David Head
@DavidHeadViews
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European. Translator & writer. Allergic to Brexit. Seeking justice for the disabled, the homeless, & refugees. 🇪🇺 @davidheadviews.bsky.social
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Joined November 2012
This is how division is manufactured: a Budget, a red box, and a set of front pages that prime the public to blame disabled and low-income people for structural meltdown. Nothing about this is accidental. No one on benefits is raking it in.
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"We cannot be neutral between victim and aggressor. Standing with Ukraine is standing on the right side of history." 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 -Annalena Baerbock🇩🇪 President of the United Nations General Assembly Do you agree with her? I do...😉
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🚨🇩🇪 Germany Warns: The World Is Changing And MAGA America No Longer Understands Any Of It Germany issued a stark warning this week, saying alliances are shifting so fast that Europe must rethink its entire security strategy. Behind the scenes, officials say the biggest worry is
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The UK is ill-served by superficial journalists who seem not to have grasped that governments have to think on their feet. Manifestos cannot be allowed to serve as a strait jacket.
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Polish meme: “The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.” “And from the American side?”
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Is there a snappy medical term for the condition Media-Induced Budget Boredom? Maybe just MIBB.
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Farage owes British farmers for saddling them with the costs of Brexit. But Reform *again* show they put law breakers before the police or justice system.
🚨 NEW: Nigel Farage says Reform UK will pay for the defence of any farmer arrested for protesting in London today It comes after the Met Police cancelled the planned protest at the last minute
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Pretty crazy how much clean energy China is building.
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Dearie me, the Reform guy gets easily rattled when you ask him about Russia’s Nathan Gill. Wonder why?
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Some of them may end up caring for her in her dotage. Most of them will be contributimg usefully to the country already. What, on the other hand, is the point of Alex Phillips?
An estimated 70% of families with 2+ children in the UK have foreign-born parents Great. I'm paying more tax so people from abroad can move to my country and have countless kids.
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The full scale of the exploitative market in children in care is laid bare in a new report from Ofsted, published today. Four out every 10 children in care now earn a profit for investors. https://t.co/Rhnkj8EMfC
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See Farage is rushing to the defence of a farmer and claiming only reform will take care of Farmers whilst denying the consequences of Climate Change which is the biggest threat they face. Bit of consistency would be good.
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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@christopherhope @GBNEWS Get used to it, Chris. It used to happen to me all the time - from Labour and Tories - and I worked for a proper news organisation.
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Paul Weller has confirmed he has removed his music from streaming services in Israel as part of a movement to boycott a 'vile, brutal and apartheid system'
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MUSICIAN Paul Weller has confirmed he has removed his music from streaming services in Israel as part of a movement to boycott a “vile, brutal and…
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Nigel Farage's media appearances from 2018/9 with right-wing nutcases are now being exhumed as if they're dead-sea scrolls. It's a bit weird for those of us who followed this in minute detail real time but better late than never etc https://t.co/JOOxBzOSmi
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Exclusive: The Reform UK leader discussed far-right talking points in web TV and radio appearances between 2009 and 2018
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The founder of an investment company who bought an £8.5 million London flat after supplying 50 million faulty PPE masks during the pandemic has had a criminal restraint order imposed on the property. https://t.co/gIuEENXo6p
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Tim Horlick bought the Pimlico property shortly after his company was awarded the now-contentious £255m contract by the government
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