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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

Speeding!

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

“The UK government is proposing to pay up to 25 per cent more for drugs bought by the NHS as it tries to save the sector from President Trump’s tariffs and stop pharmaceutical companies from abandoning investments in the country.”

All this sovereignty is making me giddy…

www.ft.com/content/dd11...

UK government prepared to pay more for drugs bought by NHS

Officials have briefed Trump administration on proposal to pay up to 25% more for medicines

www.ft.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

I am not here to be your primer on the EU, it’s purpose, it’s political economy etc. There’s plenty of books, stuff on the internet you can look at that for that.

And do stop bandying ‘progressive’ around as some sort of catch all for worthiness. It’s immensely tedious.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

Swindon? West Bromwich? Redcar?

Nope.

St Helena.

Makes you proud to see the unimaginative British semi in such exotic climes.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

Why has this channel not been shut down
It breaches the Ofcom rules almost every moment it broadcasts.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 2h

8 million people live in London!

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

Average national salaries and house prices arent really relevant to london. London is a lot, lot more than 350k. 350k gets you a one bed at best.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

Plenty of first time buyer couples have to spend over 500k

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

Stamp duty is a shit tax. We should replace it with a proper property tax.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

Just fck off Clegg

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

Oh well. Nevermind.

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

And Brits can’t go to Poland to find opportunity due to…

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

Odd that you expect others to renounce their political beliefs when they lose a vote but you won’t do the same

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

These are people who realised Tufton St was becoming a toxic brand and so have tried to obscure their connections thereto with fuzzier and much more opaque branding

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 3h

And are these actually “good people”

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

lol, how did I do that exactly

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 5h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

What is that you think i “couldn’t work out in 2019”?

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 4h

There’s no point trying to play chess with a jargon spouting pigeon

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

a man in a suit and tie says are you making any sense of this snl

ALT: a man in a suit and tie says are you making any sense of this snl

media.tenor.com

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

😔

Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

Oh I see you’re one of those “Brexit being sh1t is all the fault of remainers” types

Get in the sea with youb

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wysiwyg94.bsky.social @wysiwyg94.bsky.social · 7h

Here are the two rags who wanted the Leave vote.

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 6h

You mean on streets of UK?

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Greg Britton @gmbritton.bsky.social · 11h

Seriously, this is amazing.

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 11h

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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