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Nigel Brown

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Em. Prof of Molec Microbiology & former Vice-Principal, Univ Edinburgh. FLSW, FRSE, etc.. Allegedly retired, but still doing science-related stuff. Trustee FairFrome charity. Pro-EU Brit. #iPhobe. Editor #AccessMicrobiology

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Impeach Trump NOW Last week, while Washington D.C. was asleep, Donald Trump pushed the button. He didn't ask Congress, he didn't show proof of a threat, and he didn't care about the consequences. He just selfishly star

Impeach Trump NOW action.eko.org/a/impeach-tr...

09.03.2026 15:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank god. A great win for Hannah Spencer and the Greens, for #GortonAndDenton and for progressive voters. Made even greater by the huge Reform sulk. And the fact that the hateful Goodwin got whooped.
Now Labour, look to your left because you will not win from the right. We’re sick of that failure.

27.02.2026 06:58 πŸ‘ 1811 πŸ” 360 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 14
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End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

Are you watching Dirty Business? I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action! Sick of sewage? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

27.02.2026 10:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Every American needs to watch this:

05.02.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 20567 πŸ” 10311 πŸ’¬ 582 πŸ“Œ 986
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities Privatisation has failed.

Your regular reminder πŸ‘‡

πŸ₯ 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
πŸ’§ 73% want publicly owned water
πŸš‚ 70% want publicly owned rail
βœ‰οΈ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
πŸ’‘ 65% want publicly owned energy

16.12.2025 09:32 πŸ‘ 114 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
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EE We're EE, the UK's No. 1 network with superfast 5G and 4G. Discover the best mobile phone, sim and fibre home broadband deals.

ee.co.uk is my UK broadband/mobile phone provider, having taken over BT's provision, and has simply an appalling website to interact with. Whoever would have thought I would miss BT?

10.11.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

30.10.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 39543 πŸ” 14912 πŸ’¬ 570 πŸ“Œ 666
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Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO. Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

Sign the petition!
weownit.org.uk/act-now/peti...

10.10.2025 16:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

05.10.2025 07:04 πŸ‘ 5393 πŸ” 1821 πŸ’¬ 286 πŸ“Œ 78
Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Rachel wearing very flimsy looking apron, mask and visor in NHS setting

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals.

Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt Β£122m - dares to claim she’s been β€˜scapegoated’.

What, Michelle? 🧡

01.10.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 3040 πŸ” 1235 πŸ’¬ 136 πŸ“Œ 73
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Firm linked to Baroness Michelle Mone must pay Β£122m after breaching Covid PPE contract, judge rules The government wins its case against PPE Medpro - part of a consortium led by Baroness Mone's husband - after it supplied non-compliant gowns in 2020.

PPE fraud comes home to roost!
(Or one of the VIP lane frauds, anyway)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy...

01.10.2025 15:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Only those bought by billionaires
would think
#TaxTheRich
was a 'tough choice'

15.09.2025 08:06 πŸ‘ 84 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End 'Wall to Wall' Farage Coverage They accuse the BBC of "following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

πŸ”΄BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End β€˜Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage

They accuse the BBC of β€œfollowing Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage

bylinetimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

09.09.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 1768 πŸ” 646 πŸ’¬ 111 πŸ“Œ 46

It's no surprise that Nigel Farage hardly ever bothers to visit Clacton or turn up at Parliament. When he was an MEP, his attendance record was 748th out of 751. He's a workshy grifting gobshite.

09.09.2025 14:38 πŸ‘ 2234 πŸ” 578 πŸ’¬ 75 πŸ“Œ 28
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This too should be in the Media non-stop for a week until Nigel Farage is forced to resign.

06.09.2025 12:31 πŸ‘ 829 πŸ” 369 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 11
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This is how dictatorships behave

02.09.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 1527 πŸ” 940 πŸ’¬ 114 πŸ“Œ 144
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Research posts on Bluesky are more original β€” and get better engagement Bluesky posts about science garner more likes and reposts than similar ones on X.

Bluesky is better than Twitter for academic research discussions.
(and for lots of other reasons! 😁)
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

29.08.2025 16:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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I thought this headline was a joke when I first read it, but no…it's real. I've signed a petition telling Ofgem to reject Musk's application to supply electricity to British households. Will you join me and add your name?

38d.gs/z4fz

28.08.2025 16:59 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees.

No refugee underfunded a school.

No refugee closed a hospital.

No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled.

We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

27.08.2025 09:11 πŸ‘ 19448 πŸ” 5372 πŸ’¬ 433 πŸ“Œ 229

But a non-horsey one!

21.08.2025 14:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hope it continues to go well! My 10-year-old metal/ceramic hip is great.

21.08.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

FIFA should pull all of the 2026 World Cup matches scheduled to be played on US soil & reassign them to venues in Canada.

That includes the World Cup final scheduled to be played at the Meadowlands.

This is not a country suited to host an international event now & won’t be until 2029.

15.08.2025 18:10 πŸ‘ 3663 πŸ” 804 πŸ’¬ 205 πŸ“Œ 53
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Petition to extend The HAF Programme Dear Prime Minister, We are writing to urge you to extend the Government’s support for the provision of meals and activities, for children and young people during school holidays, through to the next...

Feeding Britain is circulating a petition to urge the Government to extend the Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) programme during the school holidays in England through to the next general election.

Please do sign and circulate the petition:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

15.08.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A *third* of the Commons has called on the PM to recognise Palestine as a state. Never seen anything quite like this.

25.07.2025 16:44 πŸ‘ 1945 πŸ” 588 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 39

The way that I was raised, being Jewish meant believing that every human life was sacred; to save a single human life meant saving all of humanity. That no law or ritual was more important than saving a single human life.

It's unfathomable that any Jew can accept what Israel is doing in Gaza.

25.07.2025 03:15 πŸ‘ 4213 πŸ” 821 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 42
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In all but name: is Gaza Britain’s undeclared war? Britain isn’t just watching Gaza burn – it’s helping fuel the fire, with weapons, intelligence, and silence

This article…

… is, by a long way, the clearest account of the UK government’s complicity in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza that I have ever read.

Please read and share.

25.07.2025 08:32 πŸ‘ 228 πŸ” 155 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6

Wordle 1,496 2/6

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24.07.2025 15:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The story I heard concerned a Japanese businessman who was told we were going to make our universities more businesslike.

His response: why would you do that? Your universities are excellent and your businesses are rubbish.

But we appointed the wrong people and pressed ahead.

22.07.2025 07:16 πŸ‘ 437 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Looting at Thames Water

Net assets in 1990, Β£1,329m;
2024, Β£1,301m;
2025, Β£359m negative - liabilities exceed assets

NO shareholder investment since privatisation?

Dividends Β£10.4bn.

Can't rebuild water services without ending privatisation.

Water Commission didn't spot looting,

21.07.2025 15:37 πŸ‘ 416 πŸ” 187 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 9

I really don't want to go through the whole rigmarole of seeing Farage win power and then fuck everything up and have loads of sympathetic voxpops with dismayed Reform voters expressing their regrets when it was extremely fucking obvious what would happen because his platform is incoherent garbage

21.07.2025 10:32 πŸ‘ 1145 πŸ” 275 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 17