A company with active #NHS contracts paid for a #Labour #health minister’s luxury trip to California, The National can reveal.

Cybersecurity firm Palo Alto Networks covered the expenses for Stephen #Kinnock – Labour’s care minister and husband of former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt – to join her on a 5-day trip in August to Napa Valley, a world-famous wine region.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25475672.firm-nhs-contracts-pays-labour-ministers-california-trip/

#corruption #ToxicLabour #ToxicWestminster #ToxicTories #ToxicReform #LabourCorruption

#SNP Westminster leader Flynn accused Starmer of going into hiding after defending Mandelson

The former #UK #ambassador to US was sacked after further details of his relationship with late convicted paedophile #Epstein emerged

Pressure mounting on #Starmer to answer questions about Mandelson’s appointment, what he knew about Labour peer’s relationship with Epstein & if he is still on the public payroll

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25463812.keir-starmer-told-come-hiding-answer-mandelson-row/

#ToxicReform #ToxicLabour #ToxicTories #ProportionalRepresentation

#Quakers concerned vague #proscription laws & inconsistent #policing mean legitimate acts of #protest could be seen as serious criminal offence

#Freedom of thought, #conscience and #religion is protected by the #HumanRights Act.

The government proscribed #PalestineAction as a #terrorist organisation in July and the High Court recently granted the direct-action group a judicial review of the proscription.

https://www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-events/news/quakers-apply-to-intervene-in-judicial-review-of-the-proscription-of-palestine-action

#ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #DemocracyNOW #FreeSpeech

Is #Britain really the new #NorthKorea?

There is something more at work here

The fact is this list doesn't compare with it's place near top of global slavery index or foot of economic #freedom index

Some actions of #British state are annoying, wrong; even sometimes iniquitous

Yet there's a gulf between charge sheet & what Amnesty International calls North Korean's “exercise total control over all aspects of life”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/04/britain-north-korea-labour-headlines-politics

#UnitedKingdom #ToxicLabour #ToxicReform #ToxicTories

A man who collapsed on the street in #Aberdeen after a #seizure was offered a “remote consultation” instead of an #ambulance

Martin Logan’s son Gregor, 23, suffered bilateral dislocations of both shoulders and hit his head when he fell.

He had a #tonic-clonic seizure and #collapsed and a passer-by called #999 in the hopes of getting an ambulance.

https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/man-who-collapsed-aberdeen-street-10450651

#ToxicTories #ToxicLabour #SaveOurNHS #NHS #Healthcare #PeopleNotProfits

#Police #Scotland's consideration to use live #FacialRecognition technology is not justifiable & would be a radical departure from force’s policy to police by consent, #SNP members said

A motion, to be voted on by party delegates at upcoming national conference in October, called on #PoliceScotland not to invest in the technology & it should not be allowed in Scotland without primary legislation passed by the #Scottish #Parliament

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25412069.police-scotland-using-live-facial-recognition-not-justifiable/

#PoliceState #ToxicLabour #ToxicTories

Yet another #Conservative Party Treasurer is being fast-tracked into the House of #Lords after donating millions of pounds

Party donors being appointed to the #HouseOfLords undermines our #democracy and erodes the public’s trust in our #politics.

It’s time for the government to STOP appointment of major party donors to the Lords.

Tell the Prime Minister to intervene.

Sigh:

https://secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/176157/petition/1

#corruption #ToxicLabour #ToxicTories #UK #bribes

Nicola Sturgeon says #BorisJohnson 'least emotionally intelligent #politician’

“I think #politics sucks it out of people. I also think people with very low #emotional #intelligence are probably disproportionately attracted to the status.

“I guess it kind of sits with #narcissism. I’ve come across them all my life in politics, people who exude this kind of #superiority complex.”

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25378508.nicola-sturgeon-opens-self-doubt-superpower-ahead-memoir/

#QuestionAuthority #UK #Scotland #ToxicTories

Help us monitor #UK #censorship

The Act is already impacting freedom of expression in the UK

You can help us gather evidence of how content is being #censored through our Blocked tool. We’ll compile these examples for a future report on how the Online Safety Act is chilling #FreeSpeech and access to information in the UK.

https://www.blocked.org.uk/osa-blocks

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