The Random Coyle

Damn right. There's still time to transform a wasted govt into a transformational one. It's not as though nobody knows what needs doing, or we're lacking ideas about how.

Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.

The End of Morgan McSweeney: Peter Oborne on Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff As McSweeney resigns, we re-publish Peter Oborne’s Byline Times reporting on how Keir Starmer's chief strategist drove Labour towards defeat by the far-right

Our great @bylinetimes.bsky.social diarist Peter Oborne spotted the problem with McSweeney back in August 2024. Here's 18 months of his coverage of Keir Starmer's Departing Chief of Staff
open.substack.com/pub/bylinesu...

The Government must reveal all details of Peter Mandelson’s links to Palantir - Foxglove Sign the petition for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm?

I just signed a petition calling for an urgent investigation into Peter Mandelson's dealings with Palantir. Did he use his position as UK Ambassador to benefit the US spy tech firm? Sign now: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ma...

Four images of ceramic vessels each with an individual design and geometric patterning in orange black and white

Native American Acoma pottery, vase, by ceramics artist Paula Estevan #WomensArt

Painting of a golden sunrise or sunset over mountains in silhouette reflected in the sea by the shore

'Red on the Cuillins' by Pam Carter, painter who was known for her Scottish landscapes #WomensArt

General legislation that can strip anyone's peerage due to misconduct please, it's long overdue

Stop saying underage women.
They are children.

And yet, in the House of Lords, we still have Lebedev - a national security risk if ever there was one; Mone - who defrauded all of us of tens of millions - and countless other unsavoury characters elevated by Johnson, Cameron and all the rest of their corrupt ilk.

Supporters of the House of Lords should tell us why Lord Mandelson, Baroness Mone, Lord Houchen, Lord Lebedev and Baroness Owen deserve to be unelected lawmakers for the rest of their lives

JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein.

Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009.

After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client.

Must be investigated.
archive.is/rzjnQ

Corridor care isn’t a winter issue. It’s happening all year, every year.

Patients are treated without dignity.
Staff are pushed beyond breaking point.

This is a national emergency.
Corridor care must end.

📮 Send the letter. Demand change.
➡️ everydoctor.eaction.org.uk/end-corridor...

Mandelson’s Fifth Column The British government’s business department exists to undermine democracy.

1. In 2009 I wrote this. I argued that Peter Mandelson's department “functions as a fifth column within government, working for corporations to undermine democracy and the public interest.”
This thread explains what I saw, and reaches a startling conclusion.🧵
www.monbiot.com/2009/05/04/m...

Can almost imagine myself there 💕

F*** off.
#TheNightManager

Happy Birthday Peter! x

Happy Birthday Peter! X

Do Americans know that routine, fatal violence is not a normal part of life in most democracies? Do they get that normal civilians lying dead and bleeding on pavements is an occasional horror met with total disgust and seriousness in much of the world, and not just a natural consequence of life?

Kingsman: The Golden Sausage

wow. amazing.

the "unhinged rant" from 2:45 to 3:20 should probably win journalism awards.

an insight into both how the media is covering... and should be covering... events and other murders in the US.

have a listen!

10/10.

Sorry ... what the actual fuck?!

'Professional astronomers didn’t notice HD 137010 b because the algorithms they used assumed that Kepler would catch multiple transits, not just one. “It was completely missed,” Venner says. “The best way to detect it was to actually just look.” ' 😍

Paul Scholes

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.

“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.”

-Wilhoit's Law

The same people who said that the mass murder of children in schools was a sad but necessary price to enable citizens to bear arms and oppose tyranny are now saying that if you carry a gun it’s your fault if you’re murdered.

Bernice King has it absolutely right. We are facing a moral crisis in this country. And we must all act together to end it.

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.

Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now