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Aug 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The Home Office has told an asylum seeker with TB they are going to be moved onto the Bibby Stockholm barge
The doctor treating the migrant is trying to prevent the move and has warned of a “public health catastrophe”
🔴 Exclusive @mollyblackall
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The GP has contacted Home Office officials explaining that in his view the move to the barge would be medically inappropriate
💬 “I feel they are being treated like livestock, only slightly worse, as livestock are prohibited from being transported with active infection”
Mar 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Credit Suisse is one of the biggest beasts in the global financial jungle and was once a name synonymous with Swiss quality
🧵 So what went wrong and even more importantly, will it affect you?
167-year-old Swiss bank is a huge entity in the interconnected spider’s web of the global banking system
It’s a G-Sib (global systematically important bank) in the jargon – so it matters
Mar 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“It seems frankly irrational to single out this one app, based not on its technical capabilities but on global geopolitics”
📱 Security experts tell @stokel that TikTok is a drop in the ocean compared to the data collection of big tech in general inews.co.uk/news/tiktok-ba…@stokel It comes after Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden announced a ban on using the shortform video app on official government devices in the House of Commons
📱 Dowden said the UK ban was “a proportionate move based on a specific risk with government devices”
Mar 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Jeremy Hunt's Budget - and what it means for you
The Chancellor announced a raft of policies today, from scrapping the lifetime pension allowance to an expansion of free childcare
⬇️ Here we explain what it all means for you and your money
🧵 Here’s everything you need to know
🔴 @ChaplainChloe looks at what is expected to be announced – and where are the political sticking points for Jeremy Hunt?
A law that forces water companies to hand over data to campaigners could be scrapped under Government plans for a bonfire of European regulations
🔎 Campaigners say without it, the public would be left in “complete ignorance” of sewage pollution inews.co.uk/news/brexit-bo…
🧵 The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) allows the public to request information and data on environmental issues
The law is more broad than the Freedom of Information Act and, crucially, a 2015 court ruling expanded its reach to cover private water companies
Nov 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Ukraine is seeking to reinforce its defences against Iranian-made flying bombs launched by Russian forces
🔴Exclusive from @cahalmilmo
The Kremlin has been using Shahed-136 drones to destroy civilian infrastructure in Ukraine for two months.
Now Kyiv is is in advanced discussions to buy state-of-the-art interceptor drones capable of destroying the munitions before they can reach their target.
Nov 20, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
"It’s not a vanity project"🛰️
The UK is the second largest producer of satellites after the US but it never had the capability to launch them from home turf until now...
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Millions of Iranians will be watching at home on Monday and it won’t be the football they are paying the closest attention to
🟢 They will scrutinising the players and fans for any sign of support for the mass demonstrations in Iran that have followed the death of Mahsa Amini
Oct 27, 2022 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
Sunak beats Starmer on economy, taxes and business, poll shows - giving hope for Tories
➡️ Labour still holds a large polling lead – but Rishi Sunak’s personal ratings appear to be positive
Rishi Sunak's NFT project is still going ahead despite market collapsing in crypto artwork
🔴 Exclusive from @NickMDuffy and @luciemheath inews.co.uk/news/rishi-sun…
👉 While serving as chancellor in April, Rishi Sunak said that the Treasury would be leaping on the then popular NFT craze, which saw numerous brands and celebrities launch collections of crypto-art.
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In the 13-and-a-half seconds that David Ditchfield spent under a moving train in 2006, he was completely conscious.
💬 “I was just thrown around relentlessly.
“It was very violent.
“Of course, it was also incredibly painful and immensely terrifying”.
Oct 26, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
'Literally hell on Earth': Inside Tigray's biggest hospital, after two years under siege
◼️ Dr Fasika Amdeslasie watches helplessly as people die and wonders why the Tigrayan people don’t have the same global support as Ukraine inews.co.uk/news/world/tig…
Dr Amdeslasie, a surgeon in Mekelle, is telling cancer patients to leave with no treatment and no return date
🔴 He's watching patients on ventilation machines die due to a lack of oxygen supplies, and newborn babies going without vaccinations because there aren’t any doses left
Oct 26, 2022 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
I treat myself like a toddler to manage my ADHD
✍️ Am I getting snappy? Fussy? Do I need to take myself for a walk, or run around the block a few times to tire myself out so I’ll settle?
Concerns over Sunak's ability to hold the Red Wall, mixed reaction to Cabinet reshuffle, and Jacob Rees-Mogg’s Brexit spat with a Tory MP just hours after his sacking show the party’s peace is fragile
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It took less than three hours after he was effectively forced out of the Cabinet before Rees-Mogg found himself embroiled in a spat with a colleague over Brexit
🔴 Illustrating that while peace has largely broken out among Tory MPs since Sunak’s coronation, it remains fragile
Oct 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
🔴 Rishi Sunak has been formally appointed as the new UK Prime Minister after holding his first audience with the King.
Read more ⬇️ inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
🔴 Rishi Sunak says: “I will place economic stability at the heart of this government’s agenda”
👉 Jeremy Hunt to keep his job as Chancellor
👉 Dominic Raab, Sunak's former campaign manager, tipped for a high-profile Cabinet return
👉 Sunak will have to keep in place some supporters of Johnson and Truss to avoid prolonging Tory civil war
Oct 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Liz Truss will give her final address as Prime Minister before travelling to Buckingham Palace to tender her resignation to the King inews.co.uk/news/politics/…
🔴 WATCH LIVE: Liz Truss makes her final speech as PM as Rishi Sunak becomes the next leader of the country
Oct 25, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
'The bomb was so bright I could see my bones' 💥
Veterans of nuclear testing in the Cold War say they – and their children and grandchildren – are still living with the health effects
70 years on they want to see recognition of their part in the missions inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…
This month it is 70 years since Britain first began testing nuclear weapons, becoming the world’s third nuclear power.
🗓️ Between 1952 and 1965, a series of detonations were carried out in Australia and the Pacific involving more than 20,000 British service personnel.
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