Juliet Baker Sparks

Unbelievably this wasn’t even raised on SkyNews just now during the interview with Reform's head of policy Zia Yusuf.

If UK news shows won’t call this boll**** out let’s do it ourselves

My brother Garry has dementia and is currently lost somewhere in the Chester area. If anyone should spot him please call the police on 999. We'd appreciate reposts. @shitchester.bsky.social

I’m going to try to move through the rest of my life as if everyone I meet needs that kindness too. And I hope you might do so too. For maybe one in 500 people it will be really, really appreciated.

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps.

I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Not preparing for the next pandemic doesn't prevent pandemic from happening.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

After more than 1.2 Americans lost their lives to Covid, NIH director Jay Bhattacharya orders the agency to deprioritize pandemic preparedness & biodefense.

Make it make sense.

Scoop from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Horrible news. Each of these are future cases of horrible, painful, devastaing cervical cancer in the making.
This is a safe and hugely effective vaccine.

Notable how little UK Govt, and specifically the health secretary, have to say about this. No sense that they can shape public behaviour. Very passive.

It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.

How ADHD became a multimillion-pound industry for private equity NHS has become dependent on privately run services to diagnose ADHD and autism as patients given legal right to assessments under Right to Choose initiative

How ADHD became a multimillion-pound industry for private equity.

NHS handed £128m to private ADHD companies last year.

Just three private-equity backed providers of NHS ADHD services made profits £31.5m profit last year.

Public money buys less.

Must expand NHS capacity.

Hey @thetimes.com what is ’racism’ - surely depicting the Obamas as monkeys is just old fashioned racism?

The Mirror US screenshot: 'Disgusting' Trump posts racist clip of Obamas as monkeys during unhinged barrage in new low WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Donald Trump has received backlash for posting an 'incredibly racist' video targeting the Obamas during an unhinged Truth Social rampage

Trump is a vile racist bully

We should all condemn this without hesitation. But something tells me Farage will find a way to make excuses for his best mate Trump. I hope I’m wrong.

MI5 went to No 10 to warn the Prime Minister not to appoint him.

But the Prime Minister shrugged off the advice and appointed him anyway.

(2020 - Johnson and Lebedev.)

Jeffrey Epstein Co-Owned Venture Fund with Palantir Founder as it Entered UK Government The Russian connected convicted sex trafficker co-owned a fund with Peter Thiel, now embedded in Britain’s most critical infrastructure with the help of Peter Mandelson

"If Mandelson's links to Jeffrey Epstein disqualifies him from holding power, why does the company controlled by Epstein's business partner and co-owner retain access to the UK's most sensitive national security infrastructure?"

Peter Thiel. Jeffrey Epstein. Palantir. The UK Government.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power.

They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

This is preying on my mind a bit. Jeffrey Epstein was not primarily a British scandal! So far we've removed a Prince from the Royal family, fired our US ambassador who was one of the most important political figures of the last few decades and banned the CEO of Barclays from the financial industry..

I know we’ve gotten used to it, but this type of behavior is disgusting and people should speak up about it

Of course, this is his misogyny again since he reserves special venom for female reporters. It also comes right after I was thinking to myself that Kaitlan was hitting him with some of the best questions he’s faced in a while. bsky.app/profile/acyn...

Quick explainer : Kyiv is very big. VERY big. Metro covers only part of the city. There are whole districts that are very far from it. And even if station is in say 20 min walk it’s a blackout , -20 , ice everywhere . So no, you can’t just easily go to metro shelter every time

Talking to the dead is good. It is, so far as one can tell, bordering on normal. Having an AI pretending to be them talk back is just a recipe for never processing the loss.

'My gut feeling is we will see a death': Disability groups warn of severe cost of electricity 'People are making choices. Will I power my mobility wheelchair, or will I get a full food shop in this week, or will I turn the heating on?'

'My gut feeling is we will see a death': Disability groups warn of severe cost of electricity

'People are making choices. Will I power my mobility wheelchair, or will I get a full food shop in this week, or will I turn the heating on?'

The US has 100s of children in concentration camps, some as young as 5
Conditions are awful: inedible food; poor access to healthcare; witnessing parents abused/in fear.

These are human rights abuses

Starmer bought HR abuses up with China’s president
Why not with Trump?

The *things* russians are doing: invading a sovereign state, murdering civilians, creating a humanitarian disaster in extreme cold, abducting children, razing towns to the ground, raping, torturing, looting

I need a GP appointment for a minor issue. To get one, I must use an AI system, only available between 7 and 10 a.m. Appointments can't be requested by phone. So, I spend 15 minutes answering dozens of questions posed by a chatbot. Then, maybe, a human will respond within 24 hours. Progress?

Farage Seeks Support at Dubai Lunch Backed by Indian Billionaire Nigel Farage hosted a private lunch event in Dubai on Tuesday with the backing of Indian billionaire Sunny Varkey, underscoring the Reform UK party’s embrace of wealthy donors based in the United Arab...

Farage is in Dubai hosting a lunch for Indian billionaire Sunny Varkey, the latest non-UK resident to back Reform.

Royal Mail delivered Christmas letters and parcels late to about 16m people ‘No light at the end of the tunnel for consumers’ as 2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year, says Citizens Advice

Privatisation of UK's Royal Mail going well then?

When will the myth that private corporations are more efficient than public ones be put to bed once and for all

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Russia is clearly committing genocide. Trying to freeze the people into submission is a clear breach of one Geneva convention.

Now bombing passenger trains is, as Zelenskyy says here, just brushed off.
It was 5th story on a BBC radio bulletin an hour ago.

But…former Tories should?