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Keith Swinburne @keithswinburne.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Yesterday was yet another sad day for those of us that had high hopes for our ‘progressive’ government 😢

Keith Swinburne @keithswinburne.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Private companies are polluting our rivers, hiking up bills, and failing to deliver. 82% of us want public ownership – let’s make it happen! Sign the open letter now & demand action! 👉 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pu...

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Put Public Ownership of Water Back on the Table

Privatisation of water isn’t failing - it is the failure. The Government is mid-way through a major review of the water sector. But so far, it has refused to consider a potential solution that’s backe...

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A Labour Member @dariaqt.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I’ve been accused of being a conspiracy theorist because I insist that the BBC had everything to do with the rise of Farage & his Reform party. This chart just focussing on BBC Question Time (2010-2020) shows there was bias towards the platforming of anti-EU MEPS especially Farage. I rest my case.

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 28/03/2025

Another Friday, and the end of another week during which Labour could have taken the first steps towards rejoining the EU, but instead chose to explicitly repaint its radioactively bright Brexit red lines. So much wasted opportunity, it's incredible.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

King Charles has invited Donald Trump to Scotland. I have a better suggestion. No King Charles and no visit from Donald Trump.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

When Rishi Sunak made the Vaccine deal with Moderna as Chancellor, he had up to £530m invested in Moderna. Now Michelle Mone is desperately bringing it up. Like if you want Mone on trial. RT if you want them both facing the music.

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children.

Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Sounds like a plan

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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Quick reminder that in 2022/2023, members of the “Independent Healthcare Providers Network” (private companies) provided a grand total of 109 doctor training placements. That’s compared to ~75000 overall! Private companies don’t ‘save’ the NHS-they poach its staff🚨🚨🚨 www.ihpn.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Gary Lineker called for Israel to be banned from International Football. Do you stand with Gary Lineker? Like if you do.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

You know what? The EU & UK should put tariffs on US goods (from red states) in solidarity with Canada and Mexico. Rather than watching others get bullied and waiting our turn - we should unify against this bullying until the bully drops that behaviour.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Maybe tomorrow a <single journalist> might bother to find the Speaker or the Senate Majority Leader & ask why the hell they aren't acting to stop unelected people who aren't even federal employees from violating the laws Congress already passed, & to explain why this isn't a constitutional crisis? 🤷‍♂️

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

British Columbia is already pulling the American liquor.

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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

It started with conspiracy and propaganda then evolved into dehumanisation - spreading distrust, fear and disgust about the target. The powerless were given a group to blame, the illusion of power. The techniques used now are the same. It’ll only happen again if people let it. Sadly, they are…

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Lord Heseltine, "You've got all the polls indicating clearly now that people know they were hoodwinked, they were deceived. The majority is now in favour of Europe"

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/01/2025

Our new megapoll with @yougov.co.uk revealed that in *every GB constituency*, a majority of voters think the government should prioritise trade with the EU over Trump's America. Tell your MP to put UK-EU trade first 👇

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Tell your MP to prioritise trade with the EU

Change Minds → Change Politics

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

In other news @bsky.app continues to fly 👏

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I should think so too

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

💥 It passes!! 💥 The Youth Mobility (EU Countries) Bill has just passed its first reading. No opposition voiced by the govt. your thousands of emails stopped them shutting it down. Well done @jamesmaccleary.bsky.social on a superb speech. 👏👏👏

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Greenland is 60% for joining the EU now. Up from 40% three years ago. Thanks Trump & Musk!! Original reference (it's a superb report, btw): da.uni.gl/media/4bwb5i...

Graphic of pic of Greenland (houses and scenery) with two bars showing "In Favour 60%" and "Against 40%"

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The pitch from right wing politicians that the UK needs to leave the ECHR is based on a wholly misleading premise yet many are now being taken in by it. Let’s make sure everyone understands the actual facts. Leaving the ECHR will undermine all our rights

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

2/3rds of the people in the UK on 'benefits' are State Pensioners. Of the other 1/3rd 60% are working. The other 15% are the long term disabled people that you get in every country. Don't listen to the Daily Mail.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Did I dream a premonition, or was it real?

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis The new jobs have been labelled a ‘total acceptance of failure’ as oxygen lines are installed outside wards www.thetimes.com/uk/article/h...

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Hospital advertises for ‘corridor care’ nurses to ease NHS crisis

The new jobs have been labelled a ‘total acceptance of failure’ as oxygen lines are installed outside wards

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Dr Liz O’Riordan @lizoriordan.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

An old friend a few years younger than me DIED last week from the flu. If you’re eligible for a vaccine, please get one. youtube.com/watch?v=_-XH...

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Dermot O’Riordan @dermotor.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Great in depth article by @molly.wiki on how Musk and the Right are trying to intimidate, influence & undermine Wikipedia, a trusted source that they currently cannot control. Obviously she has citations!

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 27/12/2024

A reminder of our daftness.

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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says Electoral Commission. They want law changed amid concern over Elon Musk’s plan to donate to Reform UK 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Starmer must protect elections from foreign interference, says watchdog

Exclusive: Electoral Commission wants law changed amid concern over Elon Musk’s plan to donate to Reform UK

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Thames Water accrued all its billions in debt to payout fake dividends to its investors and huge salaries and bonuses to its executives. They need to pay, or they need to forfeit ownership. Nothing else is acceptable.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Boris Johnson is terrified that we will ditch Brexit, rebuild the UK with the EU, do well economically and… …that will show him for the fraud he is.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Left: Yvette Cooper, "Wherever our intelligence and security agencies find cases which pose any kind of challenge or threat to UK national security.. We will always stand ready to take action" Right: "MI5 visited Downing Street to warn Boris Johnson against Evgeny Lebedev’s peerage"

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Privatisation has failed. It is time to renationalise. Water Power Royal Mail Rail National Grid Telecoms Everything that we are going to use every day forever, we don't want to rent it at ripoff prices. We want to own it.

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Keith Swinburne @keithswinburne.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Whilst this is yet another prince Andrew story, that’s not what needs fixing - time to wave goodbye to the whole royal family thing 👋

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Keith Swinburne @keithswinburne.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What a slur on person of the year, Adolf Hitler.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

If you watch, read or listen to the Media, everything you are told is seen from the point of view of the billionaires. The poor are always to blame for everything, and the rich are never to blame, and even if they are it isn't really their fault, it is unavoidable. Realise this

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

✍️ Lords committee to consider drawing Europe a little closer Resetting relations with the EU is now firmly on the government’s agenda but the devil is in the detail By Sue Wilson MBE

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Lords committee to consider drawing Europe a little closer

Resetting relations with the EU is now firmly on the government’s agenda but the devil is in the detail

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Keith Swinburne @keithswinburne.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Most people (patients and potential patients) don’t about know this significant downgrading of the medical expertise that they are likely to receive:

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Most people are Socialists.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back? Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...

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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?

Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners

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