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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 18/04/2026
The three countries pledge more aid to Cuba and say Cubans must decide their own future amid a US pressure campaign.
aljazeera.com
Mexico, Spain and Brazil call for Cuba's sovereignty to be protected
The three countries pledge more aid to Cuba and say Cubans must decide their own future amid a US pressure campaign.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Reform fury as someone else wins
by Our By-election Editor
Tim Shipsink
The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost
comprehensively to someone else.
"It's totally unfair and rigged,"
said Goodwhinge.
"I shouldn't
be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost."
Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me.
Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X.
"We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families."
Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice.
They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
Reform leader
Mr Farage,
speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said,
"It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either."

PLUMBER DEFEATS
MATT GOODWIN

Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… 
I've stopped the cock
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Jews in Birmingham stand against Maccabi hooligans, they feel very safe, they don't want them coming to make them feel scared.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Omg, I love this!
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nlwa.bsky.social @nlwa.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Now there’s a bit of good news for a change… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe sues Nigel Farage for defamation
The Great Yarmouth MP has also asked his solicitor to issue papers for defamation against Reform UK’s chairman Zia Yusuf and chief whip Lee Anderson
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Love it
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
#booksky
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The evidence is everywhere... This guy called out “Who elected him?” at a local proclamation of the accession of King Charles III - police arrested him... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Police admit arrest of anti-monarchy heckler in Oxford was unlawful
Symon Hill paid £2,500 by Thames Valley police over his arrest at proclamation of Charles III’s accession in 2022
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🦋MOM🦋 @momcjl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
In 2018 we left the EU's Water Regulation body and their massive fines. Then sewage dumping increased 20x. Before Brexit we had some of the cleanest water in Europe. Now it is by far the dirtiest.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The UK has 2.5 hospital beds per 1000 people. Germany has 7.8, France has 7.2 Both Germany and France spend about an extra 40 bn per year on their health service. Austerity and privatisation have caused our NHS crisis. No more please.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
It's never been about the money. It's about class warfare. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death
Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Sewage spills considered illegal by the European Union are getting worse in Britain after Brexit, The i Paper has found inews.co.uk/news/beaches...
inews.co.uk
'Our beaches are full of sewage, rubbish and sanitary products - Brexit is to blame'
The EU previously acted as a watchdog on sewage pollution
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Curse of Private Equity PE has devoured water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers, schools/hospitals through the PFI scheme. Govts are handing GP surgeries, dental services & the NHS to it. Result will be the same. Govts serve money not people. archive.ph/N5eKT
yorkshirepost.co.uk
Private equity firms need to stay away from the British tech industry - Ben Moorhouse
The UK has become a prime target for Private Equity (PE). For years, PE firms from overseas have poured money into our water companies, transport systems, communications networks, power providers and ...
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Want a new year's resolution? Leave X and move full-time to BlueSky. Repost if you're in! 🦋
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
The World Bowls Tour has banned Israel from competing at their championship. Like if this is right. RT if Israel need to be banned from all Sporting competitions.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Time for the UK to do the same.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Oh the shade!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
commondreams.org
CEO Pay Has Risen 1,085% Since 1978, But for Workers? Just 24% | Common Dreams
CEOs at top US companies saw their pay skyrocket by 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay only increased by 24%
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Prepayment meters, mostly used by the poor, cost UK households more than 30% of income in winter. Leaving little for other essentials. Poor punished by low wages/benefits, high cost of living, profiteering. Govts do little to address causes of poverty. www.theguardian.com/money/2024/d...
theguardian.com
Prepayment meters could cost UK households third of income in winter
Resolution Foundation says higher prices and cold weather will hit poorer households hardest
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
UK govt wants people to save more for private pension. How? Real average wage is lower than in 2008, rich have got richer. 50% of the population own less than 5% of wealth; the poorest 10% own 0.02%. Is it redistribution or trickle-down? Watch the Minister's reply www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltDG...
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House of Lords pension review phase 2 18 Dec 2024
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
We are mugged. More than a third of water bills service debt & dividends; leaks not plugged, sewage dumped. 50% at Wessex Water. Water companies paid £85bn dividends, borrowed £60bn. OFWAT approved huge hike in bills. Govt won't end the privatisation scam. www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/market...
thisismoney.co.uk
A THIRD of water bills up the spout! Huge spend on debt and dividends
An average of 35p in every pound paid by customers for their water goes on interest payments and shareholder payouts
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
"[Their funding needs to be made clear, particularly] when it is relevant to the subjects under discussion — for example, climate change, given how the fossil fuel industry has been found to fund some of these organisations. And if a think tank objects, they simply shouldn’t be invited on"
bylinetimes.com
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
TLDR - Their politicians have been bought/threatened into silence.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Elon’s politics are disturbing.
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thattimwalker.bsky.social @thattimwalker.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Spare me the political opportunists that always rear their ugly heads after an act of terrorism, ensuring, in their own grisly, self-serving, hate-filled ways, that there will always be more acts of terrorism in the future.
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Argh just had another ‘the NHS is terrible’ person ranting at me, presumably because they feel equipped to do this after absorbing a load of bile from a billionaire-owned newspaper. News flash- the NHS has been intentionally decimated by politicians. There’s nothing wrong with the NHS’s model.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks bylinetimes.com/2024/12/21/b...
bylinetimes.com
The Real BBC ‘Impartiality Crisis’ Is Its Constant Platforming of Hard Right Tufton Street Think Tanks
The broadcaster provides an oversized platform for representatives from opaquely-funded libertarian lobby groups, says media academic Julian Petley
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
We’re never going to fix the NHS when campaigners are labelled as ‘firebrands’ or ‘outspoken’. I’m so fed up of turning up at social things and being described like this by people introducing me. I’m not a firebrand. I’m the tamest person you’ll ever meet. I just want people to receive good care.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Farage posted on X👇🏼to capitalise on 4 tragic deaths & 200+ injured in German terror attack BUT Der Spiegel reports attacker sympathised with Germany's FAR RIGHT Alternative for Germany party.. Nige didn’t expect that❗️ We had #FarageRiots MPJo Cox murdered bc of #FarRightTerrorists #FarageIsATumour
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Sharon Graham @unitesharon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The dogma of “private good, public bad” that has captured our politicians for ­generations, is out of date. We can’t leave everything to corporations. They will always put shareholders first, not communities or our national security. That’s why it is time for change. It’s time to back Britain.
mirror.co.uk
Tories sold the family silver. Let’s get it back and own Britain's future again
After the Tories left us with the lowest investment in G7 countries, Unite General Secretary Sharon Graham says the time is now to invest in Britain and create a viable future for industry
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
They've ennobled furious gonad Toby Young, who demanded the Tories launch his money-saving Free Schools idea, then took 9 years to submit accounts, which proved his money-saving idea cost 10x as much as the system it replaced.
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Trying to imagine pitching this movie 50 years ago: “So this guy from apartheid goes to America and cons his way to collecting half a trillion dollars and buys a President with it. Then he starts to order Congress around from his computer which is actually a portable telephone.”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
It’s bad enough former Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been allowed to spout his absolute boll**** about “Brexit saving lives” unchallenged on UK news shows - now he’s traveling the world repeating it! Let’s stop him rewriting history - share these actual FACTS youtu.be/pAm62GE6pi8?...
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Johnson now travels world telling anyone who will listen “Brexit saved lives” - hold onto your seats
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Privatisation has worse outcomes, is more expensive, and is less efficient. Renationalise the NHS now. Nationalise water and energy now. Nationalise transport now. Renationalise education now.
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dave43law.bsky.social @dave43law.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Truth
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Privatisation is a catastrophic failure. In fact, it's blatant daylight robbery. Nationalise water now.
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Common Sense @cmmnsensedspnsr.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Some folks are pretty good seeing things coming.
Passage from Carl Sagan’s A demon-haunted world book.
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Paul Da Pork Hunt & Mr Moo (Friends with Larry) @paulcwgb.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
www.libdems.org.uk/news/adlib-a...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
England govt & regulators broke the law by being too lenient on sewage dumping water companies, says environment watchdog. They protect companies and capital, not people. Water companies have 1,100 criminal convictions, still allowed to control industry. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Government has broken the law on sewage, says watchdog
The OEP has ruled that it allowed excessive sewage into England's rivers and seas.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
As the oligarchy begins to take shape, this meme seems more prescient than ever. They have convinced you that immigrants are your enemy while they pick your pockets at the same time, you’ve been duped. It’s the billionaires who are ruining this country,not migrants. Always has been. #RiseAndResist
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
“All donations that originate from abroad, no matter who is the final donor, should be banned. Only UK citizens should be allowed to donate to British political organisations. This would, by necessity mean no donations from private companies; PLCs, LTDs, whatever.”
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Fight back against fascism: how big money is threatening democracy
Fascism thrives when democracy falters. From funding Reform to vigilance, here’s how we protect our future
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption Won't happen in England, Govts protect companies Wessex is serial offender, dumps sewage in rivers, paid £78m dividend last yr, £3bn debt; 47 criminal convictions; but no investigation. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-w...
democracyforsale.substack.com
Revealed: Wessex Water’s Malaysian owners under investigation for corruption
Malaysian anti-corruption investigators have launched probe into YTL Power subsidiary over £700m public contract
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Michael Moore just re-released his Oscar-nominated doc “SICKO” about our cruel, broken for-profit 🇺🇸 health care system and lack of Universal care, saying the anger people are feeling is justified. On YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbEQ... #MedicareForAll
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
This is absolutely shocking. It just can’t go on
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