Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

This is what happens when you put a preening, lazy, populist, dilettante in charge of a country.

Johnson was completely out of his depth and more concerned with his pathetic perceived popularity than leading this country through the greatest crisis since 1939.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.

A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.

And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.

Just @mind.org.uk having a bake-off with the DWP, who regularly impoverish people with mental health issues and drive them to suicide. Cake or death? Or let them eat cake? 🤔

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

📢 @thewaroncars.bsky.social

Guess which MP has received £224,575 from people + companies linked to the private health sector between Jan 2023- March 2025?

Wes Streeting, our Health Secretary.🚨

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Tony Blair is literally being paid by a man with one of the highest carbon footprints on the planet - Larry Ellison. The founder of Oracle is his biggest funder & these techsolutionist remarks have to be seen for what they are: tech lobbying

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Yet another update on the total planetary f&%kery that's taking place.

The two-year running average for the global surface temperature anomaly will soon break 1.60°C. The Climate Casino is giving an Over/Under date of May 15th.

Are you distracted?

📢A new study from @uniofbath.bsky.social shows London's low emissions zones have had major benefits for human health and the economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following LEZ implementation, an **18.5%** reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37 million.

UK on a badger killing frenzy -Labor like the Tories are drenched in the blood of innocent badgers with no impact on TB levels
230,000 badgers killed with no real impact on bovine TB. The killing is cruel and barbaric
Please sign Petition to stop it
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this? I’m fed up of being told that we’re ‘radical’ - most people oppose NHS privatisation! Let’s send a message to those destroying the NHS! 🚨💙

🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation.

But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯

We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰

Sign our petition now ✍️
weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

Today, one month after our petition launched, we've reached 33,000 signatures calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.

That's a third of the number we need, in one sixth of the time we've got - pretty good!

Please keep it up - sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#SayNoMoor

From ongoing abuses of its workers to aggressive tax avoidance, here are ten reasons to avoid Amazon this Christmas:
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