@sjsedmonds.bsky.social
Full time carer. Retired ex Govt, Innovation, R&D, Industrial Policy, views all mine. Live in Dorset, happy place is Lohr am Main, Lower Franconia, rejoin EU. Bake sourdough. Walk a lot. Drink nice coffee. Garden a bit. Rescues plants. Grows veg.
I have heard this company is very good but I have no personal experience but Lohr is not that far away. www.scholz-bad.design
It is absolutely imperative that European countries, including the UK, do absolutely nothing to prolong or escalate Operation Epic Insanity. And once we are in there will be no way out.
This is on the US and Israel.
Two weeks into a war Donald Trump said he launched to ensure that Iran would “never have a nuclear weapon”, the US has no plan to retrieve the enriched uranium stockpile Tehran would need to make an atomic bomb.
www.ft.com/content/4069...
They would have to do this because all the talented civil servants will leave rather that work for TrumpUK Ltd.
The key to Reform's planning for power is that the strong view of party insiders that the model for a Farage government is "be much more like Trump's second term than his first'
But its a significant political risk - because Trump is unpopular and Trump 2.0 is toxic
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Palantir has no place in our NHS.
The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now.
Listen to what health workers are saying.
news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...
And that's before he gets whatever Dubai residency gets him.
Not reassured and actually never will be!
"Palantir, the US AI surveillance and security firm with hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses 'a national security threat to the UK', according to two anonymous high-level sources working with the Ministry of Defence."
So the illegal war President Trump now wants everybody to help a situation completely of his and Netanyahu making. Of course he’ll blame everyone else because nothing is his fault ever.
www.dw.com/en/live-7635...
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First training walk for this summers Jurassic Trek for @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social
Gentle 7 miles today.
Just like Farage and Jenrick in front of a rebadged petrol station, gimmickry not serious.
Cheerful stuff in the FT. Trump has started something that he cannot control. This is arguably far more significant for the world economy than the oil crises of the 1970s.
It is completely mad that the government is expelling high flying Sudanese students from British universities - from a scheme that is explicitly aimed at the future leaders of countries.
There are other reasons for the UK government not to award or continue Palantir contracts but this statement of intent by its CEO must surely be decisive?
The comments by Palantir's CEO - who is a board member of Palantir Technologies UK Ltd - are incompatible with UK values.
Have watched this @skynewsrss.bsky.social interview with Treasury Secretary Bessent and he just comes across as a completely incompetent and unserious person, we have had a few of those in the UK so we can quickly judge.
news.sky.com/story/us-nav...
Have watched this @skynewsrss.bsky.social interview with Treasury Secretary Bessent and he just comes across as a completely incompetent and unserious person, we have had a few of those in the UK so we can quickly judge.
news.sky.com/story/us-nav...
What a spectacle of incoherence.
Reform’s Welsh leader promises not to go down the NHS/insurance route…while Farage keeps that option open for the rest of us. Probably because he’s already committed to selling us out.
Corruption and betrayal nailed on with this lot.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-n...
Every hospital in England has been urged to disobey an NHS directive to use software operated by controversial US analytics software company Palantir
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
You can imagine Telegraph readers getting really upset about not getting their holiday in Dubai or not being able to transit there and having to buy a more expensive direct flight.
Exactly this ⬇️
"The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/11/the-guardian-view-on-kemi-badenoch-and-the-iran-war-confusion-reveals-a-lack-of-serious-thinking
Are we surprised 😮 No not really, it’s a limited company that will do anything for money.
Thoughts are with Chris Philp at this difficult time for him. #reshuffle
Spotted the first flowering tulips 🌷 which has cheered up a windy grey rainy day here in Dorset.
If her party isn’t thinking of removing her then they are seriously failing to do any due diligence, not forgetting her party lost their deposit in the last by-election!
The NHS in England has seen ANOTHER fall in waiting lists in the data from January 2026.
This means that waiting lists have falled by more than 374k since Labour came in to government.
If you add in Wales as well, Labour run areas have seen a reduction in excess of 415k since July 2024.
In 2020 Nigel Farage said of MPs who defect & refuse a by-election “it’s not right, it’s dishonorable”
I’m sure Mr Farage can’t wait to attend the debate on 16 March and repeat this comment.
