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Pete Cookson

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'People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.' - R.V.

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 13h
I recently spoke on a fringe panel at TUC Congress about what comes next in the fight for trans rights. I was pleased that the congress passed a motion to oppose the EHRC Code of Practice, demonstrating that trade unionists understand that trans rights are a workers’ rights issue too.
A photograph showing Nadia Whittome MP speaking on a panel with four other activists in a packed out TUC Congress fringe event room.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 20h
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Immigration agents search Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's home
Omar, an outspoken Trump critic, said the search was "an attempt to target political enemies" and she "will not be silenced".
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 20h
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Roman fort found in Wales could prove myth of emperor’s camp is real
Exclusive: Finds suggest account in medieval folklore of a camp near Frenni Fawr hill was rooted in reality
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
just smash men women and children to bits and let them drown, that's the only final solution
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 22h
The very earliest coins ever minted in Britain (pre-Roman) held images of wolves and other creatures.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22h
The Times, once again, calling for mass deportations of care workers and other legal migrant workers.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm sure the Kremlin was delighted we voted to leave the EU, but I also think it's passing the buck to blame it on Russian interference. Russia's role in Brexit was tiny compared to that of unscrupulous hedgies, ambitious politicians and decades of lies from right wing newspapers.
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
STOP THE US-RUSSIA DIESEL DEAL! Protest at the US embassy in London - 6pm, Friday 16 October
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'In a social media post, the US president claimed the two sides had reached an agreement. “Effective immediately, there is an ENERGY CEASEFIRE in the War between Russia and Ukraine. Both parties have agreed. Do not break it!” he wrote on Truth Social.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Trump announces partial ceasefire in Ukraine war as Zelenskyy says deal is ‘news to me’
Ukrainian president earlier rejected US call for Kyiv to stop bombing oil refineries, saying Moscow must first end attacks on energy infrastructure
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'“Please try here,” she said over and over again to Tennessee’s execution team, pointing to specific parts of her body where she thought they might find a vein... “Please try here, I think it will be OK. Please try up on my shoulder, higher.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
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Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?
Trump has used the full might of the presidency to supercharge executions, but an avalanche of mishaps has put the system’s flaws in the spotlight
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'Donald Trump has said Ukraine needs “a new leader”, a day after making a deal with Vladimir Putin to buy large quantities of Russian diesel.' www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Trump says Ukraine needs a new leader after diesel deal with Russia
US president suggests Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has not done enough to end war
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
'Critics say cutting the scheme would damage the nascent British heat pump industry and further undermine the government’s commitment to tackling the climate crisis. Ministers are also expected to give the go-ahead for the Jackdaw gasfield as soon as this week.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending
Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/o...
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Tory tax break for banks has cost UK public purse £6bn, says TUC
Exclusive: Chancellor urged to reverse Jeremy Hunt’s tax surcharge cuts to claw back billions in lost revenue
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
President Trump wants to rename the Atlantic or Pacific ocean, "we call it Trump ocean, or ocean of the Americas"
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
'Christa Pike, who is believed to be the first person to have survived an execution by lethal injection in the US, has been discharged from hospital.' news.sky.com/story/christ...
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Christa Pike discharged from hospital to jail after surviving botched execution
The 50-year-old murderer has been taken back to the prison in Nashville, Tennessee, where she had been held for more than 30 years.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/10/2026
Hours after President Trump announced a deal to buy Russian diesel, a Russian attack in Ukraine, on Saturday killed at least 20 people. The Kremlin said there would be no immediate resumption of discussions to end the war. Trump said Ukraine should “get a new president.” trib.al/6soAOJj
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I mean her party is polling on average 18% in the polls. She's 'set' for a general election at Xmas in the same way I'm set for winning a grand slam tennis tournament next week
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Streeting says the UK is providing military assistance to Saudi Arabia because Houthis are attacking civilian targets there Israel has been attacking civilian targets in Gaza for 3yrs & not only are you not providing Palestinians with military assistance, you're arming Israel!
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B heard media 💚🇵🇸 @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🔵 Reform UK treat the British public with absolute contempt & clear their 2 highest ranking officials of any wrong doing despite the evidence in front of our eyes! Shameless! 🤡 Reform councillor Jaymey McIvor desperately tries to defend the indefensible! 👮‍♂️The Met police investigations is on going
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
'A Tennessee court has overturned the conviction of a man who killed a Black transgender woman, ruling that a lower court "erred" by preventing the killer from using the victim's trans identity in his defense.' www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Tennessee court overturns killer’s conviction because jury wasn’t told that the victim was transgender
Samuel Ward Jr. killed Paris Lee in January 2024.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/10/2026
President Trump reacted angrily to missing out on the Nobel Peace Prize, disparaging the winner, former U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay, and describing the decision as “disgraceful and embarrassing.”
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Trump fumes at ‘stain' on Norway after missing out on Nobel Peace Prize
The president described the decision to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay as “disgraceful and embarrassing” and said he would “not forget.”
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
"...[I]t does appear to be a slightly desperate move by President Trump to try to lower inflation ahead of the midterms."' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
'ASCL's announcement comes after another union, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT), said changes Ofsted made to inspections just under a year ago had been severely harmful to school leaders' welfare.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ofsted faces fresh calls to halt graded school inspections in England
A second head teachers' union says it is "increasingly concerned" about members' "welfare and morale".
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Labour voters overwhelmingly want Andy Burnham to commit to rejoining EU, poll shows
Exclusive: New 10-year plan for re-entry to the European Union in 2036 being put to the prime minister
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump wants the US to fund Putin’s evil regime.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 10/10/2026
#OtD 10 or 19 Oct 1609 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley was born. He was a farmworker and the primary theoretician of the Diggers, or True Levellers, during the English Civil War who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8239...
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 10/10/2026
Andy Burnham must properly fund our NHS and end NHS privatisation We spend £40 billion LESS on health per capita than comparable European countries like France and Germany After years of underfunding and privatisation, our NHS is on its knees. It's time to get serious about reinstating our NHS
Screenshot of a Times article that says "PM and his chancellor reject NHS cash appeal"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/10/2026
“Zelenskyy could’ve stopped this war many times, and he chose not to … he better damn well stop” — Trump is no longer trying to conceal that he’s fully on Putin’s side
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
'In what unions have billed as Act Four of the three-week movement, some 71,000 people staged protests across the country on Thursday, with 24,000 gathering at the Bastille in Paris.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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France promises 3,000 extra teachers in bid to calm student protests
Education minister Edouard Geffray makes the offer after another day of sometimes violent demonstrations by high-school students.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Neanderthals were skilled woodworkers, first-of-its-kind tool trove reveals
Find in Spanish cave provides rare window into the domestic lives of our closest relatives
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Funny how these errors always seem to head in the same direction. A bit like Richard Tice's tax mistakes.
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UNISON @unison.org.uk · 09/10/2026
📢✊ New rights. More access. Stronger unions. From 30 October, unions will have new rights to seek weekly workplace access. @AndreaEganGS.bsky.social on why this is a huge opportunity to build workplace power ⬇️ buff.ly/45cc7MO
"All workers should have unions in their workplaces, and we will keep fighting for that goal." Andrea Egan - UNISON general secretary.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: The government's own statistics show there was a *record level of terrorism arrests* in the year leading up to June this year. The vast majority of the enormous increase in terrorism arrests are of grandparents, teenagers and everyone in between for peacefully holding placards.
NEW: Home Office stats released today reveal that arrests for “terrorist-related activity” in the year ending June 2026 were up 1,553% on last year and 94% of the arrests (3,630 of 3,867) were linked to showing support for Palestine Action.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
60% of those who responded to the Bank of England consultation called for pictures of wildlife on bank notes. Does he think the British people are conducting a "slow, steady and relentless attack" on themselves?
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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Glory to the youth" Seen in Paris during the ongoing student uprising across the country.
"Glory to the youth"
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All authoritarian cults resemble one another. All democracies are democratic in their own particular way.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/10/2026
#OtD 9 Oct 1972 3000 council tenants in Kirkby, England launched a rent strike against the Housing Finances Act which increased rents. It lasted 14 months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
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Brynley Heaven @brynleyheaven.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Reform Leader confident dirty air and damaged lungs can be reintroduced
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Bradford Council leader 'confident' of scrapping Clean Air Zone fees
Stephen Place says he is still committed to "stop charging people" for driving around Bradford.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Stop saying "Former Prince Andrew". He's still Prince Andrew. He's still eighth in line to the throne. And remains so until there's an act of parliament... Or a republic.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 09/10/2026
#OtD 9 Oct 1945 the UK Labour govt defended its jailing of 226 Spanish Civil War and anti-Nazi resistance fighters, describing them as "members of an enemy paramilitary organisation". Some killed themselves, others were deported to Spain for execution stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is what Christo-fascism looked like — specifically the Romanian fascism of the 1930s. Hegseth is a Christo-fascist. (1/3)
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote about this in Notorious. Peru has more "Hitlers" than anywhere else on Earth. None in Austria and Germany and the surviving members of the dictator's family changed their name.
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Salford HMO 'trashed again' as Reform leader issues statement
"The people of Salford must feel safe in their neighbourhoods"
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“It was a radical Islamist attack in uniform inside the ranks, and so he’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be, and we’ll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it’s public..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Pentagon says execution of Fort Hood shooter will be livestreamed
Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December
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Pete Cookson @pete-cookson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'Nor do I think it irrelevant that Trump, JD Vance and Trump’s erstwhile pal Elon Musk inhabit what’s been termed the “manosphere” – a place where the main events are dominance and submission. The whole point is to humiliate weak men and to subjugate women.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump is fueling a culture of misogynistic impunity | Robert Reich
The allegations against seven men at Cornell University come amid a climate of belligerent sexism
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