Left: Luke Johnson, Chairman of Gail's Bakery, who was pro-Brexit, criticises Labour for not understanding the private sector and how wealth is created Right: The thing he voted for, Brexit, costs the UK £90 billion in lost tax revenue every year #BBCQT

The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

I guess the brave BBC will be sandblasting Orwell's "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear" off the front of Broadcasting House?

"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts." www.wcvb.com/article/karo...

Yes please!! Can we have a decent swimming pool in Bath?

Does it matter if it’s ‘banter’ ? It’s still just as offensive. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Why is train WiFi in the UK so uniformly rubbish? Yeah atm that’s you @greateranglia.bsky.social

Proud to be a Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine in USA, which, along with the National Academies of Science and Engineering, have published a statement on the CDC's "updated" (aka meddled-with by RFK) vaccine guidance. www.nationalacademies.org/news/stateme...

Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower in his diary on June 11, 1951, “Europe’s security problem is never going to be solved satisfactorily until there exists a United States of Europe."

For Shabana Mahmood to attack some of the most cruelly treated people in the world as having won a "golden ticket" because they manage to get to and claim asylum in Britain is unforgiveable. A new, far right, low for which I can think of no precedent, by any UK Government.

😩 what a criminal waste of a decent majority of

Everything about the current 'debate' around this is dismal, not just morally but because it is so stupid. For example: It conflates asylum-seeking and illegal immigration (and sometimes with migration generally) It shows no understanding of why there is AS www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... 1/3

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To suggest that having lived a life so grim that even an English tribunal will grant you asylum, and to have somehow managed to get here at great risk to life, is a "golden ticket" is absolutely fucking contemptible. Shame on this so-called Labour Party.

How do we, as a society, let companies get away with this behaviour?

"We are not surrounded by cretinous, vicious imbeciles but mostly by careful, thoughtful people who may disagree with us but usually have good reasons for doing so." Fascinating & wise piece from @naomialderman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare. Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.

Are we just gonna let it go? BBC News reaches 74% of UK adults in a week. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yep and I’m one of them.

Cartoonist: Jeff Koterba

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

Years of right wing bias in BBC news and current affairs and nothing happens, but upset Trump and the Tory director general resigns… We are in such a bad place in the UK

The US withdrawal from WHO could impact the flu shot. Flu samples sent to CDC from around the world are down 60% this year, as of July. "When those viruses are not coming in, we don't know what to put in the vaccine, and you're going to have less effective vaccines."

“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.” Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay. More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇 interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...

Funny that . I don’t listen any more - right wing bias IMO

Well done NT Members who did vote for the nominations committee endorsed candidates, blocking the ReFuk - Restore (Destroy) Trust candidates who seek to whitewash history. But c 48k votes in total is only a fraction of the membership which makes me wonder who doesn’t vote

The tragedy of Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth www.vox.com/future-perfe...

More than 100 nations were poised last month to approve a historic deal to slash pollution from cargo ships. The deal was effectively killed after what foreign diplomats called “nasty” and “very personal” threats made by State Department officials. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/c...

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Beyond disgusting.

Fascinating stuff. A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, this study claims to have identified thousands more miles of Roman roads than were previously known. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Charity Commission 'investigation' of a 'charity' (which is really a free market lobbyist that doesn't declare its funders) incredibly accepts assurances that it isn't an overtly political body. writesbright.substack.com/p/captured-b...

🔴 Tufton Street’s influence is epitomised by the Charity Commission’s total failure to regulate Tufton Street. 📝 A new rant about the regulator’s latest investigation into the IEA 👇

Ah! I see the IEA are responding to the Charity Commission criticisms by appointing a highly politically biased DG.

It’s so sad that the same regions which were world-leading in what may be considered the biggest public health success ever in history (small pox eradication) are the very same ones now leading on anti-vax misinformation.

The man who ended USAID is the world's first trillionaire

Hear hear! It’s a no brainer

That the UK - one of the architects of this fund, designed to save the world’s forests - is now refusing to put any money into it is frankly shameful. Starmer’s claim that he still continues to back the fund is meaningless without resources - so much for climate leadership

Huge Democratic party win across the board, but a lot of European newspapers are just reporting on Mamdami

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

“His main theme was that the country was fucked. Largely because of Brexit. Weirdly, he has no memory of being the main architect behind the Brexit vote. He seems to think it happened in a world in which he played no part.” Farage - the foghorn of failure. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So sad to read this. Unbelievable threats from the President of the USA. America what has happened to you? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Buried in All Saints Church Publow Somerset

Starmer take note www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Reeves Estate Agent screwed up and apologised to her, end of❗️ But oh no not for BBC with today’s character assassination & scathing critique re Govt Determined to keep a non story alive Yet they dropped Farage potentially dodging £44K stamp duty like a shot & never reported his OH’s alleged fraud🤷🏼‍♂️

This is class.