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@glenn_tunes No that was selling off council houses and North Sea oil, and privatising water and rail. Then Brexit. Then Liz Truss. Then aiding and abetting a genocide. But this may well be the next in line.

NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS WOULD I HAVE THOUGHT THAT THE BRITISH WOULD FALL FOR FARAGE'S VERSION OF TRUMP'S MAGA PROPAGANDA 🤷 BRITS FUCKED UP YESTERDAY 🤦 THIS WILL GO DOWN AS THE BIGGEST POLITICAL MISTAKE IN BRITISH HISTORY 🤷

@uk_ktee7484 That’s awful. And that’s the thing, we never know if we’re even in a waiting list at all!

My FIL received a letter from his NHS hospital trust yesterday giving him an appointment regarding skin cancer surgery. He also received a letter on the same day cancelling the appointment. He is elderly and was quite baffled so I rang them up to check what was happening and where he now was on the waiting list. They said he had been removed from the list. I asked why and they couldn’t give me an answer. I asked if the surgery had been rescheduled to which they said no. I asked if it was going to be rescheduled and they said “no, because he isn’t on the waiting list” !!!!!! I was obvs upset and the lady said she would try and fix it and i now have to call back on Monday. Is this how Starmer is fixing the NHS? #NHS #waitinglists

Your "natural" wool sweater might involve mulesing. Mulesing is the Australian wool industry's standard practice of cutting strips of skin from lambs' rear ends, often without anesthesia, to prevent flystrike. The procedure is widely considered painful, with risks of infection and long-term healing issues. New Zealand banned it in 2018. Australia, the world's largest wool producer, has not. If your sweater is labeled "Australian wool" or "merino" without further certification, mulesing is the default assumption. Look for "Responsible Wool Standard" or "ZQ Merino" certifications instead. Both prohibit mulesing and verify it through audits.

Good for the Obsever for leading on this.

Reform UK activist Matthew Mackinnon who wrote the Reform Wales Manifesto is banned from every Football Ground in The UK for Violent Behaviour.

Diolch 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Braint annerch cannoedd o bobl ar risiau’r Senedd heddiw. Mae pobl Cymru wedi creu hanes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 It was a privilege to address hundreds of people on the Senedd steps today. This is history made by the people of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

There are now so many young people on social media who are well-informed and politically astute. It honestly gives me hope for the future, despite moronic old bastards of my age voting for Reform, the Tories, and Starmer's Labour...

@MorganBroadcast All vets are expensive now but. VetsNow being an out of hours vet are a lot more than others, but if your pet’s in such pain and with a potentially broken leg. I’d say it is an emergency. Depending where you live, PDSA or RSPCA have vets at lower rates for eg people on benefits.

Our 4-year-old cat appears to have broken one of its front legs and is in a lot of pain. When I gently tried to examine it he bit (lightly) me and hissed for the first time (very out of character for him). Local vet closed at midday so was told to call their out-of-hours via @VetsNowUK. They’re demanding £350 just to look at him, with any treatment/medication on top at a premium. These are not people who care about animals. These are people who care about money.

@greg16676935420 I don’t immediately, often, so as with most important things I tend to mislay, I have several spares.

This might be a stupid question but how do people who wear glasses find their glasses when they misplace them

To the people of Tenerife, My name is Tedros, and I serve as the Director-General of the @WHO, the @UN agency responsible for global public health. It is not common for me to write directly to the people of a single community, but today I feel it is not only appropriate, it is necessary. I want to speak to you directly, not through press releases or technical briefings, but as one human being to another, because you deserve that. I know you are worried. I know that when you hear the word “outbreak” and watch a ship sail toward your shores, memories surface that none of us have fully put to rest. The pain of 2020 is still real, and I do not dismiss it for a single moment. But I need you to hear me clearly: this is not another COVID-19. the current public health risk from #hantavirus remains low. My colleagues and I have said this unequivocally, and I will say it again to you now. The virus aboard the MV Hondius is the Andes strain of hantavirus. It is serious. Three people have lost their lives, and our hearts go out to their families. The risk to you, living your daily life in Tenerife, is low. This is the WHO’s assessment, and we do not make it lightly. Right now, there are no symptomatic passengers on board. A WHO expert is on that ship. Medical supplies are in place. Spain’s authorities have prepared a careful, step-by-step plan: passengers will be ferried ashore at the industrial port of Granadilla, far from residential areas, in sealed, guarded vehicles, through a completely cordoned-off corridor, and repatriated directly to their home countries. You will not encounter them. Your families will not encounter them. I also want to say something else, something that goes beyond the science. I personally thanked Prime Minister @sanchezcastejon for #Spain’s decision to receive this ship. I called it an act of solidarity and moral duty. Because that is what it is. I want you to know that the WHO’s request to Spain was not made arbitrarily. It was made in full accordance with the International Health Regulations, the legally binding framework that defines the rights and obligations of countries and the WHO when responding to public health events of international concern. Under those rules, the nearest port with sufficient medical capacity must be identified to ensure the safety and dignity of those on board. Tenerife met that standard. Spain honoured it. Nearly 150 people from 23 countries have been at sea for weeks, some of them grieving, all of them frightened, all of them longing for home. Tenerife has been chosen because it has the medical capacity, the infrastructure, and the humanity to help them reach safety. And because I believe that so deeply, I will be there myself. I intend to travel to Tenerife to observe this operation firsthand, to stand alongside the health workers, port staff, and officials who are making it happen, and to personally pay my respects to an island that has responded to a difficult situation with grace, solidarity, and compassion. Your humanity deserves to be witnessed, not just acknowledged from a distance. As I have said many times: viruses do not care about politics, and they do not respect borders. The best immunity any of us has is solidarity. Tenerife is demonstrating that solidarity today. The ship’s captain, Jan Dobrogowski, crew and the company operating the vessel have shown exemplary collaboration at this challenging time. On behalf of the World Health Organization, and on behalf of those passengers and their families around the world, I thank the people of Tenerife and everyone else involved. Please take care of yourselves and of each other. Trust in the preparations that have been made. And know that the WHO stands with you, and with every person on that ship, every step of the way. With respect, care, and gratitude, Tedros

"The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion." — Bertrand Russell

@StallAlan @amelia_tweetz We got more money out of the EU than we put in. That’s how ridiculous it was leaving.

@amelia_tweetz It will cost the UK £22 billion to £31 billion annually in payments. Think carefully.

The UK has been formally invited to rejoin the EU, 10 years after Brexit referendum Should the UK accept this? 🤔

@amelia_tweetz Yes definitely. We never should have left.

📍Gaza: Red Cross Field Hospital in Rafah undergoes overhaul to continue addressing urgent health care needs Read the full story here: icrc.org/en/news-releas…

Today is World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. Across the world, volunteers and staff from the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement show up every day for people in crisis, responding in their own communities, helping neighbours, supporting families, and standing on the frontlines of emergencies that affect them too. Because beyond every emergency, every response, and every emblem, there is one truth: we are United in Humanity. #UnitedInHumanity

In an ever-changing world, we all experience change in different ways. But the importance of compassion, connection, and kindness remains the same. Whatever's happening, one thing is constant: the British Red Cross is here, offering support to anyone, anywhere who needs us. ❤️

Reform candidate who said ‘Nigerians should be melted down to fill in pot holes’ wins seat trib.al/O3SF5si

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic. sltrib.com/news/environme…

“Apparently there are still people who get a kick out of killing things and taking the lives of others, which is something I find incomprehensible” #SirDavidAttenborough #100Years on Planet Earth #NatureMatters

“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” ― Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow