You can tell a lot about a man by the company he keeps

James Murray is asked about US surveillance company Palantir working in the NHS. Palantir should have no role in the NHS (or any other UK public service). We need to kick them out.

Today the UK celebrates 250 years of independence from the tyranny of the United States of America. Imagine living in a society where the leader can repeatedly break the law and nobody stops them!

Magnitude 5.5 earthquake hits near coast of central Chile, GFZ says reut.rs/4wJVjxh

This is both astonishing and unforgivable. Amateur hour.

youtu.be/KLKzR4anZ00 Care around naked flames, could lead to Valholl

"So that's Theft, Fraud, Financial Misconduct, Political Misconduct and Misconduct in a public office. That's just the EU. In the UK, all of the above plus Treason, Money Laundering and Tax Evasion. The list probably goes on but that's enough of a start. Criminal Filth." via Timothy O'sullivan

In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽

I know some people get annoyed when I talk about why I'm a Republican... But I'm sorry...not sorry.

Nigel Farage’s MP salary is £98,000. Nigel Farage’s other jobs’ salary is £2m.

Just a reminder: everything AI does with copyright it does with privacy. And more.

Man of the people https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nigel-farage-direct-bullion-gold-payments-b3005861.html

10 years ago, the air outside Aldgate School didn’t meet legal limits. Children were breathing polluted air every day. I made it my mission to change that. Here’s the difference our bold policies have made ⬇️

Game over. It will NEVER get better than this. #WorldBollardAssociation

John Major talking more sense than majority of serving MPs. It's essential we rejoin before we slide any further into being a parochial backwater dominated by malignant narcissists like Farage doing the bidding of big oil et al. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

UK on track for the 2020s to be the worst decade since the 1920s. Govts intoxicated with neoliberalism, growing finance industry, privatising everything, prisoners of the City. Must jettison neoliberalism, embrace equitable distribution of income/wealth. 99-percent.org/rewiring-the...

This "This is a man who recently claimed Britain was "defenceless," demanding answers from Number 10. Yet when Parliament held an hours-long debate on exactly that, Farage was nowhere to be seen." https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-loves-shout-issues-37343854

I just signed Foxglove's petition to Andy Burnham: if you become our next PM, get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data. Add your name: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications This should also be banned Influence is being bought in Govt Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

The Government has quietly updated its claims about the benefits of Palantir to the NHS to admit that they don't really stand up: www.ft.com/content/9348...

We don’t need Palantir

Time to end the contract with Palantir “From my investigations, it looks like the UK sovereign solution [using their own data systems] in places like Greater Manchester are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics” @martinwrigley.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/9348...

NHS England admits it has been lying about Palantir’s effectiveness. Whilst the systems we build ourselves are producing better results with faster systems and happier medics.

I'm confident nobody will share this.

💯this 👇 For US Democrats, read UK Labour. If they don't learn this, they will be consigned to oblivion. Unfortunately there are no signs of any even dawning realisation. Andy Burnham is *not* a change -- he's just a drop-in replacement.

Farage: I can spend my £5m on Ferraris if I want it's none of your business. Reform voters: He's one of us.

10 years ago, after narrowly winning the referendum, Boris Johnson confessed, "We didn't have a plan for what to do next" "We didn't think it was our job to have a plan" 10 years later, Brexit continues to be a disaster

2026: Nigel Farage claims we got the covid vaccine first because of Brexit 2020: Dr June Raine (CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) explains we still were following EU rules at the time

OK if enough people are up for it, another Bluesky drinks in London, Thurs 16 July, 7pm. Same venue [DM if you don't know it]. RSVP even if you do so I can gauge numbers.

Nigel Farage on the £5mn: "It's an unconditional gift, I can spend it on cars if I want to, it's entirely up to me."

On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, let us check in on how it's going...

Nice one @libdems.org.uk 👍

I want to shout out www.outdoormobility.org - an amazing oganisation making the beautiful outdoors accessible to those who can't walk far with their bookable Trampers :-) Also to @nationaltrust.org.uk who offer similar at many of their sites! My mother has had the *best* weekend in the Lakes!

Any word from Elon Musk? Tommy Robinson? Where is the outrage from the vigilante defenders of women and children now this white Protestant Ulster man has been found guilty of the rape and sexual assault of children? Is the media on the streets demanding Orange men apologise for their community?

Evan Davies on BBC R4 PM programme discussing Burnham's choice in attire. WTAF, will he criticise him for wearing a tan suit????????? This passes for political comment - may god have mercy on our souls.

Doctors are blanking the multi-million pound Palantir platform, says the HSCC chair. Turns out buying highly controversial tech doesn't mean much if overworked staff refuse to use it. 🩺💻👇

Extraordinary opening words. Remarks that he inherited a party that was 'morally bankrupt'.. yet... that's precisely one of the main criticism now. Deliberate stoking of anti-immigration and anti-asylum sentiment to try and entice racist Reform voters.

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

I hadn't appreciated this but it seems a fair bit of the increase in the defence budget has been achieved using accounting manoeuvres e.g. moving secret services into the budget and war pensions. A friend who works in the defence establishment pointed this out to me last night.

It is inescapable now that many politicians & most of our media judge the severity & seriousness of a crime differently according to the ethnicity of the perpetrator and/or victim. An utterly hideous state of affairs ushered in eagerly by Nigel Farage & Elon Musk. It is very easy to do better.

“Mother, I've weighed the risks - which I prefer to living in a world dominated by Nazis. Bill" Thank god for Bill and so many more like him (Pic from @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social on X)

Only a special kind of cunt could bring immigration in to discussion of yesterday’s tragic events. And yet…

Nigel Farage’s Brexit rallies were funded from the EU budget European monies paid for anti-immigrant posters during ‘Say No to EU’ tour archive.fo/DtTsn

i guess Farage, Lowe, Robinson etc will be marching against this guy’s violence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This story currently leads BBC Scotland. But down here in London you have to scroll all the way down past the London news, the World Cup, whatever the BBC calls its Reels equivalent, more World Cup, weekend picks and 'lazy summer recipes' to the 'around the UK' to see it

The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.

Spare a thought for all the bitterly disappointed Reform supporters this morning.

The joy today is that hatred lost. Doesn't matter what you think of Burnham. Farage tried to invite a race riot. He dealt in explicitly racial rhetoric. If he'd won, many journalists would have considered it a vindication of his approach and branded our outrage evidence of how out of touch we are.

Makerfield result is extraordinary: A swing back to governing party in a by-election is exceptional. Winning absolute majority of the vote in a seat with Reform friendly demographics is exceptional. Doing both on an increased turnout when your party is polling under 20% is truly exceptional

‘… , but first, why Reform losing six consecutive by-elections is good news for Nigel Farage’