Kelvin Owers
@spittingcat
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Me, it's all about me. Oh, and mountain biking, design, music, food (this is not a CV).
Here, there, everywhere.
Joined February 2009
Hey, Trump, Musk… a message from Europe… go fuck yourselves.
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I wondered whether I would do this, when the time came. But there don’t seem to be many tales of him as a person going round. And, for reasons that will become apparent, I’ll always be grateful. So anyway here it is: A 🧵on the personal kindness of @Keir_Starmer
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Are we all going to try this?
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134 Followers • 0 Threads. See the latest conversations with @spittingcat.
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Today we will witness the absurd spectacle of Conservative Ministers celebrating the 75th birthday of an institution they have broken. It will fall to a Labour government to build an NHS fit for the future, free at the point of use and there for us when we need it 👇🏻
The future of the NHS is on the ballot at the next election. Don’t buy the pessimism of the Conservatives. Things can get better. #NHS75 ✍️ @wesstreeting
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This is a summary of the most important event currently happening on the planet. It is terrifying. It requires huge, immediate action by the world’s nations to drastically cut fossil fuel use. Not by 2060, not by 2050. Now. Please read it.
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The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals despite months...
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If @GillianKeegan had published the pay review body report and got round the table this action could have been avoided. It’s time for her to do job and publish it and talk. #SaveOurSchools
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They don’t have anything, do they.
Government is looking at reviving post-Brexit plans to restore imperial measurements, @politicshome is told The push was stalled after a consultation picked up limited public appetite, but ministers are considering how it can feature in the King's Speech https://t.co/dtApMeZ3Hs
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BREAKING: Google has removed the vast majority of Twitter links from their search results… Elon’s decision to block the Google “bot” from crawling their site is reportedly to blame. Twitter will now be invisible on the world’s largest search engine 🫥
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Andy Murray on Zaghari-Ratcliffe watching him from Royal Box: “The story she told me about watching my Wimbledon Final while she was in a cell, I wanted to invite her to watch under totally different circumstances” Nazanin was imprisoned in an Iranian jail for almost 7 years💔
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‘More than half of UK broadband customers’ hit by connection problems
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Telecoms providers added ‘insult to injury’ as prices rose, says report by Which? for year to January 2023
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EXCL: Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden accused of misleading Parliament after government is forced to admit that figure he used while covering for Rishi Sunak at PMQs is not based on any official analysis. https://t.co/1QvNIdoIqF
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The Deputy Prime Minister has been accused of misleading Parliament after using a "baseless" statistic while covering for his boss during Prime Minister’s Questions last month.
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In 2022, the number of government-funded energy efficiency measures installed in UK homes DROPPED BY HALF year-on-year, to 97% below 2012 levels. During a global energy crisis.
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'I have seen it save lives with my own eyes,' @Sacha_Lord tells Rolling Stone UK after the government banned on-site festival drug testing. https://t.co/ANTldmYnlW
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'I have seen it save lives with my own eyes,' Sacha Lord tells Rolling Stone UK after the government banned on-site festival drug testing.
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Rishi Sunak justifies cutting university funding because they're "full of people who don’t vote for us anyway."
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Rishi Sunak and his Government have changed student loan funding to cut the state’s contribution from 44p in the pound to 19p from September, leaving students to pay off their loans from when they...
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