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This is an excellent piece of work by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the DfS gang
Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts!
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
December 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
This is an excellent piece of work by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and the DfS gang
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Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts!
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
December 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Lobbyist / ex Tory MP Ben Howlett has been done by an undercover sting. As ever, the most revealing thing is how very very cheap it is buy access in British media/politics — and especially how Howlett controls one of the biggest UK pol Twitter accounts!
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
The thin edge of the wedge.
David Lammy’s Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk ‘Increasing Miscarriages of Justice’
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The thin edge of the wedge.
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David Lammy’s Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk ‘Increasing Miscarriages of Justice’
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
David Lammy's Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk 'Increasing Miscarriages of Justice'
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing "vital safeguards" and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
David Lammy’s Plans to Scrap Automatic Right to Appeal Risk ‘Increasing Miscarriages of Justice’
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
Lawyers and legal campaigners say the changes risk removing “vital safeguards” and shutting out vulnerable defendants from justice
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...
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🔴 Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, linking the Reform UK Party leader's closest aide to the Kremlin, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin's inner circle
bylinetimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
🔴 Boris Johnson and Alexander Lebedev Must Be Investigated in a New Public Inquiry into Russian Influence
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
If you think the Gill conviction is bad, wait till you hear about another Leave campaigner and his connections to Putin’s inner circle…
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/b...
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This is the main thing the resident doctor strike action is about, not the pay - though that helps retain doctors.
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
This year, 30,000 doctors applied for only 10,000 training posts. These are highly trained professionals who want long term NHS careers, yet thousands are being denied the ability to progress in their careers. Many are left moving between short-term roles or leaving.
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/se...
www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/se...
December 2, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This is the main thing the resident doctor strike action is about, not the pay - though that helps retain doctors.
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
If resident doctors cannot get posts, which is the case currently, they cannot progress and may leave our NHS.
Down the line we will have a shortage senior doctors such as consultants
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I thought Labour would struggle for their first year in office because of the gap between “what they’d promised to do” and “the tools they’d given themselves to do it”, I just hadn’t anticipated that they would be well into the second year having essentially decided to learn nothing.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I thought Labour would struggle for their first year in office because of the gap between “what they’d promised to do” and “the tools they’d given themselves to do it”, I just hadn’t anticipated that they would be well into the second year having essentially decided to learn nothing.
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Reminded me of this from 2019.
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reminded me of this from 2019.
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Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
December 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.
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The plot thickens ...
meme via Sandy Mount
meme via Sandy Mount
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The plot thickens ...
meme via Sandy Mount
meme via Sandy Mount
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Just heard the news that the MAGA and MAHA hero Martin Kulldorff, one of RFK Jr’s key henchmen in the push to roll back vaccination, has been appointed to HHS. Lord help us 😢
RFK Jr & his loyal henchmen (the Great Barrington Declaration dudes Jay Bhattacharya & Martin Kulldorff; Martin Makary; Dr Oz; Vinay Prasad) have been successfully dismantling the US vaccination system & achieved the return of deadly vaccine preventable diseases. This is the world they worked for...
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
(Gift link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
December 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Just heard the news that the MAGA and MAHA hero Martin Kulldorff, one of RFK Jr’s key henchmen in the push to roll back vaccination, has been appointed to HHS. Lord help us 😢
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pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/gu...
Very interesting - being described as alt-right is 'clearly defamatory at common law'
Very interesting - being described as alt-right is 'clearly defamatory at common law'
Guardian faces trial after influencer sues over 'alt-right agitator' label
Guardian News and Media is considering next steps after a finding it was defamatory to describe Andy Ngo as an "'alt-right' agitator".
pressgazette.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/gu...
Very interesting - being described as alt-right is 'clearly defamatory at common law'
Very interesting - being described as alt-right is 'clearly defamatory at common law'
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“Labour are total bastards. They’ve caused all the problems of the past 2000 years.
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
December 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
“Labour are total bastards. They’ve caused all the problems of the past 2000 years.
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
Just paraphrasing UK media, including BBC
Does anyone remember this kind of coverage of Tories, when, for 14 yrs, they were lying through their teeth, directing untold billions of public money to their friends etc?
There seems to be an incurable stupidity pandemic - maybe something they read?
Something else that slid by was that registering to postal vote had to be done a month before the vote. I got caught out by that as I was working in Paris although I didn't think we'd be dumb enough to vote to leave. I'd forgotten how stupid so many people actually are. Problem with democracy really
December 2, 2025 at 11:48 AM
There seems to be an incurable stupidity pandemic - maybe something they read?
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Something else that slid by was that registering to postal vote had to be done a month before the vote. I got caught out by that as I was working in Paris although I didn't think we'd be dumb enough to vote to leave. I'd forgotten how stupid so many people actually are. Problem with democracy really
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Something else that slid by was that registering to postal vote had to be done a month before the vote. I got caught out by that as I was working in Paris although I didn't think we'd be dumb enough to vote to leave. I'd forgotten how stupid so many people actually are. Problem with democracy really
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Not allegations. They actually did breach it.
December 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Not allegations. They actually did breach it.
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In addition, Russian interference and allegations that Vote Leave breached electoral law.
bsky.app/profile/math...
bsky.app/profile/math...
The ISC report shows foreign interference is real and that the UK government "actively avoided" investigating Russian interference. The Tories predictably dodged it but Labour?
I'm wondering if some Labour grandees and donors are involved too?
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020...
I'm wondering if some Labour grandees and donors are involved too?
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2020...
Russia report: Interference is 'the new normal'
The report, which the Bureau campaigned to have released before the 2019 election, reveals the extent of Russian manipulation in the UK
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 AM
In addition, Russian interference and allegations that Vote Leave breached electoral law.
bsky.app/profile/math...
bsky.app/profile/math...
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Starmer: “Brexit vote was a fair, democratic expression, and I .. respect that .. But how it was sold and delivered was simply wrong. Wild promises were made”
If the result was obtained by misselling, then it was not an informed decision and hence not democratic.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
If the result was obtained by misselling, then it was not an informed decision and hence not democratic.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
PM slams Brexit 'wild promises' and takes swipe at Reform's 'corrosive' attitude
In his annual foreign policy address in the City of London, Keir Starmer said the UK’s place on the world stage had been restored under the Labour government
www.mirror.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Starmer: “Brexit vote was a fair, democratic expression, and I .. respect that .. But how it was sold and delivered was simply wrong. Wild promises were made”
If the result was obtained by misselling, then it was not an informed decision and hence not democratic.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
If the result was obtained by misselling, then it was not an informed decision and hence not democratic.
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
December 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This is what North Finchley is up against. Predominately 1 bedroom flats. Will do nothing to alleviate the plight of nearly 4000 children in temporary accommodation in Barnet. Then, this isn’t about housing is it - just meeting the arbitrary housing target set by the gov.
Charli Thompson of our North Finchley on Barnet Labour Council about to capitulate to greedy developers. London’s largest population of Great Creste Newts will be wiped out as a result.
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Save our leisure facilities including Hollywood Bowl and Vue
YouTube video by ournorthfinchley
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
This is what North Finchley is up against. Predominately 1 bedroom flats. Will do nothing to alleviate the plight of nearly 4000 children in temporary accommodation in Barnet. Then, this isn’t about housing is it - just meeting the arbitrary housing target set by the gov.
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Charli Thompson of our North Finchley on Barnet Labour Council about to capitulate to greedy developers. London’s largest population of Great Creste Newts will be wiped out as a result.
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Save our leisure facilities including Hollywood Bowl and Vue
YouTube video by ournorthfinchley
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Charli Thompson of our North Finchley on Barnet Labour Council about to capitulate to greedy developers. London’s largest population of Great Creste Newts will be wiped out as a result.
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Charli Thompson of our North Finchley on Barnet Labour Council about to capitulate to greedy developers. London’s largest population of Great Creste Newts will be wiped out as a result.
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Save our leisure facilities including Hollywood Bowl and Vue
YouTube video by ournorthfinchley
m.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Charli Thompson of our North Finchley on Barnet Labour Council about to capitulate to greedy developers. London’s largest population of Great Creste Newts will be wiped out as a result.
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
Https://m.youtube.com/shorts/xsqGFXpBScQ?feature=shared&cbrd=1
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What a wonderful story - and a beautiful illustration of the power of the arts.
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
December 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What a wonderful story - and a beautiful illustration of the power of the arts.
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
Great writing expands our imagination. It helps us to see the world in new ways.
And that has consequences that can never be measured by "average starting salaries" or "contribution to GDP".
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Billionaire wealth keeps piling up. Everyone else is left with less and less.
With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.
With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.
December 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Billionaire wealth keeps piling up. Everyone else is left with less and less.
With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.
With this mountain of pasta, I show why we need to tax the Billionaires.