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Hazel Roberts

@hazelrob75.bsky.social
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Anti anything right-wing. Pro-Europe. Half German.

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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
There’s a lot to remember about Farage. His racism at school, appointing Russian assets into his Party, his house ‘ownership’ etc. but I think calling paedophilia free speech is the most important one to never forget.
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Redkite Traveller @redkite-traveller.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Vote for reform? All the good things that make Britain great are gone Farage will finish off the nhs
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Major powers always use force to grab assets of other countries. US has initiated 201 out of 248 armed conflicts since the end of WWII. Vast swathes of the world destabilised to lubricate the US economy and boost corporate profits. Resentment grows. There has to be a better way.
leftfootforward.org
Donald Trump’s imperialism is the latest tool to advance the hegemony of US capital
Trump's policies are not isolationism. They're seeking to thwart the emergence of a multipolar world.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Blimey. Did I really just hear Keir Starmer say this “They had more positions in 14 years than the Kama Sutra. No wonder they are knackered and they left the country screwed” #PMQs
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/01/2026
And here we are: the entire transatlantic alliance is now talking about Greenland, instead of talking about ending the war in Ukraine.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/01/2026
We need to sanction the awful regime in Iran and freeze Iranian assets in London. But the world would take Donald Trump's concerns over the brutal murder of protesters in Iran more seriously if his government stopped murdering protesters in Minnesota.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 14/01/2026
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/01/2026
Laura Jedeed on applying for a job with ICE: "I expected them to Google me, and they didn't ... they sent me a final job offer ... what's disturbing is we don't know who is wearing these masks with guns in our city. We don't know if they have domestic violence convictions."
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/01/2026
It seems as though ICE has been instructed to escalate the violence to justify more violence, and to create propaganda to make us forget we outnumber them 10,000 to 1.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar. “There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
semafor.com
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
What do 2009 and 2025 have in common? 2025 was the best year for the FTSE 100 since 2009. 2025 was also the first FULL year under a Labour government since 2009. Coincidence? Maybe. But it's not as if it's the only data point showing improving trends now we have a Labour government again.
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London stock exchange beats Wall Street with best FTSE 100 year since 2009
FTSE index closes up 21.5% on New Year’s Eve at end of strong year for global equity markets
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 01/01/2026
“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget. How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy? t.co/jIObxTAoeL
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https://www.ippr.org/articles/economists-urge-bbc-rethink-inappropriate-reporting-uk-economy
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 if mary and joseph set off to bethlehem today they'd cross 15 israeli checkpoints and a 30ft wall
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news. Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters Down by 140k isn't thought to be. Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Thank GOD for Andrew Fisher!! FINALLY we get to hear about Spain on #r4today The fastest growing economy in Europe & outstripping the US as well & how? Wealth tax, rent controls & a positive integration-focused approach to immigration & asylum!! 🙌👏👏👏
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down". Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Ah… so THAT’S how I’m meant to play him! 😄 Cheers, @zackpolanski.bsky.social 🙌 #HopeIsHere Join.GreenParty.org.uk
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it: A 6–8% hit to GDP That's £180bn-£240bn a year It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything. Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
The black hole in Durham County Council’s budget has grown by £11.1mn in the past two months under the control of Reform UK. Its cabinet has been forced to approve a £10mn list of cuts.
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Reform cabinet backs £10mn cuts to start filling Durham’s growing black hole
Reform is now learning that running a big council is not as easy as it probably thought
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
'This isn't an opinion. This is counting.'
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 27/11/2025
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK net migration falls sharply with drop in arrivals for work and study
Provisional figures for net migration to the UK show levels dropped to 204,000 in the year to June 2025.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Ed Davey I wish I was surprised. Buried in this Budget is a plan to slash the Digital Services Tax, giving a multi-billion tax cut to US tech giants and the likes of Elon Musk. That's right, cutting taxes for the world's richest man while hiking them for millions of hard-working Brits.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Disability Rebellion @DRDisabilityReb Once again for the idiots at the back of the room. PIP IS NOT AN OUT OF WORK BENEFIT! MOTABILITY CARS ARE NOT FREE! DISABLED PEOPLE ARE UNDER NO OBLIGATION TO SHARE THEIR PRIVATE MEDICAL INFORMATION WITH YOU!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
392,000 followers on X.
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Radical @wordsofnonsense.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
What about that bloke who became London Mayor and celebrated in the house of a son of a KGB officer?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time” Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...
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The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage
The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Newmarket MP Matt Hancock gave a £37bn Covid testing contract to Jockey Club director Dido Harding, who subcontracted it to Grand National sponsor Randox, employer of Tory MP Owen Paterson, whose late wife chaired Aintree racecourse. That's how the Tories handled the pandemic.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 21/11/2025
Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks By Nafeez Ahmed @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of England’s worst rising flood risks
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Will UK Chancellor redistribute? End two-child benefit cap, cost £3bn-£3.6bn. Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cost £2.5bn. Increase income tax personal allowance by £1000, cost £8.4bn. Taxing capital gains at same rate as wages, generates £14bn+ more in NIC. Another world is possible.
leftfootforward.org
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 22/11/2025
91.5 tonnes of the "Russian" gold the country is now selling to stay afloat is actually the Romanian national treasure, sent to Russia for safekeeping during WW1, which has never been returned.
THE WORLD > Balkans > Romania
 
Romania sent 91 tons of gold reserves to Moscow, Russia has not returned it for a century
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 22/11/2025
The Moscow Times reports Russia’s Central Bank has discovered a 10 TRILLION Ruble "black hole" in unpaid loans - that's 24% of the entire Russian budget gone. Another reason Putin is pushing for a “peace” deal. Russia is weaker and poorer than ever.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Then people will say gosh where has all the money gone? And why don't businesses want to work in the UK? (with the highest energy prices in the world) Well it's not a mystery is it?
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 22/11/2025
The UK has twice as many food banks as branches of McDonald's. 🍔 1,400 McDonald's 🍔 2,900 food banks Sixth richest country in thw world, apparently
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2…
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Ultra-rich media owners are tightening their grip on democracy. It’s time to wrest our power back | Robert Reich
The Guardian has no billionaire or corporate owner: funded by readers, our fierce independence is guaranteed
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Hazel Roberts @hazelrob75.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The ECHR was Britain’s response to WW2 fascist regimes. With authoritarianism on the rise again, we’d be mad to give up the protections it provides. Tell your MP we won’t let that happen! actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
UK govt to water down North Sea oil/gas drilling ban. Following Trump/Farage agenda. Energy won't necessarily be used in UK; boosts corporate profits. One-dimensional policymaking appeases corporations; ignores impact on the environment, health, flooding, value of homes, life. archive.ph/TCz6V
thetimes.com
Labour looks to water down North Sea drilling ban
Ed Miliband is expected to allow exploration next to existing sites to increase fossil fuel production without breaking a manifesto pledge
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Welfare reform 'must happen', UK minister says. Silence on corporate welfare. For example, Drax makes profits but gets subsidies. Silence on tax perks of the rich. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages. Welfare reform is a code for squeezing the poor, old, sick, disabled.
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Welfare reform 'must happen', says Pat McFadden
The Work and Pensions Secretary tells the BBC he will press ahead with welfare system changes.
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Brexit boat arrivals last week.
Brexit boat arrivals
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
To remove indefinite leave to remain from people who already have it they'd have to dismantle our entire system of rights legislation and probably end judicial independence. But they could do that with a majority. They've said they'd do that.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
feargel So exactly 16 days after govt introduced bans on 6 water companies paying bonuses, including @SouthWestWater fat cat CEO Susan Davy of South West Water fame gets paid nearly £200,000 in shares bonuses. That didn't take long then. As I said at the time, nothing but performative politics.
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Hazel Roberts @hazelrob75.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
substack.com/@robinaqures...
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Robina Qureshi on Substack
The people telling Iran not to build nuclear weapons did THIS to Palestine.
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