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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If Starmer's government was one of a Can't Do attitude, Burnham's is a government of tweakers. Tweak this. Tweak that. In an age when we need radical change. It won't cut it, either for solving problems or persuading the electorate.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Great to see a left movement kicking off under a left government. However Sanchez has been an improvement on right govts, he's not even come close to resolving the ongoing housing mess.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This failure of councils to support the public good is part of why the whole country feels like it is in decline. Private wealth wins because that is what elected politicians support. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

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‘Devastating’: council rejects Frome residents’ bid for regeneration project

Locals raised £1m for Mayday Saxonvale scheme involving homes and park but Somerset officials agreed deal with London-based real estate company

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Daniel McElroy @danielmcelroy0.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We’re just in a position where the far right are trying to murder people on the streets or at sea and the government have had almost nothing to say about it. It’s all on fucking video you can watch them do it!

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hard to shake the impression that the overriding sentiment in Tories and Labour to the Reform donations was envy rather than concern about our democratic system….

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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

you could stop all the small boats. then they would find another statistically spurious thing to protest about. the people paying and organising these louts are testing the state for permission to advance a white supremacist agenda. the state is failing miserably

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Burnham very studiously perfecting the Starmerite Tao of Anti-Leadership.

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Louis Peitzman @louispeitzman.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We need to be saying this loudly and clearly: These people have lost their fucking minds.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Culturally, this is because we had twenty years of roaring all-channels advocacy for increased racism, harder crackdowns and latterly more deportation and demonstrative cruelty. We had this alongside - at best - total contempt for those opposing austerity, war, racism, police violence and genocide.

College kids defacing a McDonalds during a climate change rally lead to calls to call in the tanks, whereas coke-head wife beaters trying to burn refugees alive get sorrowful expressions of sympathy for their
"legitimate underlying concerns" and "lads with strong feelings, what can you do?" shrug.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Found a book about Twitter users in the library

Children's Book called I really like slop

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

God grant me a film review site that doesn’t think Nolan films are great. Ditto Villeneuve tbh.

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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

following friday announcement that the govt will not be bringing in rent controls, i looked at the growing case for them (ft. london renters union @acornunion.bsky.social , @bethstratford.bsky.social, @zackpolanski.bsky.social + more) + what burnham's inaction means about his govt (link below)

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I hope the complicity of Starmer in the rise of overt racism in the public sphere is never forgotten.

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The Ronettes Pickering @stoatie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

People who keep pointing out that golf courses use as much water as data centres as some sort of defence of data centres drastically underestimate the amount we also hate golf.

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John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

“Effective subsidy” doing a huge amount of work in this

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You're telling me Ann Widdecombe lived in a village called Haytor Vale? It's too much. Who the hell is writing this script and can no-one rein them in?

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This chimes with my take on it. Disappointed the Greens joined this game of avoiding direct confrontation with the fascist.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It is impossible to read this without being filled with anger and sorrow, anger towards a judicial system which ordered that the neck of a victim of domestic abuse should be broken on the scaffold, sorrow for her and her children, who had to live with that awful trauma. Peace be with her at last.

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Ruth Ellis, last woman hanged in UK, granted posthumous conditional pardon

Ellis, 28, was executed in 1955 after fatally shooting her abusive partner David Blakely

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There will be a day when I speak without unnecessary pauses and hesitation, but it was not this day.

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Urban Political Podcast @urbanpolitical.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In this episode, you will hear: Tracy Rosenthal, Jaime Palomera, Jacob Stringer, as well as the host (and guest) Michael Byrne.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I am a fan of Tom Paine. Not a particularly fashionable position because both left and right take issue with him. But he was right more than he was wrong, took real risks for his beliefs, and was influential while being radical.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

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Sandra Newman @sannewman.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Describe the economy in a single sentence

Notice on a vending machine saying: "FYI (OUT OF ORDER) (DOES NOT GIVE YOU ICE CREM BUT IT TAKES MONEY"

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There's been too little discussion of the fact the current English devolution model is even less democratic than the absurdly undemocratic and weak council system.

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 30/06/2026

The thing about social media age restrictions is that it treats today’s internet as an inevitability we all just have to deal with. The internet (and the WORLD) wasn’t like this until like four dudes were allowed to own & monetize as much tech real estate as they wanted. Fix THAT problem.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Get the ebook of Renters Unite so cheap that it's barely worth thinking about illegal downloads! www.plutobooks.com/product/rent...

plutobooks.com

Renters Unite - Pluto Press

The inspiring story of the struggle for housing justice

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Labour in Britain feels their pain.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

It’s rare for foreign policy to shift domestic elections, but I think this explains why Israel-Palestine has become so salient. Israel’s war in Gaza posed the question of whether genocide can ever be a proportionate response. That is a fundamental moral litmus. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

After comparing the two Democrats, Manny Fidel, 34, a writer based in Brooklyn, said he ended up supporting Lander because of his views on Israel and Palestine, which he described as “the big issue of this race”.

“I liked how kind of clear-headed Brad is on that issue,” Fidel said. “It’s become kind of a litmus test for national elections here in the United States – and I think it should be. I think it’s the huge moral issue of our time.”

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Mamdani is such a nightmare for other politicians. They invest so much energy telling people good things aren't possible, and Mamdani just goes and...does them. With a smile on his face.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Yep. Failed leadership across the Western world.

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Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I don’t want to be a crude leftie, but the Guardian has a column on Where It All Went Wrong for Starmer that doesn’t mention Gaza/Palestine even once either as a foreign policy issue or as a target of domestic repression - come on, man.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Er, guys, is it good when we get tropical thunderstorms in England in June?

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Sarah Krienen M.A. @sarah-krienen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

My husband took 2 months of paid family leave after our baby was born and it was absolutely instrumental for my physical and mental health after birth. I don't have data on it but I'm convinced that fathers taking more parental leave would lower the rate of postpartum depression significantly.

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Bary Garlow @beansinyourbum.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Billionaires: we're going to overthrow the British government British government: hey that sounds ace, do you want a contract to control our military?

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Stephen Cox - "funny, raunchy, romantic, satisfyingly twisted" @stephencoxauthor.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

In our world of free university education, cheap housing for the young, assured starter jobs, massive strides to solve climate change, principled refusal to support inhumane wars, and a tender patient-led approach to young people's mental health, obviously social media is the problem.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 10/06/2026

the right: we are concerned about stuff that isn’t true the government: we must address these concerns or we will erode trust! the left: we also have conce- the government: how the FUCK did you get in here? get out and grow up, you pricks, that’s just how the world works

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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

andy burnham doesn't support pr.

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Truly, a trip to IKEA is the ultimate consumer experience (extremely derogatory)

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Some people (hello Caroline Lucas) are just really bad at political analysis. This is right imo.

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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Excellent conversation between @unlearnecon.bsky.social and @hettieobrien.bsky.social - it really makes you want to read the book & it gets you angry as to why this model of capitalism has been allowed to gobble up so many businesses that impact our lives. Have a watch. youtu.be/tyNFosOFUDM?...

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How Private Equity Ruined Everything - with Hettie O'Brien

YouTube video by Unlearning Economics Live

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Jacob S @peopletrees.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I really don't love that every major event in UK politics is now greeted with 'leftists' saying Israel is probably behind it. Has if never occured to you that anyone near power in Labour is pro genocide just because they are unprincipled shitheads who refuse to challenge establishment orthodoxy? Eh?

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