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Homeless (politically) late-blooming socialist. Reposts may or may not mean approval.

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muzzac.bsky.social @muzzac.bsky.social · 10h
Leaving aside questions of your perversity, agreeing with Syed just puts you on the wrong side of the line separating logic from batshit idiocy.
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 12h
We've all seen what's happened due to deregulation: the #inequality gap between the super-rich and the rest of society has grown ever larger. And with increasing wealth & power that growth accelerates as existing checks & balances on corporate power get dismantled by paid-for politicians.
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Jill Belch @jillbelch.bsky.social · 11h
When invited, go get your #Covid vaccination. Recent study has shown 2400 heart attacks & 1600 deaths prevented in those 75 & over, even in folk with no evidence of Covid infection. That’s about 1 death averted for every 600 people vaccinated over 8 months.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 11h
Tories to hand free childcare to those earning more than £100,000, would cost £700m to the public purse. Previously, they pledged cuts to universal credit, housing benefit, support for the long term unemployed. Continuation of the Tory war on less well-off.
theguardian.com
Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says
Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
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muzzac.bsky.social @muzzac.bsky.social · 10h
So let's see those concrete proposals for tax reform BEFORE we start plcking off measures that support the worst-off, such as disability benefits and the triple lock. Your desperation to support Burnham should not lead you to abandon scepticism about headline-grabbing announcements.
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Premier League Champions Gunner Mig @goonermig.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
As someone who now will not benefit from the pensions triple lock, it galls me that we are losing it just because Burnham is too chicken-livered to raise taxes on the super rich, who couldn’t spend their wealth in a thousand lifetimes.
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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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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 12h
“With climate change increasing the likelihood of milder winters and hotter summers, pests and pathogens that were once unable to survive here can now make their home. This will profoundly impact not only farmers, but the wider public” Via The Guardian
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Worst ever outbreak of bluetongue hits British farms
Climate crisis blamed as virus that originated in Africa spreads to livestock as far north as Aberdeenshire
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Edward Said's essay "Zionism From The Standpoint of its Victims" is a one of the best examples of how this issue can be discussed in a way that generates more light than heat. Characteristically for Said, it's a critique that is simultaneously compelling, principled, nuanced and empathetic.
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So... not only are the #MCFC culprits immune from prosecution, they now want to add insult to injury by blackmailing us, too? What kind of people are the #UAE "investors"? They sound more like cheap gangsters running a crime syndicate Shove your money and get out of our country #r4today #football
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Ember @ember-energy.org · 21/04/2026
NEW | Solar power surge in 2025 stalls rise in fossil electricity worldwide ⚡📈 Clean power growth outpaced global electricity demand last year – with solar alone supplying THREE-QUARTERS of the increase in demand ☀️ ember-energy.org/lat...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Why can't they integrate?
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Another Green @anothergreen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We have raised £700, we need another £1000. Solar and batteries to help a child with diverse needs in Cuba. Please donate cubanos.org.uk/kamila-energ...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12h
Burnham scraps Starmer-era plans to curb jury trials. A victory for common sense. The Bill would have been defeated in the Lords. Due to Tory cuts, there is a backlog of over 81,000 Crown Court cases in England & Wales. Govt must invest in public services.
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 11h
What did Ta Nehisi Coates say? He said: people who do not draw a line at genocide, will not draw a line at democracy. And the British political/media class already demonstrated they will gladly fuck everyone and wreck everything if pushed, when they forcefully shoved Boris Johnson into Number Ten.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 12h
As noted in the story by Tim Bale, politics professor and guru of all things Tory, the party are still polling well below what they got in 2024, a historically bad election loss: "If this is what success looks like, I’d love to know what failure is.”
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 12h
Conservative conference begins today, and I've tried to work out the paradox of a party more unified and upbeat than in years but also, by any conventional polling metric, still in deep, deep trouble. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Party conference will be more upbeat than last year, Tories say – but that’s not the whole story
The mood is better but ‘overhyped’, says one Conservative MP as party remains a distant third in polls
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kevruth.bsky.social @kevruth.bsky.social · 11h
Feel it’s only fair to include subsequent post bsky.app/profile/pete...
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 12h
The press have decided to reimpose the two party model and unfortunately, that requires “pretending to believe Kemi Badenoch is doing a good job”. Which is pretty bad, given she’s a disastrously online wacko.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I see Burnham's talk about "hope" and helping people with the rising cost of living has lasted less than a week in reality. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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London Labour council warns it may raise council tax by 150%
Hammersmith and Fulham says it faces ‘biggest financial challenge in living memory’ as government cuts bite
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Polling expert John Curtice has said it will be a 'substantial challenge' for Zack Polanski to win the Holborn and St Pancras by-election
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Polling guru John Curtice says it will be ‘substantial challenge’ for Greens to win Holborn and St Pancras amid Burnham bounce
Curtice said that Polanski’s favourability rating went down after he shared a post on X criticising the police’s response to the Golders Green incident
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muzzac.bsky.social @muzzac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Most kids are little bastards with a herd mentality, but they don't pick their targets in a vacuum. It's parental prejudice reinforced by societal conditioning, and of course it can be damn hard to shake off those childhood influences as you get older. And so the cycle continues...
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Michael @therightarticle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
English graduates face twice as much student debt than in Scotland, new figures show www.thenational.scot/news/26604453.…
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English graduates face twice as much student debt than in Scotland, new figures show
Andy Burnham is being challenged to 'back young people' and scrap university tuition fees as new figures showed graduates in England have more than twice the amount of debt than their Scottish counter...
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Birmingham Green Party @brumgreens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
And entirely on schedule, the oil-wealth billionaires petulantly threaten to withdraw their money over the application of the rules they consciously broke. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10...
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UAE threatens Burnham over Man City: We’ll pull billions out of UK
Prime Minister under pressure as Gulf state warns it will withdraw investment in retaliation for Premier League row
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muzzac.bsky.social @muzzac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You sound like a Labour press release. At best these are proposals without detail and they read like straightforward lies. "unsustainable", "all parties...agree". Gullible and foolish. You would think a few decades of political misrule would give people a bare minimum of necessary scepticism.
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Full Fact @fullfact.org · 02/10/2026
In the aftermath of the Israel-bound flight where a pilot was stabbed, a video claims to show “terrifying footage” from the incident. But both the audio and visuals are from other flights. Read more in our fact check 👇
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Video of Flydubai plane isn’t from Israel flight attack incident – Full Fact
A video claiming to show footage from the Flydubai flight where a pilot was reportedly stabbed combines visuals of a different flight flying over Dubai with audio from a 2022 turbulence video.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election. Risks handing advantage to opposition parties who will argue the opposite. Will alienate some senior voters. Risks Labour backbench rebellion, repeat of the Winter Fuel Payment episode. Numerous ways of funding triple lock.
theguardian.com
Burnham to pass law scrapping pension triple lock before next election
Guarantee will remain until 2030 but MPs will vote on changes during this parliament, government says
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
*Jonathan himself* is glaring proof his argument is bunk. He’s been noisily doing “Last chance to save Israel from itself” the entire 25 years I’ve known who he was; nothing that happened in that time altered his opinion one inch, he is a relentless opponent of any attempt to mitigate the horrors.
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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muzzac.bsky.social @muzzac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
No truth that Freedland won't twist to support settler colonialism. He's happy to smear any dissenters, even jewish ones. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Green party’s anti-Zionism motion is yet another attempt to tell Jews how we should think | Jonathan Freedland
The resolution shows little understanding of what Zionism is, who Jews are or how antisemitism works, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 23/09/2026
👉NEW -- What the media isn’t telling you about Burnham’s support for Saudi Arabia by @ionacraig.com ‘Defensive’ refuelling of planes bombing Yemen can still cause war crimes. Just ask Keir Starmer www.declassifieduk.org/what-the-med...
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What the media isn’t telling you about Burnham’s support for Saudi Arabia
‘Defensive’ refuelling of planes bombing Yemen can still cause war crimes. Just ask Keir Starmer
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Israel’s top court backs barring Palestinian politician from election over article - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israel’s top court backs barring Palestinian politician from election over article
<article data-history-node-id="448691" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-top-court-backs-barring-palestinian-politician-election-over" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israels-top-court-backs-barring-palestinian-politician-election-over" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel’s top court backs barring Palestinian politician from election over article</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>’s top court has backed barring a <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinian</a> politician with Israeli citizenship from standing in the upcoming parliamentary election, citing an article he wrote on 8 October 2023.</p> <p>Sami Abu Shehadeh, leader of the Balad party, withdrew his candidacy on Friday after the Supreme Court recommended he do so on Thursday.</p> <p>Abu Shehadeh, a key figure in the Palestinian-majority <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/three-palestinian-parties-israel-form-joint-list-ahead-elections" target="_blank">Joint List</a>, was disqualified from standing last month by the Central Elections Committee, a body controlled by the governing coalition.</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-top-court-backs-barring-palestinian-politician-election-over-article">Israel’s top court backs barring Palestinian politician from election over article</a></h3> <div alt="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-top-court-backs-barring-palestinian-politician-election-over-article" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="76eee806-a533-4859-8b47-7977f584df23" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/000_C9VV7PF%20%281%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1125" alt="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israels-top-court-backs-barring-palestinian-politician-election-over-article" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article>
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HotDog89 @hotdog89.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Was the Flydubai incident another Israeli false flag? Or shameless political opportunism? open.substack.com/pub/councile...
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Was the Flydubai incident another Israeli false flag? Or shameless political opportunism?
It seems that false flag season is well under way because yet another major incident has arrived at the perfect moment for Netanyahu.
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Sue @hulatt47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Fatuous False Flags
Rather than abandoning the plainly nuts Fairford narrative, Burnham and his government are doubling down on the claim it is an Iranian terror plot.
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HotDog89 @hotdog89.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-w...
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The West wants Netanyahu gone - so Palestinians can be killed more quietly again
Trump, nosediving in the polls and bristling over a disastrous war on Iran, needs a scapegoat – and the Israeli prime minister best fits the bill
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Bold Politics @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Zack is one of the hardest working people out there when it comes to fighting for equality. He turns up at every opportunity. Now we need to turn up for him. Sign up and help elect our 6th Green MP👇 linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP
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Sue @hulatt47.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
open.substack.com/pub/councile...
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Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false
Here is why we now know the Flydubai story must be false.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Green Party members have told LFF that they believe the media is using the 'Zionism is racism' conference motion to attack the Green Party
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The media is using the ‘Zionism is Racism’ conference motion to attack the Green Party, members say
‘The media is making it such a big focus’
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 02/10/2026
The Government has made a nerve-janglingly-specific pledge to deliver living standards growth in every postcode. So we thought we'd plot how the last Parliament performed on that metric - safe to say 100 per cent growth would be a considerable step up ⤵️ buff.ly/s8wGf6Z
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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I promise you if I tried this even once I'd be hauled up into a disciplinary. But Dr Orr? Little research, no teaching, no problem. www.varsity.co.uk/news/32175
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Orr’s lectures covered by a postgrad
James Orr had a postgrad cover approximately seven lectures, allegedly without the Divinity Faculty’s knowledge
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
People took to the streets outside NHS hospitals yesterday demonstrating the governments use of Palantir technology. Now why would a “group of Zionists stage a counter-protest?” wrp.org.uk/news/nhs-eng...
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NHS England must end its £330 million Palantir contract - Workers Revolutionary Party
OVER 100 people protested outside St Thomas’ Hospital by Westminster Bridge yesterday to demand that NHS England end its £330 million contract with the US data firm Palantir. The demonstration was one...
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muzzac.bsky.social @muzzac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"wrong intuitively"? Dunt's incompetence and arrogance wrapped up in two words.
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Slurms MacKrueger @slurmsmackenzie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A bluesky post from centrist dork and Tool fan Ian Dunt. It says "Few people stil rying this 'continuity Starmer' line. It's a very poor attack. Wrong on substance and wrong intuitively. They'll have to find a better one."
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 28/09/2026
Today, many temperate countries are regrowing forests, while most deforestation takes place in the tropics. Most of Europe and many parts of Asia are seeing gains in forest cover. Countries across the Americas, much of Africa, and parts of South-East Asia are still losing forests.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 28/09/2026
While deforestation rates may have passed their historical peak, the world is still losing large areas of forest each year. Estimates on how much land is deforested each year vary across sources.
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 28/09/2026
From 2001 to 2023, beef production was, by far, the largest driver, accounting for more than 40% of the total. Oilseeds — dominated by soy and oil palm — were the second largest. Overall, around 70% of deforestation is driven by domestic demand for products. The remaining 30% is for traded products.
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Orangutan Land Trust @orangutanlandtrust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Forest Fires, the Final Blow for Indonesian Orangutans Amidst the Kalimantan forest fires, orangutans are losing shelter, food sources, and space to survive. www.kompas.id/artikel/keba...
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Kebakaran Hutan, Pukulan Terakhir bagi Orangutan Indonesia
Di tengah kebakaran hutan Kalimantan, orangutan kehilangan tempat berlindung, sumber makanan, dan ruang untuk bertahan hidup.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Your weekend reminder that Nigel Farage wants to - leave the ECHR - repeal the Equality Act - Strip back workers rights - Lift restrictions on exploitative zero-hours contracts - repeal the Renters’ Rights Act which abolishes no fault evictions He is not on your side youtu.be/KxOQRt8PQys?...
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If UK media actually explained Nigel Farage’s policies to the public no one would be supporting him
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns" 'Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim ...' www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
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'We're rapidly running out of time': 7 of Earth's 9 life support systems already breached, and the situation is getting worse, report warns
Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and sustainable future.
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