Open letter to Wes Streeting: release your messages with your private healthcare donors The public has a right to know that health policy is not driven by quid pro quo relationships.

🤯60% of Wes Streeting's donors are from private health.

Good to see your texts with Mandelson. The public also has a right to know if health policy is being driven by unaccountable lobbying

Wes Streeting, release your messages with private healthcare. weownit.org.uk/news/wes-str...

Infographic showing the responses to the question "Do you think the following should be nationalised and run in the public sector, or privatised and run by private companies?" Headline: Public ownership is popular Water - 82% Energy - 71% Buses - 66% NHS - 87% Rail - 76% Royal Mail - 75% Polling by YouGov, June 2024

🤔You want your government to be popular?

💡Why not try doing something that's popular with the public.

Most of us want to see public ownership across a range of public services.

It was true at the last general election. It's true now.

#publicownership

Jim Ratcliffe has my full support. Anyone who lies about population figures, claims £120m in public money for his own company after paying no UK tax at all, while immigrants pay at least £15bn is my kind of guy!

Mark Payne stabbed a 14 year old boy multiple times nearly killing him, he was convicted of Attempted Murder but only spent 4 years in jail.

He also sexually harrassed two teenage girls.

Now he is out on streets 'protecting women and girls'.

These people ARE the threat.

Wanted: Regional Director to work for an organisation opposed to home working. The successful applicant will be expected to work from home.

No Reform MPs turned up to the debate on Russian influence on UK politics yesterday, because we are confident that we already know how it works and don’t need any further advice.

Ministers to crackdown on profiteering in care sector and make renewed fostering push Josh MacAlister issues warning as government launches £88m ‘call to arms’ to recruit 10,000 new foster carers

Profit doesn't belong in children's social care

"Landmark legislation to eliminate private profit from children’s social care services in Wales...

But in England, more than 80% of child residential homes are for profit"

Time for England to copy Wales

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Lee Anderson wants to know why 500 pubs a year are closing under Labour. So pleased he decided not to ask them why an average of 700 pubs a year closed in the ten years before Labour came to power. 😀
#PMQs

Oxfam GB | Chancellor Rachel Reeves: Tax wealth now It’s time to tax the super-rich. Demand a Wealth Tax today.

We need as many people as possible to agree with putting in place more ways to increase funding rather than making cuts and essentially punishing those who are already suffering. Tax the Rich – Wealth Tax Now www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved...

The Great Eastern St/Shoreditch High St/Commercial St is one of the most dangerous in London.

Following support at consultation, I'm delighted TfL is proceeding with transformational safety scheme, including:
🚲bike lanes
🚦new & upgraded crossing
⤴️restricting dangerous turns

👏 Council thwarted in bid to axe low-traffic zones

"We consider this service inaccessible and unsafe to use for most Disabled people using non-standard cycles and do not consider it a viable way to cross the river."

@wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk deliver their damming verdict on the Silvertown tunnel shuttle bus...

Full report: bit.ly/4jfru0w

This guy collects despots like they’re infinity stones

Trump and Musk have launched a new class war. In the UK, we must prepare to defend ourselves | George Monbiot Across the world, societies are reverting to oligarchies. How to resist? Fight for democracy with all we’ve got, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

"This is the great discovery of the conflict entrepreneurs: what counts in politics is not how well people are doing, but how well they are doing in relation to designated out-groups." So people support a class war against themselves.
This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Love this route.
Cycle down the segregated Leabridge Road, cut through Hackney Downs, then take a version of it all the way to Tottenham Court Road where things get a little sketchy due to Westminster councils lack of cycling provision

It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

I think it's due to the recent hiring of the training ground chef Russ Dore.

🚲 Covering 100km a shift & attending 16,000 emergency calls a year, the London Ambulance Service’s Cycle Response Unit are a vital part of the emergency services, especially during the holidays.

🗣️ We caught up with two of their number to find out what makes them tick: lcc.org.uk/news/las-cyc...

I'm loving that kick off time.
Day with the family, down to supporters club for a quick pre-match beer and then an evening out in Leyton.
What's not to like? ⭕️

Van parked in cycle lane

Van parked in cycle lane

Why do we have to put with this off-the-charts selfishness and lack of consideration for other people? The driver should lose his licence, there’s no excuse for this kind of behaviour

Saudi Arabia makes more than 900 sponsor deals in 2034 World Cup plan Saudi Arabia has made more than 900 sponsorship deals as it prepares to be named as host of the 2034 World Cup

Research from @playthegame-org.bsky.social lays bare the extent of Saudi Arabia’s hold on global sport - particularly football. Story: www.theguardian.com/football/202...

If only there were some road space that the council could reallocate away from cars for Lime bikes. It's not that hard; it just lacks political will.

www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Rotterdam's great above ground, but even better below ground.

Lunchtime

😥

Last year 95 people were killed on London's roads.

Today is the World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims and marks the start of #RoadSafetyWeek.