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Brand new Londoner: recently hatched cygnet on the Serpentine, Hyde Park

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The cruelty’s the point. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/w...

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Physician associates will be renamed to stop patients mistaking them for doctors

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Thankfully genocides aren't popular with the people. But sadly they still are with the people in power.

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Be like Finland.

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No one will be prosecuted. No one will go to prison. We all know this. Only poor people on the whole are prosecuted and go to prison. This is the true two-tier system they don’t want you to mention.

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Failed COVID PPE contracts during the pandemic cost UK public purse £1.4bn. £762m lost - PPE over ordered and defective, delays in checking quality. Govt trying to recover £468m. But some got richer. Would govt snoop on their bank accounts, like it will on benefit claimants?

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Apparently ( according to the Economist) DOGE is considered a failure by most people in Washington and Musk is on his way out the door. For good reasons- need forensic accountants and a deep grasp of policy- DOGE had neither- nor will this shower. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Just stop dithering and put this company out of its misery. Public ownership is the only sensible option - and a majority of voters for every party agree @weownit.org.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I’m currently on leave away from Moscow. But before I left, I asked Russians about their hopes & their concerns.

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We deserve to know the full scale of this government’s complicity in crimes against humanity. My piece for @theguardian.com on why I’m tabling legislation tomorrow for a full, independent, public inquiry into the UK’s role in the Gaza genocide. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"You should have AI nurses, AI doctors," says Tony Blair & he could not be more wrong. This is exactly the kind of gushing, uncritical AI hype that has already squandered ££millions of NHS funds on the likes of Babylon (Hancock's fave - soon went bankrupt) &, I kid you not, NHS penguin robots. 1/3

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"Palantir already holds a £330 million NHS data contract." "To encourage hospitals to take it up, the government signed an £8 million deal with consultancy giant KPMG to "promote the adoption" of Palantir’s tech in the NHS." [FOI requests on this are being pushed up]

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Now ask why 🇬🇧 is allowing Palantir into our NHS as well as our security, defence and police?

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Still want Palantir to have access to NHS data folks??

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Palantir have 11 contracts spanning the NHS, the police, the Ministry of Defence, and the Cabinet Office. Alex Karp is CEO, Peter Thiel is Chairman and Director. Palantir tech is used by the IDF, with Karp expressing pride and support of Israel ‘in every way we can’ open.substack.com/pub/european...

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A reminder to Wes Streeting: we shouldn’t let Palantir anywhere near NHS data.

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"Seriously, if Palantir isn't the deep state, then what is?" wrote Trump supporter Nick Fuentes.

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NEW: The Trump administration has contracted the tech firm Palantir to create a “national citizen database” that would track YOUR private data. Welcome to the Trump Deep State.

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www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

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San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

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📍In London to prepare the EU-UK Summit with Keir Starmer. We are friends. And we are Europeans. It means that we share interests and democratic values. And that we are ready to face global challenges as like-minded partners.

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On Facebook they post endless warnings about Nigel Farage. Last week Starmer did a big giant speech about the dangers of Farage. All the while they're trying to be him. It would be like saying "I hate David Bowie, he's so shit" while sporting a red glitter lightning bolt over one eye.

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Stop the genocide. Argue semantics later.

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This week, I am presenting my Gaza Inquiry Bill to uncover the truth about this country’s complicity in genocide.

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The UK used to have short waiting lists There was once investment in infrastructure, doctors, nurses, hospitals Then something happened 15years ago It’s not been fixed in any way since

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My take on a complete farce from Nigel Farage and Reform today. Just what Labour wanted. ✍️"For a man who comes across as oozing self-confidence and claiming to speak for real people, Nigel Farage’s whistle-stop tour of Scotland has shown he has incredibly thin skin." www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

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So, here we are: The Western Press, which hitherto regurgitated Israeli propaganda , is now conceding that a genocide is in progress. But that's it. No calls for a UN military intervention or even of sanctions. This is complicity by other means. www.ft.com/content/ba6e...

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I know we all like to forget COVID, but imo it’s bonkers that politicians talk so much about increasing defence spending, yet we’ve apparently forgotten to spend any time or money guarding against a future pandemic

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So, Wes Streeting, private health firms have given you shedloads of money without expecting anything in return and it’s only a coincidence that you want more un-evidence-based, expensive NHS privatisation? FFS, Labour, after 14 years of Tory lies, people deserve better than this.

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“Controls were due to come into force on 1 July… amid warnings checks could add to inflation, damage food supply and put companies out of business because Britain imports nearly 80% of its fruit and vegetables from the EU” And the Tories, who had no plan for this, wail about ‘betrayal’. (The i)

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Wes Streeting. The conflict of interest is off-the-scale. What the f**k is Starmer and Labour playing at? Evidence shows NHS privatisation is 1) more expensive, and 2) has worse outcomes for patients. Also, voters have never given their permission.

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So, Wes Streeting, private health firms have given you shedloads of money without expecting anything in return and it’s only a coincidence that you want more un-evidence-based, expensive NHS privatisation? FFS, Labour, after 14 years of Tory lies, people deserve better than this.

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Clearly a good thing. But one swallow does not make a summer www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Wes Streeting. The conflict of interest is off-the-scale. What the f**k is Starmer and Labour playing at? Evidence shows NHS privatisation is 1) more expensive, and 2) has worse outcomes for patients. Also, voters have never given their permission.

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This video has had a lot of views on TikTok. Thought you’d like to see it too…

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'Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control... Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.' -Albert Einstein #Einstein #physics #science #ScienceSky

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The UK is a relatively low tax economy This means the revenue raised by Government as a proportion of GDP has been low historically Less funding raised for infrastructure/healthcare/education etc A thread 🧵

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Do Reform voters know that Farage favours replacing the nhs with an American insurance system. The Americans pay twice as much per head for healthcare yet millions are not covered. The largest healthcare company queries 1/3 of claims. #reform #nhs #farage

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This is pretty incredible!

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Perhaps try my book, THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO KNOW www.foyles.co.uk/book/the-one... I explain quantum theory, relatvity, thermodynamics, the big bang etc.

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But Feynman DID explain it to the average person - in his wonderful book, QED: THE STRANGE THEORY OF LIGHT AND MATTER

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The unlikely asteroid collision that made your life possible bigthink.com/series/full-...

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Remember, of course, Dido Harding’s husband was the Tories’ anti-corruption czar. You couldn’t make it up. You really couldn’t.

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"the Labour government had “swallowed nuclear industry spin whole, which is courageous – or stupid" This will do nothing to tackle the #climate emergency Too little, too late, too expensive, to risky, to vulnerable to heatwaves and sea-level rise www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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