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Sidney P

@baroninthetrees.bsky.social
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Green flaneuese & disability activist 'The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion' - Camus

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Blaise Boo-lysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Austerity Riots are already starting in Europe because they have a direct memory of the Post-2008 reality that was imposed on them to make sure The Rich & Powerful stay Rich & Powerful during the early 2010s. This will likely spread to US cities once the Financial Apartheid begins in earnest.
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Brussels' riot police clash with protestors against backdrop of student protests
Tens of thousands turned out on Friday for a national day of action against government austerity measures, police said, with tensions running high after days of student protests.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 13/05/2026
#OtD 13 May 1968 up to 10 million workers began a general strike in France in the May 68 rebellion, as hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Paris following violent student riots. Learn more in our tiktok: www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
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Sidney P @baroninthetrees.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Gordonstoun & land management at Reading. Say no more. Another clueless posho.
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Conor Browne @brownecfm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A friend has Covid right now. They have lost their sense of smell and they're having cognitive problems. This hit me today, as it often does: we made, and continue to make, a huge collective mistake in allowing a virus that impacts the brain to transmit unmitigated globally.
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Michael DB Harvey @michaeldbharvey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A frightening picture of the future of the AI-dominated workplace. Here constant surveillance leads to "horrendous stress" and "cognitive surrender" for trainers working in public services. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Data controversies, James Stewart @datacontroversies.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences? We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
Babies will face almost twice as much extreme fire weather in Europe that great grandparents
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 15/09/2026
Not good news. Latest Jan energy Price Cap predictions show a rise well OVER 20%. So tonight's 7pm @itvMLshow energy bills special is must watch...
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Sidney P @baroninthetrees.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
PMC (Professional Managerial Class) at it again
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/07/2026
Professional classes stand in way of tax on the super-rich | Phillip Inman
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Professional classes stand in way of tax on the super-rich | Phillip Inman
If Andy Burnham wants to make the system fairer he will need to upset the professional classes with a land value tax
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The 50 richest families own more wealth than 34 million people. A handful have everything. Millions are struggling. End Rip Off Britain. Wealth tax. Now.
The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger.
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Phillip Inman @phillipinman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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The case for Labour to introduce a wealth tax has never been stronger | Phillip Inman
A 2% levy on fortunes above £100m – with no exemptions – could begin to reverse decades of rising inequality
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John Bleasdale @www.johnbleasdale.com · 19/07/2026
When mum came back from the rave with her new pals
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That France v England 3rd place playoff is just gonna be both teams sitting on the grass and sharing a smoke.
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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
At least we don’t have to listen to wonderwall.
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Gareth Davies @garethtbij.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s an astonishing error from Tuchel. We scored and immediately surrendered control of the game. The players looked totally lost after the changes. There was no way we were going to hold out for 25 minutes trying to defend our box. Totally avoidable
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Liam Twomey @liamtwomey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
That looked and felt like pretty much every England tournament exit of my lifetime. Passive, fearful, exhausted. Not quite what Tuchel was hired to deliver
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YankeeGunner @arsenalvisionpodcast.com · 15/07/2026
The English media was always going to come for Tuchel if England didn’t win. But in this case, it’s awfully hard to defend him. A coaching disaster of epic proportions.
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Mat Mead @mattmw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Kier Starmer of football managers
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Got what we deserved. That's it really. If Argentina had bothered playing the first 55 minutes we'd have been slaughtered.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's such a defining example of his failure. Had he arrived in Downing Street and immediately announced it as a moral imperative it would have won over much of PLP and voter coalition.
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Bob Hawkins @bobhawkins.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Dear England… excellent. Reform will hate it. #dearEngland
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 27/10/2024
Aside from year-long waits, in some cases councils are conceding to parents’ demands just before a tribunal is held, while in other cases councils are failing to implement tribunal findings. Parents have a near-100% success rate at SEND tribunals.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The sheer sense of entitlement of a member of parliament of whatever party resigning their seat, on assumption that electors will then obediently vote for their chosen successor. Taking an electorate for granted.
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Compassion in World Farming UK @ciwf.org.uk · 15/05/2026
ALL animals deserve to be treated with compassion.
"Farm animals are just as interesting and intelligent as the dogs and cats who we know a bit better." - Emily Deschanel.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Tell us one specific thing [Burnham] will do" Simons: ".. one of the things he's really committed to.. energy, water, social housing.. have gotten so expensive.. & one of the reasons why.. is that we've privatised a lot of them" "So with Burnham, nationalise water?" "No" lol
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Bangaranga has prevented WW3
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Harry Burton @hbtoons.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
My Eurovision cartoon for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I know there’s a lot going on in the world, and we don’t have enough attention to pay to any of it. But the throttling of Cuba by the US should be a bigger story than it is. There are about 10 million people in Cuba, subjected to horrendous collective punishment. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Cuba has run out of diesel and fuel oil, energy minister says, as US blockade pushes island to brink
Minister Vicente de la O Levy says ‘Cuba is open to anyone that wants to sell us fuel’ as rolling power blackouts increase
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Dear China, No return policy. Thanks, JC
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Clash of the Shite-uns.
Starmer to meet Streeting on Wednesday after 4 ministers resign
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Keir Starmer is bad at the job, to the extent he does it. He came into power with limited preparation, he hired poorly, has never bothered to manage the parliamentary party and for two years he pursued a dreadful strategy that bore its bitter and inevitable fruit last Thursday.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
In other news, the government today announced 26 life peerages for hereditary peers, including for one Duke, three Earls, and three Viscounts. Such is the break with the status quo. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Political Peerages May 2026
The King has been graciously pleased to signify His intention of conferring Peerages of the United Kingdom for Life upon the undermentioned:
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
When there’s no sheep to herd.. 😅
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TazbertO'devil @tazbertodevil.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The fact they're not sure how they got here really sums up the modern Labour party. You got here lads by getting in with a vast majority and then pissing it up the wall by doing everything possible to alienate the people that put you there. Thick as mince.
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Susie M @wrathofgodherself.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Bring Back Chaos With Ed Milliband. #UnpopularPoliticsHumour
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
And it's becoming even more challenging - increasingly the narrators are AI. The core structure of truth - a common value - is disintegrating. So Lee in Barnsley thinks all his taxes go to illegal immigrants. He's now voting Reform not Labour. And this falsehood has never been challenged.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
And that is now where we are. We have to get stuck in to disrupt this politics of untruth. We can't appeal to a transcendent view of facts or objectivity. And some free microwaves won't do it. We just have to find leaders who will get stuck in. Participate. And do what we can.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Labour’s closing down sale www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/05...
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Labour’s closing down sale
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BrianinFrance @brianinfrance.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
English electorate: We watched Farage fuck the UK with his Brexshit in 2016, so we’re going vote for him in 2026 to totally ReFUK the UK.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“I’m thinking about running again in 2028.” You’ll be lucky if you waddle through the rest of 2026.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/04/2026
“What you get when you vote Green are local, very hardworking councillors who are absolutely committed to two vested interests - people and planet.” Green Party Deputy Leader Rachel Millward contrasts Green councillors with other parties on #BBCQT
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Left: Reform UK's Zia Yusuf on #BBCQT "The levels of antisemitism now are intolerable" Right: Peter Ettedgui a former Jewish schoolmate, "Nigel Farage would regularly come up to me and say Hitler was right"
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 27/04/2026
NEWS! Ballrooms to be installed in American high schools to protect against shootings newsthump.com/2026/04/27/b...
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Ballrooms to be installed in American high schools to protect against shootings
Every American high school will have a ballroom, following revelations of their effectiveness against shooting incidents.
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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
If you were horrified watching elected leaders run & scramble because of gun violence, just imagine how my daughter Jaime felt in school running from an active shooter before she was killed. Now, become a part of the solution & only vote for people determined to address gun violence in America.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years
Now deleted Twitter post from Debra Lea @thedebralea. It reads Shooter at WH Correspondence dinner. Shooter is dead. Thank you secret service.

Under it is a selfie of her making a kissy-face at the camera while everyone mills around with the energy of a minor fire alarm
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Well this will have the Brexit folk frothing. But it reflects their failure, indeed the failure of pretty much the whole UK political class to understand the world and the realistic options available - which don't include vast regulatory or trade gains from sovereignty.
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