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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16h
Instead of attacking destitute pensioner income why won't Labour #TaxTheRich (is it because millionaires give Labour ££££££ donations ...)
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 16h
Mark Butcher is Reform UK's candidate in Claremont, Blackpool, standing tomorrow. He's seen here with a group intimidating a council worker taking flags down. A worker, just doing his job. That's him climbing the ladder. Just think how a he would treat council staff if he was a councillor.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16h
"Labour bureaucrats block motion to cancel killer-firm Palantir’s NHS contract" www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Labour bureaucrats block motion to cancel killer-firm Palantir's NHS contract
Palantir just offered a fat salary to former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Is it already collecting a return on its investment?
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16h
As well as making climate targets unreachable, and creating drought ... "AI data centres are a scam. A real estate bubble, pyramid selling style, for large language model AI hyper scaling by unnecessary giant data centre" via Finola ONeill www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Nick Clegg could make £30m windfall from datacentre startup Nscale flotation
The former UK deputy prime minister is a board member of the UK-based company and owns 917,000 shares
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 16h
Why has an Israeli company been licensed to drill for Falklands oil!!! "Mr Milei’s office said that it had given Britain 2 weeks to halt work on Sea Lion, an offshore oilfield being developed by Israel’s Navitas Petroleum & England’s Rockhopper Exploration." morningstaronline.co.uk/article/arge...
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Argentina's Milei threatens Britain with legal action over Falkland's oilfields
ARGENTINA’S far-right President Javier Milei said on Monday that his government would seek international arbitration against Britain over an oil project off the disputed Falkland Islands.Mr Milei’s of...
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Human Rights Index 💙 @humanrightsindex.bsky.social · 13h
There is also another layer. Real suffering can still be instrumentalized. Fear of Russia has helped normalize military spending, weapons production and strategic choices that deserve scrutiny. Caring about Ukraine should never mean switching off our judgment about who benefits from the narrative.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 13h
“Andy Burnham” asked Labour delegates and MPs what he should do with Thames Water ✅99% said public ownership NOW ❌1% said hand over to US hedge funds Andy Burnham, Labour voters and members demand public ownership, not public control or regulation
A picture of a campaigner wearing an Andy Burnham mask standing between two boxes in which Labour delegates put balls to indicate  whether they want Andy Burnham to bring Thames Water into public ownership or hand it over to private hedge funds. 99% voted to bring it into public ownership.
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libryanne.bsky.social @libryanne.bsky.social · 13h
EXCLUSIVE: 94yo arrested Jewish protester, friend of Miliband’s mum, has words for him www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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EXCLUSIVE: 94yo arrested Jewish protester, friend of Miliband's mum, has words for him
Speaking to Skwawkbox by video link, Margaret Owen reminisced about her recently-passed friend Marion - Ed Miliband's mum
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 18h
"Medical sources at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said #Israeli soldiers shot and killed Ahmad Abu Mour while he was on Salahuddin Road in Deir al-Balah, in central #Gaza." Three Palestinians Killed in Israeli Attacks on Gaza imemc.org/article/thre... #BDS #GazaNews #Israel #News #Palestine #WorldNews
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libryanne.bsky.social @libryanne.bsky.social · 18h
Labour bureaucrats block motion to cancel killer-firm Palantir’s NHS contract www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Labour bureaucrats block motion to cancel killer-firm Palantir's NHS contract
Palantir just offered a fat salary to former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson. Is it already collecting a return on its investment?
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ABSURD: The Campaign Against Antisemitism is pressuring Wembley Arena to cancel Macklemore's Free Palestine fundraiser. This comes amid a backdrop of a new ad campaign on London transport, continuing the mockery of Ed Sheeran's inexcusable spinelessness. #wembleyarena #macklemore
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Failure of Burnham to significantly reduce UK's complicity with Israeli crimes due to "very narrow reading of international law obligations" Via @ososabio.bsky.social
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Government offers words but no concrete action on Israel's crimes, new report shows
Failure of Burnham to significantly reduce UK's complicity with Israeli crimes due to "very narrow reading of international law obligations"
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The North of Ireland is being promoted to white Britons by far-right figures using racist violence and ethnic cleansing as selling points
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Fascist head-the-balls launch Ulster Plantation 2.0
The North of Ireland is being promoted to white Britons by far-right figures using racist violence and ethnic cleansing as selling points
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pensioners arrested for Palestine Action signs while al-Qaeda subsidiary HTS has been de-proscribed and whitewashed by the UK and US Via @skwawkbox.org
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IN PICS: hundreds arrested at Palestine protest outside Labour conference
Pensioners arrested for Palestine Action signs while al-Qaeda subsidiary HTS has been de-proscribed and whitewashed by the UK and US
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These companies profit from Israel's crimes against Palestinians UK companies, JCB and Greenkote, feature on the updated list of firms benefitting from Israel's war crimes By @skwawkbox.org
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These companies profit from Israel's crimes against Palestinians
UK companies, JCB and Greenkote, feature on the updated list of firms benefitting from Israel's war crimes
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Miliband's Labour Party conference speech is a warmongering con that should fool no one Miliband spoke like anyone has been convicted, claiming that RAF Fairford is a "reminder of the threats our country faces". Rubbish. By @skwawkbox.org
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Miliband's weasel speech is a warmongering con that should fool no one
Miliband spoke like anyone has been convicted, claiming that RAF Fairford is a "reminder of the threats our country faces". Rubbish.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Labour's Fairford narrative collapses in farce as 'terrorists' promptly bailed Fairford Five bailed. Definitely not something that happens for people arrested for actual terrorism - or sign-holding vicars, either
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Labour's Fairford narrative collapses in farce as 'terrorists' promptly bailed
Fairford Five bailed. Definitely not something that happens for people arrested for actual terrorism - or sign-holding vicars, either
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The iPhone - a good product that people like and want, and are willing to pay a lot of money for - makes about 200 billion per year.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second. TW infrastructure has average age of 79 years. Industry average is 56 years. 40% of TW assets are over 100 years old. Profits siphoned-off, investment neglected, execs rewarded, customers fleeced
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Schools forced to shut amid burst Thames Water pipe ‘leaking 750 litres a second’
Leak causes outages and low pressure in parts of London and Surrey, affecting 6,000 properties and leaving some without water
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Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · 29/09/2026
This summer didn't just break records for extreme heat, the amount of work required of London's emergency services also set new records. In the latest episode of our podcast, deputy mayor of London, Mete Coban, explains why this should be an alarm bell for action on adaptation.
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libryanne.bsky.social @libryanne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Monster fishing vessels are hoovering up whole ecosystems in UK waters that are supposed to be protected. I just signed a petition calling on the new government to save our seas from destructive fishing, by banning supertrawlers in UK Marine Protected Areas. Will you join me?
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libryanne.bsky.social @libryanne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Data centres are springing up everywhere, using massive amounts of energy and water. I’ve signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for a pause on new data centres until the government gets a grip on the situation. Will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/put...
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Stop data centres draining our precious resources
Add my name Data centres are springing up all over the UK – using massive amounts of electricity and, in many cases, huge amounts of water. The UK is already facing water shortages, high energy demand...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Sunak built Teesside's freeport, £560m public spend, 20-30 jobs, two men took the rest. Starmer promised an audit, Rayner shelved. Burnham inherits the programme having built Manchester's version himself. Three PMs, one mechanism. substack.com/@europeanpow...
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EuropeanPowell (@europeanpowell)
Rishi Sunak built Teesside as a freeport, handed two men with no investment a 90% stake in Teesworks Ltd, and it produced £560 million in public spending against 20 to 30 permanent jobs. Under Keir ...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Deed and the Zone: How Trump came to "own" Gaza europeanpowell.substack.com/p/the-deed-a...
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The Deed and the Zone: How Trump came to "own" Gaza
How a decade of freeport paperwork explains the resolution that gave Gaza away
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
WARNING⚠️ Burnham is running for PM on the Manchester Model. Before the country decides, it should know what that model did with £600m of public money. 🧵
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🚨NYPD ARRESTS Susan Sarandon. "That's Susan Sarandon there." - @jordanchariton.bsky.social reacts to NYPD Arresting her at an anti-Netanyahu protest outside the United Nations in NYC
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Ken Oh ☄️☄️ @revenge-of-ken-oh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Still peddling the old ‘defensive‘ bombs bollocks for the benefit of dimwitted centrists I see
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/09/2026
How UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests aje.news/1l3a46
How UK universities briefed BAE Systems on pro-Palestine campus protests
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Major government workplace health review ‘has kept disabled people’s organisations firmly on the outside’ #DWP #KeepBritainWorking #Mayfield @inclusionlondon.bsky.social @disrightsuk.bsky.social @campaignfdj.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/major-govern...
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Major government workplace health review ‘has kept disabled people’s organisations firmly on the outside’
Disabled people’s organisations have been kept “firmly on the outside” of a key government programme to improve workplace health, raising fresh questions about ministers’ commitment to co-producing…
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Disability News Service @johnpring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cutting PIP would only increase pressure on other services, MPs warn minister #PIP #DWP #TimmsReview www.disabilitynewsservice.com/cutting-pip-...
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Cutting PIP would only increase pressure on other services, MPs warn minister
A cross-party committee of MPs has warned the government against using the Timms Review to cut disabled people’s access to personal independence payment (PIP), which it said would only increase pre…
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For less than whatever PR company is charging to advise Newcastle University, I will advise them not to do this On the plus side, a delightfully bonkers move and an excuse to show pictures of That Wedding again www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Backlash as Indian oil heir made professor of sustainability by Newcastle University
Role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo, met with incredulity
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libryanne.bsky.social @libryanne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Sign the Petition
TAX BANK SUPER-PROFITS AT THE BUDGET
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libryanne.bsky.social @libryanne.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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C4 Dispatches tonight exposes what UK govt knows about Israel's crimes
Among other things, Dispatches trailer suggests that the show has evidence of the Foreign Office's explicit knowledge of Israel's genocide
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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bearing in mind no descendant has actually managed to claim reparations, it's breathtaking how evil this view is
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This week, the PM announced plans to extend bereavement leave to couples who experience pregnancy loss at 24 weeks or earlier. Every baby loss is worthy of compassion. This is a welcome policy change, which respects that and gives people more time to process and grieve.
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Bereavement leave rights to be extended to include early pregnancy loss | ITV News
The new rules will also cover a broad range of relationships including those who lose a spouse or partner, parent, adult child or sibling. | ITV National News
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you like infographics which are pretty but politically inconvenient then you can subscribe to our free newsletter. buff.ly/Z00czNX
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A new High Court judgment has blown a large hole in the regulation of the solicitors' profession. The Solicitors Regulation Authority will now have great difficulty investigating SLAPP, and other cases where a client's solicitor harms other parties.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Reform UK in Durham. Andrew Husband and Darren Grimes have lost control.
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'll repost this. The triple lock is being weaponised, using it as an issue to divide the generations. If it's dropped, the real losers will be the future pensioners. For a currency issuing government keeping any cohort in poverty is is a political choice.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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MMTAction @mmt-action.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
"Britain needs cash" is the wrong frame. The currency issuer doesn't need cash. The real question: what real resources should go to pensions, and what's the fairest way to distribute them? That's a politics choice, not a money constraint. #MMT #Economics #UKPolitics
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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff | The Guardian
The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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libryanne.bsky.social @libryanne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
3,000+ health care workers lost their jobs Delaware County lost its primary trauma centre lost its only burn unit hundreds of thousands of ppl have fewer places to turn to for care. This is corporate extraction in action when the asset being stripped is a hospital actionnetwork.org/letters/hosp...
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Hospitals Are Not for Sale
A hospital is the difference between life and death. It is where babies are born, where workers care for their neighbors, and where families turn during the worst moments of their lives. Private equi...
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The great privatisation experiment has failed in nearly every public service industry in which it has been tried. It's time to take water back into public ownership.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 20/09/2026
Last month, ICE put 12 Somali men on a plane and told them they were being deported to Somalia, according to interviews with community leaders, friends, and family members. Instead, they arrived at the notorious US military base in Cuba, where seven or eight of them remain.
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The Trump administration is imprisoning Somali immigrants at Gitmo
“Nobody tell us that we’re going to Guantanamo Bay.”
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Reality Ausetkmt @ausetkmt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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LeBron James: Facts
ALT: LeBron James: Facts
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 19/09/2026
We've all heard about the terrifying 'tipping points' when complex weather systems and fragile, interconnected ecosystems cross a point of no return. However there also positive tipping points, where meaningful action achieves critical mass. Here are some examples most likely to have real impact.
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Climate solutions most likely to reach ‘positive tipping points’ revealed by scientists
Global shift towards clean electricity could trigger ‘cascade’ of progress, helping reduce air pollution, cut waste and revive oceans
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Truthout @truthout.org · 19/09/2026
The decision found that immigrants must have an opportunity to challenge their removal if they fear for their safety. buff.ly/bJvXThy
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Appeals Court Blocks Trump Policy to Rapidly Deport Migrants to Third Countries
The decision found that immigrants must have an opportunity to challenge their removal if they fear for their safety.
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Humanity Must Win @humanitymustwin.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Why is a compromised president directing the military @vanhollen.senate.gov?
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Reuters Legal @legal.reuters.com · 18/09/2026
JUST IN: US appeals court rejects Trump policy allowing fast third‑country deportations reut.rs/4yPga3e
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