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Paula

@paulapheby.bsky.social
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Health, social justice, science, climate crisis, democracy, education, history, humanism, veggie cooking, sudoku, kickboxing, books 🔸🇺🇦 🇵🇸 SRH nurse and LibDem councillor (personal account only)

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
50 green groups write to Andy Burnham demanding he be clear that climate change is the cause of the current extreme heat crisis. Greenpeace, WWF, Friends of the Earth and others say "the British public deserves leadership that speaks honestly about the nature of the challenges the country faces"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Ken Clarke, "Politically you can't rejoin the European Union at the moment it would cause its own nightmare, divisions and crisis" "Brexit is doing damage to our economy" "The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Sarah Pochin’s remarks were racist, by Jack Dart www.facebook.com/share/p/1FRN...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 21/10/2025
Ludicrous from Rachel Reeves. Equivalent of "we know the flames all around us are worse than expected so we plan to throw an extra thimble of water on them." Not good enough. If you're going to join the Brexit dots, follow them to their only possible conclusion! www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I’ve been watching #sumowrestling on a Saturday evening, and I’m both deeply confused and strangely compelled
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Their project depends on making us all feel alone, isolated and powerless. Taking part in a protest destroys all of those feelings in an instant. Go.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
In general, there’s only one reason why something might breach the ECHR. It’s because it breaches human rights.
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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
If you are watching the Reform Party controlled Councils with their endless mishaps, resignations, fallouts, scandals, mismanagement and sheer comedic idiocy, but still thinking of making these clowns a national government, representing the UK on the global stage, you are literally insane.
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Brilliant explanation of this Machiavellian horror story- please watch/ share and understand why R****m are so dangerous
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Oswyn @timeforheroes.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Nigel Farage 💥 takes money from foreign entities 💥 attacks Britain & it's workers from abroad 💥 has campaigned for 2 sex offenders in the US Richard Tice 💥 Fake patriot that uses offshore trusts to avoid paying tax in the UK 💥 Takes money from Russian donors
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
#FoodSky what do you recommend for some lovely eddoes/ arbi/ taro root?
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 16/09/2025
What is happening in Gaza is a genocide. And the President of the United States is doing nothing to stop it. Keir Starmer must raise this with Trump during the state visit.
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Ben Williams @bpwilliams72.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This rigorous, data-driven report from Compass should be compulsory reading for Labour MPs. PR contains the populist right, not enables it, unlike the current pressure cooker FPTP system that causes unrepresentative radical sentiment to explode, fracturing and distorting our politics.
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CTO @thecto.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
What on earth is he doing.. who's advising him that the way to counter Reform UK is by becoming Reform UK? absolutely mental.
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I want to be hearing more of this humane and pragmatic “banging on ideologically about safe routes” rather than the casual racist rhetoric that the media force feeds us about immigration. Keep up the great work Zoe 👏
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Getting better at this ☺️ 🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #931 🌟 Length Score: 100% 💫 Rare long word found! 🚀 Letter Score: 82 🔗 Play Wordiply: www.wordiply.com 🎬 Today's starter: 🄴🅃🄰
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Wordiply | The Guardian
Play the Guardian's new daily word game, and share your score with your friends. You have five goes to get the longest word including today's starter word.
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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I care deeply about war, genocide, climate catastrophe and so many other terrifying issues. I need some help to keep some mind balance though, I’ve got family worries too and really need something light/ fascinating to distract me when I’ve run out of sudoku, doomscrolling really isn’t the answer.
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
A volunteer created these beautiful fingerprint paintings for our 1st #pedsICU @3wishesprogram.bsky.social patient! His name was River & his family loves nature. Heartbreaking, but I think these paintings incorporated his tiny fingerprints perfectly. Shared with permission.
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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As some political parties come to a Damascus conversion , a reminder that the Lib Dems have continually campaigned to: 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 Scrap the Two child Benefit Cap 🧓Keep Triple Lock Pension 🔥 Keep Winter Fuel Payments 🇪🇺 Closer ties with EU 🇵🇸 Ceasefire in Gaza 🇺🇸 Stand up to Trump #LibDems 🔶🔶🔶🔶
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three orange birds are flying around a black box that says to pay r.
ALT: three orange birds are flying around a black box that says to pay r.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 04/06/2025
“We're wasting time and damaging our credibility by dealing with a bully." “We could add £25 billion to our economy if we had a customs union with the EU.” ‪@timfarron.bsky.social‬
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Your reminder that the #Covid #Pandemic is not over, just because we all want it to be true. We still need to fight for #CleanAir, especially in hospitals as priority, but ultimately in all public places.
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Masala dosa and sambar is just heavenly, today I taught my daughter how to make it and I can’t describe how amazing cooking together makes me feel #foodsky #dosa #sambar #indianfood #cookingwithchildren
Dosa cooking in a swirlMasala potatoes for dosaSambar (South Indian toor lentils)Bowl of sambar alongside masala dosa
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This is the most incredible bit of writing I have read this year.
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Ben Darlow @kapowaz.net · 25/05/2025
Is it possible Covid actually caused everyone to lose their minds?
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Summary: using #ChildPoverty as a political pawn. Despicable @teamlabouruk.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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No 10 delays child poverty strategy with tens of thousands more facing hardship
Exclusive: Flagship policy put back until at least autumn amid fears cost of removing two-child benefit cap will outweigh political benefit
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social wants community and patients to be the heart of the NHS- and so must urgently intervene here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A battle is under way for the soul of a Brighton GP surgery | Polly Toynbee
Wellsbourne GP practice is run by a not-for-profit, but could soon be in private hands unless Wes Streeting acts, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
WTF? If this Government can’t even agree to this smallest of initiatives, which has no cost to them & absolutely no down-sides, what hope that it will step up to the bigger nature challenges we face? This is a *popular* policy, for heavens sake. Obstinate tin-eared stupidity doesn’t come close …
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Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes
MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
My island of strangers: a poem by Michael Rosen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 12/05/2025
Let me PROVE to you that Labour can't win over the RW press by aping Reform on immigration, even when trying really hard to be EVIL. These are the most prominent immigration-related headlines on various RW news websites right now. Without exception, they're highly critical of Starmer and Labour.
Most prominent current immigration related headlines on the _____ website:

Daily Mail:
    • Coachload of newly arrived Channel migrants mock Starmer's crackdown on the same day he vowed to 'take back control' and stop UK becoming 'island of strangers'
    • Panicking Starmer admits mass immigration risks making Britain an 'island of strangers' as he tries to head off Reform surge - but STILL won't put a cap on numbers

Express:
    • EXPOSED: The 10 times Keir Starmer and his Cabinet opposed migration control
    • Farage attacks Starmer as video of PM calling for ‘open borders’ resurfaces

Sun:
    • Hundreds of illegal migrants cross Channel DURING Keir’s speech promising to ‘take back control’ of our borders.

Telegraph:
    • How Starmer has changed his tune on immigration. Prime Minister vows to reduce number of migrants coming to the UK, but a closer look at his previous comments reveals a different stance
    • Farage: Starmer making promises he can’t keep

GB News:
    • 'He's playing catch up!' Farage lays into 'insincere' Starmer as PM accused of copying Brexit slogan
    • Keir Starmer warned Britain will be 'unable to take back control of borders' as 'invasion continues'
    • EXPOSED: How Keir Starmer fought to keep foreign criminals in UK before unveiling deportation plan

Spectator:
    • Keir Starmer is wrong to think immigration is just a numbers game
    • The graphs that expose Keir Starmer’s failure to ‘stop the boats’
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Don’t let compassion fatigue take your eyes 👀 off the scary ball
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Terrifying, this is fascist rhetoric that we must challenge and stand up to right now.
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Worth reading about how Labour’s GP funding announcement today will essentially not even touch the sides. It’s the employer NI hike that will really hurt, year after year.
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
This is a dish from #Palestine and especially #Gaza called Rummaniyeh, a traditional stew of lentils, aubergines and pomegranate. I highly recommend it #foodsky #vegan www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Rummaniyeh: a Palestinian aubergine, lentil and pomegranate stew, served sprinkled with parsley and pomegranate seeds
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Labour needs several million buckets of ice-cold water poured over their head and the nation's church bells ringing in unison as a very loud wake-up call. Hopefully, this is it. People voted for hope and change and vision not Reform lite and the same old Tory shite.
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Jane Austen's Political Tweets @vee40below0.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Imagine you have pancreatic cancer. A vaccine that stimulates your immune system to recognize and attack pancreatic cancer cells is already showing promise in early phase trials. Imagine that this is your one shot. Imagine RFK Jr arranging that you get the placebo. www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...
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In Early-Phase Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial, Investigational mRNA Vaccine Induces Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group
Learn how MSK researchers are deploying mRNA vaccines against pancreatic cancer.
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
£435mn to build a sewage works in England, £29mn in Denmark. Tell us again how a privatised water system brings efficiency & value for money? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Ofwat investigating ‘rip-off’ cost of water firms’ infrastructure works
Watchdog for England and Wales looking into claims refurbishment costs are ‘breathtakingly high’ compared with other countries
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
8. Livestock consumption per se is a massive waste: of land, water, fertiliser and the living planet as a whole. If you farm animals intensively (almost all your animal products are produced this way), you trash the rivers. If you farm them extensively (grass-fed blah), you trash vast areas of land.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Oh, hello. euroweeklynews.com/2016/04/29/t...
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Tony Blair unmasked as chief lobbyist for Saudi oil firm
FLYING somewhat under the radar since his absurdist stint as Middle East peace envoy, Tony Blair has resurfaced as a key broker in a booming nexus of Chinese and Saudi oil companies.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
1. There has been a major effort by that old combination – big business and the far right – to diss foods derived from plants. The meat lobby invests big time in misinformation. And the far right hates “soyboys”, while associating itself with red meat-eating. It's a match made in hell. 🧵
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Abortion Access Front @abortionfront.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Turkey just banned elective C-sections because apparently the real medical emergency is women giving birth in ways that don't KILL THEM. Turkey's top health official says saving your life with surgery ruins the "celebration" of birth— so now you get to risk death for the party vibes! buff.ly/f4inI8J
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Paula @paulapheby.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Watching the World Snooker Championships, and have been rewarded with some quite stunning skill, performances and quality. Delighted to relax on a #FridayEvening
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“Britain is in the grip of an economic and social crisis. Corporate greed, the relentless pursuit of unsustainable growth, and the misguided attempt to replicate the economic model of the United States have driven inequality to new extremes.” 👏👏👏 💯
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The broken British economy: a call for urgent reform
An open letter to politicians calling for reform and what is needed to save British economy
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Labour Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social says a strike by teachers would be 'indefensible' I say a real terms pay cut from Labour, following years of Tory austerity is indefensible. I fully support teachers fighting for pay Repost if you agree!
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