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Cordelia Dean

@cordeliadean3.bsky.social
981 followers 1.1K following 106 posts

Interested in too much stuff; nature, cooking, reading, gardening, crafts, environment and politics. Europhile for the most part. Left leaning.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Bluesky really is a phenomenal platform for community building. 🦋 Thanks to recent surges driven from Bluesky, European Movement membership has shot up to now just 250 members short of… 💥25,000 members💥 Please help us get over that milestone. 🙏🏻 YES to EU membership. NO to Trump.
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European Movement
We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.
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Nima (Doctor Yak) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @doctoryak.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Munya as a DJ at the inauguration 😂
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Please help us and take the short survey here...it's all about political donations...something I talk a lot about in my book Democracyforsale.co.uk/safeguard The warrior @petergeoghegan.bsky.social who leads Democracy For Sale is taking this to MPs who support transparency PLEASE SHARE 🙏🏼
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Ray-Ban @ray-ban65.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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C.J. Tudor - Author @cjtudor.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
As I have somehow surpassed 7k followers on here I thought it might be nice to do a giveaway: All 7 of my books to one lovely winner. Just share and like to be in with a chance! 😁📚
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Mike Johnson
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Alf Dubs @alfdubs.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Christmas gift ideas for those who want to support refugees, a list (please do add and circulate) - The Other Side of Hope literary magazine, written by migrants. You can subscribe or contribute to their fundraiser. othersideofhope.com/index.html 1/5
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Come on internet get this locket back
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 25/11/2024
Please vote and share this Express poll - we need to get it out of the Brexiter bubble Currently 86% say NO! And, we know that’s just not a true reflection. You do not need to enter your email address, just scroll down & press skip to poll results www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1980...
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Carol Vorderman wants a referendum on rejoining the EU - have your say now
The former Countdown maths whizz has demanded a new vote reversing Brexit, as more than two million Brits have demanded a General Election.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 24/11/2024
Wow, the UK's leading citizen journalism network is just about to hit 50k followers on Bluesky, can we do this today? Please share and lets make this happen!
Screenshot showing Bylines Network on 48.3K followers
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Charlotte the Procrastinator @catsbearsandme.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My first Bluesky #FollowBackFriday Follow me for cats, bears, politics (UK and US), music, art, movies and a dipping of toes into my Matrix and Kate Bush obsessions. And anything else that tickles my fancy...
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a close up of a person petting a white cat 's paw .
ALT: a close up of a person petting a white cat 's paw .
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TeeDixie ✊🏼 @teedixie.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
It’s FRIIIIIIIDAAAAY!!! People, if you hate racism, misogyny, injustice, disinformation and lies then please, follow me and share this post so we can all connect better on here! #FridayFollows #NoRacism #NoMisogyny #NoInjustice #NoDisinformation
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a man wearing sunglasses says thank god it 's friday in blue letters
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 21/11/2024
Ok I've started one go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F If you think you or someone should be on here, let me know. If you are on here and don't want to be, let me know. If you don't think someone should be on here then I'll at least consider it. This is meant to be broad and general
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LyndaGood @lyndagood.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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Ryan Wiggins @ryan-n-wiggins.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Following the Matt Gaetz news, what I said yesterday still applies. Don't follow the circus. Matt was never going to be confirmed. Matt knew it and Trump knew it. What Matt wanted to do was to escape the house ethics report getting released.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
An international arrest warrant has been issued for Netanyahu. If you want him arrested, Like. If it needs to be right now, RT.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
'Dismembered bodies' as Israel kills 66 in latest north Gaza massacre - www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-66-…
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'Dismembered bodies' as Israel kills 66 in latest north Gaza massacre
Overnight bombing of residential area near Kamal Adwan hospital leaves scores of people wounded without access to emergency response
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Jules or Τζουλς 🕊️🍉 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The UN reported that an average of 10 children loose a leg in Gaza each day. Thousands of children in Gaza are dead, missing, orphaned and injured. Traumatised in a way which will alter their lives forever. When did it become necessary to say #Childrenslivesmatter
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Halton Christmas Toy appeal @haltontoyappeal.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Down to 108 food hampers needed to help families In poverty this Christmas, any shares and help here massively appreciated 🙏🙏
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Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Swifts need your help in so many ways. This is the easiest right now: sign and share especially if you’re in #Wales (but anyone can sign) It only needs just less than 600 signatures but hurry as deadline approaching petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) ⭐️💙
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20/11/2024
"Gaza has become a graveyard for children" Israel has killed at least 17,400 Palestinian children since last October. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/lvp7pu
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
'This cannot go on': Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time Food banks in the Trussell network are now handing out 69% more emergency food parcels than 5 years ago Poverty in the UK is the big issue we should all be talking about www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
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Hundreds of thousands of people turning to food banks for the first time
Campaigners are calling for the government to end "the normalisation of a charitable response to poverty", including food banks.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I ripped this video from Eleonora Svanberg on X (she’s not on 🦋) She wrote: “I'm a PhD student at @UniofOxford and I think I'm living in a fairytale :-) Foxes playing around in the snow at Magdalen College this morning — absolutely magical!”
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/11/2024
5. Bluesky's team consists of about 20 full-time employees. That's a million users here per employee now 🤯 Also, we're hiring! bsky.social/about/join
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𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓮 🇪🇺🌿ॐ🕊🪬 @thejanejanie.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
No idea how I'm going to get all the good people back. 15K followers on Twitter, 15 on here 😂 Rejoiner, Climate, Covid Careful, Farage/Trump are despicable. Lib Dem/Green voter. I'll #followback #FBPE
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Cordelia Dean @cordeliadean3.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Have we reached peak entitlement yet?
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talk2joepublic.bsky.social @talk2joepublic.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
letter to the FT
this letter to the FT says: 


	Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour.
	https://www.ft.com/content/ab358521-8d7e-424a-92c7-349155b08e79

	Far from “protecting the family farm”, as claimed by Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers’ Union (Opinion, FT.com, November 5), the inheritance tax loophole on farmland, introduced in 1984, simply pushed up the price of land without improving returns to active farmers.

This is because, like most agricultural subsidies, the value of the relief was capitalised into land values. As tax planners cottoned on to its role as a licence to avoid IHT, they advised their super-rich clients to buy land and take advantage of it. In the 20 years to 2012, the price of farmland increased fourfold.

This turned landowning farmers into millionaires but — especially since land represents a cost of production — did no good to the incomes of food producers. It created impoverished millionaires who claimed a need for more support. At the same time, because more expensive land had to be squeezed even harder for the last drop of revenue, the environmental damage caused by intensive agriculture was made worse. Taking at least some of this tax loophole away will do no harm to family farmers but will help both public revenues and the environment.

Just a shame the relief was not wholly abolished.

Paul Cheshire
Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography
London School of Economics, London N7, UK
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Steve @railrunner1970.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
<sigh> www.dw.com/en/germany-f...
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Germany: Farmers blockade Berlin in tractor protest – DW – 12/18/2023
German farmers are enraged at proposed diesel subsidy cuts and taxes directly affecting them. They say these could cost them up to €1 billion. The government says the cuts are needed to balance the co...
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
One of my favourite quotes...
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 18/11/2024
Wow, at the weekend Bylines Network not only passed the 30K but also the 35K barriers on BlueSky. Now on Monday we are set to pass the 40K mark if you can share this we might just do this tonight!
Screenshot of Bylines Network bio showing it on 39.4K followers
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Actual good news. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Nadeem Ahmed @muqadaam.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I need 5 more followers to reach 100. Please follow and repost . I talk about Palestine 🇵🇸
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Lee Saunders @leesaunders72.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Scorched earth warfare. It was never about the hostages. Israel is a terrorist state. If any other country in the world was doing this it would be condemned unanimously by all world leaders. GENOCIDE is not self-defence.
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Jason Wiley 🏳️‍🌈 @jayd456.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵
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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 18/11/2024
Okay, seriously, we're at 9.4K. Can you help us get to 10K by lunchtime? My boss would go ballistic if we managed it. Please and thanks. 🇪🇺
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Rachey @rachey.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Please everyone follow my wonderful friend Lisette she is amazing and I love her to bits 🥰🥰🥰
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
One for you to block. bsky.app/profile/unit...
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Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Private Eye is one of the only publications that is anywhere near getting it #climate
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