Guy Dewsbury PhD
@gludge.bsky.social
Retired researcher. PhD in Computer Science. Long COVID sufferer. Assistive technology specialist.
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“When Labour came to power 18 months ago, it had the chance to reset the whole shape of the state, of taxation, and our relationship to it.
"Somehow it didn't have the confidence to do that"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
"Somehow it didn't have the confidence to do that"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
‘Labour had the chance to reshape the country – and didn’t have the confidence to do it’ | The News Agents
Rachel Reeves second budget continues to prove a headache for the chancellor – and the Labour government, with claims she misled voters before delivery. Whether true or not, what does this latest…
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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
“When Labour came to power 18 months ago, it had the chance to reset the whole shape of the state, of taxation, and our relationship to it.
"Somehow it didn't have the confidence to do that"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
"Somehow it didn't have the confidence to do that"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/labo...
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It seems that Farage’s key aide and “like a son to me” George Cottrell has been frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims. He‘s also been in the inner circle of the Brexit Party and ReFuk despite his 🇺🇸 conviction for wire fraud
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Key aide to Nigel Farage was frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims
Exclusive: George Cottrell ‘gave control’ of gambling accounts to syndicate headed by Tony Bloom, the owner of Brighton & Hove Albion FC
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It seems that Farage’s key aide and “like a son to me” George Cottrell has been frontman for Premier League billionaire’s betting syndicate, lawsuit claims. He‘s also been in the inner circle of the Brexit Party and ReFuk despite his 🇺🇸 conviction for wire fraud
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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"People living with Long COVID are using health services far more frequently than before their diagnosis, driving annual healthcare costs to more than twice their previous levels, according to a major new analysis published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine."
Study Shows Long COVID Patients Face More Than Double the Healthcare Costs After Diagnosis - Womenhealthdomain.com
People living with Long COVID are using health services far more frequently than before their diagnosis, driving annual healthcare costs to more than twice
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December 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
"People living with Long COVID are using health services far more frequently than before their diagnosis, driving annual healthcare costs to more than twice their previous levels, according to a major new analysis published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine."
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I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords' filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered | Dave Sowry
I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords' filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered | Dave Sowry
Christy faced months of bureaucratic trauma. For terminally ill people, the assisted dying bill must not create further obstacles, says campaigner Dave Sowry
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December 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
I accompanied my wife to Dignitas. The Lords' filibustering is an insult to all like her who have suffered | Dave Sowry
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Really scary new data on A&Es
“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
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“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Numbers leaving A&E without treatment triples in six years
Soaring demand has led to ‘shocking’ rise in untreated patients leaving NHS emergency departments in England, data shows
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Really scary new data on A&Es
“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“Private hospitals rely on the same overstretched staff...
The answer isn’t outsourcing; it’s investing in NHS staff, services, capacity”
Wes Streeting needs to listen to @keepournhspublic.bsky.social
#OnlytheNHS can solve this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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It's significant in that Nigel Farage has always prided himself of keeping openly far right/ethno-nationalist views out of his parties. That firewall now seems to be gone.
November 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It's significant in that Nigel Farage has always prided himself of keeping openly far right/ethno-nationalist views out of his parties. That firewall now seems to be gone.
The rise of Palantir and the consequences for personal and Global security. All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir - New Statesman share.google/nI4NVTfW8JZq...
All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir
A biography of the tech company’s founder Alex Karp reveals the philosophy behind its troubling conquest of the world
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November 10, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The rise of Palantir and the consequences for personal and Global security. All your data belongs to us: the rise of Palantir - New Statesman share.google/nI4NVTfW8JZq...
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Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram.
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
From pigs’ heads to arson plots: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe
The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine
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October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Reporting this story, the same details kept appearing in police investigations around Europe: the perpetrators turned out to have been recruited and offered cash over Telegram.
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
European authorities are increasingly open in saying who is responsible: Russia.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...
Land of the free where freedom of thought and expression is suppressed apnews.com/article/trum...
US revokes visas for 6 foreigners over Charlie Kirk-related speech
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last m...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Land of the free where freedom of thought and expression is suppressed apnews.com/article/trum...
This is an interesting read. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Britain may already be at war with Russia, former head of MI5 says
Eliza Manningham-Buller points to extent of cyber-attacks and other hostile activity orchestrated by Moscow
www.theguardian.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
This is an interesting read. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Useful read of the day apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump's moves to consolidate power, punish enemies draw comparisons to places where democracy faded
President Donald Trump’s consolidation of power and targeting of his political opponents bring back unnerving memories for those who have watched elected leaders undermine democracies elsewhere in the...
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September 28, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Useful read of the day apnews.com/article/trum...
Follow the money.
September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Follow the money.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
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September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
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Isaac Asimov in 1970
September 18, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Isaac Asimov in 1970
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🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech
September 18, 2025 at 5:48 PM
🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech
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After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
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The misogynistic comments about Diane Abbott, the longest serving Black MP, recounted with glee by Paul Ovenden are utterly despicable.
The fact that the Party knew about this and swept it under the carpet until it was reported in the press, is unforgivable.
The fact that the Party knew about this and swept it under the carpet until it was reported in the press, is unforgivable.
September 15, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The misogynistic comments about Diane Abbott, the longest serving Black MP, recounted with glee by Paul Ovenden are utterly despicable.
The fact that the Party knew about this and swept it under the carpet until it was reported in the press, is unforgivable.
The fact that the Party knew about this and swept it under the carpet until it was reported in the press, is unforgivable.
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When a fascist orders you to do something.
You don't do it, it is that simple.
They don't own you, never let them think they do.
You don't do it, it is that simple.
They don't own you, never let them think they do.
September 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
When a fascist orders you to do something.
You don't do it, it is that simple.
They don't own you, never let them think they do.
You don't do it, it is that simple.
They don't own you, never let them think they do.
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“In its heyday an EDL march used to get 10k - Tommy Robinson just got out of prison and inspired a protest of up to 150k.”
Far-right rhetoric is finding evermore mainstream appeal. What’s changed?
The News Agents ask @thecrimeagents.bsky.social's Andy Hughes.
Far-right rhetoric is finding evermore mainstream appeal. What’s changed?
The News Agents ask @thecrimeagents.bsky.social's Andy Hughes.
September 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“In its heyday an EDL march used to get 10k - Tommy Robinson just got out of prison and inspired a protest of up to 150k.”
Far-right rhetoric is finding evermore mainstream appeal. What’s changed?
The News Agents ask @thecrimeagents.bsky.social's Andy Hughes.
Far-right rhetoric is finding evermore mainstream appeal. What’s changed?
The News Agents ask @thecrimeagents.bsky.social's Andy Hughes.
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You can’t scrub away the truth.
September 11, 2025 at 1:14 PM
You can’t scrub away the truth.
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This is precisely why Covid-19 vaccines should be available free of charge for everyone in the UK. The government not purchasing enough vaccines to make this possible is the definition of a false economy.
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Hospital admissions for Covid hit 10-month high
Waning immunity and rising case numbers are the main drivers of the increase in hospital admissions, scientists say
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September 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This is precisely why Covid-19 vaccines should be available free of charge for everyone in the UK. The government not purchasing enough vaccines to make this possible is the definition of a false economy.
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