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Retired Nurse. Left Leaning. Democratic Socialist. 💙NHS. The power of love over the love of power. ❤️💚 No DM's

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 3h
🔴 NEW Andy Burnham Urged to Put Compulsory Voting at Heart of His Electoral Reform Plans By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Andy Burnham Urged to Put Compulsory Voting at Heart of His Electoral Reform Plans
Democracy campaigners say changing how Britain votes will not be enough unless the Prime Minister also changes who votes as well
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4h
Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
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Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4h
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 6h
Labour is polling at its highest rate since January 2025, according to a new YouGov voting intention poll for Sky News and The Times
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 6h
📌 ICYMI — Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think…
bylinetimes.com
Conservative Plan to Scrap Solar Rules for New Homes Would Lock Millions Into Gas Use
Pledge to abolish the Future Homes Standard is branded 'a plan for poor housing and high bills' by fuel poverty campaigners, as the solar sector urges the party to think again
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 5h
Rishi Sunak wrote off £4 billion he lost to Covid fraud. Went to his rich VIP Lane mates £700-million-Sunak is typical of the politicians who build their careers on the idea that the poor are stealing from us when in reality it’s the rich.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 5h
Just perfect
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4h
Badenoch denies ‘British Iron Dome’ plan – after Tories use phrase in press release
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Badenoch denies ‘British Iron Dome’ plan – after Tories use phrase in press release
Tory leader says proposed ‘Britannia Shield’ will not be comparable to Israeli missile defence system * UK politics live – latest updates Kemi Badenoch has denied she compared a new air defence system proposed by the party to Israel’s Iron Dome, despite using the term in her press release and a newspaper article. The Conservative leader said the party’s proposed “Britannia Shield” would not be comparable to the missile defence system in Israel, which is primarily designed to counter short-range attacks. Continue reading...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 12h
New York state declares measles disaster amid resurgence of disease in US aje.news/7l0023
New York state declares measles disaster amid resurgence of disease in US
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 18h
If only the Tories had as much concern for families on the minimum wage cliffedge as they obviously do for those on the £100,000 cliffedge
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 18h
President Trump has announced one-off $90 payments to more than 20 million Medicare recipients, to be distributed shortly before the November midterm elections. The payments are being presented as a way of reducing seniors' healthcare costs and are funded from the Me... TAT: [Undermining democracy]
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Trump says US to send one-time $90 payment to 20m seniors enrolled in Medicare
President says payments, to be sent in early October, are meant to offset cost of monthly insurance premiums
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18h
You knew the elections were fixed in Brazil. In less than 24 hours it is proved. www.rawstory.com/brazil-26780...
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Suspected Trump election interference sparks police raids in Brazil: report
Computer equipment and communications were seized in Brazil’s largest city as part of a new Brazilian investigation announced Sunday into “possible external interference by the United States” in the n...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 17h
Looks like there’s an mRNA vaccine against pneumonic plague. Eat your heart out, RFK Jr. advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Novel Bivalent mRNA‐LNP Vaccine for Highly Effective Protection against Pneumonic Plague
The study investigates mRNA-lipid nanoparticle vaccines targeting Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague. Combined F1+LcrV mRNA vaccination elicited robust immune responses and protected mice....
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 20h
Why is Badenoch promising millionaires free childcare?
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 22h
1/3 Andy Burnham’s upcoming 10-year plan is a real opportunity to start taking back control of our economy. To break the cycle of government’s being dictated to by vested interests.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 23h
When a government like ours that controls its own currency creates money it can choose to direct it to the rich or into public works (eg: after WW2, Labour built social housing and created the NHS). We all know what the last Tory govt chose to do in its 14 years.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 23h
Nail on the head.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 23h
Rishi Sunak wrote off £4 billion he lost to Covid fraud. Went to his rich VIP Lane mates £700-million-Sunak is typical of the politicians who build their careers on the idea that the poor are stealing from us.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23h
Burnham urged to ‘end cycle of harm’ after scale of child-on-child sexual abuse revealed
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Burnham urged to ‘end cycle of harm’ after scale of child-on-child sexual abuse revealed
Nearly 90 organisations write to Andy Burnham urging him to take decisive action to end violence against women and girls • From unwanted touching to rape: the scale of child-on-child abuse A coalition of nearly 90 organisations has written to the prime minister calling for “decisive action” on violence against women and girls after a Guardian investigation revealed the scale of child-on-child sexual abuse in schools in England and Wales. The groups urged Labour to redouble efforts to deliver on its manifesto promise to halve violence against women and girls (VAWG) and “end this cycle of harm once and for all”. Continue reading...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22h
TalkTV is losing money and losing viewers yet somehow, they’re still keeping Ofcom busy with 11 open investigations into their hard-right bile... www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sac…
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How toxic Talk become Britain’s most investigated channel
Ofcom has 10 open investigations into News UK’s broadcasting arm and its diet of anti-immigrant bile and climate denial
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Caller on LBC saying: “We can’t do x because there is no money.” How quickly people seem to have forgotten how this lie was exposed during Covid, when the UK government found a magic money tree and conjured up between £310 and £410 billion to tide us over. Ask the politicians to explain that.
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nothing to do with our Tory media, of course.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Energy suppliers urge UK govt to help households struggling with energy bills. Silence on cutting profit margins, windfall taxes on excessive profits. Household energy debt heading to £7bn. 120,000 a year die in fuel poverty. We can't afford privatisation and resulting profiteering.
bbc.co.uk
Suppliers pile pressure on government over energy bills
Immediate action is needed to help households struggling with bills this winter, says trade body Energy UK.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you see billionaire-owned media outlets huffing and puffing about politicians opposing NHS privatisation being “ideological”, remember that all politicians are ideological. But only a few oppose private company shareholders getting rich from delivering NHS patient care🚨💙
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
England's water infrastructure at breaking point. Large part of water network installed 130-150 years ago. Thames Water infrastructure has average age of 79 years; industry average 56 yrs. 40% of TW assets are 100+ yrs old. Must end privatisation, remove profit motive.
standard.co.uk
MP says London water network is 'at breaking point' with two incidents in a week
London MP Paul Kohler said the two incidents highlighted the poor state of the region's water infrastructure
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Overcrowding in UK A&E depts and treating patients in corridors linked to hundreds of deaths. Neoliberals urge cuts in public spending, silence on human consequences. Delayed care leads to premature deaths People sacrificed to gods of fiscal policies.
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Overcrowding in A&E linked to 'hundreds of deaths a week', study finds
A review of more than 19,000 adult patients found that for every 10% increase in emergency department occupancy, the chance of dying in the following 28 days increased by 1%.
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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So I'm very confused, Badenoch would extend free child care to high earners while according to the Guardian, they would make over £47 billion of cuts across all Govt departments.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"It doesn't matter whether they're earning £10,000 or £100,000.." Kemi Badenoch comes out in support of the principle of universalism (when it comes to child care free at the point of use). Now lets make the same argument for school meals & bus travel (for starters!)
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burnham scraps Starmer-era plans to curb jury trials. A victory for common sense. The Bill would have been defeated in the Lords. Due to Tory cuts, there is a backlog of over 81,000 Crown Court cases in England & Wales. Govt must invest in public services.
bbc.co.uk
Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
theguardian.com
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why is Nigel Farage back on air? Ofcom bans politicians from presenting news programmes, but GB News claims Farage's show is just 'current affairs' despite him using it to defend Reform's £72m in donations. Close the loophole now.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The wealthy want lower taxes for them. And lower welfare for you. The low taxes results in a smaller State, picking up things like NHS, welfare, PIP, your Council, education, minimum wage The things they can afford to pay for privately, but you can’t.
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Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
When invited, go get your #Covid vaccination. Recent study has shown 2400 heart attacks & 1600 deaths prevented in those 75 & over, even in folk with no evidence of Covid infection. That’s about 1 death averted for every 600 people vaccinated over 8 months.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026
Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A partially unsealed court filing alleges that the US Department of Homeland Security built up dossiers on ICE observers—including their photos, license plate numbers, and other information—and stored them in a system called the... TAT: [Nationalism | Weakening civil rights | Undermining democracy]
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/10/2026
Predators don’t work in a silo. The Epstein files, Gisèle Pelicot, the over 50 students involved in the Cornell scandal - hundreds of men knew about the sexual assaults and abuses. And did nothing. No more silence. No more inaction. Add your name. bit.ly/4jv2tSs
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It’s time for men to speak up - and act | Good Law Project
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The UK has been milked for profit & left to rot by decades of underinvestment. If Burnham really wants to rebuild, he'll need a good Budget not just good vibes. That means a budget that reinvests by taxing the super‑rich. 📺 Our very own Faiza Shaheen on GMB back in August.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Denmark is better than the USA in every way.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Want the UK to join the EU? Then join hundreds of thousands of people on the European Movement UK mailing list... We're mobilising. Info, news, events, local groups - everything you need about what's going on. Make sure you're in the know. And share! --> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/signup-newsl...
The EMUK email sign-up screen
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🟣 SUBSTACK 'Digital Armies' and Disinformation: How Big Tech is Influencing Brazil's Upcoming Election By Caroline Orr Bueno and PhD Read below. ↓
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'Digital Armies' and Disinformation: How Big Tech is Influencing Brazil's Upcoming Election
Caroline Orr Bueno reports on why Brazil is a testing ground for information warfare tactics as the country heads to the polls on Sunday 4 October
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We don't need to put up with this any longer. Now Burnham has scrapped Thatcher's ban on public ownership of water, let's finally get on taking back control our broken water industry!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
DO YOU WANT THE UK TO JOIN THE EU? 🇪🇺 Then here’s the European Movement UK link - for becoming a member, getting on the email list, and/or finding your local group: www.europeanmovement.co.uk Please do get on the list at least - and share everywhere.
europeanmovement.co.uk
European Movement
Since 1949, we've held an unshakable belief in our country, that together, we are better with Europe. Join the European Movement today.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/10/2026
Peter Thiel revealed as secret buyer of Bel Air mansion that sold for $130m
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Peter Thiel revealed as secret buyer of Bel Air mansion that sold for $130m
The 1938 mansion, Casa Encantada, once belonged to Conrad Hilton and was sold at foreclosure auction
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The massive scale of this public backlash will be a huge wake-up call for the Government. Click the link to send your pre-filled legal objection to protect your health data today: 38d.gs/PalantirOptO...
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I'm objecting to my personal data being included in the NHS’s national Palantir database!
I just emailed NHS England to object to my personal data being included in the NHS's national Palantir database
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Thousands of 38 Degrees supporters have now filed formal legal objections demanding NHS England block US spy-tech firm Palantir from handling their private medical records.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Capitalism has now reached the stage at which companies openly admit that their products represent 'an existential risk to humanity'. And then invite investors to pump money into them anyway.
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Peace & Justice Project @peaceandjustice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Donald Trump is starving Cuba.
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Jeremy Corbyn: Donald Trump is Starving Cuba
YouTube video by PoliticsJOE
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another, small but important, example of how politics and media really works in the UK 👇
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Trump Action Tracker @trumpactiontracker.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Trump administration has not invited key European allies, including the UK, France and the Baltic countries to a NATO meeting in Poland that is spearheaded by Pentagon policy chief Elbridge Colby and plans to explore the future of NATO. Excluding traditional alli... [link] TAT: [Foreign policy]
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