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Dave Rendle

@daverendle.bsky.social
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Human rights, poetry, Palestine, internationalist, Welsh republican, anti-monarchist, My brain socialist, my head anarchist, my eyes pacifist, my blood revolutionary, teifidancer-teifidancer.blogspot.com

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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 3h
Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows a hole in the idea of a ‘free press’
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Reporting of the RAF Fairford arrests blows a hole in the idea of a ‘free press’
When the establishment media deals with issues in which the West’s war industries are most heavily invested, it happily jettisons even the semblance of critical distance from the state
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 5h
Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend
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Saying You Listen To AI Music Is Like Saying You Have An AI Girlfriend
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 5h
The super-rich are profiting from the cost-of-living crisis. While our energy bills rose by 50%, the super-rich who make their money from energy have seen their wealth grow by 20%. Demand that the UK government taxes extreme wealth with @waronwant.bsky.social: secure.waronwant.org/page/201460/...
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Stop the Super-Rich Profiting from the Cost-of-Living Crisis
Tax extreme wealth now
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wystan Hugh Auden British-American poet, playwright, and critic, died on this day 29 September 1973.
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Stop all the clocks - WH Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973)
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Naza
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Naza
When NAZA premiered at Venice earlier this month, it sent shockwaves across the globe. Composed of interviews with 24 anonymous Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers, NAZA is a haunting exposé…
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price
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The Board of Peace Is an Abject Failure, and Palestinians Are Paying the Price
It promised to bring ‘everlasting peace’: Gaza was to be rebuilt; military operations halted; ‘full aid’ given; and an International Stabilisation Force set up. It has failed on every count.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
electronicintifada.net
Ireland's second game with Israel must now be stopped
Why won't the Dublin government stand up to Gideon Saar?
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
action.trussell.org.uk
Nobody should have to decide between rent and food
When housing support doesn't cover the rent, people are often left with an impossible decision: pay the landlord or buy food. Nobody should have to decide between keeping a roof over their head and pu...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hopenothate.org.uk
Tommy Robinson’s Algarve Empire: Exposing his shadowy Portuguese companies – HOPE not hate
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 29/09/2026
A £15,000 crowdfunding appeal for a new opera about one of the most dramatic chapters in Welsh history has won backing from two high-profile figures
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£15k appeal launched to bring arson attack to the opera stage
A £15,000 crowdfunding appeal for a new opera about one of the most dramatic chapters in Welsh history has won backing from two high-profile figures. Former Plaid Cymru president Dafydd Wigley and int...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You were right, Miliband tells Palestine solidarity movement But campaigners warned that the Foreign Secretary's ‘silence on Palestine Action and on the government’s attack on the right to protest is in danger of appearing hypocritical’
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You were right, Miliband tells Palestine solidarity movement
YOU were right, Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told the Palestine solidarity movement today.Trying to draw a line under the most obnoxious aspect of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership of Labour, Mr Miliband...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These companies profit from Israel’s crimes against Palestinians
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These companies profit from Israel's crimes against Palestinians
UK companies, JCB and Greenkote, feature on the updated list of firms benefitting from Israel's war crimes
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
opendemocracy.net
Around the world, people fight for Palestine as authorities crack down
In Tunisia, imprisoned Palestinian rights activists are on the brink of death.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Was Fairford the most embarrassing false flag of all time?
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Was Fairford the most embarrassing false flag of all time?
For the past few months, we’ve been told by people with a crystal ball that an attack on UK soil was imminent, and now it’s finally happened.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Remembering feminist and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst who died September 27, 1960
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 27/09/2026
Mike Jenkins’ latest book, He Sings the Broken Cities, contains a number of poems about Gaza, with a particular focus on children. This is his most recent poem on Gaza and was written in the same spirit
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Poem on Sunday: Today He’ll Paint
Mike Jenkins Just a boy winding his way to school, Could be called Khaled, Mohammed or Jamil. His school bag on his back Is the size of a younger sibling – Paper, pencils and water-bottle, Someone’s s...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Massive Attack’s Rob Del Naja has been arrested again for simply holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide — I support Palestine Action,” outside the Labour Party conference venue in Liverpool.
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Musician Robert Del Naja arrested for 'I support Palestine Action' message
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Green leader Zack Polanski describes Zionism as racism
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Green leader Zack Polanski describes Zionism as racism
Green Party leader Zack Polanski has declared himself an anti-Zionist and described Zionism as racism during a Jewish community hustings.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
morningstaronline.co.uk
The socialist legacy of the Battle of Cable Street
IN just a week’s time, on October 4, thousands of people in East London will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, when the Jewish community and allies stood together to marc...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
RACING IN SPACE
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RACING IN SPACE
RACING IN SPACE On our marks, getting set, ready to go, Send up armed satellites, go Andy go, He gets on so well with agent orange, Sat in United Nations meeting room. Emulation will bring annihila…
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Mark Rothko ( Marcus Rothkowitz ) abstract expressionist artist and anarchist was born in the working-class, Jewish town of Dvinsk, now known as Daugavpils, Latvia on the 25th of September 1903.
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Remembering the Radical Abstract Expressionist Artist Mark Rothko ( September 25, 1903 – February 25, 1970)
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
morningstaronline.co.uk
First Minister’s plea for minute's silence to mark Aberfan disaster 60th anniversary
ORGANISATIONS across Wales have been asked to observe a minute’s silence on the 60th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, the Welsh government revealed today.First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth has asked ...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
caat.org.uk
CAAT - UK military support for Saudi Arabia risks enabling further atrocities
The UK has an appalling recent record of complicity in war crimes and violations of international humanitarian law against the people of Yemen. The Government’s decision to provide “defensive military...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you catch Dispatches on Channel 4 last night? It was on late so maybe not, but a must see.
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Britain’s Gaza Secrets Exposed: Dispatches
Dispatches reveals how the UK government responded to alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Palestinians in Masafer Yatta are surviving without water after Israeli settlers cut off a lifeline
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Palestinians in Masafer Yatta are surviving without water after Israeli settlers cut off a lifeline
In Masafer Yatta in the southern occupied West Bank, Israeli settlers are accelerating their attacks on Palestinian farmers and herders in the area by cutting off their water supply.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING: The UK government's arms export policies have eviscerated international humanitarian law. CAAT uk’s new report exposes how the UK arms exports system is fundamentally broken and rigged in favour of pre-determined conclusions.
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CAAT - Dead Letter: How the UK government’s arms export policies have eviscerated international humanitarian law
Campaign Against Arms Trade’s new report exposes how the UK arms exports system is fundamentally broken and rigged in favour of pre-determined conclusions. The report focuses on two cases - the Saudi-...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ten Books to Make Sense of the 2026 Labour Party
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Ten Books to Make Sense of the 2026 Labour Party Conference
Mark Perryman’s annual selection this year ranges from Eric Hobsbawm to Rocking against Racism. Emile Chabal The Age of Hobsbawm: The Life of a Revolutionary Historian In the October 1983 edi…
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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Global release announced for acclaimed Gaza documentary NAZA
Theatrical rollout across 56 territories planned for documentary about Israel’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza before film will stream on Guardian website
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Pro-Palestine Activist ‘Close to Death’ on Hunger Strike in Tunisian Prison
The leader of the Global Sumud Flotilla is in a semi-comatose condition and close to death as he enters the 39th day of his hunger strike inside Tunisia’s Mornaguia Prison, the organisation has confir...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What you need to know about Robert Kraft, the pro-Israel billionaire who pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore
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What you need to know about Robert Kraft, the pro-Israel billionaire who pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore
Robert Kraft got Macklemore ousted from Ed Sheeran’s tour over “Free Palestine.” A look at the NFL owner’s record makes it clear why: funding the IDF, fighting BDS, courting Netanyahu, and bringing fo...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Police arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in Channel
Thirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Charlotte Church accuses Ed Sheeran of ‘choosing capitalism over doing the right thing’
Church, a prominent supporter of Palestinian causes, criticises Sheeran over removal of Macklemore from US tour
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump’s “extraordinary rendition” of 25,000 US migrants to third countries andyworthington.substack.com/p/trumps-ext...
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Trump’s “extraordinary rendition” of 25,000 US migrants to third countries
25,000 migrants have been sent to 28 countries worldwide with which they have no connection, primarily to cynically sidestep judicial rulings preventing their repatriation.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Israel just pardoned a soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian
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Israel just pardoned a soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian
The judge who sentenced Elor Azaria, the soldier who shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in 2016 as he lay unconscious on the ground, called him a “normal” person, because Azaria’s genocidal views were never ...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Stand with Macklemore, protect artists' right to show solidarity with Palestine
Add your name:
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him
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Ed Sheeran does provide a ‘safe space’ – for the billionaires who own him
Sheeran’s ‘political neutrality’ is a cover story – one hiding an implicit deal. He’s allowed to grow rich but only so long as he denies a platform to anyone trying to hold the super-rich to account
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
On this day 100 years ago on Sept 23, 1926 the great ionic musical force, saxophonist, bandleader, composer, John Coltrane was born in Hamlet, North Carolina.
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Celebrating the 100th Birthday of Jazz Great John Coltrane ( 23/09/26 -17/7/67)
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
It's Good To Bully Celebrities About Palestine
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It's Good To Bully Celebrities About Palestine
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Cause: Britain Must Not Join the War on Yemen
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The Cause: Britain Must Not Join the War on Yemen
The Saudis have already inflicted massive destruction on the region’s poorest country. Now, as the humanitarian crisis worsens, the UK government is planning to pour more fuel on the fire.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Britain’s Slave Traders by William A Pettigrew review – the inconvenient truth
This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
nation.cymru
Activists accuse Plaid Cymru of deceit in 'arms fair' row
Martin Shipton Anti-war campaigners have raised concerns that Plaid Cymru MSs may have misled constituents who called for the Welsh Government to withdraw its sponsorship from what critics have dubbed...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Danny Tommo could face serious jail time after Channel knife stunt searchlightmagazine.com/2026/09/dann...
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Danny Tommo could face serious jail time after Channel knife stunt | Searchlight
Self-styled Channel enforcer Danny Tommo tried to sink a migrant dinghy at sea with a rescue worker still on board, an act which could bring a lengthy jail ...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Call on the UN General Assembly to suspend genocidal Israel. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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Call on the UN General Assembly to suspend genocidal Israel
Dear supporter, World leaders are gathering at the 81st Session of the UNGA this week. On 18 September 2024, the UN overwhelmingly endorsed the ICJ ruling that Israel’s occupation is illegal and cons...
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Three Years After Ecuador’s Historic Yasuní Vote, the Oil Still Flows amazonwatch.org/news/2026/09...
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Three Years After Ecuador’s Historic Yasuní Vote, the Oil Still Flows | Amazon Watch
The Waorani people took to the streets of Puyo to mark the three-year anniversary of Ecuador's historic Yasuní referendum and protest the government’s failure to carry out the will of voters.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can you take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike
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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September
Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jane Hirshfield and Poets for Science
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Jane Hirshfield and Poets for Science
The Intersection of Art, Science, and Social Action
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
September 22, marks the Autumn Equinox The equinox occurs at the same moment worldwide. it is the official start of Autumn. Regardless of your faith, politics, or place it’s a good time to reflect on balance in your life.
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The Awen of Twilight ( A Poem for the Autumn Equinox)
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Tax wealth the same as work!
We finally have a chance to fix the unfair tax system so taxes on wealth match taxes on income. Sign the petition now!
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Footnotes to a Discordian Fable
A new edition of The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds by John Higgs.
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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Support for people on low incomes to pay water bills is unfair and inconsistent, forcing many to make impossible choices to make ends meet. I've signed the petition from @IndependentAge.bsky.social calling for a national social tariff for water. Join me! campaigns.independentage.org/page/187255/...
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Sign our petition to ensure everyone can afford their water bills!
Support for those struggling with water bills is unfair and inconsistent, forcing many people on low incomes people into impossible choices to make ends meet. That's why I've just signed Independent A...
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