Cressy

“The socialism I believe in is everyone working for each other, everyone having a share of the rewards. It’s the way I see football, the way I see life.”

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

The last thing NHS patients need is just another corporate profiteering deal.

We don't have to accept this. Take action to stop this deal: https://t.co/fho9MrNKrx

[GET A GRIP @docrussjackson]

Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium.

No cobalt.

No rare-earth metals.

Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide.

The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems. But unlike conventional batteries, it doesn’t rely on chemical reactions.

It relies on physics.

When wind and solar farms produce more electricity than the grid needs, that extra energy is used to compress carbon dioxide into a liquid. The process releases heat, which is captured and stored.

Later, when electricity demand rises, the stored heat turns the liquid CO₂ back into a gas.

As the gas expands, it spins a turbine and generates electricity.

Then the cycle begins again.

The carbon dioxide never leaves the system.

It stays sealed inside, circulating in a continuous closed loop.

That is what makes the technology so different.

There is no lithium.

No cobalt.

No dependence on critical mineral supply chains.

Instead, the system is built mainly from steel, water, and carbon dioxide.

It is also designed to last.

Developers say the facility can deliver electricity for up to ten hours on a full charge and continue operating for more than 25 years without the gradual loss of storage capacity that affects many conventional batteries.

As more countries shift toward wind and solar power, one challenge continues to grow.

What happens when the wind stops blowing or the sun goes down?

Projects like this are trying to answer that question.

Not by replacing renewable energy.

But by finding new ways to store it until it is needed.

Sleazy anti-net-zero Farage, Tice, and Reform UK will be furious.

[Lansdowne Road ☘️🇮🇪⚽ @LansdowneRD_IE]

Ronnie Whelan - When a legend is tossed aside.

Now, I want to preface this by stating I am a Liverpool fan, and Liverpool are not the only club guilty of treating their legends shabbily.

But when you think of how certain players are treated on their way out the door in the modern game and how they're lauded... Even players that are bang average and have accomplished little in the game. Just spare a thought for someone of Ronnie Whelan's calibre.

Despite having made 493 appearances for Liverpool during an era when the Reds were at their most dominant and winning 12 major trophies: 6 First Division titles, 3 FA Cups, 2 League Cups, and 1 European Cup (1984). Ronnie Whelan was thrown on the scrapheap at the age of 32 by the club he had given 15 years' service to.

Injuries had blighted his first two seasons in the newly formed Premier League, and his contract was up for renewal. The club initially offered a one-year extension, which Whelan rebuffed, and asked them to consider a two-year deal instead.

The club then decided to pull the plug and coldly withdrew his contract altogether. Roy Evans, who was the new Liverpool Manager at the time, had to deliver the bad news. And that was that.

No farewell, no applause, not even a thank you. Whelan drove home in tears; worried about what to do next:

"It was like coming out of prison, you were free to go. I didn't hit me until I was driving home. I was back near Southport and I just thought 'what am I going to do, I've got three kids'. I'm not rich enough that I don't need to play, I need to do something.

Honestly, stupid things go through your mind like 'I haven't got a doctor anymore'.

I had a cry. I pulled over and wept on the side of the road, thinking 'it's all gone'."

Ronnie was my favourite player growing up as a kid; I loved how he could do anything from anywhere, left foot, right foot. He could score, tackle and pass - a legend and a gent.

#ireland

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

🚨LATEST NHS NEWS:

MPs urge Labour to ditch £330m Palantir software contract with the NHS

[The Guardian]

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

A second parliamentary committee has urged Labour to scrap Palantir’s £330m contract with the NHS, increasing pressure on the next prime minister over government deals with the US tech company.

MPs on the health and social care select committee want the NHS to cut ties with Palantir and find a replacement for its system, which is supposed to unify and analyse huge amounts of often highly sensitive NHS health data.

https://t.co/4esQpBjMpz

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

“The NHS is not a charity. It’s our national lifeline, our greatest show of strength. We care for all, not the few.”

[David Davis MP @DavidDavisMP]

The Government has confirmed that its so called 'independent' Digital ID Advisory watchdog, will not have its minutes published.

We are expected to carry out parliamentary scrutiny on one of the most significant erosions of our civil liberties for decades, and yet we are not told the group budget, member selection process, or given the minutes from their meetings. Journalists have also been excluded from advisory panels.

The Government must give us answers on this sinister policy, and rethink its current course.

https://t.co/lFNq3lcyeV

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

It's time the voters of Clacton should learn about Farage's treasonous work for Russia.

On September 16, 2014, Farage and Nathan Gill made speeches to the European Parliament parroting several of the same Russian propaganda lies.

They both called Ukraine "The Ukraine," a term which refers back to the old Slavic word for borderland, which Russia uses to deny Ukraine's nationhood.

They both used the expression "poking the Russian bear."

They both parroted the Russian lie that there had been a coup in Kyiv in 2014.

They both parroted Russian lies about NATO and EU expansion.

They both repeated the Russian claim that the real threat was Muslim extremism, a claim that Putin had very effectively used to distract Western leaders from Russian aggression and its hybrid war against the West.

Reform UK initially claimed Farage barely knew Gill. That turned out to be a blatant lie.

Please spread information about Farage and Russia. Our hapless news media are very likely to forget all about Farage's Russia links unless they are very loudly and repeatedly reminded.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Steve Reed declares that transparency is important when it comes to political donations

The same Steve Reed who helped co-found Labour Together, the organisation which between 2017 and 2020 broke electoral law by deliberately not reporting £740,000 of donations.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

THE FIRST WHISTLEBLOWER LAW IN THE UK GOT DESTROYED ON ITS FIRST TRY

In 1999, seven care workers at a BUPA @BupaUK care home in Bromley noticed something horrible. Elderly residents were being overdosed and physically abused by staff.

So they did the normal human thing. They reported it.

BUPA did the normal corporate thing. Instead of sacking the abusers, they shuffled them off to other care homes, like a bad Tinder date you just relocate instead of deleting.

The seven workers, led by Eileen Chubb @CompassnInCare, kept pushing. Eventually they were squeezed out of their jobs entirely.

This became the first ever case under the UK's brand new whistleblower law, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998. Fresh law, first real test, should have been an easy win for the good guys, right.

Wrong.

The tribunal agreed safety rules were broken. Then it let BUPA stand up and call all seven of them liars, while the independent report proving they were right stayed locked out of the courtroom. Imagine being told you're lying, in a room where the evidence that you're not lying isn't allowed in.

Parliament eventually noticed. In 2004 MP John Horam handed in their petition and the press nicknamed them the BUPA Seven.

Eileen Chubb turned the whole ordeal into a charity, Compassion in Care, which has now logged over 15000 complaints from care settings.

She still campaigns for Edna's Law, named after a resident who died after years of documented abuse that nobody with actual power bothered to stop.

Twenty five years later the pattern hasn't changed.

Sources
@BBCNews @PrivateEyeNews @guardian @Channel4News

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

The days of chains like Starbucks and Cafe Nero using aggressive tax avoidance schemes needs to come to an end.

It's not right that your local independent coffee shop has probably paid more corporation tax than the two of them combined.

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Private firms providing services to the NHS made £1.6 billion profit in two years.

That’s £1.6 billion being extracted from the NHS for shareholders rather than patients.

We think the NHS should be about people, not profit.

But what do you think?

https://t.co/RCKWJYdAgL

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

“Palantir are on the run. How do I know this? Because they've been in Parliament this week having a long session of two hours trying to persuade politicians that they were good for the NHS. They're not—they've sold a vision... about how they could unite all the systems on the NHS and give a single dashboard... this isn't possible.”

​On Thursday 2nd July in Parliament, we caught up with Liberal Democrat MP Martin Wrigley to discuss the mounting resistance to the US tech giant Palantir inside Westminster.

​Wrigley exposed how Palantir has been aggressively lobbying politicians with an impractical vision of an all-controlling data platform. Rather than locking our health service into flawed corporate software, Wrigley points to models like Greater Manchester that successfully integrated patient systems without compromising public trust or technical sovereignty. The NHS is seriously considering its exit point at the end of this year, and Wrigley is actively leading the charge to provide an immediate off-ramp.

​📍 London

📅 2 July 2026

​#Palantir #NHS #SaveOurNHS

Footage @ranjanbalakumaran

[Jon Harding @_i0n]

Data sovereignty is important
- we don't need our data to be controlled by US legislation
Computer systems are important
- we don't need them turned off by a US 'kill switch'
Morality is important
- we don't need to rely on organisations involved in Genocide
Kick Palantir Out

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong"

Spot on!

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Spain, France, Switzerland and now Italy is kicking Palantir out.

Italy have rejected any new contracts and are reviewing the old ones.

Get Palantir OUT!

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Palantir has been awarded public contracts worth £900m but paid just £823,000 in tax last year. Is this a company that should get its hands on the NHS database?

[Ragged Trousered Philanderer @RaggedTP]

Starmer and Streeting did a secret pharma deal with Trump which will cost the NHS £45 billion and cause excess mortality of 250,000 patients, at a conservative estimate.
You didn't know about this?
That's because the media kept it quiet.
https://t.co/Xt8Ut4F2OD

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

Please let’s ban Palantir from operating in the U.K. full stop.