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A new analysis by We Own It reveals that £6.7 billion, or £10 million each week, has left the NHS’s budget in the form of profits on all private contracts given by the NHS from January 2012 to May 2024.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

💥Peter Kellner: "I quite like using numbers to make sense of the what is going on. Yet sometimes they are not enough. If they were, the fact that Brexit has cost Britain’s economy 4-5% of GDP would be a major national scandal." A 🧵 with some of the most exposing stats from Peter's latest blog👇 1/

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

The Tories and UKIP took loads of Putin's dirty money. The Tories and UKIP treated our EU partners as enemies. Johnson put the son of a KGB agent in the Lords. Brexit weakened the UK and EU while strengthening and emboldening Putin. Russian influence in EU ref not adequately investigated.

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"A decade of austerity hacked away local government finances, but demands on council services are rising due to an ageing population (social care), an unregulated housing market (emergency accommodation) & from increasing poverty (social services)" My @inews.co.uk column inews.co.uk/opinion/rais...

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

‘People and human rights’ 🤣🤣🤣 He’s for himself!!!

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

Would be a shame if this Express poll didn’t go they way they hoped… 👉🏼 xd.wayin.com/display/cont...

submitted 26 days ago • 66 comments

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

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Think I’m in love . . .

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

JeeeezusfuckingChrist!

submitted 38 days ago • 32 comments

Do you see what i see???

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

The £45bn cost of Labour bailing out RBS is held to be a once-in-a-generation economic calamity that the nation barely survived. Brexit cost us just as much every five-and-a-half months.

submitted 45 days ago • 25 comments

www.newscientist.com/article/2463...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

He really is a Charlie uniform November Tango

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talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/01/03/s...

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Be Who You Are - available from all streaming services

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s something to think about as you kick off 2025: ✨We are all stardust.✨ Every atom of oxygen in our lungs, of carbon in our muscles, of calcium in our bones, of iron in our blood—was created inside a star before Earth was born. Image: NASA Hubble Space Telescope, CC BY 2.0, flickr

submitted 57 days ago • 310 comments

Honouring Sadiq Khan belittles the achievements of Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg Sir Gavin Williamson Lord Chris Grayling Baroness Charlotte Owen Baron Shaun Bailey Baroness Michelle Mone Sir Christopher Chope Lord Ben Houchen Baron Ross Kempsell and Lord Lebedev of Siberia

submitted 58 days ago • 70 comments

Nigel Farage and Reform UK do not stand up for Britain

submitted 61 days ago • 11 comments

Do you think you're sitting still right now? - You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s - That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s - That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s. Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km.

submitted 64 days ago • 462 comments

Now the mop-headed hot air balloon weighs in... For reference, Brexit caused £100b+ damage. (Remarkably, the Express have been honest about the risible value of the deal in their headline. Expect it to be edited to something provocative and misleading very soon.) www.express.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 75 days ago • 2 comments