@DanNeidle Take the water companies back eh, or do they only make those massive profits because since privatisation they have invested nothing that they aren't now in debt for?
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Paul Flynn
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Paul Flynn
@PDAScotOfficer
PDA Union National Officer for Scotland. Community Pharmacist. Father of 3. Opinions my own.
Glasgow, Scotland Katılım Ağustos 2021
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Have to say, at the point they got the “people think the NHS has a 34% profit margin” result, I would have stopped and asked what was going on with my methodology.
Surely people don’t really think that
Do they?
Institute of Economic Affairs@iealondon
📊 On average, Brits think the NHS makes a 34% profit. It doesn't make any. Supermarkets profits are estimated at 50%. The reality: 2–4%. Voters think energy companies make 57%. The reality: -5% to 15%. We are significantly overestimating how much companies profit.
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New @ScottishTUC report shows the wealth of Scotland’s 10 richest people has grown six times faster than average earnings since 1999.
Westminster & Holyrood must do far more to redistribute income, wealth & power.
stuc.org.uk/resources/behi…
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I went to both the Unite the Kingdom rally and the pro-Palestine protest.
On the way to the pro-Palestine protest, I spoke to one man who told me that if anyone showed up carrying an English flag, they would be attacked.
The atmosphere at the two protests was starkly different.
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I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.
RadioGenoa@RadioGenoa
"Allah, Allah, who the fuck is Allah?" Little British patriots grow up.
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No, it’s not ‘normal’ for humans to be in competition all the time.
It’s not normal to work for most of your waking hours of the day.
It’s not normal to be stressed 24/7.
Stop taking a few hundred years of capitalism and pretending that’s just how being human is. It’s not.
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@RoryStewartUK So WiFi is still ok?! Im on the WiFi just now. So thats ... fine?
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Loving the fact that we are all reading this disturbing news on social media on our smart phones….
Diana S. Fleischman@sentientist
In adults, limiting smartphone functionality to texting and calls and blocking all social media and mobile internet for 2 weeks significantly improved attention, self-reported well-being and mental health. 90% of participants experienced a benefit.
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One of my most popular articles ever included a long extract from a powerful closing speech by barrister Rajiv Menon during a Palestine Action trial in January. In the end, the jury refused to convict the six defendants.
Menon is now on trial for that closing speech – for reminding the jury that they had a 350-year-old right in law to follow their conscience in reaching a verdict, even if it meant defying a direction from the judge to convict.
Paradoxically, Menon joked in his speech that, because of that earlier legal principle, the judge, unlike his counterpart in 1670, could not lock them, the jurors, up were they to choose to follow their consciences.
Instead, the judge is seeking to lock up the barrister. Does 2026 qualify as an improvement on 1670?
It is believed that this is the first time a barrister has been tried for comments made to a jury in his closing speech. That should serve as a potent reminder of just us how authoritarian the current political moment is, and of how quickly long-established legal rights are being dismantled to protect British collusion in genocide.
Read my article – and the part of the speech for which Menon is being tried – here: jonathan-cook.net/blog/2026-01-1…
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Peace begins in the human heart, passes through relationships, takes root in neighborhoods and peripheries, and expands until it embraces the entire city and the world. Peace is built by promoting a culture that rejects violence, through daily gestures, education, and practical acts of justice. #PastoralVisit #Naples
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Reform want to round up migrants and detain them indefinitely in areas that don’t vote for them.
Yet for most of our media, it’s those marching for Palestine who are creating hatred & fear.
These disgusting plans are an affront to democracy — and must be fiercely opposed.
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PDA Head of Policy Scotland Maurice Hickey moving PDA's first motion at #STUC26 calling for Scottish Government to fund more FTY places for pharmacy students, to allow all those who study here, to qualify here in Scotland. Unanimous support at congress, now for SG to step up.
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President Richard Hardy addressing #STUC26 at the start of day 1 of congress. PDA joins all our STUC affiliated sister unions in calling for a better, fairer, and more equitable Scotland.
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@nazirafzal Absolutely deranged isn't it. To suggest that if you dont seek to dominate and subjugate all to your will your are a naive simpering weakling...
I personally think this displays the organisational culture sufficiently, to disqualify them from any substantive role in our state.
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Aurelius: Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one
Arendt:The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil
Locke: No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions
Then there’s this sh*t
Palantir@PalantirTech
Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com
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@6nxdkz9qd8 @Pontifex You throughly misunderstand Christianity. Christ died so that all might live, not just those who claim to be Christians, there is no chosen people, we all are one body. We evangelise through our example. Hes doing a cracking job. Go peddle your pseudointellectualism elsewhere.
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Empty words and no action.
The Pope, as the spiritual leader of the Catholic Church (and a prominent voice for many Christians worldwide), exercises a primarily moral, spiritual, and diplomatic role in advocating for the protection of Christians and civilians in conflict zones.
Why are you not doing anything for those Christians in Iran, in Syria, or in Africa?
Do you really think that you are doing a good job?
I don’t think that is what God expects from you.
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There is bread for everyone if it is given to everyone. There is bread for everyone if it is taken, not with a hand that snatches away, but with a hand that gives. In this way, the food was abundant. It was not rationed out of necessity. It was not stolen in strife. It was not wasted by those who gorge themselves in the presence of those who have nothing to eat. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon
vatican.va/content/leo-xi…
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@AndrewRosindell This is you, former Conservative, now Reform MP, Andrew Rosindell, writing to POTUS Joe Biden 6 years ago proposing the UK hands to Chagos islands to Mauritius and rents them back on a 99-year lease.
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Those who pray are aware of their own limitations; they do not kill or threaten with death. Instead, death enslaves those who have turned their backs on the living God, turning themselves and their own power into a mute, blind and deaf idol (Ps 115:4–8), to which they sacrifice every value, demanding that the whole world bend its knee. Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life. #Peace
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God does not bless any conflict. Anyone who is a disciple of Christ, the Prince of Peace, is never on the side of those who once wielded the sword and today drop bombs. Military action will not create space for freedom or times of #Peace, which comes only from the patient promotion of coexistence and dialogue among peoples.
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There is no way the UK should be allowing the USA to use British bases to,carry out these attacks. They would be War Crimes.
Please RT if you agree.🇬🇧
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Just a hunch, but instead of an Easter message, perhaps Christians would prefer you stopped killing them, stopped bombing their Churches, stopped preventing their clergy and congregations from attending their Holy Sites and stopped illegally occupying the birth place of Christ?
Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו@netanyahu
To our Christian friends in Israel, the United States and around the world, we wish you a blessed and joyful Easter. Christians are persecuted across the Middle East, in Syria, Lebanon, Nigeria, Turkey and beyond. But in our region, Israel alone protects our Christian community which is growing and prospering. In this land where the story began, as missiles are fired at our capital, the holy city of Jerusalem, and as the US and Israel stand firm against the Iranian regime and its terror proxies, we continue to steadfastly protect the freedom of worship for all faiths, especially at this sacred time. Even under fire, our commitment is unwavering: to defend life, to safeguard liberty, and to ensure that every believer can pray in peace. May the message of renewal, hope, and faith shine brightly in your homes and hearts. Happy Easter.
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