Love this 👇

It *wasn't* an "oversight". It was *100% deliberate*. It was warned about at the time, hundreds of experts told them *daily* what was needed & what would happen - & Boris Johnson's reaction was "Let the bodies pile high!" I want prosecutions for murder. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

The greatest intelligence failure in American history may not have been a foreign operation. It may have been America's inability to protect itself from its own president. For years, the evidence of Trump's extraordinary loyalty to Moscow has been mounting. His admiration for Putin, his attacks on NATO, his possession of highly classified American defence secrets, and his repeated willingness to advance Russian interests. Yet the most extraordinary part of this entire scandal is the American state itself. The FBI, the intelligence community, Congress and the entire national security apparatus have proved incapable of protecting the country from a president whose conduct has repeatedly raised profound questions about his loyalty. Russia spent decades trying to defeat the United States from the outside. Now Putin can watch an American president dismantle the Western order from within. And the institutions built to defend America have been unable to stop him. What an extraordinary national humiliation.

For UK followers, anyone interested in a 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉 analysis of what happened this weekend, light years away from the clichéd commentaries I've heard in some UK media ("it's all migrants" on last night's Newsnight among the worst) Here is the always excellent @CarolineFourest explaining how outside influence - notably Algeria, Iran and Russia - have been fanning the flames of existing tensions (You need to understand French but I'm guessing if you're interested enough in getting behind the UK clichés, it's not too hard to get the gist)👇

You can't run a system with millions of variable consumption and generation and storage devices the way you ran it when you had 150 fossil fuel generators and a handful of nukes. It's not the new technology (wind, solar, batteries, EVs) that's the issue - it's the total failure to change the way we manage the system. This is why locational wholesale market (which is automatically dramatically more flexible) was so powerful - and is increasingly used in the OECD. We need decentralised signals so the system self-optimises. Octopus already processes 300,000 data points a second to do this for the many GW we control - but the brute force of the main system management just doesn't have this granularity. It is increasingly urgent to reform our electricity system. These control room issues, the £50m spent balancing the system in a single day, the £3bn a year on curtailment, the prospect of £7-9bn a year of curtailment by 2029/2030. It's all avoidable but not with the tools of yesterday

By mid-March 2020 there was enough evidence of possible asymptomatic transmission to justify a precautionary approach. The Inquiry says all hospital admissions to care homes should have been isolated. Scotland introduced this advice earlier. 7/10

The Inquiry accepts that hospitals needed beds. The damning failure was that England, Wales and Northern Ireland initially failed to advise isolation of everyone discharged into care homes. It calls this a “significant omission”. 6/10

Around 25,000 people were discharged from English hospitals into care homes between 17 March and 15 April 2020. Many across the UK were discharged without tests because testing capacity was inadequate. 5/10

Governments already knew care-home residents were exceptionally vulnerable to respiratory viruses. Yet protective measures were introduced long after Covid had taken hold. The Inquiry’s verdict is blunt: action came too late. 4/10

The Inquiry explicitly rejects the claim that a “protective ring” was thrown around care homes “right from the start”. It says that claim did not accurately reflect the lack of action in March and the first half of April 2020. 3/10

More than 43,000 deaths involving Covid were recorded in UK care homes between March 2020 and July 2022. 2/10

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

These are defensive weapons that Europeans have paid for

“Moreover, COVID-19-related deaths rose 46.4% in a single week.” As people die in droves in the US this fall & winter, it will be a big mystery, as usual. We don’t have a functioning public health body, & we don’t keep accurate data.

RT @catladyactivist: This is what seven years of failed public health looks like! And why anyone living in reality can't safely access ment…

Rejoining the EU will make food safer Brexit lost control of food import safety checks.

Never forget given the revelations from the Covid Inquiry

If I was Prime Minister , if I was Burnham , watching European cities ablaze . . . I’d instigate a ‘wealth tax’ at about 9.01am tomorrow morning . Just saying . Or should we just ‘eat cake’ ?

Ukraine will defeat Russia

Starmer's Administration Initiated the Parking Plans: The framework to crack down on private parking firms and introduce a 10-minute grace period was under Keir Starmer Stop misleading the public. Facts mstter. @edballs @Kevin_Maguire @susannareid100 @GillianKeegan @LBC

RT @davetroy: It is evil that this guy has to go through these gaslighting and humiliation rituals just to live another day. To hell with M…