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Sunak won’t negotiate with doctors until they stop the strikes.
There are no strikes! And he still won’t negotiate!
It’s an absolute farce - Sunak’s Govt are clearly trying to bring down the NHS.
Begs the question, which of Sunak’s relatives has private care interests?
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Power up! @ziontree at #11 this week on latest @SustMeme Climate & Energy Top 500 global ranking, published every Tuesday by McClelland Media, in association with @meuk_les: rise.global/sustmeme-climate… ©McClelland
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France.
everything else is just talk.
no one else has achieved this by any other means.
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If you study “hard sciences” & look down on socials, let me tell you: if you aren’t capable of decent communication, you’re likely doing more harm than good. Made an amazing discovery? No good if people fear & reject it! (Eg Nuclear, vaccines) Get comms training, or don’t engage!
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People keep asking me about this. I want to say that it’s good (building relationships over alienating people), but it’s too little too late. I argued for change when in XR. Just Stop Oil is the new game in town now, & they’re not going to change tactics.
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NEW:
Britain’s grim winter of strikes, falling incomes and a worsening NHS crisis is not some unfortunate series of events
It’s the inevitable result of a decade of Tory austerity that steadily weakened the state’s capacity to respond to shocks
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Twitter’s algorithms seem to have changed.
I’m now constantly seeing tweets from Andrew Pierce, Darren Grimes & Sophie Corcoran - despite not following any of them.
And I’m not seeing tweets from accounts I’ve chosen to follow. Have to actively look them up.
@elonmusk - why?
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It is quite weird to me that people who cheered me on for 2 years as I dismantled bad COVID studies that minimised the risk of the disease are now calling me a "minimizer" because I'm pointing out issues in studies that they like
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Over the last 40 hours, the UK wind power industry has swung from producing 16.4 GW to generating 0.4 GW
The drop in electricity production is equal to, give or take, switching off 14 nuclear power stations. That's the reason why UK power markets are tight today.
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Fascinating that Boris Johnson was PM for about the same time as Theresa May created twice as many peers. And that Liz Truss managed one for ever two days she was in office. Fascinating at least is one word @RestIsPolitics
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If your mortgage is £100,000 that Bank of England have just signalled they want to take at least £750 a year out of your annual income to punish you for inflation. How does that make you feel? And do you agree that inflation was all your fault in the first place?
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The Bank of England began quantitative tightening yesterday. It sold £750 million of its supposed bond holding acquired during quantitative easing programmes back to financial markets. That is very bad news for ordinary people. A thread...
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No grandchild in UK since 1694 has ever paid off any significant part of the UK national debt. Instead, they have enjoyed the benefits of it increasing steadily over time. The luckiest have even inherited some of it, because the national debt is private wealth.
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Somewhere abroad an increasingly unhinged UK investment promotion officer is trying to get through yet another day reading their talking points about how the country is attractive because of its predictable business climate, stable governance, and commitment to the rule of law.
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This is disastrous, from the @bankofengland tonight. They are going to aggressively sell the government bonds they own as a result of QE to force interest rates up as fast as possible. Let’s be blunt about this: if you have a mortgage the Bank is trying to break your finances.
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How much is the political turmoil within the Conservative Party damaging the UK's reputation internationally? A few snapshots in a short 🧵
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When I stood in the 2015 City Council elections for @Exeter_Tories_, I did so as a #OneNation Conservative, as a compassionate Conservative…
🧵 – at Exeter, England
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To be fair, they were getting to this before Truss. Osborne’s austerity, bedroom tax and other attacks on society were all neoliberal in motivation, but he was only ever willing to expose the most vulnerable to his true belief in the state walking away from its responsibilities.