Ben Jameson

Guillermo del Toro quote "...think about wealth for me for example. A wealthy man that has enough..."

"not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite somebody to beer..."

"...you're rich. If you have, whatever-"

"- yachts and planes and islands and you STILL need more? You're not rich."

Guillermo del Toro on wealth: "a wealthy man is a man who has enough, not a man that needs more. If you have enough to invite someone for a beer? You're rich. If you have a yacht, planes, islands, and you still need more? You're not rich."

Looking forward to this!

If I were running Labour comms I would commission an app called 'Will the Tories/Reform deport you?' then let the reactions on TikTok and Instagram do their work.

More people are dying from nitazenes – we risk repeating the US fentanyl crisis

It's time to act on nitazenes before we sleepwalk into an emergency like America's fentanyl crisis, writes Cranstoun's Ant Lehane.

Very quick update on Covid in England Covid wave has possibly peaked and flu looks like it's starting early

Very quick update on Covid in England from latest UKHSA hospital data. Looks like current Covid wave *might* have peaked, and also that flu season is starting a little earlier than normal.

If you can get vaxxed for either, I'd do it!

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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring."
-Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist

#BicycleBirthday
October 7 (1931 -2021)

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Absolute credit to Wes Streeting for directly contradicting the poison that comes from Nigel Farage, by welcoming and thanking people who make Britain their home to work in our health and social care systems.
Reform would send them packing and collapse the NHS.
#LabourPartyConference

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them | Gaby Hinsliff The civil liberties argument against giving the state more power over our lives becomes more urgent by the day – just look to Trump’s America, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The case against digital ID cards: imagine how a Reform government could use them | Gaby Hinsliff

Reform MP backs up Nigel Farage claims that migrants are coming for your birds.

harm reduction peer support lead (torbay) - The Hepatitis C Trust The Hepatitis C Trust runs national projects where peers draw on their lived experience of injecting drug use and hepatitis C to support others with similar backgrounds. We are now recruiting for a ne...

🌟 We’re Hiring: Harm Reduction Peer Support Lead (Torbay)🌟

This role will be responsible for recruiting, training, and supervising volunteer peers to deliver vital harm reduction interventions - including needle and syringe provision.

www.hepctrust.org.uk/job/harm-red...

Farage vows to scrap indefinite leave to remain, placing thousands at risk of deportation Reform UK plans to force non-citizens to apply for visas with high salary thresholds and no access to NHS services

Thousands of Londoners have indefinite leave to remain.

They have legal rights and are our friends, neighbours and colleagues, contributing hugely to our city.

Threatening to deport people living and working here legally is unacceptable.

Jaerry Maguire still with text SHOW ME THE EVIDENCE!

shouting this at the screen every day in these cursed times

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

Classic Welsh response to flags appears on bridge and people are loving it "I've been feeling so downhearted but this is glorious"

“Flags is it?” 🤌
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Good morning from Plymouth ☺️

No one wants choice in public services. They want the one nearest them to be good.

- you clean up that banksy?
- sure did, your honour, leaving a perfect, permanent outline, imbuing the work with real fuckin gravitas while making its point better than the artist did himself just like you asked

Quakers apply to intervene in Judicial Review of the proscription of Palestine Action Quakers in Britain has applied to intervene in the judicial review of the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation, saying the ban has undermined their freedom of religion.

Translated out of Quaker, this is the sound of Arnold Schwarzenegger reloading a shotgun one-handed.

www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Five-week universal credit wait for claimants is a baffling own goal – here's the proof

The five week-wait for universal credit is a flaw that actively creates debt, instability and dependency, says Christians Against Poverty.

Starmer considers digital ID cards in small boats crackdown Top minister says Britain ‘behind the curve’ in roll out of national ID cards

Introducing digital ID won't "stop the boats"

It would instead raise a whole range of human rights concerns - from mass surveillance to accessibility

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UK to make it harder for refugees to bring family members to country Home secretary to announce overhaul of family reunion policy in attempt to quell fractious immigration debate

So people who’ve fled death & torture are going to be denied the chance to live with their families- who may themselves consequently be exposed to the same dangers- and I’d suggest not a single Reform voter will vote Labour as a result while other Labour voters will abandon them in disgust

Epping hotel asylum seeker says 'we're in the dark' about future Migrants living inside an Essex hotel are due to be removed from it by 12 September.

Politicians and journalists love to blame the ECHR for small boats, ignoring that the issue is relatively new and a direct result of government policy, including Brexit.
It's an unnecessary debate built on deceit that suits people's own agendas.
#r4today
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Reform MP says they will negotiate with the Taliban.

Are you a drug and alcohol services commissioner? Do you work in these services? Are you interested in harm reduction?

Next month, we're bringing colleagues working across health together to discuss how we can drive forward harm prevention efforts.

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