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deejred.bsky.social
In search of sanity in this mad world! European! Support vaccines! Irish, Working & Living in Brexit Britain 🤯
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Nigel Farage was screaming to scrap furlough because it was a waste of money, while he had already claimed £120,000 for himself. He is a fraud every word is a lie

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

Excellent explainer of COVID vaccines for kids by @drjenndowd.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/jenndowd...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Michelle Mone got a new luxury yacht and private jet on the NHS. And most of us can't even get a GP appointment.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social #cleantheair Children need protection rollingout.com/2025/06/03/l...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper acknowledges there is evidence that the lack of a migrant return deal after Brexit is 'a factor' for people making dangerous small boat Channel crossings youtu.be/blhTU1em0WQ?...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Man who used to set the rules, and then broke the rules, wanted tougher rules, because of people breaking the rules... Then, he and his party chums pay £100, whilst public fines reached £10K...all as 1000s died, alone...because THEY followed the rules💔 www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

🧵1/ The UK government plans to cut international aid while ramping up defence spending. But must we choose between defence or aid? In a new @bmj.com piece, @kentbuse.bsky.social & I argue that we must invest in both. Here’s why. 👇

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

The Independent SAGE starter pack. go.bsky.app/TbZdrEU

submitted 203 days ago • 12 comments

Our former @independentsage.bsky.social colleague Deenan Pillay telling it like it is.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

PAGING RFK Jr— “The assumption that children and teens recover completely from COVID has been shattered by mounting evidence that their developing respiratory systems are uniquely vulnerable to long-term damage.” rollingout.com/2025/06/03/l...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Prof Deenan Pillay @deenan.bsky.social , former chair of @independentsage.bsky.social , is an expert virologist never afraid to call things out. He was right to oppose arbitrary reductions in COVID isolation times, and he's right about this. £bns wasted on private industry, no UK legacy 🤬

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Over 15,000 children have been killed in Gaza since October 2023 More than 9000 children have been treated for malnutrition just this year. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Jon Stewart is a legend & the way this show is trying to explain to a mainstream audience the gravity what is happening in the US is amazing. It was both thrilling & terrifying to be part of it. Thank you @TheDailyShow 👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG7C...

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submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments

Senator Ossoff speaking the truth. We need real action

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submitted 10 days ago • 436 comments

A Brief History of Young People Today Don't Want to Work 🧵

submitted 14 days ago • 51 comments

"There has been spittle-flecked hysteria from the right wing press every day this week. The terror is now theirs. Even with such a modest EU deal, they know they have lost."

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

“Life is better when we leap together.” Kermit the Frog delivered a commencement speech at the University of Maryland on Thursday, the alma mater of his creator, Jim Henson. nyti.ms/4dwMuhQ

submitted 18 days ago • 341 comments

THREAD on the *desperate* medical situation in Gaza from a presentation by UNRWA director at the World Health Assembly. This thread was written by Prof Anthony Costello over on X - I think it's important to share as widely as possible, so I have transferred to here. Please read and share! 0/11

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Lots of good stuff coming out of the UK-EU summit. I’m just about to go onto GB News - so let’s see how that goes!

submitted 22 days ago • 62 comments

Former M&S Chairman Lord Rose, "Here we are, 10 years on now from Brexit" "The issues of immigration are caused by Brexit" "The issues of our poor economic performance ate down to Brexit"

submitted 26 days ago • 126 comments

Nigel Farage ‘never shut up’ about the British fishing industry, according to @mrjamesob.bsky.social. But out of a possible 42, how many committee meetings on fishing in the EU did he attend as a member of the European Parliament? A) 21 B) 31 C) 1

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

‘We just weren’t prepared’ – expert on Covid test-and-trace failure www.channel4.com/news/we-just...

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues. Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3

submitted 28 days ago • 47 comments