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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦

@jon-elsa.bsky.social
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Paramedic, now retired. Over 35 years in NHS/union and media. Wonderful dog. Miss our horse! No longer platform diving due to injury; 43 years wasn't a bad gig! We ignore the climate at our peril!

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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 7h
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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British Jewish groups hold London vigil for victims of 7 October attacks
Organisations honour those who died three years ago as Andy Burnham says government stands with British Jews
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 7h
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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All hail the Kult of Kemi – captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives | John Crace
The Tory leader is now too big for the party to allow her to fail, so everything she does is acclaimed a work of genius
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 7h
BBC News - Greens face conference centre ban over Zionism motion www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Greens could face Brighton Centre ban over Zionism motion
Brighton & Hove City Council says the motion is not compatible with its inclusion commitments.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15h
Speech changes nothing. It's telling that Badenoch aimed it at the hall more than the country. Think she'll have done more than enough to keep Tory membership on side - they'll love all the tax cuts and (contradictory) talk of fiscal rectitude.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 16h
Did I miss how she said she was going to pay for the inheritance tax cut?
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 12h
A life so very well lived! BBC News - Oscar-winning actress Eva Marie Saint dies aged 102 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Oscar-winning On the Waterfront actress Eva Marie Saint dies aged 102
She starred opposite Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront, then alongside Cary Grant in Hitchcock's North by Northwest.
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 14h
Geopolitics is very complicated. It needs leaders with integrity such as Nekdon Mandela. I can only hope that Netanyahu and his cronies are a busted flush with the election on the horizon!
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 16h
Thank you Lucy. I'm no cheerleader of Netanyahu but I do believe in the fundamental right for Israel to exist; alongside a two state solution enabling self determination for the Palestinians.
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 18h
No I didn't.
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 18h
Excellent here by Rafael Behr. This motion brought censure from the European Green group. A breathtaking absence of leadership and a massive own goal for the Green Party. Polanski: Do better or you will haemorrhage even more support than you already have! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Zack Polanski had the chance to show real leadership. He blew it | Rafael Behr
A toxic debate over anti-Zionism leaves the Green leader looking like a passenger in the movement that carried him to the top, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 21h
A footballing icon that this country can truly be proud of. Kane's rise from childhood keeper to equalling England cap record - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Harry Kane: Striker's rise from childhood keeper to England great
Harry Kane reaches another significant England milestone by equalling Peter Shilton's record as the most-capped Three Lions player that he has held for 36 years.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Not that anyone needs a reminder but this man has the nuclear codes. Far too many people will just shrug this off or find some way to justify it. But Trump is unwell, incoherent, and a danger to us all.
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 21h
BBC News - US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution, lawyers say www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution
Experts and lawyers called the apparent recovery unprecedented, noting she is believed to be the only known person to survive a lethal injection.
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Donald Trump would be willing to vaporize 1.6 million of his own voters, the Republicans who live in California. THIS IS WHY WE NEED A BLUE TSUNAMI. San Diego County has the fourth-highest number of registered Republican voters in America among counties that report partisan and registration data.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Who's really paying the price for those killer Amazon Prime Day deals?
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Every person who takes action adds strength to the call to stop deep sea mining before it starts. I’ve had my say; now it's your turn. act.gp/3TWnlHV
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The Deep Ocean is Not For Sale - Greenpeace International
Every person who takes action adds strength to the call to stop deep sea mining before it starts. I’ve had my say; now it's your turn.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
All this is obvious, true and but for a couple of very brave pieces in WSJ, not reported or discussed in US corporate media, which are afraid of him.
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Zia Weise @ziaweise.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention. Just out — my long read on European governments waking up to the threat of a possible collapse of the AMOC, the ocean currents that keep our continent's climate mild: www.politico.eu/article/clim...
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A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.
A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The reckoning is here…
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The inevitable consequences of this clumsy motion. Prominent Jewish Greens feeling marginalised within their own party. An appalling abrogation of duty by Polansky. Surely this was of more urgency than the campaigning for the by-election? A disastrous own goal! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Head of Jewish Greens says she may leave party over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
Vivien Lichtenstein says she believes motion is unhelpful as anger grows over Zack Polanski’s absence for vote
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
One member who opposed the motion said: “There are now two Green parties – the everyday members, and those who have joined for just one reason, Palestine, and who have no interest in anything else.” Where was Polanski when his leadership was needed? Elsewhere! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Green party votes to adopt policy that equates Zionism with racism
Motion calling for single Palestinian state, which is opposed by most Green MPs and expected to be challenged, passes by 1,022 votes to 813
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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For Kemi, being the Nasty party is not toxic but a badge of honour | John Crace
The Tory leader says the party’s plans to cut people’s benefits are no more than ‘common sense’
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Bylines Scotland @bylines.scot · 04/10/2026
In the Highlands, work is being done to protect the fragile ecosystem of the peatlands; one of the world’s most important stores of carbon | Naz Saad
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Restoring peatlands in Scotland’s Flow Country
In the Highlands, work is being done to protect the fragile ecosystem of the peatlands; one of the world’s most important stores of carbon
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Don Henley is a mensch, part 12,946: (Wrote about his environmental projects in our book, and here: fallows.substack.com/p/be-not-sim... ] www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
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Eagles legend Don Henley is putting big money into turning Texas blue
The Texas native is top donor to several statewide Democratic candidates and a major player in super PACs helping James Talarico.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I continue to warn against complacence. It’s still vitally important that we vote and remain vigilant against Trump’s interference in our elections. But with a little more than four weeks to go before the midterms, I’m breathing a wee bit easier. Here's why...
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Sunday thought: What’s Up With Kansas?
The power of kitchen-table economics
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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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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A voice of reason in challenging times, Caroline Lucas addresses this issue perfectly with balance and sensitivity.
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
His destiny is coming down the tracks and isn't likely to be what he had hoped fo! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump sets off on midterm blitz – are his trademark rallies a liability for Republicans?
Rallies have been mainstay of president’s brand but even some in his own party fear voters are sick of the sight of him
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Simply caring about victims can change everything.
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A government's role is not only to govern, but to listen as well. In this case, it has listened clearly to the voices of dissent(of which there many), and responded accordingly. This is a good news story;not only for the beleaguered judicial system, but for Labour as they acknowledged their error.
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
GOOD FREAKING MORNING! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Conservative party Shadow Culture Secretary to speak at conference tomorrow about how to "defend press freedom", whilst her own party bans journalists whose coverage they don't like
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🔴 Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years Exclusive: Reform UK’s Sam Journet branded “Britain’s worst councillor” as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council bylinetimes.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Reform UK Mayor Has Firm Struck off as Another Files No Accounts in Six Years
Exclusive: Reform UK's Sam Journet branded "Britain's worst councillor" as opponents demand he be suspended as Mayor of Basildon Council
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Great stuff from Adam, and thanks to @mrjamesob.bsky.social for being pretty much the only non-Byline journalist to pick this story up
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A horrifying account. Why did the local district attorney not press charges back in 2024?? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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After rape allegations at Cornell University, why are women again being urged to talk to their sons? Why not men? | Gaby Hinsliff
Boys learn by watching how the men they respect treat their partners, female colleagues, women on the street. Now is the time for those men to step up, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Zero Hour: the campaign for climate and nature @zero-hour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔴 We heard the Government is going to take action at Labour Conference 2026. But haven't we heard this before? 🌍 We need more than words. The Government must respond to the climate and nature crisis with the urgency it demands. 🌿 Join us to take action 👉 zerohour.uk
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carolyn Pearson, CEO of travel security company Maiden Voyage, said handing a room key to someone claiming to be a guest's boyfriend is an "incredibly basic" failure, but one that is "unfortunately very common across the industry". A breathtaking absence of security measures & simple common sense!
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A life so well lived. Childline and Silverline are her high profile legacies; but that was just a snapshot of her accomplishments. BBC News - Veteran broadcaster Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86
Rantzen, who fronted the BBC's That's Life for two decades, went on to found Childline, and in recent years had been a campaigner for assisted dying.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/09/2026
Luciana Gatti, who studies carbon uptake in the Amazon, aims to join Brazil’s lower house in this week’s elections. scim.ag/4xLuQzr
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Fed up with Brazil’s politicians not listening, a climate scientist runs for office
Luciana Gatti, who studies carbon uptake in the Amazon, aims to join Brazil’s lower house in this week’s elections
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Grenfell fire police investigators hand files on 20 firms and 54 people to CPS
Met calls move ‘milestone’ moment that paves way for ‘very best possible evidence for charging decisions’
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The way back to Europe is rocky – but it is a road well worth taking www.independent.co.uk/voices/edito...
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The way back to Europe is rocky – but it is a road well worth taking
Editorial: Andy Burnham talks of going ‘all the way’ as the government reviews relations with the bloc – he is right to put rejoining back on the table
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel optimistic about the midterm elections, just over five weeks away. But my stomach aches when I think of what’s at stake. Call me nauseously optimistic. How do you feel? robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
such a good eg of why political argument matters - polling previously showed over 60% support for keeping triple lock. Argue to unlock it *for something people also want* & numbers can change. (Obv can change back again if someone makes a good argument against, but either way, politics=argument)
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Small steps but an encouraging development nevertheless! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather
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Jonathan Fox 🇺🇦 @jon-elsa.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Burnham’s emotional solo act had Labour in raptures – but his promises will take time to come good
PM’s speech, written almost entirely alone, was full of radicalism but his biggest plans will have to wait until after the next election
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let’s just have more TRUTH youtu.be/A6fCl-uOEVY?...
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It’s time UK media reminded Farage how we got into this mess in the first place - BREXIT!
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announces that the UK will be opening "safe and legal" routes for refugees. These refugees will include "Afghan women and girls fleeing persecution under the Taliban" and "Palestinians who have fled the horrors of Gaza"
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