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Left: Nigel Farage says medicine shortages after Brexit is, "Utter tosh.. It's complete and utter rubbish.. Project fear.. It should be utterly completely totally disregarded"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
March 22, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Left: Nigel Farage says medicine shortages after Brexit is, "Utter tosh.. It's complete and utter rubbish.. Project fear.. It should be utterly completely totally disregarded"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
Right: "Brexit a key factor in worst UK medicine shortages in four years"
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The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
March 19, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The reality of claiming PIP: a 🧵
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
1) To claim PIP you have to describe in excruciating detail all the ways you cannot function. This means that you are forced to think in very detailed terms exactly how disabled you are, which often has a devastating effect on the mental health of the applicant 1/?
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This is shocking. ITV reporting that even those with extreme disabilities in the unfit to work category are likely to lose money under new government plans. Charities have branded the move catastrophic
March 7, 2025 at 11:56 PM
This is shocking. ITV reporting that even those with extreme disabilities in the unfit to work category are likely to lose money under new government plans. Charities have branded the move catastrophic
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In their wildest dreams, Keir Starmer's Government couldn't have hoped for a less sympathetic campaign than that currently being waged against imposing VAT on private school fees
March 7, 2025 at 10:32 AM
In their wildest dreams, Keir Starmer's Government couldn't have hoped for a less sympathetic campaign than that currently being waged against imposing VAT on private school fees
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Nine years apart.
Desperate Dave.
Desperate Dave.
March 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Nine years apart.
Desperate Dave.
Desperate Dave.
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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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If Trump had any history of consistency, honesty or keeping his word then you’d have to say that Starmer has played a blinder.
February 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
If Trump had any history of consistency, honesty or keeping his word then you’d have to say that Starmer has played a blinder.
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All in all, Starmer’s first Trump White House visit looks like it couldn’t have gone much better. No 10 will be delighted and relieved, his enemies bitterly disappointed.
February 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
All in all, Starmer’s first Trump White House visit looks like it couldn’t have gone much better. No 10 will be delighted and relieved, his enemies bitterly disappointed.
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of +£18.42tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of +£18.42tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
January 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of +£18.42tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of +£18.42tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
January 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.
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Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/p...
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/p...
Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time. Byline Times tips its hat to Prince Harry
bylinetimes.com
January 22, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Prince Harry Takes a Stand for Us All: ‘If They’re Supposedly Policing Society, Who On Earth is Policing Them?’
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/p...
The crisis and corruption in the British press is one of the biggest, ongoing scandals of our time
@hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
bylinetimes.com/2023/06/06/p...
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It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.
January 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
It's been quite something to watch supposedly 'patriotic' British newspapers actively cheerleading on a foreign administration that is openly working against our interests.
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🔴MPs Cashed in More Than £1 Million From GB News and Other Media and Speaking Gigs Last Year
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
MPs Cashed in More Than £1 Million From GB News and Other Media and Speaking Gigs Last Year
New analysis by Byline Times reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries.
bylinetimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🔴MPs Cashed in More Than £1 Million From GB News and Other Media and Speaking Gigs Last Year
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
New Byline Times analysis reveals the scale of earnings being raked in by Members of Parliament on top of their £91,346 salaries
bylinetimes.com/2025/01/14/m...
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Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
January 9, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Not a single Reform MP has bothered to turn up to today's House of Commons debate on tackling violence against women and girls
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In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
January 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In other news, Nigel Farage didn't bother to turn up to the debate on grooming gangs in the House of Commons just now
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Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
January 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
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How hard would it have been for BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to bring up this front page when Nigel Farage complained during his interview with her today that economically “we are getting poorer”
The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
January 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
How hard would it have been for BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to bring up this front page when Nigel Farage complained during his interview with her today that economically “we are getting poorer”
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I doubt any Troll here who’s trying to smear Keir Starmer about decade-old events will be interested to read these pages from my book about his record prosecuting rape gangs. But he’s done more to bring them to justice than Farage, Yaxley-Lennon - or Musk -will ever do.
January 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I doubt any Troll here who’s trying to smear Keir Starmer about decade-old events will be interested to read these pages from my book about his record prosecuting rape gangs. But he’s done more to bring them to justice than Farage, Yaxley-Lennon - or Musk -will ever do.
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There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
January 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There are more than a million British people with Pakistani heritage in the UK.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
For the Shadow Home Secretary to suggest they have an "alien" and "medieval" culture and to smear them by association with the crimes of a tiny minority, is the politics of the far-right gutter.
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Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
January 4, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
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🔴The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com
December 21, 2024 at 1:03 PM
🔴The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
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December 10, 2024 at 9:18 PM