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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1h

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 41m

It certainly could, as our eight-page SPECIAL REPORT sets out in full, financially unsound detail in the new Private Eye, out now.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 41m

Could this be the same regional mayor who has presided over the vast transfer of levelling up funds into the pockets of local businessmen, delivering more hot air than investment and, in the process, leaving the regional bodies he has chaired in a parlous financial state?

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 41m

Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen shared his economic wisdom at the Tory conference. The Conservative party, he said, must be the party of “sound money”.

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Val @valmel.bsky.social · 40m

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg

Sign the petition: Save our National Parks

🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 16h

Tbf mass lead poisoning of young men might explain *quite a lot* of what’s been happening in recent years.

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 19h

They're correct. Prescott recognised this twenty years ago and this should always have been the priority before HS2.

They say: "The industrialists and business leaders in the North have for many years made the case that we need to better connect the northern city regions to each other and to the world.

"Northern Powerhouse Rail, from Liverpool through Manchester Airport and Manchester across to Bradford then Leeds as well as to Sheffield, Newcastle and Hull is the answer. Both investors and employers know it is essential to achieve our potential to increase the frequency and reliability of rail services between these places and reduce journey times as well as unlock more capacity for freight."

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14h

Major news outlets are standing together and refusing to sign. ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News have all rejected a new Pentagon policy that would impose unprecedented restrictions on news gathering.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19h

Yesterday in Jerusalem & Egypt: a guide for the baffled.
Deporting your own child.
Brexit’s back, baby. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

James O'Brien Daily

Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show. Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

As if they keep writing all these headlines - and our membership numbers and polling just keeps shooting up. 🚀

Now at 110,000. Over 55% increase in just one month!

Lower bills. Fund NHS. Tax the super rich.

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Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

Greens who want to save the world by destroying britain

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 18h

Help @bylinetimes.bsky.social step things up a level. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed
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#NoStoneUnturned – Byline Times Shop

#NoStoneUnturned Help Byline Times go where others dare to tread. We’re raising £20k to build a new special investigations team led by Nafeez Ahmed. Byline Times is asking for your support to advance ...

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 18h

Farage and Gill parroted the same Russian propaganda, and both were connected to Russia. They were on the same team - Team Putin. One was paid to carry out Russia's commands. What about the other?

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RV 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇮🇳 🇬🇧 @rave74.bsky.social · 15h

If only the world's largest trading bloc was on our doorstep.

If only the government had a huge majority for tax, constitutional, and media reform.

If only loads of talented immigrants felt like this was a safe place to come and work and help to boost the economy.

Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · 15h

🚨 New analysis published today 🚨

The OBR has been consistently disappointed by productivity growth...

... and if they mark down their forecasts at the upcoming Budget (as many expect), it would have significant consequences.

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/KmJEg1Y

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 8h

Xi directs quashing of Chinese feminists even as he praises advances at women’s conference

Chinese president is behind patriarchal turn in politics with activists silenced for ‘promoting gender antagonism’ Addressing dignitaries gathered in Beijing on Monday, Xi Jinping praised the “historic achievements” of women’s rights in China. In the past 30 years, the Chinese president said, maternal mortality rates had dropped by nearly 80%, and women were now participating in the project of national governance with “unprecedented confidence and vigour”. Xi was speaking at the global women’s summit, an event on Monday and Tuesday to mark the 30th anniversary of the historic UN’s world conference on women, which took place in Beijing. It was there in 1995 that Hillary Clinton, the then US first lady, delivered her “women’s rights are human rights” speech, lines now often quoted by people in China advocating for women’s rights. Continue reading...

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Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts, spewing ash 10 km into the sky reut.rs/4hbYsz1

Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupts, spewing ash 10 km into the sky

Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted on Wednesday, shooting volcanic ash 10 kilometres (6.21 miles) into the sky, the country's volcanology agency said, forcing authorities to raise the alert system to its highest level.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 16h

If Labour doesn't intend to adhere to its human rights obligations anyway, there's little point in us being signatories to the ECHR. Better, more honest, for Mahmood to join Reform in campaigning to leave it.

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Duncan Weldon @duncanweldon.bsky.social · 1d

Really great @stephenkb.bsky.social column today.

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Key para.

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The Observer @theobserveruk.bsky.social · 13h

Former Nato chief warns Britain is portrayed as hostile nation in Russia trib.al/XatXQD7

Former Nato chief warns Britain is portrayed as hostile n...

In a speech this week, George Robertson echoed other analysts’ views that UK is in conflict with the Kremlin

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Val @valmel.bsky.social · 17h

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The Life and Legacy of George Arthur Roberts @thelifeandlega1.bsky.social · 3d

People are so unaware of the dangers COVID is still posing. This winter is going to be terrible with frontline NHS workers taken off the UK vaccine schedule. I would advise all those visiting hospitals to keep your mask on.

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 4d

We think the UK government should ensure that management of healthcare associated infections (HCAI) is extended to include recording data on COVID infections spread within hospitals.
That’s why we signed this petition.
Please join us - if you haven’t already.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Direct the UKHSA to monitor COVID infections that occur in particular settings

Ensure that the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) monitors, and reports on, the numbers of COVID infections that occur in healthcare settings through its routine surveillance programmes, and advises o...

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 17h

Vaccination: a key line of defence
Handwashing: a simple, powerful tool
Coughs & sneezes: can spread diseases
Good ventilation can help remove air that contains virus particles & help prevent airborne spread of respiratory infections such as colds, flu & COVID-19.
Check out: educationhub.blog.gov.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17h

Someone said to me, "There's all these problem in the world, how can they be solved, it's impossible."

I told them, "Those 'problems' are all just symptoms of the only problem that we have."

"The richest have far too much money, and far too much power."

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Philip Cowley @philipjcowley.bsky.social · 21h

Latest article in @thehousemag.bsky.social - on opposition. What % of government bills do you think are opposed in full by the opposition? That is, what % see the opposition vote against at second and/or third reading?

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The Professor Will See You Now: Opposition

Lessons in political science. This week: opposition

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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 17h

How many of Tommy Robinson’s followers know a British passport isn’t good enough for him, I wonder?

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