Fleet Street hack and author. Often sarcastic, occasionally right. Fox (n) carnivore of genus vulpes; crafty person; scavenger; (vb) to confuse; to be drunk
Here’s a Tory crisis for you - a significant majority of the public want to renationalise energy companies, inc a majority of Tory voters. Yet that’s NOT a Liz Truss policy, and the MoS can’t bring itself to even mention it until the end of the 14th par.
Today I’ve been cutting, hanging, and bagging hops, as has been the way for Kentish labourers for centuries. Of course they all had the sense to wear long sleeves. #yowchy
"Truss is a Thatcherite Ally McBeal. A reboot that should have stayed in the 1990s, when no-one was gay or bi-polar, sex pests were charming eccentrics, and people who would fail as baristas were somehow working as barristers."
https://mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-boris-johnson-maniac-27892611…
"Truss is a Thatcherite Ally McBeal. A reboot that should have stayed in the 1990s, when no-one was gay or bi-polar, sex pests were charming eccentrics, and people who would fail as baristas were somehow working as barristers."
https://mirror.co.uk/news/politics/liz-truss-boris-johnson-maniac-27892611…
"This is the least these men deserve. They should never have been exposed in the way that they were... the consequences they have suffered in the service of their country deserves to be formally recognised." https://chng.it/F6Bk7BYT via
Maggie McBeal, you are star you are, how long do you think Maggie McBeal will be in charge & when do you think the mails/ERG/telegraph/GB News bring back Boris campaign start.
BREAKING NEWS: Extinction Rebellion supporters have superglued around the Speakers Chair inside the commons chamber.
Right now inside Parliament a speech is being read out demanding a Citizens' Assembly Now: “We are in crisis. We can not afford to carry on like this..."
The UK govt knew 70yrs ago sailors were serving aboard warships contaminated by fallout from its nuclear tests.
It also knew that it could lead to genetic damage and cancer.
The UK govt still denies this happened.
Sign the letter: http://change.org/p/justice-for-britain-s-nuclear-test-veterans…
8th November 1952, contaminated Ships.
It was necessary for the successful execution of "Operation Hurricane" for ships of Special Squadron to enter water containing radioactive contamination.
'Contamination will be present for many months' #lookmeintheeye
Read this comment, and sign the petition. Members of HM British services should never have been used as lab-rats , they deserve better..... https://chng.it/dmyhzb9z via
There's just 108 hours before Boris Johnson goes to Balmoral to resign.
He should ask the Queen to honour Britain's nuclear test veterans, whose efforts since 1952 have kept this country safe.
If you haven't signed the letter yet, here it is:
And whatever happens in the next week, or with the next PM, @dailymirror's 40-year campaign is going to do all we can to ensure that this time, Labour's promises are set in stone ahead of the next election.
My father was in the navy, at Christmas islands during the tests. He died aged 58 from lymphoma almost certainly due to the radiation exposure (no hereditary cancer in his family). Recognition from the MOD was never on the table.
In the 1950s the government set off nuclear tests. Soldiers were placed nearby, then who would have guessed it - they became horribly ill. Now they would like a medal. How very unreasonable of them. Even so