David

£240m. With no tender. Palantir.

I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers.

Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal.

Palantir out.

Palestine Action protesters not guilty of defence firm burglary The group are cleared of aggravated burglary over the alleged raid at an Elbit Systems warehouse.

Pleased to see the jury make this decision.

We need to have eyes wide open this is exactly why the Government wants to abolish juries.

People protesting against a genocide are not the criminals here - it's the politicians who continue to provide cover.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our teams across #Gaza received seven patients, including two children, with injuries from Israeli attacks, in just three days, between Jan. 31 and Feb. 2, 2026.

Hundreds of people have been killed since the #ceasefire agreement.

POWERFUL: With snow falling in freezing weather in Chicago last night, the massive anti-ICE/Border Patrol rally wrapped up in front of City Hall as the energized crowd chanted, "I believe that we will win!"

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

In 2025, 1,348 attacks were carried out on medical facilities, resulting in the deaths of 1,981 people.

Watch our documentary series “Again and Again” which reveal attacks against healthcare and their devastating consequences: https://ow.ly/o87P50Y1aar

Calais exposes our moral failure on migration. We can and... A visit to the French town’s makeshift migrant encampments made it clear that we need a new vision for the new year

"The question is whether political leaders are brave enough to speak the truth?

Immigration is good for this country and that we have a clear, moral responsibility to protect those failed by global injustice and political neglect."

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Nurses being left behind on pay progression, costing lives, money and the professions' future, union warns NURSES are being left behind on pay progression, with a lack of consistent career development costing lives, money and the future of the profession, a damning new study has warned.The Left Behind repo...

"Nurses being left behind on pay progression, costing lives, money and the professions' future, union warns"
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nurs...

Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital MPs and next of kin of prisoners Amu Gib, 30, and Kamran Ahmed, 28, call for immediate government intervention

Their demands are reasonable, their treatment is disgraceful. The government's intransigence is killing the #PalestineAction hunger strikers. Just as its complicity has assisted the genocide in Gaza. It needs to wake up right now to the moral consequences.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Fox hunting is a revolting sport. It's only survived in any form because it's done by ghastly, entitled, influential and aristocratic people who feel it's the God given right to charge about the place in silly costumes tearing animals apart for no good reason.

WHO warns that approximately 100,000 children and 37,000 pregnant women will continue to suffer from malnutrition due to Israeli policies that use food deprivation as a form of collective punishment.

Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...

This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027.
And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...

Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns Hundreds of doctors, dozens of MPs and thousands of everyday Britons call on the justice secretary to intervene.

Palestine Action hunger strikers are ‘dying’ in prison, UK doctor warns

A doctor in contact with the activists says six are at a critical stage, two of whom have refused food for almost seven weeks.

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12...

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Floods and landslides on the western Indonesian island of Sumatra continue to cause devastation and displace thousands of families from their homes.

If millionaires had paid
their proper taxes
for the last 50 years
there could now be

No poverty, homelessness, unemployment
Much less crime, war, climate disasters

The problem isn’t migrants
The problem always has been
The insatiable greed of the super rich

#TaxTheRich
#SocialistSunday

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%

There is one overriding political problem, from which all others follow. Until it is addressed, every policy advanced by governments is window dressing.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay.

See the problem?

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem
Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836
UK Government Art Collection

This is how our government has been corrupted:

1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat

We must get big money out of politics.

It is the root of our dysfunction.

An excellent programme, thank you. It would be great to do a show with some more in-depth examples of the misinformation done around climate change.

On the show this week:

• The escalating Israeli settler violence that’s simply not getting enough coverage

• Why are some media outlets helping Trump make the case for war with Venezuela?

• Elisa Morgera on #COP30 and the hold Big Oil has on our information systems

Watch ▶ youtu.be/QuXlRamOlzc

Clothing Bans and Logic

Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him.

Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?

Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.

At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.

Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.