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Wherever I pick up Thanos' shit he always looks at me like: You dirty fuck, is this how you get your kicks?
Mail on Sunday attacks the Commons' Privileges Committee today just as the Daily Mail has done. A deeply sinister campaign from Paul Dacre who will be enobled by this failed, corrupt PM and is trying to protect any legacy Johnson has left.
There can't be another month of this. It's sick. There won't be a brain cell alive in the country if this leadership race goes on much longer.
Brown had many flaws. But it's impossible to imagine him banging on about civil service diversity training during an inflationary crisis.
EXC: A Big intervention tonight - Gordon Brown calls for an immediate agreement between the leadership candidates and PM over an emergency cost of living package.
He says it canβt wait - & dozens of civic groups are behind him with dire warnings.
Story: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/06/gordon-brown-set-emergency-budget-or-risk-a-winter-of-dire-poverty?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
This is fascinating. I remember quoting John Lilburne saying "a turd in your teeth" in How To Be A Liberal. I thought he was just being ingenuous, but it turns out it was a whole thing.
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Rude words are a constant, but their ability to cause offence is in flux. Historians should know their flim-flam from their fiddle-faddle.Β
www.historytoday.com
Wanted to read some Sandman reviews. This one star offering from a Google user should be taken by the production team and plastered all over the marketing.
Liz Truss here, demonstrating better than any Remainer ever could the myth of control through fetishised sovereignty.
On Channel crossings, Liz Truss says she will make "sure that France is held to account for its role in protecting the border"
'The out of office is on.' The six sweetest - and most wildly optimistic - words in the English language.
Anyway, I'm off.
π΄ EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunakβs UK Infrastructure Bank was meant to help tackle equality but has pledged nearly all its cash to firms with offshore owners.
A new story by @LucasAm1n
Sunak’s ‘levelling up’ bank helps firms with tax haven links
Exclusive: UKIB was meant to help tackle equality but has pledged nearly all its cash to firms with offshore owners
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π΄Rishi Sunakβs UK Infrastructure Bank was to tackle climate change and promote βlevelling upβ - but it has earmarked Β£550m for firms linked to tax havens, a repressive regime and a Tory donor.
Great scoop from Lucas Amin on @openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/rishi-sunak-ukib-levelling-up-tax-havens/?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1659105072
π΄ EXCLUSIVE: Rishi Sunakβs UK Infrastructure Bank was meant to help tackle equality but has pledged nearly all its cash to firms with offshore owners.
A new story by @LucasAm1n https://bit.ly/3JdgkZB
Things are really scary for LGBTIQ people in Ghana and nearly every group of the elite is either participating in their persecution, or looking away. Here is what is happening in the medical field:
Top Ghanaian doctors train nurses in ‘conversion therapy’
Influential mental health figures call LGBTIQ identities ‘disease’ and ‘disorder’ β yet regulators remain silent
www.opendemocracy.net
More vital reporting by @katiasemchuk in Ukraine for @openDemocracy
Katia's first month with oD has been terrific. This time, she tackles moves to deport Belarusian and Russian political exiles from Ukraine.
Russians and Belarusians living in Ukraine could be deported
Even those who back Ukraine could lose their right to stay thanks to a crackdown by the State Migration Service
www.opendemocracy.net
The family of James Lovelock have asked me to pass on the following statement.
NEW: Every Scottish council is still spraying a weed killer linked to cancer and biodiversity loss, with new figures obtained by The Ferret showing that 40,000 litres of the herbicide are being used across the country each year.
Weed killer linked to cancer still used by nearly every council
Nearly every Scottish council is still using a weed killer linked to cancer and biodiversity loss, with new figure...
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βImpossible to know if Β£777m in #Covid contracts were awarded properlyβ Damning new report from @CommonsPAC on contracts awarded to #Randox β whose profits are 100 times greater since the pandemic whilst UK now endures #CostofLivingCrisis
UK health department played Γ’ΒΒfast and loose‘ when awarding Covid contracts to Randox
Commons public accounts committee issues damning report into Β£777m of contracts given to firm that employed Owen Paterson as lobbyist
www.theguardian.com
Zac Goldsmith here - who was thrown out by the voters of Richmond Park, but was then made BARON OF RICHMOND PARK, elevated to the Lords anyway, so he could keep his ministerial job, by his close mate Johnson, whom he defends here - speaking of 'partisanship' and 'abuse of power'. https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1556166447537311745
The Partygate probe is clearly rigged.
It is a jury comprised of highly partisan, vengeful & vindictive MPs, nearly all of whom are already on the record viciously attacking the person they are judging. It is an obscene abuse of power. https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/politics/209593/fury-over-rigged-partygate-probe
What a moment. Don't let anyone minimize it by saying that progressives didn't get everything they wanted. Democrats β and it was only Democrats β have given us a real chance at avoiding an existential climate crisis.
If you like politics then I recommend the Full Disclosure podcast with Mick Lynch by @mrjamesob
https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/bd660987-d7aa-4e41-b940-a54c4abe3647/episodes/9802fd85-9219-48a5-bd32-dcc126602618/FULL-DISCLOSURE-WITH-JAMES-OBRIENMICK-LYNCH?ref=dm_sh_BQYaWkWw5VPpQ29fte9PAvm1r
The discovery that there arenβt really *any* regulations somehow stifling business has not yet stopped people believing that there are. Itβs a symptom of both exceptionalism & victimhood. Just like the rest of Brexit.
Is anyone concerned the middle four points of Liz Truss's plan for growth are just different ways of saying the same thing, the sixth point implies the first five won't work, and the whole thing is based on the now decade old claim unspecified regulations are strangling business?
Tories yet again want to normalise lying and abuse of power. If they do this they will be lashing themselves to the Johnson mast. https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1556267374919225346
Tories call for Boris Johnson to quit as MP to avoid Partygate inquiry https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/aug/07/tories-call-for-boris-johnson-to-quit-as-mp-to-avoid-partygate-inquiry?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1659877992
Letβs talk about abuse of power such as illegally suspending parliament or doling out peerages to donors or tearing up the rules to protect Owen Paterson. The real abuse of power would be suspending an inquiry to protect your mate. https://twitter.com/NadineDorries/status/1556182172016467969
If this witch hunt continues, it will be the most egregious abuse of power witnessed in Westminster. It will cast serious doubt not only on the reputation of individual MPs sitting on the committee, but on the processes of Parliament and democracy itself https://www.mailplus.co.uk/edition/news/politics/209593/fury-over-rigged-partygate-probe
This π ππ» . It expertly shows you how to identity & understand why certain people behave & act like they do BUT also makes you really think about your own beliefβs & opinions.
An honest account of why changing your mind is a positive yet uncomfortable process @mrjamesob ππ»
