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Sam Galvin

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Disability Support Worker Union Delegate Retired Physiotherapist Cricket Badger

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"In order to deliver the PM's promise to save social care we need a permanent class of indentured migrant workers without labour rights".
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Think it shows both the confused position of the govt and the relative powers of new/old media that the PM won't speak to The Sun but still uses the CSAM & disinformation app owned by the guy who advocates for the overthrow of the government.
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“If managed poorly I even believe AI could be risk to humanity as a whole” CEO of Anthropic said this. And Sam Altman of OpenAI is urging governments to unite in regulating AI. Except these guys have all the power to ‘slow the AI race’. But they won’t because they’re still competing. Mad world!
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Any lives lost due to this closure should be laid firmly at the feet of the far-right agitators who caused this. The way in which anti-asylum activists are putting more and more people at risk should be a wake up call that it is time to genuinely combat them, rather than pandering to their ideology.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just Zia Yusuf having a pop at his parents.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The genuine backlash against Ed Sheeran is heartening to see. It’s not just a small bubble, lots of people are really disgusted.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
seeing all these artists sacrifice money for what they believe in is really quite moving.
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Andrea Egan UNISON General Secretary @andreaegangs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TUC says: Migrant rights are workers' rights
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They are in so deep they don't know what's true. They are begging us to stop them.
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Kevin Anderson @kevinclimate.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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There Is No Atmospheric Exemption for British Oil and Gas - Climate Uncensored
I was recently contacted by a colleague from my days in the 1980s and 90s when I worked as an engineer in the offshore oil and gas sector. He remains in the
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PS I've been doing some research into psychological studies of different voter/political groups and - it's true - progressives are ofter far less happy than rightwingers or the disengaged. But do you know which group comes out as happiest of all, consistently? Progressive organisers and activists.
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The fact something as fundamental and superb as the RNLI is a charity is one of the most magical and strange things about Britain. You can support them here. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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onlycans @onlycans.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"I have will happily accept breezy reassurances about legality with no follow-up questions or even thought. Please make me prime minister."
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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 26/08/2026
Reform voters, and to a lesser extent Tories, are much likelier to think they hold the most common public view across several topics that our survey suggests is not the case, most notably: -2024 rioters -Trans ID -Bregret -Business reg -Lockdowns -Israel-Palestine -Trump yougov.com/en-gb/articl...
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 24/08/2026
This will be a national crisis- adding to the profound generational inequities which already bedevil Britain. Working class kids have long not had the support they needed as the mass employment industrial world disappeared. Will we repeat the mistake with graduates? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Graduate job vacancies drop by almost 50% in a year, survey suggests
Job site Adzuna said the number of graduate vacancies was the lowest since 2016
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here
Thousands of people
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Afternoon. [Note the date]
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Jørgen Heszlein @heszlein.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New estimate of Elon Musk’s death toll just dropped www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 07/08/2026
New from me: Britain’s graduate earnings premium is falling, cue “too many go to university!” But non-university outcomes are also bad, cue “we must reform vocational routes!” Both miss the point: people used to think education drove economic outcomes, but the economy drives educational outcomes.
Chart showing that US workers who are functionally illiterate earn roughly the same per hour as the average British worker
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James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is an attempted lynching, which will be treated with much less seriousness then pensioners holding up Palestine Action placards.
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Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
news.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
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Patients refusing to be treated by non-white staff as NHS reports shocking rise in racism
Paul Awah, a Bedfordshire-based diagnostic radiographer originally from Nigeria, said: "It's definitely got worse – people are more expressive."
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Anyone who refuses care from a non-white member of NHS staff should be told to pay to go private.
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Elizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The thing about this (and please don’t start a pileon) is that it’s actually just not true. Zack and all of the MPs have been shouting from the rooftops about the climate and the heatwaves and droughts all summer
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
England received only 7% of the long-term average rainfall for July. Southern England, just 1%. Factoid: There has been a weather station in Kew Gardens for 155 years. This July was the first month ever to record 0mm of rain. Tomorrow, London will again hit 30C+ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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July set to be driest on record for England and Wales after relentless heatwaves
Climate scientist urges better planning as southern England had just 1% of long-term average rainfall last month
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Neoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Don't look up.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
just heard a foundation declare its mission as reducing "polarization" as though there's some sweet spot halfway between white supremacy/radical inequality/climate denial and the opposite we should all aim for. There isn't. Been railing against it forever.
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Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo | Rebecca Solnit
The notion of a neutral and moderate middle is a prejudice of people for whom the system is working, against those for whom it’s not
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
12 people have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected extreme right-wing terror plot against an Islamic gathering in Suffolk The UK Ijtima, which hosted 15,000 Muslims for a programme of talks and discussions, was closed and evacuated by police on Sunday
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Green Man Trust refugee training is such a great initiative. We need a bit more positive news right now. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘A big chunk of positive energy’: Green Man celebrates 10 years of training refugees
Welsh festival helps asylum seekers gain confidence and skills while settling in to a new life in the UK
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Reform keep telling us that the poorest people are getting too much money so that we won't focus on the richest and demand #TaxTheRich "Next time you hear UK politicians and the media say we can't afford welfare, remember it is smaller as a share of the GDP than it was 15 years ago, not bigger."
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid “This shadowy treaty on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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Harry Taylor @harrytaylor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
News of England taking the lead against Congo has reached the House of Lords, and the steel bill
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 01/07/2026
Black text on a white page that reads as follows:

In January, our administration inherited a $12 billion budget deficit — a fiscal crisis greater than the Great Recession. 

Today I am proud to announce that our balanced budget has cleared the final step and passed the New York City Council. 

We balanced the budget by taxing the rich and making government more efficient. We did not balance this budget on the backs of working people, and we never will. 

Every year that follows will build on these principles: Honest budgeting. Fiscal discipline. Transparent government. And an unwavering belief that working people deserve a government that delivers for them every day.
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Ava Santina @avasantina.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Hugely unpopular policy. Khan could have reneged or bowed to pressure at any point over the last few years but he stuck to principles and pushed on. Politicians could learn a lot from the Mayor. Ignore the papers, and invest in long-term policies for public good.
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Grantham Research Institute at LSE @granthamlse.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We regret that our event on Extreme Heat: Improving governance and strengthening action around the world has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office. Our apologies to everyone who was planning to attend the event.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
This isn't normal. While this government is in chaos, its failure to protect people from extreme heat will cost lives. We need maximum workplace temperatures to protect workers and cool spaces so the vulnerable aren't exposed.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
It's such a defining example of his failure. Had he arrived in Downing Street and immediately announced it as a moral imperative it would have won over much of PLP and voter coalition.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
And this is before we get to support for a government committing genocide, ever more deranged attacks on the right to protest, ripping down planning and environmental protections, kowtowing to corporate lobbyists and treating the left of the Labour Party as the real enemy to be crushed.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Let's be very clear that vicious anti Muslim hatred by politicians and their trillionaire mate Elon Musk create the conditions for this kind of vile attack. Sending huge solidarity to the Muslim community in Edinburgh and beyond.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
God I love this country. We're just so ridiculous.
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 18/06/2026
🪧 NEW REPORT: The idea that young men are turning towards right-wing politics is overstated. Our data shows they are becoming more progressive, but increasingly alienated from politics. We set out how to give young people a real voice 👇 www.ippr.org/articles/a-g...
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Very funny to construct a situation where you'll apparently be old enough to vote, but won't be old enough to watch YouTube videos after 8PM
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Ruth Curtice @ruthcurtice.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Since defence spending’s recent peak in the mid-80s non-pensioner welfare has grown from around 4.8.% of GDP to 5.1% now. Importantly, non-pensioner welfare is now about the level of the mid-90s, below its global financial crisis peak, but has seen some rise from its level immediately pre-pandemic.
chart showing that ince defence spending’s recent peak in the mid-80s, non-pensioner welfare has grown from around 4.8.% of GDP to 5.1% now. Importantly, non-pensioner welfare is now about the level of the mid-90s, below its GFC peak, but has seen some rise from its level immediately pre-pandemic.
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