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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 17h
Thank you to Sarah Helm for defying this absurdly authoritarian ban on Palestine Action. This unprecedented attack on free speech in our country is plainly unsustainable. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Our new piece on physician assistants. It would appear there are some attempts to move the goalposts following the Leng Review. @martinmckee.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/395/...
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Consultation must not weaken Leng review restrictions on physician assistant practice
Proposals currently out for consultation would substantially reverse the protections recommended by the Leng review, argue Martin McKee and colleagues In July 2025, amid growing concern that a relat...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
UK MP John McDonnell raises 'alarm' about arrest of journalists at Palestine Action protest The Labour lawmaker tabled a motion that described the arrests in Leicester as 'police overreach' www.middleeasteye.net/news/mp-john...
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UK MP John McDonnell raises 'alarm' about arrest of journalists at Palestine Action protest
The Labour lawmaker tabled a motion that described the arrests in Leicester as 'police overreach'
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 15/10/2026
Across several nights, 25 properties in Salford have been targeted in a campaign of racist intimidation. Windows were smashed and homes were sprayed with “No HMOs”. One house was marked with a swastika, and a pig’s head was left outside another. hopenothate.org.uk/2026/10/15/s...
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Smashed windows, swastikas and a pig’s head: Shameful racist vandalism spree in Greater Manchester – HOPE not hate
Since 5 October, a string of anti-migrant attacks in Salford have left family homes with smashed windows and covered in graffiti.  Across four recorded evenings,...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Here’s Kash Patel
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The HoC members, both conflated Zionism with Judaism. One of them in the Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, who is a Labour Friend of the genocidal state in question. The conflation of Judaism, a religion, with Zionism, a political ideology, in definitions of antisemitism, is itself antisemitic.
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Conflating Zionism and Judaism is antisemitic
Governments and other institutions have recently been adopting definitions of antisemitism, but not to protect Jews from persecution or discrimination. They’re doing it to justify the repression of pe...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING Labour MP @richardburgon.bsky.social calls for the ban on Palestine Action to be lifted. This follows news that Irish author Sally Rooney cannot sell her chart-topping books in the UK because of her support for the group. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. www.wedonotcomply.org
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
94y/o Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE, spoke outside Parliament about the importance of the “gold standard of our justice system”; jury trials. “I was called to the bar in 1954, thinking that I was joining the bar in a country that respected the rule of law…1/2
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Agree 💯% With Joe Walsh.......
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Government spending stimulates and mainatins the economy. Without it, there would be no economy. Even the money in our pockets is government debt in circulation. Look at the wording on bank notes. They are IOUs from the Bank of England/Government.
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Colbobs.bsky.social "Col" he/him/his @colbobs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your healthcare being gutted by private equity. Sounds bad? 60s job to send an email via this tool, to your MP.
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Simon @adieuanamcara.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A joke!
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Jury Equity Centuries ago, this legal principle enshrined in law the absolute right of jurors to acquit (find not-guilty) a defendant according to their conscience. It’s proudly carved in stone inside the Old Bailey. Yet judges are lying to jurors about this right. Why? 1/2
A row of peaceful sign-holders sits in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. Their signs display the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience” - words that replicate a 1670AD stone plaque inside the Old Bailey referencing the legal rights of jurors following the trial of two Quakers and subsequent implementation of the legal principle known as “jury equity”.As traffic passes by, a lone man sits in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. His sign also displays the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience”
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Because judges are employed by the State, and the State doesn’t want people of conscience who dissent against unjust laws to be acquitted. Blocking this principle from jurors, often with threat of prosecution, is corrupt and undemocratic. The jury decides, not the judge. 2/2
Traffic passes by the signholders in the first image described in this post.A second image of row of peaceful sign-holders sitting in the rain, opposite the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court in London. Their signs display the words “jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience” - words that replicate a 1670AD stone plaque inside the Old Bailey referencing the legal rights of jurors following the trial of two Quakers and subsequent implementation of the legal principle known as “jury equity”.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Childcare for those earning more than £100,000, an inheritance tax cut for the 4.72 per cent of people that pay it… The Tories are no longer even pretending they give a toss about the majority of people in the UK.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: We accept Ed Miliband’s Pizza Express invitation. Writing on behalf of Defend Our Juries, Margaret Owen OBE and Jonathon Porritt CBE, both arrested under the Terrorism Act outside @labouruk.bsky.social conference, accept the offer to meet. Read in full: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Exactly. And the money in our pockets is government debt in circulation. Look at the wording on bank notes. They are IOUs. Without government debt there would be no money in our economy!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes indeed I'm rather tiring of the coverage... a convicted perjuror who brazenly lied his way through life and continued to attend the House of Lords even as this poor woman's life fell apart.
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 05/10/2026
If you’re arresting a Jewish 94-year-old human rights lawyer for peacefully protesting, you’re on the wrong side of history. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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‘I’m rather proud’: Barrister, 94, arrested for supporting Palestine Action
Margaret Owen OBE, a celebrated human rights lawyer and friend of Ed Miliband’s late mother, talks to Al Jazeera.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Caller on LBC saying: “We can’t do x because there is no money.” How quickly people seem to have forgotten how this lie was exposed during Covid, when the UK government found a magic money tree and conjured up between £310 and £410 billion to tide us over. Ask the politicians to explain that.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I wish all the journalists who parrot the phrase “precision bombing” would be taken to a a firing range and shown just how precise the detonation of a 1000-pound bomb is. Perhaps they’d like to stand close to confirm how precise they are.
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Grumpy says "FREE THE PALESTINIAN HOSTAGES! @grumpyoldleftygit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you support the Greens, #VoteGreen ALSO if you if you support Labour but want it to take Climate (& Trans Rights & water quality & cost of living & electoral reform & fighting racism & the disabled & Gaza) seriously, #VoteGreen If you want Labour to be complacent, #VoteLabour It's that simple.
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I Hope That'S Been Useful Gill
Alt: An elderly woman stands in front of a whiteboard and says "I hope that's been useful".
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
At Cable Street, 90 years ago, the people of London’s East End fought Mosely’s fascists and were successful. Unfortunately, the fascists are back. And, as Tony Benn reminded us, the same battles have to be fought over and over again.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Green Party co-leader hit out at Suella Braverman's comments that "Englishness" is exclusively tied to ethnicity leftfootforward.org/2026/10/moth...
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Mothin Ali calls for government to declare national emergency on racism and blasts Reform’s Suella Braverman in conference speech
The Green deputy co-leader hit out at Suella Braverman's recent comments about "Englishness" and ethnicity
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well said @rachelmillward.bsky.social brilliant speech! The notice period for rip off privatised water companies has long passed. Public ownership now. Not a penny to shareholders.
Rachel and Mothin waving on stage
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Campaign group @weownit.org.uk has endorsed @rachelmillward.bsky.social announcement that the Green Party would take water firms into public ownership without compensation
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Water campaigners back Green Party’s ‘no-compensation’ public ownership plan for water firms
"It is absolutely right that people want these water companies to not receive any compensation."
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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🇬🇧 LABOUR promised to “Save Grangemouth” at GE2024 🇬🇧 LABOUR then promised to “Save the jobs” at Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR saved NONE of the Grangemouth jobs, but promised £200M investment in the town 🇬🇧 LABOUR then spent f*** all in Grangemouth 🇬🇧 LABOUR take Scots for absolute mugs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Are you YES yet?🇪🇺
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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mariaevajarrous.bsky.social @mariaevajarrous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've paid enough for his illegal involvement in our government. Nobody wants this bastard in there. We have enough of them right now. Call your representatives.☎️
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Avg GDP growth 1945-79: 2.8% Since then: 1.6% And this apparently "broken, economically stagnant" basket case kept its AAA status right through the Winter of Discontent We lost it under Cameron, and it fell again under May, then Johnson, and then Truss: i.e. the whole time Clarke was in govt
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
NEW: ‘It’s an implicit threat’. Lord Tom Watson of Palantir writes to one of its biggest critics -Labour MP @labourlewis.bsky.social - to tell him the surveillance firm is watching him. www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
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They’re saying: we’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir
In a letter to his former Labour colleague, the peer, who joined Peter Thiel’s AI company this month, writes: ‘You have made the case against the company more or less continuously’. By Carole Cadwalla...
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/09/2026
A fairer voting system can't wait until after the next general election. We need electoral reform now.
WE NEED FAIR VOTING BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTION
 
ELLIE CHOWNS
MP FOR NORTH HEREFORDSHIRE
 
"The PM cannot acknowledge the unfairness of a system capable of handing power to a government with a minority of the vote share, and then say the answer is to let that happen exactly once more before he fixes it.
 
Burnham must act with urgency to immediately jumpstart the National Commission, guarantee timely progress, and ensure its recommendations are delivered in time for a fairer voting system to be in place at the next general election."

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London, SE1P 6YL
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
UK household energy bills forecast to rise 16%, or £276, in January. Household energy debt expected to hit £7bn soon. Heating v Eating dilemma. 120,000 a year die in poverty. Companies profiteer, fuelling costs, inflation, poverty. Public ownership gives govt more policy options.
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Household energy bills forecast to see biggest rise in four years
A typical household faces an annual gas and electricity bill of £1,999 from January, based on a key forecast.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does Andy Burnham have no idea what to do? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/09... Why is Andy Burnham only offering action after the next election, which he knows he will lose? Is it because he does not actually know what to do?
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Has Andy Burnham no idea what to do?
Andy Burnham indisputably proved that he has mastered the art of making a party conference speech yesterday. It has taken him a very long time to do so, but he’s got there. That was the good news of t...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Comparison of state pension in G7 shows that the UK state pension is the least generous. Countries have wide variance in how retirement incomes are funded and how returns are calculated. Purists might want more nuanced data but this is what we have. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incredible scenes as @novaramedia.com’s Michael Walker questions Yvette Cooper over her decision to proscribe direct action group Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. To date, her policy has led to nearly 4,000 arrests of peaceful protesters under the UK Terrorism Act. (29/09/26)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Burnham could change tax relief on pension contributions for his projects. Gross tax relief in 2024-2025 was £83.9bn. 71% went to 7.7m additional & higher rate taxpayers. 29% to 30.4m basic rate taxpayers. Giving relief to all at 20% leaves £14.5bn spare for social care. But equality/equity?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Kemi Badenoch condemned Reform's ban on critical journalists covering their conference as "authoritarian", saying her own party would never do the same as "we believe in free speech. We believe in a free press." Now the Conservatives have banned Byline Times from their conference
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Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CHAOS IN LIVERPOOL Here’s a whole minute of Mersey Police struggling to contain peaceful signholders, mostly pensioners, who police suspect of committing terrorism offences. They’ve lost. It’s over. This law is unenforceable. @labouruk.bsky.social - Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. (27/09/26)
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE POLICE GAVE UP At 5am this morning, after over 150 arrests on terrorism charges and a stand off that lasted over 16 hours, Mersey Police left a group of eight people outside the Labour Party Conference still displaying their “terrorist” signs. defendourjuries.net/press-releases (27/09/26)
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is the Government going after pensioners? It's time to tax the rich
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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Morally Wrong': Union Boss Slams Andy Burnham Over Plan To Axe Pensions Triple Lock www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/andy-b...
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'Morally Wrong': Union Boss Slams Andy Burnham Over Plan To Axe Pensions Triple Lock
Sharon Graham accused the prime minister of planning to “pick the pocket” of elderly voters.
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DaveRedWine @daveredwine.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He’s right… bsky.app/profile/defe...
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diggleruk.bsky.social @diggleruk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So drop all charges against the thousands of peaceful anti-genocide protesters who've been charged with terrorism offences. If there was a scintilla of truth behind his words he'd have done that already.
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