Chris Thomson

UK Covid inquiry:

Chairwoman of the inquiry, former judge Baroness Hallett, said the UK's response could be summarised as "too little, too late"

Lockdown could have been avoided - but action came too late

'Chaotic' government with key figures criticised including Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson

Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions?

I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?

Avian influenza from poultry farms blamed for the deaths of around 35,000 Common Cranes - that’s about 10% of the wintering population in the area. 🪶

It has always properly pissed me off that we let them get away with calling this ‘bird flu’. It started in poultry farms and continues to be prevalent in and spread from them globally. Another man-made environmental catastrophe. It is us that is the cancer our planet needs to rid itself of.

‘He’s been forgotten’ says murdered journalist Khashoggi’s widow We spoke to Hanan Khashoggi, the widow of the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and began by asking her whether the pain of his killing was still raw.

‘He’s been forgotten’ says murdered journalist Khashoggi’s widow

www.channel4.com/news/hes-bee...

"We've dismembered a journalist by mistake"

Exposing What’s at Stake for the NHS www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/exposing-w...

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The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country.
Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

Lost wallet - if any birding friends hear of a wallet being found at St Margaret's Bay/Pines Garden/South Forereland (Kent) yesterday, it's mine! Last used at the beach cafe. Cards stopped but don't want the hassle of getting a replacement driving licence, etc.

Zia Yusuf hates this, because it mocks his ignorant followers.

That is enough reason to love it.

Brilliant

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Israel of course knew it would be difficult to retrieve the bodies of the captives that Israel killed with U.S. bombs because they also bombed the heavy equipment needed to retrieve those bodies.

They’re just finding whatever excuses they can to continue the genocide.

I’ve read Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir which is published on Monday. It contains searing details of the sexual abuse & cruelty she suffered at the hands of Epstein and Maxwell, as well as details of the 3 times she says she was forced to have sex with Prince Andrew (which he denies) …1/2

"Very idea that humans might become so voracious as to empty the seas of fish seemed absurd only a few short years ago. Today scientific evidence points to a brutal reality -.
In barely a generation, humans have exhausted most prolific creatures on the planet"

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There may be a ceasefire in Gaza but while all the media talk will be of Israeli hostages, remember that Israel is also illegally occupying the West Bank, murdering, detaining, torturing and abusing Palestinians and stealing their land every day.

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

Over 1,600 people have been arrested since Labour banned Palestine Action — the first time a non-violent direct action group has ever been proscribed in Britain.

The UN has condemned it as “disproportionate” and “unnecessary”.

Opposing genocide isn’t a crime, it’s a moral duty.

🤣 People ripping down the covering over Banksy's art.

Lets stop being ridiculous, let the world see its beauty.

Israel have just hit Greta Thunberg's flotilla with a drone attack in International Waters.

This is who they are, War Criminals.

*June 7th

Same bird we had at Bittell last week. Ringed as a pullus in Poland, June 6th this year

Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’

As a mother - as a human - I find it very difficult to look at these photos and not weep. “Rates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

BBC News front page right now

sign says: could someone explain which crimes get you deported and which ones get you elected president. it's so confusing.

Bravo this sign.

China's high speed train from Beijing to Shanghai is a journey of over 800 miles, 200 miles further than from Land's End to John o'Groats.

It covers that vast distance in a little over 4 hours.

It was built in 3 years, between April 2008 and June 2011.

Puts HS2 into context, don't you think?

Yes Phil