@pollik
Brit. Trans. Reluctantly political. Widow. 72yo (2025) Background - probate/exor (asst manager high street bank), subpostmistress/shop owner, bus driver, independent living, mobile librarian, counsellor. I block quickly, so don't play games with me.
weight loss drugs are transforming lives but they are also letting politicians and a food industry that profits from selling us addictive, nutrient free slop off the hook
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The problem lies mainly with a news media that is, by and large, owned by far right capitalists
Some flavours of Christianity frighten me.
What has NF/DJT got to do with Starmer/Chagos?
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
SLAPPS need to be dealt with.
It is wholly unfair to the victim to bear costs where there is no legit case to answer.
"It's performative cruelty."
@rachelmillward.bsky.social speaks to Sky about Labour's lurch to the right on asylum policy - and why the Green Party is focused on real solutions to the cost of living instead.
Reminder that the man who discovered the SRY gene said this is not how any of this works
How is this not an act of war?
Of course
Nor me
Or this...
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
This is one of those pieces written to earn money rather than to contribute to discourse.
They're are too many of them.
Ffs 😡
A category error. An MP is an office, not a "job", and there was no "scandal" about Geoffrey Cox
trolley problem diagram, with Sisyhpus pushing his boulder as the trolley car, and text that reads: Sisyphus is rolling a boluder towards the Grand Hilbert Hotel. The hotel has an infinite number of rooms, but they are all full, so they may not be able to accomodate him or his boulder. If you choose to divert him, his boulder will destroy the Ship of Theseus. But the ship has had all of its constituent parts replaced, so it may not actually be the same ship. Is Sisyphus happy?
a question for the ages, really.
Just 9 countries have nuclear weapons.
I think I'm already on record as believing that this eat is nothing to do with Iranian people.
Oil.
That always works
Last week, UK lobbying regulator closed investigation into ex Tory MP Ben Howlett
We offered Howlett money to work for a fake Chinese investor. He introduced us to a dozen Labour MPs
Regulator didn't even speak to us. Our system is broken
New, by me: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/we-paid-an...
A video with no message
For anyone who would like the clip (including George).
Happy to supply him with spilt milk
I am not well enough informed to have a meaningful personal view on Iran.
But this is interesting
#USA
It’s time to demand UBI & universal healthcare! We clearly have the resources!
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
It's reflex now, for posts of a certain kind.
