In the 1940s the BMA bitterly opposed the idea that GPs should be part of a public service. Under the last Labour government they opposed moves that mobilised private sector heath to crush NHS waiting lists because it destroyed their members' private consultancy income which profited from long waits

this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted

No, they never built the 32 county Gaelic republic, but it’s hard not to watch this and reflect on the success of the Irish state as it moves through its second century. Something in my eye. youtu.be/yMcisFD5Zag

No, they never built the 32 county Gaelic republic, but it’s hard not to watch this and reflect on the success of the Irish state as it moves through its second century. Something in my eye. youtu.be/yMcisFD5Zag

In 2002/03 Celtic were easily the best team in Scotland and arguably top ten in Europe, but they won nothing: losing a league cup final for instance. This isn’t anything close except in the on course to win nothing bit.

All the chickens have returned to base. Hard to blame the guy who’s been there 10 days but he’s clearly also not a miracle worker either. 🍀😫

I grew up in a time and a place where gun fire was actually pretty common - - 1000+ round gun battle behind our house on night of Bloody Friday for instance. It’s amazing courage for an unarmed man to run at someone with a gun. Scant comfort for those mourning but still a sign of immense bravery.

Got my old codger Oyster card today. Doesn’t feel that long ago that my brother and I used ‘kids travel for 10p return’ to go to Amersham and Ongar on successive Sundays in 1981. Guess I can do the few bits of tube I’ve never been on for free now.

Strummer (and the rest) wrote (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais as a Labour government struggled. All over people changin' their votes Along with their overcoats If Adolf Hitler flew in today They'd send a limousine anyway

Lucky to get nil. Not a great night for Celtic supporters. 🍀

Man, this is brutal

Scottish Greens going to vote to save Angela Constance despite the fact not even John Swinney could bring himself to say she hadn't misled the Scottish Parliament. Knaves (bought off) or fools (happy to see the truth ignored)? @maggiechapman.bsky.social

Nigel Farage is still bullying British school children about their family backgrounds, in case anyone is wondering if he is sorry for his behaviour at Dulwich College.

Tories “won’t go on the record saying Farage is unfit to lead the country, even if they suspect it to be true, because they also suspect they may be propping up his government, or pleading for jobs in it, by the end of the decade” They never stop letting us down. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👀 Zarah Sultana voted with the Tories in *every* vote on the Employment Rights Bill last night 👀 Including - voting to KEEP strike ballot thresholds - voting to KEEP the Tories’ 2016 changes to political fund ballots

With exposure comes questioning…

Finucane getting ridiculously soft ride on WATO. He goes on about collusion when the collusion revealed here is between the IRA's ISU and the British state. Every ISU murder was signed off by Adams and the Army Council.

To be fair these people told us for five years ‘Why don’t you f*** off and join the Torys’ - so they are only following their own advice.

That the British "mainstream" right have had to fall back on race baiting is a sign of the moral black hole so many of them fell into over the last decade.

The ‘could’ is doing a lot of work. Data refers to ALL foreign born parents NOT those on UC. Article admits as much but 34 paras in so 0% chance a reader will reach the admission: “It is impossible to say how many immigrant families will benefit from lifting the cap www.thesun.co.uk/news/3755544...

Bloke Polanski listed as a key influence, btw

Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.

Never forget: Adams approved every single one of Scapp’s murders

You Yes yet?

Actually everyone should read Trevor’s article - I don’t agree with much of it because I think he misses what the tone of Farage’s non-apology conveys but I bet many of Trevor’s detractors are more angered by him bursting the bubble of their self image as heroic anti-racists.

The reason Jeremy Corbyn has never been on Question Time (if that is correct) is because he will have turned down any and every invite.

Elon Musk shares far right advocate and former holocaust denier Peter Sweden to explain that remigration isn't far right

One thing Ashworth Hayes doesn’t say is that most of the money goes to non-white kids, because presumably even in the back of his envelope ‘calculation’ (note zero figures provided) he can’t stand that up.

A left that defends people’s right to *unconditionally* refuse to take a paid job after 18 months of signing on is one that has lost touch.

Notable improvement in No 10 communications over past 10 days or so. Getting behind stories and driving them through several media cycles. Not before time but would be a curl not to welcome it

Pat McFadden on Sky asked about latest rumour that Unite might disaffiliate from Labour [to be read out mentally in a voice that is utterly deadpan even by Pat McF standards]: “I think I read this story every few months. Maybe it’s true this time. I would regret it, but we would survive and go on.”

A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...

Sixty. Made it this far then. Two years ago odds seemed pretty much against that. Not in great shape today, quite a bit of pain and 10 days to go until the radiotherapy to deal with that. But here all the same.

Hands up if you are stupid enough to think that this, today, is the actual choice?

'Oh no, my city has become alien,' says man after seeing people of different colours in the Purcell Room for Thomas Tallis? It's pathetic!

One of the things I am noticing in emails to me is that people (understandably) want to get emailing their MP “right”, so they use Chat GPT and it adds all sorts of unnecessary frills. But it doesn’t tell users the two things an MP really needs to act for you: your consent, and your postal address

In what way is antisemitism an ‘or’ here. Hatred of Jews is race hatred.

This World Cup is going to be like the Your Party conference. They will stagger their way there and hold it despite it looking like it won’t happen - and immediately regret it. Trump hatred of people of colour is a threat FIFA simply appear not to have priced-in.

I have not the slightest doubt that a significant proportion of the people who voted to make this happen are in the pay of criminals. Because enabling crime is the principal utility of crypto in the real world.

Government appear to have landed a story. Feels bit like the day in the penultimate week of the 83 campaign when we started to talk about health and had our one good day. Hopefully this is the start of something and not a one off though.

Republicans almost (or did - there is a row but not sure how serious it is) lost an R+10 district in Tennessee. Mid terms are going to be brutal.

Turns out TV’s Nigel Farage is a posh, racist, yob.

Quite surprised that the BBC seemed unaware of this story - that it’s now official US policy to meddle in the democratic politics of its notional allies.

Turns out TV’s Nigel Farage is a posh, racist, yob.

X is clearly in systemic breach of its UK legal obligations too, if the issue were looked into by those with the legal responsibility to scrutinise & secure compliance

Not opposed to the UK joining *a* customs union with the EU - suboptimal but better than current position. But we can only join *the* EU Customs Union by joining the EU. Joining a customs union means becoming a rule taker but in return we’d get the customs advantages but no other trade treaties.

You know, the PM is making a correct - and necessary point - when he says that the Tories, led by a person of colour for over three years now, and Reform, led by a man who joked about the Holocaust and cannot bring himself to apologise for it, are two very different propositions.

Does he really think this helps him? He just sounds like a racist pub bore x 12

Obviously people can change their minds, I certainly have about all sorts of things, but they also should be willing long to say why they were previously wrong and what changed them. I just cannot imagine Farage saying either.