Jim Garven

Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax break...

While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma: 38d.gs/5urg

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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Global policy responses to antimicrobial resistance, 2021–22: a systematic governance analysis of 161 countries and territories Most countries have endorsed a national action plan (NAP) on antimicrobial resistance. We previously used a governance framework to assess NAPs on ant…

New Lancet ID article led by Jay Patel on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delicious, free, clean tap water. Come to Scotland and you'll see what's possible. Save your money for actual wine, or a green smoothie.

Why, you might ask, do the BBC and Sky News, casting their editorial guidelines to the wind, keep giving massive airtime to the far right, while shutting out leftwing voices? Don't their bosses understand the likely consequences?
Only one explanation now remains.
They do.
And it is what they want.

Keir Starmer: Don't Break Your Promise, Introduce the Hillsborough Law NOW! The new Hillsborough Law is aimed at improving transparency and accountability of public bodies in the aftermath of major disasters. Keir Starmer promised last year, the new law would be introduced be...

Nearly a year after Keir Starmer promised it, the Hillsborough Law is yet to be introduced. Families deserve honesty and accountability. Can you join me today and sign the petition? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ke...

BBC Scot🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 are back to NHS today. Scratching about for crumbs to make us bad. Fortunately we have #SNP . Might be problems but, they can be solved with #independence to manage on our own
The World must be scratching their heads wondering why we let another country rule us .

Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

"This was an experiment by a kindergarten class. They dropped seeds in the cracks of the sidewalk to see what would happen.
This would help our bees "
via I Love Bees

I’ve always assumed his Scots accent was real, so was he Scots/Canadian like some of my kin?

I asked Streeting's DHSC for "any previous draft versions of the Appleby Report and any internal departmental correspondence and communications, including emails, relating to it."

*Three months* later - the Act gives them 20 days - DHSC has refused saying it will cost >£600 to comply. #ItsACoverUp

Not main point but very revealing that Laura Kuenssberg keeps on talking about the "child benefit cap" in *tax credits* (it's Universal Credit, and has been for most claimants for some time).

Reflects both very poor briefing *and* her complete ignorance of the topics she asks questions about..

Way to go Greenland 👏

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If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Reform UK can learn from low crime Scotland not Dubai or UAE The international drugs cartel made at home in Dubai. Professor John Robertson OBA From BBC Politics, two days ago: Reform UK deputy leader Richard Tice has said the UK could learn from Dubai&#8217…

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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect": Frank Wilhoit.

The conservative in-group which others transness enjoys wealth, the media and patriarchal norms.

On May 15, Palestinians mark the Nakba. What began in 1948 remains the world’s longest unresolved refugee crisis.

Image of Grieg Street Bridge in Inverness on a clear day with part of the Inverness skyline. Text across the image says Independence is normal. Believe in Scotland

🌍 Independence is normal.

The Court of Appeal ruled on 2 May anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are UNLAWFUL

The Government has still not confirmed if it will accept the judgement & scrap these unlawful regulations which they opposed in opposition

Why the delay?

BREAKING: The politicians who take thousands of pounds in expenses and stuff their faces at a tax-payer subsidised canteen and get drunk at a tax-payer subsidised bar and enjoy a tax-payer subsidised second home want you to know it's wrong to take handouts from the state x

Lady in glasses criticises Reform and then Labour #BBCQT

"The only thing we hear from Reform are big statements, but there's never a clear plan, on how they are going to do it"

"Why have Labour targeted the disabled, the poor, the old, all of the vulnerable people"

The total destruction of Gaza has imo always been the Netanyahu plan & why Oct 7th was allowed to go ahead despite Israel’s much vaunted defence & security systems.

And yet he’s untouchable it seems. What a sad state of affairs in the U.S.

With the connivance & assistance of the U.S, UK & other Western governments! Shame on all of them!

Very well said!