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Retired NHS physio, aspire to connection and a wholesome life.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 7h
Agree 💯% With Joe Walsh.......
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h
Andy Burnham confirms what previous PM's - May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and Starmer - failed to, that Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum.
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MsBlueWednesday @msbluewednesday.bsky.social · 4h
www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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U.K. 'deliberately' chose not to probe Russian interference in Brexit: former intelligence chair | CBC Radio
A report by Britain's intelligence and security committee released yesterday found no evidence of Russian interference during Brexit — but the former chair of that committee says that's no surprise, g...
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 6h
Yet another national leader from an EU country says they’d welcome a British return to the club…
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5h
Why did five prime ministers leave voters in the dark about Russian interference? Theresa May Boris Johnson Liz Truss Rishi Sunak Keir Starmer Shame on all of them.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10h
Company behind Scotland’s biggest data centre proposal is owned by the treasurer of the UK Conservative party via British Virgin Islands. It could receive £23m public subsidy. BVI facilitates opacity and tax avoidance. Successive UK govts have defended the use of tax havens by wealthy elites.
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The Tory treasurer, an offshore company and Scotland’s biggest data centre plan
Scotland may be set to host one of the world’s most powerful data centres. The Conservative Party’s money man stands to benefit.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Delighted that @europeanmovement.co.uk is stepping up its campaign to rejoin the EU - good for the economy & for the environment, and ever more urgent in an increasingly insecure world with a totally unreliable US & feral President
independent.co.uk
Labour voters overwhelmingly want Andy Burnham to commit to rejoining EU, poll shows
Exclusive: New 10-year plan for re-entry to the European Union in 2036 being put to the prime minister
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 9h
Lest we forget... Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage both supported Donald Trump's war of choice against Iran. A war that is not only illegal but which has resulted in needless suffering and instability, as well as undermining the UK's economic recovery. #bbclaurak www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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'Farage and Badenoch back Trump after Labour MPs say Iran strikes illegal.'
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 9h
I think it's past time the USA got a new president.
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Looking for hope? Try www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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BBC Audio | Radical | Free Everything: Should Governments Guarantee Life's Essentials? (Anna Coote)
The case for universal basic services.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"I'm aware that Mr Farage's political judgement has been a bit off lately, to put it politely 🤭. But you'd think even he would've realised that Zia Yusuf has become a dangerous liability!" via Christopher Warner
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
But, climate tipping points are likely being passed.
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SteveM @steve19m.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Every day a new low. We’ve now reached public executions and selling out to Russia..if Farage had his way the UK will be treading the same path.
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Does this mean those that bring up the 101 reasons why we can't rejoin, on here, will stop?
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's really sad actually. The choices in life, such as they are, and you choose to feed hatred and division, for...?
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The 4 noble truths There's suffering There's causes It can end The end is this way. ( 8 fold path.)
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Being in the EU isn’t a magic solution to our problems, because it is the elected UK gov that decides domestic policy. But being back in the EU would mean more tax revenue to invest in public services, and help ease the cost-of-living crisis. #RejoinEU
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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Nick Robinson R4t repeatedly interrupting and talking over Ellie Chowns ( green party, speaking very well.) Who would have guessed?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinics. Low wages have caused brain drain, loss of skilled staff. Part of privatisation of the NHS by stealth. Private sector picks up NHS contracts, profiteers, higher cost to public purse, increases NHS queues.
theguardian.com
NHS faces exodus of ADHD and autism services staff to private clinics
Brain drain of psychologists, psychiatrists and nurses leaves NHS ‘weaker’, driving patients to seek care elsewhere
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Have a weavelous time. 🙂
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
theguardian.com
Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
French Finance Minister Roland Lescure on the UK rejoining the European Union tells the BBC, "Come back. Anytime" My view: Across Europe, the message to Britain is increasingly simple: come back. We are stronger working with our closest neighbours — economically and in our shared defence.
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Especially considering the Zionism gaff... ( Zack having clearly explained in the past, that the term means different things to different people.)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The slide into depravity accelerates.
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Contempt party would be closer to reality than the Conservative party...as a name.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Former Labour Deputy Leader Lord Thomas Watson, now Senior VP at Palantir UK, wrote to me defending their public contracts. Instead of trading letters, I’ve challenged him to an open, public debate. He can defend Palantir’s ethos; I’ll argue for public accountability. Will you accept, Tom?
Formal letter from Clive Lewis MP, Member of Parliament for Norwich South, to Lord Thomas Watson of Wyre Forest, Senior Vice President of Palantir Technologies UK Limited, dated 7 October 2026. In the letter, Lewis challenges Watson to a public debate regarding Palantir's role in government contracts and public institutions. Lewis rejects Watson's claim that criticisms malign software engineers, stressing that elected officials must scrutinize corporate power, democratic control, and public accountability. He proposes a debate with an impartial chair, equal time, and audience questions.
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Or is he a secret vegetarian? 🙂 Close to impossible to be short of folate and be veggie.
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So predictable. 🥱
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Mini me RFK junior?
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Rubio’s world view - hailing the alleged greatness of men (all men!) such as Alexander, Caesar, the Conquistador Hernan Cortes - glossing over the millions who died in their wake, the civilizations destroyed, the people enslaved in their pursuit of glory 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Rubio in Greece digs into past to tout Trump’s ‘America first’ approach
In the shadow of the Parthenon, the secretary of state gave a selective reading of history as he urged Europe to ‘awaken from its slumber’
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The "glory" of death and destruction, of somebody else or someone else's property. Insatiable greed has failed to satisfy so far, another fantasy is being promoted. "The pleasures that arise from contact between the senses and their objects are in truth the sources of all suffering." ( Krishna.)
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So much suffering to feed the twisted ideas of a malevolent leader and his invested powerful friends. Would that the human race could select virtuous leaders.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Deloitte fined £6.05m for dud audits at Go-Ahead Group. Fines passed to clients in higher charges. Big firms routinely deliver dud audits. None shut down. Regulator so impressed, set to reduce audit quality inspections, will rely on self-reporting by firms.
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Sanctions against Deloitte LLP
Executive Counsel of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has issued a Final Settlement Decision Notice under the Audit Enforcement Procedure and imposed sanctions against Deloitte LLP (Deloitte) in ...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.
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Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch, "The era for peace is over" "If we want peace, we must prepare for war" My view: This is not serious leadership; it is militaristic fatalism dressed up as strength.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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🌊🏄BlueWaveSurfer🏄🌊 @bluewavesurfer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Bill Bankes-Jones #FBPE 🌍🇪🇺🚲❤️ @billbj6.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's the solution to the justice system and prison overload. All the accused can have a think and decide if they are guilty or not. Why did the BBC report to this as if it had the faintest credibility?
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Cornish/Manc Parallel Realist (Worldwide Dept.) @leftymuso.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Dame Angela Eagle MP, Labour's Environment Secretary, on Kemi Badenoch claiming water privatisation has been a "success": "Kemi Badenoch is living in an alternate reality. How anybody can look at the Tory record on water and call it a success is baffling."
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🦋🐕‍🦺🌺LadyWillow💚🐾🦋 @ladywillow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.threads.com/share/BANePk...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously… how can a party that insists on scrapping all progress with the EU, binning NetZero and leaving the ECHR, so that it can abuse its power without accountability… how can that party claim “the soul of the nation”. The ruin - maybe. The soul - definitely not.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax’s planned datacentre to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood to produce its electricity, nearly double the CO2 emissions of all flights from London Gatwick airport. Drax, a highly profitable company gets subsidies to burn wood and produce electricity How many lives will it ruin?
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/10/2026
As the reflectivity (albedo) of Earth continues to set new record lows, more of the incoming solar radiation is absorbed by the Earth system, increasing the amount of energy available to heat the oceans, atmosphere, and land, and to melt ice.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is how we should see these magnificant animals, not hauled up on a boat or in fillets on a slab. We should no more catch or kill this rare and stunning megafauna than we should trap or kill tigers or whales. Here are some more of Rupert’s photos from yesterday, with his kind permission.
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