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Tom Osborne-Spindlow
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Tom Osborne-Spindlow
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Pretty ordinary. Any retweets or likes are not necessarily an endorsement.
Buckinghamshire Katılım Mayıs 2011
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Tom Osborne-Spindlow retweetledi
Tom Osborne-Spindlow retweetledi
“Most people in the UK and Germany consider Elon Musk’s efforts to influence their national politics unacceptable and believe the US tech magnate does not know much about either country or the issues they face, a poll has shown.”
Most people are correct!
theguardian.com/technology/202…
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Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.
‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.
Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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The top 10 hottest years on record have happened in the last 10 years, including 2024.
This is climate breakdown in real time.
In 2025, countries must put the world on a safer path by dramatically slashing emissions & supporting the transition to a renewable future.
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It's too soon to say I despair of this Govt, but I'm starting to.
GreenJJNews@GreenJJNews
No climate adaptation in #Starmer list of targets despite the fact that the climate emergency has started and floods/droughts are becoming more frequent. Government refusing to make climate part of football regulators role despite obvious financial impacts @GreenJennyJones
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💥NEW: The same 17 firms who supplied £119m worth of PPE deemed unusable during the pandemic, have made £83m from NHS contracts in this year alone.
🔎A good place to start for the new covid corruption commissioner?
Read our latest with @MC_00_ here⬇️
goodlaw.social/e8qo
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Number crunching: Parliamentary petitions
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Two billionaire (tax absent) right-wing media barons (one a US citizen, the other a non-dom) own almost 3/4 of the weekly newspaper circulation in the UK…
How can that be right? They have an outsized influence over our country. We need to reform media ownership rules.
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A Conservative Party spokesman says Louise Haigh “failed to behave to the standards expected of an MP", as she hadn’t thrown a lockdown party, bullied a civil servant, given a PPE contract to her mate, gone on reality TV instead of doing her job or crashed the economy
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Tom Osborne-Spindlow retweetledi
💥NEW: We've been trying to find out who managed Rishi Sunak's 'blind trust' investments whilst he was prime minister.
🤫The Cabinet Office under both the Tories and Labour have refused to tell us, so it's going to a tribunal hearing next week 🗓️⬇️
goodlaw.social/kh2c
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Wes Streeting has announced plans to launch care records – a central store of all our health data and doctors’ notes. But we haven’t heard him address the elephant in the room: Palantir.
Join over 4,000 people and write to him here: goodlaw.social/ndbo
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Tom Osborne-Spindlow retweetledi
Tom Osborne-Spindlow retweetledi
Right wingers stamping their feet saying
Call A General Election
Tell you what....
Let's have a Rejoin the EU referendum at the same time?
Six million people signed that petition
GET A GRIP@docrussjackson
🧵Call a General Election? A 2016 petition calling on the Govt to have a threshold on the EU referendum got more than FOUR MILLION signatures. A 2019 petition calling on the Govt to revoke Article 50 & remain in the EU got more than SIX MILLION signatories. Both were ignored.
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On Elon Musk’s comments on the Labour Gvt being a tyrannical police state:
@SamCoatesSky “If we were talking about a figure close to the Kremlin we would be asking the question whether this was foreign interference “
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Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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Sad story in The Times about 88 year old farmer, John Kemp-Welch, who works 5,000 acres of difficult hill farming land in Scotland.
Fortunately, he somehow found time to be Chair of the London Stock Exchange, a stockbroker for 30 years and on the board of HSBC.
Torsten Bell@TorstenBell
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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Tom Osborne-Spindlow retweetledi
A superb policy from @TheGreenParty
My take is that you can pay the CEO and others what you like, as long as the cleaner, the caretaker, and the kitchen staff are paid at least 10% of that.
(Personally, I'd go for a 5:1 ratio, but I'm a radical.)
The Green Party@TheGreenParty
A @HighPayCentre poll shows 55% of the British public support linking CEO pay to workers’ earnings, with only 15% opposed. The Green Party calls on the government to act and adopt a 10:1 pay ratio — fair pay for a fairer society.
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