
July 19, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I would be ashamed not to stand up for trans folks, not just because there are trans folks I like and love, but because everyone should get to live with the same personal freedom and dignity I get simply for existing. Who are we if we do not wish for others every right and privilege we have.
Geoffrey Epstein took one look at all that missing evidence, the broken cameras, the sleeping guards, and thought, “You know what? Time to hang myself.”
Lucky for the rich, guilt dies with the witness.
#EpsteinDidntKillHimself
#SuicidedByTheSystem
#PrinceAndrewSweatsNow
#TrumpKnew
Lucky for the rich, guilt dies with the witness.
#EpsteinDidntKillHimself
#SuicidedByTheSystem
#PrinceAndrewSweatsNow
#TrumpKnew
July 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Geoffrey Epstein took one look at all that missing evidence, the broken cameras, the sleeping guards, and thought, “You know what? Time to hang myself.”
Lucky for the rich, guilt dies with the witness.
#EpsteinDidntKillHimself
#SuicidedByTheSystem
#PrinceAndrewSweatsNow
#TrumpKnew
Lucky for the rich, guilt dies with the witness.
#EpsteinDidntKillHimself
#SuicidedByTheSystem
#PrinceAndrewSweatsNow
#TrumpKnew
We’re not impressed either.
news.sky.com/story/canadi...
news.sky.com/story/canadi...
Canadians 'weren't impressed' by second UK state visit for Trump, Mark Carney says
Newly re-elected Liberal leader Mark Carney sat down with Sky News' Sam Washington to discuss dealing with a noisy neighbour in Donald Trump and Canada's relationship to the UK.
news.sky.com
May 14, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We’re not impressed either.
news.sky.com/story/canadi...
news.sky.com/story/canadi...
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Just watched Brian Tyler Cohen & Marc Elias. Everyone says billionaires bend the knee to Trump—wrong. Trump is the knee. This is kleptocracy feeding oligarchy. Anne Applebaum was right. This is how civilisation dies.
#TrumpIsTheKnee #Kleptocracy #TwilightOfDemocracy
#TrumpIsTheKnee #Kleptocracy #TwilightOfDemocracy
May 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Just watched Brian Tyler Cohen & Marc Elias. Everyone says billionaires bend the knee to Trump—wrong. Trump is the knee. This is kleptocracy feeding oligarchy. Anne Applebaum was right. This is how civilisation dies.
#TrumpIsTheKnee #Kleptocracy #TwilightOfDemocracy
#TrumpIsTheKnee #Kleptocracy #TwilightOfDemocracy
April 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Trump claims he’s the ‘second coming’, ‘king of Israel’, and ‘the chosen one’. Most people spouting that get sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He’s got the nuclear codes. This isn’t politics—it’s an episode of Black Mirror.
#Trump #MAGA #NuclearCodes #MentalHealth #Authoritarianism
#Trump #MAGA #NuclearCodes #MentalHealth #Authoritarianism
April 21, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Trump claims he’s the ‘second coming’, ‘king of Israel’, and ‘the chosen one’. Most people spouting that get sectioned under the Mental Health Act. He’s got the nuclear codes. This isn’t politics—it’s an episode of Black Mirror.
#Trump #MAGA #NuclearCodes #MentalHealth #Authoritarianism
#Trump #MAGA #NuclearCodes #MentalHealth #Authoritarianism
Andrew Tate for PM? Backed by Musk? You don’t run for PM in the UK, sunshine. You become an MP, lead a party, win a majority. And Tate’s barred if convicted. If he makes it to No.10, I’ll develop the first male period in history.
#UKPolitics #AndrewTate #ElonMusk #Satire #BritishPolitics #No10
#UKPolitics #AndrewTate #ElonMusk #Satire #BritishPolitics #No10
a man walking down a hallway wearing a black shirt that says " no "
ALT: a man walking down a hallway wearing a black shirt that says " no "
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April 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Andrew Tate for PM? Backed by Musk? You don’t run for PM in the UK, sunshine. You become an MP, lead a party, win a majority. And Tate’s barred if convicted. If he makes it to No.10, I’ll develop the first male period in history.
#UKPolitics #AndrewTate #ElonMusk #Satire #BritishPolitics #No10
#UKPolitics #AndrewTate #ElonMusk #Satire #BritishPolitics #No10
Indont think he has even spoken to china. news.sky.com/story/trump-...
Trump latest: US president hosts Italy's PM at White House - as he says 'we will have a deal with China'
Trump is hosting Italian leader Giorgia Meloni, a close ally trying to position herself as mediator between the US and Europe. Meanwhile, a judge found probable cause to hold the Trump team in contemp...
news.sky.com
April 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Indont think he has even spoken to china. news.sky.com/story/trump-...
Behold: the perfect portrait of political gas. Bloated rhetoric, toxic fumes, and an arse that’s done more damage than policy ever could. #Trump #MAGA #Authoritarianism #Satire #PoliticalTheatre #OrangeMenace #CultOfPersonality
April 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Behold: the perfect portrait of political gas. Bloated rhetoric, toxic fumes, and an arse that’s done more damage than policy ever could. #Trump #MAGA #Authoritarianism #Satire #PoliticalTheatre #OrangeMenace #CultOfPersonality
Liz Truss taught us about the “moron premium”—when markets punish a country for electing an idiot. Now imagine Trump 2.0. The pound wobbled under Truss. The dollar could collapse under Trump. The cost of chaos is real. And this time, the whole world pays. #MoronPremium #Trump
April 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Liz Truss taught us about the “moron premium”—when markets punish a country for electing an idiot. Now imagine Trump 2.0. The pound wobbled under Truss. The dollar could collapse under Trump. The cost of chaos is real. And this time, the whole world pays. #MoronPremium #Trump