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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/08/2025
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold
Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business
At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth
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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore @sjblakemore.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
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Bob @bobrmitchell.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Nigel Farage earned £40,000 speaking at an event hosted by a company that helps the super rich move to other countries in order to reduce their tax bills! To Reform supporters….he’s just laughing at you! www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Nigel Farage paid £40,000 by firm that helps super rich cut tax bills
Nomad Capitalist helps people obtain second residencies and citizenships, urging its clients to ‘go where you’re treated best’
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
In 2001, as the Terrorism Act 2000 came into force, I warned that it could be used to ban non-violent protest groups and imprison those who support them. Government spokespeople and cheerleaders told me I was talking rubbish. And here we are. #PalestineAction www.monbiot.com/2001/02/22/w...
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Wrong T-shirt son? You’re nicked
The act which came into force this week could make terrorists of us all
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Any child in England whose parents receive Universal Credit will be able to claim free school meals from September 2026. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson speaks to #BBCBreakfast 👏
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 05/06/2025
Just a reminder that this is one of the companies bidding to take over Thames Water as it faces collapse. How on earth is a firm like Castle Water, owned by Tory mega donor via an opaque offshore network, a better solution than nationalisation? 🤷‍♀️ goodlawproject.org/tory-treasur...
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Tory treasurer’s offshore water company bagged £1.2m contract with the taxman | Good Law Project
Lucrative deals between the government and a water company owned by Tory treasurer and mega-donor Graham Edwards are under the spotlight.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
On Radio 5 last night Stephen Nolan spoke to British surgeon Victoria Rose, who is working in Gaza "Are you operating on more people tomorrow?" "Yes, I've got a list of 10, but that will probably increase" "And what type of operations?" ".. people who have been blown up"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Farmers trying to do the right thing are yet again getting frozen out by this government, which seems determined to make the wrong decisions at every opportunity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Fund for nature-friendly farming to be slashed in UK spending review
Exclusive: Defra sources say scheme, which pays farmers to protect nature, will be targeted at ‘small farms’
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Your occasional reminder that in two years' time, Nigel Farage will be taking his gold plated £73,000 annual EU pension.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Starmer is correct. We can't tax our way to growth. But we can *tax reform* our way to growth. Some ideas:
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 02/06/2025
£1.4bn wasted on pandemic PPE contracts. That’s just phase one of the investigation. Phase two: 👀 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Full cost of failed pandemic- PPE finally revealed after major fraud probe
The Covid counter-fraud commissioner uncovered the £1.4billion figure in the first phase of his investigation into wasteful Tory spending during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Open race-baiting by Nigel Farage here as he falsely claims that Anas Sarwar made a speech saying the South Asian community are "going to take over the country and take over the world". He made no such speech
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
1/🧵 Abortion is still a crime in the UK. In 2025… Under a law from 1861, written before women could even vote. Women are being investigated, arrested and prosecuted for ending pregnancies. Far right Farage wants to drag us back even further. Here are the facts 👇🏼
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 01/06/2025
'Daily, the struggle to pay ever-higher bills, find a decent home or a secure job, get a doctor’s or dentist's appointment wears people down... Discontent and disillusionment with politics grows... You cannot fix broken public services, or indeed a broken society, in this way.'
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Lives of quiet desperation: what the government doesn’t get
Voters hoped for real change, but face more cuts, broken promises, and politics-as-usual – despair deepens across the UK
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Sensible 👏 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Alex Gallagher @alexgallagher.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
It will be interesting if this photo is broadcast on any of the main news channels tonight. @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @itvnews.bsky.social @channel4news.bsky.social
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The public want anyone but Nigel...
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Poll shows public would rather have any other major party leader as Prime Minister than Nigel Farage
People even prefer Kemi Badenoch...
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Ex Tory MP Steve Baker is calling for ‘a safety net’ for MP’s who lose their jobs??? Poor diddums says it’s hard to get a job when you’re so well known? The same Steve Baker, who voted for every single austerity measure on the people of this country. Mr Baker, go fuck yourself!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Actual Reform policies.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Since becoming health secretary Streeting has overseen the single largest sale of NHS services. The contract for community services in the south west was given to HCRG (owned by private equity) & is worth over a billion pounds. I know who's a threat to the NHS, & its not doctors
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Israel has killed more than 50 Palestinians in Gaza so far today Tareq Abu Azzoum reporting.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
UK approach to bank frauds. HSBC fined $1.9bn in the US for money laundering. UK Chancellor Osborne, regulators protected it. No investigation. £1bn HBOS frauds: FCA/SFO passed the buck to LLoyds Bank. Promised report in 2018. None published. No inquiry. Corporate crime facilitated by the state.
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Why the UK is a two-tier society where money wields power
Laws and policies are crafted to give the appearance of sternness and fairness, but are rarely fully enforced on corporations and the rich.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Nigel Farage is voters' last choice to be Prime Minister - as he's branded 'political fraud' www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nigel Farage is voters' last choice to be PM - as he's branded 'political fraud'
In embarrassment for Nigel Farage, YouGov released a poll on his popularity ratings as he took to the stage to claim voters were behind him in a major press conference
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Labour is claiming that taking children and pensioners out of deep poverty will create economic collapse in the UK. That is total and utter drivel of the highest order. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/05...
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Why is Labour talking total economic nonsense to justify its desperate desire to keep children in poverty?
Bridget Phillipson MP, who is the Education Secretary, is telling the morning media rounds that if the government were to restore the winter fuel allowance, and remove the two-child benefit cap, then ...
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James Aithie 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @jamesaithie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
The UK isn't a country, it's a corporation. Here is Angus Macneil brilliantly highlighting that the UK never looks to turn a profit, but instead rack up debt, year on year. What happens to that debt when the UK breaks up? 🤔
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 27/05/2025
👉NEW -- The UK media discover Israel is off the leash by Prof Des Freedman Britain’s national press finally realise that Israel might be a problem but still fail to recognise their own role in legitimising atrocities in Gaza. www.declassifieduk.org/the-uk-media...
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The UK media discover Israel is off the leash
Britain’s national press finally realise that Israel might be a problem but still fail to recognise their own role in legitimising atrocities in Gaza.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is an absolutely must-read piece. Do it now. 👇
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
England has the only privatised Water in Europe, the most water pollution, and the most expensive water. The UK has the only fully privatised energy, and the most expensive. England has privatised rail, the slowest, least reliable and of course the most expensive in Europe.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 27/05/2025
The UK must meet its fundamental international legal obligations, before it's too late www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers
Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025
Here is the chair of @uktradebusiness.bsky.social Committee, @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social, with a quick verdict and a great summary of today's UK-EU Reset deal. Andrew has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to make today happen and deserves huge praise. ~AA
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
NHS surgeon Victoria Rose speaking from Gaza: "we're operating on 75% children.. these kids are tiny, underweight, malnourished.. they've got such significant life changing injuries.. lost limbs, disfiguring facial injuries, & the burns are catastrophic" But Gary Lineker!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Gary Lineker has been fired from the BBC because he spoke out about Palestine. #iSupportGary Lets get it trending
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Starmer's EU deal is a big break in the suffocating Brexit consensus that has held Britain back for the past decade. For the first time a British government is doing things to actually undo the damage of Brexit, rather than increase it. For that alone it should be welcomed
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Keir Starmer's EU Reset Deal Is the First Crack in the Brexit Wall Holding Britain Back
This agreement marks the beginning of the end of the suffocating Brexit consensus that has gripped British politics for a decade, argues Adam Bienkov
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 19/05/2025
Unbelievable. Look how they wasted YOUR money www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202... Bring Thames Water into public ownership NOW - sign the petition weownit.org.uk/act-now/brin...
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Thames Water paid lawyers £1,400 an hour despite threat of collapse
Final bill for utilities giant’s restructuring could exceed £200m
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
But the problem at the BBC is a sports presenter, right?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 19/05/2025
Chancellor Reeves: "Our biggest trading partners are our friends, our allies in the EU. For too long it's been too difficult to export, to bring in talent, to trade with our nearest neighbours and that's not good enough because it's held back our growth." Incredible that this even needs saying. ~AA
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Thames Water on collision course with govt over exec bonuses. TW with £21bn debt, history of abuses & criminal convictions insists that it will pay bonuses, now calls them “retention payments”. Govt must cancel it's licence, let it go bankrupt, prosecute execs, nationalise. archive.ph/FpLe0
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Thames Water on collision course with government over bonuses
Utility claims new legislation to block bonuses will not capture ‘retention payments’
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Sky News release audio of Conservative Chris Philp admitting that Brexit makes it harder to return asylum seekers to countries in Europe That's right, inside the EU, with freedom of movement, the UK had the ability to return asylum seekers to Europe Brexit created the rise in small boat crossings
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Save this picture onto your phone. Keep similar pictures in a folder/album. And just put them out there "on the socials" once in a while...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
US surgeon Dr Feroze Sidhwa: "If destroying Hamas requires dropping 12 bombs on one small hospital.. and then releasing a video that doesn't even show the building that your purporting to bomb, I think that shows clearly you're just bombing the hospital to bomb the hospital"
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Economists warn UK faces 'immediate and violent' sterling crisis if Reform wins next election www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...
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Economists warn UK faces 'immediate and violent' sterling crisis if Reform wins next election
The UK faces an “immediate and violent” sterling crisis if Reform wins the next election and stays good on its pledge to cut taxes, economists have warned.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Bosses of England hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise. Populist claptrap, not real analysis. NHS lacks capacity, staff. Discharging patients prematurely and subsequent readmission boosts treatment stats but is dangerous and achieves nothing. Fund the NHS.
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Bosses of hospitals that spend too much or treat too few will not get pay rise
Health secretary instigates ‘carrot and stick’ policy for England that will award bonuses for cutting waiting times
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Two tiny shrouds lie next to the wrapped bodies of their parents in a Gaza morgue" The UK govt is helping Israel do this.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
“Despite all of these arrivals there are still 131,000 vacancies in care. The sector say there is no way they can fill these jobs with British workers” The care sector is already on its knees and the government knows it
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