We’ve filed the court papers. We don’t believe the government acted legally when it ripped up NHS price controls at the behest of Donald Trump and Big Pharma. They must bring this deal to parliament.
https://t.co/N17O1pMXJM
"My personal pride and joy." That's how Peter Mandelson described the Palantir deal he brokered.
The whole thing stinks. Kick Palantir out of our NHS, now.
New statement from Scott Pelley:
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
Scott Pelley
The Israelization of our societies is already happening: posturing democracies where human rights can be suspended for people that those in power consider a disturbance.
Wake up Brits. Italians. Germans. French. North Americans. Dutch.
Just rang my GP to chase up a referral from over 6mths ago.
"You should have received a letter inviting you to book"
Nope, been avidly waiting for months.
"Yeah, a lot of people have said that".
This is how @wesstreeting brought down waiting lists. By ignoring sick people.
Shocking 👇 the government's decision to say no to public ownership of water MUST be revisited
Mandelson co-founded Global Counsel which lobbied for privatised water
Both Environment Secretaries Steve Reed and Emma Reynolds were clearly close to him
https://t.co/ivPGBO9gSH
BREAKING
U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie:
“Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors — instant peace.”
“Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers.”
إيرلندا تعلن رسميا، على لسان رئيستها، أن إسرائيل دولة إرهابية، في وقت لا يزال فيه كثيرون في عالمنا العربي يروجون لصورتها كدولة صديقة ومسالمة وموثوق بها، ويدعون إلى التطبيع معها وتجاوز ما ترتكبه من انتهاكات بحق الشعب الفلسطيني.
Tony Benn was a man of principle.
In 1998, as Britain prepared to bomb Iraq, most politicians talked about strategy and politics. Benn asked a simple question:
"Don't Arab and Iraqi women weep when their children die?"
Mandelson’s messages to Patrick Vallance are really telling. Two kindred spirits doing Big Pharma’s work at the expense of the NHS. No one voted for this. Rescind the Pharma deal.
https://t.co/xAzGLoZlN7
The failure of this Government is seen here in it’s entirety
Work to reform the NHS needed - sack those that can help you get it done
Wes Streeting’s plan for reform will be a disaster
Sack the managers, ostracise the Resident Drs, handcuff the GPs, let private sector profit
Presidents of nations committing genocide: welcome.
Vocal opponents of genocide: banned.
My piece for @ScotNational on the UK government's disgraceful decision to refuse Cenk Uygur and Hasan Piker entry to the UK.
https://t.co/ewBSqXIaU0
Palantir has no place in our NHS.
Patient safety is paramount. We must end all ties with Palantir and remove it from our NHS well before the 2027 break clause.