tim

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@tim199.bsky.social

#FBPE 🌟 Forever 🇪🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧 Former nurse and chemist No DMs

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Vultures given keys to morgue “Why was a major government supplier allowed to help shape the rules governing how the department buys its products, with little public scrutiny?” 'Revealed: Palantir led secret review of how the MoD spends billions' democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-p...

democracyforsale.substack.comRevealed: Palantir led secret review of how the MoD spends billionsThe Ministry of Defence asked the controversial US tech firm how to fix its procurement rules. Its answer? Fewer obstacles for companies like Palantir

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Vote, but don't believe that all your problems can solved at the ballot box, even if your candidate always wins. The workers of the 20's, 30's and 40's knew that direct action, strikes, protests, sit-ins were essential. We MUST re-learn that lesson.

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This makes me physically sick

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Coverage of Jason Arday’s alleged plagiarism gets nominated for a Press Gazette Award, lauded by Toby Young who called him “the gift who keeps on giving” Meanwhile, Arday cleared of plagiarism Our media is sick and broken bylinetimes.com/2026/10/21/j...

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Mark Zuckerberg needs to go to prison for a long, long time. He is blatantly interfering in elections in the US, Brazil and all across the world. The only message they will hear is prison. Let him try fix elections from there.

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Tactical voting advice for by-elections on Thursday 29th October: #StopReformUK stopreformuk.vote

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk

Six council by-elections are taking place this week: 🙋 Mid Argyll (Argyll & Bute) 🌹 Worksop East (Bassetlaw) ➡️ St James (Dudley) 🔶 Beechwood & Heath (Halton) 🌳 Dover Beck (Newark & Sherwood) 🌳 Southwell (Nottinghamshire) electionmaps.uk/council-by-e...

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Yet another poll showing a strong Labour lead. Conservatives consigning Reform to third place. Lib Dems cementing fourth place with a sizeable lead over Greens in fifth place.

Election Maps UK@electionmaps.uk

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 28% (=) CON: 24% (+1) RFM: 23% (+1) LDM: 11% (+1) GRN: 7% (-1) RES: 5% (=) SNP: 2% (-1) Via @moreincommonuk.bsky.social, 23-26 Oct. Changes w/ 16-19 Oct.

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🚨 BREAKING PMQs🚨 Burnham: "What I won't do, Mr. Speaker, is defend the deal negotiated by the Right Honourable Lady and the government she was in" "Which in my view gave us a harder Brexit than was promised at the referendum, and has been bad for growth and bad for control of immigration."

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Why did Reform MPs vote against banning zero-hours contracts and giving workers sick pay from day one? Why did Farage repeatedly defend Trump and praise Putin? Why have several Reform councillors already faced scandals over extreme statements posted online? hopenothate.org.uk/stop-reform/

hopenothate.org.ukReform UK’s surge is a wake up call – it’s time to actReform UK is growing faster than anyone expected. Our new MRP polling shows that if a General Election were held tomorrow, they could win up to 76 seats—potentially surging to 169 if they gain just 3%...

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🚨Andy Burnham says the Tories' hard Brexit deal is directly to blame for the country's low growth and insufficient control on migration at PMQs and will pursue a better deal at the UK-EU summit. "That is the difference between this side and that - we stand up for British interests"

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We did it! I've been campaigning to scrap the Vagrancy Act since 2018, after Oxford students and a charity called On Your Doorstep came to me raising how homeless people were being criminalised for sleeping rough. Today, Crisis hosted a celebration in Parliament to mark this historic change.

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Perhaps interviewers who expose Truss budget madness would like to ask Nigel Farage why he said "Today was the best Conservative budget since 1986" just hours before it cost UK public finances ~ £30 trillion

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Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt to conduct any inquiry into the media’s role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isn’t just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure

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The Reform UK economic plan in full Pure anti-Robin Hood pro discredited trickle down economics while removing all regulations ensuring they'll be lots more Hillsborough, Grenfell, Post Office Horizon, Covid PPE fraud, etc etc scandals meme via News Thump

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📌 ICYMI — Three Labour Peers Spoke at a Festival Sponsored by a Reform Mega-Donor – And Which Hosted a Far-Right Bookshop — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Labour MP Phil Brickell says “no respectable person” should be associated with the event and accuses his colleagues of "legitimising" Reform's…

bylinetimes.comThree Labour Peers Spoke at a Festival Sponsored by a Reform Mega-Donor – And Which Hosted a…Labour MP Phil Brickell says “no respectable person” should be associated with the event and accuses his colleagues of "legitimising" Reform's billionaire crypto donor

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Three-quarters of the responses to the 2023 UK govt consultation on the tobacco and vapes bill were machine-generated. 90,835 of the 118,756 responses were by bots. Corporations have a new tool for subverting polices and public opinion; to increase profits, spread addiction, health hazards.

theguardian.comAI bots flooded 2023 UK government consultation on disposable vapes banThree-quarters of all responses were machine-generated in failed attempt to stop bill from passing into law, research finds

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Apart from Reform and the Tories… Jenrick cannot *ever* be honest about freedom of movement. He was a Tory immigration minister who oversaw a record high in net migration and who voted Remain in 2016. His whole political career is built on scheming bullshit. www.independent.co.uk/voices/andy-...

independent.co.ukEveryone has (finally) stopped pretending freedom of movement is a bad ideaYou can come out from behind the sofa – a prime minister is actually now willing to make the case that temporary, circular European migration might just have been a sensible policy after all, says Ava...

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A dangerous 'militiaman' wanted criminal fleeing justice is believed to be on his way to the US. He has links to organized crime and will try enter the US illegally. He should be apprehended and deported.

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just heartbreaking stuff Alex Pretti's mother calls out ICE and the Trump administration for killing her son and smearing his name, and calls for justice to be done.

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Putin: “Russia is exploring the possibility of cooperation with the US in the Arctic.” Just a reminder of Trump’s lies that he wanted Greenland to keep Russia out of the Arctic.

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Well, well, well... 80% of "donations" to Nigel Farage’s party are from donors or companies based overseas. This is not normal. And the public deserves to know what these super-rich donors want back in return.

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Big Oil buys off Congress. No action on climate. Big Pharma buys off Congress. No action on health care. Big Tech buys off Congress. No action on AI safety. But we can begin to course correct by electing leaders on Nov. 3 who represent the people, not big money. Let's get it done.

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Cuba has better Healthcare, Life Expectancy, Lower Crime and a lower Murder rate than the USA. Even with their 60 year trade embargo from the USA. The only disaster is the USA.

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🇧🇷 Lula's victory is a victory of democracy over authoritarianism. 🌎 A victory for the climate over ecological destruction. 💪 A victory for the most vulnerable in society against the most privileged.

theguardian.comThe Guardian view on Lula’s comeback: a victory for Brazil and the world, as well as a Trump rebuff | EditorialEditorial: A fourth presidential victory gives Lula another chance to defend democracy, protect the Amazon and deliver f

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Today Alex Pretti's mother appealed for justice for her son, murdered when he was shot in the back multiple times while on the ground. This blatant murder has been protected from any investigation by the War Criminal Donald Trump.

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FYI‼️ Jason Arday has been cleared of plagiarism for a fourth time. Just incase you haven’t heard it from the same media outlets who hounded him to his death.

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Hopefully other media organisations will now report on this finding that there was no plagiarism in Professor Arday's 2020 paper - only a correction issue in 2024 - despite a successful campaign to reopen an investigation this summer

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Update from the publishers: "In August, a preliminary investigation was opened to consider concerns raised with us about the article... Following further review and in agreement with the journal’s editors, we concluded that there were no grounds for adding to the correction notice published in 2024"

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Might start a petition to get him a full refund from Yale.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance says of the Middle East that it's "a region of the world made up of countries whose name I couldn't even pronounce"