EmT
@emj013.bsky.social
Interests - microbiology, virology, immunology, psychology & politics. Dreams of a world where contributions to society are valued higher than earnings and stuff we own
#BBCQT Annabel Denham may work at the telegraph now but why do they neglect to say she worked as director of coms at the right wing free market think tank the IEA which might explain expressions like 'breaking in to the UK'.
Also ECHR has only been used 13 x to stop deportations since 1980
Also ECHR has only been used 13 x to stop deportations since 1980
October 8, 2026 at 10:59 PM
#BBCQT Annabel Denham may work at the telegraph now but why do they neglect to say she worked as director of coms at the right wing free market think tank the IEA which might explain expressions like 'breaking in to the UK'.
Also ECHR has only been used 13 x to stop deportations since 1980
Also ECHR has only been used 13 x to stop deportations since 1980
#bbcqt when we talk about the welfare Bill recently and people being out of work, why does no one mention #longcovid it hasn't gone away, each infection could lead to long term complications and the long term effects won't be known for a while but could be a factor in people being out of work
September 24, 2026 at 10:10 PM
#bbcqt when we talk about the welfare Bill recently and people being out of work, why does no one mention #longcovid it hasn't gone away, each infection could lead to long term complications and the long term effects won't be known for a while but could be a factor in people being out of work
I've just found out my blood, taken at my GP surgery, is processed by Boa Vida health which is parented in the US. Maybe there is less to spend on patients cos we are now out sourcing services the #NHS once did to private US healthcare @andyburnham.bsky.social kick private equity out the #NHS 🙏
September 22, 2026 at 6:33 PM
I've just found out my blood, taken at my GP surgery, is processed by Boa Vida health which is parented in the US. Maybe there is less to spend on patients cos we are now out sourcing services the #NHS once did to private US healthcare @andyburnham.bsky.social kick private equity out the #NHS 🙏
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social why was #ChrisMason #BBCNews at 6 report a bit light on discussing how Reform's donation by 2 people who could control the country through Farage and also more emphasis needs to be made about this 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Crypto billionaire pardoned by Trump gives Reform UK another £4m
Party confident money from Ben Delo will not be caught in new overseas donor cap
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social why was #ChrisMason #BBCNews at 6 report a bit light on discussing how Reform's donation by 2 people who could control the country through Farage and also more emphasis needs to be made about this 👇
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism.
We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’.
Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates.
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September 11, 2026 at 7:53 AM
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism.
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Is this ringing alarm bells for anyone else? 🚨🚨🚨
I have things to say about this and will be writing about it: jujuliagrace.substack.com
www.cityam.com/how-the-nhs-...
I have things to say about this and will be writing about it: jujuliagrace.substack.com
www.cityam.com/how-the-nhs-...
September 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM
Is this ringing alarm bells for anyone else? 🚨🚨🚨
I have things to say about this and will be writing about it: jujuliagrace.substack.com
www.cityam.com/how-the-nhs-...
I have things to say about this and will be writing about it: jujuliagrace.substack.com
www.cityam.com/how-the-nhs-...
@andyburnham.bsky.social please read 🙏
Who is really profiting from NHS waiting lists?
Our latest report exposes how the reliance on insourcing is expanding as patients face delays.
Instead of long-term investment in the NHS, private equity companies are making a profit from the queue.
Read: everydoctor.org.uk/reports/prof...
Our latest report exposes how the reliance on insourcing is expanding as patients face delays.
Instead of long-term investment in the NHS, private equity companies are making a profit from the queue.
Read: everydoctor.org.uk/reports/prof...
September 6, 2026 at 3:24 PM
@andyburnham.bsky.social please read 🙏
This is sickening and would be on the news if it happened at any other political conference - common assault. Any other political leader would have condemned it... @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
Content warning:
Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
September 5, 2026 at 9:38 AM
This is sickening and would be on the news if it happened at any other political conference - common assault. Any other political leader would have condemned it... @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
@andyburnham.bsky.social please get rid of all PFIs from our public services. Everything has gone wrong since the private sector got involved with the NHS, they have to make a profit for shareholders making money from people's fear and misery. Dentistry, opticians & mental health help included
Private equity firms are making money off NHS waiting lists.
Our new report exposes how public NHS funding is being siphoned off for private profit through insourcing companies.
Healthcare should be based on need, not profit margins.
Read the full report: everydoctor.org.uk/reports/prof...
Our new report exposes how public NHS funding is being siphoned off for private profit through insourcing companies.
Healthcare should be based on need, not profit margins.
Read the full report: everydoctor.org.uk/reports/prof...
September 5, 2026 at 9:21 AM
@andyburnham.bsky.social please get rid of all PFIs from our public services. Everything has gone wrong since the private sector got involved with the NHS, they have to make a profit for shareholders making money from people's fear and misery. Dentistry, opticians & mental health help included
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Private equity choking UK health and social care.
Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care.
Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records.
PE devours everything.
Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.
Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care.
Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records.
PE devours everything.
Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.
Tracking the rise of private equity in health and social care - The Lowdown
GP records put private equity ownership in the spotlight The acquisition of Optum UK, the owner of EMIS, a major supplier of GP IT systems, for a reported $400 million (£293.5 million) by the US priva...
lowdownnhs.info
September 2, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Private equity choking UK health and social care.
Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care.
Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records.
PE devours everything.
Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.
Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care.
Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records.
PE devours everything.
Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.
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Google A.I.
Alternative facts both from Google - just with a more sceptical search term the second time
Choose whichever you prefer
Be careful out there
Alternative facts both from Google - just with a more sceptical search term the second time
Choose whichever you prefer
Be careful out there
August 31, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Google A.I.
Alternative facts both from Google - just with a more sceptical search term the second time
Choose whichever you prefer
Be careful out there
Alternative facts both from Google - just with a more sceptical search term the second time
Choose whichever you prefer
Be careful out there
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The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ...
Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
🟡 From This Month’s Magazine
Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned…
By Byline Times raising
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…
Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned…
By Byline Times raising
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious…
Reform UK and Big Tech Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel’s ‘Political Pipeline’ Recruitment Project at the World-Renowned University Revealed
The academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns about the safeguarding of students and hard-right and foreign influence at Cambridge…
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August 11, 2026 at 6:35 AM
The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ...
Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
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🔴 All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are not allowed to accept secretariat services “funded directly or indirectly by a foreign government”.
But we found that some cross-party groups are being funded by foreign states.
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
But we found that some cross-party groups are being funded by foreign states.
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
Revealed: the foreign governments behind Westminster's cross-party groups
Foreign states aren't meant to fund the organisations running parliamentary groups. Our investigation found evidence that some do.
democracyforsale.substack.com
August 15, 2026 at 10:09 AM
🔴 All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are not allowed to accept secretariat services “funded directly or indirectly by a foreign government”.
But we found that some cross-party groups are being funded by foreign states.
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
But we found that some cross-party groups are being funded by foreign states.
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
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Worrying report on the impact of AI infrastructure on people’s lives…
“Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions” unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
“Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions” unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions
By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
unu.edu
August 16, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Worrying report on the impact of AI infrastructure on people’s lives…
“Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions” unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
“Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions” unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
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Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
August 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all”
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
www.theguardian.com
July 15, 2026 at 8:31 AM
“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all”
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Let's take this bit at a time.
The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome.
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The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome.
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July 10, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Let's take this bit at a time.
The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome.
1/
The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome.
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Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Interesting - it is almost like Gove's educational reforms and having to get in massive debt to go to Uni where critical thinking is encouraged (not a problem for the wealthy) had a purpose! Well practiced in the US too. natcen.ac.uk/news/educati... #education #rightwing #byelection
Educational experience is the primary driver of the UK’s divide on immigration and politics | National Centre for Social Research
New report reveals that educational background is the most important driver of attitudes towards immigration and support for right-wing politics in UK
natcen.ac.uk
July 7, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Interesting - it is almost like Gove's educational reforms and having to get in massive debt to go to Uni where critical thinking is encouraged (not a problem for the wealthy) had a purpose! Well practiced in the US too. natcen.ac.uk/news/educati... #education #rightwing #byelection
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Private equity controls large parts of UK economy & public services.
It is opaque, lacks transparency and accountability.
PE conceals ownership, uses complex structures, financial engineering: shifts profits offshore, engages in tax abuse Little information
Company law is not fit-for-purpose.
It is opaque, lacks transparency and accountability.
PE conceals ownership, uses complex structures, financial engineering: shifts profits offshore, engages in tax abuse Little information
Company law is not fit-for-purpose.
‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism
A team from across the Guardian set out to investigate the full extent of private equity’s stake in Britain’s public and essential services. The scale and opacity posed many challenges
www.theguardian.com
July 6, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Private equity controls large parts of UK economy & public services.
It is opaque, lacks transparency and accountability.
PE conceals ownership, uses complex structures, financial engineering: shifts profits offshore, engages in tax abuse Little information
Company law is not fit-for-purpose.
It is opaque, lacks transparency and accountability.
PE conceals ownership, uses complex structures, financial engineering: shifts profits offshore, engages in tax abuse Little information
Company law is not fit-for-purpose.
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And there it is…
www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
www.desmog.com
June 26, 2026 at 6:54 PM
And there it is…
www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
#bbcqt you have the main party, the opposition and then the party with the next highest number of MPs the LibDems.... Oh no sorry I meant you are platforming the far right again, amazing. If popularism wins the GE & our country is destroyed, remember the #BBCs role in it & their own demise!
June 26, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Should we drill North Sea Oil? NO
1) Why add to #climatechange?
2) We wouldn't benifit, foreign companies would win the drilling contact & it would be sold on the open market.
3) New Jobs will be created in new tech green jobs (fossil fuels = old tech.
4) Gov said we could be in some kind of war
1) Why add to #climatechange?
2) We wouldn't benifit, foreign companies would win the drilling contact & it would be sold on the open market.
3) New Jobs will be created in new tech green jobs (fossil fuels = old tech.
4) Gov said we could be in some kind of war
June 25, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Should we drill North Sea Oil? NO
1) Why add to #climatechange?
2) We wouldn't benifit, foreign companies would win the drilling contact & it would be sold on the open market.
3) New Jobs will be created in new tech green jobs (fossil fuels = old tech.
4) Gov said we could be in some kind of war
1) Why add to #climatechange?
2) We wouldn't benifit, foreign companies would win the drilling contact & it would be sold on the open market.
3) New Jobs will be created in new tech green jobs (fossil fuels = old tech.
4) Gov said we could be in some kind of war
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The documents I have published show why PFAS contamination at RAF Upper Heyford and Heyford Park must be treated with urgency.
Residents need rapid, regular testing, full transparency and clear answers from Government and public bodies about what contamination exists and what is being done about it
Residents need rapid, regular testing, full transparency and clear answers from Government and public bodies about what contamination exists and what is being done about it
June 25, 2026 at 12:13 PM
The documents I have published show why PFAS contamination at RAF Upper Heyford and Heyford Park must be treated with urgency.
Residents need rapid, regular testing, full transparency and clear answers from Government and public bodies about what contamination exists and what is being done about it
Residents need rapid, regular testing, full transparency and clear answers from Government and public bodies about what contamination exists and what is being done about it
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Ten years on, Brexit has failed. It has made Britain poorer, weaker and less secure. The Conservatives and Farage broke our relationship with Europe. Labour are too timid to fix it. The Liberal Democrats are being honest about the way forward: rebuild trust, grow our economy and keep Britain safe.
June 23, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Ten years on, Brexit has failed. It has made Britain poorer, weaker and less secure. The Conservatives and Farage broke our relationship with Europe. Labour are too timid to fix it. The Liberal Democrats are being honest about the way forward: rebuild trust, grow our economy and keep Britain safe.