Simon
@liberalsimon.bsky.social
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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France’s biggest wildfire in nearly 50 years has scorched an area larger than Paris in the southern department of Aude, leaving a woman dead and forcing thousands of residents to flee
France wildfires: Woman dies and thousands flee ‘hellish’ destruction
www.thetimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
France’s biggest wildfire in nearly 50 years has scorched an area larger than Paris in the southern department of Aude, leaving a woman dead and forcing thousands of residents to flee
@francesryan.bsky.social @cjayanetti.bsky.social Someone must know who “Max” is?! Swear he’s part of the Westminster bubble. He certainly has lots of fans in SW1!
August 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@francesryan.bsky.social @cjayanetti.bsky.social Someone must know who “Max” is?! Swear he’s part of the Westminster bubble. He certainly has lots of fans in SW1!
Max Tempers is a now “journalist” 🤔
August 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Max Tempers is a now “journalist” 🤔
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Below is the "privacy policy" on the odious Motability Checker site promoted by Max Tempers. The developer has willfully failed to understand what personal data means in UK law. "PII" isn't even UK terminology.
Context www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-f...
#dataprotection #disabilityrights
Context www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-f...
#dataprotection #disabilityrights
July 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Below is the "privacy policy" on the odious Motability Checker site promoted by Max Tempers. The developer has willfully failed to understand what personal data means in UK law. "PII" isn't even UK terminology.
Context www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-f...
#dataprotection #disabilityrights
Context www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-f...
#dataprotection #disabilityrights
@francesryan.bsky.social have you seen this?
July 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
@francesryan.bsky.social have you seen this?
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On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised.
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
July 11, 2025 at 11:39 AM
On the London Overground. I’ve just asked a young guy playing loud music out of his phone to turn his music down. He asked stroppily why he should. I said because it was uncivilised.
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
He then turned it off and said “yeah, that’s fair”
I HAVE NEVER FELT SO ALIVE
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Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
www.theverge.com
July 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
@cjayanetti.bsky.social Surely "Max" is overdue an exposé? I mean he's single-handedly taking down the Motability scheme.
July 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
@cjayanetti.bsky.social Surely "Max" is overdue an exposé? I mean he's single-handedly taking down the Motability scheme.
I stand by the opinion that "Max" is a think tanker. And a good one at that - can see the Motability scheme being closed down under the next Conservative government.
July 11, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I stand by the opinion that "Max" is a think tanker. And a good one at that - can see the Motability scheme being closed down under the next Conservative government.
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Marks & Spencer is fighting back from a crippling cyber hack with an expansion plan that will see it buy 12 former Homebase stores to create some of its biggest food shops yet
M&S defies cyberattackers with swoop on Homebase stores
Retailer will create hundreds of jobs with some of its biggest food shops yet – and it’s even offering a bakery service to rival Gail’s
www.thetimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Marks & Spencer is fighting back from a crippling cyber hack with an expansion plan that will see it buy 12 former Homebase stores to create some of its biggest food shops yet
The Central line is cosplaying as the DLR
May 11, 2025 at 6:01 AM
The Central line is cosplaying as the DLR
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‘Sinister’ government analysis of assisted dying bill adds weight to fears of financial incentives for deaths
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sinister-gov...
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sinister-gov...
‘Sinister’ government analysis of assisted dying bill adds weight to fears of financial incentives for deaths
A “sinister” government analysis of the impact of a bill to legalise assisted suicide suggests it could eventually save public bodies more than £100 million a year in health and social care costs, …
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
‘Sinister’ government analysis of assisted dying bill adds weight to fears of financial incentives for deaths
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sinister-gov...
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/sinister-gov...
M&S will ‘need to go on a charm offensive’ to win customers back www.cityam.com/ms-will-need...
M&S will 'need to go on a charm offensive' to win customers back
M&S told markets it had suffered a "cyber incident" at the end of April, quickly followed by Harrods and the Co-op.
www.cityam.com
May 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
M&S will ‘need to go on a charm offensive’ to win customers back www.cityam.com/ms-will-need...
Starmer warned benefit cuts could be ‘as toxic’ as axing winter fuel allowance as 800,000 miss out www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
May 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Starmer warned benefit cuts could be ‘as toxic’ as axing winter fuel allowance as 800,000 miss out www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Carney after winning the Canadian federal election:
“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country - never. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never ever happen.”
“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country - never. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never ever happen.”
April 29, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Carney after winning the Canadian federal election:
“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country - never. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never ever happen.”
“America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country - never. But these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never ever happen.”
Supermarkets turn down graduates as vacancies drop www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Graduates turned down by supermarkets as vacancies hit four-year low
Young people say it is harder than ever to get a job after uni with some being turned down by supermarkets.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 29, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Supermarkets turn down graduates as vacancies drop www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Moment police kill man by throwing him around 'like a rag doll' mol.im/a/14647659
Moment police kill man by throwing him around 'like a rag doll'
This is the horrifying moment officers threw a vulnerable man around 'like a rag doll' while restraining him on a hospital floor.
mol.im
April 28, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Moment police kill man by throwing him around 'like a rag doll' mol.im/a/14647659
M&S takes systems offline as 'cyber incident' lingers www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/m...
M&S takes systems offline as 'cyber incident' lingers
: Customers told to expect further delays as contactless payments still down
www.theregister.com
April 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
M&S takes systems offline as 'cyber incident' lingers www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/m...
Britain's oldest Indian restaurant may have to shut in central London lease row www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...
Veeraswamy owner: To close this institution would be a great tragedy
If the Crown Estate get their way, London will lose one of its most precious places, says Ranjit Mathrani
www.standard.co.uk
April 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Britain's oldest Indian restaurant may have to shut in central London lease row www.standard.co.uk/going-out/re...
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As an aside to the whole “pointing at Liz Truss getting something hilariously laughably wrong *again*” thing (which I - of course - encourage), has anyone teased out the point that his economics are the antithesis of the ones she was espousing (to her inevitable detriment) all those 33 months ago
April 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
As an aside to the whole “pointing at Liz Truss getting something hilariously laughably wrong *again*” thing (which I - of course - encourage), has anyone teased out the point that his economics are the antithesis of the ones she was espousing (to her inevitable detriment) all those 33 months ago
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Labour MP Dan Norris is arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences after police raid www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Labour MP Dan Norris is arrested for 'rape and child sex offences'
Dan Norris, who ousted Jacob Rees-Mogg as MP for North East Somerset at last year's election, was taken into custody after police raided his constituency home.
www.dailymail.co.uk
April 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Labour MP Dan Norris is arrested on suspicion of rape and child sex offences after police raid www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...