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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Rich people want to distract you into hating foreigners
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Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
A message to the super rich
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13/07/2025
Heartbreaking to read of a child in the UK dying from an entirely preventable infectious disease. Measles can be a vicious & deadly illness. The MMR vaccine offers superb protection & there is NO link between the vaccine and autism, contrary to what many medical charlatans try to peddle. (1/3)
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
This is tragic - please please vaccinate your children against measles! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... here is Indie SAGE report on preventable childhood diseases - including measles! Screenshot from report below. please share! independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2
bbc.co.uk
Measles: Child dies at Alder Hey Children's hospital as cases surge
Seventeen children have been treated at the Liverpool hospital for the virus since June.
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Mervi Rissanen @mervir.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
tRump vs. Constitution again: "The First Amendment right to peaceably assemble protects our right to gather together and/or protest on public property. The right to petition the government for a redress of grievances means the public is entitled to have their issues heard by the government."
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Barbara Chambers @wokinglass.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Free Speech? according to FW Vance (FuckWit) we don’t have it.🤣🤣🤣🤣
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faridadean.bsky.social @faridadean.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate
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Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News
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Dave McPartlin @davemcpartlin.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Re-post if you stand by Jess. @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social
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‘We stand by Jess’: Telford survivors criticise Musk’s attack on Phillips
Exclusive: Victims of male violence sign letter praising minister for devoting life to ‘fighting for women and girls’
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
This is important & necessary. I’d add only that a) It’s clear many of the political & media figures deliberately ignoring these facts are playing with the sort of fire we saw on our streets this summer & b) Laura Kuenssberg’s failure to point this out to Farage was an appalling dereliction of duty.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
The far-right is rising across Europe, but we're seeing early tentative signs that they can be frozen out of power. What's required is an absolute refusal from decent people on the centre-right to work with them inews.co.uk/opinion/nige...
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Nigel Farage is watching hungrily as the far right sweeps to power across Europe
In 2025, European liberal democracy will be in a fight for its survival
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Thames Water intentionally diverted millions of pounds pledged for environmental clean-ups towards other costs including bonuses and dividends www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Revealed: Thames Water diverted ‘cash for clean-ups’ to help pay bonuses
Exclusive: UK’s biggest water company assessed risks before cutting back on cost of environmental work, investigation shows
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
2018: Richard Tice, "George Soros doesn't live here, he doesn't pay taxes here, what right has he got to interfere with our democracy with donations?" 2024: Richard Tice, "If Elon Musk can legally donate and he feels that's the appropriate thing to do, we'd be delighted"
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John @johnwh31.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
As usual, I’ve nicked this from somewhere else. Sorry
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Nigel Farage continues to spout his boll**** unchallenged the UK must leave the ECHR If we want to avoid a dangerous chain of events which could one day see Britain joining Russia & Belarus as the only European countries outside the ECHR we need to constantly call him out youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY?...
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The Untold Story: How Prince Andrew brought down the Chinese www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
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MPs denied chance to hail Prince Andrew’s spycatching heroics | John Crace
Duke of York’s decades of playing everyone’s useful idiot – all for the good of the country – were off-limits in the Commons
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“Trump falsely claims Biden admin’s decisions to allow Ukraine to launch US ATACMS into Russian territory led to North Koreans being deployed to Russia, entering the war. But Pyongyang sent 11,000 troops to Russia a month earlier. In fact, part of Biden’s reasoning was North Korea foray into war.”
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant per person of £10tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Just look at this clip… 1st half: Annunziata Rees-Mogg telling me I’m making stuff up about her brother 2nd half: Her brother proving me right So sick of the gaslighting.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
🔥 "The economic cost of Brexit, reliably estimated at around 5% of GDP and with a total loss to government coffers by 2035 of over £300bn, is unlikely to be offset by attempting to ‘make Brexit work’ – a slogan which rather confirms that it hasn’t."
westenglandbylines.co.uk
Brexit – an unwelcome truth
Labour’s continued silence on Brexit might just reveal an unwelcome truth; another reason, perhaps, to use the Brexit telescope?
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Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is not just a warehouse. This is an M&S, Brexit clusterf*ck warehouse.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Actually, Laura, what very many viewers did absolutely know was that the Rwanda plan was cruel, legally problematic, staggeringly costly and profoundly shameful. It was one of the many reasons people wanted the Tories out of power. And we breathed a huge relief when it was scrapped.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
CPTPP membership is going to be so “amazing” that Rishi Sunak’s government predicted it would grow the economy by a tiny 0.08% (it later emerged that even that may be an overestimate) and that was after 15 years of membership! Contrast 4% loss of GDP due to Brexit youtu.be/FR4m8rop98E?...
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Kemi Badenoch says post Brexit CPTPP membership she negotiated is “amazing” - hold onto your seats!
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Farage - “What I do know is that Elon Musk is very supportive of me & what I’m trying to do, & he thinks that if Reform do well in the UK, we can bring about the same kind of change that he intends to do with Donald Trump in America” Absolute boll**** to that bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/a...
bylinetimes.com
After Trump’s Return, Britain Is Next in the Firing Line of Putin’s War On Democracy
The real reasons lying behind Elon Musk’s relentless attacks on Keir Starmer and the UK Government
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 14/12/2024
A majority of Brexit supporters now want to accept free movement in exchange for a return to the single market. Will this finally rid Labour of its Brexit bogeyman? East Anglia Bylines’ acerbic political diarist, Pecksniff, asks this and other thorny questions.
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Pecksniff: Brexit support collapses, so Labour’s last excuse has gone
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Thames Water plans to double bonuses for its executive staff despite a 40% increase in pollution incidents and spills during the first half of the year to 30 September.
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Thames Water boosts executive bonuses despite rise in pollution and sewage spills
Ofwat has blocked Thames Water from using customers’ money to fund “undeserved bonuses”.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
📣 The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration By Dr Russell Jackson
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back? Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
bylinetimes.com
Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I mean WTF? STILL claiming we had no say in the laws. STILL claiming we left the EU to be free of their regs when trade as non-members swamps us in cost and red tape. STILL honking out this intolerable dishonesty and STILL taking NO responsibility for the profound damage he’s personally done.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Stodgy dullwit, David Frost, tells business owners that their struggles with the latest Brexit-red-tape-shitshow are the EU’s fault (rather than the woeful mess he cooked up with Johnson to get him into power). He just lies to their faces, saying this is why we left. New level of loathing unlocked.
Screenshot from Politics Live:

Frost on the left saying “remember that these rules are brought on by the European Union” while two business owners listen (in despair)
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The letter states: “I also hope that it is clear to you where you sit with my principal & indeed his family. You should never underestimate the strength of that relationship … outside of his closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on.”
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
“The phone contained a March 2021 letter from Dominic Hampshire, a senior adviser to Andrew, confirming the businessman could act on behalf of the duke in engagements with potential partners & investors in China The letter referred to him having been invited to the duke’s birthday party that month
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Roland Hoskins @rolandhoskins1.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Serious traffic issues at the centre of London AGAIN today. Hoping the perpetrators are treated the same as the ‘Just Stop Oil’ protestors. Serious disruption for a far lesser cause! 6 years imprisonment. We will not be happy with less. Two-tier policing🤔 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Farmers’ protest live: NFU leader fights back tears as tractors block Westminster
Hundreds of farmers blocked Whitehall outside Parliament as Sir Keir Starmer also answered prime minister’s questions on the sensitive issue
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faridadean.bsky.social @faridadean.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Too little too late
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Polly Mackenzie, "The Labour party is stuck between the economic realities of the continued unnecessary friction in terms of the movement of goods, services and people between the UK and the largest single market near us, the EU"
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/12/2024
Sewage spills in Gloucestershire’s rivers, and huge dividends paid while Thames Water are in debt, make reform of the water industry urgent | Paul Hodgkinson @paulcotswolds.bsky.social
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The stench of privatisation in our water companies
Sewage spills in Gloucestershire’s rivers, and huge dividends paid while Thames Water are in debt, make reform of the water industry urgent Sewage spills in Gloucestershire’s rivers, and huge dividend...
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Border blunder: French pupils denied entry to the UK by British officials due to a trivial post-Brexit form error. 500-mile trip wasted, tourism lost, and goodwill gone. Sad for those kids and so frustrating. Is this really what the UK voted for?
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Brexit strikes French school trip, blocking them from UK
A minor paperwork error left 100 French schoolchildren stranded, highlighting Brexit’s costly impact on UK tourism
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/12/2024
💥Our scandalous spending tracker is back in the news!💥 The £131 billion wasted by the Tories since 2019 could have: - Funded £28bn a year of green projects - Kept the winter fuel allowance - Nationalised UK energy supply - Lifted the 2-child benefit cap until 2063 www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
bigissue.com
Tories wasted £131bn in 5 years. Here's how it could've been spent
The Conservative government wasted money on Test and Trace, Covid PPE contracts, and post-Brexit border checks. We've put it to better use.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Child Poverty % (children living in households below the minimum wage) Denmark 2.4% Finland 3.2% Norway 3.6% Sweden 3.6% The UK 32.1% All four of those countries have child benefits, paid by taxing the rich, that make it almost impossible for a child to be in poverty.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Who knows whether our drinking water is safe? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... There are apparently no labs left in the UK that can test the quality of our drinking water. The consequence is obvious. Who knows if we are now drinking the shit we know is in our rivers?
taxresearch.org.uk
Who knows whether our drinking water is safe?
As the Guardian reported on Saturday: The safety of tap water in the UK could be at risk because water companies are unable to use products to clean it, industry insiders have said, as all the labora...
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faridadean.bsky.social @faridadean.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We may go back in - it’s a choice
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faridadean.bsky.social @faridadean.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I would argue that the last thing which is needed now is Western, or any other country 's interference in how Syrians create a system of governance which works for them. What Western nations do need to do though is ensure that they continue to provide asylum for those seeking it. 7/
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Then you have the matter of those Syrians who do not want to return. For some it can be too hard and too scary, after fleeing for your life it is understandable to be wary about returning no matter what the situation. There will also be those who have built lives now, and want to keep them. 5/
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
That return home is not without issue though. Many will find their homes gone, a lack of support, financial issues etc. This tends to cause tensions, which can create conflicts within communities, leading to some, maybe those still in Syria, having to seek safety elsewhere. 3/
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Really good - and important - analysis from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
“Trump won’t be any easier to work with this time around. If anything, it will be worse. World leaders should prepare for a US govt that is less stable, less predictable and, most likely, less amenable to diplomacy and compromise.” Yes. The fawning can stop. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Playing political footsie with Trump 2.0 won’t cut it for Europe. It’s time to get tough | Simon Tisdall
The world must prepare for a US president who will be even more chaotic and less open to diplomacy and compromise than before
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Which means they were inefficient, avoidably brutal AND more expensive. As was predicted.
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