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Looking forward to reading about the early morning papers!

I’ve signed. Will you?🤔
It’s important Parliament decides before any trade deal is imposed on 🇬🇧. Starmer doesn’t have the right to push deals through without MPs being consulted & allowed to vote!
Our food safety is worth more than pleasing Donald Trump!☹️

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

My daughter & granddaughters live opposite the site, really quite worried. Anyone who looks at the site can see how dangerous it is. Good article Gemma

Really good to see u here!

By golly, Labour couldn't bark up a more wrong Brexit tree if they tried.

Strongly out of tune with 80% of their 2024 voters. Extraordinary mistake. That's substantially more than necessary to lose the 2029 GE.

But hey ho, they'd rather stick their necks in the sand.
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This is deeply shocking and disturbing, the opposite of scientific good practice. As I see it, a group of diehards promoting a discredited treatment (exercise "therapy" for ME/CFS patients) are seeking to stifle medical progress - to protect their reputations. And Cochrane has kowtowed to them. 🧵

Floods - what's the impact of climate and housing? - BBC Sounds How is climate change and new housing affecting the risk of floods?

V interesting clip from BBC Radio Leicester on how the design of built infrastructure likely exacerbated recent floods and how we could do things differently.

Mentions ideas including lowering water run-off from properties and de-paving.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

one of the most thorough skewerings I’ve ever seen during PMQs

Keir Starmer says Kemi Badenoch in eight years as an MP never mentioned grooming gangs in the House of Commons - not once - even when she was children’s minister

Badenoch insists she has raised the issue “in speeches” but is unable to deny the charge #pmqs

That is quite some headline
@dailymail.co.uk…..

Does the poll “predict” that Starmer will be out of No 10 within a year?

I’m sure you know the answer already, but indulge me while a do a small 🧵looking at what the poll ACTUALLY shows!

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'Wake Me Up Before You Go Go' by Wham was released nearer to the end of the Second World War than to today. Happy New Year everyone!

We already have a potential winner of the Tory imbecile of the year award - as early as January 2nd - truly stellar. 👏🥇🏆 🎉

A stunning sky as the sun sets after a beautiful but chilly day on Loch Long in Argyll Scotland 🌅

Temps sliding into the -1°s so wrap up if going out 🥶

Time to prepare for the darts, let’s go Bunting mental 🎯

#StormHour #Scotland #WCDarts

Water companies fined just £2 for rule breaking despite record sewage Ofwat has been accused of not acting quickly enough to issue fines against water companies for sewage dumping

England's water companies fined just £2 since 2021 for breaching regulations.

OFWAT says it agreed compensation and investment in lieu of fines.

So no penalties for dumping sewage, causing health hazards, destroying marine life & biodiversity; to boost profits, exec pay, dividends
archive.ph/iIugA

Photograph of Gisèle Pelicot

This is the person of the year.

The lady who didn't give her real name at 1st & then did, that was very moving

Thames Water fined £18m over dividends but granted 35% bills hike by 2030 The ruling falls well short of a 59% bills hike requested by the troubled water company, as it tries to secure a bailout from investors.

Thames Water fined £18.2m for 'unjustified' £131.3m dividend to shareholders.

At the same time OFWAT allows Thames to hike customer bills by 35%.

Capital raised from customers who will own nothing, shareholders will get returns.

Privatisation is a scam.
www.independent.co.uk/business/tha...

This needs to be taken very seriously. All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations

Photo of a page of a newspaper showing the headline “one in three say COVID-19 response overblown: poll” The article describes dozens of opinions on the overreach and overreaction of the response and mentions 50% thought it was appropriate and another 13% did not think it was overblown.

In other words, a supermajority of two thirds do not say Covid-19 response was overblown.

The role of media ladies and gentlemen.

#covid #covidcanada

That's really pretty, the deers r my favourite! 🎄

The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.

UK manufacturing accounts for £518bn; 23% of GDP; 7.3m jobs. £1m of manufacturing activity has £1.8m multiplier effect.

Finance industry contributed £208.2bn; 8.8% of GDP; 1.17m jobs; speculation has zero multiplier effect.

But Govt wants bigger finance industry
leftfootforward.org/2024/12/the-...

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic The Bank of England governor says Brexit has undermined the UK economy. Hold onto your seats..

‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage

In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts

youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...

Annual rent for newly let UK home £3,240 higher than 2021, research finds Rents have risen by 27% since end of pandemic lockdowns, while earnings have increased by 19%

The average cost of renting a newly let UK home is now £3,240 higher than in 2021.

Rents have risen by 27% since 2021, wages haven't.

People priced out of buying/renting homes.

No govt plan to curb profiteering by builders, landlords, banks.
www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...

Why Britain's doctors are in revolt To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients...

Read this brilliant and terrifying truth-to-power piece by @doctoroxford.bsky.social

The UK General Medical Council is unfit for purpose. #medsky #healthpolicy

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

Superb explainer on whether and when bird flu will become a pandemic. TL;DR: possibly, and if so, soon. #medsky #academicsky 🧪

How close is a new bird flu (H5N1) pandemic? Probably not around the corner but getting uncomfortably closer.

You've probaly seen various headlines this year about bird flu and the potential for a new pandemic.

So I've written a new substack as a simple explainer on what a flu pandemic actually is, why bird flu and what's been going on over the last 3 years.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Boris Johnson is a disgusting man who uses any excuse for his appalling behaviour.

Wow. The magnificently restored interior of the Notre-Dame Cathedral

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says

“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”

Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR

youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY

‘Ardent Brexiteer’ James Dyson describing the last budget as an ‘egregious act of self-harm’ in the Telegraph.

Massive Brexiter says what now?