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Caroline

@caclarke.bsky.social
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Academic wokery. Dog lover. Discerning chocoholic. Insomniac. Pickleball aspirer

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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
...amazed at how willingly people want to contract it
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Truly pathetic response. When the opportunity to exercise any possible resistance against silencing, opportunities for dissent should be seized upon, with every ounce of our might. No doubt they've convinced themselves it is a noble gesture to keep speaking truth to power and bearing witness etc.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Absolute country radio
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Born in England, but certainly not proud to be British when I look back to see how many countries we've invaded and colonised, and the violence we have meted out to those who live in said countries. British exceptionalism and associated entitlements are truly disgusting.
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Zack Polanski rings the alarm on the security service report in food security impact of climate change. Starmer tried to bury it. Burnham still sits on it. Only the Greens are bold enough.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 25 years since 9/11, the United States has spent $8 trillion+ on wars that have taken millions of lives in the name of fighting "terror." Can you imagine if we had instead invested those funds here on climate, health care, housing, and education?
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*Warning* won't cure insomnia. I downloaded this book last night. Totally useless for getting you off to sleep. I got to 3am then had to turn it off because of sleep deprivation. Mic Wright's reading of the book is as fast as his mercurial brain, and just as fascinating. BUY IT!
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The paperback edition of my book, Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn’t, and Why it Matters. Now is out today! geni.us/BreakingMicWright
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Breaking: How the Media Works, When it Doesn't and Why it Matters
Out now!
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
That's absolutely barking
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
They aren't mutually exclusive categories
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
How do these people sleep at night when spewing bile is their main activity?
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Homelessness is a political choice not to spend money housing people. Food banks are a political choice not to spend money feeding people, redistributing that responsibility to the benevolence of strangers.So called defence is a political choice to attack others for the resources we want.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I don't think the fossil fuel lobbyists liked the plans.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The biggest liars are running the globe. The climate crisis has been known about for decades, still no action. But someone plagiarising their PhD? Now that's worth exposing by the utterly supine press.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Sure this wasn't just a pretext for naming/outing them?
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Bit also naming them
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Also, cross reference Clacton as above.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
All happening while statesmen of the globe are rewarded for lying. Slow news August killed this poor soul.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This paper is a disgrace
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Horrendous. If August wasn't such a slow news month the poor soul would still be alive.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Different face, same old punitive policies. How can we rid ourselves of neoliberalism? We have plenty of proof it doesn't work for the 99%. We need to stop believing. Neoliberalism is the emperors new clothes
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
That didn't age well
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
This third place World Cup match would be worth it if France and England each agreed to let Mbappe, Kane and Bellingham score at least 3 goals each to deny Messi the Golden Boot. Infantino would be inconsolable. #FRAENG
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Imagine how they feel
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Every commentator on England is the most capricious chameon-like superficial media person ever.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Why do you think they had their best chance in 60 years in the first place? The coach?
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Jam tomorrow
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Financialisation of humanity Vital services handed by the state to private equity 84% of children’s homes, 80% of adult care homes in England controlled by financial investors. Private equity is a key player. £1.5bn profit extracted from care homes. Public purse looted for poor service.
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The finance curse is devouring the UK
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. Th...
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
He shafted Corbyn and a much needed radical politics
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Not holding my breath. The man has form. Left labour and will never go back.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
But will we get them? He has form.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The Arsenal parade was an incredible occasion, but it was also reminder of how much we take cleaners' work for granted. So let’s use this as an opportunity to win fair pay and conditions for cleaners! My piece for @islingtontrib.bsky.social. www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/clea...
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Cleaners’ work is taken for granted
There is a huge gap between the importance of the work that cleaners do and the way society treats them
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
A situation outlined very well by @kenloach16films.bsky.social in I, Daniel Blake.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Vote Reform. Or we will house *dangerous migrant centres* in your village. And if you vote Green, it will be even worse for you. It's beyond disturbing. The chill wind of threat, thuggery and menace of a kind never before seen in Britain.
Today we announce a new policy:


In order to deport all illegal migrants in
Britain, Reform will need to detain tens of
thousands at a time.


Migrants will not be able to leave these
detention centres, and each will be held
there a couple of weeks before being
deported.


So here's our promise:


A Reform government will not put any
migrant detention facilities in any
constituency with a Reform MP.


Nor will we put them where Reform
controls the council.


And of the remaining areas, we will
prioritise Green controlled parliamentary
constituencies and Green controlled
councils to locate the detention centres.


Put simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee yPut simply, if you vote in a Reform
council or Reform MP, we guarantee you
won't have a detention centre near you


If you vote Green, there's a good chance
you will,


This is an important exercise in
democratic consent, not just for our
mass deportation policy, but for where
the detention centres are placed


Given @ZackPolanski openly advocates
for open borders, I look forward to their
warm embrace of this policy
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
And when they can't find anything, and white poppies, allotments,and beige suits aren't enough, they will deduct a lifelong anti racist into a racist. And people will believe it.
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Once Starmer was elected labour leader and immediately turned his back on the socialist pledges he was elected on....
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
You make it sound as though he's rational
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
"Always in just causes" Remember Vietnam? Venezuela? Iraq? Iran? Chile? Cuba? Etc etc
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Who put their children in this situation?
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think Venezuela has suffered enough, don't you?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/04/2026
A federal panel voted to exempt oil and gas companies from complying with the Endangered Species Act when drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. The decision will have outsize impact on endangered species such as Rice’s whales, sea turtles and whooping cranes. wapo.st/3QbEeMn
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Language matters. "The Iran war". (See also The Vietnam War and many others). Naming a war after where it is taking place, also suggests that the place is responsible for the events. However, they are often initially under attack from the unnamed party/country.
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Oh yeah ? Guess someone who won 40% of the vote is a real embarrassment. Guess you wanted to have your membership halved to?
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Caroline @caclarke.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Back to Corbynism sounds wonderful.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Gorgeous cover of A-ha's Take on Me By Walk off the Earth 👏 Find them on Youtube, Spotify & Apple
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Who funds the Free Speech Union?
Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/01/2026
It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.
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