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Emma Bean

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GMB Midlands @gmbmidlands.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Amazon must come clean. Just weeks before new workers' rights come into force, reports have shown that @amazonuk is reportedly using AI-fuelled surveillance tools to predict where workers will unionise in Canada.
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Laurence Turner MP @larry-turner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Had to be forced into commenting at all. Didn't vote (when he could have online). Still silent on the motion's substance. Not a leader. greenparty.org.uk/2026/10/05/z...
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Zack Polanski reaction to Zionism is racism motion - Green Party
Green Party leader Zack Polanski said: “Antisemitism and criticism of the Israeli state are, and must always be, completely distinct – blurring the line between the two is not only wrong but antisemit...
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
At Labour Day women’s conference and want to show solidarity with our trans+ sisters? Pick up a badge at the LGBT Labour pod!
A basket of trans rights badges
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Excellent to canvass for the fab Sagal Abdi-Wali in Holborn & St Pancras today! Really great response on the doors and lovely to see so many good people out and about 🌹 #LabourDoorstep
Group of five Labour campaigners holding “vote for hope” leaflets
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Tories have attacked appointment of TUC chief Paul Nowak as a director of Bank of England, saying: "The last thing our country needs is a trade union leader helping to run the BofE." And yet it was a Tory government that in 2019 appointed the then TUC chief Frances O'Grady to the same role
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 08/09/2026
Two RNLI volunteers were pictured in Portsmouth this weekend while responding during the Patriot Platform protest. The far right responded by identifying them and branding them “traitors”. This is what the far right’s “peaceful” activism looks like.
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The NEET debate has understandably focused on getting young people into work - but there has been much less focus on what happens when they get there. Our new research, out today, finds that first jobs really matter, but that access to the best (with the highest earnings returns) remains unequal -
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Few things have made me as angry as the disgraceful racist attacks on Sagal Abdi-Wali from Reform. No one loves her community more, nor does more for it. She’s got more genuine patriotism in her little finger than those Putin apologists could ever comprehend.
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 24/08/2026
On Ukraine’s independence day we say clearly - Slava Ukraini! Today and all days, GMB stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦
An image of the blue and yellow Ukrainian flag, with solidarity with Ukraine written upon it.
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Neil Miles @neilsmiles.com · 17/08/2026
29th August 1985 - An excited Michael Fish gets to deploy the rarely seen red number as the temperature gets up to an incredible 26 degrees in London!
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Rebecca Montacute @beckymontacute.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
When my mum died the state paid for lawyers to represent the mental health trust that failed her, but as a family we had no access to funding. Now, a family in similar circumstances will get the support needed to uncover failures - so happy this is finally passed. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Burnham hails Hillsborough law as ‘rewiring of the state’ as MPs approve bill
PM-in-waiting says bill is major step towards securing accountability families had fought for, in rare moment of Labour unity
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And truly aren’t we all on the Bellingham bus now 🥰🎉 #worldcup
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
An auspicious bus to be getting on today of all days 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #engnor
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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 08/07/2026
🚨 TODAY 🚨 Show your solidarity with Ukrainians imprisoned by the Russian regime 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!!
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Gosh doesn’t that sound good at the azteca 🥰🥰 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
IT IS COMING HOME PRAISE BE!!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I’m reluctant to criticise the bbc BUT one of the most important players of the US women’s team of recent years just came on the feed and they… only spoke about the men around her. Put some respect on Alex Morgan’s name!! Or at least bloody mention her!! #worldcup
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.
A quote from a Kemi Badenoch interview in the Spectator, comparing Bridget Phillipson to a Gestapo officer.
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Social Market Foundation @smfthinktank.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Nearly 1 in 6 pieces of news shared in local Facebook groups during the Makerfied campaign has been false, with misinformation heavily targeting Labour and its candidate Andy Burnham, our new research has found. www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...
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Deep Fakerfield? – misinformation in Makerfield - Social Market Foundation.
SMF's Jamie Gollings analyses the extent of misinformation in Makerfield before and during the "most consequential" by-election campaign.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 11/06/2026
The forces of division are seeking to pull people apart and spread their hate. Everyone, no matter their race or background, must be free to live without fear from hatred, racism, and thuggery. Our country must face the far-right challenge head on. Unity is strength.
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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 09/06/2026
What do trade unionists think of affiliating to Reform? 😂🤣😂 #GMB26
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
A moment to stan our @beckymontacute.bsky.social please 👏🏻
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This has been one of the grimmest local election campaigns I can remember, with a reasonable chance some of the grimmer candidates won’t be unearthed till after polling day https www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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MPs demand Reform suspend candidate over claims he celebrated rape of Sikh women
West Midlands Labour MPs write to borough Reform leader after alleged posts by Stuart Prior
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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Well this is quite something. Over on X @harryeccles.bsky.social, a Green candidate on the Isle of Wight, rewrites the famous poem by Martin Niemoller about Nazi erasure. But does so to leave out the Jews.
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GMB Union @gmb.org.uk · 01/05/2026
This #MayDay is the first with new rights: 😷 Sick pay from day one ✊ Repealed the Tory anti-union laws ⏰ End to zero-hours contracts 🙅‍♂️ Ban on fire and rehire 🍼 Improved paternity rights ✅ Boosted redundancy protections 🙌 And so much more Let’s keep building for more 👏
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
It has been more than 48 hours since we first approached the Green Party for comment about Tina Ion. And well over 24 hours since we went to them for further comment on *this* story. We have heard nothing. From their press office, from anyone senior, or from Zack Polanski himself. Nothing.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
You can, unfortunately, get away with a lot of bigotry and be a viable party for national power. But I don’t think you can be open to positions like this one on crime and be viable.
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
We have strayed so far from god’s light
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
All of the major British Jewish communal organisations have condemned the Wireless Festival decision to have Kanye West headline in Finsbury Park this July. Wireless (and Pepsi, who are sponsoring) haven’t bothered to comment. www.jewishnews.co.uk/wireless-fes...
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Wireless Festival booking of racist rapper Kanye West ‘completely unacceptable’
Antisemitic musician, who has repeatedly expressed Neo-Nazi sentiments, announced as headline act for the Finsbury Park event in July
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ASLEF @aslefunion.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
ASLEF condemns the Russian drone attack that killed at least 5 people on a passenger train in Ukraine. Targeting civilian passengers is abhorrent and unjustifiable. Solidarity with Ukrainian workers, millions of whom are without heating or electricity in the middle of winter.
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The PLP is less than 50% women, so any by-election candidate has to be a woman. The PLP is less than 50% women, so any by-election candidate has to be a woman. The PLP is less than 50% women, so any by-election candidate has to be a woman. The PLP is less than 50% women, so any by-election…
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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Ah we see your Blue Monday and raise you a Moo Blunday
'The Champion Shorthorn’. A painting depicts a shorthorn cow, a man and dog, with a landscape background. It was painted and signed by William Smith of Chichester in 1856.
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Morning parkrun in deepest south London today - but with actual Dame Kelly Holmes!! And she was park walking so I can always have that I came before a legendary Olympian in a race 🏃🏻‍♀️
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Antonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
BREAKING: NHS WAITING LISTs ARE DOWN BY A HUGE 86,000! It’s the second biggest drop in NHS waiting lists in 15 years Thanks to all the NHs staff who made this happen - and Labour’s record investment 🗳️ You voted to fix our NHS ✅ We are doing it
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
oh and here's when Nadhim Zahawi compared Nigel Farage to, er Joseph Goebbels over his “deeply racist” call to allow employers to discriminate by colour www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Goebbels would be proud!' Tory fury over Nigel Farage's call to discriminate between workers
David Cameron leads condemnation of UKIP leader, who insists call for more discrimination has been misinterpreted
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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Quite the journey for new Reform UK man Nadhim Zahawi
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Laurence Turner MP @larry-turner.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is not exercising freedom of speech. This is misogynistic intimidation.
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Jack Phipps @jackphipps.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
GMB are at the @jewishlabour.bsky.social One Day Conference all day to promote the @gmblondonregion.bsky.social Jewish Faith Workers Branch and the work we’re proud to do with JLM. Come see us!
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Alexander Brown @alexofbrown.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Asked Nigel Farage a question about racism
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
There are a lot of conversations going on about the long-term shift but it's slow (because Europe always moves slowly and, to varying degrees, is tied into the US military). Leaders are also prioritising Ukraine and are desperate to retain leverage on Zelensky's behalf.
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Emma Bean @emma-bean.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
After this egregious typo I will be resigning in disgrace 🫠
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