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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 1h

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what's the most unfair tax of them all?

An #FTEdit 🧵on the madness of council tax 👇

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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 1h

This often seems to benefit more affluent areas. Take Burnley. Most homes cost £125,000 and are in the lowest band A. They pay roughly £1,337 a year in council tax.

Compare that to Westminster, where the average house price is just shy of £1mn. They pay an average £1,057.

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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MakeLabourHistory @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 2h

“We are all Palestinians”…

what happening to all Palestinians today, will happen to us tomorrow!!

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Palestine activists shut down weapons factory arming IDF

YouTube video by PoliticsJOE

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Dr Farbod @emergencybod.medsky.social · 4d

They call it “repeated protests.”
As if persistence were a crime.

Every movement that’s ever changed this country: civil rights, suffrage, peace, equality, was repeated until someone listened.

Restricting protest because it happens too often is to say
“You may speak truth to power, but only once.”

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2h

NEW

Law versus politics

Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution

By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

This is the crucial choice facing those both in the United Kingdom and the United States. What is to be the relationship between those with political power and the force of law?

In the United States it would seem that, at a federal level, both Congress and the Supreme Court are content to nod along with excessive use of presidential power. It is only the individual states themselves and the lower courts that are seeking to hold that executive power to account.

While in the United Kingdom there are louder political demands for the government to be free from the constraints placed by international law and supposedly activist judges. The implicit call is that ministers and officials should be able to do as they like to the rest of us without any possibility of a court ever saying otherwise.

What will happen in this contest between executive power and legal restraint cannot be predicted. The happy assumption of the Whig interpretation of history may not be well-grounded. From a liberal perspective things are not only getting worse, but could get a lot worse. The illiberals know what they are doing and they are doing it well.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 8d

this study highlights that Long Covid remains a risk with every Covid infection, including for children and adolescents.

Particularly relevant as the Children's module opens for the UK Inquiry.

It's nonsense to say that children are and were at no risk from Covid.

Prof Brendan Crabb AC @brendancrabb.bsky.social · 8d

“These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisystem effects and highlight the need to promote vaccination in younger populations...”

Time to reconsider our approach to kids and COVID/long COVID.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long COVID associated with SARS-CoV-2 reinfection among children and adolescents in the omicron era (RECOVER-EHR): a retrospective cohort study

Children and adolescents face a significantly higher risk of various PASC outcomes after reinfection with SARS-CoV-2. These findings add to previous evidence linking paediatric long COVID to multisyst...

www.thelancet.com

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 8d

"In a study taking data from across the USA, children and adolescents were found to have double the risk of developing long COVID after their second infection with SARS-CoV-2"

Timely study given the current #CovidInquiry module is focussed on children.

Long COVID Risk In Kids Found To Double After Their Second COVID-19 Infection

Catching COVID-19 twice was found to increase the risk of post-viral syndrome, contrary to popular belief.

www.iflscience.com

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Binita Kane @binitakane.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliant article by a teacher highlighting the current dire situation for teachers and kids every winter when it comes to infection risk and spread. We continue to fight for our kids to have the right to breathe clean air.

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Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please Can We Talk About Health?

Dear Bridget Phillipson, Please can we talk about health? It’s autumn 2025. We’re one month into the school year, in England. Two of my children are ill, again.With Covid, again.It&#821…

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 7d

Every single comment I saw on this from the science media centre said this is a bad/dangerous/stupid/shortsighted idea.
www.ft.com/content/fdcb...

Badenoch pledges to ditch flagship UK climate change law

Tory leader reaches out to voters hit by high energy bills but faces backlash from business and within the party

www.ft.com

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 6d

The kids are not, and never were, OK💔

Brave testimony from @sammiemc.bsky.social on the impact of #LongCovidKids on her own, & 1000s of other families.

The gaslighting & influence of certain "public health" figures what wholly unacceptable 🤬

@longcovidkids.bsky.social

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Covid 19 Inquiry | Module 8 Oral Evidence of Sammie McFarland, Long Covid Kids | 01 10 2025

YouTube video by Long Covid Kids

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 3d

Folks have been asking me which of the currently available UK #COVID vaccines are best, given that an older flavour, "KP2" is being given free on the NHS to the twelve or so people that remain eligible (😜🙄), whilst the newer "LP8.1" is available privately...

I'll do my best...

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like a broken record, and not one many folks want to hear nowadays.
But, ignoring resp viruses and the ongoing added burden of COVID is utter stupidity & short termism.
The virus still has cards to play, including the mysterious 3rd omicron family...H/T
@solidevidence.bsky.social

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 3d

The bitter pill, however, is that the updated LP8.1 vaccine is available privately, with a price tag that beggars belief.
Of course NHS resources are limited, but this should NOT mean two-tier healthcare.

It could also be a false economy; no vax costs more than a hospital stay.

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Steve Griffin @profstevegriffin.bsky.social · 2d

Restricting eligibility as a wave is growing...

One of the reasons used for dropping coverage in younger age groups, especially kids, was a lack of demand...for a medicine they told everyone wasn't necessary...🤦‍♂️
Not an issue nowadays, it seems...

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 2d

So much confusion by charging guidelines for Covid and flu vaccines in UK with a massive mismatch in eligibility for who can get them 🧵

Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion

Up to half of patients coming to some pharmacies are being turned away because they are not eligible.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 18h

Yesterday's Syria strike puts US combat actions during the second Trump administration at:

—1,000+ air strikes in Yemen (March-April)
—75+ air strikes in Somalia
—7 air strikes and 3 JSOC ground raids in Syria
—4 air strikes in the Caribbean
—B-2 strikes on 3 sites in Iran
—1 air strike in Iraq

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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 18h

UK Set to Cave to Trump on NHS Drug Prices novaramedia.com/2025/10/08/u...

UK Set to Cave to Trump on NHS Drug Prices | Novara Media

The UK to hike drug prices to fight tariffs Plus: Kemi’s speech at Tory Conference, and is Nigel Farage a fascist? With: Michael Walker, Helena(@NoJusticeMTG), Nick Dearden & James Meadway Support ...

novaramedia.com

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 20h

Just popping on to say a miracle has taken place and ffp3 too!

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 20h

The salmon population of the Wye is in collapse, and Atlantic salmon are now endangered in the UK. Those bringing the court case argue the needs of intensive farming cannot be permitted to outweigh the needs of fish, wildlife + river users.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 20h

Jubb describes the decline of the river really got going from 2016 onwards, when licenses for intensive chicken farms began to be granted in numbers not seen before - leading to a burden of phosphate + nitrate more than the river can process:

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 20h

Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife.
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River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit

Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Lindsay Maxwell @parisdaguerre.bsky.social · 18h

Professor Martin Griffiths - a trauma surgeon testifying to the “biblical destruction” he found in Gaza on #Channel4News is very impressive.
Compassionate, articulate, calm. Goodness me it’s so encouraging to listen to someone like that.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 18h

"The death toll in the Gaza Strip has reached 67,183, the majority... women and children, since the beginning of the Israeli aggression... At least 169,841... injured.

...10 bodies & 61 injured individuals were brought to hospitals in Gaza during the past 24 hours."

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Gaza death toll reaches 67,183 since start of Israeli aggression in October 2023 - Medical sources

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Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social · 8d

9 years old. And I stand by it. Never mind the slogans. Just build public housing

#MyBackPages

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ClaireJane5 @clairejane5.bsky.social · 21h

Intercepted earlier today.
globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/#help

Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza

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