Pip

People in Los Angeles have been protesting 24 hours for 2 weeks straight and no news outlet is covering it!
8/8/25

Pecksniff: The ‘Up Yours, Starmer’ party: three weeks old and already needs a relaunch In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

* Corbyn launches a party with no name
* Galloway pounces
* Farage called “radical”
* Lowe mistakes charity rowers for migrants.

All this and more in this week's Pecksniff’s diary. It's a real corker, enjoy!

GP UNEMPLOYMENT

No record of employment in GP practices
19% of 2018/2020
27% of 2021
31% of 2022
33% of 2023
46% of 2024

6900 qualified GP in are either back in hospitals, locums, left UK or unemployed - such a waste of training

Graphic from 2018-2025

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Russian football clubs secure €10.8m in Uefa ‘solidarity’ funds since Ukraine invasion Exclusive: Five Ukraine clubs failed to win similar payments due to allegedly being located in ‘zone of military operations’

russian football clubs secure €10.8m in Uefa ‘solidarity’ funds since Ukraine invasion

by Daniel Boffey

Five #Ukraine clubs failed to win similar payments due to allegedly being located in ‘zone of military operations’

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

By design, dispensing taxes to benefit a select, already wealthy few.

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive. threads.com/@unapologeticallyzae

Claire's files for bankruptcy as online competition bites The colourful accessories chain says sales are down as online competitors and higher costs eat into profits.

Private equity controlled Claire's,
selling jewellery, ear- piercing and colourful accessories, files for bankruptcy in North America.

Victim of huge pile of debt, online competition and Trump's crazy tariffs on imports.

How many more will follow?

Eyewitness video showed smoke rising over the French coastline as a wildfire rages in the Aude region, near the Spanish border.

#wildfire #smoke #Aude #France #climate #environment

This isn't new.

UKIP and the Brexit Party did it.

But boy oh boy the price has gone up

A volcano on Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula has begun erupting for the first time in 600 years.

According to local scientists, the eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano sent an ash plume up to 6,000 meters into the sky.

Reform UK’s new councillor Sam Journet has been raising eyebrows with his conspiracy claims online and apparently being intoxicated during a Civic Service, even heckling a vicar.

Weird.

Elon Musk Amplifies Bizarre Claim That 'Women Are Built To Be Traded' It's all happening on X, the everything app.

Still think owning a Tesla or using Twitter/X is a good idea?

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/elon-m...

This is a billionaire-funded Tony Blair lobbying project being funnelled unchallenged onto the front page of a national newspaper.
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Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

Read the full story from @lucasamin.bsky.social and me on how foreign billionaires are using UK companies to bankroll British politics in Democracy for Sale today.

If you want to help us keep digging, subscribe, too 😀 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics The Elon Musk-shaped hole in Starmer’s Election Bill

🔴 NEW: Foreign billionaires are using UK companies to pour millions into British politics — legally.

We found £6m+ in political donations from UK firms owned by foreign nationals — people who can’t vote in Britain.

New on Democracy for Sale (🧵)

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

Philippe Lazzarini: "The GHF is an organisation composed of mercenaries who do not comply with basic humanitarian principles, such as the principle of humanity, impartiality or independence"

Durham Council staff 'wanting to leave or retire' after Reform UK threats about jobs Council staff have considered leaving their roles or retiring early after comments from Reform UK leaders, a councillor has claimed.

Durham Council staff 'wanting to leave or retire' after Reform UK threats about jobs

www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2535958...

Durham Council control, the Reform way going well then, with your experienced Council Staff running for the hills...👀

Let’s repost this so others see what he looks like!
A thug.

Russian Telegram channels report a drone attack and fire at Rosneft oil depot in Adler area, Krasnodar region of Russia, not far from Sochi airport.

BBC News, "The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest"

"In most these cases, the victim was under 12 years old"

Russian Infiltration of Jeffrey Epstein’s Circle, and the Big Tech Play - Part One Two Russian women in Epstein’s circle connect directly to Russian intelligence and Putin’s developing information warfare

Russian Infiltration of Jeffrey Epstein’s Circle, and the Big Tech Play - Part One

Two Russian women in Epstein’s circle connect directly to Russian intelligence and Putin’s developing information warfare

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Making your mind up ... usually takes 2wks...

The world of make-believe politics.

Reform promises to frack £110b gas field in Gainsborough Mayor Andrea Jenkyns says Reform UK will clear the way to tapping a huge gas field in Gainsborough if they win the next General Election.

Andrea Fracking Jenkyns

Reform UK Mayor promises to frack £110b gas field in Gainsborough

www.lincolnshireworld.com/news/environ...

Four alternatives to Spotify: swapping is easier than you think Artists and listeners are leaving the platform after its CEO invested in defence technology. Here are your options – along with how to keep your playlists

I get why people are leaving Spotify, but another reason to leave would be: no-one gets paid. Only Bandcamp pays artists. The rest expect you to supply them with content for free. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Starvation in Gaza as Israel’s ‘tactical pause’ allows limited aid Sir Keir Starmer says he and President Trump agreed at their meeting that humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza "at scale and pace".

Starvation in Gaza as Israel’s ‘tactical pause’ allows limited aid
www.channel4.com/news/starvat...