Robert Schopen

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Robert Schopen

@Schopen

Former journalist, son of ‘queue jumping’ immigrant. Socialist. Green 💚

North East Joined Mart 2009
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Robert Schopen
Robert Schopen@Schopen·
Think on it. 2,700 families totally eradicated, their bloodlines ended. 6,000 families with just one survivor. 39,000 children have lost one parent. 17,000 have lost both, nearly 2,600 of them registered as 'WCNSF' - wounded child no surviving family This is genocide.
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth

According to recorded figures, Israel has slaughtered every single member of 2,700 families, with over 6,000 families left with just a single sole survivor. And of course the actual death toll is far higher.

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A man who sat on the boards of FOUR NHS trusts was secretly being paid to advise Palantir at the same time. His own trust told him to stay out of Palantir decisions. He ignored them. Tonight Wes Streeting is on BBC Question Time. 🧵 1/ Palantir has its hands on your NHS data. Here's what's happened — and what Wes Streeting isn't being asked about. 2/ The contract was sold to the public as £330m. Health Service Journal has now revealed the true cost of the Federated Data Platform will exceed £1 BILLION over seven years. Source: HSJ exclusive, November 2025. 3/ Matthew Swindells was joint chair of FOUR NHS trusts. At the same time, he was a paid Palantir adviser — via Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm Global Counsel. His own trust board ruled he must be excluded from all Palantir decisions. 4/ In May 2024 he emailed senior NHS executives anyway — pushing GP patient data onto the Palantir platform. He is now stepping down. Source: Financial Times, March 2026. 5/ Meanwhile, Health Service Journal reports almost 1 in 3 NHS trusts using the Palantir platform were not meeting minimum data security standards. Your medical records. Not meeting minimum security standards. Source: HSJ, March 2026. 6/ The British Medical Association wrote to the BMJ in February 2026 urging doctors to stop non-clinical use of the Palantir platform. Why? Because Palantir's technology is being used by ICE in the US to track and deport immigrants — including using health data. 7/ Ministry of Defence engineers — on record — have described Palantir as a national security threat to the UK. The same company holds your health records. Source: The Nerve, 2026. 8/ Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm Global Counsel represented Palantir from 2018. Mandelson personally arranged Keir Starmer's unrecorded visit to Palantir's Washington offices in February 2025. Global Counsel went into administration on 5 March 2026. 9/ Wes Streeting is Health Secretary. He has presided over every one of these failures. Tonight he'll be on BBC Question Time. Someone should ask him: who is accountable?
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Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski·
Quite a lot of people have told me they joined the Green Party after watching this BBC Newsnight Interview - so here it is again! youtu.be/cpVOHPYnnmE?si…
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Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski·
Donald Trump is a bully. US forces should not be using our UK bases and we shouldn't be dragged into Trump & Netanyahus illegal war. @CarolineLucas speaking with such moral clarity on #BBCQT.
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Farrukh@implausibleblog·
Zack Polanski calls for rent controls, "If we froze rents in Autumn 2022 households would save £3,300 per year" "That's £18 billion of purchasing power back into pockets of people" "Money that could be spent on local businesses, buying a coffee on the way to work, or a few pints at the end of a hard week" "Instead, straight into landlords pockets" "Leaving our high streets hollowed out" "And our Green MP Carla Denyer has been raising the alarm on this scandal" "We need to bring in rent control" "We would stop the choke hold of rip off rents and bring life back into our communities"
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The London Economic@LondonEconomic·
"The UK entered the pandemic with its healthcare systems in a parlous state with severe workforce shortages."
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JmRoyle #LFC #YNWA #BLM #RejoinEU
Bad news for Reform UK in Wales: New Law to make it illegal to lie in Welsh elections is passed in Senedd. It is now a criminal offence in Wales to make false or misleading statements as an election candidate. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Mish Rahman
Mish Rahman@mish_rahman·
I've never been elected to public office, neither a cllr or an MP so what justification is there for @joshsimonsmp and @LabourTogether and APCO spying on my whereabouts at conference and as recently as 11th July 2025 when I had left @UKLabour and was on a @BBCPolitics panel?
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Breaking the Silence
Breaking the Silence@BtSIsrael·
As media attention shifted away, Israel tightened restrictions on aid to Gaza, and the impact on people in Gaza was immediate: “The price of a sack of flour weighing 25 kilograms (55 lbs.), for example, has climbed to 100 shekels ($32), three times higher than before the war. The price of tomatoes rose from $1.5 per kg to $4 per kg. Products such as cooking oil and tinned goods have disappeared from shelves [...] The Gaza Health Ministry announced on Tuesday that the supply of power to Gaza's hospitals, which is based on generators, is at risk of collapsing due to a shortage in spare parts and oil required for their operation” The full piece in Haaretz: haaretz.com/gaza/2026-03-1…
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Kim Johnson
Kim Johnson@KimJohnsonMP·
In the week 'The Voice of Hind Rajab' film was up for an Oscar, Hind’s name has become a symbol of strength for Gaza’s children. Investigators found 355 bullet holes in the car where she hid. I asked the Foreign Sec if the actions of the IDF can be called anything but barbaric.
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Vatican News
Vatican News@VaticanNews·
Israeli settlers escalate their incursions into Taybeh, the West Bank’s last fully Christian town, raising concerns over further land appropriation. The parish priest, Father Bashar Fawadleh, appeals for international intervention, as residents face mounting restrictions and call for peace, justice, and protection. vaticannews.va/en/church/news…
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Have I Got News For You
Have I Got News For You@haveigotnews·
A Guardian investigation claims Nigel Farage recorded Cameo videos expressing support for a variety of criminals and extremists, as well as other people who weren't in his party
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Sangita Myska
Sangita Myska@SangitaMyska·
As the world’s gaze is diverted by the US-Israel led war on Iran, the hardship in the Gaza Strip is intensifying: According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, aid to the Gaza Strip has decreased by 80% since the beginning of the war, and the crisis in Gaza is worsening. Following the decline in aid, there has been a sharp increase in the prices of basic food items, and hospitals are reporting a severe shortage of medicines and medical equipment.
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Canary
Canary@TheCanaryUK·
Reform say they're ready to govern - but how does that stack up against the facts?
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Raymond Snoddy
Raymond Snoddy@RaymondSnoddy·
Lord Grade should be held to account for all of this with potentially devastating consequences for British politics. It seems he has banged the free speech drum irresponsibly
Lionel Barber@lionelbarber

A devastating indictment of Ofcom, the media regulator, which has let GB News to pump out Reform party propaganda and drive a coach and horses through the UK broadcasting laws. @arusbridger and I will be discussing this on @mediaconfpod shortly !

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BladeoftheSun
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS·
The Green Party are the only ones who can beat Nigel Farage. And the ONLY major party offering any significant improvement. The choice of who to vote for in England is not difficult.
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Mark Seddon
Mark Seddon@MarkSeddon1962·
What 'Special Relationship'? In all my years living and working in the US I heard mention of it precisely never. It's British wishful thinking. theguardian.com/news/video/202…
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Amnesty International
📍Lebanon: Israel is deploying the same deadly playbook it used in 2024 in Lebanon to kill dozens of health workers and devastate healthcare services. Israel must halt attacks on healthcare workers, medical facilities and first responders. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
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