Fair point from @adambienkov.bsky.social “When Trump last ran for office, there was no shortage of senior UK politicians and commentators who predicted that his re-election would lead to a new era of peace and prosperity for the world.” Where are they now? bylinetimes.com/2026/01/19/i...

Trump's cheerleaders said he would be a "global peacemaker" who would make the world "safer and stable" and mocked all those warning about the threat he posed as being "hysterical". Why Trump's apologists need to apologise for their own role in the calamity now unfolding

BREAKING: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom:

Palantir was a warning sign. Keir Starmer choosing to hand our data and security to US tech companies is an outrageous failure of judgment. All in the name of "investment." What about national security?

If you want to understand why the Ministry of Defence’s ‘strategic partnership’ with Palantir is so profoundly dangerous, please read my latest piece open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

In a move that has shocked campaigners - the Prime Minister - a former human rights lawyer - has shamelessly whipped against amendments to the Sentencing Bill which would have been a significant step towards ending the shocking #IPPscandal

“This isn’t North Korea we’re talking about - this is state sponsored torture in THIS country - happening right now”

Farage is in a pickle We know he’s a huge Trump fan. He said he’s ‘never wavered’ in his support for Donald Trump But UK public opinion has forced Reform Ltd to side publicly against Trump’s demand to acquire Greenland How will this play out? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🚨 ‘STATE SPONSORED TORTURE’ it’s not North Korea we’re talking about - the shocking #IPPscandal - ONE OF THE MOST CRUEL, INHUMANE AND MONUMENTAL INJUSTICES of the past half century - is being perpetrated by the Prime Minister - a former human rights lawyer, in this country youtu.be/yo27emO72g8?...

“Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address” https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/

Word of Mouth @BBCRadio4 Thursday, 15.30

Yesterday's Scottish Budget had a flagship policy: an increase in income tax thresholds. It's being widely reported as a cut in income tax for low earners. That isn't really correct. Four quick thoughts on a very peculiar tax cut.

This is not going away Prime Minister. You shook their hands in opposition. I won’t let you shake them off now youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...

Of all the nonsense I’ve heard from this lazy, entitled, self serving cnut, this has to take the biscuit. Tory Rory is a “lefty bed wetter” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Rupert Lowe MP calls on Musk and US Vice President Vance to prevent Starmer banning X. He’s claimed on numerous occasions he wants to protect women & girls from sex abuse but obvs feels the online X kind of sex abuse on X is fine Probs because since becoming an MP he’s made Over £40,000 from X❗️😡

So why do you continue to advertise on the Musk platform? Soon, I have to decide whether to continue my MS subscription. The answer is becoming unavoidable and more apparent day by day. #StopFundingHate

Keir Starmer whips AGAINST Lord Thomas amendment to end shocking #IPP scandal as campaigners vow to fight on @peterstefanovic.bsky.social thecriminaljusticeblog.com/2025/06/28/c...

Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that X and Grok's creation of sexual deepfakes of children is "completely unacceptable" but again won't commit to taking direct action against them, or to stop posting there. Says "all options are on the table" but suggests it's a matter for Ofcom, not Government

Maybe also campaign against companies, especially media related, who remain on twitter. And most especially when they do not offer any alternative. Transport for Wales have several different options but only twitter of this type of platform. tfw.wales/social-media

Full on lunacy on display by the Government. Peter Thiel, Palantir's owner, is a techno-fascist. We should be disengaging from US Big Tech not subjugating UK sovereignty to US corporate interests.

Any person who supports this👇🏼grifting piece of sh*t is a traitor to The United Kingdom not a Patriot Patriots vigorously support their Country not work continuously to divide and undermine it End of❗️❗️🤷🏼‍♂️

A few years ago, I communicated with Boots re customer service issues. Now they have spammed me re a recent visit. I have not been in Boots for YEARS. Why are they saying I was there recently? Holding inaccurate data is a data protection issue... (Like so many, Boots not on sky...)

“If it’s in our national interest to have even closer alignment with the single market than we should consider that, we should go that far” Prime Minister Keir Starmer

Looks like Tesco are having more recalls than a memory-challenged so-called president.

FFS this is kidnapping of a country’s lawful President by a rogue State 😱😱😱🔥🔥🔥 USA (Unhinged State of America) kidnapped President Maduro of Venezuela because he bruised the fragile ego of Senile, Megalomanic Trump It sets a very dangerous precedent for America as now no democratic leader is safe❗️

Imagine what the dotard would have said if Ukraine had captured Putin...

Trump’s America is a rogue state. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

How I wish there were a significant EU mobile phone OS and manufacturer. How I wish the UK govt. (incl. NHS and military) avoided US supplied software, cloud, etc. I want to not support USA industry in every way I can.

🚨On January 6 Keir Starmer has an opportunity to end one of the most CRUEL, INHUMANE & MONUMENTAL INJUSTICES of the past half-century - the #IPPscandal - by supporting an amendment to the Sentencing Bill tabled by Lord Thomas. Will he take it? youtu.be/O1gkY3gByHg?...

Unfortunately, Aristo have decided to no longer distribute 50 and 100 microgram dosages of Vencamil. We might still get them until stocks have been used up. They are still introducing a 12.5 - late 2026.

Anyone know what is happening at Milford Haven needing two Wales air ambulances?

How was your Openreach repair experience with <name>? Let us know by completing a Trustpilot review uk.trustpilot.com/evaluate/www... No. They will conflate praise for the individual with satisfaction with the huge mess surrounding the issue.

Chlorinated chicken? Well well well... Left: my book Slaying Brexit Unicorns, published in October 2019. Right: Telegraph headline, a few days ago. Don't say we didn't know. It was always going to be thus. (Link to my book below, just in case you're curious...) www.amazon.co.uk/Slaying-Brex...

EE (OpenReach) Repair person failed to arrive. Next appointment tomorrow afternoon. Effectively will be about six days - IF they fix it tomorrow. No email, SMS or any other notification.

My dad was histologist in NHS hospital path lab. He started working there when he was in early 20s & by time he was in his 30s he'd developed a strange kind of allergy/ vasculitis where his capillaries burst, leaving him with terrible rashes and other symptoms 🧵 www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

As he got older it got worse and by the late 80s, when BSE hit, his GP took one look at him and, under guise of it being unsafe for him to be exposed to possible BSE tissue samples with rashes on his hands, signed him off.

What is the worst day and time for broadband to fail? How about 23:00 on 24th of December. They say they def. will need to send an engineer and next slot is Monday 29th. Thank goodness for phone hotspots...

#Takotsubo syndrome is a dangerous stress-related #heart disease. Since #T3 upregulates β-receptors, we assumed a link to #thyroid homeostasis. With machine learning, we identified interesting allostatic patterns. www.livivo.de/doc/M33179374 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33179374/ doi.org/10.1111/joim...

The hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid loop (HPT axis) is a dynamic system. It operates in homeostatic and allostatic modes. Different conditions and diseases predispose to type 1 and type 2 #thyroid #allostasis. www.livivo.de/doc/M28775711 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28775711/ doi.org/10.3389/fend...

Low #T3 and high reverse T3 mark the endocrine signature of #Thyroid_Allostasis in #starvation. #rT3 #Leptin www.livivo.de/doc/M28775711 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28775711/ doi.org/10.3389/fend... 🧪 🩺 #MedSky @medsky.social

Our book is now available in printed form. Use the code SPRAUT to get a discount of 20% at Springer Nature. link.springer.com/book/9789819...

Ageist. Sexist. And no-one should use TSH for dose adjustment. Use FT4 & FT3. Plus need for consistency of product. In some of us, afib improves with higher dose. And levothyroxine doesn't cause hyperthyroidism - maybe hyperthyroxinaemia...

Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods. Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything. Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts. Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?

The accusatory language is not acceptable. Even if the underlying message is right. www.food.gov.uk/news-alerts/...

What a wonderful idea! Why not have two different versions of the same drug which require different doses? Rybelsus® (semaglutide tablets) 3 mg (starting dose) = 1.5 mg (starting dose) Couldn't the new one be Rybelsus Plus or something to highlight the change? www.gov.uk/drug-safety-...

Coming up to the middle of the day and can hardly see across the room. With days this dark, who needs nights?