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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
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Petition: Increase funding for people with Parkinson’s and implement the "Parky Charter"
We want the government to take the decisive five steps set out in the Movers and Shakers' "Parky Charter" and to fulfil the Health Secretary’s promises.
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Save Our Landlines! Stop Forced Digital Switchovers! Keep Heather Safe!
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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Block Trump from addressing Parliament
I've just signed 38 Degrees' petition calling on Trump to be banned from addressing the UK Parliament during his state visit later this year. Will you join me and add your name too?
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Sylvia Booth @smfbooth.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Starmer needs to unequivocally tell the British people that Brexit has made them immeasurably poorer and that Farage has been the chief advocate of their losses .
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves is thinking about cutting a tax on US tech giants to appease Trump and his band of billionaires. If anything we should be taxing them more - not less! Agree? Sign today: 38d.gs/techgiantsta...
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Sign the petition: don’t cut taxes for US tech giants!
Trump’s threatening to raise tariffs for UK businesses and Keir Starmer is offering to cut taxes for US tech billionaires. Europe is fighting back - why isn’t the UK? Join me in calling on Keir Starme...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Absolutely damning. Seems that the British government made not attempt to find out if the Russians had interfered in the EU Brexit referendum.
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Oooh yes please!
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Well said all these Guardian readers - couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s all SO depressing.
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Richard Herring @herring1967.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
I am talking to George about this book next week. It's a fascinating and horrifying read.
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
How clever of them...
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
An Artist of the Floating World? .. it's years since I read it but it has lived with me. You have inspired me to read it again!
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not for the first time, I find myself wondering why so many people were so easily spooked by Faragist scaremongering about an 'EU Army'...
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Fiddling around to maintain your tentative fiscal position doesn't look strong. It looks like you've made yourself a permanent hostage to fortune. Ruling out tax rises when everyone can see they're necessary doesn't look tough. It looks mad and insincere.
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
We have seen a real rise in the prevalence of poor health in this country, driven by the pandemic, cost of living crisis, crumbling public services and poor quality jobs. Benefits cut won't fix these problems, they require time and investment above all.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Now they’re cancelling Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. And Greenpeace may have to shut up shop in the US. Where are the howls of outrage from the free speech campaigners? My Column app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/69571/...
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How Ben and Jerry’s ice cream exposed the limits of Trump’s free speech world
Companies that speak about social justice or the environment are under threat like never before.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
The executive order could block tens of millions of US citizens from voting as many do not have access to a passport or government-issued ID www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
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Trump to require Americans to prove citizenship when voting
The executive order could block tens of millions of US citizens from voting as many do not have access to a passport or government-issued ID
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Britain's 177 billionaires sit on £965 bn - more EACH than the average Brit will earn in 1000 lifetimes. So obviously, Labour decided NOT to have a 2% wealth tax on this obscene, unspendable hoarding. More poverty for 6.9m disabled Britons is their solution. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Further benefits cuts planned as Rachel Reeves forced to find extra £1.6bn
Chancellor risks wrath of Labour backbenchers with spring statement set to confirm deeper cuts
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
A bit of relaxation needed. Byline Back-Chat #1 | me, @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social & @ottoenglish.bsky.social - live at 8pm youtu.be/UgzCtPXSWkk?... via @bylinetimes.bsky.social @bylinetv.bsky.social
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Write to your MP now: r.ippl.es/benefit-cuts...
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Tell your MP: No disability benefit cuts
I’ve sent a message to my MP - it just takes three clicks. Will you?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
🔴Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules The Covid Inquiry reveals that the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm bylinetimes.com/2025/03/05/m...
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Michael Gove Told Officials to Buy 10,000 Ventilators From Dyson During Pandemic in ‘Affront’ to Procurement Rules
Evidence published by the Covid Inquiry reveals that the Conservative Minister was “insistent that an order” was placed with leading Brexiter Sir James Dyson’s firm
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Hear Hear - as she says "the world is a different place now" - so TAX THE SUPER-RICH PROPERLY - don't punish those with the least, and go some way to reducing the huge inequality in the country.
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I just told Speaker Hoyle to keep Trump out of Parliament - will you do the same? actionstorm.org/petitions/du... #DumpTrump
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Sign the Petition
Keep Trump out of Parliament
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.
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Lisa @dekatnoir.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Someone with some principles. I don’t understand why Labour hampered themselves with the promise not to raise personal taxes because most sensible people knew that taxes would have to rise if we want better services. Instead we have a govt heavily taxing business and now international development
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Warwick Natural History Society @warwicknathistsoc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Despite the cold, members of the society have been out and about, and some of their recent sightings are in 'Snippets No 124' on the website: www.wnhs.info Winter fungi include Turkey Tails, Scarlet Elf Cap, and this rather splendid growth on a dead log. Does anyone know what it is?
Picture of a pink frilly-edged fungus
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
It's time for us to get serious www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Trump trumps himself with latest delusional fantasies | John Crace
US president loses grip on reality, while delegates at a rightwing conference in London remain cocooned from real world
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ho...
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Hold Fujitsu to account for Post Office scandal
£67 million! That’s how much more the taxpayer will now be giving to Fujitsu as one of it's government contracts is being extended. The firm at the heart of the Post Office scandal continues to be ha...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/02/2025
The US has sold Ukraine down the river – and shown Britain what ‘America first’ means in practice | Gaby Hinsliff
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The US has sold Ukraine down the river – and shown Britain what ‘America first’ means in practice | Gaby Hinsliff
A superpower that once built alliances across the west is dramatically reorienting itself – and so too must its former allies, writes Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Aaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 13/02/2025
Well, modern medicine was nice while it lasted. The basic anti-intellectualism and anti-science of the right is about to kill a lot of people.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 14/02/2025
Th’ abuse of greatness is when it disjoins Remorse from power
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I wrote this in July, with great discomfort. I wish it were now irrelevant. But we are heading for dark times at horrifying speed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I never thought I’d argue for rearmament. But a looming Trump presidency changes everything | George Monbiot
A Putin-friendly president would pose a grave danger to Europe. Like it or not, this calls for greater defence, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
You were superb! Congrats
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In my column today I argue that, unbelievably, Labour are worse on environmental issues than the Conservatives. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Look at Labour’s acts of environmental vandalism and ask: did I vote for this? | George Monbiot
Our rivers, our wildlife, the air we breathe: the government is sacrificing all to the insatiable god of GDP – and mocking our objections, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
One of today’s Russian papers reports a “depressing trend” in the judicial system: “guilty verdicts where there is no proof a crime has been committed.” Another paper writes: “Trump talks to his ‘allies’ in the same way a Russian aristocrat talked to his serfs…” #ReadingRussia
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Steve's Reading Russia - Russian Press Review (30 January 2025)
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The Fortnight in September - truly wonderful book!
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
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Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/01/2025
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
A lovely tribute from one of my favourite novelists to another.
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Labour must hold its nerve if mood sours further in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...
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Labour must hold its nerve if mood sours further in 2025
2025 offers plenty to challenge Labour’s longtermist approach to progress. The government must hold its nerve and plough ahead, says Westminster editor Zoë Grünewald
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/12/2024
I spy another Prince Andrew disaster. Pity the royals: how could they possibly have seen this coming? | Marina Hyde
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I spy another Prince Andrew disaster. Pity the royals: how could they possibly have seen this coming? | Marina Hyde
The Duke of York has proven to be a scandal magnet. He is a problem, a royal problem: it’s time they owned it No matter how much you try to digest the implications of the alleged Chinese spy scandal, some details are just comically indigestible. Take the…
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm very focused on the serious errors Labour is making on climate & nature, but want to acknowledge they're doing excellent work in other areas—interesting list👇 If only Starmer & Reeves would listen to the experts. Ignoring the environmental crisis will come back to bite them before 2029.
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Matt Western MP 🌹 @mattwestern.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The alleged “accounting trick” used by Severn Trent to dodge investing in the infrastructure that betters our communities & dish out dividends is alarming. I’ve joined other MPs in writing to the CEO on this & the performance of ST. Our waterways should come first, not bonuses.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/12/2024
British Gas owner hands investors £300m as customers face soaring bills
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British Gas owner hands investors £300m as customers face soaring bills
Campaigners criticise Centrica, saying it has made more than £7bn in profits since start of energy bills crisis * Business live – latest updates The owner of British Gas has angered fuel poverty campaigners by offering its shareholders an extra…
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/12/2024
Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde
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Memo to the Assads: Putin may welcome you in Moscow, but I wouldn't drink his tea | Marina Hyde
The Russian leader may be a warm and attentive host: he may also be cross that Assad is now his problem. But then life’s full of uncertainty, isn’t it? It’s fair to say the TV show Schitt’s Creek would have been a lot less funny had it concerned the…
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...
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Tell Wes Streeting - NO new PFI in our NHS!
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Oh thank you for this info! I remember watching it the first time round - and later read the book. Love them both. Looking forward to watching again... sigh.. Play for Today .. those were the days!
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gilljt.bsky.social @gilljt.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Great review of a great book!
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