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Filed with @ICOnews today for the data-breach element. Letter Before Action going to EG Vacation Rentals Ireland Ltd (the entity Vrbo's UK page identifies as the operator of vrbo.com/en-gb) this week, with Money Claim Online to follow if no resolution. Will update.

Within hours of the breach I had a WhatsApp from a scammer demanding payment for the stay using my mobile number. Days later, two phishing emails arrived quoting the exact dates of my booking. Vrbo's own support confirmed the host's system was hacked. (case ref !00DC00PxQg)

Ten days ago Vrbo confirmed in writing that one of their hosts had been hacked. My personal data — name, mobile, email, holiday dates — leaked to scammers. Family booking, two adults two kids, August. Today I filed with the ICO. Here's why. 🧵 @Vrbo @ExpediaGroup

Nana Akua Addo's second look😍 #AMVCA12

Dear Architects, what’s preventing you from designing new builds that look like this?

Meanwhile the richest men are creating islands to rape kids, fund wars, and fund the entire sex industry.

This is it. This. Right here...

This brought tears to my eyes.😢 Meghan talking about her experience of being bullied everyday for 10 years now. She’s such an incredible woman.💕 “My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are. To astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness and to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.” #WeLoveYouMeghan #HarryAndMeghanInAustralia

Private firms got £12bn NHS contracts. Private equity, offshore tax haven firms big winners. £1.6bn profit in 2 yrs. Enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses Health service “taken for a ride”. Say NO to privatisation. Must expand NHS capacity. theguardian.com/society/2026/a…

“Moaning minnies” “Juvenile delinquents” “Organ grinder” “Monkeys” Just a few e.g. of the vile language @wesstreeting has used to publicly insult resident & senior doctors Dear Wes - here’s a reminder of the NHS workplace bullying criteria…it seems you’re ticking a few boxes

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Michelle Obama: Kids eat healthy and exercise Dr. Jill Biden: Women and girls stay in school, get an education. Melania Trump: I never had a relationship with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

I made a whole BBC TV series (2020) about the remarkable resilience of the people of Iran and their culture over centuries of threat and callous rule. You can watch it right here on the @BBCiPlayer: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… #ArtOfPersia

SHE SAVED LIVES. THEY SACKED HER Dr Ranson was the Medical Director of the Isle of Man's Department of Health and Social Care @iomdhsc During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, she told the government exactly what needed to happen: close the borders before the hospital gets overwhelmed. They ignored her. Worse, they didn't even pass her advice on to ministers. She raised it formally. She blew the whistle. And for doing her job, she was subjected to detriments and unfairly dismissed. The tribunal didn't just rule in her favour. It awarded her £3,198,754 in compensation, one of the largest whistleblowing payouts in UK history. The department was also ordered to pay 70% of her legal costs after key documents were withheld and only surfaced through a data subject access request. They buried the evidence too. Of course they did. @WhistleUK (Protect) covered this as one of their key cases of 2023. So did the @BBC and the Manx press. Here's the part nobody wants to say, if Dr Ranson's advice had been followed, lives on the Isle of Man could have been saved. The government didn't just ignore a doctor. It ignored the science, hid the advice, punished the person who gave it, and then had the nerve to drag its feet in court. This is what institutional failure looks like. Not dramatic. Not obvious. Just quiet, bureaucratic cowardice that costs lives and then costs £3.2 million when someone finally makes them face it. Whistleblowers are the only reason we ever find out the truth. @WhistleUK Source: Protect

SHE REPORTED NHS FRAUD. THEY GAVE HER CANCER AND A P45 Sharmila Chowdhury @sharmilaxx spent 30 years working in the @NHS without a single disciplinary mark. Then she caught two consultant radiologists at Ealing Hospital NHS Trust billing the NHS for sessions they were spending at a private hospital down the road. Double-dipping on public money. Straightforward fraud. She reported it. To her line manager. To the Medical Director. To the HR Director. To Counter Fraud. To the Chief Executive. To Number 10. To the Treasury. She had a paper trail so solid that ITV later sent undercover cameras to the hospital and caught the same consultants still at it years later, taking cash from patients for private ultrasounds inside an NHS building. The Trust's response? They sacked her. On fabricated counter-allegations. The man who raised those allegations later sent an email signed off "0800-F***-YOU-B****." He received a 'Top Mentor' award from the Trust that same year. Sharmila won at tribunal. She won her appeal. The judge asked the Trust to reinstate her. The Trust said no. She was blacklisted across the NHS. One job offer was withdrawn the moment they found out who she was. Her legal costs hit £130,000. She developed breast and lung cancer, which her doctors believe is linked to the years of sustained stress. The consultants kept their jobs. George Osborne couldn't get involved. Andrew Lansley couldn't get involved. David Cameron couldn't get involved. Because everyone decided it was an "employment matter." A proven fraud case, covered by ITV, the Guardian, Daily Mail and Channel 4, and the official position of Her Majesty's Government was: not our problem. This is what the UK does to people who try to protect public money. It destroys them and promotes the people they were trying to stop. Read Sharmila's full case: sharmilachowdhury_com Sources: Health Select Committee written evidence | @DailyMail | @Independent | @BBCNews | @Channel4 | @guardian | @thetimes | @DailyMirror | @Channel4News |

The British moaning about having their entire civilisation stolen from them. The lack of self awareness here is breathtaking 🤯

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