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Cllr Dr David Nicholl

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Neurologist ;🔶 Libdem District Councillor (Avoncroft Ward). Read & share! www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s741 “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” - Dr. Martin Luther King

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 58m
Sound on! 🐱⛪️
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 21h
My comments in @bmj.com on failed execution of #christapike www.bmj.com/content/395/...
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Doctors’ Association UK @thedauk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"There are better ways that our taxpayers money can be spent. There are safer ways we can do it, and more ethical ways we can do it." DAUK's Dr David Nicholl on today's protests against the involvement of Palantir in the NHS.
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A message to @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social from @thedauk.bsky.social in Birmingham #Palantir software is a “bit sh**”
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A message to @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social from @thedauk.bsky.social in Birmingham #Palantir software is a “bit sh**”
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
& yet Nigel spreads misinformation
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cheers, Nigel Farage is crying now
Headline: men arrested near RAF airbase are UK citizens from London
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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Loved the Ted Lasso parody of the 'Deepthroat' Informer scene from 'All The Presidents Men' in Episode 8, right down to the glowing cigarette in the darkness. Even some of the dialog was similair. Wonder how many people's heads it went over, that film is now 50 years old.
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Déjà vu? @jeremynicholl.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ck...
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Drumcree: Orange Order march to go ahead for first time in almost 30 years after day of legal drama
The march down the mainly-nationalist Garvaghy Road, which in the 1990s sparked some of the most serious disorder in Northern Ireland's history, will go ahead after a series of courtroom challenges.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This artwork was created over the past year by a local Birmingham artist collective who wanted to bring unty from discord by repurposing the divisive Nationalist flags into a massive Brummie Reunion Jack. Suffice it to say, the inspiration for Goldship's magnificent work has not taken it well.
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Excellent 🎥 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️#Pressure
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Au contraire Peter Thiel…your #Palantir software helped to kill 123 kids in Iran….which is both incompetent AND evil 🤷‍♂️ www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel is lashing out at the pope because he is Thiel’s worst fear. Leo deals in a currency he doesn’t understand. There’s no election, no impeachment, no indictment, no deportation order, no tariff that touches him. His authority comes from somewhere Thiel has no instrument to reach.
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“A Useful Idiot for the Chinese Communists” — Peter Thiel Attacks Pope Leo XIV for the Third Time
The billionaire who bankrolled JD Vance’s Senate race, and whom Vance credits with reopening the door to his faith, went after the American pope again on Thursday in Berlin. The vice president has sai...
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 24/09/2026
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk that Rolling Stone called “a nonfiction horror movie” following its film festival debut earlier this month. Watch ↓
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Elon Musk Is in the Business of Selling Dreams in Trailer for New Doc
Filmmaker Alex Gibney has shared the first trailer for 'Musk,' a two-part, four-hour deep dive into Elon Musk.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A former staff member of Tony Blair Institute said they had serious concerns that this was “very much trading money for access”, but was instructed by a colleague not to describe it that way. ‘They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access’😬
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Gotta ❤️ @privateeyenews.bsky.social on Tom Watson hypocrisy #Palantir
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.
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Elon Musk is flying under the radar in the Texas Senate race. Republicans want to keep it that way.
One Republican involved in the Texas Senate contest called Musk’s in-your-face campaigning in Wisconsin last year “a mis
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
God this is going so well. I haven’t laughed this hard in so long!
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OMG. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Two million likes on TikTok… and counting.
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Live in US airports right now… www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did he need rescuing by the RNLI?🧐
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘The rules have changed’: has Russia begun to order assassinations on US soil?
Exiled dissidents and an unsealed indictment suggest Kremlin may have abandoned longstanding taboo on attacks on its rival’s territory
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/09/2026
George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’
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George Osborne ‘thought Peter Thiel’s Bayeux tapestry visit would be secret’
British Museum chair tells Big Brue festival he thought no one would find out about the private viewing George Osborne has said he thought no one would find out about a private viewing of the Bayeux tapestry he organised for the tech billionaire Peter Thiel at the British Museum. The former chancellor, who is chair of the museum, told the Big Brue festival in Somerset that he had been on holiday when the Thiel was shown the medieval artwork. Continue reading...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/09/2026
"All but four UK constituencies would support reversing Brexit and rejoining the EU, new polling has shown, as Andy Burnham seeks a 'deeper relationship' with the bloc and to win over voters." Read here: www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/polit…
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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1gypsy (🎵I/me/me/mine🎵) 🦋 @theonegypsy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's pretty funny.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
A Pentagon investigation found that the murder of 123 Iranian children at the school in Minab resulted from a cascade of failures, Bloomberg reports. * Outdated intelligence that still classified the school as an IRGC facility
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Something else Tom Watson won’t tell you…how 123 children were killed when US over-relied on #Palantir MAVEN software www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
President Obama, "Imagine if I had pulled Fox News's credentials from the White House Press corp. You're laughing but this is what's happening" "Who are we as a country and what values do we stand for?"
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Jason Leopold @jasonleopold.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HUGE EXCLUSIVE from @bloomberg.com Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School Pentagon investigators discovered that flawed intel, outdated imagery & overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Inside the US ‘Kill Chain’ That Destroyed an Iranian School
Pentagon investigators have discovered that flawed intelligence, outdated imagery and an overreliance on AI contributed to a missile strike that killed 123 children in Minab.
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages retractionwatch.com/2026/09/16/l... I’ve signed in support
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Lancet union declares first-ever strike over staff wages
Union members at The Lancet and its affiliated journals will go on strike Sept. 22 for one day with further action planned for the following week, after pay negotiations with parent publisher Elsev…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir 🤮
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 17/09/2026
The pushback on Sheeran is very powerful. Let's see how much pressure we can also generate against Kraft and Gillette stadium.
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
'Never, ever forget' - America marks 25th anniversary of 9/11 attacks Terry Strada is quite incredible … 25y I, like many, were asking why were the majority of the 9/11 murderers Saudi… She never stopped asking… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... youtu.be/dJM643VA1cM?...
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9/11 widow Terry Strada calls out Saudi Arabia for role in 2001 attacks
YouTube video by Democracy Now!
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 14/09/2026
Nothing says “America First” like having Moscow sponsor the open bar.
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thatgirlinsb @34thparallel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Protesters at the Irish Open. shitler’s international golf links and hotel Doonbeg, Ireland. Thank you, Doonbeg!
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ironically, having £72 million will mean I can spend more money promoting the idea that I'm a man of the people and not just a rich, entitled tosser.
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𝔸𝕟𝕕𝕪 𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕫𝕫𝕖𝕝𝕝, 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘻 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘻, 𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 🔔 @andrewjfrizzell.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Share this far and wide. It’s brilliant.
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LGA Liberal Democrat Group @libdemlocalgov.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Liberal Democrat run Richmond Council has been named Green Council of the Year at the 2026 Political Purpose Awards, recognising the borough's work tackling climate change and restoring nature. richmond.gov.uk/news/news_se...
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Richmond scoops national Green Council of the Year award - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
Richmond Council has been named Green Council of the Year at the 2026 Political Purpose Awards, recognising the borough's work tackling climate change and restoring nature.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
9/11/2001 I was a freshman in high school in Alabama, I wore a hijab. In gym class my teacher wheeled in a screen. Something horrible was happening. I watched, mouth agape as the second tower hit. We were silent. As that period reached an end, my name was announced on the loud speaker. 1/
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Cllr Dr David Nicholl @drdavidnicholl.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
John Malkovich cancels Israel trip over fabricated solidarity quote
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties
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Vikki Slade MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I've just recorded a piece with the BBC for the lunchtime news about the targeted abuse towards our RNLI volunteers and staff. Those who cause disruption should be held to account. No one should have to make that horrendous crossing; we need a safe, secure and consistent asylum system.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/09/2026
Trey Parker & Matt Stone announce that ‘SOUTH PARK’ will be renamed to ‘SOUTH AMERICA’. “Inspired by the bravery & patriotism of Apple & Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA. We especially want to thank our parent company Paramount — a Skydance Capitulation.”
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