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🚨 NHS England is rolling out Palantir software for our health records - handing huge power to a US firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses.

Email your local Trust and say NO to Palantir in the NHS: notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
notopalantir.goodlawproject.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Joining Erasmus+ is great news - but we must now go further in resetting relations with the EU.

"It is one of the clearest signs yet of what Keir Starmer wanted to do when he came into office, which was reset relations with the European Union."
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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If you're in a large WhatsApp group where, statistically, at least one person will be celebrating a birthday every few days, it is perfectly cool to just not use the group to wish people a happy birthday. You don't have to do it. I don't need to see 50 birthday messages every other day. Please stop.
December 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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One of many Cambridge street watercolours I did 30-40 years ago. Working on the spot uniquely preserves memories and feelings. The shop signs at that time in Green St were extravagantly beautiful and the passers by were sketched in quickly. Still have this one.
#fineart ##pleinair #Cambridge
December 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Robbie Gibb said if he doesn't get his way, he'll blow the BBC up. It's ridiculous that a man like that has a spot on the BBC's board. Our public broadcaster MUST be independent. Agree? Sign to get Gibb sacked:
December 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Southern Water’s CEO, Lawrence Gosden, got a special delivery last week: a giant card and 💩 cake! Why? His pay nearly doubled to £1.4m, despite rules banning bonuses for polluting bosses. Watch and share the news: 38d.gs/fgiw
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November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The majority of the UK’s richest are happy to live here & pay their taxes.

But what about the greedy few that use the UK to get rich, then bail when it's time to pay their dues?

The UK needs a settling up tax, just like 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱 🇨🇦 🇦🇺 🇪🇸 🇮🇹 🇳🇴 🇯🇵.
taxjustice.uk/blog/settlin...
Settling up taxes. Or how to stop billionaires dining and dashing. - Tax Justice UK
The UK should join countries like the US,  France, Germany and Japan and introduce a settling up tax— sometimes known as an exit tax.
taxjustice.uk
October 16, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Good morning to you 🌞 from the Southern Coast on the
September 3, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Government is planning to roll out mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reform: Stop hiding from press scrutiny!
Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Kaiser Wilhelm met Gustav Krupp tonight in 1914 and repeated three times: 'This time I shall not topple over.' If Russia mobilised, he declared, it would be war.

The fragility of these autocrats’ egos led to the death and brutalisation of tens of millions
July 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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When four breeding male Hen Harriers suspiciously disappeared from nests in May, two from RSPB Geltsdale and two from the Forest of Bowland, it was clear the females would struggle to raise their chicks alone.

The odds were bleak.
July 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Four adult breeding Hen Harriers 'vanished' from nest sites in Cumbria & Lancashire in May 2025 - silence from police, valiant conservation efforts from RSPB staff & volunteers.

RSPB press release & some questions from me 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/07/24/h...
Hen Harrier chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent birds
RSPB press release (24 July 2025) Chicks fledge with RSPB support after suspicious loss of parent Hen Harriers.  In May 2025, over a period of eight days, four breeding male Hen Harriers suspi…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Don’t abandon the Chalk Stream recovery pack
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

"Petitions Committee has considered Govt’s response to this petition. They felt the response did not respond directly to the request of the petition... have therefore asked the Govt to provide a revised response."
Petition: Don’t abandon the Chalk Stream recovery pack
We think the chalk stream recovery pack would increase investment, regulation and transparency; improving the state of all rivers. We feel Chalk streams’ rarity, cultural and ecological importance sho...
petition.parliament.uk
July 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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It's hot... 🥵☀️

Make sure to put out plenty of water for birds & wildlife so they can keep cool and have enough to drink.

They'll thank you!
July 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#ResistanceRoots

Today in history, 1960: Harper Lee publishes her first novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. Noted for its treatment of a child’s awakening to racism in the South, the book won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was an immediate success, eventually selling more than 40 million copies.
July 11, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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The illegal killing of our beautiful birds must stop.

It’s good to see MPs will be debating this urgent issue on Monday.

Thank you to everyone who's spoken up so far. We’re close to getting the change our upland wildlife needs.
The illegal killing of Hen Harriers has hit a devastating new high. ⚠️

A new RSPB report reveals 102 incidents in just five years - with the majority on, or near, grouse moors.

A thread…
June 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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#Alphabetchallenge
#WeekZforZoology

Jenny Wren, used on British farthings, 1937-1956
June 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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June 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Henley & Partners are clearly embarrassed that us and
@taxjustice.net caught them out sensationalising their unsensational statistics.

Last time around they were talking about an “exodus.”

Now, they're claiming they're not sure what it means. 3/6
June 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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UK Millionaires are overwhelmingly staying put in the place they call home.

Once again, following dubious reporting from Henley & Partners the news has been overflowing with undue panic about hordes of millionaires leaving.

Only, it's not true...🧵1/6
taxjustice.net/press/millio...
Millionaire “exodus” claim backtracked but media re-run story anyway - Tax Justice Network
Henley & Partners have backtracked their claims about an "exodus" following the Tax Justice Network's review, but media re-run the story again
taxjustice.net
June 24, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones.

But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦‍♀️

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
www.theguardian.com
May 24, 2025 at 7:07 AM