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Andrew Sissons @acjsissons.bsky.social · 10h

New blog: there are rumours swirling that the Warm Homes Plan and particularly the Boiler Upgrade Scheme (the heat pump subsidy) will be cut in the Budget. Scrapping it would be a disastrous decision, leaving UK climate and energy policy in disarray www.nesta.org.uk/blog/four-re...

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Four reasons why scrapping the Boiler Upgrade Scheme would leave the UK’s energy policy in disarray

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Holocaust survivor Stephen Kapos details why Zionism is racism and completely unacceptable.

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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 08/10/2026

She wrote all that code by hand and it landed on the moon. Such an iconic photo. Here’s to Margaret Hamilton (1936–2026). What an incredible and pioneering woman for science. An inspiration to us all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Margaret Hamilton, whose software helped land Apollo 11 on the moon, dies at 90

Pioneering computer scientist led the development of the software for Nasa's Apollo mission and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13h

'The most telling thing about the backlash against the Greens’ “Zionism is racism” motion is the refusal of the media to platform Palestinians. We’ve had wall-to-wall coverage centring the feelings of Zionists, but we’ve heard almost nothing from their victims.' www.facebook.com/CouncilEstat...

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 12h

UK Terrorism Arrests up 1,553% Since Palestine Action Ban 94% of arrests in the year ending June 2026 were linked to the proscription. “We are seeing a shameful attack on our right to protest. It’s past time to end the proscription of Palestine Action” novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/u...

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UK Terrorism Arrests up 1,553% Since Palestine Action Ban

Terror arrests in the UK have hit a record high thanks to the government’s ban on Palestine Action.

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Dr Pat Morton @mortonpm.bsky.social · 8h

And there are many similar narratives across the country 👍

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 12h

Handy @theguardian.com graph on Holborn and St Pancras by-election

Labour vote declining from 48.9 to 45.2%. Green vote up from 10.4 to 32.8

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Neoliberalism is failing, but what is it? This is a new version of our infographic on neoliberalism. AI drew the image. I wrote the text.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

United States of America brings back public executions courtesy of Pete Hegseth. The sort of tyrannical behaviour that ISIS and the Taliban engage in. baynews9.com/fl/tampa/mil...

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Pentagon says firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had said the execution would be "public"

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Levent @fevrisosyolog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Geçmiş olsun Deniz Göktaş...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There was a time when the Tories, however hypocritically, claimed to want to protect our natural heritage. Now they're just a party of vandals, ripping down the few protections the living world has for the sake of their rich chums. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England

Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth

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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban

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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Starbucks’ rollback of its climate commitments is just the latest example of why voluntary climate standards like net zero are only useful when coupled w/ credible threats of regulation or (gasp!) *actual* rules on climate action. Mini 🧵

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Starbucks retreats from green goals amid drive for $2bn in cost cuts

Early corporate champion of climate action scales back or reviews targets to halve emissions, waste and water use

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Bally Bagayoko who is the mayor of French city Saint-Denis shouts at police to "Stop!" and protects the student protesters

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"The prosecution case is that Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate used and threatened physical and sexual violence in order to maintain control and compliance." Where are the voices from the self appointed defenders of women and young girls who would usually be on this? www.reuters.com/world/uk/tat...

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Tate brothers used 'lover boy' model to exploit women, Britain says

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate used a "lover boy" model to lure women with the ‌promise of romantic relationships before coercing them to create online pornography, British law enfor...

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The third & fourth were arrested under the Terrorism Act for peacefully holding signs outside Labour’s conference. The Labour Party has the power to overturn this unjust ban. It’s time for them to do the sensible thing. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. www.wedonotcomply.org

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Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - Defend Our Juries

🗓️ Following mass arrests outside Labour’s Liverpool conference, we’re boosting our defiance against the ban on Palestine Action! On Saturday October 31st, we are taking mass-action in London. 🪧 This ...

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY Four Dutch supporters travelled to Liverpool to participate in a peaceful signholding action outside the Labour conference. One was arrested under the Terrorism Act on arrival in the UK. A second was arrested for having shoe repair glue in their bag.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Beating up pensioners and vandalising curry houses in Gosport is not 'an expression of legitimate concern'

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 05/10/2026

Ofcom rules say broadcasters cannot use politicians as newsreaders, interviewers or reporters in any news programmes. So why is Nigel Farage allowed to host his own primetime show on GB News? Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action ⬇️

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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The richest man owns X. The second richest man owns The Washington Post. The third and fifth richest men control Google. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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Paramount takes over Warner Bros in $110bn Hollywood merger

The merger of two of Hollywood's biggest movie studios comes after months of legal disputes and concern over competition

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.

Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires

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Master Elrond [he/him] @inuyasha1953.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A UN-backed fact-finding mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes in strikes in Iran, including the attack on the elementary school in Minab. That is a grave investigative finding, although it is not a criminal conviction.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/10/2026

Farage is a sitting MP and yet he is allowed to have his own show on GB News. More than 8,000 people have signed the petition to demand that Ofcom take immediate action. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. 📊

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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/10/2026

🚨 An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended since May amid questions about Nigel Farage's leadership.

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Blow to Nigel Farage as Reform sheds 51 newly-elected councillors in five months

EXCLUSIVE: An online tracker by Best For Britain reveals 51 Reform UK councillors have quit, defected or been suspended

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Dr Pat Morton @mortonpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Romans, Vikings, French, Commonwealth, Irish, ex colonies and more…We are all English

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Dr Pat Morton @mortonpm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

To be fair…he is telling the truth…which is better than we have had up until now!

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026

Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

No wonder we are one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet, with #biodiversity in a parlous state

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"If your "patriotism" relies on foreign dictators using deepfakes to influence British voters, you aren't a patriot, you're an asset." via Stop Brexit & Restore Hope

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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Over 3500 people have been arrested in the UK for voicing support for Palestine Action. Anti-terrorism legislation was used for these arrests. The result is that one of the largest demographics of terrorist in the UK is now elderly middle class white people.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The ‘harm’ from immigration is illusionary. The harm from too little immigration is all too real.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 22/09/2026

Hard to explain how gobsmacking this is. The government opened applications for farm subsidies this morning at 10. And closed it just before 4 because they'd run out of cash. Applying for your livelihood like it's Oasis tickets. defrafarming.blog.gov.uk/2026/09/22/s...

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SFI26: Window 2 now closed

Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) has now closed. Thank you to everyone who took the time to submit an application.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Reform leader in Wales Dan Thomas stood down last week after he was arrested on suspicion of assault and controlling or coercive behaviours. Nigel Farage calls that "a bump in the road." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Helen Jenner unveiled as Reform UK’s new leader in Wales after arrest of Dan Thomas

Nigel Farage dismisses loss of previous leader as ‘bump in the road’ and says party will ‘carry on as if nothing has happened’

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Dr Pat Morton @mortonpm.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Is it cos of the new stand still being built?

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Filtering out 'social topics' is itself a choice about which values get to circulate. There is no value-free platform. Someone always decides what counts as too political. The real question is which values we want to live by together. Liberalism refuses to decide, so Meta decides for us.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

🔴 Something Tom Watson won't tell you: Five police forces in the East Midlands working with Palantir on a controversial surveillance programme are ending their involvement Exclusive by Democracy for Sale and Liberty Investigates. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-f...

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Revealed: Five police forces to drop Palantir surveillance tool

Exclusive: Palantir's UK policing ambitions take a hit as East Midlands forces end their involvement in a controversial data pilot.

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greencentaur.bsky.social @greencentaur.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

IF NETANYAHU USES THE LATEST US SUPPLIED BOMBS ON GAZA SURVIVORS He will join the likes of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Genghis Khan as a personification of EVIL! Trump as the supplier of Israel’s bombs is not far behind.

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Dr Pat Morton @mortonpm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And he’s still bitter about the UK not fracking! Good riddance to him.

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