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@colinmiller.bsky.social
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I’m a writer and photographer interested in Progressive political change working together, democracy, of labour and social history and history of north-east England

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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Most people want a fairer society, a working democracy, a protected planet. So why split the vote and let the far-right in to destroy it all? Sign the @compassoffice.bsky.social open letter urging progressive leaders to cooperate at the next election: actionnetwork.org/forms/unite-...
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Unite the Progressive Majority to Build a Better Britain!
Most people want a fairer society, a working democracy, a protected planet. So why split the vote & let the far-right in to destroy it all? That's why I've signed this open letter urging progressive l...
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I just signed a @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social petition - Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/gu...
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Guarantee a Fair and Open Selection for the Gorton and Denton By-election
Labour can win in the Gorton and Denton by-election if we lead with our values and allow a fair, democratic and open selection for our candidate. Sign the petition below calling on the Chair of Lab...
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Please sign 38d.gs/ohvm
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Sign the petition: Stop all UK support for the Israeli military in Gaza
I've signed a petition calling for Keir Starmer to end all UK military support in Israel.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
13 September ‘So, Progressive Politics—What’s Next?’ A year into Labour’s landslide! Disillusionment with Starmer grows. Corbyn–Sultana party surges. Greens gain ground & Reform rises. With Sue Goss (Open Tribe) Mark Perryman (The Starmer Symptom) Booking essential: bhcompass.org.uk
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
@bhcompass1.bsky.social has a new tee shirt
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Excellent piece from @compass President Neal Lawson on how the right used the left to take over the Labour leadership. bylinetimes.com/2025/06/17/l...
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Labour Apart: How Morgan McSweeney Levered the Left Out of Power
The story of how Keir Starmer's chief adviser hoodwinked Labour party members tells us a lot about how power really works, argues Neal Lawson
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
What a great event and lovely to be with my friends from @bhcompass1.bsky.social and Lewes Compass.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Daughter is currently being taken on a lovely and interesting tour of Brighton on a rail replacement bus. Apparently the driver doesn’t know the route and got lost. A passenger is now guiding him.
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We're seeing it again: FPTP makes a mockery of democracy. 🚨Turning elections into a lottery 🚨Giving 100% of the power to parties with 25% of the vote 🚨Making us vote for the "lesser evil" 🚨Silencing millions of voices Sign the petition to scrap it:
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📢 No More First Past the Post Elections!
Thursday’s election results confirm what so many of us already know: the current voting system is broken. With 5 parties polling strongly, First Past the Post is delivering chaos and turning election...
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
May Day greetings Our next @bhcompass1.bsky.social coffee morning, 10 May with Mathew Fright from the Institute of Government and John Hewitt from Brighton & Hove Council Devolution - Changes Are in the Works for the City & Sussex - Can Our Voices Be Heard? www.bhcompass.org.uk
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
lights (iPhone yesterday)
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Rachel Reeves and Kier Starmer reckon theres no alternative to a return to austerity (though they don’t call it that of course) but there is read Stewart Lansley new report for @compassoffice.bsky.social www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...
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Paying for a Decade of National Renewal - Compass
Published 21st March 2025 The government claims that rebuilding Britain depends on growth. But will the growth strategy work? And […]
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Another brilliant coffee morning in a packed house with @bhcompass1.bsky.social as Polly Toynbee and Stewart Leland explored alternative options for Labour and the economy . See Stewart new @compassoffice.bsky.social report www.compassonline.org.uk/publications...
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No second state visit for Trump
Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
@bhcompass1.bsky.social Don’t miss our next coffee and politics morning, 22 March in Hove. With Guardian columnist and author @Polly Toynbee columnist and author & Stewart Lansley, from Progressive Economy Forum & author economist. Booking essential www.bhcompass.org.uk
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Excited about our next @bhcompass1.bsky.social coffee & politics morning. ‘It’s the Economy, Stupid: is Reeves Right, is There an Alternative?’ With Guardian columnist and author Polly Toynbee, and economist and author Stewart Langley. 22 March 2025 Details from www.bhcompass.org.uk
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Another brilliant coffee with politics morning @bhcompass1.bsky.social with @sianberry.bsky.social mp and Emma Montlake, environmental lawyer & campaigner talking all things environment.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
@bhcompass1.bsky.social Can’t remember our coffee and politics morning filling so quickly. @sianberry.bsky.social Berry Green mp for Brighton Pavilion and Emma Montlake environmental lawyer, founder Love Our Ouse. Details & booking via our web site. 25/01/25 www.bhcompass.org.uk
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Join @bhcompass1.bsky.social On 25th 10.00-12.30 Cornerstone Community Centre Hove The Climate Crises Can National and Local Policies Meet the Challenge with @sianberry.bsky.social MP Greens & Emma Montlake environmental lawyer and founder Love Our Ouse. Booking essential www.bhcompass.org.uk
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@privateeyenews.bsky.social Love Hislops phrase ‘ungrownup men…with no morality’ that’s as about as succinct and accurate a description of the Musks and Zuckerbergs of this world as you could get. Well worth a watch youtu.be/diHcpZvBjT0?...
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Ian Hislop’s unfiltered take on Elon Musk | LBC
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 04/01/2025
‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
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‘Ironic’: climate-driven sea level rise will overwhelm major oil ports, study shows
Ports including in Saudi Arabia and the US projected to be seriously damaged by a metre of sea level rise Rising sea levels driven by the climate crisis will overwhelm many of the world’s biggest oil ports, analysis indicates. Scientists said the threat…
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
A busy & momentous year @bhcompass1.bsky.social & @compassoffice.bsky.social see our Xmas newsletter. A scary 2025 but we remember Raymond Williams line ‘To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing’ www.bhcompass.org.uk/assets/documents/christmas-newsletter-2024
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
So is the devolution white paper a step towards devolved power & empowered communities? I share John Denham’s pessimism. What do others think? labourlist.org/2024/12/engl...
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‘The English devolution white paper must be step one in reversing centralisation’ – LabourList
Today’s White Paper is a big step towards the Take Back Control Bill (now next year’s English Devolution Bill) when Keir Starmer promised a ‘whole…
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Whilst Labour’s victory was big it is, as this important report from @compass shows, extremely brittle. It could melt away in a blink. So what needs to be done to strengthen it? www.compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Observer sale by Scott Trust is deeply worrying, a beacon for progressive politics for 200 years this and the Guardian are profoundly important to our press & therefore democracy, lone voices dominated by the increasingly extreme right press. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...
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Scott Trust approves sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media
Observer sold: The Scott Trust board has given the go-ahead for Tortoise Media to acquire The Observer, it was announced on Friday 6 December.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Great that Compass @compassoffice.bsky.social has joined Bluesky. Can’t think of any reason why progressives (organisations and people) would have anything to do with X.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A special day at Compass agm, seeing old friends, making new ones. Deep conversations, laughter and a pint in the pub afterward. Great seeing comrades & coleagues from @bhcompass1.bsky.social & @compassox.bsky.social To create a better politics for the Good Society. www.compassonline.org.uk
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Compass - Compass
Compass is the home for everyone who wants to be part of a much more equal, democratic and sustainable future.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Looking forward to joining my @bhcompass1.bsky.social and other Compass folk at our AGM this Saturday for celebrations and important conversations.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A brilliant presentation by photographer and activist Natasa Leoni at Brighton Hove Camera Club last nigh. Check out her work www.natasaleoni.com
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Natasa Leoni Sussex-based Photographer & Activist
Humanitarian, Protest, and Lifestyle Photography in Sussex. Inspiring change through visual storytelling. Photographer and activist working with B-Corps, showcasing brands' commitment to sustainabilit...
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I joined Bluesky a couple of months ago, and so far it’s lovely, people are nice to each other as far as I can see. I really hope as it grows that we can maintain this civility, and not be a place where hate, anger and lies are allowed free rein.
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Good to see that the @theguardian.com has joined the mass exodus from that other place
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
@bhcompass1.bsky.social 16 November 10 till 12.30 Coffee with Politics morning. Neal Lawson director of Compass talking ‘After the Riots’ www.compassonline.org.uk/publications... At Cornerstone Community Centre booking essentail via www.bhcompass.org.uk
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After the Riots - Compass
The aftermath of the recent riots leaves a country grappling with deep-seated issues that extend far beyond the immediate violence. […]
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
Wow another amazing discussion in our (Lefty) Book Group last night as always great laughs beer, food and lively argument on James Obrien’s book some of us loved it others hated it. Great that a group of people with very different views can debate like this www.penguin.co.uk/books/457804...
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How They Broke Britain
***THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER, WITH NEW MATERIAL FOR THE PAPERBACK*** THE REVEALING, DEFINING ACCOUNT OF THE DARK NETWORK THAT BROKE OUR COUNTRY. Something has gone really wrong in Britain. Our economy...
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
This P&O row is proof of Britain's economic servility Is the Government prioritising Dubai investment over British workers' rights? www.newstatesman.com/thestaggers/...
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This P&O row is proof of Britain's economic servility
Is the Government prioritising Dubai investment over British workers' rights?
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
Radical Halifax: from the Luddites to peace campaigners sslh.org.uk/2024/10/10/r...
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Radical Halifax exhibition: from the Luddites to peace campaigners
Runing until 20 October 2024, Radical Halifax is a unique art exhibition, historical enquiry, and political intervention that seeks to recover hidden histories of the Yorkshire town’s radical past …
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
If you’re looking for historians, archivists, librarians and writers on #LabourHistory, try our starter pack… go.bsky.app/CUqdx9a
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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
An important if depressing story about the threat to our museums www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues | John Harris
Brutal cuts to council budgets have decimated museums and forced some to close. We’re at risk of losing our shared memory, writes Guardian columnist John Harris
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
@bhcompass1.bsky.social our new Saturday Morning Coffee & Politics is coming together nicely Neal Lawson on 16 November, ‘After The Riots’, Sian Berry mp in January on environmental policy and Polly Toynbee and Stewart Lansley discussing the Govts economic policy more to come www.bhcompass.org.uk
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colinmiller.bsky.social @colinmiller.bsky.social · 22/09/2024
Hi folks my first I’ve just moved from X because like many, I don’t want to be associated with it anymore. Interested in British politics and issues re democracy, & a member of @bhcompass1.bsky.social
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