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LizN2015

@lizn2015.bsky.social
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professional nit-picker, marine conservation, pro-EU, cyclist, eco-friendly, and "bitter EU flag-shagger"

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“A businessman who works with Harborne’s jet fuel venture describes it as a top supplier to US military operations worldwide” Not just a conflict of interest then, but a national security threat. We need this money… and these men… out of our politics for good. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire
Reform UK denies donor and crypto-billionaire’s global interests in arms and military could present a conflict of interest over its defence spending policy
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Alarm at NHS England as patient records put under control of US private equity firm TPG via a takeover. Business model is profiteering, not care for patients. Regulatory/Govt silence on expansion of private equity. Public money fuelling PE growth.
theguardian.com
Alarm at NHS patient records being put under control of US private equity firm
Doctors and MPs urge more scrutiny of £300m deal for company behind system used by most GPs in England
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/06/2026
🚨 BREAKING 🚨 MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS goodlawproject.org/mps-call-for-gov…
goodlawproject.org
MPs call for government to kick Palantir out of the NHS | Good Law Project
Cross-party committee identifies Palantir’s ‘clear mismatch with UK values’ and calls on ministers to bring the spy-tech firm’s data contract with the NHS to an end
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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
You can still go to Europe. But you can’t stay. You can’t work. You can’t build a life. That’s what we lost. Explained properly here:
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35 likes, 24 comments. "Andrew Hesselden: Unlocking the Brexit Impasse with Freedom of Movement"
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LizN2015 @lizn2015.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Listening MPs of various parties having a pop at Labour & Mandy. I'd quite like a wider review of every MP involved in dodgy dealings.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
JPMorgan should ‘threaten’ UK over banker tax, Mandelson told Epstein. Mandelson was Business Secretary at that time in 2009. After leaving govt in 2010, Mandelson set up an advisory firm called Global Counsel, JPMorgan was a client. Must be investigated. archive.is/rzjnQ
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Cheshire Dog Lady (thoroughly irritated since 2010). @cheshiredoglady.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Spot on as usual.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Well this all looks fine
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This week an elderly woman died alone on a trolley in a hospital corridor, with desperate, exhausted staff unable to tend to her This is the reality in our NHS right now and for those on the front line, it’s horrifying
liverpoolecho.co.uk
Woman left to die alone on corridor trolley in 'broken' A&E
Staff at a Merseyside hospital told the ECHO that an older woman died without being tended to by exhausted and overrun NHS teams at a hospital experiencing overwhelming demand
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/01/2026
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🚨 Exclusive: Tony Blair isn’t just a big fan of AI — he's now trying to build and sell AI tools to governments Tony Blair Institute staff have described the plan as 'insane' and compared it to Palantir New by D4S and @lighthousereports.com 🧵 democracyforsale.substack.com/p/blair-bids...
democracyforsale.substack.com
Blair bids to build own AI tools to rival Palantir
TBI insiders warn of “'insane” plan to transform think tank into a tech company
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TownSeagull @townseagull.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Your annual reminder that if you want someone to chat or have a laugh with over the Christmas period there will be lots of folk on the #JoinIn and #DuvetKnowItsChristmas threads. 🎄
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Whenever Farage talks about the NHS, he always suggests it needs replacing with an American system, never a European one. That's because he wants to earn money for himself out of our misfortune. #FarageOut
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Five years social media, contacts, and emails before you can enter the land of the free where free speech is protected by the Constitution bit.ly/44m92hP I don’t think I’ll be going for a while! Nor will Rishi Sunak who seems to lose his messages whenever he changes phones!
bit.ly
US plans to start checking all tourists' social media
The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.
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Tony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
The UK isn’t a “soft touch” on asylum. UK asylum seeker benefits are similar to European neighbours No right to work before 12 months (it’s 6 months in France, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands) UK settlement after 5 years (it’s 3 or 4 in Germany) Let’s cut out the alarmist rhetoric.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Keep the UKs brilliant science centres open to inspire the next generations of children. Sign the letter www.sciencecentres.org.uk/openletter/
sciencecentres.org.uk
Science Centres for our Future Open Letter
Science Centres for our Future Open Letter
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
BREAKING: VETERAN'S BEGIN A SIT-IN IN WASHINGTON DC AND WON'T STOP UNTIL THE MILITARY LEAVES TOWN
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Keir Starmer is calling for Iran to “return to the negotiating table”. But is he also calling for those Iranian negotiators to be safe from Israeli assassinations? Because that what happened to the previous Iranian negotiators. It’s ridiculous.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The Israeli defence minister has threatened to “take all necessary measures” to prevent a humanitarian ship carrying climate campaigner Greta Thunberg from reaching Gaza. -- well that sounds like a remarkably stupid move on his part.
theguardian.com
IDF ordered to stop Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg
Israeli defence minister tells military to ‘take all necessary measures’ to block humanitarian flotilla
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
I see Honest Bob Jenrick has a new little video attacking barristers for representing unpopular clients. Once again for those at the back: Lawyers are not their clients. Which is how, when Jenrick broke the law in government, he had lawyers to defend him.
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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Palantir stock up 75% since Trump became President. Correlation? Your data is being monetised and used to make £bns in profits. Trump, Starmer & Farage will give your data away. Streeting sees Palantir as a key partner in the NHS - people who care about the NHS and patient confidentiality DO NOT.
investors.com
Palantir Bulls Tout Enterprise AI Adoption, Defense Upgrades. Is Palantir Stock A Buy Amid High Valuation?
Palantir stock bulls tout the data analytics software maker's artificial intelligence strategy and potential to win more U.S. government contracts.
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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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#9 Dream @gayfabfourfan.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The beginning of the summer surge might be here. Glad to see @cbsnews.com reporting it. “Hong Kong authorities say that rates of COVID…[are the] worst they’ve seen in…a year &…have begun urging residents to mask when in public transportation or crowded places…” www.cbsnews.com/news/us-repo...
cbsnews.com
U.S. reports cases of new COVID variant NB.1.8.1 behind surge in China
Authorities in Hong Kong say COVID-19 levels are the worst in at least a year.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Patients being moved out of the European hospital after Israel bombed it. "A drone also targeted people searching for bodies under the rubble"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Well so much for that “Brexit benefit”. Really didn’t last long.
telegraph.co.uk
Britain’s tariff burden worse than EU
British products are subject to higher total US import taxes than those from Continent
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
If there was any argument about the value of something like the ECHR, the Trump admin’s contempt of its own courts is reminder of the value of a higher body. And no, I don’t think there’s anything special about the British that means we’re immune from fascism.
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Emma Kennedy @emmakennedy.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Let’s be clear. He sold $2.4 billion of his stock the day before he announced tariffs. He’s now crashing the stock market deliberately. He will then buy stock when it’s fallen through the floor. All this is is him stiffing everyone to get richer. That’s it.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
JPMorgan said it now expects the US economy to fall into a recession this year after accounting for the likely impact of tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
JPMorgan Says Trump’s Tariffs to Send US Into Recession
JPMorgan Chase & Co. said it expects the US economy to fall into a recession this year after accounting for the likely impact of tariffs announced this week by the Trump administration.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Both the Conservatives and this Labour Government want to deny you your freedom to protest. To deny you your freedom to organise. And to deny you your freedom to assembly and call out their climate delay and the genocide in Gaza.
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
I don’t need perfect. I’d settle for “not a paedo”
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
BREAKING NEWS: A high level source at the DOD has informed me that the Trump Administration authorized deployment of Signal onto government phones last month and it is a primary means of communicating with the White House. Read my exclusive story: open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
open.substack.com
EXCLUSIVE: DOD has deployed Signal on government devices overriding their own policy
A high level source in DOD has confirmed that they were ordered to approve installation of Signal on government devices by Trump officials last month
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.
nhpr.org
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Alex Raufoglu @ralexdc.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
NEW!!! Military officials from more than 30 nations will take part in Paris talks tomorrow on the creation of an international security force for Ukraine, French officials tell reporters
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
What is underappreciated in this tweet is that Starlink is a private co. And treated by the Sec of State as though it were the US government. The US increasingly resembles China in that the link between some companies and the state is so strong that they almost seem to become part of it.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
So don't want to be the bearer of bad tidings: but DOGE canceled the lease on the facility that processes and stores all the nuclear waste created by the US military. Sorry. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...
talkingpointsmemo.com
DOGE D’oh: Nuclear Waste Facility Edition
As DOGE continues it’s federal government wilding spree, purportedly searching for examples...
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SeaYou #FBPE 🇪🇺 @seayou.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
➡️ Since yesterday, the masks fell, no more doubt USA🇺🇸 is no longer the leader of the free world. More than half of Americans support the friend of dictators, while the other half remains groggy, dazed 🫠 ➡️ 🇪🇺🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 & 🇺🇦friends, the time for great and noble responsibilities has arrived! Let’s rise up-NOW!
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Emergency demonstration at US embassy. Wed 5 March - 5:30pm
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
An embarrassed Vance lashed out because Zelenskyy rightly told him Putin has shown he can’t be trusted to respect a cease fire or peace deal — and pointed out Vance has never set foot in Ukraine.
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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I will never forget the photo of Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. He seemed to age years in an afternoon. Watching him constantly cross the world asking for aid that should have been thrown at him is one of the deepest shames of our age.
Zelenskyy’s face after he saw Russia’s war crimes in Bucha in 2022. The agony in his face…he looks overwhelmed with disbelief at the sheer cruelty.
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
BREAKING NEWS: TRUMP AND ZELENSKY CANCEL PRESS CONFERENCE AFTER HOSTILE WH MEETING Absolutely shocking, appalling and disgraceful behavior on the part of Trump and Vance
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
You can’t make this stuff up. Trump supporters spent the past few years obsessing over an apparent sex trafficking cabal in charge of our country. And yet one of the first things Trump seems to have done, apparently, is push to get the Tates, charged with sex trafficking, released from Romania.
nytimes.com
Andrew Tate and His Brother Are Said to Leave Romania for the U.S.
Andrew and Tristan Tate, the online influencers, are facing investigations in Romania and Britain, including accusations of human trafficking and sex crimes.
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J.Ellis @englishmaninbx.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My daughter is moving to Paris with her new job. She has accomodation sorted for the first month but will need something thereafter , anyone out there with any contacts ? Looking for something in the 9ème arrondissement.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/02/2025
Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury sentenced for assault
theguardian.com
Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury sentenced for assault
Amesbury, 55, admitted the charge after punching a man to the ground on a night out in Frodsham, Cheshire The MP for Runcorn and Helsby, Mike Amesbury, has been sentenced to 10 weeks in prison for punching a man to the ground. Amesbury, who was…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 24/02/2025
Former Brexit party MEP in court on Russia-linked bribery charges
theguardian.com
Former Brexit party MEP in court on Russia-linked bribery charges
Nathan Gill is accused of agreeing to receive money to make statements ‘benefiting’ Russian narrative on Ukraine A former leader of Reform UK in Wales agreed to receive money to make statements “benefiting” the Russian narrative on Ukraine while serving…
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Hughes-on-the-Wold @notthathughes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
"This week I: - Wielded a chainsaw at a conference that had Nazi salutes - Received a paternity suit from an ex-partner - Ignored another ex-partner's public cry for help over our child's medical crisis - Wiped 16% off Tesla - Took lots of Ketamine - Posted 'wow' a lot"
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
So grim to see Keir Starmer going even further to the right. He seems totally incapable of talking about why immigration is a good thing. Totally incapable of talking about our skills gap. Totally incapable of humanity & compassion. #PMQs
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