Jan29

Not surprising Farage hasn't bothered to announce a health spokesperson - his entire team is populated by politicians who broke the NHS.

They've also forgotten about a foreign affairs spokesperson, but I guess they will take their orders straight from Trump's White House anyway.

In 2026, some Western politicians lecturing us (Muslims) on how to live peacefully with Jews!

Read some history.

Oliver Kornetzke on Donald Trump

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records.

Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'.

Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract.

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

With ICE attacking protesters and snatching people off the streets, it’s clear: World Cup fans and players won’t be safe in Trump's US. Demand European countries to boycott the US World Cup matches - unless they are moved. action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-02...

"Scotland just delivered one of the most powerful clean-energy statements in modern history. On multiple occasions, the country’s wind turbines generated around 200% of national electricity demand, producing far more power than Scotland itself needed"
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via Fact World

Apparently, Tesla moved from California to Texas so they can dump toxic waste water on their neighbors without fear of any consequences.

It’s outrageous that we can't kick out Lords. Sign now to demand an elected second chamber It takes 30 seconds

Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social‬'s call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...

This will come back and bite the UK in the arse.
Stupidity doesn’t even begin to explain this decision.

UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption Countries’ drop in scores in annual table comes amid ‘worrying trend’ of backsliding in established democracies

Oh

YouTube video by MeidasTouch FURIOUS Zelenskyy STRIKES BACK at Trump’s SECRET SURRENDER!!

What Trump (the man of “peace” - not really!) is actually doing to betray Ukraine!😡 How come his son-in-law gets to play such a prominent part in any negotiations? He’s not an elected official.
Listen to this podcast from yesterday.

🇺🇸 is not a 🇬🇧 or 🇪🇺 ally or friend!😡
🇺🇦✊🕊️

youtu.be/QPq5O44cWE8?...

The great Ministry of Defence-to-Palantir pipeline Senior defence officials are moving into Palantir roles as the company secures ever-deeper footholds across government

😡 Four former defence insiders hired by Palantir in a single year.

A £240m MoD contract awarded without competition.

A “strategic partnership” announced soon after.

The revolving door between defence and big tech is spinning fast.

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Donald Trump creates fund to boost MAGA agenda in UK A US "free speech" fund is set to push Donald Trump's right-wing agenda in the UK and Europe, with Reform UK's involvement, reports have…

Anyone want the US version of ICE patrolling the streets & killing people? Want a truly fascist dictatorship 👇That's what Reform are

Donald Trump creates fund to boost MAGA agenda in UK
www.thenational.scot/news/2583163...

Palantir and NHS: BMA to tell members to limit use of tech system Doctors should not engage with any aspect of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) outside direct patient care because of its links to the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the BMA says. The unio...

#BMJExclusive: Doctors should not engage with any aspect of the NHS Federated Data Platform outside direct patient care because of its links to the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the BMA says
https://bit.ly/3OnZxcG

Expensive gas still biggest driver of high UK electricity bills High gas prices, not green policies, remain the main reason UK households are paying more for electricity

Network costs are rising as the grid expands, but analysis shows gas remains the single biggest driver of high bills, not green policies, as some politicians on the right claim.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington's policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech. Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to Europe in December to meet influential rightwing think-tanks and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage's populist Reform UK party about deploying a pot of money to spread American values, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The funding was linked to the 250th anniversary celebrations of US independence later this year, the people said. It is likely to cause consternation among Washington's allies, particularly centre-left governments such as Labour in the UK, which will be concerned that US government funds are being deployed to undermine their policies.

Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.

Senior state department official Sarah Rogers travelled to European cities in December and has spoken to key figures in Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party about deploying grants to spread ‘American values’. ft.trib.al/Kx8ta8a

Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures

“Rows of gravestones have been removed, the topsoil has been churned up and a substantial earth berm can be seen running across the middle of the affected area. It is of a size that suggests the use of heavy equipment.”

I know the govt is in meltdown again…

but meanwhile I wrote about how their immigration policies create a subclass of migrant workers exposed to abuse in an increasingly “Dubai-style” rightless immigration model

& I explain what to do about it

Most of our media is studiously ignoring the Epstein links to Brexit, Farage and far right populism. Farage is being touted for No.10. He wants an even more extreme Brexit. A race to the bottom to sell us out to this global network of oligarch crooks.
Why TF isn’t he being investigated and stopped?

Dear @washingtonpost.com
journalists. Solidarity on a terrible day. But also: it’s an opportunity. The @theguardian.com also fucked over its journalists last year.

Months later, 5 of us launched @thenerve.news - with zero £ - & it’s working! Rebuild your own media from the ground up 👊👊👊

Mandelson should lose pension if he broke EU rules in Epstein scandal, campaigners say European officials are “assessing” whether the ex-commissioner contravened the ethics code.

🚨🚨 #Mandelson falls even more in disgrace as @ec.europa.eu is examining and will likely conclude that British politician broke the EU Ethics code due to his contact with convicted sex offender Jeffrey #Epstein. This is welcome news: 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/mand...

Alex Burghart MP has now called for a review of the circumstances around the award of Palantir's £240m defence contract, and asked why Mandelson's visit to Palantir's offices in Washington was kept off the books while the company was being represented by his firm, Global Council.

‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh Search in: Everywhere Authors Headings

‘Guilty of not betraying Ukraine’. Russia’s supreme court imposes 13-year sentence against Oksana Hladkykh
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France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US European governments are moving away from U.S. tech giants, opting for domestic or open-source alternatives.

"In France, civil servants will ditch #Zoom & #Teams for a homegrown 📹 conference system. Soldiers in Austria are using #OpenSource office software to write reports after the military dropped #Microsoft Office. Bureaucrats in a German state have also turned to free software for their admin work." 1/

UK Government Repeatedly Undermined Rights in 2025 The Labour government in the UK, during its first full year in authority has carried out punitive immigration policies that have emboldened the far right, an authoritarian crackdown on protest rights,...

2025 review of UK by @hrw.org: “A lot of people are shocked by the authoritarian direction this government has taken.”

"Repressive anti-protest laws and the misuse of anti-terrorism legislation undermined freedom of expression, assembly, and association".

www.hrw.org/news/2026/02...

Cost of UK’s drug price with US will come out of NHS budget Department of health, not Treasury, will foot the bill – with costs forecast to reach £9bn

Cost of UK’s drug price with US will come out of NHS budget

This email between Epstein and JD Vance’s tech oligarch benefactor Peter Thiel where they plan to “collapse” society to create investment opportunities for themselves seems… not great

(They also met with the UN ambassador to Russia together)

If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labour’s cowardice | George Monbiot Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he won’t. All the party has left are threats about ‘splitting the vote’, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...