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@greg02.bsky.social
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Generally an easy going character that believes in fairness. I have a strong dislike of wrongdoing, the right wing press/media, profit before compassion, corporate greed etc. These views are my own

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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 5h
Trussonomics all over again 👇 bsky.app/profile/bria...
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Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social · 4h
Remember how they excoriated Dianne Abbott for making a mistake with one of her figures? Where's that same rigour here when the Tories are out by nearly half a trillion quid?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h
Monday's debate is the first time Parliament will get to debate the UK-EU relationship since the Prime Minister’s conference speech. Write to your MP to make sure that as many MPs as possible show up and make the case for EU membership.
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Tell your MP: 628 constituencies want EU membership. Only 4 don't. - Best for Britain
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 4h
Mike Rogers' yacht has a yacht.
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Melissa Brownstein RN/Bluewater Psychic, Certified Wound Nurse @melissabrownstein.bsky.social · 4h
youtube.com/shorts/I4PmM... I Love Mamdani
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Mamdani: 'What happened today was an outrage'
YouTube video by CNN
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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 4h
Cancer treatment often meant one-size-fits-all. What if it was tailored to *you*? A personalized mRNA vaccine (EVM16) just completed its first human trial (Phase 1a) with promising safety and strong immune responses. It's teaching bodies to fight *their own* cancer cells.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22h
Billionaire David Reuben says he quit UK for Monaco ... actually already there since 2014. Worth £28bn, objects to non-dom tax changes. Doesn't want to be taxed on the same basis as UK residents Super-rich happy to make profits in the UK, want special treatment, hold govts to ransom.
theguardian.com
‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/10/2026
Andy Burnham has said he wants to reverse Thatcher’s 40 year legacy of privatisation. Now is the time for him to seize the moment, anchored by a set of principles that are uncompromising enough to make a difference to people's lives. Our new report sets out how to do it. vist.ly/5mh3j
"“If water companies cannot invest without raising our bills, they should be allowed to go bust and then taken into public ownership. The public has had enough of the rising bills, service cuts, hosepipe bans and sewage dumping. It is time for water to be taken into public ownership like 90% of the world.”
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biologist077.bsky.social @biologist077.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm genuinely surprised by these early Phase 2 results for a new lung cancer drug: 90.5% disease control rate! This means tumors shrunk or stopped growing for most patients. It's close to triple standard chemo. Promising stuff to learn about.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
bbc.com
Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger
The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No better case for the billionaire tax than how hard they’re working to defeat it
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 08/10/2026
If Jeff Bezos doesn't want to be seen as a villain, he should stop doing villainous things.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔥 @katiephang.bsky.social (With Deniro behind her): “I’m suing A.G. Todd Blanche — Trump’s cosplaying personal lawyer — for the unredacted Epstein files… as an independent journo 🗣️ I don’t have a corporate oligarch telling me what to say… Trump has been violating federal law every day.”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WATCH: “Did you go to public schools? Did you drive here on roads?” 🔥 @abdulelsayed.bsky.social expertly handles Fox propagandist martha maccallum’s fearmongering about socialism (From @acyn.bsky.social )
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ISDS explained in 60 seconds ⏱️ Join the Global Days of Action against ISDS – 15th to 17th October 2026 Visit stopisds.global to learn more
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Andrea @bekkatron.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Before modern tech, saying goodbye actually meant something. No pixels, no screens—just holding onto each other like the world was ending, because back then, it kind of was. They kissed like they were fighting for tomorrow. 💔 #OldSchoolCool #1940s #WWII #TrueRomance
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Craig Horrocks @chcookley.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
E02 'Zionism is racism' is not the only motion focused on Palestine. E03 'Building a Consensus for Palestinian Liberation' also covers the subject. However, E03 is based on Green Party values and real actions.
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Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
British Transport Police's facial recognition trial (which has now been expanded to the Tube) - cost more than £320,000 - took nearly 100 hours of police time - resulted in no arrests Uncovered by our independent investigative journalists Liberty Investigates www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
standard.co.uk
Facial recognition trial in London stations leads to zero arrests
The trial cost more than £320,000 and took up almost 100 hours of police officers’ time between February and July this year
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 30/09/2026
Labour blocked a motion calling for public ownership of water So we asked their conference delegates outside what they want Andy Burnham to do with the failed Thames Water
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Electoral Reform Society @electoralreform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The voting system belongs to all of us, not to whichever party is in power. This piece from the UCL Constitution Unit sets out how a National Commission on Electoral Reform can earn the public trust that lasting change needs. buff.ly/zDitfyf
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If he wants to secure legitimacy for electoral reform, Andy Burnham must stick to these rules
Involving both the public and all parties in shaping reforms on how they vote will be crucial.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 29/09/2026
“Thames Water should have been in special administration yesterday... How can this Government be serious about their promise to reverse Thatcher’s legacy of privatisation, if they are not urgently bringing it into public hands?” www.standard.co.uk/business/bus...
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PM announces new law to allow public ownership of water firms
Mayors will also be given new powers to hold failing water firms to account.
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can you take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike
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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September
Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Britain'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.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 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?
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Britain'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.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 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?
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can you take 2 mins to respond to Ofwat's consultation to demand they BLOCK the water bill hike. If water companies can't survive without hiking our bills, let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. Deadline: midnight Thurs 24th Sept weownit.org.uk/NoBillHike
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Ofwat: No to water bills hike, let them go bust - Respond by midnight on Thursday 24th September
Demand that Ofwat says no to bill hikes. Let water companies go bust and bring them into public ownership for nothing.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Financial Times moans about modest trade union reforms, workers rights. Most of the EU has worker-elected directors on boards of large companies. FT silence on low wages, fire and rehire, worker insecurity, undeserved exec pay. Only unions can negotiate with powerful companies. archive.ph/lbOyk
ft.com
Britain’s union reforms are a risk to business dynamism
Labour’s expansion of workers’ rights adds to pressures on the private sector
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Swathes of UK economy are owned by foreign investors. No tax is deducted from billions paid to them in dividends. USA, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden have a dividend withholding tax for foreign investors. UK could do the same, generate billions. Why are super-rich privileged?
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GB News, the propaganda arm of Reform UK, wants to make it illegal for the UK to rejoin the the EU. How does that work? Parliament to pass a law so that it can't pass another law, or hold a referendum? Bizarre. Maybe they are counting on a Farage dictatorship? 👇👇👇👇👇
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's time for a new Charter. Help write it and choose your 6 demands for a better politics. Take the survey here:https://actionnetwork.org/surveys/a-new-charter?source=bluesky&
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's time for a new Charter. Help write it and choose your 6 demands for a better politics. Take the survey here:https://actionnetwork.org/surveys/a-new-charter?source=bluesky&
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's time for a new Charter. Help write it and choose your 6 demands for a better politics. Take the survey here:https://actionnetwork.org/surveys/a-new-charter?source=bluesky&
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It's time for a new Charter. Help write it and choose your 6 demands for a better politics. Take the survey here:https://actionnetwork.org/surveys/a-new-charter?source=bluesky&
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The powers-to-be are tinkering with minor reform of the UK House of Lords. That won't do. I urged the Govt to replace the House with an elected second chamber, subject to constitutional safeguards. Watch the video.
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Britain'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.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 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?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Govts meet demands of donors, lobbyists and business donors. Now only if victims of the Post Office scandal and the Grenfell fire and banking frauds were donors ....
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, let govt restore it and resell. Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws. Neither will do. Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.
theguardian.com
MPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge funds
Efra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Revolving doors and political auctions. Labour peer and former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir. Palantir is trying to save its £330m NHS contract, wants more public contracts. Nick Clegg, Rishi Sunak, George Osborne and others have taken similar jobs.
theguardian.com
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Britain'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.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 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?
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Britain'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.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 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?
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell Coventry City Council to Drop Palantir. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Coventry City Council to Drop Palantir
Coventry City Council should end its contract with Palantir and bring data and AI services back under public control. We are calling for transparency, meaningful consultation with residents and trade ...
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell Coventry City Council to Drop Palantir. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
actionnetwork.org
Tell Coventry City Council to Drop Palantir
Coventry City Council should end its contract with Palantir and bring data and AI services back under public control. We are calling for transparency, meaningful consultation with residents and trade ...
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Just Treatment @justtreatment.org · 16/09/2026
🚨On Thu 1 Oct, join protests at 20+ locations across England against US spy-tech company Palantir. We're demanding the government uses the break clause and gets Palantir out of our NHS. We need you to join us ⬇️ amnesty.org.uk/issues/inter... #PeopleVsPalantir
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations. Allegations it broke foreign funding laws. Electoral Commission considering steps in parallel with the police inquiry. Parliamentary standards watchdog looking into Farage’s £5m gift from Thailand.
bbc.co.uk
Police launch criminal investigation into Reform UK donations
The investigation, which follows a broadcast by Channel 4 News, is being folded into the inquiry that has been under way into other donations.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
UK PM urged to target banks' bumper profits with windfall tax to ease cost-of-living pain. Half-year pre-tax profits of more than £29bn, expected to hit £55.3bn for the year. Made from high charges, low interest on savings, speculation. Many town centres, villages have no bank branches.
independent.co.uk
‘There might be a few less Porsches’: TUC boss urges Burnham to bring in bank tax
The general secretary of the TUC Paul Nowak called on the Labour leader to go ‘further and faster’ on cutting bills
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 16/09/2026
200,000 people signed the petition for a referendum on water being taken into public ownership. 73 MPs debated the issue in Parliament on Monday. Now it's up to government. They should listen. We pay for - and depend upon - our water system. Now, it’s time for us to have a say.
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Government must honour its manifesto commitment to hold a public consultation on the future of the House of Lords. We're asking peers to support a Bill that would kickstart that process. Please sign the letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/200648/...
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
House of Lords reform
The Government must honour its manifesto commitment to hold a public consultation on the future of the House of Lords. We're asking peers to support a Bill that would kickstart that process. Please si...
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Greg @greg02.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Government must honour its manifesto commitment to hold a public consultation on the future of the House of Lords. We're asking peers to support a Bill that would kickstart that process. Please sign the letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/200648/...
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
House of Lords reform
The Government must honour its manifesto commitment to hold a public consultation on the future of the House of Lords. We're asking peers to support a Bill that would kickstart that process. Please si...
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