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👉 non-profit making #NHS hospitals are subject to usual business rates and taxes
👉profiteering private hospitals can register as charities with all the resulting tax benefits
Pls RT if you think that’s another Tory scandal
I am sorting my dashcam footage from last couple of month and got to my car journey from Glasgow to Helsinki and I thought it can show you nicely what Brexit means
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Everyone switch on to Al Jazeera right now. This is one of the most horrifying things I’ve seen.
IOF is attacking mourners carrying Shireen’s body from the hospital right now. They’re using stun grenades and tear gas and charging at them with horses and batons.
Tommy Robinson was due in court today to answer questions about his assets. As he failed to show we @hopenothate thought it was time for us to publish some more details about what he’s hiding. https://t.co/G5RYDCwiyC
30°C above normal in the Arctic today.
40°C above normal in the Antarctic today.
It would be unbelievable if it were not true.
And it is terrifying beyond words.
The war we have waged against the natural world has, in climatic terms, just gone nuclear.
If you really wanted to make a linkage between Brexit and the horrendous invasion of Ukraine, it’s that the notion of a fragmented EU suited Russian ambitions, which is why so much Russian influence (and filthy money) was invested in both the Brexit campaign and the Tory party.
1. Every time I express my disgust about the UK's treatment of refugees (not just from Ukraine), people jump up to say: "so you'll be offering your spare room then?"
There's a short answer: I don't have a spare room.
There's a shorter answer: eff off.
And a longer one: Thread/
⚡️Switzerland adopts EU sanctions, freezes Putin's assets.
Switzerland broke its historically neutral status to adopt EU sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine.
If the laws do not work to protect our open society from such invaders, they must be fixed & written. The dark money, the propaganda, the fraternization and normalization of authoritarian emissaries must end. The Augean stables of corruption must be cleaned.
I don’t necessarily agree with Carole on everything, but my instinct says she must he heard, she should be on BBC output more, for example; She has been ostracised by the her own profession but she’s braver than nearly all of us.
Ok. Deep breath.
I think we may look back on this as the first Great Information War. Except we're already 8 years in.
The first Great Information War began in 2014. The invasion of Ukraine is the latest front. And the idea it doesn't already involve us is fiction, a lie.
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