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Lauren Edwards MP statement says “[The TIA bill] was rightly described as the safest and most robust assisted dying law anywhere in the world” No. It was only described this way by the people trying to push it through. Here is how others described the Bill: 1. The Royal College of Physicians said the Bill is unsafe 2. The Royal College of Psychiatrists said the Bill is unworkable, and unsafe 3. The British Geriatrics Society said the Bill’s safeguards are not adequate 4. Domestic abuse charities said the Bill is unsafe 5. Organisations representing disabled people said the Bill is unsafe 6. Royal College of GPs says the Bill lacks adequate safeguards 7. Lord Stevens, ex NHS CEO, said legislating for assisted dying in the current climate of hospice cuts is “utterly ridiculous” 8. MIND says the safeguards are not adequate 9. The CLADD group at KCL (DOI) have said the Bill is “not fit for purpose” 10. The British Association of Social Workers say the Bill’s is not safe enough Spot the pattern?
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The White House is now beefing with the weather
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"Ukraine is dying every minute. it's a massive sacrifice Four years Ukraine is fighting for the whole Europe. NATO was built to fight only one war, not to go to Afghanistan, not to go to Syria, one war to save free Europe from Russian aggression..." - Garry Kasparov Respect🫡
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This pretty much destroys any argument Putin has tried to make about the morality of his assault on Ukraine. One of the most ancient Orthodox sites under direct attack. For shame.
I cannot believe what I’m witnessing in Kyiv tonight. Priests at the Kyiv Lavra one of the holiest Christian sites in Europe are rushing to save crucifixes, icons and sacred artefacts while Russia attacks the city. This is what Moscow’s “Christian values” look like.
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HOW BRITAIN REWARDS PEOPLE WHO TRY TO SAVE TAXPAYER MONEY: FIRE THEM Mike Kiely spent 22 years inside BT (@BTGroup). He knew how the telecoms industry operated. So when the government hired him as a consultant to oversee the £2.5 billion rural broadband rollout, he knew exactly what he was looking at. BT had won all 26 government contracts. All of them. Kiely did the maths. Installing a street cabinet in Northern Ireland cost around £13,000. On the mainland, BT was charging the government between £61,000 and £80,000 per cabinet. Public money covered roughly 77% of every single one. He suspected BT was simply inventing tasks and inflating charges to absorb as much public funding as possible without doing more work. So he shared his analysis with local councils. The people whose job it was to negotiate these contracts and spend public money responsibly. Then his document leaked to a broadband blog. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport trawled his internal emails, found what they needed, and sacked him. The man who tried to protect public money. Margaret Hodge (@margarethodge), chair of the Public Accounts Committee, told the Guardian (@guardian) she was getting increasingly concerned at the way whistleblowers were being bullied. She pointed out that hiding behind commercial confidentiality was denying the public the right to know how their money was being spent. Her committee later confirmed what Kiely had warned all along. Taxpayers had been ripped off. £1.2 billion had gone to BT shareholders. Kiely was eventually vindicated when a community in Oxfordshire paid £28,000 per cabinet. Exactly in line with what his numbers predicted was fair. He lost his job for telling the truth. BT kept every contract. This is what accountability looks like in Britain. The consultant who raises the alarm gets sacked. The company he raised the alarm about gets the cheque. Support whistleblowers. They are the only audit most public spending ever gets. SOURCES @BBCNews @TheRegister @guardian @margarethodge
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Burnham is a lightweight at best and a complete dimwit at worst. I'm afraid I won't be alone in coming to this conclusion. In ditching Starmer, the UK is about to further give in to an addictive self-destructive urge it seems unable to stop. It is sick. And deteriorating.
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Dear @SecWar Pete Hegseth, I am really glad all this is on video because otherwise no one would ever believe you are this stupid.
HEGSETH: We have controlled the straits this entire time BRENNAN: You're negotiating with them to reopen it
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The White House is crashing out because The Weather Channel reported the weather 🤣
This event is about celebrating America’s unmatched greatness after 250 years — which apparently doesn’t sit well with the friendless loser who wrote this bullshit clickbait headline. Rain or shine, we’re celebrating our great country no matter what. GOD BLESS AMERICA! 🇺🇸
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It's like a science experiment for people who don't believe in science
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This is what happens when you give your pool boy a $14,000,000 no bid contract for stuff he’s clearly not qualified to do.
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The evil Democrats invented photosynthesis to screw with trump's pool.
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“We have the best algae. The greenest algae. People are saying they’ve never seen algae this beautiful. Lake Michigan? Sad. Hudson River? Weak. Potomac? Total disaster. But our pool? World-class algae. Everybody agrees. MAKE ALGAE GREAT AGAIN!”
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Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?
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⛔️ An Israeli tourist in Hawaii destroys a sand sculpture dedicated to the Palestinian people.‼️ ⛔️Without any provocation, the woman approaches and angrily destroys the artwork made on the beach. She couldn't bear to see a tribute to Palestine, not even on vacation.‼️
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The video shows local Oahu teens vandalizing a 2019 sand sculpture of Hawaiian children at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel, not an Israeli tourist destroying a Palestinian tribute. khon2.com/news/woman-van… businessinsider.com/sand-sculpture… khon2.com/news/sand-scul…
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All this entire family knows how to do is commit crimes.
MAJOR BREAKING: In a now deleted post by former MMA fighter Daniel Cormier, he posted screenshots of Eric Trump trying to get an insider scoop on whether any of the MMA fights at the White House are rigged so that he could try and illegally make money off of them.. Below is the Direct Messages that Trump allegedly sent Cormier. There is no reason to doubt the legitimacy of these messages.
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This confirms my reporting with @MeidasTouch—pilots were being blinded by the UFC octagon, and now, based on this tweet, all flights have been paused because of it.
Boarded my flight at DCA National airport. Come to find out, the president of the United States has paused ALL flights because of the UFC fight at the White House. The air traffic controllers were not warned, nor were the airport staff or travelers.
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If journalists can get their hands on a recording from the Situation Room (which means Trump’s inner circle broke security protocol)… Just imagine what adversarial intelligence agencies have! This administration is truly inept beyond all imaginable scope!
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SCOOP: Top White House officials believe NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan obtained audio recordings of Situation Room meetings for their new book. Such a taped leak would be a shocking breach of one of the most secure settings on Earth. axios.com/2026/06/14/trump-s…
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Replying to @KazP19
Could well be, these deals who gets them and how much they are paid is completely opaque.
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This 60-year-old man used an indecent image of a 13-year-old girl in an attempt to target other underage girls online. A judge gave him a £120 fine and no jail time because he said it “wasn’t him.” You see, his name is “Emma“ now.
A 60-yr-old man who posed as a girl by using a Category C image of a girl to target others of the same age has received a £120 fine & community order - no prison. The court seems to have accepted Nigel Davies's claim he was a different person (he now calls himself Emma). 1/2
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The Palestinian villages are getting burned down because the Israeli settlers are mad at Trump.
🚨 ISRAELI SETTLERS BURN PALESTINIAN VILLAGES IN REVENGE FOR TRUMP-IRAN PEACE DEAL. Israeli settlers just torched multiple villages in the West Bank. This is how they act when diplomacy and peace threatens their blood-thirst wars.
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Where are Americas contemporary Woodwood and Bernstein? Where's today's Mark Felt? What has happened to you people? Where have you gone?
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