stevedaley

Move along now, nothing to see here. Unless you're passionate about freedom and political equality, and you don’t expect me to genuflect to your sacred beliefs

[stevedaley @stevedaley]

For decades, Westminster desecrated British traditions & values. Progressive apologists don’t get that this betrayal soils the very social bonds that created women’s rights, gay rights & racial equality. Only together with neighbours and coworkers can we weed out the elitist rot

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

The way people lost the plot during COVID and became proudly authoritarian.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

This is pure evil

[Ben Graham @BenGrahamUK]

X is banned for under 16s, but Bluesky isn't.

X is a platform where people regularly share videos of crime, protests, political scandals and government failures.

The other is overwhelmingly left wing and far more sympathetic to the establishment, with no videos of crime, or government failure.

Naturally children, who have no other options, are now going to flood onto Bluesky and only see left leaning viewpoints.

This is a two tier social media ban.

[Sharon Graham @UniteSharon]

This is a huge victory. UK car workers have been increasingly fearful for their jobs.

@GOVUK at the highest level has listened to the concerns of Unite and is now set to act decisively to protect the jobs of UK automotive workers. 1/2

[Marika Cobbold @Marikacobbold]

This is Samuel Corner, sledgehammer raised, ready to strike the police woman lying at his feet, arm held out in a vain plea for mercy. Samuel Corner is not a martyr nor a "young activist", he's just a common-or-garden thug.

[Hussain Abdul-Hussain @hahussain]

No you don’t. You wouldn’t have minded if an Israeli was selling to a Palestinian. You only condemn when the final purchaser is a Jew. This racism of not selling land to Jews has been going on since forever. If this was about real estate, then let the original owner produce a deed and let there be litigation.

Sovereignty and landownership are two separate things. But your knee-deep in identity politics and bias to a tribe you think is your own (when it’s not, you can’t even speak their language) than to know.

[stevedaley @stevedaley]

@mathandcobb @EmreSevinc As a lay math amateur, AI is absolutely no use to me if I am not humble enough to know when I am not competent to parse gibberish from multilayered depth

[Russell Grinker @rusky1951]

The irony: pro-Pal crazies who condemn Israel for genocide in the hysterical court of pot-banging street justice, now call due process into question when the system ensures that their nasty, violent vandal friends are sent down

[Ameer Kotecha @Ameer_Kotecha]

“We must fight the evil power Israel & Zionists hold in Britain.”

These people are unhinged

[Unite the union: join a union @unitetheunion]

✊✊ There is no other tried and tested way for workers to improve their living standards and beat the #CostofLiving crisis than collective organisation. Unite members have won over £630m in improved pay, though strike action alone, since @UniteSharon was elected general secretary of Unite 5 years ago. And that figure keeps rising.
Congratulations to members at Barclays, Aberdeen Airport and Amcor for their successful pay campaigns. making a real difference for workers and their families 💥

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

One day, at some point, it would be so very lovely to see someone appointed to a role in DEFRA who knows anything at all about farming. Or someone who'd even attended one single EFRA committee session. Loyalty to a failing leader clearly more important than pesky food growers.🤦🏼‍♀️

[stevedaley @stevedaley]

Anyone who has assisted an ET claimant will know the delays and process favour professionals (good) & grievance grifters (bad). Three stressful years of legal wrangling is repellent to ordinary workers

[Toby Young @toadmeister]

Britain is facing a surge in people taking their employers to court, with claims up 55% year on year, following Angela Rayner’s sweeping workers' rights reforms. https://t.co/cZpUX4VcQg

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

NHS MANAGERS HID 100,000 PATIENT SCANS IN CAR BOOTS

One hundred thousand patients.

One hundred thousand people went to hospital, trusted the NHS with their bodies, had X-rays and scans taken, and were never told what those scans showed.

Some of those images showed cancer. Some showed serious illness that needed urgent treatment.

The films sat in corridors and store rooms, rotting and unchecked, for years. Nobody looked at them. Nobody picked up the phone. Nobody told a single patient.

This happened. At the Royal London Hospital. In the heart of London. In the 21st century.

When health inspectors were due to arrive and see the chaos for themselves, managers locked the backlog in a storeroom so it would stay hidden.

Consultants physically stuffed patient X-ray films into their car boots to keep them out of sight during official visits. The inspection came and went. The tick boxes were filled in. The patients stayed in the dark.

Dr Otto Chan was a consultant radiologist at the hospital. A decorated, respected, senior doctor with 23 years of service.

He found this scandal and he refused to stay quiet. He reported the hidden scans. He flagged that junior doctors were being pushed to perform procedures they had never been trained for, unsupervised, on real patients.

He went to the British Medical Association. He went to the medical press. He did every single thing the system tells you to do.

Barts and The London NHS Trust @NHSBartsHealth responded by sacking him for gross misconduct in June 2006.

At the employment tribunal, the Trust did not apologise. They did not express concern for the 100,000 patients left in the dark. They told the judge that Dr Chan was not a whistleblower at all. He was a troublemaker running a campaign to damage the organisation.

His concerns were pure fantasy. That was the official position of an NHS Trust about a man who found 100,000 unread patient scans hidden in a car boot.

Half of those scans were never reviewed by a specialist. Ever. Those patients, and their GPs, will go to their graves not knowing what was on those films.

Nobody was prosecuted. Nobody was struck off. The people who hid the evidence kept their jobs. The doctor who found it lost his.

SOURCES: @guardian @NHSBartsHealth @EastLondonLines

[Michael Brown 🌍 @MentalHealthCop]

@johnmcdonnellMP Your complete failure to mention GBH with a blunt weapon on a police officer and the greater failure to understand the laws you are part of making is noted.

Such conduct and causing over £1m of damage is not and never “protesting to save lives”.

Unserious and disingenuous.

[Baa Ram Ewe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐑🐷🦃🚜 @ShepherdWales]

Keir Starmer during the riots (1st August) in Southport:

‘A gang of thugs got on trains and buses, went to a community not their own… and proceeded to throw bricks…’

The findings of the inquiry:

‘We found NO conclusive or compelling evidence that the 2024 disorder was…coordinated…Most people who took part…lived locally’

I trust Keir Starmer would have Keir Starmer sanctioned, arrested and jailed for spreading misinformation during a period of public unrest?

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

One of the jurors at the previous trial that bizarrely failed to convict the Palestine Action criminals being sentenced is speaking in their defence outside court today. How is this even possible legally?

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

BINGO

[Jacob Reynolds @jacobreynolds]

Hockney was peerless.

Almost in the mold of the renaissance masters, his life and art were somehow fused into one riotous celebration of freedom.

He was daring in a more conservative society, and then almost conservative in contemporary society.

I will never forget the works which defined his later life, nor the title of the book “Spring Cannot Be Cancelled” which was both a middle finger to Covid lockdowns and a spiritual demonstration of the faith that life will always be reborn.

It is remarkable that he is, so far as I can tell, the only person to have made a genuine and non-cynical contribution to visual art in a digital medium. Perhaps this is less a sign of his willingness to innovate than an indication that the joie de vivre which defined his art would flower in any medium.

It ought to be a source of enormous shame to us that he felt forced to live abroad to find the freedom to live and create, and yet I still feel proud of being British to think that we can call such a master one of our sons.