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Simon Jones

@lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social
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Blissfully retired mid-market turnaround director with a 96% success rate. Now free to follow my life-long interests in travelling through cultural and geographical landscapes, political economics, and family history.

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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 5h
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FAIR GO GROCERS - A publicly owned supermarket to save you 30%
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Deplorable statistics.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Green Party has backed introduce a new Nature, Biodiversity and National Security Act
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Green Party votes to endorse Nature, Biodiversity and National Security Act
Green MP Adrian Ramsay said: "Natural systems are critical national infrastructure, and it is time we treated them that way."
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Campaign group @weownit.org.uk has endorsed @rachelmillward.bsky.social announcement that the Green Party would take water firms into public ownership without compensation
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Water campaigners back Green Party’s ‘no-compensation’ public ownership plan for water firms
"It is absolutely right that people want these water companies to not receive any compensation."
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wow, yes!
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Green Party has a new health policy
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Green Party conference votes for new health policy to safeguard the NHS "against undue commercial influence"
Adrian Ramsay MP said: "Every major decision should ask: will this improve people’s health and reduce health inequalities?”
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
How revealing!
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Navigating Shared Futures: the U.S., China and AI
Reflections from Asia Society Seattle’s inaugural gala
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Airlines are experts at enshittification.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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What Does Replacing Labor Actually Mean?
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The depth of Trump depravity knows no bounds. Yet, he's still in office, so hidden influencers must still be earning from his continuation.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Reform UK's Suella Braverman promises ‘consequences’ if pupils don’t sing Christian hymns. That would be policed. So what happens to atheists, agnostics, non-believers and other religious denominations. Will they be persecuted, imprisoned? Reform UK getting desperate and bizarre.
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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A US company linked to Trump hacked a sensitive Australian database in an attack on our sovereignty.
YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shame on the Guardian for supporting a blatant neoliberal ploy. Shame!
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Miriam's Moral Clarity‼️🔥🔥 #usa #israel #palestine #iran #america #politics #congress #uk #nyc
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
About time. youtu.be/EnG-lVWNdAg?...
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The Beginning of the End of Israel?
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Design flaws youtube.com/shorts/ShOxF...
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Heaven's IT Guy - Pregnancy #comedy #itguy
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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If Not Now Then When?
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Post from The West Report - YouTube
The Israel lobby has comic Bassem Youssef banned from Australia while the government gives a free pass to IDF soldiers suspected of war crimes. Andrew Brown ...
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Labor FOLDS To Big AI & Fossil Fuels
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Miss G Teacup @geraniumteacup.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dear Canada, Cathy Wilcox, Australian cartoonist, says it best.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Love is where you find it.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide. gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au
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A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax
Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Add your name to the @australiainstitute.org.au petition for A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au
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A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax
Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Such a vulgar leadership.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Caring counts too. youtube.com/shorts/76xbP...
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Horrific  news coming out from Afghanistan with a recent blast at a school in Kabul.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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#meta #socialmedia #zuckerberg #markzuckerberg #court
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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BREAKING: ASIO no. 2 is being rushed through parliament this week.
YouTube video by Senator David Shoebridge
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Australia’s economy (or anywhere else for that matter) needs migrants, while its politics thrives on blaming them.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Labor Caves EVERY TIME
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm deeply ashamed of my profession. Its treatment of Jason Arday - right across the board - fills me with disgust and horror. The tormenting of a highly vulnerable man was seen as monetisable entertainment. This is a stain that won't wash off. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/19/j...
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The large banks are cashing in on the backs of the small businesses who are the real innovators and creators. They're profiteering from chaos and misery while ordinary people struggle. Its time to end Rip Off Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Greens call for windfall tax on big banks' profits to support small business
Zack Polanski says profits over £800m should be taxed to cut tax bills for a million smaller companies.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#WolffBites: Socialist Angie Nixon won in Florida Democratic Senate primary. Alex Vindman who spent $16 million lost to Nixon who spent under $1 million. The people beat the money. Big political lesson www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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Democratic socialist Angie Nixon scores upset in Florida’s Democratic Senate primary
NBC News projects that Nixon, a state lawmaker, defeated Alex Vindman for the Democratic nomination and will face GOP Sen. Ashley Moody in the general election.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Big UK banks pocketed £29.2bn in six months while our bills went up! A windfall tax on bank profits would raise £19bn for our schools & NHS. @TheGreenParty's already backing it - sign the petition and tell John Healey to #TaxtheBanks! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Corporate capture, corporate welfare youtube.com/shorts/iAqxi...
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Labor and coalition parties cut deals with gas companies, driving 160,000 people off the… #Shorts
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Strategic ceasefire deception? www.facebook.com/share/v/1Bhv...
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hey, check out this! getup.to/QZV5MOU5CWwyTj
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Investigate the fake accounts shaping our democracy
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Check out this GetUp! Campaign to reform the press council! getup.to/YmWrBKfg9zCK...
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Time to fix Australia's broken media
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20/05/2026
The PM says we at the Australia Institute need to be 'fair dinkum' about a gas tax. We're happy to be fair dinkum! Including about how the PM said some pretty misleading things in that interview. 📻co-CEO Richard Denniss on ABC Radio Perth #auspol @richarddenniss.bsky.social
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 20/05/2026
"Once again, the evidence that Australians are being taken for a ride by the gas industry is on full display in the budget papers," says Dr Richard Denniss. "It's time the Prime Minister was fair dinkum with Australians.” Read the full media release ➡️ theaus.in/4wFYlDl
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Check out this GetUp! Campaign to reform the press council! getup.to/qlavoNhOCXQAu8
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Reform the Press Council
An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The United Kingdom needs to be extremely anxious about any of the current Labour ministers taking control with Palantir taking over the UK Public data infrastructure. See the @thescouseoracle on YouTube. ID card here we come! morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stre...
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Streeting poised for leadership grab
LABOUR stands poised on the edge of a leadership election as Blairite Wes Streeting gears up to challenge Sir Keir Starmer.The Health Secretary is expected to announce tomorrow that he is quitting the...
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
OK, boomer: Claims Labor’s tax reforms are bad for young people is just the latest intergenerational swindle www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/14/2...
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OK, boomer: Claims Labor’s tax reforms are bad for young people is just the latest intergenerational swindle
Asset-rich investors want asset-poor young people to believe property investment perks are good for them. That’s horseshit, and most young people can smell it a mile off.
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Simon Jones @lifeistobeexperien.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Worth a listen, on the Aussie budget and deeper perspective. youtu.be/-3DKOQqngTs
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This Changed Australia Forever
YouTube video by friendlyjordies
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