Mass Spectrometrist / Analytical Chemist
Coventry, UK
Joined August 2009
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#bollockstobrexitbus has just arrived in Stratford upon Avon. I just want to say thanks to @MadeleinaKay for the incredible job she is doing! 😀
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When England's water companies were privatised in 1991 they were debt free
Since then they accumulated debt of more than £50bn
Over the same period they paid out £57bn in dividends to shareholders
Raw sewage pumped into the sea and rivers
And not one new reservoir.
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Swathes of the U.K. *voted* for economic decline. They literally boasted about doing so. It was a small price to pay for blue passports & ill-informed notions of ‘sovereignty’, remember?
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“In the Brexit negotiations, the idea of national humiliation moved from fiction to reality. There was a strange ecstasy of shame: ‘Britain faces a terrible choice: between the humiliation of a deal dictated by Brussels; and the chaos of crashing out of the EU.”
Fintan O'Toole
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Pretty sickening to see universities with big surpluses - and therefore clearly the ability to pay staff better and settle the dispute - threatening the most draconian deductions.
Shame on @UniOfYork
🚨NAMED AND SHAMED – UNIVERSITY OF YORK
@UniOfYork has millions in the bank
But when staff fight for their fair share, it hits them with brutal pay deductions
ucu.org.uk/HE-finance-tool
Stop the attacks, resolve the dispute
#ucuRISING @UcuYork
ALT University of York has a surplus of £14m but is deducting 50-100% of staff pay for taking lawful action short of a strike
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Our #RightToStrike is under attack as the Gov tries to push through new legislation.
Join the emergency rally in Westminster to say: REJECT and REPEAL the Strikes Bill!✊
📅Monday 22nd
🕕6pm
📍Parliament Square
labourunions.org.uk/righttos…
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These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of May 20, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Breaking: Meta is going to start laying off employees next week in its latest round of mass cuts, the company’s executives announced in a Q&A with employees on Thursday. vox.com/technology/2023/5/18…
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Brexit is simply the freedom to be forced to comply with EU legislation in order to trade with our closest neighbours, rather than actually having a role in defining that legislation.
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Germany's car manufacturers have diversified very quickly away from the UK.
We now make up less than 8% of their export market, down from 14% around 2016.
They need us much less than before.
(Link is to the official German stats authority.)
destatis.de/EN/Press/2022/02…
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#Newsnight
If you want to know why the Tory extreme right really wanted Brexit, just have a read-up about Freeports.
This is a money laundering scandal waiting to happen.
Meanwhile, in the EU...
theguardian.com/world/2020/f…
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me in 2020: wow there is really a shortage of books and memoirs and reported experiences about the 1918 spanish flu pandemic. i wonder why??
me in 2023: so we all just memory holed covid and are never gonna talk about That Whole Thing again huh
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I get it now, send Princess Fuckwit to Taiwan to stoke war with China, and hey presto the media and the sheep will stop talking about this! 👇👇👇🙄🙄
Millionaire Tory donor linked to major money laundering operation.
Gave £756,300 to the Conservative Party between 2014 and 2020. What was he promised in return?
Political donations are the gateway to corruption. Must be a totally banned.
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
Peter retweeted
.@Nutrisystem, we know that you're no stranger to weight loss. As such, it's time for you shed the dead weight that is the #BrandUnsafe @CNN. Stop supporting a company that's willing to platform Trump, a person who bloats the public discourse with his lies and insults. #WeSeeYou
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Really excited to see this work from @ArtSpectrometry on bioRxiv! It was fun calculating massive combinations of glycans. Glycosylation is crazy...
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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The news that car manufacturer Stellantis is considering leaving the UK isn’t a problem for just one company.
If Ministers don’t fix the EU trade deal and get a grip of our industrial strategy for electric vehicle manufacturing in the UK, it’ll mean other companies leave too.