Peter K Watts
@wattosnr.bsky.social
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The UK media last week spent so much time banging on about a football match. Will they give the same amount of coverage to this ? I very much doubt it
⏱️21 mins ago
"The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was cancelled by police after "violent riots" before kick-off."
There are MANY politicians who owe West Midlands police a profound apology.
List/tag them. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
"The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was cancelled by police after "violent riots" before kick-off."
There are MANY politicians who owe West Midlands police a profound apology.
List/tag them. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Maccabi Tel Aviv v Hapoel Tel Aviv called off by police after disorder
The Israeli Premier League derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv is cancelled before kick-off and nine people are arrested.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The UK media last week spent so much time banging on about a football match. Will they give the same amount of coverage to this ? I very much doubt it
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Finland closed down all its for profit schools in the 1970’s.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
September 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Finland closed down all its for profit schools in the 1970’s.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
They have had the best education in the world for the last 20 years.
You should cheer every time a private school closes.
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Perhaps Chris Mason can offer an explanation to this.
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 23, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Perhaps Chris Mason can offer an explanation to this.
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Privatisation of the NHS
US private equity and UK pension fund USS make bid for NHS landlord Assura.
Assura was set up in 2003, owns more than 600 healthcare buildings worth £3bn.
NHS burdened with rent. This is in addition to PFI payments. Less spent on front line services.
archive.ph/QRaGZ
US private equity and UK pension fund USS make bid for NHS landlord Assura.
Assura was set up in 2003, owns more than 600 healthcare buildings worth £3bn.
NHS burdened with rent. This is in addition to PFI payments. Less spent on front line services.
archive.ph/QRaGZ
US firm and British pension fund make bid for NHS landlord
US firm and British pension fund make bid for NHS landlord
www.thetimes.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Privatisation of the NHS
US private equity and UK pension fund USS make bid for NHS landlord Assura.
Assura was set up in 2003, owns more than 600 healthcare buildings worth £3bn.
NHS burdened with rent. This is in addition to PFI payments. Less spent on front line services.
archive.ph/QRaGZ
US private equity and UK pension fund USS make bid for NHS landlord Assura.
Assura was set up in 2003, owns more than 600 healthcare buildings worth £3bn.
NHS burdened with rent. This is in addition to PFI payments. Less spent on front line services.
archive.ph/QRaGZ
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New Imperialism
Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves.
Trump claims US was owed half a trillion dollar for war-aid.
US support was apparently all about grabbing resources.
Trump wants Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Canada, Ukraine minerals.
What next?
archive.ph/WkEmy
Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves.
Trump claims US was owed half a trillion dollar for war-aid.
US support was apparently all about grabbing resources.
Trump wants Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Canada, Ukraine minerals.
What next?
archive.ph/WkEmy
Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves
Kyiv wants security guarantees to be tied to any natural resources deal
www.ft.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
New Imperialism
Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves.
Trump claims US was owed half a trillion dollar for war-aid.
US support was apparently all about grabbing resources.
Trump wants Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Canada, Ukraine minerals.
What next?
archive.ph/WkEmy
Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves.
Trump claims US was owed half a trillion dollar for war-aid.
US support was apparently all about grabbing resources.
Trump wants Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Canada, Ukraine minerals.
What next?
archive.ph/WkEmy
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This is ridiculous. Rat infested prison that may never reopen pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year
HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Rat-infested prison that may never reopen pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year
HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
www.thetimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This is ridiculous. Rat infested prison that may never reopen pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year
HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Rat-infested Dartmoor prison may never reopen, pays Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall £1.5m a year. Public purse pays cost of upkeep.
The Duchy owns many assets; exempt from corporation tax, and capital gains tax
Any chance of UK Govt looking at this welfare ... thought not.
archive.ph/UnpkE
The Duchy owns many assets; exempt from corporation tax, and capital gains tax
Any chance of UK Govt looking at this welfare ... thought not.
archive.ph/UnpkE
Rat-infested prison that may never reopen pays Prince William’s Duchy £1.5m a year
HMP Dartmoor, which closed in August over toxic gas fears, has 24 years left on its lease
www.thetimes.com
January 19, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Rat-infested Dartmoor prison may never reopen, pays Prince William’s Duchy of Cornwall £1.5m a year. Public purse pays cost of upkeep.
The Duchy owns many assets; exempt from corporation tax, and capital gains tax
Any chance of UK Govt looking at this welfare ... thought not.
archive.ph/UnpkE
The Duchy owns many assets; exempt from corporation tax, and capital gains tax
Any chance of UK Govt looking at this welfare ... thought not.
archive.ph/UnpkE
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It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.
January 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.
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If more people in the UK bought a real Newspaper maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess…
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
January 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
If more people in the UK bought a real Newspaper maybe we wouldn’t be in this mess…
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
@bylinetimes.bsky.social
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Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies.
Billionaire wants to spread misinformation, harm with no responsibility.
How long before US companies want immunities for tax abuse, money laundering?
Other countries must protect their citizens.
www.politico.eu/article/zuck...
Billionaire wants to spread misinformation, harm with no responsibility.
How long before US companies want immunities for tax abuse, money laundering?
Other countries must protect their citizens.
www.politico.eu/article/zuck...
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 7:46 AM
Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies.
Billionaire wants to spread misinformation, harm with no responsibility.
How long before US companies want immunities for tax abuse, money laundering?
Other countries must protect their citizens.
www.politico.eu/article/zuck...
Billionaire wants to spread misinformation, harm with no responsibility.
How long before US companies want immunities for tax abuse, money laundering?
Other countries must protect their citizens.
www.politico.eu/article/zuck...
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Remember when Matt Hancock & Nadine Dorries (now ex MPs) chose to appear on TV realty shows for mega loot, and for weeks neglected their Parliamentary duties.
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
MPs second jobs are institutionalised bribery. They should be banned.
'Preventing MPs from selling their souls to the highest bidder is a necessary step in democratising parliament.'
leftfootforward.org
January 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Remember when Matt Hancock & Nadine Dorries (now ex MPs) chose to appear on TV realty shows for mega loot, and for weeks neglected their Parliamentary duties.
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
That is still permitted.
Must ban all second jobs for MPs.
Must serve people, not their bank balance.
leftfootforward.org/2025/01/mps-...
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And free to read at this link!
This is a superb piece of writing and analysis by @stephenkb.bsky.social in which he takes apart Tory opportunism and pandering to Elon Musk over the grooming gangs and compares it to Farage’s consistent red line on Tommy Robinson. Compulsory reading.
Good morning. I hope you were able to have a good restorative break. My thanks to Jim, Robert, Miranda, Lucy, Jen, Jude, Chris and Georgina for minding the fort while I was on holiday.
ep.ft.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:34 AM
And free to read at this link!
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How hard would it have been for BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to bring up this front page when Nigel Farage complained during his interview with her today that economically “we are getting poorer”
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
January 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How hard would it have been for BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to bring up this front page when Nigel Farage complained during his interview with her today that economically “we are getting poorer”
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This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
January 5, 2025 at 6:17 AM
This has to be the most dishonest reporting of an opinion poll I've ever seen
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
The survey actually found that over two thirds of voters *do not* think Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year.
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Food sales to the EU have crashed by a fifth since Brexit, a minister has revealed, as Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure to slash red tape for UK firms selling in Europe
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
UK food sales to EU slump by a fifth after Brexit, minister reveals
Exclusive: Food sales to the EU have crashed by a fifth since Brexit, a minister has revealed, as Sir Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure to slash red tape for UK firms selling in Europe
www.independent.co.uk
January 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Food sales to the EU have crashed by a fifth since Brexit, a minister has revealed, as Keir Starmer faces mounting pressure to slash red tape for UK firms selling in Europe
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Elon Musk outraged by Rape Gangs but not so much by Billionaire Epstein Rape Islands.
I wonder why?
I wonder why?
January 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Elon Musk outraged by Rape Gangs but not so much by Billionaire Epstein Rape Islands.
I wonder why?
I wonder why?
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Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to place Nigel Farage in the House of Lords.
RT if you want to flush them both down the toilet.
RT if you want to flush them both down the toilet.
January 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Jacob Rees-Mogg wants to place Nigel Farage in the House of Lords.
RT if you want to flush them both down the toilet.
RT if you want to flush them both down the toilet.
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What’s this obsession with DARTS? 😡
Played by obese working class men who although good at Maths have never read a book in their lives.
Watched by drunken yobs dressed up as seagulls & won by a chubby teenager who makes Dean our paperboy look like a genius!
#BritainHasFallen
😔
Played by obese working class men who although good at Maths have never read a book in their lives.
Watched by drunken yobs dressed up as seagulls & won by a chubby teenager who makes Dean our paperboy look like a genius!
#BritainHasFallen
😔
January 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
What’s this obsession with DARTS? 😡
Played by obese working class men who although good at Maths have never read a book in their lives.
Watched by drunken yobs dressed up as seagulls & won by a chubby teenager who makes Dean our paperboy look like a genius!
#BritainHasFallen
😔
Played by obese working class men who although good at Maths have never read a book in their lives.
Watched by drunken yobs dressed up as seagulls & won by a chubby teenager who makes Dean our paperboy look like a genius!
#BritainHasFallen
😔
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This is spot on!
From my full video taking him down from a week ago ICYMI www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is spot on!
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The relentless madness of 2010-2020 was more than patiently documented in @russincheshire.bsky.social's acidically detached chronicle of the nation’s worst cheese dream, The Decade In Tory. It’s a great work of history and/or clinical psychology.
December 20, 2024 at 7:36 PM
The relentless madness of 2010-2020 was more than patiently documented in @russincheshire.bsky.social's acidically detached chronicle of the nation’s worst cheese dream, The Decade In Tory. It’s a great work of history and/or clinical psychology.
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The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.
Yet sometimes, it's just unambiguously and unarguably laid out black and white.
Yet sometimes, it's just unambiguously and unarguably laid out black and white.
December 20, 2024 at 2:44 PM
The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop overreacting.
Yet sometimes, it's just unambiguously and unarguably laid out black and white.
Yet sometimes, it's just unambiguously and unarguably laid out black and white.