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Campaigner & storyteller. Airborne Aware. Director of Campaigns & Elections for Labour way back when. Buy my book Campaign It! here: http://bit.ly/1UlAMbW

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A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances

@mrjamesob.bsky.social have you seen what Hegseth has said about ‘Greater North America’?

Have a look at this…

www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

06.03.2026 09:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Plenty had a suspicion the printers was taking the hit for Reform so they could dodge a massive fine. If it holds up the forensic evidence proves intent to commit fraud and evade electoral law. Oopsies someone may be going to jail.

09.02.2026 09:54 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

@samcoatessky.bsky.social See below re the Reform letter in G&D - my reply to Rob Ford's post.

This is a bigger story than not having an imprint. I believe it was a deliberate attempt to deceive voters, and then the printer had to come up with a story to cover for being found out. It's not an error

08.02.2026 20:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@mrjamesob.bsky.social See below re the Reform letter in G&D - my reply to Rob Ford's post.

This is a bigger story than not having an imprint. I believe it was a deliberate attempt to deceive voters, and then the printer had to come up with a story to cover for being found out. It's not an error.

08.02.2026 12:17 👍 187 🔁 72 💬 10 📌 0

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...communication was on the result. The agent/publisher and the candidate could face serious fines, disqualification from holding elected office and possible jail.

In my career running and organising elections, I have overseen the print of millions of items. They are not telling the truth.

08.02.2026 12:05 👍 99 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1

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...4.
So now it is a conspiracy, involving the agent/publisher and the printer, and arguably the candidate as he has posted the statement and argued that it was all an error.

If Reform win the election, this will end up in an election court, with an argument as to how influential this...

08.02.2026 12:05 👍 60 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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... the fall for it by pretending they inadvertently cut off the imprint on previously authorised legitimate artwork. But miraculously, they managed to cut off the imprint without making the finished letter shorter than A4. Which means that the proofs could not have included the imprint...

08.02.2026 12:05 👍 63 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

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...authentic, Reform chose to sign off artwork without the legally required imprint of candidate, agent/publisher and printer. So that is deliberate deception of voters. And very illegal.

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They were found out

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In order to extricate themselves, Reform have got the printer to take...

08.02.2026 12:05 👍 54 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The printers are can't be telling the truth. The imprint wasn’t trimmed off. It wasn’t on the proof. If it was, the letter would be shorter, or the imprint was outside the print area. It’s a cover-up.

This is what happened in 5 posts:

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In order to make the ‘neighbour-to-neighbour’ letter...

08.02.2026 12:05 👍 76 🔁 25 💬 5 📌 6
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Committee launch new inquiry on tackling youth NEET crisis - Committees - UK Parliament The cross-party Work and Pensions Committee has launched a new inquiry examining the causes and impacts of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) and measures to fix it. 

And the other Inquiry is by the UK Government Work and Pensions Select Committee

Here is the link to the Inquiry, which includes a link to submit evidence. Closing date is 12 February 2026

3/3

committees.parliament.uk/committee/16...

15.01.2026 22:28 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Young People and Work Report: Call for Evidence

One Inquiry is being run by the UK Government Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and is chaired by former Health Secretary Alan Milburn.

Here is the link to submit evidence. Closing date is 30 January 2026.

2/3

www.gov.uk/government/c...

15.01.2026 22:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

There are two official UK Inquiries currently asking why so many young people are not in work, education or training; and why so many of them are sick these days.

Both Inquiries have calls for evidence. There are links to each in the tweets linked below.

If you have evidence, please submit it

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15.01.2026 22:28 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Why no change in WHO guidance?

Why no change in Government position?

Simple!

Too many big backs to cover.

Too many reputations at stake.

Too much concern about pending litigation.

10.01.2026 08:20 👍 36 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 1

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
I think the advert from Progress Action Fund in the post below summarises ICE nicely…

08.01.2026 10:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A 1930s movement wanted to merge the US, Canada and Greenland. Here’s why it has modern resonances

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

Have you come across 'Technocracy'? And the American Technate? (Musk's grandfather had an involvement.)

Look at the map in this link...

www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

05.01.2026 11:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
UK Government Web Archive This Page is [ARCHIVED CONTENT] and shows what the site page https://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrhtm/rr619.htm looked like on 7 Dec 2024 at 09:12:46

Research by the Health and Safety Executive in 2008 (“Evaluating the protection afforded by surgical masks against influenza bioaerosols”) categorically ruled out FRSMs as being effective against influenza bioaerosols.

That’s *2008*

webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202412...

10.12.2025 10:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

...whereas baggy blues don't. see this research below from 2008.

(and I have so much to tell you re masks in hospitals - there is a huge scandal to be uncovered there - please get in touch.)

10.12.2025 10:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@mrjamesob.bsky.social one reason people don't like masks (apart from the politicisation by bad actors) is that the 'baggy blues, apart from not working and being illegal as PPE, are a bit uncomfortable to wear because they slip down etc.

FFP3 masks are so much more comfortable, and they work...

10.12.2025 10:29 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Infectious virus in exhaled breath of symptomatic seasonal influenza cases from a college community Lack of human data on influenza virus aerosol shedding fuels debate over the importance of airborne transmission. We provide overwhelming evidence that humans generate infectious aerosols and quantitative data to improve mathematical models of ...

The full study

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

10.12.2025 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Does breathing spread the influenza virus? As college students, Hopkins students know all too well how dreadful — and how easy — it is to contract some sort of virus, one that will keep you up all night coughing your lungs out or force your ru...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

Research from Maryland School of Public Health in 2018 found that people with an infectious virus, such as the influenza virus, contaminate the air around them by merely breathing.

www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2018...

10.12.2025 10:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Upgrading PPE for staff working on COVID-19 wards cut hospital-acquired infections dramatically When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a

@mrjamesob.bsky.social
When Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge upgraded its face masks for staff working on COVID-19 wards to filtering face piece 3 (FFP3) respirators, it saw a dramatic fall – up to 100% – in hospital-acquired SARS-CoV-2 infections among these staff.
www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

10.12.2025 10:16 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks
The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks YouTube video by dreamlion

@mrjamesob.bsky.social

The Astounding Physics of N95 masks

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBJp...

10.12.2025 10:13 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

They should stand up to senior managers & IPC numpties who insist on FRSMs being used.
These are as useful as chocolate fireguards for protection against inhalation of vapours or virus-laden aerosols (aka respiratory droplets) as IPC prefer to call them i.e. anything under 100 microns.

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07.12.2025 22:39 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

How can NHS get away with continued widespread use of this carcinogen with such appalling safety standards!

Near the top of the COSHH ‘hierarchy of controls’ is "substitute"
i.e. replace hazardous substances/chemicals with safer alternatives where reasonably practicable.

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07.12.2025 22:06 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

They should be shouting from the rooftops that that is immoral (and just plain wrong) to deceive healthcare workers, tell them they're being protected by 'PPE' when in fact they are not.
This lulls them to a false sense of security and puts them at serious risk of death or serious illness.

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07.12.2025 22:34 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I hate to slam into fellow H&S professionals but where have they been since 2020?

No self-respecting H&S practitioner would stand by while staff are given surgical masks (FRSM) to ‘protect’ against formalin and airborne viruses such as SARS-CoV-2, flu, RSV etc.

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07.12.2025 22:28 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

I say to them: stand up against any IPC numpties who tell you that surgical masks are suitable for anything requiring respiratory protection - viz the example of Robert Mifflin cited in the above news item.

He was given surgical masks as “PPE” for work with formalin!
Unbelievable!

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07.12.2025 22:21 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

What I don't understand is this...

Where on earth are the Health and Safety professionals in NHS premises?

Why are they not doing something about this?

They are abrogating their professional & ethical duty by allowing surgical masks to be used as "PPE" (for Covid and formalin)

SHAMEFUL.

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07.12.2025 22:17 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Flu: It is like Covid again, says principal as 170 pupils sick Confirmed flu cases among adults and children across Northern Ireland have more than trebled in the last two weeks.

This is exactly what happens when a novel seasonal influenza strain meets a population with Covid-induced immune dysregulation; it's not 'like Covid again', it's the ongoing and continuous effects of Covid.

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

05.12.2025 14:09 👍 238 🔁 121 💬 3 📌 10
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And if you can’t believe the NHS would publish something categorically stating that “it would be a waste of public health resources & capacity” to attempt to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus…

…then here’s the link so you can read it for yourself:
england.nhs.uk/long-read/fr...

05.12.2025 13:06 👍 74 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1