Kevin Fae Berko

The truth behind Reform UK’s reckless budget £25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning

If you read one thing today, make it The Bear’s withering dismantling of Reform UK’s “budget” with the precision of someone who understands numbers… unlike the people who wrote it. A a masterclass in calm annihilation that's ruthlessly savage. 🔥

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Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

A just world would see Boris Johnson dragged before the courts to be charged with mass gross negligent manslaughter.

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Thinking about Nick Lloyd and his book on travels with the Spanish Civil War with this CNT/AIT sticker in Granada.

Anyhow, great trip to Lisbon otherwise. Successful delivery of meeting for client. Stayed right next to the Calatrava designed Oriente station so got to gawp at that again.

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Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.

Front Cover 'First Elevens' by Andy Mitchell. Subtitled 'The birth of international football and the men who made it happen'. Front cover - cream background with a colourised detail of the Graphic's images of the match. A Scot, shoulder charging a poshy. In the top right corner the ticket from the Game.

1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Let me trash the unofficial internationals, one more time. BTW have you got your copy of Andy Mitchell’s ‘First Elevens’? ISBN-10 1475206844 25th Feb 1871 Arnold Kirke Smith turns out for ‘Scotland’. Well done Arnie. He muttered ‘I’ll be back’ and he was. Except...

The world lost the climate gamble. Now it faces a dangerous new reality The world bet on collective but voluntary action to keep global warming at a safe level.

"Warming is going to exceed 1.5°C. We are heading into overshoot within the next few years": a stark message by PIK Director Rockström & James Dyke in @theconversation.com. Yet, science shows a way back: fossil-fuel phase-out, nature protection, carbon removal.
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Old school Talgo graphic on my AVE duck train from Madrid to Granada today.

Like Farage?

ALL of us who served honorably in the military swore the lifelong oath to protect the Constitution from ALL enemies, foreign and domestic. We, who served honorably, have never forgotten that oath. Some of our non military leaders seem to forget they swore to protect the Constitution. I Wonder Why?

Nathan Gill: How WhatsApp messages revealed ex-Reform politician's pro-Russian bribes The former leader of Reform UK in Wales has admitted bribery and will be sentenced on Friday.

Has Nigel Farage or Zia Yusuf remembered who Nathan Gill is yet?

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Just so we’re clear, swastikas and nooses are not “potentially divisive.” They’re hate symbols. We’ve literally fought wars over this.

Reminder of this weekend's fundraising for Newham Toy Appeal - rare items for sale or just donate.

London is cold. If you can spare any warm coats, please bring them in this weekend.

Another fantastic album featuring Adrian Belew...and many others. I don't listen to this near enough.
#nowspinning #vinyl #vinylcollection #davidbyrne

Is there a temperature where it's too cold to stop by the University Cafe on Byres Road in Glasgow for some proper Italian ice cream? If there is, I haven't experienced it yet, and maybe it's never happened in the 107 years since the cafe opened in 1918!

#glasgow #byresroad #icecream #winter

if youre a congressional leader and you wont publicly criticize trump out of fear, please step down and give your seat to someone who will do it. because this is the job. this is the fucking job.

Government’s last chance to keep control of digital Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data

We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.

Appeals against deportation on human rights grounds are vanishingly rare - less than one per cent of foreign national offenders remain in the UK on human rights grounds. So changing how the Convention is interpreted won’t make a material difference to migration figures

It's also our annual warm coats collection this weekend at both home games.

Coats, jackets, gloves and scarves - for all sizes, ages and genders - will be gratefully received.

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Happened to board the same train as my awful awful bully of an ex manager. I noticed they'd dropped their glasses on the seat beside them as they left the train. I kept my mouth shut.

Given the current temperature in Glasgow, I figured it's worth posting this plaque I came across on Westbank Quadrant about the origins of Lord Kelvin's ground-breaking research into absolute zero while he was at Glasgow University.

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#glasgow #glasgowtoday #keepglasgowweird #lordkelvin

Disobeying illegal orders cannot be sedition. The Uniform Code of Military Justice, article 92, requires service members to follow LAWFUL orders. If an order is illegal, they have a duty to DISOBEY. Obeying an illegal order can result in criminal liability.

The Daily Mail's Boris Johnson Covid conundrum Can the paper really continue to pay the former PM a seven-figure salary as a columnist after he was shamed by the independent inquiry?

Can the paper really continue to pay the former PM a seven-figure salary as a columnist after he was shamed by the independent inquiry?

✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Thou shalt not call your political opponents “violent” when YOU are the one openly threatening to execute your political opponents.

Covid truths: tens of thousands of people died unnecessarily due to Johnson's incompetence, indecisiveness and sheer laziness. This includes assembling the worst cabinet in British political history to aid and abet him.

There’s a catastrophic black hole in our climate data – and it’s a gift to deniers | George Monbiot Climate sceptics tell us that more people die of extreme cold than extreme heat. What’s the truth? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Researching this week's column, I stumbled across something that amazed me:
the near-absence of reliable data about climate impacts over most of the
world. Due to the rich world's failure to fund research. We don't know
because our governments don't care. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...