Catherine
@catherinehh.bsky.social
Grumpy dog-lover. Worries: shit in our rivers, state of politics, climate change, chaos. ❤️ EU, NHS, Arts, Nature. CV
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
I don't understand who the Labour Party are anymore
Shabana Mahmood's Indefinite Leave To Remain Culture War
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
3 years - if you're earning £125k+
15 years - if you're e.g. a nurse, or a teacher
Labour's two tier system which rewards high earners and insults those who work just as hard but don't earn as much - really sad to see Labour fall
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I don't understand who the Labour Party are anymore
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Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
Covid inquiry live: ‘Inexcusable’ delays under Johnson led to 23,000 deaths
Lockdowns may have been avoided if Boris Johnson’s government had acted faster, damning report finds
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Having Johnson & Cummings in Downing Street when Covid struck was, just like Brexit, an entirely avoidable disaster caused largely by utterly appalling journalism. And now exactly the same clowns, arses & bigots with bylines are rolling out the red carpet for Farage.
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
www.thetimes.com/article/1b15...
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‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
Report on handling of pandemic contains stinging criticism of ‘toxic and chaotic’ culture inside Boris Johnson’s No 10
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UK politics live –latest updates
The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
The document also has stinging criticism of a “toxic and chaotic” culture inside Boris Johnson’s Downing Street – which it said the then prime minister actively embraced – in which the loudest voices held sway and women were sidelined. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
‘Too little, too late’: damning report condemns UK’s Covid response
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open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... An NHS Trust made a decision to close an innovative service for people with Parkinson’s in July but waited until November to tell patients. “A complete failure of communications coupled with discourtesy” says one patient
Patients left in the dark after Home Based Care closure
Innovative Parkinson's scheme closed - patients told months later
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:20 AM
open.substack.com/pub/rorycell... An NHS Trust made a decision to close an innovative service for people with Parkinson’s in July but waited until November to tell patients. “A complete failure of communications coupled with discourtesy” says one patient
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
Complicit.
This government is despicable 💔
This government is despicable 💔
Meanwhile as their media mates swarm around us and their police publicly open a meaningless investigation after Glastonbury on us (only to drop it silently)...
They are complicit in war crimes.
They are complicit in war crimes.
August 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Complicit.
This government is despicable 💔
This government is despicable 💔
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I really don't want Palantir to have access to my NHS data
So why are we in the UK allowing Palantir - closely allied with Musk’s DOGE - access to our NHS data?
🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read.
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords
Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:
April 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I really don't want Palantir to have access to my NHS data
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
March 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
words I never imagined writing in my lifetime.....
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio:
"I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"
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Confused why anyone would help alleged sex trafficking rapists.
Coldwarsteve always on point ❤️
Coldwarsteve always on point ❤️
February 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Confused why anyone would help alleged sex trafficking rapists.
Coldwarsteve always on point ❤️
Coldwarsteve always on point ❤️
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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany.
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
February 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany.
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
“BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”
With the EU on this too. Increasingly scary slippery slope into cartoonish supervillain tech bros ruling the world 💔
I’m on the EU’s side on this.
And so should be every global citizen that does not want their online world to be flooded with disinformation.
And so should be every global citizen that does not want their online world to be flooded with disinformation.
Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
www.politico.eu
January 12, 2025 at 9:49 AM
With the EU on this too. Increasingly scary slippery slope into cartoonish supervillain tech bros ruling the world 💔
The lack of personal consequences to the architects of Brexit is depressing
Eight years ago, still not one single benefit, but a cost that has set the UK back by a generation. History will not be kind to the architects of Brexit who have betrayed our country and will always be judged as traitors.
January 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
The lack of personal consequences to the architects of Brexit is depressing
Opaque funding should be a barrier to being platformed
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks.
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com
December 23, 2024 at 9:07 AM
Opaque funding should be a barrier to being platformed
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Please HELP if you can by donating and/or sharing!
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JUST 5 days left for our beaver project crowdfunder!
Please HELP if you can by donating and/or sharing!
Donations MATCH FUNDED by the Aviva Community Fund, so for each £1 you donate we receive £2!
Full details and how to donate here: www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/kernow-con...
December 8, 2024 at 8:14 AM
A lovely project with just a few days left to meet their crowdfunder goal
Brings it all back so clearly
🇬🇧 Remember COVID? Here's a video we made at the time taking the piss out of the Daily Briefings we used to have to watch.
Since then, this sketch has been selected for permanent preservation in the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive. #brag
youtu.be/tYUMQL5ABPw
Since then, this sketch has been selected for permanent preservation in the British Film Institute (BFI) National Archive. #brag
youtu.be/tYUMQL5ABPw
Every COVID Briefing. Ever. - Larry and Paul
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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December 3, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Brings it all back so clearly
Yes
“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record.
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
They run them bc people react to them the most.
If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change.
It’s not easy and takes constant practice!
December 2, 2024 at 11:14 PM
Yes
A scary and potentially slippery slope. Really hope the government take action to close the loopholes 🙏
The Observer had early sight of our report out next week on the money that funds UK election campaigns.
We found that gaps in political finance rules are failing to stop money from questionable sources being funnelled into our politics.
More here:
We found that gaps in political finance rules are failing to stop money from questionable sources being funnelled into our politics.
More here:
Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:06 AM
A scary and potentially slippery slope. Really hope the government take action to close the loopholes 🙏
Please properly fund palliative care @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
It’s the eve of the vote on assisted dying.
Everyone is united on one thing - that however MPs vote, UK palliative care is desperately underfunded.
It’s in your gift to change this, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
You could pledge meaningful action - funding - now.
The question is, WILL you?
Everyone is united on one thing - that however MPs vote, UK palliative care is desperately underfunded.
It’s in your gift to change this, @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
You could pledge meaningful action - funding - now.
The question is, WILL you?
November 28, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Please properly fund palliative care @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social
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Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
How to Speak Truth to Power
...when that power is your own news organisation? I don't know. And I wish it was a question I didn't have to ask.
open.substack.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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I bet that you'd look good in my bookstore,
I don't know if you're looking for a romance I don't know what you're looking for.
I said, I bet that you look good in my bookstore, looking for a book like I Robot, or 1984.
Or 1984.
I don't know if you're looking for a romance I don't know what you're looking for.
I said, I bet that you look good in my bookstore, looking for a book like I Robot, or 1984.
Or 1984.
November 23, 2024 at 10:26 PM
I bet that you'd look good in my bookstore,
I don't know if you're looking for a romance I don't know what you're looking for.
I said, I bet that you look good in my bookstore, looking for a book like I Robot, or 1984.
Or 1984.
I don't know if you're looking for a romance I don't know what you're looking for.
I said, I bet that you look good in my bookstore, looking for a book like I Robot, or 1984.
Or 1984.