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Multilayered protections for everyone.

Yearning for the days when public health protected public health.
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👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽

Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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For accurate science, follow the advice of your healthcare provider, &/or
@cidrap.bsky.social
&/or
@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
&/or
@ylepidemiologist.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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New polling by Opinium on behalf of @europeanmovement.co.uk shows that, among British adults who felt Brexit had been harmful to the UK, more than three-quarters favoured the UK joining the Single Market and Customs Union as a way to lower the tax burden and boost money for public services.
New poll shows 75% favour joining single market to lower taxes
Of British adults who feel Brexit has been harmful to the UK, over 75% favour the UK joining the Single Market and Customs Union as a way to lower the tax burden and boost money for public services.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Sovereignty? Democracy? Sorry, but we can't afford those anymore. We'll be sued if we try to defend them.
This week's column is about a massive but scarcely-covered scandal.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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For all the focus on its supposed “left wing bias”, the BBC’s heavy coverage of Rachel Reeves Budget "lies" shows how its political coverage is still largely led by the right-wing press

bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/r...
Rachel Reeves and the Daily Mailification of the BBC
For all the focus on its supposed "left wing bias", the BBC's heavy coverage of Conservative allegations of dishonesty against Rachel Reeves shows how its political coverage is still largely led by th...
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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You should pretend to be from GB News…
I'm at a Kemi Badenoch event where *yet again* the Guardian has not got a question. Aside from broadcasters it was Mail, Sun and FT (the latter presumably only because we're at an accountancy body in the City). I've probably been to seven or eight such events with no question.
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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We've created a simple tool so you can find out whether your local NHS trust is using Palantir's software and asking them to resist Wes Streeting's push to sign up for it. goodlaw.social/zr8w
Stop Palantir in the NHS | Good Law Project
NHS trusts are rolling out Palantir software, but we’re fighting back
goodlaw.social
December 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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Mason declares that in his judgement we have been misled by Rachel Reeves.

It feels unprecedented that the BBC has made a "call" on a story, and is something that was absent throughout the terms of notorious liars such as Johnson.

There were certainly no "calls" about Brexit lies.

#r4today
December 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Another criminal ‘patriot’ - He’s being pursued for an eight-year sentence in Spain over claims of fraud and membership of a criminal group.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
December 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Labour has announced a crackdown on benefit fraud. Just like the Tories in 1992. And Labour in 1997. And the coalition in 2013. And the Tories in 2023. And Labour last year. Wash, rinse, repeat.
December 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Absolutely right.
It’s clear to anyone paying attention that Farage won’t investigate the Russian infiltration of Reform.

The Prime Minister must step up and launch a national investigation.
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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"UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B

OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings"

Hurrah! More pointless wasteful government spaffage. So glad that Labour turned out to be nothing like the Tories.

www.theregister.com/2025/11/28/d...
UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B
: OBR says the scheme will cost £600M a year with no identified savings
www.theregister.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Badenoch typically hypocritical calling Reeves a liar given she lied as Trade Minister she was in Trade Negotiations with Canada and then had to apologise when Canada furiously said it was not

As Business Sec she lied over the Post Office Horizon scandal

Being so arrogant she thinks we forgot 🙄
Minister insists Rachel Reeves did not mislead public in Budget build-up
Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been accused of over-stating the UK's financial problems in the build-up to the Budget - Darren Jones insists she did not lie.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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It was six years ago today that a man in Wuhan, China began feeling ill.

He would become the first known COVID case.

Covid is still with us. It’s still killing and disabling.

Clean the air. Wear a mask. Get your boosters.

Public health is a social justice issue.
November 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Sometimes I imagine what it would have been like had we adapted to Covid instead of giving up.

If we had clean air in public spaces.
Respirators in healthcare.
Free masks for those who need them.
Better tests & treatment.
Paid time off.

We would all be healthier.
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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Alongside declining polls for Reform, the good news about the Telegraph’s volte face on Brexit is that it gives Labour political cover from the far right to reapply to rejoin the EU. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster'
We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Stunned.

What WERE the chances?
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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If the Telegraph can do this, why can’t #BBC journalists challenge all politicians who bemoan our lack of growth on the elephant in the room: the damage of #Brexit+what can be done to repair it? @omrgriffiths @Nshallice @dianamartinbbc @JonathanAspinw1 @JohntNeal @jonathancmunro
November 29, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Just think it’s a bit weird that society has been brainwashed in to thinking that rich people and massive corporations having a bit less money is the main thing we need to avoid no matter what.
November 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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The Telegraph denounces Brexit as ‘unmitigated economic disaster’

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/the...
Told you so! The Telegraph denounces Brexit as 'unmitigated economic disaster'
We've now got The Telegraph joining the Brexit resistance, after the formerly pro-leave paper ripped into its 'near-disastrous' consequences.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The right to trial by jury has been a fundamental feature of the British Justice System for over 800 years. Any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom - a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism - must be opposed
🚨Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. We must come together - cross party - to stop any attempt by the government to undermine this fundamental freedom
youtu.be/QdD9LaAN19A?...
Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy - We must fight any attempt to undermine it
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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They're all kicking off.

The last gaps of the old broken system that protected their power & wealth.

Change is coming.

Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Annnd it happens yet again..😡

Days after calling for Rayner to resign re stamp duty, Farage was exposed not owning #Clacton house alleged to owe £40K stamp duty

Within days story killed back to attacking Labour

Last week exposed for racism, within days back to attacking Labour❗️

#MSMProReformBias
Rachel Reeves denies breaking Labour pledge and misleading public on Budget
The chancellor also says she was very upfront about the need to find extra money to deliver on the government's pledges.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM