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This year marks 100 years since the date #greyhound racing began in the UK
Time to end this cruelty
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UK democracy in action.
Thousands of unpaid carers prosecuted for inadvertently breaching benefit rules.
No Post Office exec prosecuted for false prosecutions of postmasters.
In 2017, 72 people died in Grenfell fire. Execs “deliberately concealed” the fire risks of cladding. No one prosecuted.
Gratitude for these two, Judy Dench and Ian McKellen who gave us so much through the years
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
Shadow Banks.
Bank of England grills lenders over collapsed mortgage provider MFS.
Fraud alleged. Shadow Banks not regulated but enmeshed with regulated sectors.
Govt deregulating entire banking sector.
Bubble will burst. Guess who will bail them out.
archive.ph/cjBr5
No idea why, despite following Emma, I only ever saw her magnificent threads second hand after someone else has quoted them so here I am doing my bit to spread the good word!
Thank you Megan McCubbin and Dr Amir Khan for an excellent broadcast showcasing the vile activities of the Cottesmore Hunt.
simonoxfphys on insta
Wind turbines kill birds, yes but...
"We just saved 20% on our power bill by burning down the local data center." Overlaid on a detail from a David Burroughs Mattingly painting showing two humanoid figures in green garb with glowing eyes and mouths under a pink sky, a meteor soaring down.
Ten to twelve years from now wars will be fought over the remaining sources of fresh water because of these fucking dipshits.
Top work by Megan Mccubbin and Dr Amir Khan taking on the Cottesmore Hunt!
2/3 So I'm asking the Great British public to help because NF is seeking to be our master.
Were you at school with NF? Worked with him in the City when he was a tin trader? Met him through politics?
Do get in touch: johnsweeney.co.uk
An old screenshot talking about Google on top. It says "Google is a pure search engine — no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. Reward them with a visit. Below is a screenshot from The Phantom Menace, where Anakin Skywalker is walking next to a building and behind him you see the shadow of Darth Vader.
I think on balance I prefer STV.
“Self-driving taxis safe” says self-writing article.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
There's only 2 countries in the world with illegal unchecked Nuclear Weapons.
North Korea and Israel.
One of these countries has attacked 9 countries in the last 2 years and is committing a genocide.
It isn't North Korea.
the_thinking_great_ape You know what WON'T get stuck in the Strait of Hormuz? Sunlight and solar panels. @nickofnz
I see Farage is off to Mar-a-Lago to talk down Britain and suck up to Trump.
There's nothing patriotic about cheering on a foreign leader whose illegal war is sending British families’ energy bills through the roof.
The first thing Labour should have done after the General Election should have been to make foreign and large donations illegal.
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
OUT NOW
More Jam Tomorrow MI5
For decades its existence was unacknowledged. Now it’s on Instagram. It’s in the business of deception - so how does it deal with the law?
morejamtomorrow.com/episode/mi5
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Relentless sun and ruthless populists: how the climate crisis will change the next 20 years
Rachel Reeves hits back at the shadow chancellor:
"I know that the OBR didn't publish the forecast until I sat down, but I still think he could have done a little bit better than that."
Would be nice if someone can let me know? I keep seeing this question being asked!
I see the papers which screamed ‘tAKe bACK ConTRol’ now want the UK to be nothing but an obedient servant of the USA
Here it is. The distillation of LinkedIn (and Dubai Brits)
