Mass Spectrometrist / Analytical Chemist
Coventry, UK
Joined August 2009
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Peter retweeted
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.
Peter retweeted
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?
Peter retweeted
“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
Peter retweeted
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
Peter retweeted
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…
Peter retweeted
These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of May 20, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
Peter retweeted
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…
Peter retweeted
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.
Peter retweeted
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…
Peter retweeted
#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…
Peter retweeted
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
Peter retweeted
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
Peter retweeted
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/…
Peter retweeted
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.
Peter retweeted
How on Earth have we put up with this for so long?
We are all being taken for fools we’ve put up with the deceit of spin but we must not accept criminality not this not ever
