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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Believe in democracy, science, climate action, truth & justice; MSc (IT). Ni fydd y kleptocrats yn ennill. #FBPE. Previously elsewhere and now looking fo follow interesting people here.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026
Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Nigel Farage allowed to host his own primetime show on GB News? Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action ⬇️
bestforbritain.org
Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚫 Fracking in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. 👇 38d.gs/wpsf
38d.gs
Ban Fracking For Good!
The Government plans to ban new licences for some types of fracking in England. Good news, but it doesn’t go far enough. Sign the petition to demand a PERMANENT ban covering ALL fracking⚡
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
[The proposals] could undermine “independent journalists” and amount to “extraterritorial censorship of protected speech by Americans online”. It's not like calling them "Piggy", banning them from press conferences and prosecuting them when they write something the regime doesn't like though is it?
theguardian.com
Trump administration attacks UK plans to boost traditional media on social platforms
US embassy says Downing Street’s plan to give BBC, ITV and other established media more online visibility carries risk of ‘censorship’
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
No. If the acceptability of Rosebank relies on the efficacy of carbon capture technology, then it's not a credible method of clean energy production. Greener solutions must prevail to avoid runaway global heating.
theguardian.com
Can Burnham justify giving the go ahead to oil drilling? Yes, but these must be the conditions | Michael Jacobs
Carbon capture and storage could make the Rosebank site compatible with UK net zero commitments – if its owners are willing to pay the price, says economist Michael Jacobs
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don’t believe Tice's academic qualifications are a good foundation for him to be dismissing the [fact, not] threat of global warming, but should he seek enlightenment, I suggest he go outside right now in the UK with an ambient thermometer. Cheaper at < £20, than making fool of oneself.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Of course, Labour now searches for new members and new donations on the back of Andy Burnham's new policy broom, but on this basis, they'll be disappointed. The hydrocarbon age is dead even if Burnham can't see it. Maybe big oil will sponsor 'No.10 North' 🤔
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Perhaps the BBC can cut back on its flagrant promotion of right-wing politicians who rail against NetZero & revel in the destruction of nature so Winterwatch can be funded with the money we've paid instead. 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Tell the BBC: Save Winterwatch!
The UK is losing its wildlife, and shows like Winterwatch are vital for connecting us to nature. The BBC's decision to cancel it makes no sense. Let's ask them to rethink this! Add your name here:
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Apologies for the source but there's a poll & it's not quite going to plan! 🤣🤣 www.dailymail.com/news/article...
dailymail.com
Nigel Farage says the Binface by-election is deadly serious
Nigel Farage last night insisted he is fighting a 'real election'. He spoke out after his by-election gamble left him facing off against Count Binface, a man dressed as a bin.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Corrupt, embarrassing, an utter failure: Trump's catastrophic handling of America's 250th anniversary iandunt.substack.com/p/ice-ice-ba...
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Ice, Ice Baby: America's national decline
The 250th anniversary is corrupt, embarrassing and an utter failure. It's the perfect encapsulation of Trump's US.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I just signed Foxglove's petition to Andy Burnham: 'if you become our next PM, get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data'. 👇 www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
foxglove.org.uk
Sign the petition to Andy Burnham: If you become our next Prime Minister, please get Palantir out of our NHS.
ADD YOUR NAME NOW!
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Politicians and policy makers need help to understand complex ecosystems that underpin food production. We can't continue to kill pollinators with neonicotinoids without dire consequences for pollinators and humanity itself. Help them out with this 👇 butterfly-conservation.good.do/ban-neonics-...
butterfly-conservation.good.do
Tell Your MP to Ban Neonics for Good
Send an email to your MP asking them to support the ban on neonics for good. No exemptions.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The Whitehouse does not govern the UK so whatever is decided by UK's actual elected government, and/or devolved governments where applicable after informed debate is therefore final. Now butt-out Whitehouse.
theguardian.com
White House urges UK not to ban social media for under-16s
Trump administration says restrictions could impose ‘disproportionate’ burden on US tech companies
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Free-range" labels changed how we buy eggs. Now we need the same honesty for dairy. Don't let mega-dairy products hide on our supermarket shelves. Sign the petition to demand mandatory dairy welfare labels from the Environment Secretary 👇 act.38degrees.org.uk/act/battery-...
act.38degrees.org.uk
The Great British dairy scandal: Crack down on “battery” dairy farms
"Free-range" labels changed how we buy eggs. Now we need the same honesty for dairy. Don't let US-style mega-dairies hide on our supermarket shelves. Sign the petition to demand mandatory dairy welfar...
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
So no, Mr Yusuf, that 👇 is absolute nonsense. The data actually shows: 10 TIMES AS MANY Young Brits hired as young non-EU nationals 17/
A graphic debunking the claim that 27 non-EU migrants are hired for every young Brit, with statistics on youth employment in the UK.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
It seems Tony Blair's sychophancy towards warmongering US Republican presidents is getting shade from everywhere today.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Tony Blair doesn't get to "tell" PM Starmer anything. He doesn't have the stature, the authority or the moral rectitude to carry it off.
theguardian.com
Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump
In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Water companies should not expect consumers to pay for THEIR past failure to invest revenue principally in the interests of consumers rather than in their own financial returns. Let this be resolved by public ownership of our water supply & treatment utilities.
theguardian.com
Billionaire Trump donor in line to make millions from Thames Water bid
Paul Singer is founder of a leading creditor in the hedge fund consortium locked in talks with the UK government
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ministers are deciding RIGHT NOW whether to scrap Palantir's NHS contract. This Trump-linked surveillance company has no place in our health service. I've signed, will you?
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Get Palantir OUT of our NHS!
Ministers are deciding RIGHT NOW whether to scrap Palantir's NHS contract. This Trump-linked surveillance company has no place in our health service. I've signed, will you?
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
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Sign the Petition
Replace Chris Mason with a neutral voice
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Question to the US Secretary of Defense: How's is President Trump's promised response to Iranian fire on "peaceful vessels" going today?
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Why is the Guardian consumed by Starmer over Mandelson vetting? Just about every item in today's edition covers it in some way. Grow-up Guardian editors - it's Mandelson who's in disgrace and he's done! In other news, Badenoch would abolish our human rights under ECHR. Give that some attention.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The multiple patient interfaces built by private ventures contracted by the NHS at vast public expense are cynical attempts to convert public health funding into private equity & profit. Stop the NHS contracting out to low-efficacy suppliers 4 profit. Petition 👇 act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Stop-Pri...
act.38degrees.org.uk
Stop private companies draining our NHS!
I just signed the campaign calling to cap private profits on our NHS!
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Starmer should immediately & unequivocally ban access to British airspace to US warplanes. The UK should not be accomplice to a US President who is threatening more war crimes. Period.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
JD Vance projects his own unacceptable Hungarian election interference onto the EU. He suould be expelled from the Shengen area and banned from the UK. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
theguardian.com
JD Vance accuses EU of ‘interference’ as he visits Hungary to help Orbán win election
US vice-president rails against ‘bureaucrats in Brussels’ interfering in Sunday’s vote as he arrives in Budapest
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump claiming Starmer is weak, presumably because he won't 'k*ss Trumps a*s' as Trump requires and has recourse to aircraft carriers with fully functioning toilets and a laundries that aren't on fire. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump claims Starmer is weak as he mocks PM and UK aircraft carriers
Footage shows US president saying UK ‘should be our best’ ally and accusing PM of prevarication over sending ships
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump claiming Starmer is weak, presumably because he won't 'k*ss Trumps a*s' as Trump requires and has recourse to aircraft carriers with fully functioning toilets and a laundries that aren't on fire. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump claims Starmer is weak as he mocks PM and UK aircraft carriers
Footage shows US president saying UK ‘should be our best’ ally and accusing PM of prevarication over sending ships
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Here's an idea: how about appointing an expert in media and impartiality to the post of the media regulator Ofcom chair and remove politically partisan candidates from consideration. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
theguardian.com
Labour under pressure to appoint Tory ex-minister as next Ofcom chair
Liz Kendall urged by online safety figures to give job to Jeremy Wright ahead of Labour peer Margaret Hodge
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The UK's biggest climate polluter, Drax Power Station, intends to build a 100GW data centre, which could be the UK's first to be powered by burning trees. I've emailed North Yorks Council demanding a full environmental impact assessment of these plans. U can too www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/dr...
foxglove.org.uk
North Yorks Council - require Environmental Impact Assessment for Drax data centre
Drax Power Station is the single largest source of carbon emissions in the UK. Now Drax wants to build a massive hyperscale data centre at the same site. This could be the UK's first data centre power...
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I just signed the petition to Keir Starmer demanding he stands firm against Trump’s pressures to pull us into another war in the middle east. Will you add your name? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/Keir-Sta...
act.38degrees.org.uk
Keir Starmer: Don't back down over war with Iran
I just signed the campaign calling on Keir Starmer to never back down over the war with Iran
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is exactly why so many transparency campaigners are calling for crypto donations to be banned
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Farage's ignorance is no excuse for rudeness. The Common Brittonic language from which emerged Welsh, Cornish & Cumbric was the main language in what is now Great Britain from pre-Roman to early medieval times. So which official UK language is really the more foreign?
theguardian.com
Farage called Welsh people ‘foreign speakers’ in paid-for video message
Reform UK leader’s remarks in Cameo clip risk damaging party’s ambitions in upcoming Welsh elections
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Farage's ignorance is no excuse for rudeness. The Common Brittonic language from which emerged Welsh, Cornish & Cumbric was the main language in what is now Great Britain from pre-Roman to early medieval times. So which official UK language is really the more foreign?
theguardian.com
Farage called Welsh people ‘foreign speakers’ in paid-for video message
Reform UK leader’s remarks in Cameo clip risk damaging party’s ambitions in upcoming Welsh elections
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Is it true that Putin has chosen to relocate to an orbital hideout because, according to Trump's press secretary today, 'President Trump would never make the decision to deploy military assets against a foreign adversary in a vacuum'?
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 17/03/2026
Global fossil prices are sky rocketing and we set the price of our own green energy to be the same. Madness.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The real reasons for not sending Royal Navy ships to bail out this US initiated big-oil-benefiting crisis should surely be that it's an illegal war and they probably wouldn't come back.
theguardian.com
UK plans to send minesweeping drones to help reopen strait of Hormuz
Government reluctant to dispatch ships amid concerns complying with Trump’s demands could escalate Iran crisis
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A passport tax would solve the problem of tax refugees www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/03...
taxresearch.org.uk
A passport tax would solve the problem of tax refugees
The Guardian posted this comment yesterday: Wealthy UK nationals fleeing war in the Gulf are seeking sanctuary in countries such as Ireland and France to avoid hefty tax bills back home. In the f...
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
While US and Israel are attacking Iran to no coherent military end, it would be outrageous for the Royal Navy to engage in Trump's war of choice without a full parliamentary discussion and vote. And I trust that parliament would refuse consent.
theguardian.com
Trump’s call for allied deployment to strait of Hormuz meets muted response
UK and Japan among countries that are considering options but yet to commit warships to blockaded shipping route
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
You broke it. You fix it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump calls on UK to send warships to keep strait of Hormuz open
US president urges nations to deploy vessels to keep key oil shipping route open amid conflict with Iran
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Conflict-fleeing tax exiles desperate not to pay UK taxes should enjoy their tax avoidance bounty by buying citizenship of a gulf country instead so that UK can remove their UK citizenship & all the benefits they won't contribute to funding, like diplomatic assistance. #HighNetWorth? Not to the UK!
theguardian.com
Wealthy British nationals fleeing Gulf conflict bypass UK to avoid tax bills
High-net-worth residents of UAE heading to Ireland and France to wait out missile attacks before tax year ends
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Conflict-fleeing tax exiles desperate not to pay UK taxes should enjoy their tax avoidance bounty by buying citizenship of a gulf country instead so that UK can remove their UK citizenship & all the benefits they won't contribute to funding, like diplomatic assistance. #HighNetWorth? Not to the UK!
theguardian.com
Wealthy British nationals fleeing Gulf conflict bypass UK to avoid tax bills
High-net-worth residents of UAE heading to Ireland and France to wait out missile attacks before tax year ends
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
www.crowdjustice.com/case/wildcats/
crowdjustice.com
Join the legal fight to protect the Scottish Wildcat
Wildcat Haven is a grass roots, community driven conservation project. We are the only conservation group focussed solely on saving the Scottish wildcat in the wild where it belongs.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Does UK have an ID problem with vehicle tax payments? No, the tax is due on the vehicle in use, not the owner. DVLA is content so long as it gets a payment. This would be a fantasy use of Digital ID merely to justify its existence.
theguardian.com
UK digital ID scheme to have limited use before next general election, minister says
Darren Jones says £1.8bn project likely to cover only vehicle tax payments and right-to-work checks initially
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 08/03/2026
Given Trump's illegal war that is devastating the Middle East and pushing up energy bills, Keir Starmer should advise the King to call off April’s state visit to the US. A state visit should not be given to someone who repeatedly insults and damages our country.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
The first thing an aircraft carrier has to defend in a hostile environment is itself. Unless we hear of a flotilla of escorts also preparing for deployment in 5 days - HMS Dragon & onboard aircraft are not enough - this is either a bluff or a very risky move.
bbc.co.uk
British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales prepped to set sail
This may raise speculation HMS Prince of Wales could be sent to defend British interests during the Middle East conflict.
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Rebel Alliance #FBPE 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @celticdolphin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Come on pips get signing! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset
To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.
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Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @catrollo.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Wrong: Starmer was too quick to capitulate to Trump. Who can believe the claim USAF will only exploit RAF Fairford (and I have a valid interest being from the region) for strikes against stored missiles which Iran would have used for retaliation? This is participation.
theguardian.com
UK ‘took far too long’ to let US use its airbases to attack Iran, Trump says
US president also ‘very disappointed’ in Keir Starmer over UK government’s deal to hand Chagos Islands to Mauritius
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Squeaky Squirrel🐿️🌏🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🇨🇦🐈 @squeakysquirrel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hegseth wants AI Claude to be capable of: "mass domestic surveillance" & "autonomous weapons systems that can kill people without human input." #Hegseth #Hagueseth #AI #Pentagon www.cityam.com/ai-safety-ro...
cityam.com
AI safety row deepens as Anthropic risks losing Pentagon deal
Anthropic has refused to relax its safety limits on its AI tools, despite threats from the US Department of Defence to scrap a $200m contract
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