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Passionate about reducing health inequalities • economist • health strategist: SAS, HIV, Sexual Health & more • recovering from standing vs Suella as LD PPC in GE24 • C19 Epi Lead • mother • avid reader • 💙 NHS

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
NEW: Take a moment with me to enjoy some light comedy and read about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently planning to speak at a fringe health conference in Estonia, and then pulling out because local politicians called him "a quack" and "cuckoo in the head." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The saga of RFK Jr. and an Estonian vaccine skeptics conference
Kennedy withdrew after the country’s Minister for Social Affairs reportedly called him “cuckoo in the head.”
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
thank you Private Eye for taking apart this flakey headline-grabbing research
"LONDON drops down wealth list as super-rich move out," blared a Times splash on 9 April, reporting that there are supposedly 11,300 fewer "dollar millionaires" in the British capital than there were last year - the fastest fall of any global city except Moscow, as the wealthy move their money abroad.
The story was also reported by the Telegraph, Express, Daily Mail and Evening Standard, while the Times returned to the subject next day in a 1,300-word feature. Even culture secretary Lisa Nandy responded to the alleged exodus, blaming it on Brexit, not the Labour government. But how accurate are those remarkably specific figures?
They come from South Africa-based outfit
New World Wealth, commissioned by "advisory firm" Henley & Partners. As pointed out by the New Statesman's Will Dunn back in January, but not mentioned in the Times, Henley & Partners sells advice to rich people about financial planning, and consults governments on
"investment migration" policies - so is opposed to higher taxes on rich people.
And while New World Wealth puts out seemingly definitive figures, they come up with them using "models" based on tracking the online footprints of a far smaller number of people, without actually knowing where they pay tax. Moreover, when contacted by the Eye, the company offered another important caveat, saying it was "important to note" that "most of" the decline in wealth in London over the past decade was not actually down to people leaving the UK, but poor performance of local businesses and a decline in the FTSE 100, which it also uses to collate its reports estimating relative global wealth. So the super-rich in question may well still be here, just not so super-rich any more.
The unreliability of New World Wealth's
"data" and what it actually means hasn't stopped hacks reporting on a mass evacuation by the rich over government policies, which has become an accepted truth. Those figures seemed to have an effect on the chancellor: soon afterwards Rachel Re…
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Excited for all the new American banana and coffee factories.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
“…the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.” - FDR, 1938
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
prediction vs reality
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🔴Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...
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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename 'Krasnov' Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB spy chief claims Trump was recruited in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 20/02/2025
Truth isn’t what it used to be. Facts are under attack. But this isn’t new - it’s a playbook perfected by Big Tobacco and weaponised by the far right. How do you fight back when reality itself is being rewritten? New EAB writer Guy Chapman reports.
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The new war on reality: how ‘truth’ became a weapon
Why does it feel as if our shared reality is under assault – twisted by propaganda, ideology and manufactured doubt?
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
60 years on since Baldwin v Buckley at Cambridge www.channel4.com/news/60-year...
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60 years on since Baldwin v Buckley at Cambridge
The debate took place at the height of the civil rights movement in the United States with Black political figures fighting for equal rights in the country calling itself the land of the free.
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.
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Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income
This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ooo this is a good one ☺️
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 04/01/2025
While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Most people know the Mail briefly supported the British Union of Fascists in 1934 ("Hurrah for the Blackshirts") but less well known is that Rothermere got all his papers to back them. The Sunday Dispatch ran a prize for the best letter on "Why I Like the Blackshirts".
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 14/12/2024
Fascism always starts subtly—until it doesn’t. Billionaires funding radical politics aren’t just a threat; they’re an attack on democracy itself | Natacha Kennedy
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Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Who are you???
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UniverseDiscovery🌌🔭 @creatorbluesky.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I do astronomy for a living, and images like this *still* take my breath away. What a beautiful universe we live in. Even in the midst of trouble, grief, & anything you might be struggling with (like we all are) - try to seek out the beauty. It helps ❤️
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“Everyone in positions of influence should ask themselves the question: are you treating those fighting to save the planet more harshly than those fighting for inherited wealth? If so, why?” @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
How to say I miss you, around the world... 6. You are missing from me (French) 5. I feel the lack of you (Estonian) 4. I see a need of you (Welsh) 3. The thoughts of you come to me often (Hindi) 2. My heart has become tight for you (Farsi) 1. You coming home soon or what? (Mancunian)
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
"Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out." 💩
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Was there ever ‘shareholder support’ for Thames Water?
New writer Stanley Root’s analysis of Thames Water’s accounts shows that there has never been a year since privatisation when shareholders contributed more cash than they took out
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I am now, for the first time in my life, inside Free Syria. That’s a sentence I never thought I’d live long enough to say.
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Terrifying….and yes, the Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanleys & cabal sailed on unaffected after 2008 turmoil. It makes my toes curl in shame that I was part of GS in 2008:-(
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
this sketch is utterly brilliant: "Farage turned first to GB News, who cover his party with the sort of critical scrutiny more usually associated with biographers of the late Queen...."
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Appalling. 🤬 Gloucestershire County Council unanimously called for the CEO of Thames Water to come to a special meeting and answer questions about pollution and sky rocketing water bills. That meeting happened in Nov. The CEO didn’t show - sent representatives instead. No apology was issued.
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The stench of privatisation in our water companies
Sewage spills in Gloucestershire’s rivers, and huge dividends paid while Thames Water are in debt, make reform of the water industry urgent Sewage spills in Gloucestershire’s rivers, and huge dividend...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 05/12/2024
We’ve updated our Clacton billboard to tell voters their MP just took £40k from a US firm that advises clients how to offshore their money and pay less tax. For the full story see video below 👇
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 04/12/2024
"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as
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Yes, it's a genocide
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
- a quarter of all England’s farmland belongs to just 2,500 owners - 20 dukes own a million acres of Britain "most of this country is owned by people like the Duke of Westminster, who has 129,000 acres and a £10billion fortune", says @guyshrubsole.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Quarter of England's farmland owned by just 2,500 toffs and fatcats
There are more than 100,000 farm holdings in England, covering 22 million acres in total. But the Defra data show just 2,568 very large farms own or manage 5.6 million acres
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“Just three companies, News Corp (Murdoch family), Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT, Viscount Rothermere) and Reach plc, control over 80% of daily newspaper circulation… The hyper-rich continue to invest huge sums in acquiring control of media” We need a free press - ie free from the billionaires.
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We need a free press
It’s vital for democracy that we receive verifiable information that is not manipulated or controlled
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
These numbers are off the scale…yet the Fareham & Waterlooville voters re-elected @SuellaBraverman In the real world, she would have be out on her ear for such gross mismanagement, not standing for re-election - as I pointed out to her in our GE24 hustings using £380M figure; little did we know 🧐
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As the LD PPC who was up vs Suella in GE24, it was no surprise that she + the Reform candidate won c.27k votes between them. We met many Reform voters on the doorstep: avid Farage fans, v strident in their support, many of whom had bought their houses under Thatcher. 1/
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The constant use of migrants as a political football is a self inflicted illness for Britain, creating an unhealthy society. The UK is built on immigration. We have always needed it, it has made us who we are, it’s our lifeblood. We need to start seeing migrants as us. Not them.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The European Federation of Journalists representing over 320,000 journalists in Europe will no longer post on X. Soon there will be no X, only Bluesky's.
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As the LD PPC who was up vs Suella in GE24, it was no surprise that she + the Reform candidate won c.27k votes between them. We met many Reform voters on the doorstep: avid Farage fans, v strident in their support, many of whom had bought their houses under Thatcher. 1/
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/11/2024
Tim Stanley, in what now appears to be a weekly slot on one or other BBC flagship politics programme, reels off a huge amount of absolute, provable nonsense about immigration. And he does so completely unchallenged. Enough now. ~AA A MEGA-THREAD 🧵1/
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 28/11/2024
Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich youtu.be/SA8T29zWNCw?...
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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please let this really happen - 🙏🏾 Enough Iz genocide
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please say this is true: A CEASEFIRE - at last 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
‘We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority only read the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our contents’ Emile Zola 💯
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines & limited autonomy, without being any more productive, according to a report produced for the Commission for Healthier Working Lives www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
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UK workers face some of Europe's greatest job stress, report says
British workplaces rank among the worst in Europe for long hours, tight deadlines and limited autonomy, without being any more productive.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
FCA fines Macquarie Bank £13m for 400 fictitious trades amid ‘serious failings’. No clawback of exec pay, no prosecutions. Puny fine won't frighten a bank with $A2,912 million profit. Macquarie destroyed Thames Water and is sinking Southern Water. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
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Watchdog refuses to sign off UK public sector accounts over unreliable data
National Audit Office ‘disclaims’ accounts because of shortcomings in auditing of English local authorities
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Tom Hannen @tomhannen.ft.com · 25/11/2024
There was a great explanation of the Oxford St American candy stores written by @cynthiao.bsky.social a while back - free to read: on.ft.com/3AvbZhH
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How Oxford Street was overrun by sweet shops
London’s premier shopping destination has suffered a triple hit from Covid, high business rates and lax registration rules
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Bella_healtheco @bella-healtheco.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 26/11/2024
"Infant mortality rises for third consecutive year in England. Risk of death for babies born in poorer areas is almost three times higher than in wealthier postcodes, figures show." The UK is a declining econcomy with a few extremely rich people. amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Infant mortality rises for third consecutive year in England | Infant and child mortality | The Guardian
Risk of death for babies born in poorer areas is almost three times higher than in wealthier postcodes, figures show
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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Express poll needs some help! Here's a direct link to avoid the ads: xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🔴Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer? Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government’s inheritance tax reforms bylinetimes.com/2024/11/19/j...
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Jeremy Clarkson, James Dyson and Junk Stats: Is This the Best the Anti-Inheritance Tax Farming Lobby Has to Offer?
Millionaire landowners are using dubious statistics to campaign against the Government's inheritance tax reforms
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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
1/ 🚨 Conspiracy theories about the 2024 election miss the bigger picture. The truth? It wasn’t one night, one hack, or one fraud. It was a system rigged in plain sight – right in front of us. The playbook was out in the open for years. But hardly anyone paid attention. Here’s how they did it... 🧵
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I love this.
A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/11/2024
I’ll defend Allison Pearson’s right to be obnoxious – as she should defend mine | Kenan Malik
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I’ll defend Allison Pearson’s right to be obnoxious – as she should defend mine | Kenan Malik
Police investigation into writer’s alleged tweet has sparked a debate over free speech, albeit a somewhat selective one There are few columnists with whom I disagree more than I do with the Daily Telegraph’s Allison Pearson. Yet, I welcome the decision…
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
National Audit Office report into the CONFLICTS OF INTEREST in UK government 👇 I talk about exactly this in my book 📕 there should be NO CONFLICTS of interest None Nada If you’re interested in these matters then maybe sign up to Democracy For Sale newsletter via @petergeoghegan.bsky.social
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