Neil Dudgeon
@dudgeon_neil
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Happy Nils Day, Latvia! And Hello to all the lovely people I met there X
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For anyone interested in acting, theatre, the business, the socio-cultural history of Britain or just having a good laugh, you might enjoy listening to the great Kenneth Cranham here. There’s a tiny bit of me too but not enough to spoil it.
bbc.co.uk
Listen to the latest episodes of The Essay on BBC Sounds.
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Stop the rich and powerful from silencing the truth by abusing our legal system! Join me and sign the petition to protect free speech & reform the law.
act.38degrees.org.uk
Stop the rich and powerful from silencing the truth by abusing our legal system! Join me and sign the petition to protect free speech & reform the law.
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Our NHS is not for sale. Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Agree? Add your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:
act.38degrees.org.uk
Our NHS is not for sale. Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during deal negotiations....
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Did you know that nearly half of all visual impairment can be treated or prevented? You can donate to @Sightsavers to give the gift of sight. https://t.co/nmMkTs85Nm
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You can donate to @barnardos to support children and families. Please visit https://t.co/D0Pem4cbaa to donate if you can!
donate.barnardos.org.uk
We work to improve the lives of every vulnerable child and young person in the UK
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Donate to Starlight Children's Foundation and bring the freedom to play to a seriously ill child in the UK. You can do so here:
support.starlight.org.uk
Donate today to give play to children in hospital. Your support helps reduce trauma and transform their healthcare experience.
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‘Big oil fund lobby groups to write government legislation to ban protests against Big Oil. The tyranny of money.’ Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves - CNN
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This looks like a great and vital initiative.
This week, Greater Manchester became the first UK city-region to commit to importing a Housing First philosophy from Finland. Here’s what that means in practice. 🧵 1/5
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Hilarious take down of one of the showiest multimillionaires ‘fleeing’ the nation in fear of paying the same tax as the rest of us! #tax4good @MarinaHyde It’s another British multimillionaire’s solemn farewell tour – how ever will we cope?
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Hmmm. And Norway created a sovereign wealth fund.
1979: UK was sitting on a revenue bonanza from North Sea Oil, had a National Debt of just £80bn and owned all it's utilities, transport, infrastructure & millions of social homes. 2024: UK has £2.8Tn national debt & virtually no assets. Capitalism has destroyed our kids' future
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I know it. You know it. Brexiters continue to deny it. (or be ignorant of it)
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Tomorrow is @WorldSepsisDay - I’m @GMB with @susannareid100 and @edballs Also with us will be the mother of Daniel, who lost his young life to @sepsis in similar circumstances to our daughter Maude. You can help too. Please watch if you can. @UKSepsisTrust
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I spent the best part of two years reporting on corrupt Covid contracts. The whole tale epitomises how British politics runs on barely-concealed elitism and greed, even when it literally costs people their lives. https://t.co/iUHkZHQM3O
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Findings by Transparency International UK point to ‘more than coincidence or incompetence’, says chief executive
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If it wasn't clear at the time, it is clear now. Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt poisoned the wells and salted the fields to ensure they left Labour a terrible inheritance. The supposed party of law and order preferred manufacturing a prison crisis to doing the right thing
Excl: Rishi Sunak ignored a direct plea from Britain's most senior police officers who wrote to him a week before the election urging him to announce the SDS40 early release measure. They warned that failure to act would leave criminals exploiting the prisons crisis and police
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it is quite astonishing when you think about it. For the next three months all of the money from your water bill will be spent on nothing but debt interest payments and dividends. Not fixing the sewage system, not securing London's water supply, not providing a better service
Remainder of year’s water bills will pay dividends and service debts, say campaigners https://t.co/4Rk6ftaq9Q
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Well said. Good question.
When leaders like Starmer blather on about “tough choices”, why is it *always* code for hitting some of the poorest hardest? Where’s the “tough choice” of a wealth tax on the super-rich? Why do shivering pensioners have to pay the price for “fixing the foundations”? #bbclaurak
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Not another big Tory liar denigrating the country with their self-serving untruths?! I’m shocked!
Thanks to everyone who gets this sort of stuff community-noted. Please look out for accounts with union flags that spread misinformation and disinformation about UK institutions to undermine public trust. Shame you can’t community-note the newspapers that do it too.
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Hahahaha. One rule for me; another one for everyone else.
Football managers who refuse to sing the national anthem should be sacked, according to a newspaper whose owner refuses to pay tax in Britain
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Significant, if accurate .
Tony Blair, on the folly of believing Brexit would reduce immigration. “We’ve swapped out single people coming from Europe for families from Asia and Africa. How has this helped us?” It may also be noted that Eastern European economies have caught up much of the ground with the
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