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Giles

@gidamo.bsky.social
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Radiology physicist, CofE Lay Reader and Warden of Readers, Diocese of Sheffield, photographer, occasional bass player. Labour, Europhile.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 22/05/2025
One of the things that Blair's Labour got absolutely right was Sure Start - of course the Tories killed it. And sadly it's exactly the kind of state intervention that Starmer seems allergic to. www.theguardian.com/education/2025/…
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Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds
New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/05/2025
On VE Day, remember the Scallywags and the Coats Mission: Britain’s secret last line – prepared for the worst, needed to save King & country | By Stuart Burrell
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Lest we forget: scallywags, escorts and boltholes
On VE Day, remember the Scallywags and the Coats Mission: Britain’s secret last line – prepared for the worst, needed to save King & country
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 04/05/2025
Opponents, on left and right, like to claim that Labour has reneged on all its promises. But three quarters of the most important ones are on track or achieved. Stephen McNair reports on some of the stuff that the media miss
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‘Labour’s gone back on all their promises.’ Really?
Labour is accused of abandoning its promises. But is this true, or is the activity simply not being reported?
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Giles @gidamo.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Britain next?
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
It's been revealed that the Office for National Statistics, which prepares the UK's inflation data, has been using the wrong prices to estimate it. They have used list prices, not what most people pay. The result? Serious overstatement of inflation. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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The UK’s inflation data has been seriously overstated
FT Alphaville has an article this morning that has the headline: The UK’s inflation figures were wrong and now we just have to live with that I won't quote it at length, although it is good investig...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Farage, "7.2 million foreign-born people have registered with GPs in the last 10 years... All I'm doing here is giving you cold hard facts" Farage forgets to mention all of the working adults pay tax And the only reason we don't have enough GPs is because the Conservatives didn't fund them
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15/04/2025
Dismantling NHS England might cut costs, but it also cuts expertise. Here’s why it’s a risky cure for a fragile system. Guy Chapman reports
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NHS England is being disbanded. Should we be worried?
A cure or a symptom? NHS England’s demise raises urgent questions about what really ails with the NHS
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 13/04/2025
The government is preparing a first Land Use Strategy for England to guide how we use the land. @stephenmcnair.bsky.social summarise the key elements. Meanwhile you can still have your say. The public consultation closes 25 April.
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Land use in England: what is the government now doing?
The government is preparing a first Land Use Strategy for England to guide how we use the land. We summarise the key elements
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
#DonaldTrump
FACT: the president of the United States has a worse criminal record than 99% of the people he is deporting
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Giles @gidamo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
This looks fake. No date. No author. Is this true?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Dr Patrick Hart, a Bristol GP of 8 years and doctor for 11 years, is currently serving a 12-month prison sentence… …for climate protest.
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Vigil to be held for jailed Bristol GP and medical activist Dr Patrick Hart
Bristol GP sparks citywide debate on the duty of a doctor to prevent future deaths as a public health advocate
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 18/03/2025
Say it takes 10 years to rejoin the EU... If we start today, we'll be back in 10 years. But if we wait a decade, it will take 20 years. Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century. Start today please. We owe it to the future.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
It will come as no surprise to anyone to hear Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok has declared that there is at least a 75 percent chance that President Donald Trump is a "Russian asset" who has been "compromised" by Russian President Vladimir Putin www.newsweek.com/elon-musks-c...
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Elon Musk's chatbot says there's a strong chance Trump is "Russian asset"
Musk's AI chatbot Grok suggested Trump was 85 percent likely to be "a Russian asset" when simply asked if the president was one, without any qualifiers.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Absolutely @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
BREAKING: WHO BEARS THE MOST RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OVAL OFFICE ARGUMENT? WITH 79,312 VOTES 👏
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump and Vance’s shameful behavior has embarrassed their country. President Zelenskyy is a hero. He should have been treated as such
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 27/02/2025
🚨BREAKING - Steve Reed has just launched the biggest review into the water sector since privatisation. But wait…..he says the commission can’t even consider public ownership. 🤯 We need to act quickly to change his mind. ⏰ Sign our petition now ✍️ weownit.org.uk/act-now/stev...
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Steve Reed: include public ownership as an option in your independent commission on the water sector. | We Own It
Steve Reed must put public ownership back on the table.
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Giles @gidamo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’ve had a thought. Not only should we not buy online from American suppliers on 28th Feb, we should also try and ensure they’ve nothing to deliver either. That would shut down warehouses and delivery. It may affect staff😥, but it’ll amplify the message.
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Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I hadn’t heard this before, but it’s perfect. @alicejolly.bsky.social
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Turns out your CEO lurching to the far-right isn't good for company sales - who knew!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
You first.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We must all band together. There are far more of us than there are of them. Never forget that, no matter how difficult this may become!!
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Freedom of Movement was robbed from us by a successful Russian influence operation and the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. Please repost if you want it restored.
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
A reminder that most Brits are still normal.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Badenoch and her enablers need to be ejected from politics immediately if they think like this. This is delusional, dangerous, authoritarian, nonsense. Why do it? A call to base? A nod to Trump?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“Experts have accused the fossil fuel industry of seeking special treatment after lobbyists argued greenhouse gas emissions from oilfields should be treated differently to those from other industries” You couldn’t make it up 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Fossil fuel industry accused of seeking special treatment over oilfield emissions
Lobbyists argued it was unfair for their industry to be treated the same as others as end product – oil and gas – inevitably produced emissions
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 18/02/2025
via @theatlantic.com
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How the U.K. Became One of the Poorest Countries in Western Europe
Britain chose finance over industry, austerity over investment, and a closed economy over openness to the world.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The government is busy - but the work is not being reported. From banning toxic pesticides to funding green jobs, here are 20 things that happened last week.
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Hannan recognises that Britain might have to choose between Trump's US or Europe. Of course, he makes the wrong choice.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/02/2025
I have friends who are genuinely confused when I point out to them that being politically engaged is a luxury item lots of folks don't invest time or money into. They don't think deeply about politics until and unless it directly affects them. It's an alien thought (and I get it!), but it's true.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Reform UK’s Richard Tice says it’s ‘absolute garbage’ to say human activities are the main cause of climate change Heaven help us
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Giles @gidamo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
This looks promising!
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Б'єрнберт @bjornbert.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Here’s the peace deal🧵
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/gov...
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"It is well-known that most of the mainstream media do not approach a Labour Government in a neutral way. Some blatantly misrepresent what is happening, but more often they simply do not report activity, leaving people with a sense that the government is doing nothing."
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
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Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Giles @gidamo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Well, that’s terrifying.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
😅
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 01/02/2025
I've said it before and I'll say it again: voters outside Labour's core support cohort largely won't care about the long chain of incompetence that has led us to such dire straits - they'll just blame whoever's in charge at the point their wallets get gut-punched. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Giles @gidamo.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Britain should do this too. As should the EU!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Rubbing out humanity and hope…. When governments turn prejudice into policy, their countries fail…
Post from Dr Farbod showing a picture of someone painting grey paint over a wall of multicoloured words describing respect and diversity… such as FAIRNESS, COMPASSION, INTEGRITY… 

“This picture was taken at the FBI academy at Quantico two days ago.
It's immediately iconic... but in a profoundly ominous way.”
Guardian article extract:

Picture of asylum centre with Mickey Mouse cartoon on the wall… 

Headline: Robert Jenrick has cartoon murals painted over at children's asylum centre
Paintings were considered too welcoming at Kent centre for lone children arriving in UK
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Phoney Edwardian "intellectual" and professional bore Jacob Rees-Mogg is going to have egg on his face for this one.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 19/01/2025
The major cause of under 10s' hospitalisation is dental decay says Gordon Brown on R4 BH & 70% of kids in poverty have working parents who can not afford to make ends meet. Speaking at Big House Multi Bank in Scotland he says 2 child benefit cap & Universal Credit must change. Our Sept report 👇
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Why we must fight the disastrous two-child benefit cap now
If we truly want to tackle child poverty, we must stop punishing the poorest and most vulnerable in society
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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
So, this should trigger a public inquiry into possible misconduct in public office & the potential involvement of hostile foreign nations. No sane commercial CEO would embark on such an initiative. So are we just supposed to shrug at this behaviour from those we trusted to govern our country? #FBPE
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
This is a fascinating turn of events
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