@davidbainesmp.bsky.social Hi David, Short notice but with the Assisted Dying bill coming up again tomorrow I just want to say I hope you still hold the same position with regards to the bill. As it progresses I find it is becoming more disturbing. I don’t think it offers safeguards and protection

Tomorrow, voters across the country get to shape the future of their communities. Co-operation built Britain. This is why it's important to make sure your councillors are co-operative 🧵

Gordon Brown makes criminal complaint against Rupert Murdoch’s media empire

Gambling Commission charges 15 over bets on timing of 2024 UK general election

Der Frühling ist unterwegs. Der erste Vogel aus Amerika ist schon da. !! GEFÄHRLICH !! !! KEINENFALLS FÜTTERN !!

Shudder. Cartoon by @bjennings90.bsky.social for the Guardian.

America, just in case you thought Friday went well here’s how the London Times saw it …..

The CDC recommending vitamin A for measles is like NASA saying Stanley Kubrick faked the 1969 moon landing in a Hollywood studio.

Not surprised that Farage continues to tell blatant lies about the immigration system. But absolutely disgraceful BBC report this verbatim without pointing out it's complete BS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Caroline Kennedy's letter opposing RFK Jr.'s nomination to lead HHS is one of the more scathing things I've ever read.

Tusk slams Musk for ‘sinister’ words at AfD rally www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

On Holocaust Day remembering the other groups persecuted including political prisoners, Johannes (b1896)was arrested for his political views, contracted TB and became a drug addict because of medical treatment not being available. A great uncle I never knew and only recently discovered his story.

Great piece by @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social Today, the Duke of Sussex (Prince Harry) was the first senior member of the Royal Family in more than 130 years to give evidence to a civil court – to expose what he alleges was illegal information gathering by one of UK’s major tabloid newspaper groups

Since the election 16,400 who have no right to be in the UK have been removed, including 2500 foreign criminals. The government set a target to increase this number back to 2018 levels and have now smashed that number by restarting asylum processing, redeploying 1000 staff & using charter flights.

Greenland is prepared.

two really important podcasts this week: 1) Origin Story on Musk & X by @iandunt.bsky.social & @dorianlynskey.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/1218... 2) The News Agents interviewing the journalist, Andrew Norfolk, who broke the grooming story 12 years ago www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

BREAKING: Elon Musk tweets probed by UK counter-extremism unit as alarm raised over risk to Britain www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Liz Truss threatens to sue Keir Starmer unless he "ceases and desists" from alleging she crashed the economy. In other news, here's Liz Truss making the exact same allegation against Gordon Brown

Meeting the old man himself, getting a present and a cup of hot chocolate then out to play using imagination and mud. The best Santa grotto Isle of Man. @isleofplay 🤫 I am biased as old Nicks creaky old mum.

Though I studied Latin in my state grammar school many years ago, I'm much more concerned by the demise of modern languages at GCSE/A level in state schools. The Internet should have been a boom for accessing foreign language websites, but instead the UK has become even more of a monoglot nation.

The oldest preserved #candles north of the Alps. They were made from beeswax around 1,400 years ago. Found in the early #medieval burial site in Oberflacht. The damp environment preserved the candles in good condition. On display at Landesmuseum Württemberg 📷me 🏺 #archaeology

🔥🔥🔥Gordon Brown on phone hacking: “In the light of this, I have called for [the police] to examine new evidence as it becomes available from civil case court documents where it suggests charges for perjury and the perversion of the course of justice." ~AA

Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back? Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing signs of mutating as it spreads among cows and infects people in the United States.

This is worrying since it could form a template for the next GE. Local branches of Conservative Party & Reform UK have held talks about unofficial pacts ahead of local council elections next year, a bid to unite right-wing voters against Labour the Party www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"Journalists may be some of the last believers in the rules-based order. We live by facts and die by facts and believe facts matter. We may be some of the last inhabitants of a paradigm in which belief in justice, evidence and logic holds fast." 👏👏👏

Sterling close to its highest value against the Euro since the Brexit referendum. Markets appear to be rewarding the prospect of long term British political stability. Not something you’ve been able to say for a while.

Starmer makes a point often missed about ending freedom of movement. Migration figures were lower when we were in the EU. Because Europeans could live, work, study in the UK for as long as they wanted - and then leave. Now, migrants are more likely to move permanently. #PMQs

"The truth is that earthquake prediction is extremely hard. Trying to pick out what is a clear signal of a precursor to a potentially catastrophic shift versus the normal background noise of the Earth’s movement is difficult." From me in @uk.theconversation.com

RFK Jr wants to take fluoride out of water supplies. They tried it in Calgary. The result? Cavities, dental decay and IV antibiotics for infections from rotting teeth. In children. https://www.thetimes.com/article/6bc57928-bddb-4caf-87f2-e1d9d0895487?shareToken=98799dcce895f8f00a8a9b576d2b3701

World gets first look inside rebuilt Notre Dame Cathedral

The fact that Nigel Farage will celebrate the departure from his party of a Muslim man whilst welcoming with opening arms a deeply right-wing white woman who provided a character reference for an activist convicted of violent threats against a female colleague. It's the modern Reform Party for you.

0f the 1.2 million migrants who came to Britain in the year to June, most (86%) were from outside the EU (10% from Europe and a further 5% were British nationals). Proof, if proof were needed, that Brexit didn't stop people coming; it merely changed where they were coming from.

"Farage’s Reform Party plans a full-frontal electoral attack on Scotland. It intends to contest the next Holyrood general election in 2026. You can be sure that Reform is in the process of building a well-funded and well-resourced electoral machine. There will be no shortage of cash."

Kemi’s mother travelled from Nigeria to the UK to give birth in St Teresa's private hospital before the British Nationality Act 1981 abolished automatic birth-right citizenship for those born in the United Kingdom, and then returned to Nigeria shortly after Badenoch was born.

@liverpoolforeurope.bsky.social good morning found you 👋🏼

Funny because true.

@davidbainesmp.bsky.social I’d like to thank you for your mail regarding assisted dying bill. Thanks for weighing up all the options and discussing with local experts in palliative care before deciding to oppose the bill. More needs to be done to help those who need care first.

And there it is. Netanyahu's govt has put sanctions on the Israeli newspaper Haaretz for its criticisms of Israel's behaviour. Sanctions include prohibiting all public institutions from communicating with the paper. This profoundly undermines democracy. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Turn away from Trump and look to EU for trade, say voters Asked 'is Europe or the US more important to the UK' in 'terms of trade', 58% chose Europe and just 34% the US inews.co.uk/news/politic...

@wolfie5518.bsky.social good morning 👋🏼

Covid is a social justice issue - it always has been. We need to recognize it & start providing: - Free tests & respirators - Paid time off - Clean air in public spaces - Mandatory masks in healthcare - Universal healthcare We won’t beat COVID until everyone is protected

Charts like this make me weep when I think about RFK Jr and how Trump promised to withdraw funding from any public schools with vaccine mandates. Childhood vaccines have saved SO many lives. If we stop utilizing them - this chart is going to quickly swing in the opposite direction.

I’m disgusted that has happened but sadly not surprised. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A different man in his prime

In the other place “Just this week, a provably & wildly false post that claimed Starmer represented father of Southport suspect Axel Rudakubana in an asylum case went viral on X. The tweet in question is still live, having amassed 5.3 million views & 27,000 likes” www.politics.co.uk/week-in-revi...

Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire today. Idiot on a tractor causing more damage... (Credit Jay da Costa Facebook)

UK justice secretary attacks assisted dying bill as ‘state death service’