OldishBird
@oldishbird1
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Interested in politics, travel, education and health in particular. Interested to hear opposing views but will block those who are personally abusive.
Joined March 2018
I really don’t get the fuss about the Panorama show. It didn’t influence the American elections (as Panorama is geoblocked so only showed to a UK audience). Trump had already been impeached for incitement and widely accused of it by multiple USA media outlets.
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The problem with the whole BBC issue is that we can no longer trust any media outlet to report on the story impartially. They are either one of the BBC’s competitors or they have a political agenda of their own to pursue. Journalistic integrity means nothing any more.
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We live in a one party system. Leadership delivers nothing for us! Instead of making meaningful change, we are propagandized to fight over pretty issues. IDEA: All citizens, in every state, should form a lobby that threatens to recall every single sitting Congress member
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Reform have suspended nine Kent councillors, include five members of the fire authority, which is now “a shambles and a threat to public safety” according to the Fire Brigades Union. But yeah, let them run the whole country.
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The responses to this post have been quite informative. It’s informed me that Joey Barton’s supporters are just as vile and offensive as he is.
@Joey7Barton Nice sermon. What you did wasn’t free speech. It was verbal abuse and insults. You didn’t have a message, just an intention to offend. Learn the difference and you might keep yourself out of trouble.
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🔴We Need to Talk About Michael Gove and Crony Covid Contracts Gove claims he had no “active role” in procuring Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott https://t.co/7lUUOgifhU
bylinesupplement.com
Gove claims he had no “active role” in the procurement of Covid PPE during the pandemic, yet evidence suggests he was involved in multiple VIP deals worth over £1billion, reports Russell Scott
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Charles Darwin and Linus Pauling, on how to avoid fooling ourselves:
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Govt recovers £74 million from asylum hotel firms, in the same sentence @BBCBreakfast feel obliged to quote the Tories saying it’s not enough. Yes it’s a drop in the ocean but the Tories failed to recover anything, why? Because they’re probably Tory donors. #bbcbreakfast
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California is offering free health care and free housing to undocumented immigrants — but is it compassion or corruption disguised as kindness? We expose the political agenda behind “free” benefits and how both parties use migrants as tools to win votes instead of fixing the
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During 14 yrs of Tory Government, there were 14 Prisons Ministers. The Tories never saw Prisons as a priority and left them to decline over those 14 years Labour inherited an utter mess, and it’ll take more than 18 months to turn that around. Reasonable people recognise that.
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The curriculum review ‘treats teachers as the experts they are, acknowledges what’s working before rushing to dismantle it, and grounds every recommendation in evidence’, writes MAT chief @MoreMorrow
https://t.co/fhDzVzFCCJ
tes.com
After years of policy turbulence, we finally have an evidence-based blueprint for change that trusts teachers as the experts, writes MAT chief executive Dan Morrow
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So, there’s now evidence that X is boosting the British right. It’s time that something was done about this and the sheer volume of misinformation and hate emanating from right wing voices. https://t.co/0s1lfxOGk8
news.sky.com
For nine months, Sky News' Data and Forensics team has been investigating whether X's algorithm amplifies right-wing and extreme content. It does.
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Academy Trust CEO pay is out of control. 💷 Some are earning over £500,000 a year - in publicly funded education. This cannot be justified while schools struggle for resources. It’s time for a CEO pay spine and a pay cap. We need money spent on classrooms not boardrooms.
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@LeeAndersonMP_ There were 115 prisoners mistakenly released in the last year of the last Conservative Government. Andrea Jenkyns was a Tory Minister and MP then. Lee Anderson was a Tory MP then. Danny Kruger was a Tory MP then. Sarah Pochin was a Tory councillor then. Zia Yusuf was a major
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It happened over 800 times under the tories, media chose not to tell us.
'It has happened again.' Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has reacted to the mistaken release of a foreign prisoner from HMP Wandsworth, describing the Labour government as "a shambles". Latest ➡️ https://t.co/0pO3brOYYl 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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For those seeking to score political about the Chancellor potentially going back on an election pledge it might help to be reminded how that went for the Tories. https://t.co/c9Jt9Thql8
bylinetimes.com
Boris Johnson's broken Conservative Party manifesto pledges from 2019 in full.
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Anyone whining that the the Chancellor referenced the Tory legacy in her speech about the economy should remember than Rishi Sunak pulled out the 2010 Liam Byrne letter at the final election debate in June 2024. Short memories.
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Quite a few announcements in the last few days. #LabourAchievements. All the focus is on #FixingBritain
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More good news from @UKLabour 🌹 Don't listen to the naysayers. NHS recovery continues with above target productivity growth - https://t.co/Inwtw9Yr2f
gov.uk
Thanks to the government’s reforms, record capital investment and the hard work of NHS staff, the NHS continues to outperform its productivity target of 2%.
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Why? Because you cut sure start, youth clubs, ema, the police, local council budgets. You outsourced childrens care and youth prisons to G4S and vastly inexperienced staff. Your party doesn't believe in 'society'. Maybe start there.
Why is it that despite so much activity, legislation to ban knives, so much investment in mental health, we’re seeing more violence on our streets. What is causing this? Lots of people will be speculating - I think we should wait until more facts emerge. But there’s clearly
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