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strutsafe.org what a great service

Another labour let down . In the presale queue for Bicep tiks Wednesday no luck. Checked today and loads on stub hub nme.com/news/music/mus…

@DPJHodges x.com/i/status/20549…

Downing Street's one hope was to split the Streeting and Burnham camps. Thanks to their aggressive, hubristic briefing yesterday they've managed to unite them.

@BethRigby @zerohedge x.com/i/status/20549…

PM letter to Streeting: I’m am truly sorry you will not longer be sat in the cabinet

@RestIsPolitics @campbellclaret x.com/i/status/20549…

As Wes Streeting resigns, @campbellclaret explains what's happened and what could happen next.

Under a Resolution of the House of 2 March 1624, MPs cannot directly resign their seat. Death, disqualification and expulsion are the only means by which a Member's seat may be vacated during the lifetime of a Parliament.

Amazing times at @ETHPrague, seeing old friends and making new ones! <3 A few cool Firefly hacks coming out of the woodworks too as we handed out 250 free devices to hackers and attendees, with over 1,100 in the wild now! If you hacked on Firefly, share it replying to this tweet or tagging @FireflyPocket. :) We’re also in the Giveth round if you want to help put more free devices out into the world, every dollar is amplified by its quadratic funding. :) qf.giveth.io/project/firefl…

May 13, 2026 #Hantavirüs Update Comparing the 2018-2019 Outbreak to the current situation: -As a reminder, the 2018-2019 outbreak was 34 infected and 11 deaths, published in the NEJM -The current trajectory show the positive effect of early interventions -This is on track to burn out over the next 30 days Thank you: @HHSResponse @CDCgov @SecKennedy @NIHDirector_Jay

HOLY SHIT.

@wesstreeting @BethRigby Appointment at 13:10. Still waiting

Under Labour, NHS waiting lists are falling, ambulances are arriving faster, there are more GPs, and higher patient satisfaction. Lots done, lots to do. The Health Bill will boost the impact of our investment and modernisation: cutting bureaucracy to invest in patient care.

SIX BANKERS JAILED Sally Masterton was a forensic accountant at Lloyds Banking Group (@LBGplc). In 2013 she wrote an internal report, Project Lord Turnbull, documenting how HBOS executives had deliberately concealed a £1 billion fraud at their Reading branch before Lloyds acquired them. Small businesses destroyed. Lives ruined. Fraud siphoning money to pay for kickbacks, prostitutes and Barbados holidays. She was pushed out in 2014. Lloyds publicly denied the report was even authorised. They called her a rogue employee acting alone. The police, meanwhile, were writing letters saying her work was vital to their investigation and trying to have her co-opted onto the case. @TheFCA received the report in 2014. They did nothing for years. Nothing. The regulator whose entire job is to catch this exact thing sat on it. Six HBOS executives were eventually jailed for a combined 47 years. The fraud was real. The cover-up was real. Masterton was right about all of it. Lloyds settled with her twice. The second time, in 2018, they formally admitted the report was commissioned by the bank and apologised, saying she had acted with integrity and good faith. That is what institutions call justice when they want to avoid the word sorry. The FCA was fined £45 million for concealing the fraud. Not a single board-level executive was held accountable. The £45 million fine went straight to the Treasury. Thames Valley Police spent £7 million investigating a fraud they could never recover from the fraudsters. The Chancellor at the time refused to reimburse them. A woman who did her job properly was fired, smeared, and silenced with a non-disclosure agreement. The people who covered up a billion-pound fraud kept their careers. Nothing about any of this was an accident. MP Kevin Hollinrake (@kevinhollinrake) called her treatment disgraceful. He was right. It was also completely predictable for anyone who knows how these institutions protect themselves. Share this if you think the public deserves to know. Sources: @FinancialTimes @CityAM @businessinsider | Blueprint for Free Speech | Parliamentary Written Evidence

I was on a train in Tokyo. We stopped between stations. Announcement in Japanese, then in English: "We apologize for the delay. We will resume shortly." The delay was maybe 3 minutes. Not a big deal. When the train started moving again, another announcement: "We sincerely apologize for the delay. We were stopped for 3 minutes and 20 seconds. This is unacceptable. Thank you for your patience." Three minutes and twenty seconds. They measured it exactly. And called it unacceptable. When I got off at my stop, there were station staff on the platform bowing and handing out delay certificates. I took one out of curiosity. It was an official document stating that the train had been delayed by 3 minutes and 20 seconds, signed and stamped. The staff member said in English "for your employer. So they know the delay was not your fault." I said I'm a tourist, I don't need it. He looked confused. "But the delay affected you. You deserve an apology." Three minutes. They were treating a three-minute delay like a major incident. Later I mentioned this to a Japanese friend. They said "oh yes, delay certificates are normal. Trains are supposed to be exactly on time. If they are late, they must apologize." I said three minutes isn't late, it's nothing. My friend said "in Japan, three minutes is late. On time means on time. Not approximately on time." They said the train company probably investigated why there was a 3-minute delay. "They will find the cause and fix it so it doesn't happen again." I kept the certificate. It's framed in my apartment now. A reminder that somewhere in the world, people care about three minutes. © 6IX.

This is super important. The UK government are having it both ways again. They spent years denying that Covid was spread through the air. And now they're saying that Hantavirus doesn't spread through the air the way Covid does, as if that's what they said all along. <screams>

Happy to hear that Keir Starmer intends to stay. He’s right that a revolving door of PMs isn’t in the country’s interests. Good on him for his resilience and determination.

@sammerriman_ Worth pointing out all the vitriol that Dan Neidle had to put up when he reported this. Sometimes it pays to listen to people who do this professionally. 😉

NEW: Green Party leader Zack Polanski has tonight admitted that he failed to pay the correct council tax while living on a houseboat in east London

10 again

@Peston And public water supply isn't?

Standing room only on the train to London this morning, a spare seat became available right by where I was stood, I asked the only lady I could see if she wanted it and she refused so I looked round to see if an elderly person would like it and it suddenly dawned on me I was the oldest one here 😂😂😂😂😂

This feels like malpractice to me. 🚨 CDC officials tracking the hantavirus outbreak aboard a luxury cruise ship say there is no mandatory quarantine for the 17 Americans awaiting repatriation. What could possibly go wrong?