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Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
German Chancellor Merz: My biggest concern is Russia's underestimated impact on European societies. Russia is on the way to destabilise the entire political order of Europe.
Many people in Germany underestimate this threat, and the war in Ukraine is only part of it. 1/
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
It is still just so extraordinary to me that the government basically loan sharked an entire generation of students.
If they’d outsourced it to Wonga, the outcomes wouldn’t have been much worse
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry published its report into care today.
Our loved ones were failed by a Government that abandoned them and left them to die. Action must be taken now to prevent a tragedy like this happening again.
Here is our statement:
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
When Matt Hancock said that the government had put a “protective ring around care homes from the very start” we all knew it was not true.
The Covid Inquiry has now backed this up criticising his claim as "unfounded".
bbc.co.uk/news/live/cmy4xk1d…
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care.
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Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
“With repeated infections, the virus can set off symptoms before enough viral load builds up to turn a rapid test positive. As a result, people who test for Covid too early may have a false negative result. Doctors recommend taking a second test 48 hours later.”
NYT: How Bad Is Another Case of Covid?
Gift article link: nytimes.com/2026/10/19/well/…
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
under a patriarchal lens, c*vid is an economic and political gender-based health issue that men permit, absolving themselves of personal and structural responsibility through laissez-faire participation, relocating health burdens to domestic and marginalized spaces
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
Current NHS policy allows Covid positive patients to attend Oncology Clinics, which are generally beside Oncology treatment areas. Staff don’t have to test or mask. Oncology wards the same.
Infection kills in many ways, but “since Covid” is has been forgotten as denial has set in
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
Of all the people who could cast some light on this subject, BBC Newsnight chose…Putin’s former spokesman?
"It's a direct lie... Either Prime Minister Burnham is lying, or the intelligence service of Great Britain."
Former Putin spokesperson Sergei Markov says that the PM's claim that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum is "absolutely a clear lie."
#Newsnight
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
On the day after @peterjukes & I broke the story of Arron Banks’s covert meetings with the Russian ambassador, I was invited onto @BBCr4today to discuss it. Big news! Finally the chance to break through to a BBC audience. Only the interview was cancelled because they needed ‘someone from the other side’ & the Russian ambassador wasn’t available. Facts don’t have a side. It meant the BBC never covered the story. And here we are..
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
So this is obviously the official pushback to the line on Russian interference & it’s the same nonsense that Boris Johnson spouted: ‘no successful interference’ is utterly meaningless. There’s never been any investigation & no definition of what ‘success’ means.
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
It’s incredible how many Reform supporting gammons are scoffing at the statement that there was Russian interference in Brexit when Reform’s Nathan Gill was literally sent to prison for taking Russian bribes. 👀
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
The story is bigger than some petty media infighting. It caused me extreme stress & anxiety over years but it established key facts that are now on the record. That most of the UK press failed to report on them let alone understand them is its own story.
theguardian.com/uk-news/comm…
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
It’s dishonest & embarrassing to pretend I don’t exist & that Banks didn’t sue me as a result of this work. It contributes to the ongoing silence that’s accompanied this story for a decade. But most of all, it insults the readers.
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Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
Hope @carolecadwalla has kept all those posts where she described the Russian interference in Brexit again and again.
Only to be dismissed as a mad witch by most of the main stream media, or simply ignored, certainly by the BBC.
She so wasn’t.
#Cassandra
BREAKING: @Nigel_Farage's LeaveEU campaign passed confidential legal documents to Russian embassy. New from @peterjukes & me
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018…
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
🚨 In March 2022, just weeks after Putin invaded Ukraine, Britain’s former defence attache in Moscow wrote an extraordinary letter.
Air Commodore Carl Scott said that while serving in Moscow from 2011–2016, Britain repeatedly reported the direction Putin was taking: massive rearmament, militarisation of society, propaganda, repression and preparation for conflict.
👀 The warnings were there.
🔥 And this is the line that should still haunt British politics:
“Our withdrawal from the EU… greatly emboldened those in Moscow.”
Scott also condemned Britain’s willingness to accommodate Russian wealth, describing London as a safe haven for “corrupt, and corrupting, wealth”.
Brexit fractured one of Putin’s principal strategic adversaries, weakened Britain’s influence in Europe and, according to a man who had watched the Kremlin at close quarters, emboldened Moscow.
✅ We were warned about Putin.
✔️ We were warned about Russian money.
☑️ And we were warned about what weakening European unity would mean.
The question Britain still hasn’t properly confronted is: why did we refuse to listen?
Extraordinary letter in @ft from former UK defence attaché at Moscow embassy - we warned you about Putin but you listened to the City instead
Sherrill Stroschein 💙 retweeted
Clean air for the rich! Do they have OCD? Of course not, only middle class and lower class people who are airborne aware have OCD if they are still masking and using hepa filters to clean the air! When the rich do it, it’s something different. For them, their mitigations during
ALT Pure insanity The hot new luxury good for the rich: air. The wealthy have d different houses, different cars, different lifestyles from the rest of us. These days they also want to breathe different air. Shayla Love February 21, 2024 illustration by Abuja Shrestha
ALT The new republic take a casual scroll through luxury real estate listings today, and you’ll find that Charlotte of the Upper West side is not alone: many buildings are enticing buyers with the promise of an exceptional breathing experience. A $1.5 million apartment in Battery Park City boasts “twice filtered outdoor air”, while a Gramercy condo for $3.1 million notes that it has “filters in the common and amenity areas for premium and fresh air ventilation”. At Rose Hill in NoMad, where apartments range from $2 million to $6 million, air filters occupy every corner of the building, including common areas, and there are additional “parameter walls and floor slabs to thwart transmission of the air, odors and contaminants.” A 2023 roundup from City Realty listed more than a dozen current properties in New York.