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Retired old bat with a belief in decency

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
You may recall the serious allegations by Reform about voting offences at the Gorton and Denton by-election. This detailed thread sets out what happened next. All too late, and this won’t get the same circulation as the original allegations.
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grauntieannie.bsky.social @grauntieannie.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up
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grauntieannie.bsky.social @grauntieannie.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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Arsonists cosplaying as fire fighters: Why the right-wing war on the BBC is succeeding
The resignation of Tim Davie as BBC Director-General is the next stage in the corporation's collapse into cowardice.
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grauntieannie.bsky.social @grauntieannie.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
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Don't allow Trump's Turnberry golf course to host The Open Championship
The Open Championship must not give in to the UK government's lobbying and allow Donald Trump to host one of the world's biggest, oldest and respected golf tournaments at any of the golf courses he ow...
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grauntieannie.bsky.social @grauntieannie.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The stages in a Donald Trump deal: 1. Lie about something being a problem 2. Do something to "fix" it, which causes an actual problem 3. Say you won't reverse what you've done 4. Reverse what you've done 5. Say "Art of the deal"
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Tell me more about referenda in illegally occupied Ukraine.
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
KLAXON 🚨: Indie SAGE has come out of retirement to release a new short report standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the sciences! DEI is not just the right thing to do, it *improves* the quality of the science. Please read and share. independentsage.org/wp-content/u... 1/2
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
@captmarkkelly.bsky.social: "When I was flying combat missions over Iraq in 1991, I didn't think there was some snotty nosed teenager in South Africa that was going to call me a traitor."
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Michael Savage @michaelsavage.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
There are very real examples of what happens when the World Service has retreated. In Lebanon, when its Arabic radio service left, the Russian state-backed Sputnik radio moved in and on to its frequency - directly targeting its former audience…
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 10/03/2025
COMMENTARY: “You don’t have the cards,” Donald Trump taunted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Arguably, though, the US president is the one snatching away any cards Ukraine did possess.
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Trump says Ukraine doesn’t hold any cards — he’s the one snatching them
The U.S. president has single-handedly pushed Kyiv into its most perilous time since Russia’s all-out invasion began.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Russia is the aggressor and war criminal. #Ukraine is the victim of the aggression. Russia started the war. Ukraine is defending. I think we need the magic of multiple repetitions of the facts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Trump has dropped or halted more than 1 in 5 investigations and enforcement actions against corporate lawbreakers.  At least 34 of those companies — including Tesla, Amazon, and Wells Fargo — gave over $34M to Trump's inaugural.  It's a new Golden Age for corporate criminals.
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grauntieannie.bsky.social @grauntieannie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This is SO GOOD Trump aides will be busy ensuring he doesn’t see this bang on sketch m.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...
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Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
There were signs reading “Trump Vance betraying all that America stands for,” “JD Vance Zelenskyy is 10x the man you are,” “Have you no shame? Support Ukraine” and “Where’s your decency?” “Spineless fascists can’t ski,” “Warning thin ice” and “This is the coup’s last run.”
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
For St David’s Day we present our latest Channel 4 News/BBC News long-distance musical collaboration. Ciaran Jenkins (cello) is in Glasgow and I’m in Moscow (on the piano). Together we play Myfanwy. @c4ciaran.bsky.social
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Myfanwy - 'The greatest love song ever written" - cello and piano
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ Slava Ukraini.
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Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
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Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @disavowtrump20.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
A US president abusing state power to pressure a sovereign democracy to lift travel restrictions on two people facing rape and human tracking charges - simply because they're political supporters. The White House is fast becoming the global epicentre of moral corruption. www.ft.com/content/3f95...
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Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate
Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Escalation management was ineffective. Continuing that approach would lead to Ukraine bleeding out. New challenges bring new opportunities, & now it's fully in Europe's hands to decide what comes next: lasting peace or a large-scale continental war. Don't be afraid of russian defeat.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
But I’ll go farther—by way of putting my hat on as an attorney. When Trump demanded 50% of Ukraine’s minerals and a huge percentage of its oil and gas, he _inserted the US into the negotiation as a Russian ally_. No honest broker gets a cut of the spoils of a war crime! How does the EU not see this?
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 08/02/2025
Good morning here is your thread of Weekend FT highlights: 1. Nobel winning economist and author of "How Nations Fail" Daron Acemoglu shows how this weakening of institutions could lead to the end of the era of US prosperity on.ft.com/4hOXBU5
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The real threat to American prosperity
[FREE TO READ] Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on trade wars, tech industry hubris — and how loss of faith in US institutions could spiral
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If UK news shows are going to give Nigel Farage a platform to spout this absolute boll**** about Brexit & the vaccine rollout (unchallenged) I’ll happily come back every week to correct it We cannot allow them to rewrite history. If you agree share this FACT CHECK widely youtu.be/MUrf7addcTA?...
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NO Nigel Farage - the vaccine rollout was not helped by Brexit
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/02/2025
Rising threats to undersea infrastructure in the Baltic demand swift, coordinated action from NATO and the EU, writes former Lithuanian National Defense Minister Arvydas Anušauskas in his op-ed.
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Europe’s inaction on undersea infrastructure is a security time bomb
Following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, concerns over the security of energy and communication infrastructure in the Baltic Sea intensified. Initially, focus was placed on the threa...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
France has warned Donald Trump against threatening the “sovereign borders” of the European Union after the US president-elect refused to rule out military action to take control of Greenland, an autonomous territory of EU member Denmark www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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France warns Donald Trump against threatening EU ‘sovereign borders’
Foreign minister hits out after US president-elect refuses to rule out military action to take control of Greenland
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 08/01/2025
"For all the easy, cheap nonsense being peddled - changes 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 made." Andrew Norfolk confirms Keir Starmer "completely changed the rules" as DPP to help prosecute grooming gangs - directly countering Musk's claim of a coverup. @maitlis.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Elon Musk has called for Nigel Farage to be replaced as leader of Reform UK, saying he doesn’t “have what it takes.” This is genuinely funny.
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Elon Musk calls for Nigel Farage to be replaced as Reform UK leader
The billionaire has been rumoured to be considering a multi-million pound donation to Reform UK.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vauxhall’s troubles started with Brexit - former Luton plant boss
Mark Noble says export tariffs were one factor leading to the closure of the Luton plant.
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Liz Cheney @lizcheney.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Here is my response to Donald Trump’s latest malicious lies:
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-not-ju...
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It’s not just Musk - we need to stop British billionaires bankrolling our politics
Keir Starmer needs to introduce new laws to cap individual donations and bar corporate political funding before it’s too late, writes former Electoral Commission David Howarth.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🔴The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
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The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 28/12/2024
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Giorgia Meloni masquerades as the ‘acceptable’ face of the far right, but nobody should be fooled
Worldview: Meloni is not bringing Italian post-fascism back to the centre ground and moderating it, but is polishing up a dangerous anti-democratic throwback
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martinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Unscrupulous private care providers and independent special schools are "profiteering" from Norfolk's vulnerable children, a senior council officer has revealed. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2478094...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It’s bad enough former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been allowed to spout his absolute boll**** about “Brexit saving lives” unchallenged on UK news shows - now he’s traveling the world repeating it! Let’s stop him rewriting history - share these actual FACTS youtu.be/pAm62GE6pi8?...
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Johnson now travels world telling anyone who will listen “Brexit saved lives” - hold onto your seats
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
So eloquently put. Israel accusing Ireland of “crossing every red line” is perverse.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Laura Kuenssberg: "We'll never know whether the Rwanda plan would have worked" After it ran for over two years, cost £700m and resulted in 3 volunteers being paid to leave.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 12/12/2024
The whole point of the GMC is to keep patients safe from harm. But what if, like OFWAT & OFCOM, it’s turning into another politically-neutered, failing regulator? I cannot stand silently by as the GMC fails patients in the PA debacle. Here’s why 👇 app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/68829/...
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Why Britain’s doctors are in revolt
To save the NHS money, the General Medical Council has been pushing the use of physician associates in place of qualified doctors—and putting patients at risk
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Gurdur @gurdur.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
One more for @simmyn.bsky.social and you all
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
In European Georgia, the clergy have now joined the protests, standing in front of the protesters to stop the security forces attacking them. This is a big deal in what is religious country where rural areas are tied closely to their churches.
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Trevor Pritchard @trevorpritchard.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Found this on Reddit, it makes for an interesting read
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God @skeetofgod.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
People who brag about not being politically correct tend also not to be factually, morally, or grammatically correct.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
letter to the FT
this letter to the FT says: 


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	Far from “protecting the family farm”, as claimed by Tom Bradshaw, president of the National Farmers’ Union (Opinion, FT.com, November 5), the inheritance tax loophole on farmland, introduced in 1984, simply pushed up the price of land without improving returns to active farmers.

This is because, like most agricultural subsidies, the value of the relief was capitalised into land values. As tax planners cottoned on to its role as a licence to avoid IHT, they advised their super-rich clients to buy land and take advantage of it. In the 20 years to 2012, the price of farmland increased fourfold.

This turned landowning farmers into millionaires but — especially since land represents a cost of production — did no good to the incomes of food producers. It created impoverished millionaires who claimed a need for more support. At the same time, because more expensive land had to be squeezed even harder for the last drop of revenue, the environmental damage caused by intensive agriculture was made worse. Taking at least some of this tax loophole away will do no harm to family farmers but will help both public revenues and the environment.

Just a shame the relief was not wholly abolished.

Paul Cheshire
Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography
London School of Economics, London N7, UK
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Jeremy Clarkson is cosplaying as some kind of protest leader for farmers today. Don't forget he's just defending his own interests. And don't forget what he said about striking public sector workers.
Jeremy Clarkson pretending to be protesting for farmers rather than for himself. Mr Clarkson went on: "Frankly, I'd have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families. I mean, how dare they go on strike when they have these gilt-edged pensions that are going to be guaranteed while the rest of us have to work for a living?"
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