Tezza

@critithinkstar @dailybritainonx @MichelleFattoru Just a minute ago, Scandinavian countries didn't have a private healthcare system at all, now suddenly you're an expert on their private healthcare system, and the ways in which it differs from the system in the UK. I'm not buying it. Toodle- Loo.

@Tezza64206972 @dailybritainonx @MichelleFattoru Not in the same way that the UK has private.

France, Spain and Norway all have wealth taxes on the very richest. Britain doesn't. With public services crumbling and food banks at record demand, should those sitting on tens of millions be asked to contribute more - or would it just drive wealth offshore?

@pcmaneri @Martina I've been increasingly worried about that, too. There are precious few ways for him to save face now, and a delusional narcissist always needs to save face.

@Martina This Trumps post sure has a holy war undertone. Like yelling Allahu Akbar. Concerned about nuclear.

REIGN?

@Martina Oh well, I guess if you're in the grip of a psychotically delusional god-king megalomaniac fantasy, your spelling is going to slip up every now and then. 😳

"The danger with a sick deranged malignant narcissist like Donald Trump is they end up destroying not just themselves but everyone around them. And so, the real question is whether Republicans will finally realize, 'We have to get rid of him too' and 'We have to help the Democrats get rid of him before he destroys us all."

I like lime marmalade and thick cut orange marmalade.

"Pam Bondi actually had decent reputation. She was a real prosecutor and a real DA. I don't think she was a rocket scientist, but she was respected in her own way. And now she's basically going to be remembered forever as being the worst attorney general in history."

Now we have to contend with Cross Wankers™ as well as Flag Wankers™. Brilliant. 🤦‍♂️

BREAKING: Active-duty Marines are now humiliating Pete Hegseth by referring to his department as the Department of War Crimes. Do you agree ?

Your literature teacher who wore hoop earrings and made you read Beowulf and Gatsby and marched in protests and taught you to question authority and said too much TV would turn your brain into soup had it exactly right.

Decline is a choice.

@critithinkstar @dailybritainonx @MichelleFattoru That's the kind of rhetoric that wins hearts and minds, for sure. 🙄 Wrong again- Scandinavian countries have a mix of public and private healthcare provision.👇 About the Swedish healthcare system - Socialstyrelsen share.google/GY6IZmurkgUUUe…

@Tezza64206972 @dailybritainonx @MichelleFattoru Not sure reform refers to net takers as leeches, that was my terminology. Also, Scandinavia doesn’t have private schools (maybe some international ones for diplomat kids), nor private healthcare. Tax pays for a good enough standard for all.

@jayvanbavel Trump is ‘making America great again’ by destroying American science and ceding the lead to China.

@jayvanbavel Together with the general science denial that pervades the Trump administration, the USA now risks being left behind as the rest of the world invests in science and technology. Just as Catholic southern Europe was left behind after Galileo.

@jayvanbavel We never learn.

NEWS: Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration "It's an extinction-level event for science". The US government is proposing massive cuts to almost every branch of science, from NASA to the National Institutes of Health. NSF would completely eliminate the social, economic and behavioral sciences directorate. This would decimate the world's leading scientific system. nature.com/articles/d4158…

We need more people like her. 🙏🏽

George Michael died in his sleep on Christmas Day 2016. The world mourned the voice, the music, the icon. Then something unusual happened. In the days that followed, ordinary people began to speak — not celebrities or publicists, but volunteers, charity workers, waitresses, and strangers who had quietly carried a secret for years. One by one, they stepped forward to describe the same man: someone who had spent decades giving away millions of pounds in near-total secrecy, and who had actively fought against anyone finding out. A woman appeared on the TV game show Deal or No Deal and mentioned she needed £15,000 for IVF treatment. George Michael was watching. The next day, he quietly phoned and paid the full amount. She didn't know who her donor was. She only found out after his death, when the story broke online. A volunteer at a London homeless shelter noticed a familiar face one evening — serving food, cleaning tables, blending in. It was George Michael. He had asked the staff not to tell anyone he was there. He came back more than once. "I've never told anyone," the volunteer later posted. "He asked we didn't. That's who he was." Every Easter, DJ Mick Brown would run a charity appeal at Capital Radio for Help A London Child. Every year, without fail, a call would come in at 3:30 in the afternoon. A £100,000 donation. No fuss. No publicity. George would give and hang up. After his mother died, he organized a private concert — entirely unannounced — for the NHS nurses who had cared for her. It was not filmed. It was not advertised. It was simply a thank you, offered directly to the hands that had shown kindness when fame could offer none. He donated royalties from "Jesus to a Child" to children's charities for years. The Terrence Higgins Trust, which he supported for decades, confirmed he gave generously and consistently — insisting his name never appear in any fundraising materials. Childline's founder later revealed he had donated millions, entirely anonymously, over the course of his life. He struggled, too. Publicly and painfully. Addiction. Loss. The relentless scrutiny of fame. But those who knew him said the struggles never hardened him. If anything, they deepened his understanding of what it means to need help — and to receive it without strings. In 1999, a journalist managed to get him to comment on the rumors of his giving. He said simply: "I really don't like to talk about the amount I've given to charity over the years. I know it's very substantial. I don't exactly know what it is, and I don't really like to linger on it." After his death, the full shape of what he had done became visible — not because he wanted it known, but because the people he had helped could no longer stay silent. Patients who received care. Students who stayed in school. Families who kept their homes. Children whose charities kept their doors open. George Michael understood something about kindness that most of us only glimpse: that it loses something the moment it starts seeking applause. He gave without witnesses. The world found out anyway. And maybe that's exactly as it should be.

@dieworkwear Didn’t even come face you at the Uniqlo like a man