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Alastair Campbell, "Of the mistakes I have made, the biggest is Brexit..It has made us al weaker and poorer..A campaign won by liars and conmen"

From a hypothetical scenario of what AC would do if he was PM

At last!!! 👏 👏 👏

For every child across our country, this Curriculum and Assessment Review provides an invitation not just to share in our national story, but to write the next great chapter.

Seventy-five years ago, Britain helped write the European Convention on Human Rights. It protects fairness, liberty and the rule of law. Those attacking it now are not defending Britain. They are trying to free government from accountability. We must defend it.

Yes, much like his Brexit promises?

“We’ve gone through Brexit, an absolute disaster. Largely caused by Nigel Farage. A man with the audacity to then return to the main stage and say: I’ve got some other ideas for institutions you can leave. Horrendous!” Zack Polanski, Leader, Green Party

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is right. Brexit was a disaster that broke trust and left Britain weaker. Now the same voices want us to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. We should have learned by now what happens when we trust them.

Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.

Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.

Nigel Farage now says that any suggestion he's been soft on Putin is "just nonsense".

Here's a quick reminder of what he's said in the past

Nigel Farage faces questions over who funded £885,000 Clacton constituency home A BBC investigation raises questions about how the Reform UK leader's partner paid for a home in his constituency.

‘Five Houses’ Farage has a certain ring. And he owns, or has claimed to own, all of them. Which is four more than Angela Rayner does…
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran The "problem" with vaccines? They're so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

The murder of Charlie Kirk is a tragedy, and a sign of the utter desperation and cowardice of those who could not defeat him in argument. Charlie Kirk has been killed not for espousing extremist views - because he didn't. He has been killed for saying things that used to be simple common sense. He has been killed because he had the courage to stand up publicly for reasonable opinions held by millions and millions of ordinary people both in the US and Britain. The world has a shining new martyr to free speech. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and loved ones.

Charlie Kirk: “Martin Luther King was awful. He’s not a good person. We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

Boris Johnson:

Farage should never be interviewed without being forced to answer for failures of Brexit. That the man whose lies fuelled Brexit vote which has cost UK Billions & who said Liz Truss budget was “best Tory budget since 1986” could be trusted on *anything* is mind-boggling #bbclaura

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs.

A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which is about to get cut.

If Bezos can spend $50M on a wedding, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

Corey Wiley on Twitter writes: "You don’t get it. Foundational immigration law is morally just and has been established over millennia. Disrespecting these rules and ideals is very offensive to folks who highly value civilized society"

Not true.

I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵

Let’s not forget that he also got his burger with Dijon mustard once!

Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.

Farage is a dodgy salesman – he sold you Brexit and now he’s selling you Nexit - Britain’s exit from Net Zero. It’s madness. Don’t buy it. Don’t vote Reform.

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

I can no longer tell the difference between satire and real…

Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

I think I saw a really large mirror in the oval as well…

Trump administration cuts $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding White House claims university’s work exposed students to ‘climate anxiety’ and ‘exaggerated climate threats’

Attacks on universities and research continue by Trump now claiming $4m to Princeton’s climate research funding must be cut as “university’s work exposed students to ‘climate anxiety’ and ‘exaggerated climate threats’

I’m all for it. I should try it

I feel smart from Monday to Wednesday… Friday is my dumbest day

Pro-democracy channels on YouTube are now growing faster than right-wing channels for the first time.

MeidasTouch is proud to lead the way as the fastest-growing YouTube channel in Q1 2025.

Keep this momentum going: YouTube.com/@meidastouch

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

-We may have a 10% Brexit 'dividend' but the cost of that dividend is the significant lost output since Brexit and trade dislocation with the EU, which the somewhat more generous US treatment does not even nearly compensate for.

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research.
Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts.
It will directly impact YOU.
#ScienceNOTSilence