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Huw Ringer

@HuwRinger

Simultaneously fearful of and excited for the future. You can also find me at https://t.co/l3q5A8pjrI

London, England เข้าร่วม Temmuz 2009
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Boudica’s Daughters
Boudica’s Daughters@boudicasarmy·
“Meanwhile Wes Streeting gave instructions in October 2024 to press ahead with transferring half a million GP records to Biobank despite objections from GPs and privacy campaigners, at precisely the moment Chinese access to that data was under active security service scrutiny.” We really don’t hate this horror of a government enough.
Jim Chimirie 🇬🇧@JChimirie66677

In November 2023, a Palantir-led consortium was awarded a £330 million contract to run the NHS Federated Data Platform. It was awarded by the Conservative government. What happened next happened under Labour. In April 2025, Chinese researchers were granted access to NHS Biobank data despite MI5 warnings that Chinese organisations could be ordered by intelligence agencies to work on Beijing's behalf. One in five successful applications for UK Biobank data came from China. BGI, a Chinese genetics company blacklisted by the United States for links to military programmes and the surveillance of ethnic minorities, was among those granted access. Health officials pressed ahead regardless. Two days later, a former deputy head of MI6 warned publicly that China could use NHS data to develop a targeted bioweapon. MI5 had already warned that Chinese access to UK data posed direct national security risks. The government's response was to say it had strict security procedures in place. In May 2025, Chinese state-linked hackers directly attacked University College Hospital and University Hospital Southampton in what intelligence firm EclecticIQ described as a credible espionage campaign linked to a Chinese intelligence gathering group operating across multiple countries. In November 2025, former defence secretary Gavin Williamson wrote formally to Darren Jones warning that Chinese access to NHS data posed an immense risk and constituted a direct threat to national security. Britain, he said, was lagging behind its allies. The government did not act. This week, the health data of half a million UK Biobank volunteers appeared for sale on Alibaba, listed by three Chinese research institutions. Researchers described it as the 198th known exposure of Biobank data since last summer. The escalating pattern sits alongside connections the government has not explained. Palantir's NHS contract was facilitated in part by Global Counsel, the lobbying firm Peter Mandelson co-founded and in which he held a 24 percent stake. Global Counsel had Palantir as a registered client. The connection between Global Counsel and Palantir was reportedly absent from Mandelson's vetting as ambassador. On February 27 2025, Mandelson arranged an undeclared meeting between Starmer and Palantir executives in Washington with no minutes taken. Seven months later Palantir won a £240 million MoD contract without competitive tender. Meanwhile Wes Streeting gave instructions in October 2024 to press ahead with transferring half a million GP records to Biobank despite objections from GPs and privacy campaigners, at precisely the moment Chinese access to that data was under active security service scrutiny. Since Palantir was awarded the NHS contract in November 2023, the incidents have escalated significantly. Synnovis ransomware June 2024. Chinese state-linked hospital hacks May 2025. Repeated Biobank exposures throughout 2025. The Alibaba breach this week. Whether that escalation is connected to Palantir's expanding presence in NHS data infrastructure, or reflects other vulnerabilities being exploited simultaneously, is a question that has not been asked with sufficient rigour. Why were MI5 warnings about Chinese access repeatedly overridden? Why did the government expand Chinese researchers' access to NHS data while being warned it posed a direct threat to national security? Why was the meeting between Starmer, Mandelson and Palantir not declared? And why did a company with a direct financial connection to the British ambassador win a three quarter of a billion pound defence contract without competition? The warnings were formal, documented and delivered by serious people. They were ignored. The breaches escalated. And the connections between the decisions that enabled both have never been explained. "Streeting gave instructions in October 2024 to press ahead with transferring half a million GP records to Biobank"

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First Squawk
First Squawk@FirstSquawk·
US FARM BANKRUPTCIES UP 46% YoY — 70% IN THE MIDWEST
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George Reid
George Reid@dieracg·
I wanted to follow up to some comments: patients are my ONLY motivation here. I’m an NHS consultant. I am a medically qualified, fully-trained expert in one specialty, and can call a friend who is an expert in any another. My job and income are secure. (1/8)
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Awni Hannun
Awni Hannun@awnihannun·
Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1: Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight? Me: Yes they're done. Partner: Why are they still dirty? Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.
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Nick Shepley
Nick Shepley@NickShepley·
One thing the political class is seemingly oblivious of is that fact that the rest of the population from cleaners to brain surgeons is highly regulated and economically coerced in ways that they are not and would scream blue murder if they had to be.
PoliticsJOE@PoliticsJOE_UK

"You can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes." Green MP Hannah Spencer tells us what Westminster is REALLY like. The full interview is live on YouTube, and as a podcast here: linktr.ee/howtorebuildbr…

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Miss Ally
Miss Ally@MissAlly_01·
An Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard & a German are sitting in a room when a man enters & asks, "Can you see me?" They respond; "Yes." "Oui." "Sí." "Ja."
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Epstein File Search
Epstein File Search@epsteinsearchin·
Lutnick said he cut all ties with Epstein in 2005. DOJ files include a photo of him on Little St. James island, dated December 23, 2012. Four years after Epstein's conviction. DOJ pulled the photo in February 2026, then quietly restored it. Under oath: a 'family lunch stop.'
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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim@academic_la·
Gaza remains in a fight for survival 🛑 100% of the population faces acute food insecurity. 🛑 4 killed today despite a "ceasefire." 🛑 Hospitals are running out of fuel. Your support sends food and medicine directly to those in need. Support these verified accounts
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Pulp Librarian
Pulp Librarian@PulpLibrarian·
Blue is salt and vinegar. Green is cheese and onion. That's just science.
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Musical Chairs
Musical Chairs@MusicalChairs14·
We're told that we're not a wealthy country. We can't afford to feed kids, pay pensions, fix infrastructure etc.
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New Scientist
New Scientist@newscientist·
People who are terminally ill are commonly reunited with lost loved ones in their dreams and have visions of doors, stairways and light, which are said to help them accept the dying process #Echobox=1777183174" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/252307…
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Joni Askola
Joni Askola@joni_askola·
The Russian playbook is the same as the Soviet one. Attack, demand things you never had and do not deserve, then wait for the West to offer concessions. We cannot fall for this in Ukraine. Giving in only fuels their aggression. Russia deserves nothing
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Risk Expert tells the Truth about Climate
AMOC is like the biggest distraction in history. No one knows when it's going to collapse or what the effects will be. Because nothing remotely like this has ever happened before. What we DO know, categorically, is that this planet will blast through 2C multi-year mean within 15 years, then 2.5C then 3C etc. Vastly warmer on land. 3C = 7C on land. Humans could be literally extinct before AMOC shuts down. This is not to downplay AMOC shutdown, but the apocalypse happens over the next 15 years and is not in any way dependent on AMOC shutdown, Blue Ocean Events, a methane bomb or anything else. The staggering rate of warming, which itself will ameliorate AMOC effects (Wally Broecker) is more than enough.
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Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦
A second Russian vessel carrying stolen Ukrainian grain is approaching Haifa, Israel. Israel previously accepted grain cargo from another Russian ship despite prior warnings about its origin. Ukraine formally requested the vessel’s arrest as soon as it entered port, but Israeli authorities issued a response only after the ship had already departed, stating that no action could be taken because the vessel was no longer in Israeli port. And now, the second Rusian vessel with Ukrainian grain is en route to Haifa.
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Катерина Яресько@kattyfun1

До Хайфи підходить ще одне судно із зерном з окупованих територій України – PANORMITIS (IMO: 9445021). Вантаж: 6201.56 т пшениці та 19043.73 т ячменю. PANORMITIS перебував на якірній стоянці порту Кавказ в російських територіальних водах, не порушував Державний кордон України. Порушення робили судна, які доставили йому зерно. Є непрямі ознаки, що весь вантаж PANORMITIS вивезений із Керчі та Бердянська, однак стверджувати цього ми не можемо. Нам вдалося зібрати докази лише по одному перевізнику - LEONID PESTRIKOV (IMO: 9922122), який доставив 6087.68 т ячменю та 954.56 т пшениці з Бердянська і перевантажив зерно на PANORMITIS 18 квітня. Документи на вантаж Пестрікова були оформлені в російському порту Темрюк, куди він прийшов з Бердянська завантаженим. Це робиться тому, що у Бердянську немає митного пункту, також це допомагає російським окупантам приховувати походження зерна. Завантаження в Бердянську 07-15.04.2026. Експортер Петрохлеб-Кубань, компанія, яка займається вивозом зерна з окупованих територій на постійній основі. В рф систематично застосовують дезінформацію на державному рівні - в документах вказують неправильний порт завантаження, приховують походження зерна. Це багато разів зафіксовано в наших матеріалах та розслідуваннях журналістів провідних світових медіа. Вивезення зерна - це розграбування ресурсів окупованих територій, воєнний злочин. Неважливо скільки на судні такого зерна (або скільки вдалось довести) - все або частка, фіксується факт злочину. В Україні здійснюється кримінальне провадження щодо фактів вивезення зерна з окупованих територій, для його здійснення важлива співпраця з державою, куди прийшло таке судно, це можливість зібрати докази. Ізраїль відмовив Україні в наданні міжнародно-правової допомоги в попередньому випадку, з судном ABINSK (IMO: 9303869). Другий поспіль рейс показує, що проблема має системний характер, в Ізраїль регулярно завозиться зерно з окупованих територій України. Подивимось що буде на цей раз.

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Artur Nadolny
Artur Nadolny@ArturNadol7566·
HE TOLD THE WORLD ISRAEL HAD NUKES Mordechai Vanunu worked as a technician at Israel top-secret nuclear facility in Dimona for eight years. In 1986 he walked into the offices of The Sunday Times (@thetimes) in London and handed over photographs he had secretly taken inside the plant. He told them Israel had somewhere between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads. The experts verified every word. The Sunday Times published the story on 5 October 1986. It was one of the most significant nuclear revelations in history. Israel response was not a press release. It was a Mossad operation. A female agent posing as an American tourist named Cindy started a relationship with Vanunu in London. She invited him on a romantic holiday. He flew to Rome on British Airways flight 504. That was the last time he stood on free soil for 18 years. He was drugged, bound, and secretly shipped back to Israel on a cargo vessel. His trial was held in total secrecy. He was sentenced to 18 years for treason and espionage, 11 of which he spent in solitary confinement in a cell roughly the size of a parking space. The kidnapping happened on British soil, or close to it. The Sunday Times had brought him to London. Mossad tracked him there. UK intelligence knew. Margaret Thatcher's government was briefed. Nobody did a thing. When he was finally released in 2004, Israel banned him from leaving the country, banned him from speaking to foreign journalists, and arrested him multiple times for doing exactly that. In 2007 he was jailed again for speaking to foreigners. Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience. American whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg called him "the preeminent hero of the nuclear era." The country that kidnapped him on European soil faced no consequences. The country that published his story moved on. And Israel's nuclear arsenal, still unacknowledged, still unsupervised by the international community, remains one of the worst-kept secrets in geopolitics. Sources: The Sunday Times, The Guardian, BBC, Others
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PhilipLarkinSociety
Larkin’s father died on 26 March 1948. A week the following Sunday it snowed in Warwick. This beautiful elegy was never printed in the poet’s lifetime and yet, arguably, it is his first great poem.
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Chris Smith
Chris Smith@renewablesmiffy·
My first onshore sites designed for 20 years are still running at 30+ years. My first Offshore site Scroby Sands running quite happily at 22 years will no decommissioning plans. Every decommissioned site I worked on was re-powered with significantly larger capacities.
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