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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"The govt is delaying the next stage of the Hillsborough Law until next week because of a backlash among Labour MPs over attempts to water down a duty of candour for the security services"
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"What about university tuition fees then? Will you remain committed to scrapping them?" Starmer "They're all pledges Andrew, so the answer to these questions is yes." "So university tuition fees being scrapped will be in a Starmer manifesto?" "Yes. That's why it's a pledge."
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Displaced people in Gaza are dying from hypothermia & the collapse of damaged buildings they are forced to shelter in. Israel doesn't just kill Palestinians with bullets and bombs
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Cooper refused to say if the UK would uphold an ICC arrest warrant, the UK refuses to meet its genocide convention obligations & stop arming Israel, & it refuses to take any actions as Israel continues killing Palestinians She means a western consensus to keep backing genocide
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
A number of people on this platform have been claiming that it's not up to government to shorten people's time on remand, however far beyond the statutory limit that time extends. Well, take it from a very eminent retired judge. It is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action hunger strikers are still the state’s responsibility | Letters
Letters: The power is in the hands of the DPP or the attorney general, writes Stephen Sedley. Plus Roshi Fernando on Keir Starmer’s unforgivable conduct
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The latest Nick MacKinnon guest blog on failures of competence in plans for massive windfarm on Walshaw Moor markavery.info/2025/10/15/g... Scoping Report, rightly, gets rough ride from Planning Inspectorate. Would you invest in this lack of competence?
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 15/10/2025
📣URGENT more than 14,000 people have signed our petition calling on Ofwat to REJECT Thames Water's latest ridiculous proposal. 🤑Their creditors want to pollute our rivers & seas illegally for the next 15 years. ✍️Ofwat makes its decision next week. Add your name, 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 & 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 today!
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Thames Water wants to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.
Thames Water wants to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Trump and Bibi want Iran’s oil next. So does Starmer. x.com/adamemedia/s...
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TRUMP: Iraq has so much oil they don't know what to do with it.
What a pig.
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 15/10/2025
The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇 🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com “It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.” #ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
If you live rurally, this is well worth doing! Covers questions on housing, healthcare, transport, digital connectivity, planning & net zero, all areas that affect everyday rural life! Really quick, too ... @rsnonline.bsky.social
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John Edwards @euclidianboxes.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"I don't hear her talking about women's rights, I just hear her talking about trans people." absolutely spot on about Rowling.
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thank you to @scotnational.bsky.social for picking this up and putting it on their front page
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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Exclusive: @zackpolanski.bsky.social backs Scottish and Welsh independence in new interview with me: open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
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Exclusive: Zack Polanski backs Scottish and Welsh independence
The eco-populist Green leader has called for sweeping change to Britain's political system, and spoken about potentially leading an explicitly ‘English’ party for the first time.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
More evidence that the #climate emergency affects *everything* - it should be front & centre of ALL government decisions. As well as serious adaptation (petition here petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7300…) Govt must urgently stop making things worse eg greenlighting high carbon airport expansion
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UK must prepare buildings for 2C rise in global temperature, government told
Climate advisers warn that current plans to protect against extreme weather are inadequate
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Ian Payne asked his audience whether he should “just let it waste away down there." protectthewild.substack.com/p/lbc-presen...
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LBC Presenter Jokes About Trapped Fox ‘Left to Waste Away’ in His Car Park
“just let it waste away down there.”
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Fiona @edyourself.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
A new impact assessment has just been published on the day of Report for the Wellbeing Bill. NEW PAGE here edyourself.org/impact-asses...
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Impact Assessments Wellbeing Bill – Ed Yourself
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
"I think the countryside in general feels very targeted by this government." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cumbrian rift over plan to ban trail hunting
As the government prepares to ban trail hunting some people in rural Cumbria are taking sides.
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Jonathan Elmer - Green Party Spokesperson for Nature @jonathanelmer.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🐟Supertrawlers are destroying fish populations in UK Marine Protected Areas. 😔Labour have the power to stop this, but they are not! ❓️What happened to the Brexit promise to take back control of UK waters? www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/supertr...
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Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas each year since Brexit - Greenpeace UK
An investigation by Greenpeace UK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish in the UK’s Marine Protected Areas, damaging precious marine habitats and fish populations,...
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Long Covid Awareness Day sees two campaigns take action across the UK - and beyond Long Covid Advocacy and Not Recovered UK have both got actions you can get involved with for Long Covid Awareness Day this year www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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Long Covid Awareness Day sees two campaigns take action across the UK - and beyond
Long Covid Advocacy and Not Recovered UK have both got actions you can get involved with for Long Covid Awareness Day this year
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SirKidStarverIsGone @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Thank you Zack for speaking up and not backing down Air polluting is getting worse in north London where were surrounded by tge A406 and M25 London can't breathe
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 13/03/2025
According to reports, the RAF flew with Israeli warplanes in sorties with the US over the eastern Mediterranean Sea on 4 March. The UK authorities have not publicised this. www.airandspaceforces.com/b-52-israel-...
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B-52 Flies with Israeli Fighters over Mediterranean Sea
A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber flew with the Israeli Air Force and Royal Air Force over the eastern Mediterranean on March 4.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I'm repeatedly meeting people - almost always in social housing, almost always from global majorities - who are breathing in toxic air & chemicals from nearby sites. The Government determined to avoid proper regulation to favour developers and "growth." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Toxic town impact as most high-risk contaminated sites unchecked
BBC investigation finds nine out of ten high-risk contaminated areas have not been tested.
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 13/03/2025
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JohnNicolson he/him @johnnicolson.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Thinking of the people of #Dunblane today - especially the children, parents, and teachers. March 13th 1996. Never forgotten. 💔
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“The majority of people who are forced to come to our food banks are disabled.. there is an incredible level of hardship out there & we are appalled the government looks at that situation & appears to be deciding to make huge cuts to the support people get" Helen Barnard @trusselluk.bsky.social
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 13/03/2025
Keir Starmer’s government held a private meeting with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest arms firm, Declassified has found. The meeting occurred in December 2024 and was attended by 3 representatives from Elbit and 3 officials from the Home Office. www.declassifieduk.org/labour-held-...
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Labour held secret meeting with top Israeli arms firm
Exclusive: Home Office met with Elbit Systems amid crackdown on Palestine Action, documents reveal.
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4annette.bsky.social @4annette.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 13/03/2025
Should your bills rise to clean up the mess of water privatisation? NO! We're fighting for public ownership hub v QA to stop pollution for profit. ✍️ Sign the petition here: weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
A coalition of more than 30 organisations has written to minister Liz Kendall demanding the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) stops forcibly recovering debts from hundreds of thousands of benefit claimants caused by its own mistakes www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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DWP told to stop taking cash from benefit claimants to pay for its own mistakes
A total of 686,756 people were accused of universal credit overpayment debts due to DWP mistakes in 2023/2024.
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Wardsend Cemetery Heritage Park @wardsendcemetery.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
In Joyce Barrass' fascinating and beautifully written Taken at the Flood, Joyce writes about her third great granduncle Joseph Goddard and the death mask made by his son Edwin. Joseph and his wife Sarah were both buried at Wardsend Cemetery in an unmarked family grave.
The death mask of Joseph Goddard, made by his son Edwin, is on display in Sheffield's Weston Park Museum.Exhibit description 

Joseph and Sarah Goddard were both drowned at Malin Bridge. Their son Edwin took this cast of Joseph's face and had a bust made from it. This was a way of remembering his father.The mask is one of a number of artefacts from the Great Sheffield Flood exhibited at Weston Park Museum.There is also a list of the dead and the missing. 240 people died on the night but extensive research by Karen Lightowler has shown that the final death toll due to flood related disease or injury was considerably higher.
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Ramblers Scotland @ramblersscotland.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
"It will only take a comparatively modest spend to turn our world-class access rights into a reality that everyone can benefit from. The prize for getting this right is huge." 🗺️ Our @gavincorbett.bsky.social's letter to the @scotnational.bsky.social.👇🏻
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Modest spending could turn a world-class 'right to roam' into reality
RHODA Meek’s recent National column (Scotland’s right to roam comes with responsibility, Mar 9) included many points with which I wholeheartedly…
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Very perceptive piece sifting through what's real and what's political pantomine in Labour's climate and energy policies: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The government's climate plans are still ambitious and on-track, so why is Labour making so much anti-green noise? | Richard Power Sayeed
With apparent support for airport expansion and fossil fuel exploration, it may look as if the party’s leaders are abandoning climate pledges, but it’s just pantomime, says writer Richard Power Sayeed
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Co-signed
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 13/03/2025
"The citizens of Glasgow, fed up with what they saw as unjust taxation, took to the streets in large numbers. Their anger led them directly to the Shawfield Mansion, where they unleashed their fury by destroying its interiors" #Glasgow
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Discovering Glasgow’s past – Shawfield Mansion - Bylines Scotland
Histories of Glasgow lie underneath the steps you take. One of them is Shawfield mansion, built in an era of tobacco barons
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations On 31st March, MPs will debate the petition that 140,000 of us signed - to stop overseas billionaires polluting our politics: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Make sure your MP attends - email them now: www.writetothem.com
Poster depicts Elon Musk donating money to Nigel Farage. Text reads 'Stop Musk! Change the law on political donations. Parliamentary debate 31st March - email your MP now!'. Design inspired by the artist John Heartfield.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
New research - Record sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 unlikely (1-in-512-year event) but not unexpected - "surface ocean temperatures are expected to revert to the expected long-term warming trend" We'll see ... #climatecrisis www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Record sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 unlikely but not unexpected - Nature
Observations and climate models suggest that the global sea surface temperature jump in 2023–2024 was not unexpected and would have been nearly impossible without anthropogenic warming.
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4annette.bsky.social @4annette.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Manchester Art Gallery. Black poplar for @paulpowlesland.bsky.social
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Educational Freedom @educationalfreedom.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
#homeeduk #homeed #schoolsbill #wellbeingbill #areyoulisteningnow #notinvisible #homeeducation
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Educational Freedom @educationalfreedom.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Educational freedom are not arranging these, but do support them #areyoulisteningnow #homeed #homeeduk #parents #homeeducating #wellbeingbill #schoolsbill
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Educational Freedom @educationalfreedom.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Were you home educated? We will be sharing stories from adults who were #homeeducated as children. Send us a message with your experiences of home education in the uk & we'll publish them next week as part of home education awareness week. #areyoulisteningnow #notinvisible
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal kyivindependent.com/exclusive-th...
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Exclusive: The full text of the US-Ukraine mineral deal
The Kyiv Independent has obtained from a source in the Ukrainian government, the full text of the mineral deal agreement between the U.S. and Ukraine.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thanks Carmen! Delighted to have briefing supporting it from Women's Environmental Network, @hazardscamp.bsky.social, @citytosea.bsky.social @bsacandjac.bsky.social @soilassocscot.bsky.social @ukyouthfornature.bsky.social, The Rivers Trust, Fidra, Savitri, MCS Aware, and many more
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Horatio Clare @handle.invalid · 25/02/2025
HOPE! The recovery guide, a Times self-help book of the year, is out now in paperback. It's made for anyone who needs a good spring...
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Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Excited & yes, apprehensive of taking part in T'Articulation's Romany & Traveller Poetry & Prose event in one of the places I'm from, that's at the heart of my piece in #KIN. With the fabulous @rainegeoghegan.bsky.social @louisedoughty.bsky.social & Amanda Garrie www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/kin-and-th...
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KIN and the Romany Poets -- T'Articulation's annual poetry event
Celebrating KIN, a Salmon Press' anthology of Romany and Traveller poetry and prose, T'Articulation invite you to join them and their guests
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
4.3m UK children (three-in-ten) live in poverty, will hit 4.6m by 2030 Lives blighted. Must end two child benefit cap. Provide free school meals to all, or at least to those in families receiving universal credit. End real wage cuts and profiteering.
mirror.co.uk
​Axe DWP two-child benefit or face 'embarrassing child poverty record' PM warned
The Resolution Foundation estimates without urgent action the number of kids falling below the poverty line will hit a record high of 4.6million by the end of the decade
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Grenfell United @grenfellunited.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Our response to the government's progress on the Inquiry's Phase 2 recommendations.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In the wake of Grenfell, the humanitarian response was nowhere near good enough and it fell to grieving community groups to pick up the pieces. It is vital that there is a full review of the Civil Contingencies Act, as recommended, to ensure decisive and rapid disaster response.
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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Read more here: www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/02...
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Fire Brigades Union responds to government’s Grenfell Inquiry action plan
Ministers have today published the government's official response to the final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, which gave 58 recommendations in September 2024.
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Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
🚨NEW | The government has officially responded to the final report of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, accepting the findings, and committing to action the recommendations.
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
In today's @theguardian.com country diary, Cal Flynn explores a wood where the trees are studded with coins rather than fungi. #naturewriting #countrydiary
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Country diary: Willing the wishing to stop | Cal Flyn
The Hermitage, Perthshire: One fallen tree I find is more metal than wood, with so many ‘make a wish’ coins pushed in – a tradition that is likely to be harmful to wildlife
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