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Annie

@northernlady24.bsky.social
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Ex production manager/line producer TV/ Manchester Public Libraries, mainly retweets, NHS, MUFC, dogs, etc

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David Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great response on Radio 4 PM when Katie Razzal asked Barbara Kingsolver if there were parallels between "Demon Copperhead" & JD Vance "Hillbilly Elegy" She was horrified. "We Appalachians are self-deprecating & focused on community & mutual support, not egomaniacal self promotion/exploitation"
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/10/2026
Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes after deadly floods reut.rs/4z85TiD
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Nepal plans to drain four glacial lakes after deadly floods
Nepal will ​kick off a high-stakes effort this fiscal year to drain four glacial lakes perched high in the mountains, as it ‌scrambles to reduce flood risks, officials said, after a recent disaster that killed more than 1,400.
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Child Poverty Action Group @cpaguk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we learnt anything from austerity it’s that cutting social security support drives up child poverty and cuts young people off from opportunity. Much better training & employment support is needed but blocking access to UC would not remove young people from jeopardy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Conservatives pledge 'tough love' benefit rules for under-25s
The party says it would bring in new work requirements for young people claiming Universal Credit.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I do find this country mad. Anyone can see that social care is in a state of devastating crisis in this country and that it is the key source of the NHS crisis as well. There is no feasible way to solve it without everyone contributing. Burnham is honest about that and is already getting pelters.
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Judge Darkness @marvth3martian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In case it bears repeating, Laura Kuennesberg is a fucking awful interviewer and journalist. Andy Burnham currently on the hate hour is wiping the floor with her by... Answering questions. She keeps trying to interrupt with laboured (ha!) tedious attempt at gotchas and commitment traps.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
During the early 20thc, artist Rowena Cade (1893–1983) started to create the open air Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, on the Cornish cliffs, UK, with the help of her gardener Billy and only hand tools. She continued to build into her last years #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring an older white woman sitting in a wheelbarrow readinibg Photo of a theatre built into a cliff with seating in rows at different levels going down to a stone stage and with turquoise sea in the background
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
‘What is emerging is not simply a relationship between [Reform and Farage] and a wealthy Gulf state, but a channel through which an authoritarian government can cultivate political influence here, and abroad.’ Would really recommend a read of this democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-and...
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Reform and the UAE – a threat to British politics
Nigel Farage's embrace of the UAE is part of a wider effort by the Gulf petrostate to build alliances with the far right across the West, says Alex Carlen.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/09/2026
Breaking news: The Trump administration is preparing a $2.8 billion sale of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, the largest single sale of the controversial munitions in recent years, a U.S. official told The Post.
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Trump’s planned sale of controversial bombs to Israel is largest in years
The pending transfer of the 2,000-pound munition, involved in scores of incidents resulting in civilian casualties, sets up a potential litmus test for Democrats.
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Thomas Aubrey @thomasaubreycca.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Every adult...would have to pay an extra £590 a year in tax to fund the £258bn of public investment needed to build planned reservoirs..." This is absolutely NOT the case. Using Public Corporation debt the tax liability can be £0. www.ft.com/content/cfcc...
ft.com
UK faces £258bn infrastructure spending gap, warns report
Government must increase investment by two-thirds to deliver planned reservoirs, prisons and schools
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Firebird7x3 @firebird7.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Apparently people have also been buying RNLI Xmas cards and sending them to Reform via their free post address .... 😂😂👏👏👏🙏🙏 Reform UK, FREEPOST RTLT-ZXHY-KSDC, 83 Victoria Street, London, SW1H 0HW
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 12/09/2026
Congratulations to the evil genius who came up with the plan to close the District Line and Hammersmith Bridge and do road works on Wandsworth bridge all on the day of a Chelsea home game.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🇺🇦🇨🇦 Zelensky: In total, today, agreements with Canada are worth more than $2 billion. The government package is more than a billion dollars for our defense, and this is primarily our sky defense: missiles for Patriots, ammunition for F-16s, and co-production of drones.
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
That's a nice grid you got there. You wouldn't like something to happen to it...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
GMB union has launched a formal recognition bid at Octopus Energy. The union has written to the company's founder Greg Jackson requesting ‘voluntary recognition for the purpose of collective bargaining'. GMB says it has hundreds of members across Octopus’s Manchester and Brighton sites.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"I once did an interview where I claimed that I had lunch and a long conversation with someone while not listening"
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"It was at this point that an oyster went down the wrong way and blocked my ear canals, meaning I missed the whole conversation where I agreed to a foreign donor illegally giving us £500,000..."
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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I look forward to sharing this with the world.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 05/09/2026
It's craven, it's politically stupid, and it's morally wrong. Number 10 does not struggle to get Andy Burnham in front of a camera when it wants him to be there. Every minute he's not on show over this is the result of a deliberate decision.
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United In Focus - Manchester United News @unitedinfocus.com · 30/08/2026
Bruno Fernandes is a hat-trick hero... #MUFC
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Five things learned after Man Utd’s 5-2 win over Ipswich Town
Bruno Fernandes is a hat-trick hero...
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Supermoon last night in Mykonos. Photo by my friend Roula. <SIGH>
The sea shining almost silver, with a massive full moon above it. Taken from Kanalia, with Agios Stefanos in the distance.
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A truly biblical hailstorm brought an abrupt end to our holiday outside Zurich yesterday. I wonder if the climate is changing ?
Windscreen shattered in multiple places by giant hail
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Alister Clunas @alcatorda.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Excellent article on the benefits of public ownership of water in Scotland vs private ownership with a profit motive in England. @profdevisridhar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. Here, we call it common sense, says chair of global public health at the Universit...
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Burnham’s failure to link the current heat, fires, drought (and maybe the Lewes train crash) to climate change very publicly does not inspire confidence. I doubt there’s anybody not feeling the affects it, by now, or doubt the causes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Hot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?
Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Farage cannot be allowed to get away with this lie. It's the politics of the absolute gutter. And invoking the two world wars in his grubby little game is an insult to the people who actually fought and died in them.
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Says it all ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The boats they are using are bigger but the overall number arriving is smaller. This is what a successful enforcement policy would look like - more boats are getting stopped forcing change of strategy by smugglers - but you would not know this from the alarmist bbc “LARGEST BOAT EVER” push alert
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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Giraffe? What giraffe..?
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is hands down the best opinion piece you will read on the Arday case. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye
The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Nigel Farage just took a question from a 'journalist' at his press conference, who turned out to be his former chief adviser Raheem Kassam, who asks him why the media are being so unfair to him
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
From "Hiding in Plain Sight", written in 2019, on sale today for $2.99: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/still-hidi...
Free excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT Kendzior book https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/still-hiding-in-plain-sight
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Neighbourhood Centres🤔 Since 2015 in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 1474 community GP practices have closed, leaving 6149 We take it for granted that wherever you live there'll be a GP But when the GP is suddenly half an hour's drive away & a road is blocked in the winter it’s a problem www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Doctors warn rural GP practice closures will harm patients
The warning comes after the closure of a medical practice in Reeth, North Yorkshire, in May.
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Diane Coyle @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
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Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says
Think-tank’s findings likely to add to calls for audit of NHS England claims around Federated Data Platform
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Toby Miller @tobytram.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’ve been standing stock still in this wood for about 10 minutes while I mess about with a photo on my phone. I look up, notice the shape, and slowly crouch down to film This has made me so happy I feel I could cry. It’s as close to magic as I hope to get.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Richard Partington @rjpartington.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
When the editor of the Guardian finds out her econ correspondent is from the same Warrington suburb as the new Prime Minister… A pleasure, yet daunting to write. Hope I’ve done Culcheth justice: I grew up near Andy Burnham. This is what shaped the UK’s new PM www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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I grew up near Andy Burnham. This is what shaped the UK’s new PM
In the Warrington suburb of Culcheth, people are hopeful about what one of their own can achieve as the first northern PM in half a century
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
A very good point as usual from @jamesbowes01.bsky.social The main objective of Mahmood's proposals was always to kick out care workers (as she has more or less said). That was always an economically, politically and morally bankrupt policy. Without it, the whole package falls apart.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Number 10 North already making a tangible difference! www.ft.com/content/cdb3...
As Manchester prepared to welcome Andy Burnham to his new northern Number 10,
one nearby office employee had already found an unexpected upside.
"I've been trying for three months to get
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them to jet-wash that square," he said approvingly as a band of men in hi-viz jackets blasted the ground outside on
Thursday.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I really think some of my colleagues in the Parliamentary lobby need a bit of a break. The reporting at the moment is so frantic and a bit hysterical. Today Burnham is being accused of a major U-turn because he said he would look at something and then said he won't move ahead with it currently.
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Latest instalment in the ‘who could possibly have predicted that?’ series. A warning message from the US to the UK. Senior Living Facility in Distress as Immigrant Caregivers Are Forced Out www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...
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How Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Elder Care
Retirement communities already grappling with labor shortages are being forced to terminate caregivers at a time when more Americans are living longer.
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Antony Carpen @acarpen.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Forest fires in Norway www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... It’s like the planet is trying to tell governments & corporations everywhere something’s not right… 😱
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Helicopters dump water as huge Norway fire destroys homes
The blaze has destroyed more than 100 homes in Drammen and has spread to a nearby forest, authorities say.
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Matthew Dow Smith @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.
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victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27) @dirtbagqueer.rocks · 19/07/2026
i love how mean you’re allowed to be on british TV. you can only talk about poor people like this on american TV
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Annie @northernlady24.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Switched half time off.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/07/2026
I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
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I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director
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