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Jo Carroll

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I’ve escaped from the other place. I read, I travel, I irritate my grandchildren. And am looking for chatter and kindness, surely not too much to ask?

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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Trump is the weakest most insecure President in American history!! He melts when he has to face people like Putin and constantly seeks praise and a pat on the back 24/7 like a 5 year old!! He took the title of the most immoral and corrupt President from Nixon long ago!
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
No win no fee lawyers are deceiving customers over true cost of legal action, warns regulator bit.ly/4gAcuKJ
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No-win, no-fee offers could be banned over hidden legal costs
The Solicitors Regulation Authority wants changes and says clients can be unaware of the fees they are liable to pay
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Abbott stood up in an attempt to comment on the debate about threats to kill her more than 40 times, and was ignored by rich, white, male Speaker Hoyle on every occasion. What possible reason could there be for that? www.thenational.scot/news/2418277...
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'Institutional racism': Fury as Speaker IGNORES Diane Abbott despite Tory donor row
THE Speaker’s refusal to grant Diane Abbott a question as other MPs debated an allegedly violent comment made about her has been condemned as an…
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 15/09/2025
We must unite against those who seek to divide us.
I know many people, particularly from London's diverse communities, are feeling extremely worried following the events this weekend. 

It takes me back to how I felt growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, when 
far-right political parties marched on our streets.

The leaders of the far-right are once again attempting to hijack our flag, with minorities being intimidated and fear, hatred and division being sown.

As Londoners, and as proud Brits, we must unite to reject the far-right 
– just as we have many times before.  

But it’s going to take a huge effort from us all – from people of all races and backgrounds, who are willing to stand up for our British values of equality, inclusion and mutual respect.    

As Mayor, I'll continue to do everything I can to challenge the far-right and all those who peddle the politics of fear and division.

I urge other politicians and Londoners to do the same.

MAYOR OF LONDON, SADIQ KHAN
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Sussex Bylines @sussexbylines.co.uk · 09/09/2025
A study of plastic pollution in the Upper Itchen will help understand the threat to biodiversity and ecosystems in similar environments | Polly Wyatt
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Hampshire chalk stream reveals alarming microplastic pollution with global implications
A study of plastic pollution in the Upper Itchen will help understand the threat to biodiversity and ecosystems in similar environments
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Corruption Inc Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals. Used publicly funded office to manage commercial deals. Secret meetings with Palantir, handed NHS data. Secret Dinners during COVID lockdown to secure refurbishment of his flat. £200,000 from a hedge fund.
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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...
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Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference
The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press
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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
My partner just had a reply to a complaint about over platforming on BBC. They say they take account of poll numbers & MPs. Well where’s the middle ground here? Should the LibDems with 18x the no of MPs be getting at least equal coverage to Reform on 4 but leading the polls? I don’t see any parity!
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage’s Reform party let me know *today* that I was banned from attending its conference. I’m an accredited UK journalist who sent my media registration over in May. And now he’s told Congress he doesn’t do that. Full story: www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
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Chicken Farage bans The New World
Reform claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending its conference tells a very different story
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/08/2025
Loneliness is rife among young men. It’s time to get offline and talk to each other | Alexander Hurst
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Loneliness is rife among young men. It’s time to get offline and talk to each other | Alexander Hurst
It’s tempting to scoff, but don’t dismiss the data. Modern man’s failure to forge real, meaningful friendships is bad for everyone, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
There's no good outcome of this. Releasing nationality data is only going to be used to inflame tensions and embolden the far right. Context will be ignored by those seeking to weaponise this. It is guaranteed to lead to more migrants being discriminated against. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Police given new guidance on releasing suspects' nationalities and ethnicities
Police forces will be encouraged to release a suspect's details in high-profile and sensitive investigations.
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Steve Pottinger @bigstevepoet.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Thanks to @yorkshirebylines.co.uk for publishing this piece, written this morning in response to what a friend said about asylum seekers.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/08/2025
Times change, so do people. So why does the British Museum still think it’s OK to display human remains? | Paul Daley
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Times change, so do people. So why does the British Museum still think it’s OK to display human remains? | Paul Daley
Bodies and body parts have long been part of collections of imperial plunder over the years – but museums must understand that attitudes have moved on
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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Curious how Maga feels about Maxwell being moved to a low security prison. She is the only person convicted of that crime to ever serve their sentence in a low security prison and she was moved there days after meeting with Trump's DOJ. Does it strike them as strange?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
RFK Jr announces US is scrapping $500m of vaccine projects "I don't think l've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business," said one health expert news.sky.com/story/rfk-jr...
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RFK Jr announces US is scrapping $500m of vaccine projects
"I don't think I've seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business," said one health expert.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
UK govt is wrong on the cost of bringing England's water back into public ownership. Its £100bn number has no economic/legal basis. The cost of public ownership is "closer to zero". Companies are bankrupt, their shareholders and lenders have already extracted billions.
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A fair price to the public for water nationalisation | Letter
Letter: The government is wrong on the cost of bringing water back into public ownership, write Prof Becky Malby, Dr Kate Bayliss, Prof Frances Cleaver and Prof Ewan McGaughey
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
What state have we got to as a country when saving human life has to be justified?
BBC headline of RNLI crew rescuing people from the Channel
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The mainstream right wing press is desperate for a race riot.
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
The slow invasion of the West Bank bit.ly/3IPAnRv
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Settlers torch Palestinian homes in West Bank, residents flee village
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/07/2025
Today, our capital proudly marks seven years of London Trans+ Pride. As trans rights come under increasing pressure across the UK, this year’s march is a vital reminder: London is a city that stands for equality, dignity and pride - for everyone. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Farage is never interviewed on politics programmes, he just appears on them and speaks. A level of scrutiny that would embarrass a hack on Smash Hits or Hello. #r4today
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 19/07/2025
The Trump administration is making viruses great again | Arwa Mahdawi
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The Trump administration is making viruses great again | Arwa Mahdawi
Measles cases are at their highest rate in the US in decades. Robert F Kennedy doesn’t seem too bothered
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Liz (or Lizzie) Kim 김혜성 💫 @lizzielizliz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
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dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 @davemacleod.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
perfect comedy timing from the Speaker at #PMQs calling Nigel Farage after Starmer promises to go after “the fraudsters, the grifters, the con artists no matter who they are” 😄
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 08/07/2025
Londoners of African heritage help make our city the best in the world. Soon I’ll be leading the first mayoral trade mission to Africa, visiting Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa—to deepen cultural ties, boost trade and bang the drum for London. Great to kick things off at The Flygerians.
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ᑕ ᕼ ᓰ ᗷ 〇 ᒪ 乇 @chibole.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
UK welfare spending "too expensive". Also UK Welfare spending, almost the lowest in Europe.
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Trixie ☕︎ @dixie13.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
#booksky
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/07/2025
‘We are in a dangerous place’: British Muslims on the fallout from 7/7 attack 20 years on
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‘We are in a dangerous place’: British Muslims on the fallout from 7/7 attack 20 years on
Many feel counter-terrorism policies and brazen Islamophobia have increased hostility and isolation experience by community
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 06/07/2025
👀 Just how discriminatory and intolerant an environment can GB News create for its black presenters without breaking the law?
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Maca Iglesias @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Whoever did this wins the internet today.🏆
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Women in poorest parts of England & Wales ‘will spend only two-thirds of life in good health’. Women in wealthier parts enjoy two more decades of healthy life. Gender pay/pension gap, public sector pay cuts, two child benefit cap, low benefits, poor healthcare take toll. Poor feel marginalized.
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Women in poorest parts of England and Wales ‘will spend only two-thirds of life in good health’
Healthy life expectancy for women in most deprived areas falls to the lowest level since recent records began, ONS says
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 04/07/2025
“You can’t tell people that climate change is the great existential problem of our generation, and then say, ‘I’m sorry, we’re not going to do anything’. That is what they are doing.”
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Political cowardice hindering Europe’s climate efforts, says EU’s green chief
Teresa Ribera says effects of crisis are becoming increasingly obvious but not translating into proper action
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
The Diddy trial had a jury of 8 men and 4 women. That seems a perfectly reasonable way to get “justice” on male violence.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400. Insurance did not cover the cost of vaccinations. Profits came before people. Yet this is the system that Farage/Reform, neoliberals want in the UK Defend the NHS, or risk bankruptcy and poor health. archive.ph/noB9w
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A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400.
Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
ICYM - Calls to clean up England’s ‘toxic air’ as GP visits for asthma attacks rise 45% #airpollution www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Calls to clean up England’s ‘toxic air’ as GP visits for asthma attacks rise 45%
Exclusive: Doctors say clean air zones need expanding, after 45,458 visits in first half of this year – up from 31,376 last year
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29/06/2025
Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.
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KAMALA NATION @kamalanation.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
ICYMI: Then presidential candidate Kamala Harris guest on @maddow.msnbc.com 9/16/19 accurately predicting trump actions on making war with Iran.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Post Office Capture scandal: Sir Alan Bates calls for those responsible for wrongful convictions to be brought to account. PO execs, Fujitsu, lawyers, accountants, advisers made millions from conspiracy. Lives of postmasters ruined. After 3 decades no one charged. Will they ever be?
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Post Office Capture scandal: Sir Alan Bates calls for those responsible for wrongful convictions to be 'brought to account'
It comes after Sky News unearthed a report showing Post Office lawyers knew of faults in the software nearly three decades ago.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
In Praise of Kim Leadbeater Regardless of how today's vote goes, she has shown us a politics of compromise, compassion and decency. We should treat it as proof of concept for a better kind of politics. iandunt.substack.com/p/in-praise-...
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In Praise of Kim Leadbeater
The Labour MP has provided a vision of what politics can be: practical, empathetic, consensual and rational.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
UK Uber driver earnings cut by changes to secretive algorithm. Dynamic pricing cut wages, hiked fares. Profits and exec pay boosted by fleecing workers/customers,; not through investment, better service. No cure for greed other than public boycott. Govts do nothing.
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UK Uber drivers’ earnings cut after changes to secretive algorithm
Introduction of ‘dynamic pricing’ also coincided with company raising trip prices, researchers finds
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Some of the arguments being made this week in the Telegraph and London Standard about the authors' preferred ethnic makeup of Britain/London would have been considered dubious, antiquarian, and extremist in the 1990s.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🚨NHS has put out an urgent call for 200,000 donors to come forward Just 2% of the population - under 800,000 people sustained the whole of England's blood supply over past 12 months Giving blood is one of the most rewarding things you can do. Book an appointment or register today ❤️🙏👇 blood.co.uk
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Register to be a blood donor, give blood and save lives. Find out more about blood donation.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The US denied a visa to a French lawmaker who is critical of Trump policies. Can you imagine how much the GOP would never shut up if the French denied a visa to one of them? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
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French Lawmaker Says He Was Denied Entry Into the United States
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