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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Water use was commercially confidential." No, that is not acceptable. If you are using a scarce, essential, valuable _public_ resource, you have to be transparent about it, and prepared to justify it www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: how companies ‘secretly’ use billions of litres of public water in drought-hit England
Exclusive: As millions of people face hosepipe bans, many companies are not required to report, let alone cut, use of public supply
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is deeply shocking.
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Zoe Williams @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Unbelievably unpleasant to see Reform members' violent relish. Reminds me of @timbale.bsky.social's recent research
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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
@adhaque.bsky.social:
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Peter Tatchell Foundation @petertatchellfdn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Debanking isn't just a banking issue, it's a democracy issue The Canary says Lloyds has closed its account after almost 10 years, leaving the publication without access to a substantial amount of its own funds Independent media deserves transparency & fairness
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BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds
BREAKING: Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis
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Progressive International @progintl.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
"The immediate effect has been that we have been unable to pay any staff or contractors." Available in EN and ES.
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Lloyds Bank Blocks Account of Leftwing News Outlet the Canary
UK left-wing outlet The Canary can’t pay staff after Lloyds Bank froze its accounts without explanation.
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Selpa Arts @selpaarts.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Does anyone know the latest on the de-banking of The Canary? Have they been allowed access to their funds now? Its outrageous www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds
BREAKING: Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis
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TC@southbank.bsky.social @tcsouthbank.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Boycott Lloyds!!
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Supporters of independent media are being urged to ditch any accounts they have with Lloyds after it emerged a left-wing publication had been debanked by the organisation
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Lloyds customers urged to shut accounts over debanking of left-wing outlet
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Lloyds bank's debanking attack on the Canary has reached the US White House and drawn comment from Trump's senior diplomacy official Via @skwawkbox.org
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UK regime's debanking attack on Canary too much even for Trump administration
Lloyds bank's debanking attack on the Canary has reached the US White House and drawn comment from Trump's senior diplomacy official
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Left-wing news outlet The Canary has reportedly been de-banked by Lloyds Banking Group without explanation
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'Outrage' as left-wing news outlet 'de-banked without explanation'
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Independent media rallies around the Canary as debanking scandal continues The Canary would like to thank our friends in the independent media who have spoken out against the debanking Lloyds has subjected us to www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Independent media rallies around the Canary as debanking scandal continues
The Canary would like to thank our friends in the independent media who have spoken out against the debanking Lloyds has subjected us to
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
In the aftermath of Lloyds debanking the Canary, people from all over the political spectrum have spoken out By @willem-moore.bsky.social
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Right-wingers attack Lloyds over Canary debanking scandal
In the aftermath of Lloyds debanking the Canary, people from all over the political spectrum have spoken out
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Mothin Ali is one of only a handful of politicians to acknowledge Lloyds debanking the Canary — none of whom are from Labour's 'soft' left
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Mothin Ali calls Lloyds debanking the Canary an 'attack on democracy'
Mothin Ali is one of only a handful of politicians to acknowledge Lloyds debanking the Canary — none of whom are from Labour's 'soft' left
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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BREAKING: Canary debanked by Lloyds
BREAKING: Lloyds have debanked the Canary with no warning or explanation, putting the outlet in severe financial crisis
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Activists come out to bat for the Canary following Lloyds debanking The Canary is in a dire situation after being debanked by Lloyds, and activists and organisations are speaking out on our behalf www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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Activists come out to bat for the Canary following Lloyds debanking
The Canary is in a dire situation after being debanked by Lloyds, and activists and organisations are speaking out on our behalf
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Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈‍⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🎯 They'll come after everyone standing in the way of the fascist oligarchs' takeover of everything. A democratic socialist revolution is now essential for our societies to survive. Hopefully the UK Greens can pull this off electorally. I fear terribly for my own country of Australia and the US.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Terrible news: the Court of Appeal has just ruled that the Government’s ban on Palestine Action is lawful. PA is now likely to lodge an appeal before the Supreme Court. So the mass arrests of peaceful people sitting with cardboard signs will continue. Because that is what terrorism looks like ...
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 30/05/2026
I've written an essay in today's FT Weekend about why - and how - people are shaking off the feeling of being "frozen" in front of a "tusnami", and beginning to fight for the future they want. as.ft.com/r/cfa87609-8... (some free clicks here!)
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Should AI steal your job?
The real question is not what the technology can do but what it ought to do. Sarah O’Connor on the people fighting for the future of work
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 30/05/2026
It is often said that a “wave” or “tsunami” of technological change is heading our way. These metaphors are powerful because they shape our sense of what is reasonable, and what is unreasonable. What does AI as a "wave" imply is a reasonable course of action? (1/...)
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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 30/05/2026
But technological change is not analogous to a natural phenomenon. How technology changes the world is shaped by institutions, consumer demand, regulation, management strategies and the balance of power in different workplaces. This is not an aspirational statement, it is a simple matter of fact.
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davidhmck.bsky.social @davidhmck.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
No Farage £5m?
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moickel.bsky.social @moickel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I noticed that last night. Fuck them. It ceased to be funny years ago.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 29/05/2026
There’s something that feels deeply sexist about spending most of your programme making innuendos suggesting that a woman must have known about the crimes her husband committed - especially when she’s been cleared of all wrongdoing.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 29/05/2026
Maybe my memory is failing, but didn’t Have I Got News For You used to have jokes in it?
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His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Have I got News for you spent at least ten minutes on this SNP " scandal last night. Has anyone heard them mention the Covid profiteering, Labour's ignoring of it. We're being CONned.
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
#Renationalise now
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to.
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Gerry @gerry2366.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Have I Got News for You has spent about a lot of time on Sturgeon’s husband this evening, which is fair enough. But less fair when contrasted with the minimal focus on Farage’s cash in the last 3 episodes. Must do better.
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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Recent grads on booing their pro-AI commencement speakers: “You pulled the rug out from underneath us, and said: ‘Oh, you know those four years you spent learning how to do very specific things, you don’t need to do it any more.'" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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US students on why they booed their pro-AI graduation speakers: ‘They’re not reading the room’
Recent college grads are not very fond of commencement speakers hyping up a technology they see as a threat to their career prospects
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Lucy Siegle @lucysiegle.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Dealing with cooler temps of 70s & 80s. These kids have glimpsed a future this week that is frankly terrifying. How do we explain to them that we decided not to stop global heating because we didn’t want to make hard choices. I dunno #nationalEmergencyBriefing
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
More and more people are wising up to the fact that Burnham is just continuity Starmer. #Renationalise water #VoteGreen ✅
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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...
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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026
YouTube video by Stephen Colbert
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
"Tell us one specific thing [Burnham] will do" Simons: ".. one of the things he's really committed to.. energy, water, social housing.. have gotten so expensive.. & one of the reasons why.. is that we've privatised a lot of them" "So with Burnham, nationalise water?" "No" lol
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Laura Kuenssberg, "Rejoining the EU.. Which Streeting and Burnham have mentioned" Wil Self, "I think the public would be much happier if Streeting stood up and said we have a problem with governmental legitimacy, because of the way the vote on Europe is still perceived"
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 06/05/2026
That pesky EU, forcing farmers not to poison their crops... Where's the commonsensical British freedom to give consumers as much cancer as they like? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Guardian headline:

EU trade deal could force UK to restrict use of weedkiller linked to cancer
Glyphosate is currently sprayed on cereal and pulse crops to dessicate them and make them easier to harvest
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Palestine Coalition has today written to the Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley calling on him to retract his "scurrilous and defamatory" claims that they "set out with an intent to march near synagogues”. The letter describes these claims as “incomprehensible" and calls for a retraction.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Keir Starmer's intention to restrict peaceful protest even further is punishment for crimes the great majority of protestors hate and reject. By suggesting that support for Palestinians is an attack on British Jews, he conflates British Jews with the state of Israel, which is wrong and dangerous.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Great to see this story raised in Parliament today by @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social Huge questions still remain about what exactly APCO did for Labour Together, and what it’s doing now to stop whistleblower exposure
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Someone told me to watch this SNL sketch about America’s “media-opoly.” It feels eerily prophetic given today's media environment. Watch.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
48 hours later and the only outlet to follow up this story has been the National in Scotland Call me old fashioned but think destroying information with a legal hold on it and a disclosure to Serious Fraud is pretty important stuff open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Labour Together PR firm tried to destroy crucial evidence
Controversial firm reported to Serious Fraud Office after senior executive ordered deletion of evidence of Labour Together’s smear campaign against journalists
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shardcore @shardcore.org · 06/04/2026
morning
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
This is true too
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Love that Cumberland's Green Party membership has *quadrupled* in the last 6 months. 🚀 This is happening all over England & Wales. Join us! 💚 www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/2592768...
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Is the Green Party on the march? Membership 'quadruples' under Zack Polanski
A stalwart of West Cumberland Green Party has said membership has quadrupled due to popularity of Zack Polanski and frustrations with Labour.
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