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NHS whistle blower. Tree grower.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So, Tories would cancel Erasmus and youth mobility, scrap the SPS deal that reduces red tape, lowers costs and eases backlogs for goods trade and renege on our new energy, defence and security arrangements… Ridiculous threat, ridiculous party, ridiculous people…
Tories would reverse steps to undo Brexit
Alex Burghart, the deputy leader, also says his party is wedded' to triple lock and electoral reform is doomed
Ben Riley-Smith - Political Editor

Photo of Burghart, arms folded, looking absurdly self important
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In June Angela Rayner took £20,000 from an anti-rent control lobby group. A few weeks later, as the housing minister, she ruled out rent controls Meanwhile: "@zackpolanski.bsky.social .. will set out plans for a 3yr emergency brake to help renters, which will temporarily limit rent rises"
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#BBCBreakfast: "Earlier this year RAF Fairford was used by US bombers as part of military action against Iran" But remember folks, we're not involved in the war.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@rachelmillward.bsky.social : "[Burnham] is not tackling extreme wealth inequality, so he's talking about the odd tinkering here & there but we need wealth taxes & rent controls" Rachel is right. Burnhams rhetoric is great, but you're not going to end 40 years of neoliberalism by tinkering
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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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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The people that chanted ‘let them drown’…. Two women and a child did. Do you think they’ll sleep well tonight?
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I agree with this - I understand the intellectual arguments behind the motion, however it won’t be understood or interpreted in the manner that the originators have defined it and it will further set the greens back as well as not helping Palestinians in any tangible way.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Polanski, "Over the next year, more than 1/3 of the money that the DWP spend on housing benefits, go straight into the pockets of private landlords, subsidising their extortionate rents" "That's £13.4 billion" "That could be spent building new council homes"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Polanski praises the RNLI volunteers 👏 "From The Green Party, we want to say to the RNLI, you are the very best of us, thank you"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Polanski slams Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper's attack on non violent protest, and Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband's indifference to it. "We the Greens say, drop the charges, end the genocide, de proscribe Palestine Action"
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Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Privatisation of water has been an absolutely unmitigated disaster. The Green Party would put water back into public hands and reverse years of radical underinvestment.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Holborn and St Pancras is looking incredibly close. Thank you to everyone joining us today on the doorsteps - we know it's only by having conversations with voters that we can win this. With just five days to go - we need you!
Action day photo with Zack and Ross and a big crowd
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This Thursday is the first step on this journey. Every Green vote moves Labour.
John Curtice suggests greens could be pivotal to next UK government
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well said @rachelmillward.bsky.social brilliant speech! The notice period for rip off privatised water companies has long passed. Public ownership now. Not a penny to shareholders.
Rachel and Mothin waving on stage
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A much needed policy announced by @mothinali.bsky.social today. Real work, real pay, and full rights. Not more Labour and Conservative welfare cuts and so called training schemes with no future.
Rachel and Mothin on stage waving
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/10/2026
The NHS wants their logo out of our spoof video, but we’re not going to be silenced. We won’t stop criticising their contract with Palantir. After all, it’s not our fault they went into business with a sinister company hungry for our data 👀
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Left: Shabana Mahmood says funding social care is about 'giving elders across our country much more dignity in old age' Right: A 94-year-old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen OBE is arrested for non violent protest outside the Labour party conference
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: Israel snatched an American teen from his West Bank home in the middle of the night — just days before his birthday and during his critical national exams. He's now been held for 3 months, with no charges. Netanyahu just came to the US for the *eighth* time since Trump took office.
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First Draft: Israel Has Kidnapped Another American Teenager
Abdalkareem Issa Ahmed Safi has Texas roots but languishes in a notorious jail, one more victim of Benjamin Netanyahu’s cruel impunity. Donald Trump, meanwhile, is losing some of his most ardent fans.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"On wild fires is that something we're under trained for at the moment?" @fbunational.bsky.social Steve Wright "completely under resourced.. we're demanding an increase of 5,000 firefighters. Thats a step in the right direction to reversing the years of austerity. We lost 1in5 jobs between 2010-18"
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The size of *one* of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, versus Exeter cathedral 🤯 From this useful piece profiling the local campaigns against it: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
A diagram comparing the size of one of the AI data centre buildings proposed for Great Torrington in north Devon, with Exeter cathedral. Source: Guardian piece linked to in post.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"An Israeli drone strike has targeted a building, killing a Palestinian woman. Many others have also been injured in the attack.. in the past 24hrs at least 4 Palestinians have been killed"
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This isn’t just a US issue, and that’s what really bothers me. You don’t have to censor research if you can shape the funding and networks around it. The fossil-fuel industry understood that a long time ago, while we’ve been slow to recognise what it really means. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Decades of fossil fuel influence paved way for Trump’s assault on university research, study says
Fossil fuel firms have spent years trying to regulate climate research by donating to US universities, study authors argue
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Instability in the M/E is whats caused the [energy] price hikes.. & one of the things this Lab govt has done is facilitated the increase in instability.. by allowing Trump to use our bases to bomb Iran" Well done to Sharmen Rahman from the Greens for making this point
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rachel Shabi rightly points out that by allowing the US to use RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran, the UK has been dragged into their illegal war
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
UK Defence Secretary: "We know that there are people, state backed actors, terrorists, who would do this country harm" US Planes are taking off from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran. 'do this country harm'. Maybe thats exactly how Iran sees it.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wes Streeting: "We know that Iran.. wish to do us harm" We are allowing US planes to take off from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran as part of an illegal war. I'd say that was more than just wishing them harm, wouldn't you?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Lord Walney: "The idea of calling this a genocide is repugnant.. the way that Ireland made a fuss about this [football match] is reprehensible" How does genocide happen? Because of people like Lord Walney. There is no genocide without genocide denial
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband: "To the millions in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you. You were right" So scrap the proscription of Palestine Action. End all arms exports to Israel. Impose sanctions on the Israeli govt & economy.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Deed and the Zone: How Trump came to "own" Gaza europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deed-a...
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The Deed and the Zone: How Trump came to "own" Gaza
How a decade of freeport paperwork explains the resolution that gave Gaza away
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Sure. Brexit meant we huffed out of our agreements on managing the flow of asylum seekers. The boats symbolise “taking back control” by going it alone. But it’s only a “crisis” because politicians and media choose to blame immigrants for their own failures. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Burnham blames Brexit for small boats crisis - but rules out early general election
Burnham lamented a ‘loss of collaboration with neighbours’ following Brexit but has ‘knocked dead’ the idea of an early election before 2029
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Climate reality... The UK’s latest harvest figures are another reminder that climate risk isn’t some distant scientific forecast. It's already affecting our farms, our food security and our economy. eciu.net/media/press-...
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UK faces worst harvest on record after summer drought: comment
Snap analysis of these yield estimates, including a ranking of where 2026 sits alongside other harvests going back to 1984.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Humanitarian harm & suffering, that is the goal of this cruel policy" At yesterdays Hague Group meeting on defending intl law, Cuba explained how the US's illegal energy blockade of the island is killing the sick & the young. Solidarity with Cuba and its people.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yesterday I met women from community organisations across Holborn & St Pancras From the value of care as work, to tackling racial hatred and violence against women and girls, women's issues ares everyone’s issues and women’s priorities are at the heart of this campaign.
Group of people holding up signs saying vote green, women say core Zack and Gaza: stop the genocide Picture but with everyone in it from further out Zack with two women smiling at the camera with vote green in the background
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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The @greenparty.org.uk can do it. It just takes public will to really bring about change. History has taught us well. Vote @zackpolanski.bsky.social in Holborn & St Pancras, take the fight back to parliament.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 25/09/2026
Instead of keeping hate and misinformation off our airwaves, Ofcom is allowing TalkTV to serve as a megaphone for dangerous, far-right rhetoric. We can’t let this stand, so we’re suing Ofcom. But we can only do it with your help: goodlaw.social/a9im
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Force Ofcom to stop TalkTV broadcasting misinformation and hate | Good Law Project
Ofcom is letting Rupert Murdoch’s TalkTV poison public discourse with transphobic lies and fake climate news, so we're taking the regulator to court
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Seems bad.
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is a low key tragedy. A broad consensus torched by a handful of ideologues and opportunists who do not even understand what net zero target is and why it was adopted. The reality is temperatures will continue to spiral until we reach net zero or civilisation collapses, whichever comes first.
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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.reddit.com/r/MurderedBy...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Diesel could reach its highest ever price today. "And let me explain why. This is a fuel tank down here. The cost of filling it up has pretty much more than doubled because of the war in Iran..." And the UK govt has been helping the US wage that war. Madness.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Latest news from the only democracy in the Middle East.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Every time we've had these squeezes on welfare recipients, what we've actually seen.. is an increase in child poverty & in work poverty.." Ash Sarkar on #bbcqt. Spot on.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
BBC News, "A few years ago.. Labour would be expected to win comfortably.. But the Greens have been eating away at their vote" Zack Polanski, "Voting Green in Holborn & St Pancras is a vote to reduce the cost of housing, reduce people's bills, putting more money into people's pockets"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Ash Sarkar, "Every time we've had these squeezes on welfare recipients, what we've actually seen, rather than dealing with issues like long-term unemployment, is an increase in child poverty, and in-work poverty as well"
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/09/2026
“These anti-migrant vigilante groups claim that their intention is to protect women and children. This is manifestly false”: why we need to act now against far-right disorder By @hopenothate.org.uk’s @nicklowles.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/britain-fa...
Britain isn’t too soft on migrants; it’s too soft on Patriot Platform. Stylised image of men in black clothing and balaclavas, with a Union Jack in the background and a rubber dinghy
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 24/09/2026
Here’s the report Clive references… www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-r...
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The Palantir pipeline: how Peter Thiel's surveillance firm hired more than 30 senior UK officials
The AI company holds £670m in UK government contracts. It has also hired dozens of senior officials from the departments awarding them – raising what transparency experts call an 'acute' corruption ri...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Adam Parsons reports on an IDF soldier being attacked in the occupied West Bank A reminder that people living under occupation have the right under international law to resist their occupiers, & that includes armed resistance. But that fact isn't mentioned in the report.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵
evitable
adjective
uk  /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us  /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.
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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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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The anti migrant activist known as Danny Tommo..." You mean far right racist.
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