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Michael H

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Left Politics Solidarité ✊️🌹🍉 🍀 #ForTheMany UK & 🇫🇷 citoyen #Arsenal STH #OneDayataTime

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bloomberg reports that officials directly involved in an internal Pentagon investigation found that Peter Thiel’s Palantir Maven Smart System played a significant role in the February 28 U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran.
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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Backtrack Burnham strikes again!
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Labour shelves plan to restrict foreigners buying new flats
Party downgrades its manifesto pledge to end ‘farce of entire developments being sold off to international investors’
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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.
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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What happens when you challenge the status quo Subscribe: linktr.ee/boldpolitics
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Successive Tory & Labour governments are complicit in super-rich tax avoidance Paving the way for Reform UK, Restore Britain & the far right to blame immigrants, Black and disabled people for the poverty caused by massive income inequality meme via The Daily Politik
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Michael H @michaelh14.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A good start to the new season #Arsenal
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Michael H @michaelh14.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A good start to the new season #Arsenal
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Downing Street's press release for Burnham's "emergency" Cobra meeting on the drought didn't even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues. He's since appeared on GB News this afternoon to talk about migrant camps
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What is politically committed literature? Lea Ypi writes for Tribune on the role of the writer in reviving the lost promise of emancipation.
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The Meaning of Commitment
Universal literature is endangered in a world where modern notions of freedom and equality have lost their power. Its crisis mirrors that of the left.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
#C4News last night: "Gaza is still under near daily attack.. since the ceasefire nearly 1,200 Palestinians have been killed" How many people can Israel kill before the ceasefire stops being a ceasefire?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
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Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices
Shell's ​net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Hang on. I thought the £5 million was for security upgrades? Or a reward for Brexit? Surely Farage wouldn't distort the truth... www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Farage's lavish '£700k' beach pad makeover after £5m gift from crypto tycoon
EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK leader’s seaside property has been approved for transformation into ‘contemporary’ home complete with log burner and lift, planning papers reveal
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/05/2026
Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it. 

Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.

Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress. 

Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves. 

I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Privatised water is such an obvious scam that it's achieved the impossible: getting 82% of Brits to agree on something. The only issue to score higher was the public’s desire for Tony Blair to stick to retirement.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Keir Starmer's spokesman does not deny reports that Morgan McSweeney is now advising the Prime Minister again
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The oxygen that keeps us alive comes from natural ecosystems: half on land, half at sea. It's not complicated: we are TOTALLY dependent on the living world. Yet it's still treated as nothing but 'resources', to exploit and destroy for profit.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Disabled people in the U.K. report rising abuse from the public over Blue Badges as anti-benefit rhetoric grows. Many told The Guardian they have been verbally harassed, with some even physically assaulted. My story in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a... 1/5
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‘People assume we’re grifters’: disabled Britons report rise in abuse over blue badges
Badge holders and carers report being harassed, filmed and threatened by strangers who think they are faking disability
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Keir Starmer's niece is council election candidate in safe ward insidecroydon.com/2026/04/30/k... #Croydon #LocalElections2026 #Starmer @labourlist.bsky.social @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @fisherandrew79.bsky.social
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Keir Starmer’s niece is council election candidate in safe ward
Party members in Croydon’s second safest Labour ward express concern over the deselection of their sitting councillor, to be replaced with a 20-something with friends in high places. EXCLUSIV…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Southern Water has admitted further sewage pollution discharges in Kent, some of which took place weeks after it was handed a record £90m penalty for illegal dumping www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Southern Water illegally dumped sewage after record £90m fine
The company pleaded guilty in court to five offences of sewage discharge between 2019 and 2021.
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Joani Reid has 'vanished' from the House of Commons, it has been claimed, since her husband’s arrest as part of a China spy probe
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Joani Reid 'vanishes' from Commons after husbands China spy probe arrest
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Kemi Badenoch on the Laura Kuenssberg show is doing a great job of pretending oil and gas from the North Sea will be 'ours' and will bring bills down and increase energy security. Rather than be sold on the global market and be mainly exported.
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
As young voters across Ireland increasingly back Sinn Féin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism, the party’s national chair, Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pitfalls of this moment.
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Generation Kneecap Is Transforming Irish Politics
As young voters across Ireland increasingly back Sinn Féin in opposition to partition, inequality and global imperialism, the party’s national chair, Declan Kearney, discusses the possibilities and pi...
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 27/03/2026
One leader is not going to bring socialism. Without organised power beyond the state, electoral victories won't hold. This work will take time - but it finally feels like we're getting closer. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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From Corbyn to Polanski - in and against the state
Their first major appearance together hints at a left that works across parties - but only if it builds power beyond them.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The Prime Minister’s plan to offer rapid routes to settlement for those earning six-figure salaries whilst punishing and making lower-paid workers wait up to 15 years appears to be based on the notion that care workers are “low-skilled” because they are low-paid - its a disgrace
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Of course no one from *checks notes* Sudan or Afghanistan could be in genuine danger.
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Michael H @michaelh14.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Welsh is a Brythonic language, and was spoken from Wales up to Cumbria, well before English evolved
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
If (as Andrew Neil says) GB News has become Reform TV then maybe there’s a case for the @ElectoralCommUK to start taking an interest app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/72784/...
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GB News seems to have become Reform TV—and Ofcom hasn’t stopped it
Whether they are charged with keeping our news impartial, our water clean or our elections fair, Britain’s regulators are dozing
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Too many people are too polite to say this. But holding mass rituals in public places is an act of domination. The druids are taking over.
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Michael H @michaelh14.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Welsh is a Brythonic language, and was spoken from Wales up to Cumbria, well before English evolved
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Great news. Dartmoor is an ecological disaster zone masquerading as a National Park, as its ecosystems have been grazed out by sheep. Now this must change.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Today I will mostly be trying to bribe people with cheap petrol, in the hope that they will forget that I have been cheering on the orange idiot whose war is pushing up fuel prices.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 02/03/2026
"The trade war, the affordability crisis, the Epstein files – all these issues made Trump look weak. And he has responded with grotesque displays of violence and domination, in a desperate attempt to restore his strongman image." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/whatever-h...
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Whatever happened to Trump the peacemaker?
The weaker Trump is at home, the more dangerous he becomes abroad.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Nigel Farage lied multiple times at his press conference today - including saying no-one who voted Green in Gorton and Denton has a job and he's "certain" Reform won most British born voters in the by-election, based on zero evidence, and yet not a single journalist there pushed back on them
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Michael H @michaelh14.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I think she would be great - @GreenPartyHan comes across as so natural. She’d be a breath of fresh air down at that there Westminster
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 20/02/2026
Boomers grew rich as their economies were financialised, turning them into 'mini capitalists' who cared more about asset prices than wages. But the financial boom that made them wealthy was a one-off - and the next generation will never catch up. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
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What I read this week
More dispatches from the K-shaped recovery...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Palantir, a US spy-tech firm, has been given access to millions of NHS patient records. Its founder has said the NHS should be 'ripped up'. Join me in calling on the government to end the dangerous Palantir contract. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 20/02/2026
Stoneygate (Leicester) Council By-Election Result: 🌍 GRN: 30.4% (+22.9) 🌹 LAB: 27.7% (-12.8) 🏘️ OL: 16.2% (New) 🙋 Ind: 11.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 8.3% (-15.3) ➡️ RFM: 2.7% (New) 🔶 LDM: 1.6% (-5.9) 🙋 Ind: 1.6% (New) No Ind (-21.0) as previous. Green GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2023.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.
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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
What’s wrong with this statement? Trump threatens war with Iran at “Board of Peace” panel.
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
BBC bosses don't seem to care their right-wing bias is getting dangerously close to election criminality "The Green Party have slated the BBC after it handed Reform UK their third Question Time slot in a row the week before a crucial by-election in England" via The National Newspaper
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Utterly chilling insight into how Keir Starmer's team has been operating from the beginning. As others have been pointing out for years, the Labour Party and the country have been taken for a ride. There was a coup within the party, using a host of dirty tricks. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Labour minister falsely linked journalists to ‘pro-Kremlin’ network in emails to GCHQ
Exclusive: Josh Simons pressed intelligence officials to investigate reporters, in emails described as ‘McCarthyite smear’
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Ailbhe Rea @pronouncedalva.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Excl: Keir Starmer's team has been working with Brendan Cox despite his past resignations from three charities after claims of sexual misconduct. Top scoop from @anooshc.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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“Dismay” as No 10 works with Brendan Cox after misconduct claims
The husband of the murdered Labour MP Jo Cox resigned from three charities after various allegations
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 12/02/2026
...and there are few non-apologies as effective as a foreign domicile's non-apology.
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 12/02/2026
There's no patriot like a Monaco-based patriot.
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 09/02/2026
The departure of Morgan McSweeney exposes Starmerism for what it is: a political project built on deception, created by people guided only by an insatiable desire for power, and a belief in their own invulnerability. graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-purge-...
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The Purge That Devoured Its Architects
The same shameless tactics that Starmer used to purge the left are now destroying his project from within.
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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 09/02/2026
Keir Starmer and the Purge That Devoured Its Architects The same shameless tactics that Starmer used to purge the UK's left are now destroying his project from within, @graceblakeley.substack.com writes. Read: zeteo.com/p/keir-starm...
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Keir Starmer and the Purge That Devoured Its Architects
The same shameless tactics that Starmer used to purge the UK's left are now destroying his project from within.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
A £240m defence contract without tender. Their fingerprints all over our health care data. A meeting in the USA but without any minutes. Everything around Palantir stinks. www.thenational.scot/news/2584192...
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Zack Polanski pressures Wes Streeting over Palantir after Mandelson texts released
ZACK Polanski has piled fresh pressure on Wes Streeting over Palantir’s NHS contracts after the Health Secretary’s newly-released text messages…
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Excellent work by Reform at Kent Council, who made a £40m saving by briefly proposing to spend £40m on something then deciding not to. Using this model, every Reform council can save £billions! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
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