Reposted by Graham JefferyResolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/10/2026Over the past two decades, pensioner incomes have grown by 20 per cent, while those of working-age families have grown by just 7 per cent ➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6 164
Reposted by Graham JefferySky News @news.sky.com · 01/10/2026'Devastating year' as Swiss glaciers shed 5% of ice amid record-breaking heatwavesnews.sky.com'Devastating year' as Swiss glaciers shed 5% of ice amid record-breaking heatwavesGlaciers in Switzerland have lost 5.5% of their ice volume in 2026 after a "devasting year" marked by intense heatwaves and low snowfall, according to a study. 02327
Reposted by Graham JefferyDamian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 01/10/2026that's about £28m a day renewables have saved the UK sending to petrostates since the start of the US-Israel war in Iran 15929
Reposted by Graham JefferyDr_Aust_PhD @draustphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The Church of Thatcherism and the Cult of the Blessed Margaret. 082
Reposted by Graham JefferyThe National @scotnational.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The UK Government are facing renewed calls to end the proscription of Palestine Action, following Ed Miliband's admission that people opposing genocide in Palestine 'were right' 🗣️ 'That acknowledgement will ring hollow as long as Labour maintains the ban'thenational.scot'You were right': Ed Miliband comments fuel calls to end Palestine Action ban 56942
Reposted by Graham JefferyJosie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026“Any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform [topics that are central to Woolf’s work] are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by [Facebook's] automatic system” and are filtered out." Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMeta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminismTheatre told that Facebook and Instagram filter out ads mentioning ‘social topics’ such as civil rights or feminism 67152
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comSixteen English councils spend more than 80% of core funding on social careCouncils collectively spent record 71.9% of core spending on adult and children’s care last year, analysis shows 000
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comEdinburgh joins UK universities heading for strikes as cuts spread through entire sectorStudents at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty 000
Reposted by Graham JefferyJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026It's even worse than this, as they don't then do the self-styled 'pragmatism' right. The argument is you can do another wave of fossil fuel development - be it drilling or runways - and still reach net zero, but they won't put proper legal guardrails in place or invest properly in carbon removals. 1122
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...europeanmovement.co.ukAsk your MP to stand up for our future in EuropeOn 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate? 000
Reposted by Graham JefferySam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh... 22696195
Reposted by Graham JefferyMike Lydon @mikelydon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Final point: the Ruelles Vertes is not just green infrastructure, it’s social infrastructure, cultural infrastructure, traffic-calming infrastructure etc. Montreal shows us that an any city’s alley system can be repurposed into something much greater than a place to store the garbage. 121
Reposted by Graham JefferyJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026These sound like non-trivial problems. 63940226
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Horrendously dystopian, but absolutely on point for the Blair brandwagon www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comTeachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their workExclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system 050
Reposted by Graham JefferyAmnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026OUTRAGEOUS scenes outside the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool yesterday! But it’s nothing new... In the UK, OVER 3,500 people have been arrested, with MORE THAN 2,250 formally charged under TERROR LAWS for PEACEFULLY PROTESTING the ban on Palestine Action. 88659
Reposted by Graham Jefferyjon christian @jonchristian.net · 28/09/2026NEW: After we published an investigation into Brown Brothers Media, a company that buys struggling news sites and turns them into AI-powered content mills, we got a tip that completely gobsmacked me: one of the brothers has extensive connections to Ghislaine Maxwell futurism.com/artificial-i...futurism.comYou Know Those Three Brothers Who Buy Struggling News Sites and Turn Them Into AI-Powered Content Farms? It Turns Out One of Them Has Extensive Connections to Ghislaine MaxwellIdeapod, a cornerstone brand of Brown Brothers Media's AI empire, has deep ties to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. 181227537
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Thames Water is an utter disgrace. Incompetent, complacent, greedy, and they take the public for fools. Renationalise it now and make the investors who have taken billions from customers, and delivered appallingly substandard 'infrastructure' pay. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comSchools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water 000
Reposted by Graham JefferyJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Rayner is correct: these proposals are economically damaging and politically counterproductive. Pretty clear that view is now almost universal in the Cabinet/Labour Party and the informed public. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...thetimes.comAngela Rayner condemns Labour’s migrant visa crackdownSpeaking before the party conference, the housing secretary says Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans would affect care workers 22676183
Reposted by Graham JefferyAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026Q: Mr Sununu, would you have voted for a war powers resolution in the Senate? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶 Q: Would you admit that Trump’s war was a bad decision, or are you just going to do everything that Trump tells you to do? JOHN SUNUNU:🚶🚶🚶 2172588655
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ludicrous and deeply dystopian at the same time. a massive dose of regulation urgently needed 000
Reposted by Graham JefferyDJBurges @djburges.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Trump basically lives in his own reality TV world. He is the Truman Show. The media should ignore him completely and just put a fake news crew in front of him he wouldn’t notice the difference 1155
Reposted by Graham JefferyMatthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Americans will look at this and say “that’s what I need to drive my kids to school in suburban Dallas” 1139849
Reposted by Graham JefferyAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 21/09/2026My seventy-seven-year-old father put his reading glasses on to help my mother do the buttons on the back of her dress… —Jackie Kay, “George Square” from LIFE MASK, @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social 2005 Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace #peace #poem #poetry www.un.org/en/observanc... 513346
Reposted by Graham Jefferyedeath @edithcharles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Don’t worry, centrists of the world, this can never happen in any other political system, complete outlier, it’ll totally work in your country! 4410115
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comBanished to alien lands: Trump’s secret deportation dealsAfter a plane journey in shackles, an Iranian woman found herself in the middle of Africa in a country she did not know existed. She is one of thousands deported from the US on the back of shadowy dea... 000
Reposted by Graham JefferyQuinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 20/09/2026"Metaphors that turn speech acts into medieval torture have become Pinker’s stock-in trade." 3525
Reposted by Graham JefferyCarsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Looks like left-of-centre majorities are plausible in both Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 181
Reposted by Graham JefferyGeorge Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lib Dem pledge to cut fuel duty by 10p is depressingly bad policy: poorly targeted, expensive (£5bn), and it weakens incentives to switch to EVs and reduce usage. 44641136
Reposted by Graham JefferyTyron @tyron.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Lmao, AfD fumbling their one shot at forming a state government in Saxony-Anhalt in the most predictable way possible 201071247
Reposted by Graham JefferyThe Ferret @theferret.scot · 20/09/2026At 211 Dumbarton Road in Glasgow, shoppers pass an ordinary doorway next to a Tesco. The address has been used by Scottish Limited Partnerships, a type of firm used legitimately, but also to facilitate international financial crime theferret.scotThe unremarkable Glasgow building where a fake news-peddler sells business schemes beloved by money launderersAuthorities tightened the rules around this Scottish business scheme after years of exploitation for financial crime. Moscow entities – and a man accused of facilitating child sex abuse – are still selling it to clients seeking “financial privacy”. 0148
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Just when you think the bullshit-ometer is completely maxed out, he blurts out some even more absurd nonsense. But it's an integral part of the playbook - distract, divide, destroy 022
Reposted by Graham JefferyFared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this. 5629421403
Reposted by Graham Jefferytweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 19/09/2026eliminate EV subsidies, ban cheap overseas EVs, ban EV component import, deport people bringing battery technology to the US, pay billions to kill clean energy projects, end fuel economy standards, and then do THIS is such an elaborate prank on the American people you almost have to respect it 453184752
Reposted by Graham JefferyGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPeter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHSA decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds... 18433361813
Reposted by Graham JefferyFarrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I quite like the Belgian approach to capping political donations 25590272
Reposted by Graham JefferyBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 13/09/2026NEW POLLING Tom Brufatto: With a new Prime Minister, determined to prioritise redistributive growth and to restore a sense of hope to the country, this research sets out the roadmap to the party’s recovery, and provides the political piece to complete the economic jigsaw smashed to bits by Brexit. 14347119
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comA joyful harvest: the young Welsh farmers growing food for BirminghamA charity in Powys provides the land while growers do the hard work, producing bumper crops for city children 000
Reposted by Graham JefferyPhil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Ben Delo isn't just a "billionaire expat" with a soft spot for Farage. In 2022 he was found guilty of serious criminal charges in the United States. American prosecutors said he deliberately built a dodgy crypto platform designed to help people hide dirty money. He admitted as much in court.justice.govPowered and protected by 4430158
Reposted by Graham JefferyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda) 15246262041
Reposted by Graham JefferySunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The UK now needs to introduce political spending limits across a parliament, not just for election campaign years. Otherwise, its election spending rules could fall over. Current rules: parties have a limit (about £34m) for 12 months before an election - but no limits outside the 12 month period. 11443138
Reposted by Graham JefferyPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Full piece on Palantir in UK - based on exclusive documents, new data and numerous sources - is in the latest @lrb.co.uk @foxglovelegal.bsky.social ‘s Rosa Curling says it’s ’the most important investigation on Palantir that I’ve read this year’ Judge for yrself www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukPeter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHSA decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds... 311756
Reposted by Graham JefferyPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...democracyforsale.substack.com"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failureOur new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state 321074712
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a useful explainer on the challenges facing the UK electricity grid - www.theguardian.com/business/ng-...theguardian.comMapped: the £150bn megaproject that aims to protect Britain from energy shocksThousands of miles of new power lines are needed to deliver climate targets and energy security, but bills will rise in the short term and opponents are mobilising 000
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026www.theguardian.com/money/2026/s...theguardian.comUK chancellor urged to remove ‘hidden taxes’ from energy billsBusinesses, charities and other groups sign letter calling for levies to be paid by the government 000
Reposted by Graham JefferyCrisColombus @criscolombus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Andy Burnham really needs to sort his shit out. He may forever be known as the PM that allowed UK democracy to burn. 073
Graham Jeffery @grahamjeffery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Going out to buy a wheelbarrow & then tidy up the garden. I have had more than a sufficiently large dose of dystopia for one day. 000
Reposted by Graham Jefferyflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is what @raaleh.bsky.social is talking about: the state deploying the full bloody arsenal against the left, and simply refusing to defend itself from the right, again and again. At some point, you have to conclude that they simply *do not want to* defend themselves from the right. 417146
Reposted by Graham JefferyGregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 12/09/2026You’ve got priests, pensioners and disabled people who’ve been arrested for terrorism charges for peaceful protest, while the national public broadcaster is glazing a uniformed paramilitary for launching a campaign of attacks on infrastructure. Forgive me for seeing a scale and a thumb. 121761