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Anti-Brexit, left leaning , always a European🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Lead a cycling group🚴‍♀️ Knitting is keeping me sane right now🧶 Kindness makes the world a better place. No DMs

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10h
In terms of messaging, this is very positive, and a big shift from the nature-hatefest of the Starmer administration. Mind you, most tree-planting is unnecessary: I'd like to see much more emphasis on natural regeneration. 🧵 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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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8h
There was a chance here to look more grown up and it is entirely unsurprising that Badenoch did not take it.
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stylus.bsky.social @stylus.bsky.social · 21h
And when there were no hospital waiting lists, you could see your GP when you needed to and everyone had an NHS dentist.
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Westerns UK @westerns.bsky.social · 22h
That's the 70's when you didn't have to pay to attend University but could get a grant. When oil, gas, water, utilities, telephones, cars, steel, coal was owned by us, the people. When Councils built homes for people. When a working man could provide for his family. Oh god they were awful😂
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
📌 ICYMI — Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000 — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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Rupert Murdoch Flew Kemi Badenoch and Her Deputy to Mediterranean for Summer Trips Worth £12,000
The Conservative leader and Alex Burghart MP held "off-site meetings" with the billionaire media mogul in August
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MaryamB (She/Her) #FBPE #BanX #DemocracyDiedInDarkness 6Nov24🖤 @maryamb.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
669 days of unwavering courage, resilience, hope & the fight for freedom in Georgia! Georgians: Your perseverance inspires the world as you stand tall against oppression & fight for democracy. The road is tough, but your voices are louder. The global pro-democracy movement is with you. Stay strong!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I talked this week about the mental health crisis afflicting young people, in particular the isolation and loneliness caused by the neoliberal smashing of society. Everyone needs community. Everyone needs belonging. We cannot survive without them.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wonderful 😂
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On Dolly Parton Day, I'm remember how she... -Gifted millions of free books to kids -Ensured musicians she worked with got union benefits -Helped fund medical research and the COVID vaccine -Donated millions to communities hit by natural disasters -Funded high school band programs She is missed!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you've got a child calling for people to drown I'd suggest that might be a matter for social services. Clearly that child has been radicalised
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Racists.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
PS DWP's own analysis shows that private pensions will not come to the rescue of younger workers. If the triple lock goes, it is what *would* have been their pensions which will be the 'savings.'
A chart from DWP showing the likely decline in private pensions over time.
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
(4/4) ... a percentage which is mysteriously NOT unaffordable to many of our peer countries today.
A table from the OECD that shows that 7.7% of GDP is less than France, Austria, Spain, Germany, etc already spend today
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
(3/4) And the claim that it is somehow "unsustainable" is based on OBR projections that the cost will rise to 7.7% of GDP by the early 2070s ... www.theactuary.com/news/2025/07...
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OBR warns that UK “cannot afford” triple lock
The cost of the state pension triple lock is set to be three times higher than originally estimated by the end of the decade, putting UK public finances on an “unsustainable” path, according to the go...
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thread (1/4) He should be ashamed of this. One of the greatest hypocrisies of modern politics is the claim that the triple lock is unfair on the young... www.ft.com/content/2152...
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Time to axe ‘unfair’ pensions triple lock, says UK’s cost of living tsar
Iceland chair Lord Richard Walker, appointed by Starmer in February, calls system ‘mathematically unsustainable’
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
(2/4) What the maths really shows is that ditching the triple lock will hurt the young far harder than the elderly, and will ensure that many of today's 20-year olds retire into poverty. 99-percent.org/condemning-y...
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Condemning Younger Generations to an Old Age of Poverty - 99%
Thirteen long years of increasingly far-right policies have left the UK visibly broken: we have a cost-of-living crisis; our NHS is on its knees and our schools are crumbling; and […]
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Mike Bailey @linusd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Pay attention. Those like Blair and the FT who are shooting at the triple lock are protecting tax relief earned by high tax payers. The impact on pensioners who rely on the state pension would be much greater but they don’t care about that.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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LesleyS #FBPE #FB99% @lesleys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic!! #RNLI
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I feel a sea shanty coming on
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LesleyS #FBPE #FB99% @lesleys.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/
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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts
Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🙄yeah, like modern warfare still relies on bull-headed, rage male, bulging muscle shock jocks. The most important organ in a modern military fighter is not the one in their pants, but in their heads. 🙄🙄🙄
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 19/09/2026
🌧️ Floods. ☀️ Drought. 🌊 Rising seas. The Fens produce a third of England’s vegetables – but the engineered landscape that makes that possible faces climate threats from every direction. New research asks how Britain’s most artificial landscape can adapt to survive. @eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change
The Fens, source of a third of England’s vegetables, faces rising floods, drought and heat as climate risks collide.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ben-Gvir: “Conditions for people in Gaza aren’t good. I want to send them out of Gaza. I’m humanitarian, okay? “I’m doing them a favour. I’m getting them out of there.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Ben-Gvir: “If we get the Palestinians out of Gaza, that means more lives for us. “And then Gaza can become a real-estate arena. It can become a beautiful coastal gem. “Settlements need to be built there. A lot of things need to be done there.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir: “Most of the Israeli public is right-wing. Most of the public genuinely wants these changes. “Most of the public just wants us to keep going and keep going. “I walk around in the street, that’s the feeling I get.”
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who lives abroad to avoid paying tax says WHAT?
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Ian Kremer @wolverinebear.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts: Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... #Project2025 #science #Blues
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Hundreds of ageing Americans may not get results of Alzheimer’s study due to Trump cuts
Shutdown of study is latest for Trump administration, which has canceled, frozen and otherwise disrupted more than 5,700 medical research grants over two years
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Mike Galsworthy on GB News, "The right model forward is what Mark Carney was saying, it is the middle powers getting together, largely gathering around Europe, which has a stable base, which can offer the global things you can buy into"
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A "Media Sovereignty Act" to keep non-UK based billionaires out of British media control... ...could be just what we need. 👇
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Could this be the beginning of the end for the billionaire-owned media propaganda blitz?
A campaign to free our national press from foreign billionaires like Rupert Murdoch is gaining momentum and attracting big-name support
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seriousfromnow.bsky.social @seriousfromnow.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
That fucking Andy Burnham sticking to the manifesto😳
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026
Excellent letter in The Times. "Greater hate hath no person than to accuse those who put their lives on the line for others of being traitors."
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One seat in it.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Davy Jones was the original Broadway Artful Dodger in 1963. And it's all there with added psychedelic brilliance.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“A powerful El Niño helped fuel the 1876–78 global famine, estimated to have killed over 50 million people. Poverty and political failures compounded it. That is history, not a prediction. Political choices save lives.” Now look at the trajectory of THIS El Niño doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
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Climate and the Global Famine of 1876–78
Abstract From 1875 to 1878, concurrent multiyear droughts in Asia, Brazil, and Africa, referred to as the Great Drought, caused widespread crop failures, catalyzing the so-called Global Famine, which ...
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Sweden's left-wing bloc, led by the Social Democrats, are ahead in two general election exit polls published after voting ended, with the far-right seen losing ground. - Let’s hope! www.rte.ie/news/world/2...
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Sweden's left-wing parties lead election exit polls
Sweden's left-wing bloc, led by the Social Democrats, are ahead in two general election exit polls published after voting ended, with the far-right seen losing ground.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2026
Yikes! That ballroom isn’t going to complement the White House. It’s going to overpower it. Look at the scale of this thing. The people’s house is being swallowed by one man’s monument to himself.
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LesleyS #FBPE #FB99% @lesleys.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Please let this be true www.politico.eu/article/swed...
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Sweden exit poll: Left on course for election win in blow to far right
Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson is heading for a comeback as prime minister in charge of a left-wing coalition, exit polling suggests.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
WELL DONE EVERYONE. I know several people have responded to SM messages reminding that donation is the loudest voice. VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET BECAUSE THOSE RNLI VOLUNTEERS CAN COUNT IT and COUNT ON it. And money grabbing Tommy Ten Names & side-kick Danny Dumbo will see it. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump observed Friday’s 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks by attending a remembrance ceremony at the Pentagon. Apparently, he didn’t think the commemoration was particularly worthwhile, as there was no money to be made from it. During the 9/11 gathering, he took a quick nap.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The Conservative Attorney-General, Lord Somervell, warned of the danger of letting small problems fester.
democracies in other parts of the world have gone down because they had not the courage to deal at a sufficiently early stage with movements or with methods which were really subversive and contradictory of the fundamentals of democracy. That is a very true observation for us to have in mind. Those hon. Members who say, "There has been nothing very serious so far" – I am not sure that they are right – would do well to bear in mind … that if there is something here which is radically antagonistic to what we believe are the right methods of constitutional and democratic government, then the sooner this House lays down what it believes to be the right principles and the right methods, the better.
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is a brilliant thread and essential reading, especially for your ‘legitimate concerns’ acquaintances.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/09/2026
There should be alarm bells ringing at full tilt in Westminster when it comes to the coordinated intimidation campaign we saw over the weekend. What we got instead is a toothless statement that the government “condemns.” Not nearly good enough, I’m sorry.
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What Happened In Dover and Portsmouth Should Scare Us
Not because hundreds of men protested, but because they appeared disciplined, coordinated and ready to do it again.
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AnthropoceneMPG 🌊 @anthropocenempg.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some people have responded to my posts by saying you can’t plant (trees)your way out of climate change. But they’re wrong. It’s a start and the biosphere is interconnected.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
“The large-scale restoration of nature and its web of life not only helps us respond to the climate emergencies, it also creates a cascade of benefits for people and helps everyone reconnect to the natural world.”
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Go Wild In The Country
How Rewilding can tackle the climate crisis
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LesleyS #FBPE #FB99% @lesleys.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Books were my saviour growing up. Can you imagine being age 13 - 17 and not permitted to borrow from the adult section? The impact on young people’s development and thinking will affect the future of the US. A despicable decision.
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LesleyS #FBPE #FB99% @lesleys.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This!
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