Pete Cox

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

What fresh hell is this? The Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of "Palantir Derangement Syndrome". What the magazine won't say:

🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace - which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in... Palantir.

🔺Michael Gibson, who wrote this pro-Palantir screed for The Spectator, co-ran the Thiel Fellowship with Palantir owner Peter Thiel from 2010 to 2015. Thiel then backed Gibson's 1517 fund.

🔺Palantir's primary owner, Peter Thiel, was a happy business partner with convicted serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein - Epstein's other business partner, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, described Thiel and Epstein as "co-owners" of their venture fund. Thiel's investment w/Epstein contributed to the single largest asset in Epstein's estate.

🔺We don't need a democracy hating giant surveillance-defence contractor owned by Epstein's business partner and alleged fund "co-owner" to infiltrate the NHS. Estonia, Denmark, and Israel manage complex national electronic health records without reliance on private defence platforms.

🔺There is a war on for your mind being waged by investors and media owners who have benefited directly from Peter Thiel and Palantir.

Maybe Britain doesn't need friends and business partners of child rapists, nor people who would profit from them, running our health and security systems? Who is really deranged here? 👀

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

EXCLUSIVE: Memo that sparked BBC’s worst crisis in a decade wasn’t 'internal'. It was written by lobbyist at firm paid by pro-Trump tech giants - including Oracle, whose billionaire founder joined Trump aides to undermine the 2020 election - @BylineTimes https://t.co/pFO0Du9ORD

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

NEW: Britain’s fiercest libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud and threatened its critics. Now they’re being prosecuted at the SDT.

Their response? An anonymity order to cover it up. But Carter-Ruck just lost that order - and it's all coming out.

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[Margaret E Atwood @MargaretAtwood]

Here's a piece of literature by me, suitable for seventeen-year-olds in Alberta schools, unlike -- we are told -- The Handmaid's Tale. (Sorry, kids; your Minister of Education thinks you are stupid babies.)

John and Mary were both very, very good children. They never picked their noses or had bowel movements or zits. They grew up and married each other, and produced five perfect children without ever having sex. Although they claimed to be Christian, they paid no attention to what Jesus actually said about the poor and the Good Samaritan and forgiving your enemies and such; instead, they practised selfish rapacious capitalism, because they worshipped Ayn Rand. (Though they ignored the scene in The Fountainhead where “welcomed rape” is advocated, because who wants to dwell, and also that would have involved sex and would de facto be pornographic. Well, it kind of is, eh?) Oh, and they never died, because who wants to dwell on, you know, death and corpses and yuk? So they lived happily ever after. But while they were doing that The Handmaid’s Tale came true and Danielle Smith found herself with a nice new blue dress but no job. The end.

[Kareem Rifai 🌐 @KareemRifai]

After Vance accused Zelensky of not saying thank you, Zelensky is now tweeting individual thanks to every single world leader expressing solidarity with Ukraine.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

The Shadow Lord Chancellor’s repeated exploitation of a horrendous tragedy - and consequent jeopardising of live criminal proceedings - all for the purpose of generating clicks from the far-right, is utterly debasing of our politics.

This is not a serious man.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

If you have not heard of Trump’s Project 2025 yet you need to watch this right now.

[Free Lions @WeAreFreeLions]

We have released the following statement about transport issues in Gelsenkirchen yesterday.

Thank you to everyone who has fed back to us, it is greatly appreciated.

https://t.co/kf1VA18I6J

[Gerry Hassan @GerryHassan]

A gentle reminder that Reform UK is not a democratic political party. It is a private company owned 53% by Nigel Farage & 33% by Richard Tice. It has no real members; it has no democratic policy-making processes. It is an unaccountable entity & play thing of two rich men. Via @FT

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

📞"Starmer hasn't got a chance! He's focusing on trivial things like an NHS in crisis, sewage in rivers, record numbers of small boats and children in poverty. But Sunak...Sunak knows what a woman is!"

Colin from Portsmouth is right behind Rishi Sunak, Westminster's Susan Hall

[Seb Ate @Mrbaiti]

2mins of Hashi Mohamed absolutely smashing the Conservatives Rwanda policy to bits.👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

‘Our learned judges said the Home Office hadn’t even assessed that policy before adopting it

It’s unviable, it’s expensive & the only people it’s going to work for is the Rwandans’ #BBCQT

[Cllr Alan Quinn @cllralanquinn]

When @BylineTimes first broke the story about PPE Medpro, they were threatened with litigation.
Now, the truth is out.
A @BylineTimes subscription would make a lovely Christmas present, and it would support independent journalism.

https://t.co/CN2SEsciDh

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

"Merry Christmas to everyone, except the following people..."

Colin from Portsmouth wishes peace on earth to select mankind.

[Danny Wallace @dannywallace]

The media needs to take its share of responsibility for violence and division.
Stop putting grifters on the Politics Show.
Stop the con men on Question Time.
Stop unfeeling narcissists on Have I Got News For You.
Stop showing the softer side of psychopaths on I'm a Celebrity.

[Dr Dan Goyal @danielgoyal]

As England faces the biggest doctors’ strike in history, a reminder:

There hasn’t been a single day of doctors’ strike in Scotland…

the dispute was settled for 12.5%.

Yes, it matters whether or not the national govt want the NHS to succeed.

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

📞"The UK's media is biased against the tories! Name me ONE pro-Conservative media outlet😡"

Colin from Portsmouth has had it up to here of Labour getting a free ride.

[JOHN NICOLSON 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @MrJohnNicolson]

The Tory Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch has asked Ofsted to carry out a snap inspection of a school because, apparently, she believes a spoof story that a child at the school identifies as a cat.

This MP has risen to Cabinet rank.