'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children
The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".
1,611 homeless Britons died last yr, including 11 children & babies under the age of one.
Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.
Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.
How civilised are we?
08.10.2025 06:35 β π 284 π 111 π¬ 7 π 1
This ruling is a joke.
PPE Medpro will go bankrupt and the Government won't get a penny.
Michelle Mone should have to pay the Β£122m personally.
RT if you want to see her pay it all back.
01.10.2025 13:33 β π 689 π 494 π¬ 55 π 15
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting
Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.
Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt Β£122m - dares to claim sheβs been βscapegoatedβ.
What, Michelle? π§΅
01.10.2025 12:22 β π 3023 π 1232 π¬ 136 π 75
Actor & TV presenter Nadia Sawalha supports the #GlobalSumudFlotilla π’
She joins voices around the world calling to break the siege on Gaza and stand for justice, dignity, and freedom.
#SailToGaza #BreakTheSiege #GlobalMovementToGaza #FreePalestine
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Please RT this so Donald Trump sees.
29.09.2025 08:21 β π 466 π 268 π¬ 17 π 16
Gupta: It is safe. Thatβs what the best-quality research shows. And how irresponsible, using the podium of the WH to put this out there when youβre not even offering an alternative. That is dangerous. An untreated fever is dangerous. Untreated pain in pregnancy is dangerous.
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π¨Our upcoming documentary on the VIP Lane made the ITV news this evening.
βWaste of taxpayers' money': Whistleblower says billions wasted on unfit PPE during Covid pandemicβ.
π₯Tune in to ITV Sunday 10.15pm to watch the rest of βThe Covid Contractsβ
www.itv.com/news/2025-09...
19.09.2025 22:22 β π 161 π 93 π¬ 11 π 13
Toxicology principle that needs to be mainstream:
The dose makes the poison.
Thatβs true of everything. Water. Oxygen. Vitamin A. Vitamin D. Aspartame. Formaldehyde.
A single pear contains 120 times MORE formaldehyde than what might be in a vaccine.
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21.09.2025 14:31 β π 453 π 159 π¬ 14 π 8
~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.
The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.
16.09.2025 22:11 β π 318 π 157 π¬ 9 π 4
Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.
15.09.2025 12:03 β π 2103 π 744 π¬ 52 π 30
You use the Facts to beat the hate.
14.09.2025 17:30 β π 285 π 159 π¬ 12 π 3
Cost of children's homes doubles but care can be poor
Huge sums spent on children's residential care in England do not represent value for money, says spending watchdog.
Indictment of England's children in residential care, mostly corporate controlled.
Annual spend Β£3.1bn, paid by local councils, spend per child Β£318,400, 22% profit, leaves less for frontline service.
Poor value for money. Children not properly cared.
But govts insist on privatisation.
13.09.2025 19:09 β π 260 π 120 π¬ 8 π 6
Thug convicted of bid to murder child is part of far right βsave our childrenβ vigilante group in east Belfast
A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is part of a far-right vigilante βsave our childrenβ group patrolling Belfastβs streets.
EXCLUSIVE | A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is now part of a group of vigilantes, who have been βpatrollingβ Belfast's streets and claim to be protecting women and children from migrants
10.09.2025 06:04 β π 570 π 343 π¬ 38 π 58
Links between Peter Mandelson and Jeffrey Epstein detailed in JPMorgan report
Emails indicate then UK business secretary stayed at New York house while disgraced financier was in prison
we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor
he was deputy prime minister at the time
always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time
www.ft.com/content/0723...
10.09.2025 16:48 β π 736 π 318 π¬ 42 π 27
Boris Johnson was paid Β£240,000 after Maduro meeting, invoice shows
Johnsonβs office sent invoice to hedge fund manager, which was paid, weeks after meeting Venezuelan leader last year
This feels like the biggest story from the Guardian's Boris leaks... he took Β£240k from a Venezuelan hedge fund after meeting Maduro. And having denied he was paid.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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South West Water taken to court over cryptosporidium outbreak in Devon
Inspectorate issues summons after water supply infected 140 people with diarrhoea-type disease in Brixham last year
South West Water sued over a parasite infecting the water supply.
People told not to drink tap water without boiling it.
Company has more than 174 criminal convictions.
Paid over Β£4.5bn in dividend since privatisation.
Criminal organizations out profits before people, threaten health/life.
07.09.2025 08:37 β π 363 π 200 π¬ 11 π 13
Nigel Farage is the biggest charlatan in British political history.
And here's what his constitutents in Clacton really think:
07.09.2025 05:37 β π 3275 π 1313 π¬ 146 π 209
Shein UK accused of moving βvast bulk of incomeβ to Singapore to cut British tax
Fast-fashion retailer rejects accusations as Fair Tax Foundation questions its tax arrangements
Shein UK accused of moving βvast bulk of incomeβ to Singapore to cut UK tax.
Β£9.6m corporation tax on Β£2bn sales.
Profit hard to know, 84% or the sales transferred to a Singapore company as a βpurchasingβ cost.
UK loses billions due to profit shifting. HMRC poorly equipped to challenge it.
06.09.2025 10:33 β π 226 π 109 π¬ 20 π 1
In a functioning democracy with a decent press, these would be wall-to-wall headlines:
Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain
Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty
But no...
"The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Raynerβs career"
FML
05.09.2025 14:29 β π 2442 π 767 π¬ 111 π 27
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
05.09.2025 13:40 β π 3778 π 1707 π¬ 117 π 65
HMRC pays debt collectors hundred of pounds to chase people who owe as little as Β£89, losing hundreds of pounds on each case.
But it has let a Β£500,000,000 debt from Lord Bamford build up over more than 10 years.
HMRC isn't about collecting money.
04.09.2025 09:00 β π 401 π 173 π¬ 16 π 5
FDA quietly positions itself to disrupt childhood vaccine schedule
While CDC turmoil grabbed the media spotlight, a quieter but potentially more consequential drama unfolded last week at FDA. The agency has positioned itse...
Vinay Prasad, a former adult oncologist, has moved to disrupt the childhood vaccine schedule by asserting - against all evidence - that administering multiple vaccines at the same time βcould blunt their efficacy.β The added burden/delay of separating shots would sharply reduce US vaccination rates.
03.09.2025 11:38 β π 1149 π 479 π¬ 53 π 70
Your periodic reminder that mRNA vaccines are a scientific and public health game-changer. Those that have been approved have passed stringent efficacy and safety checks. They protect you and your child against potentially fatal diseases. You may, however, get a sore arm.
03.09.2025 10:55 β π 7288 π 1857 π¬ 151 π 53
Farage owns four homes:
Family home (Β£1M, retained after his divorce)
Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd)
One investment property in Surrey (rented out)
Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Raynerβs two homes & ministerial home
#NigelFarage
28.08.2025 10:24 β π 1786 π 695 π¬ 81 π 29
Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies.
A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe.
π¨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesnβt show this footage todayπ¨
25.08.2025 12:44 β π 987 π 694 π¬ 40 π 85
How we can fight back against the right-wing coup
For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed
The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.
It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.
Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.
Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.
08.08.2025 14:47 β π 588 π 247 π¬ 24 π 12
Letters from the rubble of Gaza: Part Three
"Open the crossings immediately, bring in food and medicine. Stop this slow massacre. Save our children from starving to death! History will not forgive you for your failure.!"
βToday they bombed the place with a belt of fire, which led to the collapse of all the tents in the place from the force of the explosion, and stones were thrown at us. Some people are trapped under the rubble and we cannot get them out, both the living and the dead."
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Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was the *first person on the planet* to discover the true composition of stars, but no one believed her, and she didnβt get credit for it. Learn her story βοΈ
15.07.2025 06:37 β π 13 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Looks like they took their inspiration from the seats on the Picadilly line
07.07.2025 22:12 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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