Duncan Smith

Bumbling morons, yes, but also insecure and vindictive petty tyrants that believe themselves invincible and above any laws while wielding enormous destructive power.

A car accident sent her to the hospital — and $64,000 into debt This doctor broke her ankle in a car accident. The hospital kept her overnight, but her insurer stopped paying after she left the emergency room.

Physician Lauren Hughes was driving when another car T-boned her Subaru, totaling it and breaking her ankle.

Then the bills came: $63,976.35 in total because her insurance deemed her hospital stay not medically necessary.

Indistinguishable from any other night around here, what with all if the cars that pop and bang on the over-run ripping around every bight. Why that isn’t a tow-and-crush offense is beyond me.

Many important weather and climate data streams have gone silent as the U.S. government shutdown continues on.

As just one example, NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory did not release its regular monthly update for greenhouse gases, such as for carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide.

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

‘Patients will suffer’: tales from the frontline of the UK pharma crisis The pricing standoff between government and industry has stalled research and put thousands of jobs at risk

UK Govt to capitulate to Big Pharma

Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.

Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses

Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?

Also a reminder that ‘joined up government’ sometimes means things like the Home Office giving dubious travel data to HMRC, so you just get ‘joined up dysfunction’

UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’ Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip

Somebody at HMRC needs to be canned for this idiotic ‘fraud-detection’ idea. And I fear future use of AI in welfare cases might well produce this kind of story regularly (as they have in Nevada for example).

A cartoon showing a man between a white construction worker and a black man. He points to the black man and says "Careful mate ... that foreigner wants your cookie" The man in the middle has a plate full of cookies; the construction worker has one cookie; the black man has no cookies.

I'm pro-union because I think workers should organize to balance the power that business owners have in various negotiations. It's true that unions have been weakened, but it's not because of multiculturalism. I would argue, it's because people seek to exploit divisions for their material interests.

Has there ever been an advance in technology that has so quickly become a hotbed of crime, with such a wide variety of crime?
The police are only just catching up with the internet - when are they going to be AI ready?

Hospital gets low-carbon heating from data centres 1 day ago Share Save Tony Fisher Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire

Take out the data centre, and use the electricity to heat three hospitals instead

Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

White House fires arts commission expected to review Trump construction projects The moves comes as President Donald Trump pursues efforts to build a White House ballroom and a triumphal arch in Washington.

Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.

This would probably give a sizeable majority to Reform. FPTP has to go, it cannot work well even in a 3 party system, let alone with 5.

As a GP, I am not allowed to receive a pen or post-it note pad from a pharmaceutical company rep

Govt banned them in case I was influenced to prescribe medications

This should also be banned

Influence being bought in Govt

Patients should influence not the healthy & wealthy

Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55% Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour

"..our health & social care system only functions bcs nursing staff of every ethnicity, nationality & faith make it so. We're urging govt & politicians of all parties to recognise their role in tackling racism...that must include an end...of anti-migrant rhetoric"
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The Real Energy Scandal The Media Won't Tell You About Fossil fuel interests are colluding with billionaire-owned media companies to block the UK's transition towards a cheaper and greener future, argues Donnachadh McCarthy

'The UK electricity price is the most expensive in the world, due to prices being set 99% of the time by the marginal cost of the most expensive electricity other than nuclear, which is fossil gas electricity.'
Donnachadh McCarthy, via @bylinetimes.bsky.social

91% of UK trans people don't trust the Labour Party, survey reveals 91% of trans respondents in a YouGov poll conducted between July and August, commissioned by the Good Law Project, said they distrust Labour.

“Before the election it promised to ‘remove indignities for trans people who deserve recognition and acceptance.’ But in government it has lined up alongside the Tories and Reform UK at the cruelty Olympics.” – @goodlawproject.org
https://bit.ly/43CpABH

Billionaires are now in the business of advocating policies that will make the vast majority’s lives tangibly worse in order to make their lives unnoticeably better. Money is an abstraction to keep score for them. But it’s food, health, and shelter for everyone else.

I love that humanity made stories about jinn and faeries and demons and how you shouldn't trust anything that claims to fulfil your wildest wishes without understanding the costs thousands of years ago. At least we've always known how fucking stupid we are.

Covid & Cancer There is now compelling medical evidence that Covid-19 infections can reactivate dormant cancer cells, and trigger the growth of secondary cancers.

This charity has put out info to warn those w a history of cancer to take precautions against covid as it can reactivate cancers v quickly it seems
Obviously other viruses can also increase cancer risks but perhaps not so quickly?
Eg EBV

As ever more research needed

buds.org.uk/covid-and-ca...

Covid-19: Excluding doctors from vaccination programme puts patients at risk, clinicians warn Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstr...

This is madness - how can they justify yearly flu vaccination for all staff (and seriously encourage staff to have it with various deals) but then ignore the other infection that is hitting staff on regular basis?

I hoped this madness would change with new government - sadly it has not.

“There is no literature or poetry in this #WhiteHouse. No music. No Kennedy Center award celebrations.

There are no pets in this White House.
No loyal man’s best friend. No Socks the family cat.

No kids’ science fairs.

While next May's elections in Wales, Scotland and across England - where Labour are on course for another drubbing - are still seen as the most likely time for the PM to be removed, a growing number now believe he may not even see in the New Year in Downing Street. "I think people are now in a place where they believe this can't continue and we can't go into massive midterm elections with him in charge," one insider told HuffPost UK.

What’s happened here is: these horrible people deliberately fucked over every man, woman and child in these islands, entirely to benefit their own worthless careers. Now, they are going to go down in history as maybe Britain’s most reviled government. And you have to say, they have 100% earned it.

NATO secretary general says provision of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine still "under review" by Trump NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said that the decision to provide Ukraine with specific types of weapons is entirely up to each individual ally and noted that the provision of Tomahawk missiles ...

When you hear from Washington that a certain issue is “under review” it usually means it’s dead. People should admit the whole Tomahawks to Ukraine discussion was one long fraud that has gone on for almost 4 months. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

The ballroom addition/destruction of the White House is expressly illegal and would stand as independent grounds for impeachment and removal if we had a functioning government.

#WhatIsThePointOfLabour256

🚲 Bike theft has effectively been decriminalised.

The British Transport Police have said that bike thefts outside London railway stations will not be investigated if they have been locked for more than two hours!

@MaxWilkinson.bsky.social speaks to commuters 🔽

Not much better than a lie, this from Starmer. He can't pledge what a Reform Government, following a Trumpist or Russian agenda, will do with digital ID. They certainly won't be bound by his promise!

Please email him to scrap his dangerous scheme. action.goodlawproject.org/tell-keir-st....

Digital ID to be voluntary... unless you want a job (or benefits) Keir Starmer has relaunched the controversial policy, stressing its use for every day life

If it's mandatory for work, it's de-facto mandatory share.google/ulfGaMN5b9Jt...