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Well worth watching. Well said Clive 👏👏🙏

Responding to @labourlewis.bsky.social @compassoffice.bsky.social Robin Cook memorial lecture, I thought this from Cook's 2003 diary was remarkably relevant to today

🚨Since the pandemic 1million+ pallets of unused PPE have been incinerated - costing the taxpayer £8.6billion 1 million pallets would stretch from Lands End to John O'Groats - literally up in smoke 🤯 Watch The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money on ITV: www.itv.com/watch/the-co...

Did you watch The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money? I'm so angry that "in Britain, privileged people get privileged access" and that "it is very, very hard to hold senior people to account". Thank you to all the hospital staff who worked in such awful conditions. My heart goes out to the bereaved

#Chile puts forward ex-president Bachelet for UN top job www.france24.com/en/live-news... she would be a fantastic choice. But I fear, the authoritarian alpha machos, led by Russia, China, and the US, will boycott her.

Blue skies for BlueSky A couple of blue sky views above my garden this afternoon, while I planted some bulbs.

Great to hear about this 🇺🇸 march 👏👏 I hadn't been aware of it before. Thank you @bylinepodcast.bsky.social Adrian. And thank you MJ and Steven, and all the other marchers.

Nicely done, Pontllanfraith. Very nicely done indeed.

Timeline cleanse

Christ this is appalling.

You can say that again 🤬. If Starmer is 'spineless' here, what was Johnson when he tried to change the law to protect Owen Paterson. But then, of course, he wasn't a working class woman who's 'got above her station'.

One major answer to the housing problems in a lot of countries is to stop property being treated as an asset for the rich to park their money in. And stop this being treated as "investment". www.ft.com/content/4a5b...

I like the cut of his jib 🌿💪

Is this lack of awareness, lack of education or lack of intellect? I despair 😱

Oh for proper monitoring of our drinking water here in the UK!

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” theprogressplaybook.com/2024/01/31/w...

The world’s in flames. But these are the ways I’ve found hope this summer amid the gloom | Jonathan Freedland www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

Experts say you've been misled about the true cost of public ownership of water. 1/4

Extraordinary how much of the media is essentially trying to incite rioting now. Not just legitimise or normalise but actively encourage. It is, of course, unlikely to kick off anywhere near them.

There’s a sick, twisted irony in the far-right protesting against asylum seekers for their alleged involvement in crimes, when 41% (!) of those arrested at last year’s far-right riots had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse

There's been a lot of myths and misinformation flying around about a #WealthTax. Here's the truth about the 5 most common myths from @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social‬ taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...

Excellent thread, thank you.

First criminal conviction linked to the Post Office Capture system referred to the Court of Appeal. Hopefully it will be overturned. Capture was faulty. PO execs would have known. After 30 years no one charged for false prosecutions of postmasters.

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social

Exactly this! ⬇️

"Given the law is their business, they might be expected to get it right.... but that's not what happens under self-regulation". Given we are the UK, where regulation is 'bad' & the systems promote the prosperity of those who can afford to pay their way out of their "errors" - not at all surprising

Oh -that old fantasy that won’t end well. Remember: regulation exists largely to protect you- the consumer/worker. So when they talk about “tearing red tape up” it’s you that pays. The red tape committee had “tearing up cladding red tape” on their agenda the morning of the Grenfell Tower inferno

Since it's now 14 juillet, today is the perfect day to discuss taxing the rich. The super rich around the world live in another stratosphere from the rest of us. The system desperately needs global change. Seven Nobel laureates urge France to adopt tax on 'ultra-rich' www.rfi.fr/en/france/20...

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"I sure as hell don’t think it was God’s plan for local officials to somehow not have implemented an effective warning system in the past 40 years, even with constant reminders that it was needed." @charlotteclymer.bsky.social with a banger of a post here

They can see it's not true

This!? And so many people on social media complaining about the BBC not showing 'Doctors under attack" (which is really disappointing). Have they watched it? I don't see so many complaining about the IDF's appalling actions in Gaza. This is NOT self defence!

2 calls for death on different groups. Both despicable. Both unlikely to lead to any real action by hearers/ readers, so not really incitement. The earlier one has led to a criminal inquiry. No doubt the latter one will too 🤔 Shame on you @thespectator1828.bsky.social Liddle and Gove

What is wrong with you and how is this acceptable?

New research shows ULEZ & London's improvements in air quality have "contributed to better physical health, which in turn has led to reduced sick leave and enhanced mental well-being." ULEZ is good for health, the environment & the economy 💚 airqualitynews.com/local-govern...

Ain't that the truth! Well said 👏

Anyone on here live in #Somerset near #BishopsLydeard?

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