Andrew Thompson 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Sais yng ngogledd Cymru! Biologist, atheist, republican, woke, antinomian leftie. Likes rugby, dubstep, d'n'b, Eryri, motorbikes (I have an old K75), open-mindedness #rejoinEU/#YesCymru
Open Rights Group (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video For the limited time of the rest of your life, the State Pension comes privacy-free! So relax safe in the knowledge that the government can spy on your bank account. Say yes to welfare surveillance! Or don’t. It makes no difference. 🤫 👉 https://action.openrightsgroup.org/hands-off-our-data #DPDIBill #HandsOffOurData #DataGrabBill #dataprotection #privacy #surveillance #ukpolitics

Mastodon
Led By Donkeys on Twitter

“🚨MPs FOR HIRE: a Led By Donkeys undercover investigation🚨 Watch the trailer…”

Twitter
The Lords are fighting back against fascism https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/02/22/the-lords-are-fighting-back-against-fascism/. It is bizarre that the protection of our human rights falls to a rearguard action from unelected peers, but so be it: they are doing the right thing for us all.
The stock market is failing according to the CBI. So why don’t we just let it go?

I posted this on Twitter this morning: https://twitter.com/RichardJMurphy/status/1942861045426516103 My point is serious. The CBI is saying that the situation with regard to the UK stock exchange is getting desperate, because it is losing out to overseas markets and not attracting sufficient business. The question that needs to be asked is, why is that?...

Funding the Future
"The failure of all sides to secure the UK’s association to the EU’s research programmes has now cost UK science ***£1.6 Billion***. That comes on top of the talented researchers who have left the UK in order to carry on their collaborative work."
https://royalsociety.org/news/2023/02/beis-surrenders-1-6-billion-horizon-europe-funding-to-the-treasury/
BEIS surrenders £1.6 Billion Horizon Europe funding to the Treasury | Royal Society

The Royal Society responds to news of BEIS surrendering £1.6 Billion Horizon Europe funding to the Treasury.

A very good ‘rule for life’ from Martin Samuel in The Times.

Russia’s war of aggression has damaged 15% of Ukraine’s research infrastructure.

Despite this, Ukraine's participation in our #HorizonEU funding programme is at the pre-war level.

And we will also open a Horizon office in Kyiv to bring the 🇪🇺 & 🇺🇦 research communities closer.

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_Commission/status/1626929527241986049

European Commission 🇪🇺 (@EU_Commission)

Russia’s war of aggression has damaged 15% of Ukraine’s research infrastructure. Despite this, Ukraine's participation in our #HorizonEU funding programme is at the pre-war level. And we will also open a Horizon office in Kyiv to bring the 🇪🇺 & 🇺🇦 research communities closer.

Nitter

We believe that people should be able to attend peaceful protests without the police using sophisticated surveillance tools to monitor, track and identify protestors indiscriminately.

Visit our Free to Protest guide to learn more: https://privacyinternational.org/campaigns/freetoprotest

Free to Protest | Privacy International

We all need to understand the range of surveillance tools that police forces around the world can use to monitor and identify you if you attend a protest, and how you can better protect yourself from protest surveillance. Our partners and us have devised guides to educate people on the surveillance capacities police forces across the globe can use.

Remind me again but isn’t Infosys still operating in Russia and doesn’t Sunak’s wife still receive income from Infosys?

Sunak surely has a very lot of explaining to do?

Just how deep is this corrupt Tory swamp, because Sunak seems to be well entrenched in it!

https://twitter.com/carolvorders/status/1619106903052648450?s=12&t=AugdOU4Kgd9V7m73gDsFyA

Carol Vorderman on Twitter

“SUNAK, HIS FATHER IN LAW'S COMPANY & £50M GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS Sunak father-in-law owns most of Indian company Infosys which has received £50 million in UK government contracts. His wife claimed non-dom tax status on her dividends while he was Chancellor https://t.co/wP8btwa8TC”

Twitter
So I've made the jump from Twitter and so far no regrets - it "feels" better over here already! Thanks for all the follows.