Nicola Solic Moore

Mother, allotmenteer, ex post doc, still interested in science, Valleys girl in exile in south of England.

[Nicola Solic Moore @nickysolic]

@RJDoyleSW2 @thegentleauthor That’s the old ICRF Lincoln’s Inn Fields labs.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

The time Dolly Parton and Kermit jammed to Sly and the Family Stone.

This is always how I will remember her.

[Save Our Citizenships @LetsStopC9]

Jason Arday was cleared of plagiarism: poor referencing, not proven theft.

Lara Brown weaponised it to attack DEI. William O’Reilly copied 12 pages and kept his job. Funny how “standards” get weaponised against Black academics.

[Nicola Solic Moore @nickysolic]

@For_Film_Fans Ollo lm kpookkmko lpullpo look pop

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Under 14 years of Conservative-led governments (2010 to 2024), UK public sector net debt (excluding public sector banks) grew by roughly £1.57 trillion, rising from about £1.08 trillion in May 2010 to approximately £2.65 trillion when they left office in mid-2024.

[Gwynoro Jones @Gwynoro]

Lot of media hype about Burnham’s plans for England’s mayors. Actually it all was in Starmer’s 2024 election manifesto and Reeves was planning to do it.

[Anthony Costello @globalhlthtwit]

Christina Pagel corrects superbly the ill-informed comments of Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall in their News Agents podcast eg "I am not sure that even in the first lockdown, that school closures for any length of time were a price worth paying." They should invite her on! https://t.co/xbobn0ew92

[Alessandra Libutti 🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🇬🇧 @a_libutti]

Hold on… The man who orchestrated a coup through media leaks of @Keir_Starmer’s policies and a compliant press engaging in character assassination to drive down his poll ratings is now concerned about the media?

Is that a guilty conscience speaking, or simply the confidence of someone who knows exactly how a Prime Minister can be brought down because he did it himself?

[Nicola Solic Moore @nickysolic]

@Favwontmiss Indigo

[John Ruddy @jruddy99]

Is this on top of the 15% cut that was announced by Reeves? Or does it replace it, so its just an extra 5%?

[Jake 🌹🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @ToryWipeout]

Knowing what we know now about Starmer's cabinet, you can't complain about his comms.

It was an inside job.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift.

The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics.

*If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

£15B spent on PPE. Of that sum, £10B was wasted.
Source: Dame Heather Hallett.

I just wanted to highlight this stunning fact. If you want a picture, here’s some of it dumped in the New Forest.

It doesn’t matter that NHS staff died for want of PPE because:

• we clapped on Thursdays &
• @michaelgove became a lord.

[Professor Ray Noble @Ray_Noble1]

https://t.co/rniCDq04am

[Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🥪 @CliveWismayer]

She failed to find what she wasn’t looking for. Hardly an exoneration. You gave hugely profitable contracts to insiders, without open tender & ignoring known & reputable suppliers. You denied the existence of the VIP lane & then later bragged about it when caught with your pants down. It’s as though Mone & Barrowman never happened.

You (singular & plural) belong behind bars but you are protected by a system that takes care of its own. You (singular) are an inveterate liar who would have been hounded from office long since but for that system.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Before you criticise the £9.9billion lost to fraud and error (mainly error) in benefit system remember the £10billion paid out on failed PPE contracts during pandemic which went to just a few.

[Darren Dutton @Darren_Dutton]

Now with music... as requested by @TheTVGrump

[Nicola Solic Moore @nickysolic]

@HughEdw31897368 @MusicJim2 A question for Andy Burnham?

[Ben 🇬🇧 @BenInRushcliffe]

GB News waiting until Keir has been ousted before telling the truth on small boats.... 😔

[Jennifer Stewart @JenniferJS_]

Thanks for replying Alison and for your warmth towards Keir Starmer. But, I'm afraid I don't care what anybody says about Andy Burnham; I was witness to how he went about this. It's inherently dishonest. He and Louise Haigh - according to her - have been planning this coup for a year, 1 year after he won the GM mayoralty 3rd term. He promised those voters he was done with Westminster and he wanted to complete his third term more than anything else. So they gave him their vote. Then he walked out on them, and he'd known for a year that he was going to do it. but they didn't know.

In Jan this year and before Makerfield he promised to support the govt and not undermine it. A blatant lie, because he'd known for 6 months what he was going to do. The NEC had wisdom in Jan. But not in the Makerfield by-election. How many MPs did Andy Burnham try to persuade to give up their seats? 26, I heard, before Josh Simons agreed - for a very sweet deal. Then Andy Burnham trashed Labour and the govt and by default Keir Starmer - and used Labour resources to do it. He repeatedly said he wasn't interested in ousting Keir Starmer, that he was dedicated to Makerfield. Another blatant lie.

He started amassing MP support. He got to 97 pretty quickly, but Keir Starmer had a 150 at that point. Then Louise Haigh told him that if he didn't resign the contest would be "brutal". And the campaign to put pressure on MPs ramped up exponentially. The betrayal was mind-boggling. MPs who owed their status in the cabinet to Keir Starmer stabbed him in the back. Others who owed their jobs as MPs to the fact that he won a landslide in 2024 did the same.

Being the decent man that he is, Keir Starmer didn't want to subject the Labour Party to internecine war. So the bullies won. He resigned. And we've lost the best PM this country has had for decades. What makes it even more revolting is that Burnham is now using Keir Starmer's achievements and trying to make out like they're his own, or at his own ideas.

I think it's clear that not all MPs nominating him are doing so because they believe in him. They're doing so because they don't want Labour to fall apart.

Keir Starmer has been a Prime Minister of exceptional standing who did all the hard and difficult work of turning the country round after inheriting a stinking mess from the Tories, taking all the body blows, never flinching, never giving up, never losing his nerve or commitment to the job and the country. He has elevated the UK internationally beyond our wildest dreams, and been the driving force behind European solidarity and security, liked, respect and admired by all.

And he's been kicked out by a plotter and a backstabber who makes and breaks promises as easily as you can switch a light on and off. Who lies with impunity. Who cost the taxpayer about £5million.

I'm not just angry. It's been traumatising, for me and for many here. And nobody is listening to us. We've been completely disenfranchised.

If you've got to the end of this, thank you for persisting.