Mike

Designer @dogwoof and beyond...

[End the occupation @NotoOccupation]

Have UK Lawyers for Israel written to the RSC about this? Wouldn't surprise me if they got Shakespeare plays edited.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸JD Vance 5:00 PM: "The deal was to lift the blockade and stop shooting ships. They promised. A week later they were shooting ships again."

🇮🇷Araghchi 6:00 PM🔥: "The deal was to stop shooting Lebanon. They promised. 5 minutes later they were shooting again."

Araghchi trapped Vance in his 6D chess. He completely exposed his hypocrisy 🔥👏

[Brexit Air Cargo PLC @Jemmy_Wood2]

A Hostile Foreign State Could ‘Buy A UK Election For Just £25m’
A former UK diplomat who spent a decade tracking Russian influence operations explains how open UK politics is to foreign capture. https://t.co/VRMHKYVIWy

[John Stealer @JohnStealer]

Ex-Sky News presenter Kay Burley letting us know in front of an Epstein victim that Andrew Mountbatten being a war hero trumps his alleged paedophilia

This is how the Epstein class operates.

https://t.co/ejnwaGoIdV

[RiverActionUK @RiverActionUK]

🚨 Six months. Thirteen councils. ZERO formal investigations.

Olympic champions Sir Steve Redgrave and Imogen Grant MBE are among the residents who have called on their local councils to act on Thames Water's repeated sewage pollution. 💩💩

Yet six months after River Action's #MakeANuisance campaign helped communities submit statutory nuisance complaints, not a single council has opened a formal investigation.

🎥 In this interview, River Action's Head of Engagement, Erica Popplewell, explains why that's unacceptable.

🔽🔽 #SewageScandal #RescueOurRivers

https://t.co/ARE0XZHWvn

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Me enteré del asesinato de mi padre por un video de Facebook, lo reconocí inmediatamente, no por su apariencia, sino por su voz, por cómo pedía ayuda mientras se desangraba en la acera".

Lorenzo Salgado, un padre de familia, un obrero de la construcción de 52 años, fue fusilado brutalmente por el ICE de Trump ayer en Houston, Texas (EEUU).

Lorenzo era propietario de un negocio y había estado en el país durante más 35 años.... Trump no está deportando "criminales", está deportando y matando a trabajadores solo por su color de piel y su origen de nacimiento.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

The brutal crackdown on our right to protest is happening right now, with people standing in solidarity with Palestine bearing the brunt 🇵🇸

So we’re supporting people who refuse to be silenced✊

Help us 👇
https://t.co/3cQCrM0Glh

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions”

Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla on her loooooong decade investigating Nigel Farage

*including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

England is predicted to reach water shortages of 5bn litres a day by 2055. Data centres are becoming one of the most water-intensive forms of infrastructure

Why is the government fast-tracking the AI industry while letting it keep its consumption private, asks Adele Walton

[GBC @GBC_Press]

Tucker Carlson:

​"Anyone who serves in a foreign military should immediately lose citizenship. Americans who served in the IDF should lose citizenship, and those serving in Ukraine too. You cannot fight for another country and remain an American."

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Baroness Helena Kennedy recounts evidence from medical professionals working under unimaginable conditions: children undergoing amputations without anaesthetic, mothers unable to feed their babies, and a desperate lack of clean water due to the forced starvation orders by Israel.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🇪🇸 Irene Montero, Spanish Member of the European Parliament:

"They say Iran has nuclear weapons. They said the same about Iraq. But Israel has nuclear weapons."

"The US is the only country to drop a nuclear bomb. Today, Israel and US are the biggest threats to humanity." 🇺🇸🇮🇱

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

👉 NEW VIDEO — “British ministers are not misinformed, they’re lying”.

Dr Nick Maynard speaks to us about UK inaction over Gaza and Israel’s deliberate policies of starvation and ethnic cleansing.

👉 https://t.co/glS1nhNi2B

[Christine P. @ChristinePP27]

McDonald's perd son procès contre le chef Jamie Oliver, qui a prouvé que les aliments vendus par l'enseigne étaient impropres à la consommation humaine en raison de leur forte toxicité.
Le chef Jamie Oliver a remporté un procès contre la plus grande chaîne de restauration rapide au monde.
Oliver montre comment sont fabriqués les hamburgers.
Selon Oliver, les morceaux de viande gras sont « lavés » à l'hydroxyde d'ammonium, puis utilisés pour garnir les steaks hachés. Même avant ce processus, affirme le présentateur de télévision, cette viande était impropre à la consommation humaine.
Oliver, un chef militant radical qui s'attaque à l'industrie agroalimentaire, déclare :
« Nous parlons ici de viande vendue comme aliment pour chiens, puis servie à des êtres humains. Outre la qualité de la viande, l'hydroxyde d'ammonium est nocif pour la santé. » Oliver appelle cela « le processus de la bouillie rose ».
Quelle personne sensée mettrait dans la bouche d’un enfant un morceau de viande imbibé d’hydroxyde d’ammonium ?
Dans le cadre d’une autre enquête, Oliver a montré comment sont fabriqués les nuggets de poulet : une fois les « meilleurs morceaux » sélectionnés, le reste — graisse, peau, cartilages, yeux, os, tête, pattes — est soumis à un processus de séparation mécanique appelé « Canica », un euphémisme utilisé par les ingénieurs agroalimentaires. Cette pâte rose sang, qui est désodorisée, blanchie, rafraîchie et recolorée, est ensuite enrobée de farine et frite. Elle est généralement frite dans des huiles partiellement hydrogénées — en d’autres termes, des substances toxiques.
L’industrie agroalimentaire utilise l’hydroxyde d’ammonium comme agent antimicrobien, ce qui permet à McDonald’s d’utiliser dans ses hamburgers de la viande impropre à la consommation humaine. Mais ce qui est encore plus alarmant, c’est le fait que ces substances à base d’ammonium et d’hydrogène soient considérées comme des « composants légaux du processus de production » dans l’industrie agroalimentaire mondiale, avec l’aval des autorités sanitaires. Par conséquent, les consommateurs ne sauront jamais quelles substances se trouvent dans leurs aliments.
Cessez, s’il vous plaît, de donner cette fausse nourriture à vos enfants.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

Cottrell is one of two donors at the centre of the scandal of Farage's massive undeclared donations, which he was legally obliged to report

Via @skwawkbox
https://t.co/1bcHbmsVvY

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

This is not Regulation - Water company (£9 billion in value) found guilty of serious breaches of its licence - but let off. The failure was systemic - they failed to “design, construct, operate and maintain wastewater assets appropriately”. Total failure from one end of the chain of responsibility to the other. We need proper regulation of water companies, they are licensed monopolies providing vital public services.

https://t.co/SIGoNZXBYM.

[GBC @GBC_Press]

JUST IN: 🇪🇸🇮🇱 Spain permanently withdraws its ambassador, Ana Maria Salomon, from Israel.

The Spanish Prime Minister stated: "We will not be complicit in any action that harms the world and contradicts our values and interests."

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Netanyahu said that an Iranian nuclear strike on Israel would be like “10,000 tons of TNT falling on a country the size of New Jersey (22,610 km2).”

Israel has dropped 223,000+ tonnes of explosives on Gaza (365 km2) - the equivalent of 22 nukes on 1.6% the size of New Jersey.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

BANK ORDERS SECRET FRAUD REPORT THEN DESTROYS THE WOMAN WHO WROTE IT

Imagine this. Your employer asks you to dig into a fraud. You do the job properly. You find a £1 billion problem and evidence that senior people knew about it and sat on it. Congratulations, you just made yourself the most inconvenient person in the building.

That is the Sally Masterton story, and it is somehow still not common knowledge.

In 2013 Masterton, a forensic accountant working in the high risk division at HBOS, was asked to write what became known as the Project Lord Turnbull report.

It alleged that HBOS executives had concealed a large scale fraud running through the bank's Reading branch before Lloyds Banking Group @LBGplc took the bank over in 2008 and 2009.

In 2017 six people connected to that fraud were jailed for a combined 47 years, after a court heard how money stolen from small business customers paid for kickbacks, prostitutes and holidays in Barbados.

Masterton gave evidence to the police investigation into the fraud. She was then put on leave and left the bank in 2014 under circumstances nobody explained properly at the time.

For years Lloyds insisted she wrote the report off her own back, without the bank's knowledge. Then in 2018 MP Kevin Hollinrake @kevinhollinrake released the report publicly through the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking, and the story fell apart in public. Lloyds admitted it had actually asked her to write the report in the first place.

Masterton settled with Lloyds twice. The second settlement, in November 2018, came with a formal apology and an admission that she acted with integrity and good faith throughout. Lloyds also appointed retired High Court judge Dame Linda Dobbs to investigate what the bank knew and when. The National Crime Agency @NCA_UK ran its own evidential review and the FCA @TheFCA confirmed it was looking at the case too.

So a bank asked an employee to investigate its own fraud, got an answer it didn't like, spent years denying it had asked the question, then quietly settled once parliament forced the report into daylight. In 2020 Masterton won the Blueprint UK Whistleblowing Prize. Victims of the fraud are, as far as anyone can tell, still waiting on a compensation scheme that isn't run by the same bank accused of covering it up.

This is what accountability looks like when the institution gets to mark its own homework. Whistleblowers like Masterton are the only reason any of us know this happened at all.

Sources: @FT @CityAM

[Declassified UK @declassifiedUK]

Poll results:

⚖️ 87% of you oppose a rise in military spending

⚖️ 94% oppose the proscription of Palestine Action

⚖️ 90% would vote for a party other than Labour under Andy Burnham

⚖️ 96% say Britons who have served for the IDF amid the genocide should be investigated.