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John Evans

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Groundwater geologist. Wu wei. 325.54 ppm. Straightener of cheese and cake.

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 13h
I'm so proud to publish this, and grateful to Lighthouse Reports, Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), and the Palestine Reporting Lab for the invaluable collaboration. You can read and explore the entire project here:
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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Stuart Jones @owenthesignal.bsky.social · 18h
This comment on YouTube! 😅👌
Comment on YouTube by @Stephen_The_Waxing_Lyricist on the prize of 75,000 hats: ‘Who wants to be a milliner?’
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 19h
Most TV is just this now.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20h
"Each one of us could be attacked by Israeli settler terrorists, who are attacking Palestinian communities at the rate of 30 places a day.. your house could be burned, you could be shot & killed.." Mustafa Barghouti on conditions facing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22h
"We've spoken to 84yo Hilary.. her energy bill is going up by £57/mth. How are people supposed to afford it?" Burnham: "What we've got to do is address the root cause, which is the conflict in the M/E" Is allowing the US to use UK bases to bomb Iran addressing the root cause?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22h
On #GMB Burnham is asked what hes doing about energy prices going up & he says "what we've got to do is address the root cause, which is the conflict in the M/E" Meanwhile over on #BBCBreakfast we're told RAF Fairford is being used by the US as a staging ground for bombing Iran
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 21h
The UK doesn't need an IMF bailout youtu.be/ZDbZgBiMp_8?... The Financial Times and others are asking if the UK might need to turn to the IMF for a loan - which is absurd, because nothing could be further from the truth.
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The UK doesn't need an IMF bailout
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 21h
@zackpolanski.bsky.social highlights the absurdity of Keir Starmer claiming his greatest legacy as PM was scrapping the two child benefit cap
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 21h
"Unsustainable public finances" for a currency issuer spending on pensions is backwards. The real question: are there enough care workers and beds? The triple lock debate should be about real resources, not phantom affordability constraints. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics
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Will pensioners be poorer as a result of Burnham scrapping the triple lock? | State pensions | The Guardian
Original triple lock was designed to lift pensioners out of poverty but OBR says it contributes to unsustainability of public finances
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lord Gove: "The thing that is really perplexing to me is why these people have been released on bail.." Kevin Maguire: "My guess would be, its because the police have found no evidence of terrorism" #GMB
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Government-backed body to compete with private firms is the polite framing. Real question: why utilities are competing at all. A currency issuer can provision the grid as public infrastructure without bidding against the private sector. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics
theguardian.com
Burnham promises to roll back privatisation with government-backed grid plan | Andy Burnham | The Guardian
Exclusive: Creation of GB Grid will be major step towards putting Britain’s utility companies into public control
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nothing to do with your orange American chum, then Dickie? How the fvck did this idiot become a multi-millionaire?
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 28/09/2026
“What you’re being asked to do is look away. Just look away” Read the full Q&A between author Omar El Akkad and Bafta-winning journalist Ramita Navai here www.thenerve.news/p/omar-el-ak...
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Done it. Coming soon.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We will continue to isolate Iran so that they re-open the Strait of Hormuz, which is so essential to tackling the cost of living crisis here at home" Do we have any idea what happened to make them close it?
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John Evans @brinyblur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The UK’s annual contribution to the World Food Programme (WFP) Palestine fell from $18m (£13.6m) in 2024 to $9.3m (£7m) last year and just $4m (£3m) this year, The i Paper has learned"
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Would be very substantial", for whom? The UK government issues the pound. The real question is whether we have the care workers, training capacity, and real resources to build it. Cost is a choice, not a constraint. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics
bbc.co.uk
New NHS-style social care system could take decades, Dilnot says - BBC News
Sir Andrew Dilnot, who proposed reforms 15 years ago, says the cost of such a scheme would be "very substantial".
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Vanna🌻🍉 @vannas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The byline of this article is shameful. News like this aren't about the effects of optics in UK politics but about the 500.000 people that are now risking famine as a direct, immediate consequence
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Universal care funded by "asking taxpayers to cover the cost" accepts the wrong frame entirely. A currency issuer doesn't ask taxpayers for money to spend. The real question: does England have the nurses, beds and care workers? That's the constraint. Money isn't. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham to fight next election with plan for NHS-style care service | Labour conference 2026 | The Guardian
PM says he is willing to expend political capital to bring in universal service for England funded by ‘everybody’
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Banks don't lend out deposits: they create deposits when they lend." This rewrites the entire finance textbook. Understanding credit creation, not savings pools, is foundational to MMT. #MMT
mmtmichael.substack.com
From Jewellers to GEMMs - by MMT_Michael - MMT's Substack
Banking as a System of Credit Creation
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John Evans @brinyblur.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A victory for nurture and understanding over our damaging drive for increasing utility. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Contract between humans and river’: Bristol Avon’s rights enshrined in charter
River charters part of wider movement establishing ‘moral’ framework to protect nature and hold institutions to account
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ongoing Israeli settler terrorism in the occupied West Bank.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is from, Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology. David Graeber wrote the piece back in 2004.
"It’s not just that anarchism does not tend to have much use for high theory. It’s that it is primarily concerned with forms of practice; it insists, before anything else, that one’s means must be consonant with one’s ends; one cannot create freedom through authoritarian means; in fact, as much as possible, one must oneself, in one’s relations with one’s friends and allies, embody the society one wishes to create."
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Thank you so much to Camden Muslim Women's voice for your warmth, and for welcoming me at Calthorpe Community Garden today! If I'm elected as MP for Holborn & St Pancras, I promise to always speak with you, not for you.
Zack with a group of women in Calthorpe Community Garden
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money youtu.be/4AyhV70BDwE?... Anyone who claims the government spends taxpayers' money is talking total nonsense. The problem is that almost all our politicians do.
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There is no such thing as taxpayers’ money
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A reminder that all the aspects of our economic system are made up and we can have a better system if we wanted to. Homelessness for example. We could have an economy that builds homes for homeless people. It does not have to be this way.
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John Evans @brinyblur.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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We followed five people in Gaza from dawn to dusk – this is what the headlines don’t tell us
Behind the stories of bombings and mass deaths, the everyday challenges facing Palestinians living under siege portray a quieter tragedy we rarely hear
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 26/09/2026
A deeply underrated skeet.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Diana Buttu: "Let me tell you what the Nakba was and is.." Diana goes on to note how, as Israel continues to steal Palestinian land, its the Palestinians who are told they need to compromise.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Diana Buttu: "Although there's been a ceasefire declared.. the killing hasn't stopped. Israel's killed more than 1,000 Palestinians since that ceasefire.. the world says that its a ceasefire, but families are still burying their dead"
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lord Grade must be so proud, after a long and distinguished career in British television, that GB News will be regarded as his greatest legacy. "You can't preemptively castrate all asylum seekers." — Ben Leo "Why not? They're invading our nation." — Hilary Fordwich via @matthewstadlen.bsky.social
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peterbeal.bsky.social @peterbeal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Zack Polanski doesn't hold back on Israel, Labour and Trump
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brexit in a nutshell. "This is the first time in history a govt has gone into negotiations knowing it will come out with a worse deal than the one it currently enjoys, and the reason for that are the red lines it has set for itself, taken with no impact assessment at all." - Hilary Benn (Sep 2017)
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Regenerating high streets is real work. But framing it as "pledging" £210m treats a currency issuer like it's scraping together pocket money. The real question is why Westminster starved local economies in the first place. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics #UKEconomics
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Burnham pledges extra £210m towards regenerating boarded-up high streets | Retail industry | The Guardian
Funds to help local people turn empty shops, pubs and clubs into community hubs, shared workspaces and cafes
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sorry - it's been a long one today! Lots of false claims to cover! But wow, is that headline appalling! Always be suspicious when you see quotation marks in a headline - it is usually a newspaper's way of telling a lie with plausible deniability! 32/
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 25/09/2026
This is incredibly alarming. We cannot go on like this. We need more advocacy for climate action, not just from the environmental movement, but from the political centre.
Screenshot of a Guardian article titled “Huge El Niño projected to cause more than 450,000 deaths by February.” The article, by environment editor Damian Carrington and dated 23 September 2026, says climate scientists estimate that additional heat from a projected strong El Niño could cause more than 450,000 deaths by February, on top of existing climate-crisis-related deaths. It mentions impacts across Indonesia, India, Nigeria and the US, as well as additional deaths from droughts, wildfires and flooding.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...
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Outrage as Reform-run council votes to shut 10 nurseries
Members of the public shouted “you should be ashamed” as Reform councillors approved the plans
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Is the UK's debt bill creating austerity for the poor and interest for the wealthy? And is this the real interest crisis the UK is facing now? youtu.be/CfCCyQezwI8?...
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Is the UK's debt bill creating austerity for the poor and interest for the rich?
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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
".. a morally bankrupt leader who stands under an arrest warrant for war crimes.. his fabrications are desperate, hollow attempts to conceal Israels genocide in Gaza.. no propaganda can erase the truth" Yesterday Turkiye exercised its right of reply after Netanyahus speech
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ash Sarkar: "The one thing the govt could do to improve the lives of young people is introduce some rent controls" Govt minister Jonathan Reynolds: "No economist supports rent controls" There you have it. Are you a young person trapped paying exorbitant rent? The Labour govt says f**k you.
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Neoliberalism didn't fail the left, the left failed to name what it actually was: a conscious choice by the currency issuer to starve public services. That's not inevitable. It's reversible. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics #EUEconomics
braveneweurope.com
Bill Mitchell: The failure of neoliberalism and the progressive failure to articulate that has engendered the rise of the far Right – Brave New Europe
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 24/09/2026
A senator in Vermont has noticed who is buying Reform. Why have so few British front pages?
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What all #Meta product announcements look like to me by now. #charm #muse
Fake Bloomberg post:
Meta Harm

Meta Debuts a Device that Liquidates your Internal Organs to Provide
a Sustainable Source of Protein for Mark Zuckerberg's Pet Salamander.

Meta Platforms Inc. just unveiled its new gadget, which is already proving popular among 
AI fans who are keen to relinquish not only all their human rights but also their lives...
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