@stevehookham.bsky.social
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🚨 PFI was scrapped for a reason. Yet tomorrow's budget may confirm the revival of private partnerships in the NHS.
The evidence is damning:
💷 Cost taxpayers billions
🏥Hospitals too small with dangerous flaws
⚠️Public left with risk
Here's more on why PFI failed👇
bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
The evidence is damning:
💷 Cost taxpayers billions
🏥Hospitals too small with dangerous flaws
⚠️Public left with risk
Here's more on why PFI failed👇
bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
November 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🚨 PFI was scrapped for a reason. Yet tomorrow's budget may confirm the revival of private partnerships in the NHS.
The evidence is damning:
💷 Cost taxpayers billions
🏥Hospitals too small with dangerous flaws
⚠️Public left with risk
Here's more on why PFI failed👇
bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
The evidence is damning:
💷 Cost taxpayers billions
🏥Hospitals too small with dangerous flaws
⚠️Public left with risk
Here's more on why PFI failed👇
bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
You can see why the BBC are being ‘cautious’ in light of the Panorama backlash from Trump. However, the BBC should be braver; it should not bend to Trump’s threats when he holds no legal powers over it in its home domain.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
You can see why the BBC are being ‘cautious’ in light of the Panorama backlash from Trump. However, the BBC should be braver; it should not bend to Trump’s threats when he holds no legal powers over it in its home domain.
You entered a dance contest pick your partner
November 22, 2025 at 12:16 PM
You entered a dance contest pick your partner
Greasy Gove on BBC Radio 4’s Today, talking about the findings of the Covid Inquiry (covid19.public-inquiry.uk) telling us how Johnson wrestled with decisions. I don’t remember him wrestling, I remember this 👇🏼
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Greasy Gove on BBC Radio 4’s Today, talking about the findings of the Covid Inquiry (covid19.public-inquiry.uk) telling us how Johnson wrestled with decisions. I don’t remember him wrestling, I remember this 👇🏼
I suppose it depends if you’re pro or anti-Trump, but from where I’m standing it looks like he does a pretty good job of defamation of his own character.
add this to the list of reasons why Trump's defamation claim would not stand a chance
November 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I suppose it depends if you’re pro or anti-Trump, but from where I’m standing it looks like he does a pretty good job of defamation of his own character.
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'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
'People forget what Khashoggi was investigating when he was murdered. He was writing about Kushner turning over classified info to MBS, who used it to hunt down, arrest and murder his opponents.'
h/t @cocacolakid
h/t @cocacolakid
I’d say “just how low can he go?” but I reckon Trump isn’t even trying. This sort of shit is just him getting warmed up.
Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi:
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
"A lot of people didn't like that gentleman... Things happen... He knew nothing about it."
A US intelligence report concluded that bin Salman personally "approved an operation" to "kill or capture" Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
I’d say “just how low can he go?” but I reckon Trump isn’t even trying. This sort of shit is just him getting warmed up.
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We could spend years demanding a list be released, or we could just believe women…
November 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
We could spend years demanding a list be released, or we could just believe women…
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The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory.
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The right wing approach now is to put me in a box with an incredibly successful politician who just won a stunning victory.
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
This is Pure Cope Exhibit A
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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If we insisted on same day hair appts many of us would be disappointed. But do GP surgeries need to offer same day? If there's a UTC isn't that where we should go? I'm struggling to think of anything that might need 'same day' that isn't catered for in a UTC except maybe gynae.
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
If we insisted on same day hair appts many of us would be disappointed. But do GP surgeries need to offer same day? If there's a UTC isn't that where we should go? I'm struggling to think of anything that might need 'same day' that isn't catered for in a UTC except maybe gynae.
A percentage of UK asylum seamers claim to be under 18 because if they are deemed to be an unaccompanied asylum seeking child (UASC) they qualify for support and education that an adult does not. Rather than the £9 a week an adult gets, UASCs get housed by the local council.
November 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
A percentage of UK asylum seamers claim to be under 18 because if they are deemed to be an unaccompanied asylum seeking child (UASC) they qualify for support and education that an adult does not. Rather than the £9 a week an adult gets, UASCs get housed by the local council.
Tree of The Day with Molly dog photobombing! 🌱
November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Tree of The Day with Molly dog photobombing! 🌱
If it will shut the orange shit-gibbon up, I’ll gladly stump up $10 by way of compensation for any harm done by @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Panorama’s dodgy editing of speech (which arguably was actually inciting violence). Not sure about US prices but surely that would get him a Big Mac?
November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
If it will shut the orange shit-gibbon up, I’ll gladly stump up $10 by way of compensation for any harm done by @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Panorama’s dodgy editing of speech (which arguably was actually inciting violence). Not sure about US prices but surely that would get him a Big Mac?
So true, needless deaths with people already dying from Measles as an example. Sadly my trust levels in Streeting are very low. Creeping privatisation continues with multiple private providers taking money away from patient care.
RFK is making it so that people in the USA are more likely to get sick by laying waste to vaccines. Meanwhile many everyday Americans are reaching the point where they just won't be able to afford their health insurance. They're going to kill people with this.
UK - Resist Reform & fight for the #NHS
UK - Resist Reform & fight for the #NHS
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
So true, needless deaths with people already dying from Measles as an example. Sadly my trust levels in Streeting are very low. Creeping privatisation continues with multiple private providers taking money away from patient care.
These Reform grifters really do take us for idiots. Just how deranged* would you have to be to let them near government?
*With apologies to the one or two sane people in Ashfield, Clacton, East Wiltshire, Runcorn and Helsby, not forgetting Boston and Skegness.
*With apologies to the one or two sane people in Ashfield, Clacton, East Wiltshire, Runcorn and Helsby, not forgetting Boston and Skegness.
In these times of rancour & division, it’s comforting to find things on which we can all agree: Kent County Council, for example, really does provide a perfect illustration of how well Reform would run the country. I agree with Nigel!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Kent fire authority 'in disarray' amid Reform UK video leak row
A firefighters union claims Reform UK suspending councillors is impacting the local fire authority.
www.bbc.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
These Reform grifters really do take us for idiots. Just how deranged* would you have to be to let them near government?
*With apologies to the one or two sane people in Ashfield, Clacton, East Wiltshire, Runcorn and Helsby, not forgetting Boston and Skegness.
*With apologies to the one or two sane people in Ashfield, Clacton, East Wiltshire, Runcorn and Helsby, not forgetting Boston and Skegness.
I’m as sad about BBC director general Tim Davie, and CEO of News Deborah Turness, losing their jobs as I would be if any other Tory did. Also looking forward to hearing much less about Reform and more about the Green Party. Tomorrow will do, once the news isn’t the news. #BBCBias
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I’m as sad about BBC director general Tim Davie, and CEO of News Deborah Turness, losing their jobs as I would be if any other Tory did. Also looking forward to hearing much less about Reform and more about the Green Party. Tomorrow will do, once the news isn’t the news. #BBCBias
An ill advised (in that it’s not that easy to get to from home) trip to Manningtree for a Community Garden Radio event actually turned out well. I will be investigating the local connections to the self-styled Witch-Finder General, Matthew Hopkins!
November 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
An ill advised (in that it’s not that easy to get to from home) trip to Manningtree for a Community Garden Radio event actually turned out well. I will be investigating the local connections to the self-styled Witch-Finder General, Matthew Hopkins!
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Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"it is striking how many of the key players we have looked into — the people who have gone out of their way to put up hundreds of flags — seem anything but ordinary."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
This is going to be such a nice Christmas surprise for 'constant reader' @louise275.bsky.social 🎄
Hey!
wanna see a picture of a massive book?
Of course you do.
King Sorrow (signed copies) by the amazing Joe Hill arrived today.
It won't fit through your letterbox, that's for sure, but If you'd like a SIGNED copy posted to you, order one HERE!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
wanna see a picture of a massive book?
Of course you do.
King Sorrow (signed copies) by the amazing Joe Hill arrived today.
It won't fit through your letterbox, that's for sure, but If you'd like a SIGNED copy posted to you, order one HERE!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
October 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
This is going to be such a nice Christmas surprise for 'constant reader' @louise275.bsky.social 🎄
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The Greens are the only real opposition left in British politics. Standing up for fair taxes, a livable planet + a future where compassion and courage matter more than corporate interests. People are understandably disillusioned, but we are here to make hope normal again - @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader
Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
The Greens are the only real opposition left in British politics. Standing up for fair taxes, a livable planet + a future where compassion and courage matter more than corporate interests. People are understandably disillusioned, but we are here to make hope normal again - @zackpolanski.bsky.social
So lucky to live within a few minutes walk of lovely Pennine countryside.
October 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
So lucky to live within a few minutes walk of lovely Pennine countryside.
@untruth-band.bsky.social Headrow House, Leeds UK
October 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@untruth-band.bsky.social Headrow House, Leeds UK
Michelle Mone says she doesn’t t feel safe? Welcome to our world you mendacious tw@t; we were supplied your crappy PPE during a pandemic. I and other healthcare staff were just cannon fodder for your fucking yacht!
October 3, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Michelle Mone says she doesn’t t feel safe? Welcome to our world you mendacious tw@t; we were supplied your crappy PPE during a pandemic. I and other healthcare staff were just cannon fodder for your fucking yacht!