Tam Britton
@tambritton.bsky.social
Trade unionist, cinema, music, books, curries, single malt whisky and Thistle.
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The UK media is overstating the benefits of prostate specific antigen tests, which can result in risk without benefit.
Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The UK media is overstating the benefits of prostate specific antigen tests, which can result in risk without benefit.
Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Labour Party’s latest accounts reveal the party’s biggest donor was Cayman Islands-based “arms-dealing” hedge fund Quadrature Capital.
Arms dealing hedge fund was Labour's biggest ever donor
Martin Shipton Serious concerns have been expressed about the Labour Party’s finances following the publication of accounts that confirm its biggest ever donation came from a hedge fund that stood to ...
nation.cymru
November 13, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Labour Party’s latest accounts reveal the party’s biggest donor was Cayman Islands-based “arms-dealing” hedge fund Quadrature Capital.
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Wes Streeting has received £225k from private healthcare donors in the past year and I just don't think my morals could be bought for the price of half a London flat. I don't know if I have a number that would make me sell my country's health service down the river but Wes and I are different.
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wes Streeting has received £225k from private healthcare donors in the past year and I just don't think my morals could be bought for the price of half a London flat. I don't know if I have a number that would make me sell my country's health service down the river but Wes and I are different.
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Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning.
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
November 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Glad to be able to pop by the @ducuuo.bsky.social picket line as they were just getting set up this morning.
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
Staff are on strike in the cold & damp to say NO to compulsory redundancies. Management must engage with staff properly: co-design a recovery plan, do not impose cuts!
#Solidarity
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Once again, the Starmer govt seems to be frozen in fear. It's pathetic
November 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Once again, the Starmer govt seems to be frozen in fear. It's pathetic
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![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
1
CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
2
CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
3
CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
4
BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
5
HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
12
HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
[ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibw4ldc3fhslbvxgy2oqrof2oys5kpgh7zu6a5f3usmx3lf4547qm@jpeg)
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Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Enforced veganism’: Ofcom lets GB News flout accuracy rules, say climate campaigners
Exclusive: Regulator has received 1,221 complaints about UK broadcasters since 2020 but found no breaches of its code
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Incredible that Robbie Gibb - most influential person on BBC board by many accounts and from journalists I speak in BBC - was involved in setting up GB News.
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
GB News of course has breached Ofcom rules on *multiple* occasions - no sign of resignations though
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media.
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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Yay....
'Scotland' is cited by Mamdani.
'Scotland' is cited by Mamdani.
November 8, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Yay....
'Scotland' is cited by Mamdani.
'Scotland' is cited by Mamdani.
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Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA.
It has made JD Vance very mad.
It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
It has made JD Vance very mad.
It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
November 8, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ireland is pushing a motion to ban Israel from FIFA and UEFA.
It has made JD Vance very mad.
It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
It has made JD Vance very mad.
It's time to remove Israel from world sport, don't you agree?
Not a bad set of results after yesterday’s draw.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Not a bad set of results after yesterday’s draw.
You have to credit this squad. Even when we are not at our best, we keep fighting.
FT' Airdrieonians 1⃣ Partick Thistle 1⃣
Smyth's strike late on earns us a point in Airdrie
#AFCvPTFC #WeAreThistle
Smyth's strike late on earns us a point in Airdrie
#AFCvPTFC #WeAreThistle
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
You have to credit this squad. Even when we are not at our best, we keep fighting.
This sounds like a translation from a Roman inscription found in a field somewhere in Europe.
90+3' Airdrieonians 1⃣ Partick Thistle 1⃣
OISIN SMYTH DRILLS IT LOW FROM OUTSIDE THE BOX AND IT SLIPS THROUGH THE GLOVES OF MELROSE TO LEVEL IT AT THE DEATH! 😍
#AFCvPTFC #WeAreThistle
OISIN SMYTH DRILLS IT LOW FROM OUTSIDE THE BOX AND IT SLIPS THROUGH THE GLOVES OF MELROSE TO LEVEL IT AT THE DEATH! 😍
#AFCvPTFC #WeAreThistle
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This sounds like a translation from a Roman inscription found in a field somewhere in Europe.
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Brazil's top court rejects Bolsonaro's coup sentence appeal, affirming his 27-year penalty for post-election power grab.
Brazil Supreme Court panel rejects Bolsonaro’s prison sentence appeal
Brazil's top court rejects Bolsonaro's coup sentence appeal, affirming his 27-year penalty for post-election power grab.
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Brazil's top court rejects Bolsonaro's coup sentence appeal, affirming his 27-year penalty for post-election power grab.
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Turned on the BBC Scotland channel to watch the Thistle game and it’s clear there are “technical difficulties” as we had about a minute of Hue and Cry.
November 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Turned on the BBC Scotland channel to watch the Thistle game and it’s clear there are “technical difficulties” as we had about a minute of Hue and Cry.
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BBC really burying the lede there
November 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
BBC really burying the lede there
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Gaza: A Story of Love and War.
Includes an updated interview describing life in Gaza in Oct 25, and an interview with
@tracygilbertmp.bsky.social.
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
@medicalaidpal.bsky.social
Book tickets here
www.eis.org.uk/edinburgh/la...
Includes an updated interview describing life in Gaza in Oct 25, and an interview with
@tracygilbertmp.bsky.social.
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
@medicalaidpal.bsky.social
Book tickets here
www.eis.org.uk/edinburgh/la...
November 6, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Gaza: A Story of Love and War.
Includes an updated interview describing life in Gaza in Oct 25, and an interview with
@tracygilbertmp.bsky.social.
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
@medicalaidpal.bsky.social
Book tickets here
www.eis.org.uk/edinburgh/la...
Includes an updated interview describing life in Gaza in Oct 25, and an interview with
@tracygilbertmp.bsky.social.
@edinburghminute.bsky.social
@medicalaidpal.bsky.social
Book tickets here
www.eis.org.uk/edinburgh/la...
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The Spanberger-Sherrill-Mamdani axis hints at the outlines of an emerging Democratic coalition for the Trump 2.0 era. It can and should be organized around both anti-Trump and affordability politics.
Because they are often deeply complementary or even one and the same. trib.al/ICogBVB
Because they are often deeply complementary or even one and the same. trib.al/ICogBVB
Trump Humiliation Worsens as Fresh Info Reveals Scale of GOP Losses
The results showed that Democrats don’t have to choose between attacking Trump and highlighting the economy. In fact, they are often inseparable.
trib.al
November 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The Spanberger-Sherrill-Mamdani axis hints at the outlines of an emerging Democratic coalition for the Trump 2.0 era. It can and should be organized around both anti-Trump and affordability politics.
Because they are often deeply complementary or even one and the same. trib.al/ICogBVB
Because they are often deeply complementary or even one and the same. trib.al/ICogBVB
Decent result for the Dandy Dons.
November 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Decent result for the Dandy Dons.
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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
November 6, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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
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In the election for mayor of Cincinnati the Republicans put up JD Vance’s half-brother against incumbent Aftab Pureval. The Republicans got absolutely crushed — Pureval got more than 80% of the vote.
November 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
In the election for mayor of Cincinnati the Republicans put up JD Vance’s half-brother against incumbent Aftab Pureval. The Republicans got absolutely crushed — Pureval got more than 80% of the vote.