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Steve Parks

@steveparks

Writer & speaker. Tweet about agencies, freerange work, journalism/politics, and fiction. Also at: https://t.co/s6nybfPPfU

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Mark O'Neill(@marxculture) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’ve turned my exploration of the mystery of @bupa into a blog post.

I have also used their online form which of course refuses to accept Irish surnames to ask how on earth to cancel my account.

bearoneill.com/2024/04/10/the…

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Damian Low(@DamianLow3) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great stuff by Byline Times.

So the government are the biggest spender of advertising on GB News with £1M over the last year.

Put another way, this is then paid to ministers as wages for appearances.

What would you call that?

bylinetimes.com/2024/04/09/wer…

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Steve Parks(@steveparks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Within the last 12 months Spotify have twice increased the subscription price for my account, going from £13.99 to £16.99.

That's inflation of over 21%

Tech companies are gouging

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Danielle Beckman(@DaniBeckman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

'But SARS-CoV-2 doesn't even infect the brain, how can you want to work with that?'
My dude. My job is literally spending the whole day taking pictures of SARS-CoV-2 in the brain. I literally see this crap every day, all the time; it says hi to me, and I say back hi to it every…

'But SARS-CoV-2 doesn't even infect the brain, how can you want to work with that?' My dude. My job is literally spending the whole day taking pictures of SARS-CoV-2 in the brain. I literally see this crap every day, all the time; it says hi to me, and I say back hi to it every…
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Mark O'Neill(@marxculture) 's Twitter Profile Photo

FFS.

Yes MPs are terribly supported by Parliament and party alike but “Don’t send dick pics to randoms” should not require a special training course!!

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Full Fact(@FullFact) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re concerned about these leaflets from the Conservative Party that some of our supporters are receiving through their doors.

Deceptive campaign practices can mislead the public during elections - and that’s not on. [1/2]

We’re concerned about these leaflets from the Conservative Party that some of our supporters are receiving through their doors. Deceptive campaign practices can mislead the public during elections - and that’s not on. [1/2]
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Steve Parks(@steveparks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

They didn’t spend any money on water infrastructure engineering, but they spent a helluva lot on financial engineering. Lawyers and accountants will have made a packet on constructing and running this to syphon off the maximum cash while keeping liabilities at arm’s length

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But surely privatisation of Royal Mail has massively improved efficiency, quality and customer service, right?!?

Just like with the water companies, train companies, etc

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