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Dr Kathrin Luddecke

@kathrinluddecke.bsky.social
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Hannoverian permanently resident in historic Oxford (30+ years); dual national. Art lover, translator, editor, social and co-op activist. Sweet tooth! Freelancer and printmaker: see my website t.co/M74fehA9M6 🇺🇦

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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
And also email your MP! @thejuryalliance.bsky.social have helpful materials here: thejuryalliance.uk/what-can-i-do/
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What can I do? - The Jury Alliance
If you can only do one thing to help save jury trials, the most valuable way you can contribute to the campaign is by writing to your local MP.
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've got my Gomi Design powerbank, all from recycled and reused materials, handmade in Brighton! Lots of lovely goodies available - gomi.design/collections/...
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GOMI - UNIQUE TECH, MADE FROM WASTE 2 YEAR WARRANTY AND REPAIRS FOR LIFE
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Andreas Froese @andreasfroese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wie tief muss man als Demokrat:innen sinken, um zusammen mit Rechtsextremist:innen für ein Verbot von Gedenkzeichen zur Erinnerung an #NSVerbrechen zu stimmen und so den polit. #Rechtsextremismus aufzuwerten? Haltung und Glaubwürdigkeit, so wichtig. t1p.de/1dm8t #CDU #noAfD #Stolpersteine #Heidenau
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Gedenken an Nazi-Opfer - Antrag von AfD und CDU führt zu Stolpersteinverbot in Heidenau in Sachsen
Die Stadt Heidenau in Sachsen wird keine weiteren sogenannten Stolpersteine zur Erinnerung an Opfer des Nationalsozialismus verlegen. Der Stadtrat stimmte einem Antrag zu, der aus den Reihen von AfD u...
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've just signed "Prime Minister, What’s Your Plan for Fair Votes?" Will you support the campaign by @openbritain.bsky.social too? actionstorm.org/petitions/pr...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 22/09/2026
Hedge funds or households? TIME TO DECIDE Can you join our protest at Labour Party Conference next week, asking Labour MPs to vote on what should happen next for Thames Water? 🗓️Monday 28th September 🕗8am - 10am 📍Keel Wharf, toward the Wheel of Liverpool 1/2
Call for volunteers to help out at this year's Labour Conference in Liverpool. Get your Labour MP to vote on what happens next to Thames Water. Sign up today
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 22/09/2026
LET THEM GO BUST Tell Ofwat that water companies shouldn’t get any more of our money. No more bill hikes. Let them go bust and bring them into public ownership. ✍️ Take 2 mins to complete the consultation Deadline⏱️: midnight on Thursday 24th September vist.ly/5jey7
Social media posts discuss government bailouts, water rights, and privatization.
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PauseAI UK @pauseai-uk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last week, we stood outside Downing Street and called for a Pause. Now Andy Burnham is calling for a global agreement on AI. The UK has an opportunity to reclaim the international leadership on AI safety established by the Bletchley Park summit and the AI Security Institute. pauseai.uk/blog
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PauseAI UK | Blog
Writing from the PauseAI UK community on AI risk and what you can do about it.
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great article by @charvynarain.bsky.social in @oxfordclarion.bsky.social about East Oxford Farmers' & Community Market's 20th anniversay! oxfordclarion.uk/east-oxford-...
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East Oxford Farmers Market celebrates its 20th anniversary
The East Oxford Farmers & Community Market marked its 20th anniversary over the weekend with a visit from the Lord Mayor of Oxford. Visitors were treated to a bumper market including all the basics o...
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Demand business that’s fair to people and planet. ✊🌍 #DoItFair action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/186243/... Btw: My favourite #Fairtrade goodies come from #DivineChocolate 😋
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Demand Business That’s Fair to People and Planet
Sign the petition for stronger laws that prevent human-rights abuses and climate harm.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🔴 The £72million pound question - how worried are you about big money in British politics? Democracy for Sale is running a survey to find out what the public thinks about money in politics - and what we should do about it Please take it!! And share widely!! thx! 😀 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...
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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool
Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
About 25 documents went into today's edition. A whistleblower disclosure. A federal rule nobody read past the summary. Two letters from House Oversight. Three contain a sentence they'd rather you never saw.
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Congress Just Demanded To Know What Don Jr. Owes A Putin Ally.
Plus: Whistleblower sounds alarm on agents posing as voters, a governor’s pen killed a Supreme Court case, and Letitia James is back for round two
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oops, that's me too. Is it a problem??
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Historic Buildings & Places @hbap1924.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the heritage sector. Join our Carbon Literacy for Heritage training to build your understanding of carbon and the path to Net Zero. 📅 22 & 29 Sept | 19 & 26 Nov Book your place: hbap.org.uk/resources/tr...
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Jabir Deralla @jabir-deralla.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
#Italy #Rome #WestminsterAlliance4Ukraine #event civil.today/the-present-...
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The Present and the Future of Ukraine: Rome Hosts High-Level Debate on Support and Reconstruction - CIVIL Today
Rome, September 2025 – On Friday, October 3, 2025 (10:30–12:00 CET), the Centro Studi Internazionali (CSI), Italian partner of the Westminster Alliance for
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
These birds are kept in factory-scale cages and remain exempt from statutory farm welfare regulations and routine Government inspections. Why should an exclusive pastime enjoyed by royalty and wealthy landowners take priority over establishing basic, legally binding animal welfare standards?
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
And here's an important petition via @38degrees.bsky.social 38d.gs/r1y9
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Put an AI Rights Bill in place NOW, before it’s too late
I just signed the campaign calling for an AI Rights Bill
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Support the campaign by adding your name to the 64,618 strong petition. Together we can demand a cap on political donations and stop billionaires from buying politics: 38d.gs/PoliticalDon...
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Andy Burnham: keep your promise and cap political donations
Will you sign the petition so Andy Burnham doesn’t give in to the billionaires and caps political donations instead?
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Veronica 🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇺🇦 🇳🇴 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇨🇦 🍁 🇸🇪 🇵🇷 @vero1986.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Trump and his EPA to shovel dirty old coal down our throats, they're now adding more toxic heavy metals like mercury, lead and arsenic to the mix. It will fan the flames of extreme heat and wildfires, and they'll trigger more child deaths, more cancers, more lung diseases and more heart attacks.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
They’re absolutely trying to kill people. Trump is expected to announce tomorrow that the US will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...
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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Dark criminal money used by Farage for a dictatorship takeover attempt Farage is a wannabe dictator These are dark time for the uk!! Democracy is at risk We must all stand up against him and the thugs in our streets
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David King @davidking196.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
For someone who doesn't like 'forriners',he sure does like their money.
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A̵̠ͣn̝̩̅t̶h͎r͆́̒ỏ̷͡.̡̡̏á͝҉.̶̦҉p̭̃ô̯̓l͠o̳̒g̴y͐̂̐ @skouwski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Regulate AI developers. ‘We’re calling on the UK government to introduce legislation to protect British people from frontier AI risks: from cyber attacks on national infrastructure to bioweapons.’
pauseai.uk
PauseAI UK | Campaigns
Take action on AI safety. Email your MP, join campaigns, and help build pressure for a global pause.
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PauseAI @pauseai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We agree with Bernie - it’s in our name. AI development is racing ahead of anyone’s ability to control it. A pause is the only reasonable path. Thank you, Bernie Sanders. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
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NEWS: Sanders, Casar to Introduce Legislation to Ban Artificial Superintelligence and Temporarily Pause Advanced AI Development  » Senator Bernie Sanders
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) today announced the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, forthcoming legislation to stop AI oligarchs from building…
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wusstest Du, dass ein AfD-Politiker bei KIKA ungefiltert zu Wort kam? Nun ist ein zweites Interview geplant. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen: Keine Rechtsextreme im Kinderkanal! weact.campact.de/petitions/ki... @campact.de
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KIKA: Keine Bühne für Rechtsextreme bei logo!
Wusstest Du, dass ein AfD-Politiker bei KIKA ungefiltert zu Wort kam? Nun ist ein zweites Interview geplant. Jetzt unterzeichnen ✍️ und teilen: Keine Rechtsextreme im Kinderkanal!
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Georg Sauerwein @georgsauerwein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Statt 51. Staat der USA wird Kanada vielleicht eine Art Mitglied der EU. Ich finds super.
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Few issues if Swedish exit polls hold: * Sweden Democrats down 3.2% vs 2022 * Sweden Democrats no longer 2nd largest party. Now Moderates. * Old Swedish parties, Social Democrats and Moderates both see extremely bad results. * Seats (if correct): Left-Green-Center 183, Right-Nationalist 166
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Håvard @fuzzy76.net · 13/09/2026
FrPs løfter om styrking av omsorgssektoren er ganske hule om man spør dem hvor de skal finne dette helsepersonellet...
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His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
THis is so good a read that I've shared it about 5 times today. Puts our current politicians to shame
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Join the 3,600+ as hundreds more head to Labour’s Liverpool conference on September 27th. Go to wedonotcomply.org to get involved.
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Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - Defend Our Juries
🗓️ On September 27th, we are taking the defiance to Andy Burnham’s Labour Conference in Liverpool. For over a year now we’ve been getting arrested under the UK Terrorism Act in our thousands for holding paper signs calling on the UK government to reverse their unjust ban on Palestine Action. The new Prime Minister has […]
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“It’s one thing to go out and hold up a placard” Deputy Met Police Commissioner Matt Jukes said that the police take neo-Nazi threats more seriously than those peacefully holding placards. There have been over 3,600 arrests since July 2025 for peacefully holding up a placard.
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just what we need after a summer of extreme heat, drought, and uncontrollable wildfires 🙂🙂🙂 #datacentres #climatecrisis
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Add your name to our letter thanking RNLI staff and volunteers for the incredible work they do. Let’s show them these attacks do NOT speak for us. ❤️ 38d.gs/ThanksRNLI_S...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know…
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Imagine risking your life to save someone at sea only to be called a traitor and “scum” when you get back to shore. That’s what happened to RNLI rescuers in Portsmouth on Sunday. These volunteers put their lives on the line to save people, whoever they are. They deserve our thanks, not abuse.
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RecoveringXtian @recoveringxtian.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh shit! The website for the GOP Midterm Convention is redirecting to the Epstein File library! Well done!!! www.gopdallas2026.com
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The Watchdog Coalition @thewatchdogco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
BLM approved a data center on public land using a 2023 study of a 19-megawatt solar farm. Town of 15,000 said no. A judge froze it. First one they tried. First one they lost. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-lipan-ap...
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ich teile natürlich sehr gerne den Spendenaufruf für den Wiederaufbau. www.gofundme.com/f/unser-kwo-...
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Donate to Unser KwO ist zerstört - Wir brauchen euch!, organized by Kulturwerk-Ost e.V.
Noch immer liegt eine Rauchwolke über Gardelegen – und mit ihr die Fas… Kulturwerk-Ost e.V. needs your support for Unser KwO ist zerstört - Wir brauchen euch!
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Claas Gefroi @claasgefroi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Und das sind so die Sachen, die völlig unter dem Radar bleiben oder niemanden mehr jucken: Gleich zwei Jugendclubs in Sachsen-Anhalt, die bereits seit Langem unter dem Druck der AfD standen, sind abgebrannt und völlig zerstört.
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Brand in Sachsen-Anhalt: Jugendclub Mood und Kulturwerk Ost sind komplett zerstört
In Sachsen-Anhalt stehen Kulturräume unter AfD-Druck. In Gardelegen sind nun zwei davon abgebrannt. Die Betreiber sammeln Kräfte – und wollen weitermachen.
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Open Britain @openbritain.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In May, Andy Burnham backed a £500k cap on political donations to stop parties being “unduly influenced” by big donors. Now he’s in No 10, his government won’t back one. What changed?
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Open Britain @openbritain.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Reform’s biggest donor has a £400m stake in major military contractor QinetiQ. Christopher Harborne has provided around two-thirds of Reform’s funding. No party aspiring to govern Britain should be this dependent on one billionaire with vested interests.
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Open Britain @openbritain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Big money has too much influence over British politics. The Government has now promised a new taskforce to tackle the power of political mega-donors. That’s welcome, but it needs to lead to real reform, and quickly. Our democracy shouldn’t be for sale to the highest bidder.
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Burnham to crack down on UK mega-donors influencing politics
Government pledges to find quick ‘solution’ to party funding row under pressure from Labour MPs
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 An undercover investigation shown on @channel4.bsky.social exposed Reform figures (allegedly) breaking the law over foreign funding. Demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition @38degrees.bsky.social: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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Sign the petition to hold politicians to account
Together, we can make sure no one - however rich or powerful they may be - is allowed to take us or our democracy for a ride.
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Oxford For Europe @oxford4europe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every single age group recognizes Brexit was a disastrous move for this country. On Sunday Oxford for Europe is going for a ramble around some of the European monuments in Oxford. We promise no wrong turns. Come and join us. Details on our website.
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Here's something you can do via @controlai.com: controlai.org/take-action @pauseai.bsky.social @pulltheplug-ai.bsky.social
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Help us prevent AI Extinction Risk | ControlAI
Top experts say AI poses an extinction risk on par with nuclear war. We can prohibit the development of superintelligent AI to prevent this risk
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Dr Kathrin Luddecke @kathrinluddecke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
38d.gs/vegn via @38degrees.bsky.social
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The Great British dairy scandal: we need honest welfare labels NOW!
I just signed the campaign for mandatory labels on our dairy products now!
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Shutting down Freeview risks cutting off millions of elderly, rural, and low-income viewers who rely on free TV. For many, it's not as simple as just moving to watch TV online - they could be forced to pay for broadband, replace perfectly good televisions or risk losing access altogether.
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Save Our Freeview TV
I just signed the campaign calling on the Government to save our Freeview TV
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
57% of the public want water companies brought back into public ownership with profits legally reinvested into infrastructure. Join 144,507 people and sign our petition to bring water back into public ownership: 38d.gs/waterpublico...
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Bring our water back into public ownership
💧Water is a basic service, not a cash machine 🤑 While bills rise and sewage pours into our rivers and seas, water companies keep rewarding shareholders. Enough is enough. It's time to bring water…
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe is now earning an astonishing £1,476/hour for his posts on X. Musk’s platform is effectively funding an MP to post inflammatory and divisive political content online. This is a new and dangerous level of influence over British politics and it needs urgent attention.
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“This is what public ownership looks like” Less than 100 days after being brought into public ownership, GTR axes 60,000 notorious "ironing board" seats in favour of comfortable alternatives.
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