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Dave Arthur

@mortdarthur23.bsky.social
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If we make it we can all sit back and laugh But i fear tomorrow i'll be crying Yes i fear tomorrow i'll be crying...

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 11h
If you establish and entrench a consensus that (a) hostility to migrants is a cri du coeur from the authentic working class, and (b) anti racism is the preserve of out of touch metropolitan liberals, where do you suppose the country will end up? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says
Move from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last year
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Adam Parsons goes on to conclude: "The bottom line is this. A load of British diplomats have been made to leave Israel" Except East Jerusalem isn't in Israel.
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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 06/10/2026
The BBC is determined to ask every supporter of Zionism if Zionism is racism. Unfortunately it can't ask the victims of Zionism because they were all killed by Israel.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You'll note that the very same people who insist Zionism means different things to different people will also insist that the USSR was the only possible expression of socialism.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Imagine. We've seen THREE years of killing, maiming, and destruction by a nation-state that represents the full expression of Zionism. And somehow calling that 'racism' is the problem.
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
You know, I am quite ambivalent about bsky because it's quite genteel and unbothered in the main. I have seen FAR MORE OUTRAGE about the Greens motion over the last two hours than posts about Palestine over the last two years.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Secretary of state for Northern Ireland: "We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to those who showed phenomenal courage across the political spectrum 28 years ago" Then mentions everyone except Sinn Fein.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ed Miliband: "I want to say, to the millions of people in this country.. who have been moved & outraged by the plight of the Palestinian people, we hear you" So why are you still arresting them?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wes Streeting: "We know that Iran.. wish to do us harm" We are allowing US planes to take off from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire to bomb Iran as part of an illegal war. I'd say that was more than just wishing them harm, wouldn't you?
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Nick Hider @nickhi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Impressive turnout for Zack Polanski’s election campaign in Holborn & St Pancras yesterday. Vote Green on October 8th.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
There is a genuine incomprehension amongst many journalists and politicians that anyone might care sincerely about Palestinians or seriously object to their indiscriminate slaughter. The natural human response to this genocide is something they simply cannot understand.
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Green Elects @greenelects.world · 25/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Greens have gained Queen's Park in Brighton from Labour. Congratulations to Mark Strong, who is the new councillor. With a huge swing from the 2023 city election (+28). This seat was also gained by the Greens from Labour in the 2024 by-election.
Bar chart of Queen’s Park (Brighton) election results: Green leads with 50.13%, Labour 35.3%, Reform 7.04%, Conservatives 4.2%, and Lib Dems 3.2%. Green gain from Labour.
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My interview with Novara last night, explaining some of the background and context to recent developments in Yemen. This was recorded just before it came to light that Burnham has agreed to support the latest Saudi bombing campaign www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShC...
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Expert: Why War In Yemen Is INEVITABLE – Almost
YouTube video by Novara Media
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 21/09/2026
The correct answer to hate ♥️
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ah yes, the Saudis are renowned for their respect for human rights and international humanitarian law ... Just ask the thousands they've bombed and starved in Yemen, the unarmed protesters they killed in Bahrain, the thousands of dissidents they hang, Jamal Khashoggi ... oh, you can't
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Saudi Arabia is a murderous dictatorship. It is guilty of heinous war crimes in Yemen. Years ago, I went to a Yemeni refugee camp. I met little kids who drew pictures of what Saudi bombs did to their loved ones. Shame on the British government.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why is Gen Z depressed? It’s a mystery.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 18/09/2026
"This is yet another example of the corrosive revolving door between politics and big business lobbying that has no place in public life." @sianberry.bsky.social responds to Labour Peer Tom Watson being hired by US spy-tech giant Palantir.
THE CORROSIVE REVOLVING DOOR BETWEEN POLITICS AND BIG BUSINESS LOBBYING

SIAN BERRY
MP FOR BRIGHTON PAVILION

“Palantir, with its work for ICE in the US and the IDF, has no business at all in our NHS and public services.

Tom Watson has been employed to lobby his friends in the Labour Government.

It is a disgrace he is still a member of the House of Lords and holds the Labour whip.”

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Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 15/09/2026
The rain didn’t stop us. Today we stood proud against the University of Brighton’s outrageous threat to derecognise UCU. We will not let our members’ rights be trampled on. Like and share to stand with our members and send management a message: BACK DOWN.
The rain didn’t stop us.

Today we stood proud against the University of Brighton’s outrageous threat to derecognise UCU. 

We will not let our members’ rights be trampled on.

Like and share to stand with our members and send management a message: BACK DOWN. Picture of members on the picket.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We disrupted a conference of the “Together” party led by Naftali Bennett, who vowed not to establish a Palestinian state, to remind the party that only diplomatic agreements and peace – not forever war – can bring safety to the people who live here.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The RNLI has said the abuse of volunteers in Portsmouth has forced it to close the lifeboat station there and stop operating since September 10. Nearby stations have been providing cover to the area instead. One of the UK's largest coastal cities without a lifeboat because of the far-right.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 11/09/2026
Venice Film Festival honours NAZA, an expose on Israel's use of AI systems in Gaza.
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Israeli film on Gaza receives 25-minute ovation at Venice premiere
Venice Film Festival honours NAZA, an expose on Israel's use of AI systems in Gaza.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Sophy Ridge: "Israel has reacted furiously.. what's your response to that?" Ed Miliband: "... we weren't willing to stand by in the face of the oppression of the Palestinian people"
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Nathan Phillips @nbphillips1872.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Can our state broadcaster do better, please? A thinly-veiled clickbait headline aimed at the worst elements of our political discourse. Para 3 until it's made clear it's migrant children at risk. Para 6 until it's clear many of the perps are 'domestic'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sexual assaults in Ceuta happening almost every day, prosecutors say
Most migrants have returned to neighbouring Morocco, but as many as 5,000 remain in the Spanish exclave.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
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Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Today is the 81st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of #Hiroshima. Yet despite the gut wrenching horror, the 9 nuclear states have *already* amassed the equivalent firepower of 145.000 Hiroshima bombs & still want more. This is madness. #NoMoreHiroshimas @cnduk.bsky.social
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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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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
There are nearly 10,000 in prisons in England & Wales for drugs-related offences. It is utter madness that there was a plan to release murderers and sex offenders while a single person incarcerated of drugs offences remained in prison. Quite right to pause and rethink www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...
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Burnham pauses plan to release some prisoners early from September - live updates
Under the scheme - designed to ease overcrowding - thousands of prisoners in England and Wales could have been freed after serving a third of their sentence, rather than half.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Ed Miliband: "we must not lose sight of the plight of those suffering in Gaza & the West Bank..." Who's murdering Palestinians every day? Who's causing the suffering of people in Gaza? Who's occupying the West Bank? If only we knew.
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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Keeping Mahmood and McFadden - the two most arch Starmerite-McSweeneyite ministers - in post, while giving big jobs to Cooper, Streeting, et al., suggests no real change of course. The dominant ideology remains unchanged, so Burnham will not be ending "40 years of neoliberalism" but continuing it.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The most duplicitous UK politician in my lifetime. Good riddance.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Apart from Blair, I can't think of a Labour leader who has done more than Starmer to create division and polarisation. Pandering to Reform on immigration, complicity in genocide, attacks on the right to protest ... Now he presents himself as a great healer. His speech was not "moving" but sickening.
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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
With Unite members in South West today at Tolpuddle. Remembering the Tolpuddle Martyrs. A key moment in our Labour movement. A moment that shines as a beacon for us today. Trade union solidarity. The power of a Union.
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Zeteo UK @zeteo.uk · 15/07/2026
Yes, Labour Got It Wrong on Gaza. Now It Must Stop Attacking Those Who Got It Right As organisers of the Palestine solidarity marches, we have witnessed a disturbing escalation of attacks on the right to peaceful protest. If Labour is truly sorry, it must reverse them zeteo.uk/p/yes-labour...
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Yes, Labour Got It Wrong on Gaza. Now It Must Stop Attacking Those Who Got It Right
As two of the main organisers of the Palestine solidarity marches, we have witnessed a disturbing escalation of attacks on the right to peaceful protest. If Labour is truly sorry, it must reverse them
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Nick Hider @nickhi.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A clear message on the streets of London today to the new administration installed in Downing Street #FreePalestine #HandsOffGaza 🇵🇸
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
"We now know America did do this, the evidence is overwhelming.. what's worrying is [the US govt] do seem to be now obstructing the investigation.. it is one of the worst mass civilian casualty incidents in modern warfare" Dominic Waghorn on the Minab school bombing. A war crime
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Dave Arthur @mortdarthur23.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Marx, engels, lenin, trotsky, mao... frantically turning pages in their memorial libraries...
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Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP @bellribeiroaddy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I voted against the Immigration & Asylum Bill last night. Forcing asylum seekers to pay £10,000 for safety and shelter is punitive. Asylum is a human right protected by law, not a privilege with a price tag. The Government is heading down the same failed path as the last Tory administration.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Who could have known that breaking a pledge on tuition fees would end badly?
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Harry Kane played golf with Trump
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Steve Reed declares that transparency is important when it comes to political donations The same Steve Reed who helped co-found Labour Together, the organisation which between 2017 and 2020 broke electoral law by deliberately not reporting £740,000 of donations.
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
On this day 5th July 1948 the NHS was born. (The Nurse, 1963 Artist: John Berry)
The illustration that became a cover picture for the book, showing a nurse in traditional uniform supporting a young girl in a red coat and with her leg in plaster
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Lloyd Russell-Moyle @russell-moyle.co.uk · 02/07/2026
The latest UK-US trade deal will cost the NHS billions in extra money. It won’t provide access to the NHS for any drugs it couldn’t have already bought and will lead to up to 230,000 excess deaths in the UK. This is the legacy of the Starmer Streeting Project. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Taxing vulnerable people for the crime of fleeing from war, torture and persecution. A new low from Shabana Mahmood
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