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Lapwing @lapwing.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My 9 albums #my9albums my9albums.org/s/331b701463b2
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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/10/2026
Trump Drops Bombshell Evidence Biden Actively Campaigned Against Him theonion.com/trump-drops-bombshell-…
Trump Drops Bombshell Evidence Biden Actively Campaigned Against Him
Did Biden Rig 2020 Race By Courting Voters?
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Patriotic Millionaires UK @patmillsuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our response to Andy Burnham's Labour Party Conference speech 💬 #TaxTheSuperRich
We welcome the Prime Minister's vision to bring hope back to our country and communities.
And we repeat our longstanding message: we're ready to play our part by paying our fair share, so Britain gets the investment it needs to make that vision a reality. 
This country helped to build our success. So millionaires like us must be taxed more. It's our turn to step up first and help build a better future for everyone.
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Ed Conway @edconway.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This @lrb.co.uk piece from Arthur Downing is just a fantastic tour d'horizon of Britain's energy system. A must-read for anyone hoping to navigate the coming decade. Remember: energy is more or less EVERYTHING! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Arthur Downing · Asset Sweating: Britain’s Energy Crisis
Britain has private ownership while making the state responsible for planning via subsidies. The result is a zombie...
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 21/09/2026
It's not just X you shouldn't be on.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Do BBC news work for Reform?" via Harry Eccles
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Show me a politician that’s a millionaire and I’ll show you a crook.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 16/09/2026
Final trailer, continues to look utterly incredible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJQG...
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Wildwood – Final Trailer | Get Tickets Now
YouTube video by LAIKA Studios
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is. youtu.be/BfcjgWXk36c?... Commentators are saying we cannot afford pensions for the most vulnerable. But none of them is questioning the £83 billion a year spent subsidising the pensions of the wealthiest. Why is that?
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The OAP triple lock isn’t a problem. The cost of pension tax relief is.
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What neoliberalism did to the UK. 25.3m people, including 14.9m working adults and 7.7m children, live below minimum income standard. Richest 1% has more wealth than the bottom 70% of the population combined. 50 families hold more wealth than 34m people. Can't grow economy on mass poverty.
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Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is going to be brilliant. @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social delivering the Reith Lectures. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Robert Macfarlane to challenge humanity’s ‘superiority complex’ in the 2026 BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures
The acclaimed writer will argue for the urgent need to re-imagine humanity’s relationship with the living world, in order to shape a more hopeful future on Earth
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neoliberals want to cut social security, silent on subsidies to banks. Since 2006, Bank of England has paid interest on central bank reserve deposits to commercial banks. The EU & the Swiss stopped similar practice in 2023. UK still paying, £100bn in last 3 yrs. There are better uses of £100bn.
leftfootforward.org
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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WIRED @wired.com · 10/09/2026
Trump has previously promised payouts like a $5,000 “DOGE dividend” or a $2,000-per-person tariff check—neither of which has happened. Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/trump-...
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Trump Probably Won't Give $5,000 to Every American if Republicans Win the Midterms
The eyebrow-raising proposal, delivered during the president’s speech at the midterm convention, would cost $1.2 trillion and would need congressional approval.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick says he wants to “abolish” Natural England, and at the very least stop funding it, in the first 100 days of a putative Reform government. Reform may appear to be on the rocks currently but their plans are terrifying, mad & must be stopped. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Jenrick: “Even if you can’t abolish, I don’t know, Natural England within the first 100 days, you can stop funding it, you can turn the tap off and the tap will be turned off a lot of these quangos, and that will drive savings.”
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The number of known UK enablers of tax avoidance schemes up by 34%. HMRC didn't collect £59bn last yr, £500bn since 2010. 5 enablers prosecuted in 2023-24. In 2025, one firm charged with failing to prevent facilitation of tax evasion, result awaited. Make enablers personally liable for lost taxes
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The number of promoters of tax avoidance schemes in the UK jumps by 34% in a year to 183 - IFA Magazine
The number of known promoters and suppliers of tax avoidance schemes in the UK has increased by 34% in the last year from 137 businesses to 183* (as of June
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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wildfires touching every part of the UK . The first year on record to see three separate days where temperatures reached the 37C threshold . We need a National Emergency Briefing now . petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Over 3000 people died this summer due to excess heat.
Richard Rice: Scrap net zero and enjoy the weather
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reform wants to remove benefits from 3 million people and force them into work. But there are no jobs. There are already 2.5 people for every vacancy, and they are saying nothing about how they will create work for all these people. Nothing they say adds up. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08...
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Reform wants people off benefits. But where are the jobs?
Robert Jenrick MP, the former Tory who now skulks beside Nigel Farage on the Reform bench in Parliament, thinks Britain has what he calls a welfare problem. In itself, that is not a term I recognise. ...
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.
Sorry Zack Polanski this long hot summer is not the apocalypse - it's like a gloriously long holiday in France
..with village green cricket thrown in good measure
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Two things to sign. Both important! 1) petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76... And 2) t.co/0ds6oRCEEH - @hackedoff.bsky.social
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
England. This Green & Pleasant Land. Reform & the rest of the faux patriots in our politics & media - screaming about sovereignty as they distract us with flags & small boats - are in the pocket of the industry that’s done this to our country. We. Should. Be. Furious.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nationalise the water companies without a penny of our money. Here's how with Feargal Sharkey youtu.be/MPo3_0DjgyU?...
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The Water Industry Scandal
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why pick on Chris Packham? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/08... The Times has mounted an attack on Chris Packham, saying he is not autistic. Why? What do they hope to gain? And is this quite sinister?
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Why pick on Chris Packham?
As I have already noted today, The Times has chosen to question whether Chris Packham is really autistic, despite the fact that he has a diagnosis saying that he is. I have already discussed some aspe...
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 11/08/2026
The catering cart memes are doing me in ☠️😭 Please add any I missed in the replies. We need this laugh.
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Matriarchy Now @matriarchy.now · 11/08/2026
If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.
Women entering a voting booth with white hoods and red robes. Exiting the voting booth wearing whatever clothes they choose.
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 11/08/2026
An Absolute Climate Catastrophe. “My best guess as someone who's worked on this for years, is that we are going to fail. We're going to go to 3-4 °C of warming, and...we’ll have to live through, or die from, all of the repercussions that that will have." [kottke.org]
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“An Absolute Climate Catastrophe”
British climate scientist Kevin Anderson (from a 2024 video): So there is lots that you will hear — lots of rhetoric, lots of good words, lots of optimism about the future. But given we’ve known about this subje
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
UK household energy debt hits record £4.79bn. Energy companies making record profits, pushing people into hardship. Poor infrastructure: Solar farms turned off in heatwave, wind turbines turned off during high winds due to lack of good electricity transmission and storage. Govts allow looting.
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UK regions worst hit by energy bill debts as £4.7billion crisis revealed
New research reveals a North-South divide as millions struggle with bills
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What we should grasp is that this is what Trump is *for*. It's why fossil fuel companies and the ultra-rich backed him. The kleptocracy, the cruelty, the culture wars, all these, while real & grim enough, distract us from seeing the true purpose of his presidency. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases and instead redirect funds towards fossil fuels. Govts captured by oil/gas companies suffocate people and the planet to reward their paymasters. Disaster politics.
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Trump administration to pay German firm $1.22bn to cut offshore wind leases
Agreement with RWE is fifth deal Trump team has made with energy companies, offering payouts to give up projects
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal. Complex corporate structures, intragroup transactions used to shift profits to the Bahamas and Switzerland. Taxes dodged in many countries, including the UK. Govt inaction is protecting secret subsidies. archive.ph/Cqq2L
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Shell shifted billions in profits to tax havens, leaked files reveal
Leaked financial reports show how Shell moved profits through tax havens such as the Bahamas and Switzerland – potentially depriving developing nations of hundreds of millions of euros. While some of ...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This morning I was joined by a firefighter, a medic, a former soldier and Chris Packham to call on the government to act now. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Zack Polanski demands fossil fuel giants pay for firefighting helicopters
The Green Party leader says the companies are ‘profiting from fuelling these infernos’
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 04/08/2026
NEWS: For nearly 20 years, Epstein moved over $1B through the major banks. The banks looked away. Sen. Wyden’s 3-year probe exposes it all. But most damning? How Trump and the GOP tried to bury it.
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Follow the Money: How Wall Street Bankrolled Epstein, and How the Trump Administration and CBS are Blocking The Truth
For nearly two decades, Jeffrey Epstein moved more than a billion dollars through some of the biggest banks in America. He withdrew millions in unexplained
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
BP quarterly profits up from $2.5bn to $5.73bn as Iran war sends oil prices soaring. Shell doubled its net profit to almost $10bn. High bills fuelling poverty and misery for households and businesses. Boon for execs and shareholders. Must levy 100% windfall tax on oil, gas, energy companies.
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BP profits more than double as Iran war sends oil prices soaring
Energy company’s $5.73bn quarterly profits come after Shell posted second highest quarterly earnings on record
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
LEFT TO RIGHT: Defeated the British, freed the slaves, raped the children.
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires (and why the Telegraph is unsurprisingly wrong): spectator.com/article/rewi...
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Rewilding is the best defence against wildfires
Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For years, Telegraph columnists told us climate breakdown is a hoax. Now they say: it's real, but it's too late to do anything about it, so let the bodies pile high (again). Just one long list of excuses not to reduce fossil fuel use. Such newspapers bear as much responsibility as the oil firms.
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Do you mean the bit of the Mediterranean that catches on fire? x
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 27/07/2026
NEWS: Trump’s $10B BBC lawsuit just forced his own trust to open the books. A federal magistrate judge has now filed her written order demanding the production of financial docs on the 400+ businesses the trust owns.
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Judge Orders Trump Trust to Turn Over Financial Records in $10 Billion BBC Lawsuit
The judge filed the written order court after finding Trump's own allegations of massive financial harm opened the door to sweeping discovery into the trust that controls his business empire.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
ok reasonable
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
As everyone knows, the best humor is the kind you have to explain.
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Dr. Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The illustrious @muellershewrote.com uncovered the truth about training videos that were used to REDACT F47s name from the Epstein files. Despite the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, these videos were not released. And they did not respond to FOIA inquiries. #Pinks
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Climate Dad @climatedad.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
14,000 killed by Europe heatwave in a single week. 300,000 flee wildfires in France & Spain. 70 MILLION in the US to be hit with third heat dome in a month. This is our world as it approaches 1.5C above preindustrial temperatures. Our kids face 4C+. We claim to love them. But we do nothing.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Terrifying to see wildfires raging through Scotland. The climate crisis isn't a distant threat - it's right here and right now. How many warning signs and alarm bells until Andy Burnham takes action to end oil and gas drilling?
Person trying to put out wildfires in Scotland
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
This week's column explains how successive Environment Secretaries in the UK have been actively facilitating ecocide on behalf of industrial lobbyists. Charged with protecting the living world, one after another has been working for the enemy. This has to change.🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Besieged by lobbyists, will UK ministers protect our ecosystems? No, they’ll chicken out | George Monbiot
Industrial poultry farming is killing our rivers. But rather than stop it, the government has been facilitating it. Will Andy Burnham end this ecocide, asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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