@BylineTimes hi, can someone please contact me about a refund for my (non-functioning) subscription. It’s been 20 days, 5 emails, 1 unrecognised landline and 1 unanswered (screened) mobile number since it failed and no-one has got back to me. It’s starting to feel like a scam!
A new public fountain has appeared in central London, but look closer & you’ll see that it’s a actually a fountain of filth. The water is black, the human victims of the sewage crisis are vomitting streams of liquid, whilst surmounted by a smug water executive with a briefcase stuffed with cash.
The fountain commemorates one of the biggest environmental crimes in British history, where water companies stole tens of billions of pounds that was supposed to be spent on our sewage system, gave it to shareholders and executives and illegally poured billions of lites of sewage into our rivers, lakes and seas instead. The channel 4 docudrama about the sewage crisis, #dirtybusiness, starts at 9pm tonight. Watch it, get sad, get angry and then join the thousands of people around the country demanding an end to the sewage crisis.
Roald Dahl on Measles: Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.
'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her.
'I feel all sleepy,' she said.
In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.
The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles.
...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children.
Roald Dahl, 1986
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Israeli forces detained 5 Palestinian kids - at the request of Israeli settlers. Their crime? Gathering wild vegetables.
The young boy who tries to save his friend at 0:15 shows more courage than the entire international community.
Shame on all of us.
(per @RamAbdu)
Reform supporters keep telling me I am lying when I repeat this. So let’s be clear.
Here is the video of Nigel Farage himself saying the country will need to “have insurance based healthcare” - private healthcare. Those are his words. That is not a rumour and not spin.
An insurance-based system means you pay when you get sick. It means cancer treatment becomes a financial crisis as well as a medical one. It means missed payments risk your home. That is how private healthcare systems work. Can you afford that on top of rent food energy and council tax.
Now imagine this after years of pressure on public services. Imagine what a Labour government might leave behind and then imagine Reform coming in on top of that with cuts.
Because it does not stop at healthcare.
Nigel Farage has also talked about cutting 68,000 public sector jobs. Those are British jobs. Processing benefits running borders staffing services keeping the country functioning. At the same time he has questioned minimum wage protections for young people. Lower pay fewer jobs higher bills.
How exactly are people meant to cope.
This is not about left or right. It is about consequences.
Do not vote to make your own life harder. You have already had it hard enough.
Heroic Jewish woman explains why she wore a Palestinian scarf at the #bondibeach attack memorial .
“Israel has politicised the Bondi attack, if Israeli flags were not here I would not have worn the Palestinian scarf. The Israeli flag represents genocide.”
Former MI5 Agent Annie Machon revealing how the Mossad setup a false flag by bombing their own Israeli embassy in London in 1994 and blamed it on Palestinian activists.
Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker, published 70 years ago in April 1955, features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist & rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi.
Such a silly idea! 😆