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Claire Jones

@claireaj.bsky.social
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Politics writer for West England Bylines, Bearly Politics & Left Foot Forward + co-ordinator for campaign group Compass Oxon. Democracy, womens rights, far right ideology, disinformation, Labour, etc. westenglandbylines.co.uk/author/cla…

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
THIS 👇 HERE TOO.......
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Green Party conference has voted to endorse a policy of cutting the level of animal agriculture by 50 per cent
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Green Party backs policy to cut amount of animal farming in half
They're proposing a big shift...
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In his latest book (just published), Owen Jones’ notes how Trump is an inevitable and predictable consequence of market fundamentalism. We could take this further - Trump can be viewed as a cultural asset or benefit where he has fast-tracked the demise of ... substack.com/@claireajblu...
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of those behind the harrassment of the Royal National Lifeboat volunteers as providing a 'migrant taxi service' - hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/22/m...
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Meet Big Time Charlie: The Restore Britain activist harassing the progressive sector – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate exposes “Big Time Charlie”, the man behind a recent campaign of online harassment against progressive charities, campaigners and others he considers “traitors”....
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The paradox of liberalism - it destroys itself through its mandate to tolerate the intolerant. Germany should have banned the AfD (officially classified as a right-wing extremist group) when it still could. Instead it set up a useless firewall, carried on pretending
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1) Interesting to speculate on whether, amongst its many other by products, the Covid pandemic inadvertently massively accelerated the rise of proto-fascism. Suddenly the day-to-day freedoms we all enjoyed within our democracies were ostensibly snatched away by the state, revealing its hidden,
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Keep fighting back. Good people of the US - you can do this!
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Your regular reminder 👇 🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS 🏫 78% want publicly owned schools 💧 73% want publicly owned water 🚂 70% want publicly owned rail ✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail 🚍 67% want publicly owned buses 💡 65% want publicly owned energy
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EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today is the very last day to sign the News Sovereignty petition to wrench our media from the paws of billionaires. This is a really (really) important issue. Please sign. Link to petition at end of article below - westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/media/c...
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Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?
A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Good On You,Mayor Mamdani....👏🏻
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What you won't find on the feont page of the mainstream press
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I know I've said the far-right brush off hypocrisy - that it doesn't bother them. But this is stretching the limits of indifference somewhat, isn't it, even for extremists?
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Just O.M.G
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Women's unnecessary suffering & death has become 'business as usual' in the US. If the far-right overcome Europe & the UK, this suffering will become normalised here too. If in doubt note that Reform invited 3 separate anti-abortion organisations to speak at their 2026 conference -
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
‘The 2026 Plan to Steal This Election, and All Those After’ – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2026/09/03/t... If anyone has an alternative explanation that shows why this compelling and deeply alarming account is wrong then please tell us now -
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‘The 2026 Plan to Steal This Election, and All Those After’
If Republicans fail to hold onto the House or Senate in the 2026 midterms, Brynn Tannehill comes to the conclusion that they will reject the results
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Surprise, suprise, Mr Prinsley. Now fancy your taking this view! - "MP Peter Prinsley, an honorary vice-chair of the Labour Friends of Israel campaign, told Radio 4 the sanctions package “carries a real risk of increased chances of attacks on the British Jewish community.” Politico today
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Jenrick’s reaction to the assaults? It was this.
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
substack.com/profile/9375... On how the mainstream media constructs reality - lesson 3: 'Lying by ommission', Subtitle: 'Making (No. 10) plans for Nigel' -
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On how the mainstream media constructs reality - lesson 3: 'Lying by ommission', Subtitle: 'Making (No. 10) plans for Nigel' - The very act by the mainstream press of keeping the C4 film out of the ...
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Timely Orr refresher - 'intrepidly retrograde Christian nationalist policy creator, James Orr opposes abortion in all cases and pushes the pro-natalist policy of families having more children “to boost birth rates”. From westenglandbylines.co.uk/politics/hum... For more Orr, also see Byline Times
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The octopus and the handmaid: Reform’s Epsteinian cultural agenda
From Epstein’s web to Reform’s proposed raft of policy ideas, creeping misogyny now risks redefining women’s rights in Britain
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
That wonderful gotcha moment! Absolute full marks to the guys who went under cover for a year to secretly film and expose Reform fixers, incuding Farage himself, arranging illegal donations to the party - www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXut...
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Swara A.S. ☀️🍉🌊🧿 @spiderswarz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
"Pointing out the crucial connections between what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in Hollywood is the exact opposite of antisemitism. It is, for us, the very essence of Jewish ethical duty." 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 variety.com/2026/film/gl...
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Mark Ruffalo Defended by Hannah Einbinder, Joel Coen and More Than 170 Jewish Figures After Paramount Accuses Him of Using ‘Antisemitic Tropes’ — Read the Open Letter (EXCLUSIVE)
Joel Coen and Todd Haynes are among more than 170 Jewish figures who have signed a letter in support of Mark Ruffalo amid antisemitism claims.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Zack Polanski might be about to throw his hat in the ring leftfootforward.org/2026/09/gree...
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Greens hint that Zack Polanski might stand in Keir Starmer’s seat
A party spokesperson said Zack Polanski had always wanted to be an MP in London
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
1) Anyone know what this means? - "Dame Priti [Patel] wrote that she will take up a new role focused on strengthening "links with sister parties and centre right movements around the world". Is that "centre-right" as per the new Overton window? sounds ominous to me. By calling their friends
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There's some brilliant 'retaliatory naming' going on 😀
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Ian Fraser @ianfraser.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“Expanding oil and gas production in the North Sea isn’t just an environmental crime. It is also economically illiterate,” said Richard Sulley, senior research fellow at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures at @sheffielduni.bsky.social.
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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows
Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK
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Michelle Fahy @michellefahy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Interesting - Harborne owns 15% of QinetiQ. QinetiQ is a solid contractor to Defence Dept in Australia and has a close alliance with Defence Science and Technology (weapons R&D side) @lucyham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Arms and the £5m man: Farage megadonor Christopher Harborne’s military empire
Reform UK denies donor and crypto-billionaire’s global interests in arms and military could present a conflict of interest over its defence spending policy
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Prepaid Africa @prepaid-africa.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
McDonald likened Donald Trump’s behaviour towards Canada as “a lot like the schoolyard bully yelling and stomping their feet when they don’t get the cowering reaction they expect”. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America
Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living
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News 📰 @some-news.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
While the “yes” vote was popular in the capital, the “no” from more rural areas tipped the balance.
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Icelanders say no to restarting talks to join the EU
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Anna26458 @anna26458.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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'A floating prison' - sailors describe life on warships like USS Abraham Lincoln
Concerns have mounted about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which has been deployed since 11 December.
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tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Deportees Recount Harrowing Journeys to Africa: Shackles, a ‘Freezer’ and Blows www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/w...
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Ralph Houston @franktexas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The UK government and its mouthpiece are fully in lockstep with the techbro kleptocrats pushing for more AI. Any chance they could join the dots? But the right have been trying to disenfranchise and disempower working people for over 150 years. BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cl...
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More than one million young people not in work or education as report warns of 'lost generation'
The number of Neets aged 16 to 24 increases to its highest level in 12 years, as a major review says the figure will continue to rise without "urgent" action.
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
"And who can blame them for seeking a PIP safety net that protects them from mercurial UC decisions, & provides certainty about their next meal, in a world where ‘if you work your socks off, you’ll gain security’ is a promise that simply never materialised?" By Claire Jones. Full article in link
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Welcome to the ‘Youth Hunger Games’: the brutal NEET race for shrinking pickings
Young people are being exhorted to keep chasing the elusive prize of employment, even as our work-centred world is diminishing
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 21/08/2026
Parts of Indiana have been without power for 9–10 days due to storms. Tens of thousands are currently in the dark (peak was over 300,000). Puerto Rico has been rationing water for 13+ days due to severe drought. Trump has not said a word about either crisis. Not a tweet. A “Truth.” Nothing
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Freebird @freebirdtu.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A political ideology rooted in FEAR:
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My thoughts on the press that hounded Jason Arday to his death… And my personal message to Julia Hartley-Brewer.
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The damage is done. No consolation to be had watching these vile press outlets now grovelling in shame and frantically deleting what they gleefully posted just a few days ago -
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I fully recommend using this Newscord site. It provides extracts from Arday's worst mainstream press offenders. They are horrendous. It also has a wide reach & is more powerful than ordinary petitions - it sends a letter from you to multiple mainstream newspapers share.google/yOoIbOECPi6X...
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The Mail printed a psychiatrist's guess at Jason Arday's mind. Hours later he was found dead.
A diagnosis-shaped headline at 1:01am on the day he died. His childhood disability interrogated one minute before the ambulance call. A mockery column deleted without a word. File five IPSO complaints...
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Jason Arday's death provides a clear measure of just how far the extreme right has infiltrated UK society & been normalized by our media. The hounding continued even after calls from key figures to stop because amplifying racism was prioritised over protecting a vulnerable young man's life.
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Many thanks to The Bear for publishing my latest article -
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Welcome to the ‘Youth Hunger Games’: the brutal NEET race for shrinking pickings
Young people are being exhorted to keep chasing the elusive prize of employment, even as our work-centred world is diminishing
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You may have seen I broadcast a message to planet Earth from the edge of space. I thought it was equally important to speak to deep space about you and your lovely little planet. But I thought humans might like to see it too, so here it is. #Clacton #VoteBinface
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Perhaps Arday did commit plagiarism. But there's nothing in these mainstream media headlines about how this issue was dramatised as part of a truly relentless racist campaign, in this case driven by Nathan Cofnas, to 'disappear blacks from academia'. These unnuanced headlines echo the same racism -
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social Inspired by your interview with Helen Lewis -
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Masculist pushback: the threatened extinction of the great, white Judeo-Christian male
A political ideology rooted in fear is remaking the world in its own image and dragging us with it
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Claire Jones @claireaj.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Left Foot Forward has, amongst other things, been providing detailed daily scrutiny of Reform UK. When Burnham's honeymoon is over, the political rightwing block will gather strength again. There was never a more urgent moment for truthful, insightful independent media. Help keep it alive -
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You can help secure LFF’s future
Left Foot Forward's reporting is under threat
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
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