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This is what Reform UK does.
“These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff.”
“Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes."
https://bit.ly/4pOeD9h
“These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff.”
“Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes."
https://bit.ly/4pOeD9h
Reform council's plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people'
Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is what Reform UK does.
“These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff.”
“Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes."
https://bit.ly/4pOeD9h
“These closures are nothing short of a betrayal of local people and staff.”
“Derbyshire county council did not stand before the electorate last May pledging to shut care homes."
https://bit.ly/4pOeD9h
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"The gov't is looking after puppies and kittens and everyone is delighted. Quick! Find me a negative angle."
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
December 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
"The gov't is looking after puppies and kittens and everyone is delighted. Quick! Find me a negative angle."
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
My heart breaks for The Times. ~AA
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Do both.
And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns.
Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.
And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns.
Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.
The solution is right above us. Solar panels on existing buildings, car parks, and along highways generate clean power without sacrificing farmland or wild spaces. Let's use our built world first. #Renewables #Innovation
December 22, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Do both.
And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns.
Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.
And if solar parks are built near villages or towns, then offer the people who are potentially affected free electricity to offset their concerns.
Solar panels are not nuclear power stations. They can be removed with little environmental impact and can actually benefit biodiversity.
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The official Reform branch page in Sittingbourne & Sheppey is now following the racist campaign group Reformers for Remigration. Members and branches could easily be warned about how extreme it is & told not to support it
December 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The official Reform branch page in Sittingbourne & Sheppey is now following the racist campaign group Reformers for Remigration. Members and branches could easily be warned about how extreme it is & told not to support it
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The party leadership proscribes membership of the Homeland Party. What it can reasonably do with this overtly racist pro-remigtation group, claiming to be from and for party members, using the party's name, is to publicly state that membership of the group is incompatible with party membership
December 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The party leadership proscribes membership of the Homeland Party. What it can reasonably do with this overtly racist pro-remigtation group, claiming to be from and for party members, using the party's name, is to publicly state that membership of the group is incompatible with party membership
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This overtly racist group of Reform members who say blacks & Asians can not be Britieh is encouraged by the leadership not sacking Chris Parry taking it as a sign they can win argument within Reform to deport almost all non-Anglo migrants & try to persuade + fund UK-born blacks and Asians to go too
December 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
This overtly racist group of Reform members who say blacks & Asians can not be Britieh is encouraged by the leadership not sacking Chris Parry taking it as a sign they can win argument within Reform to deport almost all non-Anglo migrants & try to persuade + fund UK-born blacks and Asians to go too
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Reformers for Remigration" tell Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty would forcibly deport all migrants from outside Anglosphere. Includes 500k people from Pakistan + 800k from India. +try to persuade all UK-born to go
The group says it is made up of Reform party members challenging the official policy
The group says it is made up of Reform party members challenging the official policy
December 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Reformers for Remigration" tell Conservative MP Ben Obese-Jecty would forcibly deport all migrants from outside Anglosphere. Includes 500k people from Pakistan + 800k from India. +try to persuade all UK-born to go
The group says it is made up of Reform party members challenging the official policy
The group says it is made up of Reform party members challenging the official policy
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The Reform members have thanked Matt Goodwin for inspiring their campaign to reverse demographic change by forcibly deporting 5-10 million people and trying to get 5 million UK-born minorities to leave too
December 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The Reform members have thanked Matt Goodwin for inspiring their campaign to reverse demographic change by forcibly deporting 5-10 million people and trying to get 5 million UK-born minorities to leave too
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I think this is called "a cry for help"
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December 22, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I think this is called "a cry for help"
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In England the savings point where local authority duty to provide financial support is £23,250. Wales it is £50,000.
the idea that patients who need nursing care are covered is simply factually inaccurate. The boundary for that has been rising and rising to the point of non existence
the idea that patients who need nursing care are covered is simply factually inaccurate. The boundary for that has been rising and rising to the point of non existence
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In England the savings point where local authority duty to provide financial support is £23,250. Wales it is £50,000.
the idea that patients who need nursing care are covered is simply factually inaccurate. The boundary for that has been rising and rising to the point of non existence
the idea that patients who need nursing care are covered is simply factually inaccurate. The boundary for that has been rising and rising to the point of non existence
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In addition I saw cases where the family had run out of money & the person was moved to a care home more than 40 miles away, only accessible by 3 buses. Too far for the very elderly wife who could not drive to do regularly.
A further factor in adding confusion and distress in the last yrs of life
A further factor in adding confusion and distress in the last yrs of life
December 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
In addition I saw cases where the family had run out of money & the person was moved to a care home more than 40 miles away, only accessible by 3 buses. Too far for the very elderly wife who could not drive to do regularly.
A further factor in adding confusion and distress in the last yrs of life
A further factor in adding confusion and distress in the last yrs of life
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c.7000 elderly people, many with dementia & confused were given “eviction notices” with 28 days notice from care homes in 2024 because of changing care needs/they could not afford to pay
A 200% increase since 2018
I saw it happening in my brother in law’s nursing home
www.msn.com/en-my/news/o...
A 200% increase since 2018
I saw it happening in my brother in law’s nursing home
www.msn.com/en-my/news/o...
MSN
www.msn.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
c.7000 elderly people, many with dementia & confused were given “eviction notices” with 28 days notice from care homes in 2024 because of changing care needs/they could not afford to pay
A 200% increase since 2018
I saw it happening in my brother in law’s nursing home
www.msn.com/en-my/news/o...
A 200% increase since 2018
I saw it happening in my brother in law’s nursing home
www.msn.com/en-my/news/o...
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“The shackling of prisoners while in hospital, even when using toilet facilities, is something I have never seen before in my medical career.” The treatment of five hunger strikers has prompted more than 800 health workers to speak out. Read more:
‘The British state will let them rot in a prison and die’: The Palestine Action supporters on hunger strike
Five people being held on remand are in a critical state, after protesting prison conditions. The government has chosen not to engage
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 7:07 AM
“The shackling of prisoners while in hospital, even when using toilet facilities, is something I have never seen before in my medical career.” The treatment of five hunger strikers has prompted more than 800 health workers to speak out. Read more:
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Confabulated AI citations now appearing in Google Scholar. Time to limit the number of references in academic papers?
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Confabulated AI citations now appearing in Google Scholar. Time to limit the number of references in academic papers?
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Reform tried to dismiss questions on Farage’s racism, saying they should be asked about the ‘substance’ of their policies instead.
Unsurprisingly, their policies are shit too.
“The trouble with power is that it’s exposing, both politically and personally”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Unsurprisingly, their policies are shit too.
“The trouble with power is that it’s exposing, both politically and personally”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My lesson from 2025: Reform is much more vulnerable than it appears | Gaby Hinsliff
The party’s astonishingly speedy growth disguised shallow roots – and its success has brought a level of scrutiny for which it simply isn’t ready, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Reform tried to dismiss questions on Farage’s racism, saying they should be asked about the ‘substance’ of their policies instead.
Unsurprisingly, their policies are shit too.
“The trouble with power is that it’s exposing, both politically and personally”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Unsurprisingly, their policies are shit too.
“The trouble with power is that it’s exposing, both politically and personally”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
This makes a lot of sense.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
Foreign interventions being used to trigger domestic legal powers.
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🚨🚨Breaking: #EU has secured essential funding through a loan to #Ukraine of EUR 90 billion for the years 2026-2027 but failed to secure agreement on a deal on sending Russian #frozenassets to Ukraine after a 16-hour summit in Brussels. 🧵 www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
European Council, 18 December 2025, Ukraine
The European Council discussed the latest developments as regards Ukraine.
www.consilium.europa.eu
December 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🚨🚨Breaking: #EU has secured essential funding through a loan to #Ukraine of EUR 90 billion for the years 2026-2027 but failed to secure agreement on a deal on sending Russian #frozenassets to Ukraine after a 16-hour summit in Brussels. 🧵 www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
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I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I think Asha Rangappa is right — they are lining up the external and internal enemies. Or trying to. This is very risky and will almost certainly blow up in their faces.
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As ever with Reform there's no attempt to take responsibility for Farage’s appalling behaviour as a schoolboy.
It's everyone else's fault that he said "Hitler was right" and bullied a 9 year old black kid when he was 17...
Poor Nigel is the real victim in all of this.
It's everyone else's fault that he said "Hitler was right" and bullied a 9 year old black kid when he was 17...
Poor Nigel is the real victim in all of this.
December 18, 2025 at 8:18 AM
As ever with Reform there's no attempt to take responsibility for Farage’s appalling behaviour as a schoolboy.
It's everyone else's fault that he said "Hitler was right" and bullied a 9 year old black kid when he was 17...
Poor Nigel is the real victim in all of this.
It's everyone else's fault that he said "Hitler was right" and bullied a 9 year old black kid when he was 17...
Poor Nigel is the real victim in all of this.
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Scientists have expressed their shock and sadness following the death of plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro, a researcher at MIT, who was shot at his home on Monday
go.nature.com/3MI0sUD
go.nature.com/3MI0sUD
MIT fusion-lab head shot dead: a horror 'impossible to believe'
Plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was helping to develop clean-energy fusion devices.
go.nature.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Scientists have expressed their shock and sadness following the death of plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro, a researcher at MIT, who was shot at his home on Monday
go.nature.com/3MI0sUD
go.nature.com/3MI0sUD
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NEW
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
emptycity.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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NEW
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
emptycity.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
NEW
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
By me
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
(£) at least for now
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So: Trump has finally filed a law suit against the BBC.
New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday.
Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.
New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday.
Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.
December 16, 2025 at 7:37 AM
So: Trump has finally filed a law suit against the BBC.
New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday.
Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.
New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday.
Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.