Nicky Brockie 💙 🇪🇺

Definitely older, sometimes grumpier, lover of life. NHS. Views my own.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I just returned from Jordan, with unprecedented clarity about what - from and through Palestine - the Israel/US axis is doing to the entire region. It pains to see what is unfolding. How come so many did not see it coming?
Greater Israel, unveiled.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Israel’s far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, says he has ordered preparations to annex the occupied West Bank, hoping “2025 will be, with God's help, the year of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.”

[Sarah E Seaton 🏳️‍🌈 @SarahESeaton]

I started my career as a cleaner in the NHS. I learnt a lot about the world in that role. Some people treated me with respect, but many treated me badly. Cleaners hold hospitals together. I will absolutely judge you on how you treat the cleaners & porters.

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

NEW: Queen Elizabeth II thought Boris Johnson "better suited to the stage" than politics and two days before her death, after he resigned, she told a senior courtier in jest: "At least that idiot won't be organising my funeral." 1/ https://t.co/VoXvjib8BN

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Someone…

Please

Explain to me & the rest of us who are losing our last shreds of faith in humanity

How TF can it be…

That a massacre of 70% women and children

With those children mostly between 5 & 9

…can still be labelled as self-defence.

This world disgusts me.

[Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley]

All over the rich world, people’s lives are getting worse.

It’s harder to afford the basics, keep a roof over your head, and access care when you’re sick.

People will keep voting for whoever they think will bring back prosperity. 1/

[NHS Million @NHSMillion]

Please repost for all the cleaning staff who are working across the NHS this weekend.

They are a huge part of the team and it would be impossible to keep patients safe without them.

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

If you listen to anything today let it be this. I had the pleasure of speaking and having individual meetings with
@francesca.albanese two years ago. In her capacity as Special Rapporteur. Everything you, we, are seeing through our screen is 100% her; honest, emphatic, fierce, moral and a staunch supporter for human rights everywhere.

All of this answer needs to be heard around the world. All of it: "Israel has conducted an attack, an unprecedented attack....now especially after the Knesset passed a law outlawing Unrwa... This is the nail in the coffin of the UN charter."

As someone whose career is dedicated to diplomacy, and has worked for and with the UN. I could not agree more with her words.

[Chris Wild @ccwild79]

The most significant thing about my experience, books, is this, no one is exempt from trauma. I was born into a world of love and found myself in a children's home at 11yrs old. Not just any home, a place managed by paedophiles, predators, so called professionals. My whole purpose and campaign today is to highlight that things haven't changed in 30yrs. Our children are still suffering. If we stay quiet and walk away, nothing will change. The campaign to make care experience a protected characteristic needs gas, fuel. Together we can make a difference and we will. #changeiscoming

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

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[Private Eye Magazine @PrivateEyeNews]

How the deal that gave two property developers effective control of the Teesside regeneration scheme is also turning them into potentially very well-paid power suppliers to the captive site. Full story in the new Eye.

[The London Economic @LondonEconomic]

"I think Ofwat need utter restructuring if not abolishing!"

Campaigner Feargal Sharkey calls for bill payers to take to the streets after regulator OFWAT said bills in England and Wales could rise by an average £19 per year until 2030.

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

I can’t stop thinking about that line. That line is absolutely incredible. “There’s no place for violence in our democracy.” Said by a war criminal about a war criminal, during an active genocide they both support. Mainstream society is ran entirely on self-deluding psychosis.

[Dr David Unwin @lowcarbGP]

As a doctor specialising in T2 Diabetes I get REALLY annoyed when unnecessary SUGAR is added to products. Sometimes it’s hidden in unexpected foods Dear Marks and Spencer PLEASE CAN YOU DO SOMETHING ABOUT your coleslaw, pate, prawn salad There is even extra sugar in your roast chicken!! A 🧵 @marksandspencer @SheilaDillon @DoctorChrisVT

[🌟Ben Allen GP 🌟 @BenAllenGP]

⭐️General practice spiralling out of control⭐️
My day?
90 Triage
12 f2f
Dozens of calls
>100 bloods
100s of prescriptions
Support colleagues
Managing risk ++
20 letters. Many tell of lives saved.
Complaints
📈 Workload/Risk/ Complexity rising far beyond resource 🤯
Time to care?

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

This sham of a consultation needs to be boycotted.

Send the word "NO" to [email protected]

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

George Monbiot - "We should never underestimate the extent to which the BBC changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage, other far right extremists and the Tufton Street junktanks, while shutting out progressive voices."

[Nicky Brockie 💙 🇪🇺 @lilliput62]

@macsenwledigg @broseph_stalin Would this be the same shareholders that are making such a positive impact on the water, rail and energy companies? They’re all shining beacons of privatisation?

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

2,000-year-old face cream inside a metal container from Roman times with visible ancient finger marks. ⁣⁣ "The cream was found to be composed of refined animal fat, starch and tin.

The researchers then created their own version, made to the same recipe.

When they rubbed the whitish cream into their skin, it produced a white layer with a smooth powdery texture.

The latter quality was created by the starch—still used for this purpose in modern cosmetics."⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

According to Professor Richard Evershed from Bristol University:

"White face paint was fashionable in Roman times and normally derived its colour from a lead compound. A tin compound would have been an acceptable substitute and in good supply from Cornwall."⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

In ancient Rome, lead was by far the most popular metal and was commonly used in cups, plates, coins, pipes, cosmetics, face powder, paints, food seasoning, and even birth control.⁣

Scientists have even discovered that tap water from ancient Rome contained up to 100 times more lead than that of local spring water.

As a result, some historians have speculated that lead poisoning may have played a part in bringing down the Roman Empire.⁣⁣