Sue
@curioussue.bsky.social
Primarily growing, feeding, and reading. Used to do national policy & believe in checks & balances in the system but think the system has been broken by the abuses of the last decade...
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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This site needs a bookmark function.
Amazing. After nearly losing her house, and being locked away in a legal battle for years because of one innocuous line in her last TED Talk, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social returns to the Lion’s Den, and calls out the Broligarchs
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
youtu.be
April 10, 2025 at 9:17 PM
This site needs a bookmark function.
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To continue with this Brexit disaster is simply madness.
It’s untenable.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It’s untenable.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
New figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn a year
Exclusive: Billions of pounds worth of lost business with other European Union countries prompts calls to re-enter customs union and single market
www.independent.co.uk
March 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
To continue with this Brexit disaster is simply madness.
It’s untenable.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It’s untenable.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Just realised they've deleted this Mail on Sunday EXCLUSIVE from the MailOnline site so here's an archive link someone made (thanks someone)
All about the Chandlers / Legatum (GB News) back in November 2017.
Putin's link to Boris and Gove's Brexit 'coup' revealed:
web.archive.org/web/20171221...
All about the Chandlers / Legatum (GB News) back in November 2017.
Putin's link to Boris and Gove's Brexit 'coup' revealed:
web.archive.org/web/20171221...
![...SENT TO PM BY BORIS AND GOVE - WITH INPUT FROM 'THIRD MAN'
[photos of Legatum's Shanker Singham, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove with the following captions]
TIES: Mr Singham has met DexEU Ministers at Chevening
CAUGHT BY THE MoS... THINK TANK GURU SLIPPING AWAY FROM ANOTHER UNDER-THE-RADAR BREXIT MEETING - Mr Singham and another Legatum institute aide-leaving the Commons on Friday after a on meeting with Michael Gove
Legatum guru's 7 secret Brexit meetings
OVER THE past 14 months, the Legatum Institute's director of economic policy, Shanker Singham, has met with Ministers on at least seven occasions, the most recent being with Michael Gove on Friday Gove on Friday. ned the entire In July, he joined Brexit ministerial team - David Davis, Baroness Anelay, Robin Walker and Steve Baker - plus Permanent Secretary Philip Rycroft-at Chevening, the Kent country house shared between the Brexit Ministers.
Mr Singham, 48, believes that the UK should break free from EU regulations after Brexit to make it easier to cut global trade deals. It was exactly the point made in the Gove/Johnson letter. During his 18-year career with the US firm Squire Sanders, ending in 2013, Mr Singham worked on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organisation. Earlier this year, the firm was caught up in the row over Donald Trump's links to Russia, because of its alliance with Michael Cohen, a former Trump lawyer.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreih32valzmcb3aqzzljcrhble7mcjfbozujuwatxg47eb7zsb3aozy@jpeg)
![TITAN WITH GAZPROM LINKS FOUNDED INSTITUTE WITH KEY ROLE IN SECRET BREXIT ULTIMATUM
[photos of Christopher Chandler, Vladimir Putin and Richard Chandler]
PAYMASTER:
Chandler, head of the Legatum Group that ultimately funds the Institute
CONNECTED: Mr Chandler has never met President Putin -but they have links through Gazprom
BORIS AND GOVE PLOT TO HIJACK' NUMBER 10
BREAKING THE NEWS: How The Mall on Sunday revealed the Ministers secret letter, and its links to the think-tank, last month
So was this Dubai-backed think-tank behind letter?
How Legatum Institute backer made Gazprom fortune
CHRISTOPHER and Richard Chandler Invested heavily in post-Soviet Russia, when lucrative privatisation contracts were handed out by the state. By July 1991 they were already being described as 'intensely private but powerful investors who exert an extraordinary influence over Moscow's equity markets.
[Gazprom logo]
They built up a lucrative holding in Gazprom, the Russian state energy giant, But shortly after Vladimir Putin same president, and alarmed became by a 'culture of fraud, they used their influence to help trigger a boardroom coup to install Putin ally Alexey Miller as head of the company. The brothers laid the foundations for their fortune when they sold the family department store in Hamilton, New Zealand. They then moved to Monaco at
the end of 1980. The brothers split their fortunes in 2006, with Christopher using his share to help form the Legatum Group, which spawned the Legatum institute.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreidtli57tiowvzfbnzwbuimncze6afwe7igfvfih7rlu4mmm2htlua@jpeg)
March 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Just realised they've deleted this Mail on Sunday EXCLUSIVE from the MailOnline site so here's an archive link someone made (thanks someone)
All about the Chandlers / Legatum (GB News) back in November 2017.
Putin's link to Boris and Gove's Brexit 'coup' revealed:
web.archive.org/web/20171221...
All about the Chandlers / Legatum (GB News) back in November 2017.
Putin's link to Boris and Gove's Brexit 'coup' revealed:
web.archive.org/web/20171221...
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True patriots do not support ReformUK, Putin or Trump. They are not racist or try to ‘other’ any group in society. True patriots didn‘t vote for Brexit or a Tory party full of liars, back handers, criminals and second jobbers. Nor would they have partied during lockdown when others were dying.
March 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
True patriots do not support ReformUK, Putin or Trump. They are not racist or try to ‘other’ any group in society. True patriots didn‘t vote for Brexit or a Tory party full of liars, back handers, criminals and second jobbers. Nor would they have partied during lockdown when others were dying.
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In this new world, if you're not around the table, you're on the menu.
If China, Russia, US are allowed to decide Europe's future, our future won't be ours.
European leaders...lead!
on.ft.com/3CQFzlI
If China, Russia, US are allowed to decide Europe's future, our future won't be ours.
European leaders...lead!
on.ft.com/3CQFzlI
Who will defend Europe?
Caught between an aggressive Russia and a disengaging America, the continent’s western democracies must now rearm — or pay the price
on.ft.com
February 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
In this new world, if you're not around the table, you're on the menu.
If China, Russia, US are allowed to decide Europe's future, our future won't be ours.
European leaders...lead!
on.ft.com/3CQFzlI
If China, Russia, US are allowed to decide Europe's future, our future won't be ours.
European leaders...lead!
on.ft.com/3CQFzlI
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Maybe there’s less to be proud of now in this divided, austerity ravaged, small minded, xenophobic, pothole riddled country thanks to him knocking 4% off GDP.
You can’t be taught to be proud, you have to have something to be proud of.
Pride is a response that‘s earned, not a fact to be learned.
You can’t be taught to be proud, you have to have something to be proud of.
Pride is a response that‘s earned, not a fact to be learned.
February 12, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Maybe there’s less to be proud of now in this divided, austerity ravaged, small minded, xenophobic, pothole riddled country thanks to him knocking 4% off GDP.
You can’t be taught to be proud, you have to have something to be proud of.
Pride is a response that‘s earned, not a fact to be learned.
You can’t be taught to be proud, you have to have something to be proud of.
Pride is a response that‘s earned, not a fact to be learned.
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When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*
Group of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off Reform
Exclusive: Pressure group set up by MPs from seats where Reform came second amid concern about party’s rise
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*
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If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 11:35 AM
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
We cannot allow them to rewrite history.
If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely
youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
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It’s infantile.
But Farage needs people to ‘believe’ rather than think.. or hold him to account.
Because his kind of Brexit would be utterly ruinous. Far worse than this relentless crappiness.
It’s the only thing he can peddle now… the ugly fantasy that prejudice will usher in prosperity.
But Farage needs people to ‘believe’ rather than think.. or hold him to account.
Because his kind of Brexit would be utterly ruinous. Far worse than this relentless crappiness.
It’s the only thing he can peddle now… the ugly fantasy that prejudice will usher in prosperity.
January 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
It’s infantile.
But Farage needs people to ‘believe’ rather than think.. or hold him to account.
Because his kind of Brexit would be utterly ruinous. Far worse than this relentless crappiness.
It’s the only thing he can peddle now… the ugly fantasy that prejudice will usher in prosperity.
But Farage needs people to ‘believe’ rather than think.. or hold him to account.
Because his kind of Brexit would be utterly ruinous. Far worse than this relentless crappiness.
It’s the only thing he can peddle now… the ugly fantasy that prejudice will usher in prosperity.
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hmm. Personally, my view is that the 'right' policies for the wrong reasons are still dangerous and should not be applauded, as @martinmckee.bsky.social , @kentbuse.bsky.social and I argued in the @bmj.com last month.
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
January 31, 2025 at 10:32 PM
hmm. Personally, my view is that the 'right' policies for the wrong reasons are still dangerous and should not be applauded, as @martinmckee.bsky.social , @kentbuse.bsky.social and I argued in the @bmj.com last month.
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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It’s interesting that those coming forward to defend brexit always want a free pass on some aspect. “I never thought it was about the economy” is a favourite. “For me it was always about controlling our borders”. The fact is, you don’t get to choose. You supported the project, lock, stock etc.
January 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
It’s interesting that those coming forward to defend brexit always want a free pass on some aspect. “I never thought it was about the economy” is a favourite. “For me it was always about controlling our borders”. The fact is, you don’t get to choose. You supported the project, lock, stock etc.
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This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors.
Except it's all a lie.
Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.
Except it's all a lie.
Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.
January 25, 2025 at 9:34 AM
This is the HQ of Avis Capital. It claims to be one of the largest companies in the UK, with £58bn in assets and 31% returns promised to investors.
Except it's all a lie.
Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.
Except it's all a lie.
Here's how regulatory failures are letting international fraudsters create massive fake UK companies.
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What I do not understand about the enthusiasm for preservation of a "culture" is:
1. A culture that has ceased to innovate and is blind to other creative influence is dead. It is preserved in the sense that stuffed animals are preserved; and
2. If it has to be forced upon people it is not a culture.
1. A culture that has ceased to innovate and is blind to other creative influence is dead. It is preserved in the sense that stuffed animals are preserved; and
2. If it has to be forced upon people it is not a culture.
January 27, 2025 at 9:39 AM
What I do not understand about the enthusiasm for preservation of a "culture" is:
1. A culture that has ceased to innovate and is blind to other creative influence is dead. It is preserved in the sense that stuffed animals are preserved; and
2. If it has to be forced upon people it is not a culture.
1. A culture that has ceased to innovate and is blind to other creative influence is dead. It is preserved in the sense that stuffed animals are preserved; and
2. If it has to be forced upon people it is not a culture.
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Govt wants economic growth but silent on equitable distribution of income/wealth.
People are cash cows for the rich/corporations ... hired, dumped
Average UK real wage lower than in 2008. 16m live in poverty. Rich got richer
Can't get sustainable growth without improving the lot of the bottom 50%
People are cash cows for the rich/corporations ... hired, dumped
Average UK real wage lower than in 2008. 16m live in poverty. Rich got richer
Can't get sustainable growth without improving the lot of the bottom 50%
January 27, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Govt wants economic growth but silent on equitable distribution of income/wealth.
People are cash cows for the rich/corporations ... hired, dumped
Average UK real wage lower than in 2008. 16m live in poverty. Rich got richer
Can't get sustainable growth without improving the lot of the bottom 50%
People are cash cows for the rich/corporations ... hired, dumped
Average UK real wage lower than in 2008. 16m live in poverty. Rich got richer
Can't get sustainable growth without improving the lot of the bottom 50%
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1) follow @nikkimcr.bsky.social and the rest of the crew here at @rollingstone.com
2) feel free to google “Lord Rothermere Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler daily mail”
www.dailymail.co.uk/media/articl...
2) feel free to google “Lord Rothermere Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler daily mail”
www.dailymail.co.uk/media/articl...
Rolling Stone slammed for 'shameful' Trump inauguration headline
'Convicted felon sworn in as president,' the title insisted a little before 1pm - after Trump was sworn in for the second time in the crowded Capitol Rotunda.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 8:35 PM
1) follow @nikkimcr.bsky.social and the rest of the crew here at @rollingstone.com
2) feel free to google “Lord Rothermere Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler daily mail”
www.dailymail.co.uk/media/articl...
2) feel free to google “Lord Rothermere Benito Mussolini Adolf Hitler daily mail”
www.dailymail.co.uk/media/articl...
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Those who follow me know I’ve been calling out lies & challenging misinformation for many years. But even at its worst I’ve never known it this bad. I know many are feeling hopeless right now. But that’s what they want - to wear you down & make you give up. Don’t let them. We can beat this, TOGETHER
January 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Those who follow me know I’ve been calling out lies & challenging misinformation for many years. But even at its worst I’ve never known it this bad. I know many are feeling hopeless right now. But that’s what they want - to wear you down & make you give up. Don’t let them. We can beat this, TOGETHER
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❗ TODAY ❗
I'm proud to present my 🇪🇺 Youth Mobility Scheme Bill 🇬🇧 – a vital step to give young Brits the chance to live, work, and study across Europe.
The botched Brexit deal robbed them of these opportunities. It's time to fix that and reset our relationship with the EU.
I'm proud to present my 🇪🇺 Youth Mobility Scheme Bill 🇬🇧 – a vital step to give young Brits the chance to live, work, and study across Europe.
The botched Brexit deal robbed them of these opportunities. It's time to fix that and reset our relationship with the EU.
January 15, 2025 at 10:30 AM
❗ TODAY ❗
I'm proud to present my 🇪🇺 Youth Mobility Scheme Bill 🇬🇧 – a vital step to give young Brits the chance to live, work, and study across Europe.
The botched Brexit deal robbed them of these opportunities. It's time to fix that and reset our relationship with the EU.
I'm proud to present my 🇪🇺 Youth Mobility Scheme Bill 🇬🇧 – a vital step to give young Brits the chance to live, work, and study across Europe.
The botched Brexit deal robbed them of these opportunities. It's time to fix that and reset our relationship with the EU.
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2011-2023: 804 out of 816 care homes forcibly closed in England for endangering lives were run for profit.
2014-2023: 48 out of 53 children's care homes forcibly closed were run for profit.
Profits B4 people is corporate motto.
Yet Govts handing care homes, NHS to corporations.
End the scam.
January 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
2011-2023: 804 out of 816 care homes forcibly closed in England for endangering lives were run for profit.
2014-2023: 48 out of 53 children's care homes forcibly closed were run for profit.
Profits B4 people is corporate motto.
Yet Govts handing care homes, NHS to corporations.
End the scam.
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So the corporate global food system makes us fat
And then big Pharma makes us thin again
Just one more example of how we need to take power back from these corporations who are interested in their profits not our well-being
And then big Pharma makes us thin again
Just one more example of how we need to take power back from these corporations who are interested in their profits not our well-being
January 15, 2025 at 7:54 AM
So the corporate global food system makes us fat
And then big Pharma makes us thin again
Just one more example of how we need to take power back from these corporations who are interested in their profits not our well-being
And then big Pharma makes us thin again
Just one more example of how we need to take power back from these corporations who are interested in their profits not our well-being
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ALL sexual offences are abhorrent, but this confirms what most of us know because we can think critically.
'Most grooming gang offences carried out by white men', police chiefs say.
So Musk, Farage etc al. can get directly to fuck.
'Most grooming gang offences carried out by white men', police chiefs say.
So Musk, Farage etc al. can get directly to fuck.
January 15, 2025 at 12:24 AM
ALL sexual offences are abhorrent, but this confirms what most of us know because we can think critically.
'Most grooming gang offences carried out by white men', police chiefs say.
So Musk, Farage etc al. can get directly to fuck.
'Most grooming gang offences carried out by white men', police chiefs say.
So Musk, Farage etc al. can get directly to fuck.
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"We need to start understanding that Elon Musk’s X is a weapon, currently owned by a non-state entity. But from January 20 that changes. At that point it must be understood as information warfare from a hostile nation state."
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
Total information collapse
It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.
open.substack.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"We need to start understanding that Elon Musk’s X is a weapon, currently owned by a non-state entity. But from January 20 that changes. At that point it must be understood as information warfare from a hostile nation state."
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
@carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.
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💯 This 👇
Powerful stuff from cartoonist Ella Baron in @theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM
💯 This 👇
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This is so relevant today
January 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
This is so relevant today