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Mostly reskeets. Environment. Politics. Music. Film. Vegan. Travel. Welsh Rugby. Sometimes Guardian-reading. Often tofu-eating. She/her.

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 20h
"For many of the nations represented by leaders here it is literally a threat to their very existence. Which is why the world must act" - Anthony Albanese, head of petrostate govt that issued their 37th fossil fuel new/extension project approval on 3 Sep 2026
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 01/10/2026
Interesting: “Raise the Colours” are citing the European Convention on Human Rights in defence of their flag-raising campaign👇 🔗 www.bbc.com/news/article... via www.bbc.com The ECHR protects us all.
bbc.com
Raise the Colours' members in court for Birmingham injunction evidence
Birmingham City Council is seeking an injunction to stop the Raise The Colours group's activities.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
9 years after Grenfell fire killed 72 people, Police pass files to the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies. How many will be prosecuted? Years of litigation will follow. Justice delayed is justice denied.
bbc.co.uk
Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS
The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.
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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🔴 BREAKING: BP, Uber, Amazon and more paying Tony Blair's think tank $25,000 for “networking” opportunities with politicians and policy makers at party conferences Experts say "looks and smells like cash for access" Full story on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Tony Blair Institute’s $25,000 corporate network “smells like cash for access”
Exclusive documents show Tony Blair's think tank offers corporate members such as BP and Uber "networking" at party conferences and "a stronger voice" in policy debates.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors. No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends. USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors. UK could do the same, generate billions. Why are super-rich privileged?
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I want nothing in return for my £36m. It's a philanthropic gift to the country!" Also...
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RNLI have closed (temporarily) the Portsmouth station because of these violent ‘men’. Patriot Platform needs to be proscribed now
independent.co.uk
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If you’re not Jewish you won’t understand how simultaneously hurtful and enraging this is I can only imagine how hard it must be for Ed Miliband, the son of literal Holocaust survivors - whatever you think of him, he does not deserve this
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/09/2026
Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
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Israeli ministers keep telling everyone their brutal plans – so why doesn’t the world take them seriously? | Nesrine Malik
Schemes to forcibly remove Palestinians from Gaza are not being promoted by fringe voices. But the international community continues to avert its eyes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Also, as a Jewish person, I’m quite frankly burnt out by the Israeli govt’s shameless and relentless conflation of Jews and Israel Yes, there are legions of antisemites who will always try and disguise their antisemitism as criticism of Israel - they are awful What’s also true, is the…
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“Don’t tell me that you remember Sept. 11, 2001. I remember Sept. 11, 2001. But I heard her say she was there that day. I was there that day. I don’t remember seeing Hillary Clinton there.” - Rudy Giuliani
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Luke Turner @luketurner.com · 03/09/2026
Ben Delo, the crypto billionaire who funded Holocaust-revisionist neo-Nazi "bullies" in the High Court against their Jewish target (me), has just given Reform another £4 million. This is the scary state of UK politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tom Red @tomredmemes.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A very good point. In the Telegraph piece, he says the price was €1,400. Who supplied that cash?
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Gary Boyle @gazboyle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Did he pay a smuggler to provide passage across the channel, who funded that payment? Is reform providing funds to people smugglers?
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 24/08/2026
www.wkyt.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Under Trump, hundreds of America’s wild horses are being sold for as little as $25 and being sent to slaughter, report says
Animal advocates are voicing concern over wild horse treatment after the New York Times reported that several hundred were being sold to slaughter since Donald Trump took office.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A “hyperscale” datacentre in outer London would generate more than 1m tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. Not compatible with Net Zero. What devolution/democracy? Local councils bypassed, people ignored by Ministers chasing growth. Datacentres produce few long-term jobs, guzzle energy.
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Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint
Exclusive: Planning documents show annual emissions from North Ockendon project would be equivalent to 8,480 flights to New York
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Foreign students don’t get UK student loans. Stupidest party in the world with the most gullible followers.
Times Higher Education • @timeshighered
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Reform UK has promised to ban "foreign students" from accessing student loans and said it will end public subsidies for "woke nonsense" degrees
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I love how this contradicts with the argument for the deportations - that migrants were stealing jobs from everyone else. Now the claim is that the jobs were created by migrants just as they are now gone with them.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"Aberdeen Science Centre has renewed its sponsorship deal with Norwegian oil giant Equinor for another year, following a UK summer of consecutive record-breaking heatwaves, droughts, and wildfires..." Wither integrity and self-respect❓ Ellen Ormesher, @desmog.com
desmog.com
Equinor Extends Deal to Fund Children’s Science Education in Aberdeen as North Sea Drilling Decision Looms
Critics say that as the climate crisis worsens, Aberdeen Science Centre is sending the wrong message by partnering with the Norwegian oil major.
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Kevin McKenna MP @kevinmckenna.co.uk · 14/08/2026
Well that was £250k and a load of police and council workers time well spent. All back to where we were All that and Farage showed his character by not even turning up to thank those staff, police or even acknowledge the other campaigns who gave him someone to run against in this pointless contest
theguardian.com
Standards watchdog resumes investigation into Nigel Farage over financial gifts
Reform UK leader’s return to Clacton restarts inquiry into £5m gift from cyrpto-billionaire and support from fraudster
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Farage surrogate on BBC 5 live saying that ‘Nigel wasn’t in politics’ when he accepted £5m from Christopher Harborne He *owned* Reform at the time and became a MP candidate shortly afterwards. This line doesn’t wash and isn’t going to go away
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I came first in the Clacton by-election! Of the candidates who bothered to turn up for the results. Here is my victory speech!
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ US presidency. $2.2bn in 2025 by amassing cryptocurrency, benefiting from wealthy foreign interests, expanding his Truth Social business and more. Trump takes corruption it to new depths. What have the cronies been promised?
theguardian.com
Trump has amassed staggering wealth in ‘most openly corrupt’ presidency
Ethics experts and Democrats express alarm as Trump uses office to grow his personal fortune to ‘unprecedented’ level
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Matt Kane @mk.gg · 13/08/2026
We're still "debunking" the Dobby story without listening to the (interesting) podcast episode? Sadly it's true. The CEO of the company that laid the cable does think it's funny, but is clearly not joking. That is really why they moved it.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The grouse moor lobby is out in force today, blaming ‘rewilding’ for wildfires and demanding government lift restrictions on… burning moorland! They want to burn heather because it increases grouse numbers. You don’t fight fire with fire. You fight it with water! www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Daily Mail front page today, headline reads: ‘Rewilding link to record fires’ (followed by an article which provides zero evidence for this bollocks claim, just a bunch of grouse moor lobbyists moaning about wanting to burn more heather this year)
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Trial collapses against two Scottish gamekeepers accused of killing Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park ⚖️ My commentary on the seeming absurdity of the legal process in this case 🔽 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/08/06/t...
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Trial collapses against two Scottish gamekeepers accused of killing Red Kites in Cairngorms National Park
On Monday 20 July 2026, at Aberdeen Sheriff Court, all charges were dropped against two gamekeepers who had been on trial for the alleged shooting of Red Kites, as well as alleged firearms offences…
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 07/08/2026
Israeli forces arrest dozens of Palestinians near Jerusalem amid uptick in military and settler violence in West Bank.
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Israeli raid in West Bank's Qalandiya injures 51 Palestinians
Israeli forces arrest dozens of Palestinians near Jerusalem amid uptick in military and settler violence in West Bank.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Even if involved in narcotrafficking, this would be illegal. Due process.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Well that's cheered me up no end. They say you shouldn't speak ill of the dead. This is a man who complained he couldn't smoke at Auschwitz, beat up a pregnant woman, and said he wouldn't go into teaching as he wouldn't be able to resist raping the children. He was a c*nt. Now he's a dead c*nt.
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British journalist, broadcaster Rod Liddle dies aged 66
British journalist and broadcaster Rod Liddle has died after a short illness at the age of 66.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/08/2026
Cuba’s ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.
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Grid failure plunges Cuba into nationwide blackout
Cuba's ageing power grid collapsed on Sunday after a weekend of outages and amid US-imposed fuel shortages.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/08/2026
Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
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Undercover police unit closed down over unjustified surveillance, spycops inquiry told
Senior officer behind closure says SDS caused ‘incalculable harm’ by infiltrating groups that posed no threat An undercover police unit that spied on tens of thousands of political activists had to be shut down amid severe criticisms and recriminations, the spycops public inquiry has heard. Jon Boutcher, a senior police officer who took over responsibility for the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) unit, concluded within months that it had to be wound up because it was conducting unjustified surveillance and was badly run. Continue reading...
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 30/07/2026
🧵UK media has been duped about net-zero (again) The playbook is identical: 1️⃣ Find a big scary number 2️⃣ Speed-dial non-specialist hacks 3️⃣ Do say “serious economic damage” 4️⃣ Don’t say “we pretended gas is free” 5️⃣ That's it! Many papers still fell for it 🤷
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Humphrey Clemens is Reform UK’s Candidate for Honiton St Michael’s, Devon He’s an anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist. In 2023 he posted that Paul Cattermole’s death through a heart condition was “yet another tragic Covid death”, without any evidence. archive.is/6dV1D
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I join you from the Blaenavon wildfire in Southeast Wales, brought to you by BP, Shell and Equinor. Though it does not look dramatic, the fire has been out of control for days - for a very particular reason. 🧵
A photograph of multiple fire service vehicles parked on moorland. In the background, white smoke from multiple fires is rising.
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Since the cease-fire in October, Israeli forces have killed one child or teenager in Gaza every day on average, according to UNICEF. Raghad Ashour, an ambitious 17-year-old student, became one of them when she was hit by an airstrike as she walked home from school. www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
nytimes.com
Video: She Was a Bright Student. An Israeli Strike Ended Her Dreams.
Since the cease-fire in October, Israeli forces have killed one child or teenager in Gaza every day on average, according to UNICEF. Raghad Ashour, an ambitious 17-year-old student, became one of them...
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The fact that being a corporate lobbyist doesn’t automatically disqualify you for any government position is itself a fatal flaw in the UK’s system, which instead seems to constantly reward such backgrounds with even more power
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We can now see the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the UK. Meanwhile, the rightwing press are pushing for more drilling in the North Sea, and Badenoch is banning Tory candidates who support net zero. Cool cool bsky.app/profile/meto...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years. Median pay of FTSE 100 CEO increased from £4.66m in 2024/25 to £5.06m in 2025/26. UK bosses get 130 times average worker’s salary, often for mediocre performance. Workers generate wealth but have no say on exec pay.
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Gap between the pay of FTSE 100 CEOs and UK workers the widest for 8 years - High Pay Centre
The High Pay Centre's annual review of CEO pay in the FTSE 100 shows the Median FTSE 100 CEO to median UK worker pay ratio rose to 130:1 in 2025/26, the highest for 8 years and up from 124:1 last year...
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