Neil

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&

Reinstate the Four Suspended Labour MPs The decision to suspend the whip from four MPs for opposing cuts to welfare payments for disabled people is wrong. Sign the petition to demand their reinstatement and a better future for Labour:

The decision to suspend the whip from four MPs for opposing cuts to welfare payments for disabled people is wrong - and has to be reversed.

Sign the petition to demand their reinstatement: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

Slowly… stripped down, cleaning 40 year old frame before sending for powder coating or similar

I have news! The Movie Lover’s Quiz Book will be published in September by @summersdalebooks.bsky.social - and they have done a fabulous job on it. What do you think of the cover?

Linking LGBTQ+ inclusion to paedophilia is a toxic and dangerous trope.

Please take action to urge Sky to pull their ads from GB News: actionstorm.org/petitions/cu...

World hand hygiene day (WHHD) 2025 - the slogan for this year is “It might be gloves, it’s always hand hygiene!” 🌐 This year the theme proposed by #IFIC for WHHD 2025 was chosen as the #winner - Focus this year is to remove unnecessary gloves in the interest of environment.

IFIC is now on Bluesky, please follow for discussions about global infection prevention and control. ]
We are the International Federation of Infection Control and we can be found also at www.theific.org

Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

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...

Word of the day is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a dislike of company and the desire to be left alone.

A Complete Unknown Review - HeyUGuys Rarely does a film strike a balance between artistic legend and human vulnerability as poignantly as A Complete Unknown. Directed by James Mangold, this cinematic journey into Bob Dylan’s early career...

My review of a Complete Unkniow is up here: www.heyuguys.com/a-complete-u...

Global Report on IPC for 2024 recently published by
@who.int. The report finds that though 71% of countries now have an active IPC programme, just 6% met all of the WHO IPC minimum requirements in 2023-2024. This is well behind the target...
Read report and act now!👉 ow.ly/IoV550UnB40
#GlobalHealth

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Feeling tense about the fact the bin day schedule is about to go all over the place.

#Whamageddon

Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised.

RT if you know it has to be.

Finding a full cup of tea that you made for someone an hour ago and making a mental note to never speak to them again.

If it makes you happy that Tommy Robinson is in prison and that Andrew Tate will soon be joining him.

Share it.

@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social are you watching the first round of the Romanian presidential elections? Be interesting to hear your views on Rest is Politics

"If my phone rings could you answer it please?"

Nope, but I can certainly pretend I didn't hear it if that helps?

A little recommendation for the Brits on here, if you value some independent journalism, check out The Byline Times.

Spotify just randomly played two songs sequentially that start with the name Judy - can anyone guess the songs?

Excessive deregulation means that the UK is hurtling towards the next crash Deregulation creates opportunities for bankers to take reckless risks with other people’s money, collect bonuses and destabilise economies.

Private Equity has devoured

Bernard Matthews
Body Shop
Casual Dining
Cath Kidson
Comet
Debenhams
Flybe
Four Seasons Health Care
Maplin
Monarch Airlines
Paperchase
Poundworld
Southern Cross
Thames Water
Toys R Us

With further deregulation of finance, what next?
leftfootforward.org/2024/11/exce...

My favourite (and one of my absolute fave books ever) is Love in the Time of Cholera - Allende is also on my ‘get to’ list

Five authors you’ve read five or more books by! (self-limiting to fiction)

Also JRR Tolkien
Haruki Murakami
Margaret Atwood
Graham Greene
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Etymology of the day: to be ‘blowing a hoolie’ (or ‘hooley’) was probably inspired by the Orkney word ‘hoolan’, a howling gale, with a touch of the ‘hooley’ that is a very noisy party thrown in.