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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social

@johnlowe56.bsky.social
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Retired NHS worker but critical of former employer. Contemporary History and Politics MA via Birkbeck. Green Party activist. Like football, cats, dogs, travel when not commenting on the crises of now. Image is the remains of the library at Ephesus.

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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20h
Just Rupert Lowe accusing the British government of treason. Worth remembering next time Restore claim that it is “woke lefties” who are encouraging violence.
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What happened in Gosport is a humiliation for the British people, again.
The police implemented a dispersal order to cover the town of Gosport. It is astonishing the levels of our establishment go to in order to import these men.
These third world invaders will now be spread around the country - housed, fed, accommodated, cared for.
It is treason.
I want to be abundantly clear over what a Restore Britain Government will do.
If a civil servant or politician has knowingly placed unvetted dangerous criminals in our communities?
They will be prosecuted, and where appropriate, sent to prison.
I am sick of it. The British people are sick of it.
We need to deport millions, and send those responsible to prison.
It's that simple.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19h
“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 20h
Hugely dishonest to pass off a sentence for setting off a bomb as "destroying a camera"
Misleading statement by "journalist" Andrew Pierce
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15h
This is a much stronger statement than the one issued yesterday by the MPs and leadership of the Green Party of England and Wales
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h
😕 🌎 🔥
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 14h
Short thread. R5L spent 5 minutes earlier with a Daily Mail journalist laughing about the hilarious satirical tapestry.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 18h
You can think Netanyahu is one of the most evil people on the planet (and I do) and still think the Zionism=Racism motion is a terrible mistake (and I do). Sigh...
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 22h
www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/reform-...
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 23h
Interesting about the B1s leaving in a hurry. There must be more to this story.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 23h
BREAKING: Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez announces a snap election for November 29.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I lost friends over antisemitism in Labour. I tried to argue that the fact that people on the right were trying to use antisemitism as a weapon against Labour (and they were, in bad faith) did not mean that antisemitism did not exist in Labour (it did). This argument still echoes.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My speech from the conference debate on 'Zionism is Racism’ motion
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thread. Repost.
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Mourning NAVALNY😢 @jan-readsalot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just when we think it can’t get worse … it does.
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The 70s Guy @stevenw888.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
4th October 1970 - singer Janis Joplin was found dead at a hotel in Hollywood after an accidental heroin overdose. She was known as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul" and "Pearl" to her friends. She remains one of the top-selling musicians in the US, with over 15 million albums sold. #JanisJoplin
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I endorse this.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m glad this has been said 👇
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Pete Miles @petermiles.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026
Tory conference security... @privateeyenews.bsky.social
Cartoon in Private Eye, black on white.

Two security guys at a control desk are looking at 9 screens on a wall, each showing a face.

sign above says:
TORY CONFERENCE SECURITY

One guy says to the other:
"EVEN OUR MOST ADVANCED FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE DOESN'T KNOW ANY OF THEM"


Cartoonist ROBERT THOMPSON
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I heard a fire chief on R5L earlier in the year talk about this. Readiness is being looked at and there are plans to invest. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...?
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The BBC's flagship Sunday politics programme has sparked fury after failing to include a Green Party representative – despite the party's conference taking place this weekend 👀 www.thenational.scot/news/2...
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's important to focus on this as a Green Party activist or supporter presently.
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Broadly agree with Clive but sceptical Labour will radically change policy.
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Kavi Kat 🌬️ @katinthestars.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What would you do if you found out a January 6th domestic terrorist was running for a seat on your city council or state legislature? For thousands of Americans, that question has stopped being hypothetical. #WeThePeople are taking notes. 📝 #J6Tracker 👀
click.actionnetwork.org
J6Tracker | Keeping the Record
Explore the January 6 public record: people, prosecutions, pardons, preserved evidence, and reporting on what happened next.
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Thread.
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Thread.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ding Ding the gibbon rides on his caretakers head at Pu'er Sun-River National Forest Park in Yunnan, China Original post
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t own a diesel car but if I did, I’d be keeping more of an eye on the record profits that Shell, BP et al will be recording over the next months & I’d be thinking these are the people making my life worse. Greedy corporate fbckers. Not people in boats who arrive with nothing but hope & dreams.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reform MP Sarah Pochin sees a question of "two tier justice" in imprisoning a man who made + set off a pipe-bomb in the street for political ends Pochin must iimagine there are bomb-making terrorists we let off for other causes (ie you can explode pipe bombs for climate/Palestine with impunity)
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Listen to Guardian Football Weekly from Thursday 1 October and Philippe Auclair excoriating Manchester City's blatant cheating and their witnesses lying under oath.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 03/10/2026
Setting aside that these are both odious humans, it's a good example of how the right just talk over the top of people who are proving them wrong, even when it's someone else from the right. They lie and then they shout so noone can hear them being corrected.
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Terrorism, pure and simple. Pochin is a right wing extremist.
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...?
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Manchester City’s guilty verdict brings football’s great sell-off crashing to earth
On the day Andy Burnham spoke of the wrong turn Britain took under Thatcher, football was facing a day of reckoning over its own story of corporate acquisition
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We are living with an Alice in Wonderland British state. Words mean whatever the political and legal systems want them to.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We seem to have reached a point where everyone is doing terror now.
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Ann Widdecombe murder suspect charged with planning terror act against Nigel Farage
Joshua Kerry, 28, of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, charged with one count of preparation of terrorist acts, say police
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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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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 02/10/2026
I wonder what makes it a terror attack and not just an attack because I no longer know what is and isn't classified as terrorism in the UK.
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We all want the hope.
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: FlyDubai co-pilot who attacked pilot on flight to Tel Aviv had 'previously been banned from flying by Oman over concerns he had adopted radical ideological views', according to Wall Street Journal report.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In addition to being the UK's most Kremlin-sanctioned newspaper, Byline Times has now been banned two years running from both Conservative and Reform UK party conferences. Judge us by our critics, and subscribe to support our work: subscribe.bylinetimes.com @peterjukes.bsky.social
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/10/2026
Charlie Angus: Heavy crude from Alberta has served American refineries for a long time. It has served the US economy super well. But hey, you threaten us, well, we’ll have another pipeline and it can go elsewhere. The message to the MAGA administration is: Keep pushing, sucker, and see what happens
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Christopher Hudson @chrishudsonjr.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Abolish the Death Penalty No government should be trusted with the power to murder you
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fab place, visited July 2025.
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
History is written by the victors. Thatcher broke the power of trade unions by mass unemployment, industrial restructuring, frittered away N Sea Oil, laid the foundations for the current housing crisis, decimated local bus services, hollowed out local government and introduced the poll tax.
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Andy Burnham seems to remember a different 1970s to the rest of us. Britain in 1979 was utterly broken - ravaged by unaccountable trade union power, economically stagnant, the sick man of Europe.
The 1980s saw a remarkable national recovery based on free enterprise, the rule of law and championing Western values. And it is this that our Prime Minister rails against...
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chipunk666.bsky.social @chipunk666.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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John L @JohnLowe56.bsky.social @johnlowe56.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Starmer said he supported Zionism 'unreservedly'.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is there a defense fund? A defense committee? Anything else we can do to support this brave and beautiful human being?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun fact. Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, had no screenwriting experience. After winning two Oscars, he bought a screenwriting book to learn how, which recommended 'Study The Godfather'. Original post
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onefinekitty.bsky.social @onefinekitty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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