John West
@johnw58.bsky.social
Long-term environmentalist. Lib Dems. Humanist, European. Charity Trustee and volunteer at a not-for-profit heritage/natural history visitor centre. Plymouth Argyle fan living in Dorset with wife Sarah, 🐕 and 😺. Love South Devon and Dartmoor.
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🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
How Britain privatised itself into failure
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble. In Failed State, Sam Freedman explains what went wrong
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
🚨How Britain privatised itself into failure.🚨
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
Britain outsourced its state – now private firms profit while public services crumble.
In 'Failed State', Sam Freedman explains what went wrong.
Join me and tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves: no more airport expansion while we’re in a climate emergency 🚨🌎
@friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
@friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
Tell Rachel Reeves: don’t put plane profits before planet
BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves has given the green light to airport expansion while we're in a climate emergency. Expanding airports like Heathrow won’t do much, if anything, for the communities t...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
February 2, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Join me and tell Chancellor Rachel Reeves: no more airport expansion while we’re in a climate emergency 🚨🌎
@friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
@friends-earth.bsky.social 👇 action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/sto...
What useful purpose does this serve to society? Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found
Exclusive: Gaie Delap told she will have to serve 20 more days that correspond to period of time at home after recall
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
What useful purpose does this serve to society? Just Stop Oil protester, 78, has jail term extended after no suitable tag found www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe
Exclusive: Costs of UK cleanup will reach £9.9bn a year in UK if emissions of ‘forever chemicals’ remain uncontrolled
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Cost to clean up toxic PFAS pollution could top £1.6tn in UK and Europe www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Tavistock enjoying a walk in Symondsbury earlier. Only two more days and it's back to more meetings and similar stuff ☹️. Still time for football though 😃. COYG.
January 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Tavistock enjoying a walk in Symondsbury earlier. Only two more days and it's back to more meetings and similar stuff ☹️. Still time for football though 😃. COYG.
I had an appointment with a gentleman who I understood from his rambling explanation to be an associate GP (or similar). It was not a good experience.
Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social
The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...
Why Britain's doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 8:45 PM
I had an appointment with a gentleman who I understood from his rambling explanation to be an associate GP (or similar). It was not a good experience.
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social for goodness sake wake up and change your "hair shirt" objections to rejoining the single market.
New study shows majority of people who voted to leave EU would now accept return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market & similar support for a reciprocal youth mobility scheme.
So when will the government catch up? @europeanmovement.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So when will the government catch up? @europeanmovement.co.uk
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:37 PM
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social for goodness sake wake up and change your "hair shirt" objections to rejoining the single market.
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The pointless self harm of Brexit continues: Being outside the single market makes energy bills more expensive & delays net zero.
EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market on.ft.com/41A0Ppw
EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market on.ft.com/41A0Ppw
EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market
Brussels says its ‘no cherry picking’ rule should apply to co-operation on electricity trading
on.ft.com
December 11, 2024 at 7:35 AM
The pointless self harm of Brexit continues: Being outside the single market makes energy bills more expensive & delays net zero.
EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market on.ft.com/41A0Ppw
EU advises members not to give UK greater access to energy market on.ft.com/41A0Ppw
Most of those who think current levels of migration are awful have no conception of what the future could hold. It could result in a massive breakdown of society and law and order.
If climate scientists are to believed, and they should be, there is going to be a slow but growing exodus of people from parts of the world to other parts of the world because parts of the world will become inhabitable. We really need to think about this don’t we?
September 27, 2024 at 6:45 PM
Most of those who think current levels of migration are awful have no conception of what the future could hold. It could result in a massive breakdown of society and law and order.
The autumn NHS COVID vaccine booster campaign is underway, using the latest version of the vaccine. A new wave of COVID and increased hospital admissions is being reported. I've accepted my invitation to book a vaccination appointment without a moment's hesitation.
September 27, 2024 at 6:40 PM
The autumn NHS COVID vaccine booster campaign is underway, using the latest version of the vaccine. A new wave of COVID and increased hospital admissions is being reported. I've accepted my invitation to book a vaccination appointment without a moment's hesitation.
I felt it necessary to explain to Tavistock that holidays can be spoilt by spending too much time on social media.
September 22, 2024 at 6:51 AM
I felt it necessary to explain to Tavistock that holidays can be spoilt by spending too much time on social media.
Jack's ever watchful.
September 16, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Jack's ever watchful.
There's a lot of paranoia from a certain strand of opinion about solar "farms" currently . This small installation to power a holiday park was going to "damage the Heritage Coast".
September 13, 2024 at 5:34 AM
There's a lot of paranoia from a certain strand of opinion about solar "farms" currently . This small installation to power a holiday park was going to "damage the Heritage Coast".
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New Rest Is Politics LEADING interview with Audrey Tang, child prodigy who became Taiwan’s youngest ever minister, the world’s first digital minister who used tech to transform trust in govt, and the world’s first non binary transgender minister. alastaircampbell.org/2024/09/97-h...
97. How to fight fake news and strengthen democracy (Audrey Tang)
Is technology destroying democracy, or can it be used to strengthen it? How did Taiwan improve public trust in politicians by 60%? Could the NHS be transformed by digital consultaions for the better? ...
alastaircampbell.org
September 9, 2024 at 5:23 AM
New Rest Is Politics LEADING interview with Audrey Tang, child prodigy who became Taiwan’s youngest ever minister, the world’s first digital minister who used tech to transform trust in govt, and the world’s first non binary transgender minister. alastaircampbell.org/2024/09/97-h...
And the sun sinks over Lyme Bay.
September 3, 2024 at 9:04 PM
And the sun sinks over Lyme Bay.
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