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@emj013.bsky.social
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Interests - microbiology, virology, immunology, psychology & politics. Dreams of a world where contributions to society are valued higher than earnings and stuff we own

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11h
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that Palantir poses to our NHS goodlawproject.org/forced-out-of-a-…
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Forced out of a job in the NHS for speaking out on Palantir | Good Law Project
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that a US spy-tech company poses to our NHS
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 16h
I have just signed, my trust signed up but hasn't started using it yet but many have. 88,117 supporters have emailed. Let's get to 100,000
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#BBCQT Annabel Denham may work at the telegraph now but why do they neglect to say she worked as director of coms at the right wing free market think tank the IEA which might explain expressions like 'breaking in to the UK'. Also ECHR has only been used 13 x to stop deportations since 1980
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#bbcqt when we talk about the welfare Bill recently and people being out of work, why does no one mention #longcovid it hasn't gone away, each infection could lead to long term complications and the long term effects won't be known for a while but could be a factor in people being out of work
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've just found out my blood, taken at my GP surgery, is processed by Boa Vida health which is parented in the US. Maybe there is less to spend on patients cos we are now out sourcing services the #NHS once did to private US healthcare @andyburnham.bsky.social kick private equity out the #NHS 🙏
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social why was #ChrisMason #BBCNews at 6 report a bit light on discussing how Reform's donation by 2 people who could control the country through Farage and also more emphasis needs to be made about this 👇 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Crypto billionaire pardoned by Trump gives Reform UK another £4m
Party confident money from Ben Delo will not be caught in new overseas donor cap
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
James Orr. Peter Thiel. Race science. Tech authoritarianism. We've spent years tracing the networks behind Britain’s ‘Dark Enlightenment’. Help us launch an urgent new investigative project to follow the money and map how it operates. #LightUpTheDark subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Is this ringing alarm bells for anyone else? 🚨🚨🚨 I have things to say about this and will be writing about it: jujuliagrace.substack.com www.cityam.com/how-the-nhs-...
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social please read 🙏
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is sickening and would be on the news if it happened at any other political conference - common assault. Any other political leader would have condemned it... @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @vicderbyshire.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social please get rid of all PFIs from our public services. Everything has gone wrong since the private sector got involved with the NHS, they have to make a profit for shareholders making money from people's fear and misery. Dentistry, opticians & mental health help included
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Private equity choking UK health and social care. Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care. Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records. PE devours everything. Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.
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Tracking the rise of private equity in health and social care - The Lowdown
GP records put private equity ownership in the spotlight The acquisition of Optum UK, the owner of EMIS, a major supplier of GP IT systems, for a reported $400 million (£293.5 million) by the US priva...
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Google A.I. Alternative facts both from Google - just with a more sceptical search term the second time Choose whichever you prefer Be careful out there
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Jason Arday story is by no means the biggest scandal at Cambridge University. I'm sure the media is going to pick this up and run with it in just the same way ... Or is the exaggerated CV of one Black professor somehow more important than this?
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🔴 All Party Parliamentary Groups (APPGs) are not allowed to accept secretariat services “funded directly or indirectly by a foreign government”. But we found that some cross-party groups are being funded by foreign states. New on Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-t...
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Revealed: the foreign governments behind Westminster's cross-party groups
Foreign states aren't meant to fund the organisations running parliamentary groups. Our investigation found evidence that some do.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Worrying report on the impact of AI infrastructure on people’s lives… “Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions” unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
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Rising Emissions, Depleting Water and Vanishing Land—UN Scientists: AI Is Threatening Natural Resources for Billions
By 2030, AI's water use will match the needs of 1.3 billion people while its power use triples that of 650 million, UN University investigation warns
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
“I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all” @petergeoghegan.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Let's take this bit at a time. The editor of The Spectator, defender of the working class, and protector against immigrants is privately educated former Tory minister Baron Gove of Torry, formerly in relationships with an American, another American, and then a woman raised in Rome. 1/
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Despite all the noise today I'd really like you to read this, as I think it's crucial. The government's in the process of p*ssing up to £264 billion into the ground, at the behest of the fossil fuel industry. Yes, £264 *billion*. It's utterly mad, and has to stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot
There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Interesting - it is almost like Gove's educational reforms and having to get in massive debt to go to Uni where critical thinking is encouraged (not a problem for the wealthy) had a purpose! Well practiced in the US too. natcen.ac.uk/news/educati... #education #rightwing #byelection
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Educational experience is the primary driver of the UK’s divide on immigration and politics | National Centre for Social Research
New report reveals that educational background is the most important driver of attitudes towards immigration and support for right-wing politics in UK
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Private equity controls large parts of UK economy & public services. It is opaque, lacks transparency and accountability. PE conceals ownership, uses complex structures, financial engineering: shifts profits offshore, engages in tax abuse Little information Company law is not fit-for-purpose.
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‘In stories like this, the data and the methodology are key’: when private equity meets public service journalism
A team from across the Guardian set out to investigate the full extent of private equity’s stake in Britain’s public and essential services. The scale and opacity posed many challenges
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And there it is… www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...
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Revealed: Reform’s £24 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests
Reform UK has received £24 million from oil and gas interests, accounting for more than two thirds of its total income, DeSmog can reveal. Led by Nigel Farage, the party is calling for new North Sea o...
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
#bbcqt you have the main party, the opposition and then the party with the next highest number of MPs the LibDems.... Oh no sorry I meant you are platforming the far right again, amazing. If popularism wins the GE & our country is destroyed, remember the #BBCs role in it & their own demise!
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Should we drill North Sea Oil? NO 1) Why add to #climatechange? 2) We wouldn't benifit, foreign companies would win the drilling contact & it would be sold on the open market. 3) New Jobs will be created in new tech green jobs (fossil fuels = old tech. 4) Gov said we could be in some kind of war
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Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The documents I have published show why PFAS contamination at RAF Upper Heyford and Heyford Park must be treated with urgency. Residents need rapid, regular testing, full transparency and clear answers from Government and public bodies about what contamination exists and what is being done about it
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Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Ten years on, Brexit has failed. It has made Britain poorer, weaker and less secure. The Conservatives and Farage broke our relationship with Europe. Labour are too timid to fix it. The Liberal Democrats are being honest about the way forward: rebuild trust, grow our economy and keep Britain safe.
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social you probably have your own ideas but what @russincheshire.bsky.social suggests here is brilliant and would make our politics and our society work for all not the few, it would be fairer and would reintroduce standards & reduce public service being used to line pockets 🙏
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Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Deeply alarming reports that Ministers overruled official advice on council reorganisation. Oxfordshire should be worried. Labour must not carve up our county to deliver Oxford City Council’s Greater Oxford dream. One Oxfordshire is the fairest, strongest option. www.thetimes.com/article/8c8a...
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Steve Reed accused of ‘gerrymandering’ in overruling boundaries plan
The MP ignored the concerns of civil servants and lawyers in the biggest local government shake-up in more than half a century
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Still no apology from Brexiteers who fed us a pack of lies "These estimates suggest by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment, employment & productivity were all affected" cepr.org/voxeu/column... meme via Reform Are Not Your Friends
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 08/06/2026
Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract ft.trib.al/v2LRiPS
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Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract
Scrutiny of Samantha Jones, permanent secretary at the Department of Health, comes amid pressure for ministers to use break clause in key contract
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Emails sent, thank you for all of your work on this @goodlawproject.org
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Leaving the ECHR, will weaken protections for all in society. That’s the end goal. Then they will usher in freeports, SEZ’s, data centres, zero hours contracts, no employment protections, state surveillance. All in the name of protecting us. When we already have protections…
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
When you debate this today please be aware that not all of us are happy about this and if you choose Palantir to be the data handler you have to give patients the right to opt out #NHS @houseofcommons.parliament.uk @jamesmurrayldn.bsky.social BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NHS single patient record to be debated for first time
Reforms to the NHS records system could result in 20,000 fewer visits to A&E annually, according to government projections.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
"Truth that Farage hates" via We Demand UK
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You can either have democracy, or you can have billionaires calling the shots; YOU CANNOT HAVE BOTH. Thread substack.com/@europeanpow...
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The Data Centre Land Grab: How Britain Is Being Carved Up for Big Tech — Without Your Consent
Across Wales, Scotland, and England, the largest peacetime infrastructure seizure of community land and energy in modern British history is accelerating.
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#NorthSeaOil #TonyBlair 1) we don't have a nationalised drilling company, we would have to contract it out and the oil would be sold to the open market. Other than jobs there would be no real benefit to us. 2) fossil fuels are the energy source of the old world and our markets are centered around it
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Privatisation of the NHS NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms. Private sector focused on profit, not service. Money buys less. Public purse depleted. NHS capacity not expanded. Why would it train staff? There is no public mandate for privatisation of the NHS.
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NHS spends record £241m outsourcing scan analysis to private firms
Radiologists say ‘ballooning’ costs reflect staffing failures, forcing a reliance on lower-quality private scan reports
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Calum Miller @calummillerld.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
At PMQs today, I pressed the Prime Minister on PFAS contamination affecting our constituency. He agreed that the Health Secretary and Environment Secretary should meet with me. This matters. Residents deserve joined-up action, clear answers and accountability from Government.
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EmT @emj013.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Please take a look at this following you discussions about the company @therestpolitics.bsky.social @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social @rory-stewart.bsky.social
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
How to change this debate. " Being outside the EU costs every UK household an average of £8,300 every year. But being inside again would only cost each UK household £38 every year. Do you still think we should stay out? "
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 17/05/2026
Bylines Network brings you, People Before Profit. This is your chance to hold rogue organisations to account, and help us investigate those who don’t appear to care about the people they serve. Read all about it here 👇 peoplebeforeprofit.uk/index.php
Meme promoting Bylines Network Bylines Network People Before Profit campaign.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 16/05/2026
NHS England’s Federated Data Platform, built & run by Palantir Technologies, poses risks to patient trust, staff wellbeing, data quality, national sovereignty & the long-term integrity of NHS data infrastructure. We should know, we’re the people working on it. www.opendemocracy.net/nhs-england-...
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We’re NHS analysts organising together against Palantir. Here’s why
As NHS data workers, we see Federated Data Platform’s flaws up close. That’s why we’ve launched an open letter to fight it
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Wera Hobhouse MP @werahobhouse.org.uk · 13/05/2026
Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.
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Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever
The biggest tech firms are set to sell millions of smart glasses despite growing privacy concerns.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Nigel Farage says the £5m gift he got from a crypto billionaire was a ‘reward for campaigning for Brexit for 27 years’ On May 5, Mr Farage told the BBC the money was ‘the only way I can protect myself for the rest of my life’ as he was the ‘most attacked, physically, politician of modern times’
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of Spire Healthcare, UK’s biggest private hospital operator. Your taxes boost value of Spire, make shareholders richer. Third of Spire’s revenues comes from NHS contracts - hip, knee, cataract surgery. Average profit margin estimated, up to 32%.
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Hedge fund proposes £1bn buyout of UK’s biggest private hospital operator
Shares in Spire Healthcare jump after approach from Toscafund, founded by City figure known as ‘the Rottweiler’
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wes Streeting had a once in a lifetime chance to reinstate the NHS as a FULLY PUBLIC SERVICE He squandered it, continuing with privatisation £1.6 billion was wasted on profits in the last 2 years according to @chpithinktank.bsky.social - enough to pay for 9,178 doctors or 19,428 nurses
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/05/2026
Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit. The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos. This grifter must not become prime minister.
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