John Peek

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Tricksy Remainer and Woke Centrist Liberal Dirtbag (some MAGAt thought that was an insult)
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👀👀👀 ‘If It Looks Like the Law Was Broken, Police Investigations Must Follow’: Elections Watchdog Receives Flood of Complaints Over ‘Phantom’ Reform Party Candidates

'If It Looks Like the Law Was Broken, Police Investigations Must Follow': Elections Watchdog Receives Flood of Complaints Over 'Phantom' Reform Party Candidatesbylinetimes.com There has been a major public response to Byline Times' report of 'super-shy’ Reform UK parliamentary candidates – exposing concerning legal loopholes and the limits of the role of Electoral Commissio...

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I want the Tories lower and I want the LDs as the official opposition. An LD opposition might encourage Starmer to be his better self rather than scrape the barrel bottom.

Here’s that Savanta MRP for the Telegraph: Lab projected for 382 majority Cons fighting with LDs to be Official Opposition Seat forecast 🌹Lab 516 (+316) 🌳Con 53 (-319) 🔶LD 50 (+42) 🎗️SNP 8 (-40) 🌼PC 4 (+2) ⬜️Other 0 (-1) 17,812 UK adults, changes to last GE notional results

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Exclusive report: a series of errors by HMRC let Paul Baxendale-Walker, probably the UK's most notorious tax avoider, escape a £14m penalty. He's threatening to prosecute me for harassment, sue me for libel and sue me for £500,000 if I report this. Here’s our report: taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/06/19/b...

HMRC errors let a notorious tax avoider escape a £14m penaltytaxpolicy.org.uk Paul Baxendale-Walker is probably the UK’s most notorious tax avoidance scheme promoter. He’s the former barrister and solicitor who helped create the “loan schemes” that cost the country £billions…

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Guest Substack post debunking the latest poor academic paper that is fueling anti-vax conspiracy theories by actuary Stuart McDonald open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Guest post: A terrible academic paper has fueled renewed anti-vax journalism - it must be retractedopen.substack.com A debunk and a plea for retraction from actuary Stuart McDonald

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Tucker Carlson launches his show on Russian state controlled TV. Completing his shift from Russian state backed propaganda - to - Russian state backed propaganda. ...What did you think you were watching? www.newsweek.com/tucker-carls...

Tucker Carlson launches show on Russian state TVwww.newsweek.com The Conservative TV host will interview figures and politicians with "alternative views to the mainstream" on the Russia 24 channel, according to reports.

Russia 24 is dubbing and broadcasting Tuckers show in Russia.

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Spain's electricity mix in March: 29% wind 15.1% solar 1.4% bioenergy 22.1% hydro 17.3% nuclear 13.7% gas & related 1.1% coal -> 85% not from fossil fuels Ember data

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Some people actually still claim "Sheep are great for nature." That's total bull. The far side of this fence is grazed by sheep, and it's barren. My side isn't, and it's FULL of native wildflowers, tree saplings, ferns, + flying insects. #rewilding 🌎

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And another one for the developing pattern. Survation did the best LE polling by the way. Westminster voting intention LAB: 44% (-) CON: 24% (-2) LDEM: 10% (-1) REF: 8% (-) GRN: 7% (+3) via Survation, 09 May

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I have just voted for a Labour Police and Crime Commissioner! I live in a Tory constituency and found that extremely satisfying.. 😂🌹

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That's the Tory dream. A hollowed out state, privatised everything, minimal regulation, and everyone just sinks or swims. Of course, the system would be rigged so the Tories won't even have to swim. They'll be living it up on their private yachts.

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Happy Earth Day! Every day should be earth day 💙🌎💚 Let's take good care of it. There is no Planet B 💛

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“I felt like I’d been punched,” she says. “It felt really physical. I felt really sick, and disorientated. Like we’d really, really fucked up. And we had. That was the sadness of it: that we didn’t run a very good campaign.” I felt just the same after that wretched Brexit vote. I still do.😢

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LOL MAGA vomit-tubes are going ape-shit crazy over the House's vote on aid to Ukraine. And they're screaming that so many members of Congress waved Ukrainian flags after the vote. TOO BAD. FASCISM LOST. MAGA LOST. PUTIN LOST.

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Zelenskyi commented on his visit to the front today -- This war is black and white, there are no halftones in it, everything is obvious. We are on our own land. We are protecting people's lives. We are stopping the occupier, who can sow only ruins and violence, only evil. t.me/noel_reports...

NOELREPORTS 🇪🇺 🇺🇦t.me Zelenskyi commented on his visit to the front today -- This war is black and white, there are no halftones in it, everything is obvious. We are on our own land. We are protecting people's lives. We ...

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4. It’s a classic example of #MooWoo: the popular but wholly false story that cows can help save the planet. As is the case with this film, the figures always fall apart under examination. www.monbiot.com/2023/08/02/a...

All Hat and No Cattlewww.monbiot.com The spectacular implosion of a popular delusion about livestock farming. By George Monbiot, published on monbiot.com, 2nd August 2023 Every industry has its apparatus of justification. The more damagi...

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1. This week’s column is about something we badly want to believe, regardless of the evidence: that livestock farms are benign and harmonious. Why? Mostly, I think, because it chimes with books and cartoons we see as very young children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Also: a thread

There’s no such thing as a benign beef farm – so beware the ‘eco-friendly’ new film straight out of a storybook | George Monbiotwww.theguardian.com A highly misleading new documentary claims soil carbon storage can redeem the livestock industry – it’s all so much ‘moo-woo’, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Good morning! Spring 🌱 🌸 🌼 bring so much joy. 📷

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Even Geert Wilders now sees the folly of leaving the EU. He’s publicly abandoned his policy of pulling the Netherlands out. "We see from Brexit that all countries are better off within the European Union. The British showed us the consequences of leaving.”

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It appears Americans don't fully understand our use of Piss so I have compiled this handy guide, you're welcome

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It appears Americans don't fully understand our use of Piss so I have compiled this handy guide, you're welcome

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Obviously Monkey Cage is really interesting anyway, but this one about magic is particularly interesting.

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Holy hell. “It’s estimated that in 2023 the heat content in the upper two thousand metres of the oceans increased by at least 9 zettajoules. For comparison’s sake, the world’s annual energy consumption amounts to about 0.6 zettajoules.” www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...

Why Is the Sea So Hot?www.newyorker.com A startling rise in sea-surface temperatures suggests that we may not understand how fast the climate is changing.

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Why time off work on Statutory Sick Pay is not an option for the writer's suffering partner | Ben Smith

Why we're not the sick man of Europeeastangliabylines.co.uk Why time off work on Statutory Sick Pay is not an option for the writer's suffering partner

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Hey. Yeah, you, hey: if you are not currently sick or disabled, one day you will be, and you will wish you lived in a world that had the resources and culture to make your life as full and thriving and happy as anyone else's. You will want that world, and you can start helping make it, right now.

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The NAO report on the finances of the Rwanda scheme is simply insane iandunt.substack.com/p/the-bottom...

The bottomless financial insanity of the Rwanda schemeiandunt.substack.com We've finally seen the accounts. And they are atrocious.