The end of antibiotic production in Europe speaks volumes about the failure of recent efforts to achieve strategic autonomy - in the key pharmaceutical sector in this case, especially after Covid.

📺MUST SEE: Much-loved peer Lord (David) Alton is unable to speak at Second Reading of the assisted suicide Bill in the House of Lords after sustaining spinal injuries in a bus crash. Watch the speech he would have given: a passionate plea to reject the Bill & protect the vulnerable.

Taxpayer bearing the losses of former Chancellor’s Future Fund bit.ly/4238lZL three of his wife’s businesses are among 340 firms funded that went bust. Among others funded and still running was a football club and a sex party organiser.

⚠️GRAVE WARNING: “In Belgium, children at the age of 9 are being euthanised under similar legislation!” Lord Craig Mackinlay argues far more people would die under the assisted suicide Bill than Lord Falconer claims & says we risk a slippery slope as has happened elsewhere.

🚨EMBARRASSING MOMENT! Lord Falconer has to apologise for failing to mention, as he ought, that the pressure group Dignity in Dying funded the printing of literature he sent to peers. This is a pattern - Kim Leadbeater also had to apologise at Second Reading in the Commons.

Oh God I have been waiting too long for someone to make this point and it hit hard. It also gives me the chance to tip my 🎩 to the amazing chaplaincy team at Beachy Head

Maybe the speech of the day, moving and forensic, from Baroness Hollins. Former president of the BMA and of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Don’t think Lord Falconer even tried to answer the hard questions she put to him.

I've known Sadiq Khan for over 30 yrs. He's a feminist, a socialist & an LGBTQ+ ally. I'm so proud he's our London mayor. For the record, he's as interested in introducing Sharia Law to London as I am - ie 0%. Those who suggest otherwise are deluded, or have a v sinister agenda.

Honest Bob said nothing when his mates closed the courts. He campaigned for a PM who mocked justice for victims of sexual violence as “spaffing money up the wall”. He supported the dismantling of criminal justice at every stage, as delays and backlogs grew to record levels.

It's an important story this, & deserves much more attention. Nathan Gill was an important ally of Nigel Farage, and one of the few former Ukip MEPs whom Farage allowed to stand for the new Brexit Party at the 2019 Euro election.

The Reform UK party's former leader in Wales - Nathan Gill - has pleaded guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements he made in the European Parliament, as well as newspaper opinion pieces.

The very uncharitable profits of JustGiving which takes fees, a cut of gift aid, and then asks donors for a tip! bit.ly/4nzZpDV much better to give directly to the charity, but if you do use JG always set tip to zero. But you can’t stop it snaffling some of the Gift Aid

The lack of media pressure on Farage Tice Yusuf Anderson etc to speak about the Nathan Gill Russian bribery scandal is mind blowing.

Another day another news blackout from most of our media on the story of a Farage ally in European Parliament and leader of his party in Wales taking bribes from Russia to spout their lies and BS … Nathan Gill should be a household name by now. But the media that gave you phone

This is Jane Goodall’s final message recorded in March that was only to be released upon her passing. What an amazing woman. It’s worth a listen.

Oh my goodness - play this ❤️

"'Faragism' is neoliberalism at its most inhumane, more destructive even than monetarism, and vindictive far beyond austerity." Gordon Brown theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

If Nigel can forget tender moments like this we have to wonder what else he has forgotten … perhaps anyone with a better memory can remind us

Fascinating. John Cleese