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A major fraud investigation has revealed that failed PPE contracts cost £1.4 billion 💸 And that’s just phase one of the investigation All eyes on phase two 👀 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

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American life expectancy in 1960 was almost ten years shorter than it is today. And the leading causes of death were chronic diseases. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. frequently tells a different story.

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No surprise here. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

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Not very impressive that @lbc.co.uk would frame an illegal act of hostage-taking through the propaganda terms of the perpetrators.

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🔙 Throwback to when the new Reform chairman David Bull was surprised at the European Parliament being in....... Strasbourg and not Ipswich! 🚜 He really should have read the job description, although we all know Reform hate turning up for work...

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the BBC trying to win over Reform voters who hate the BBC is like serving Hannibal Lecter your own body parts to stop him from eating you

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🚨Just 2% of the population - under 800,000 people sustained the whole of England's blood supply over the past 12 months The NHS has put out an urgent call for 200,000 donors to come forward Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇 blood.co.uk

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"Dear Prime Minister, there is no trade-off between net zero and economic growth," write UK academics in a letter aimed at dispelling some of the political narratives that are starting to gain traction. www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/sites/defaul...

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When the Greens said this, nothing. When the LibDems spoke up about how bad it was Labour were dropping this, nothing. Reform back it and its even a headline in the fucking Guardian. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Thames Water is teetering on the edge of collapse, surviving by borrowing, dumping sewage in rivers & exploiting customers. When will the Govt recognise that privatisation has failed and public ownership is the only effective way forward? Watch the Minister's reply. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXmD...

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“REFORM UK THREAT” - they shout “Rise reflects distrust of political class” - they say No. Rise reflects incessant media promotion without scrutiny. Easy to seem ‘different’ when you don’t have power and you’re not held to account for the lies you tell and the hate you peddle. (Opinion, The i)

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No matter what terrorists did on 10/7—NOTHING JUSTIFIES ISRAEL’S KILLING OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF INNOCENTS—and the Israeli people KNOW this! Netanyahu and the military don’t get it. NOTHING JUSTIFIES A GENOCIDE. NOTHING! Isn’t THAT what the halocaust teaches?

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This is the ninth Reform councillor - all elected last month - to either have resigned or been suspended.

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They shouldn't be doing it in either direction, but certainly since the Tory takeover of the BBC board and newsroom, the movement has only been one way. #r4today

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Yes. Exactly like that.

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Reform in Redditch are claiming that they have saved the taxpayer almost £46,000 by having one fewer cabinet member than the previous administration on Worcestershire County Council. An official council spokesperson tells me: "There were 10 Cabinet members previously...and 10 Cabinet members now."

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The World Cup needs to be moved to Mexico and Canada in its entirety. America is not safe for players or spectators.

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Watching nearly every political party in the UK chase the same 20% of the worst people in the country, ignoring the other 80%, just to please the papers. Nothing will change in the UK until the papers are taken in hand. Not all the media, just the papers. The rest will flow from there.

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12 activists, including Greta Thunberg, have been detained by Israeli armed forces in international waters for trying to bring life saving food & medicine to Gazans who are being starved under the Israeli siege. Withholding food & medicine is a war crime. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...

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NEWS! Winter Fuel Payment to be reintroduced for all state pensioners (Eng & Wal) but clawed back through tax if you earn £35,000+. My instant analysis of how it works, what it means and is it an improvement. youtu.be/fHg7ReqbnpA

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Can many people name the chairman of Labour, Tories, Lib Dems or Greens? How often does an unelected bureaucrat get the 8:10 interview on Radio 4? Completely disproportionate media coverage of Zia Yusuf saga

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Britain has rapidly decarbonised electricity. A huge success story we simply don't talk about. To go further still we need new electricity infrastructure, yet this is largely ignored or even opposed!

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Israel’s idea that they are going to show Greta & the Freedom Flotilla crew violent Oct 7th videos in order to convince them that they are in the wrong… …just utterly exposes how profoundly tribalistic, barbaric and emotionally underdeveloped the Israeli government is.

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“When the Thatcher government sold off the water industry in England and Wales in 1989, it promised better efficiency, greater investment and improved service quality. But more than three decades on, those promises have largely evaporated.”

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This is insane... Currently, we're not only not using the full potential power output of wind farms, we're actively paying the operators BIG money to switch them off! Wasting clean energy, AND handing the neanderthals in Reform a big stick to beat green policies with...! 🤔

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she was in international waters thus any seizure or attack is completely illegal under international maritime law, she sailed under a British flag meaning the UK government has legal responsibility for the ship and her crew's safety & protection.

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2 weeks ago, France, Canada, and the UK warned Israel to take "concrete actions" to stop its genocidal war & boost aid into Gaza. Israel responded by shooting at diplomats from 2 dozen nations — including the trio. Today, Israel intercepted a UK-flagged aid ship with 6 French people on board.

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Wonders of UK energy privatisation. Not enough capacity to carry/store electricity. On windy days, govt pays wind farms NOT to produce electricity. £500m this year, £8bn a yr by 2030. Elsewhere companies are paid vast sums for emergency production. Companies get ssubsidies, we get higher bills.

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Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero. Companies have violated their licences. Shares worthless. Debt low value. Railtrack, Northern Rock were taken over without compensation for investors. Can do the same for water companies? But govt obsessed with privatisation.

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Children in the most deprived areas of England less likely to achieve good developmental goals by the age of five, says Unicef. Poverty, austerity, real wage/benefit cuts, profiteering, regressive taxes take toll. Futures blighted by political choices in one of the wealthiest countries.

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As Trump deploys the National Guard against his own citizens, the importance of protecting our own human rights from abuse at the hands of govt has never been clearer. But still the Tories push to strip us of our protections, in a desperate bid for power for themselves. Important letter (Times)

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Interesting: Despite the relentlessly negative media coverage, most people in the UK want to stay in the European Convention on Human Rights👇 🔗 yougov.co.uk/topics/inter... via @yougov.co.uk #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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US aggression versus EU membership: The UK must choose stability over Trump’s chaos 👏👏👏

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"Other industries such as rail and energy have also struggled in the face of privatisation. But, nowhere illustrates the failure more acutely than the water sector. Left unaddressed, it could easily become a major obstacle to meeting the UK’s climate objectives."

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35 years of England water privatisation. Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions. 1trn litres water a year lost in leaks. Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year. £85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced Last decade, £112m exec bonuses . Must end privatisation.

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🇪🇺 "66% of the public support a closer relationship with Europe" 📈 "Over half (53%) were in favour of undoing Brexit altogether. Remember when newspapers cared about the will of the people? How times change."

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From a week and a half ago: “As of Monday, the model shows, about 96,000 adults and 200,000 children have died because of the administration’s cutbacks to funding for aid groups and support organizations. The overall death count grows by 103 people an hour.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Fact-check or get out: how to expose lying politicians In a digital world where facts can be verified in seconds, we have no excuse to let politicians get away with lying. Are we part of the problem? @centralbylines.co.uk

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Before September 1998 University was free in England. Now it costs nearly £10,000 a year and it is going up to £13,000. Nigel Farage has the same plan for the NHS.

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We must never, ever, ever abandon the ECHR Treaty. "This treaty was made after WWII to ensure such atrocities would never happen again!" "The UK signed the ECHR in 1951 and the rights enshrined in the Convention have been made part of UK law through the Human Rights Act 1998."

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