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Visions of Hope @visions-of-hope.bsky.social · 15h
So... workfare. It's workfare. Way to end neoliberalism, Andy!
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 13h
They really are pushing for a return to two party politics aren’t they
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gilberts1950.bsky.social @gilberts1950.bsky.social · 18h
How absurd that the UK government is so intent on providing cover for Israel's genocide that this happens www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Sally Rooney says her books will be removed from sale in UK over Palestine Action support
The Irish writer is best known for novels such as Normal People, Intermezzo and Conversations With Friends.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h
How Noble Ed Sheeran and Metallica are... 🤮
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 17h
Just what will history judge? Was beloved author Sally Rooney really a dangerous supporter of terrorism? Was the banning of her books under anti-terror legislation a sign of sanity? Or will it be those who cheered on the erasure of Gaza judged as monsters? It’s a tough one!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 7h
Mick Lynch wants a progressive wealth tax, which is a Green Party Policy, with the richest paying the same as everyone else on PAYE, 47%. That would bring in hundred of billions, it is time for the richest to pay what everyone else has been paying their whole lives.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h
Our full exchange today about the climate crisis: youtu.be/g2gu7BjqwvA?...
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What action is the Mayor taking in response to El Niño? | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Zack Polanski
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 8h
Heavy rain and extreme weather could put millions of homes at risk of surface water flooding this winter, with El Niño increasing the likelihood of wetter conditions. Today I asked the Mayor about plans to alert people and how we ensure people get the support they need.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 11h
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 9h
Again, there was almost no public element in this: no organic surge in public opinion to demand it. It was simply imposed upon Britain by the world’s most hateful and poisonous media outlets, by leaning hard on our ever-compliant political leaders, who are always happy to say yes to the tabloids.
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SirKidStarverIsGone @sirkidstarversucks.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Joe Biden did this! Emmanuel Macron did this! Keir Starmer did this! Justin Tradeu did this! Anthony Albanese did this! And EVEN SINGLE white LIBERAL CUNT who took ISRAELI BRIBES, DID THIS!! YOU'RE ALL BUTCHERS!!! youtube.com/shorts/FS-Uf...
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Gaza Child Amputee Starts Preschool
YouTube video by AJ+
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Royal Mail has been told that it could save £650m by only delivering things 3 days a week. Did you know that the taxpayer could save £4,000m a year if Royal Mail had never been privatised, or if it was renationalised, and deliver 5 days a week. I'd go with that.
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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Israel committing Genocide "Can I build some weapons in the UK to supply my Genocide." UK "Oh yes of course you can." Author supporting anti-Genocide protestors "Can I publish some books in the UK." UK "No of course not you terrorist supporter."
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Jewish MP Gerald Kaufmann in Parliament in 2009. "My Grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her town, a German soldier shot her dead." "My Grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israel to murder Palestinian Grandmothers in Gaza."
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez endorses Lula.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Irish Children's author Sally Rooney has been banned from selling books in the UK because she expressed support for Palestine Action. What a ridiculous North Korea style place the UK has become.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I said in my speech to conference, the RNLI are the best of us. For those lucky enough to have parents volunteering with RNLI, I hope they feel nothing but pride in their parents.
Children of RNLI lifeboat volunteers are bullied at school because their parents rescue migrants in the English channel
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Marwood @andmarwood.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
#PalantirOut #NoToPalantir No to #TWATSON
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Such rare integrity and bravery, and in such contrast to so many who've opted to stay silent on the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians because their personal careers might suffer. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Sally Rooney books: Faber to end supply in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, but says copies already held by retailers will not be removed from sale.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Every Right Wing Goverment ever.
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Craig Horrocks @chcookley.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I'm not sure what folding looks like. He made his position clear prior to the vote and hasn't changed it since. Party rules say we can't reopen the vote and noone has the power to overturn the result.
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fromtheriver-zir.bsky.social @fromtheriver-zir.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
#freepalestine socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Zack Polanski must hold not fold over Zionism is racism motion
Zack Polanski should take it as a compliment that he and the Green Party are getting the Jeremy Corbyn treatment.
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Conor Kelly People Before Profit @conorkellypbp.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Solidarity with Public Sector Workers. Workers are falling behind while profits boom for energy and grocery companies. Across the board, living standards are falling in a country where the Government expects to run a surplus of €6.7bn this year and €9.5bn in 2027. Between 2021 & 2025 public sector
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Solidarity with Public Sector Workers
Set to be the biggest strike of the 2010s or 2020s, Wednesday 14 October will see schools, public offices, health centres and hospitals blocked by pickets as 300,000 workers unite in a national picket. The potential is hard to overstate.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
1) An emergency brake on rents - rising by the LOWEST of CPI inflation, wage growth, or 2%. 2) A commitment to protecting social security - not pitting people on benefits against spending on weapons. 3) Energy in public hands and a energy revolution now - cutting bills for everyone, forever.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Two weeks until the budget and here's what we're facing: The worst squeeze in living standards since 1961. The cost of renting to rise by 4% or 5% a year Household energy prices set to jump by £276 We need serious action not tweaks or half measures. That means 👇
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
I REALLY don’t understand why so many people think Andy Burnham is “progressive”. He hasn’t even been in office for three months and we already have a book ban. A BOOK BAN. What comes next…?
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Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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shreddedcactus.bsky.social @shreddedcactus.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
jfc 🤦‍♂️
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A helpfully clarifying intervention here from a politician who is firmly within the mainstream, on what views are unacceptable
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New from me: Nigel Farage has called on Labour to emphatically rule out any deals with the Green Party following their decision to equate Zionism with racism.
Writing exclusively in the JC he says: "Britain has no shortage of political differences. We argue fiercely about tax, social care and energy. Those are all legitimate debates.
Equating the existence of the world's only Jewish state with racism is not. It is a descent into the oldest and ugliest of prejudices masquerading as progressive virtue.
I will not tolerate sectarian politics or the importation of fundamentalism into our once vibrant democracy. Neither should Labour."
Speaking to the JC anonymously, several Labour figures are frustrated that their party hasn't emphatically ruled out an alliance.
One former minister told me: "I'm no fan of Nigel Farage, but he's absolutely correct here".
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage calls on Labour to rule out pacts with Greens
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello supports Lula, says it is a battle against Fascism and Bolsonaro MUST be beaten.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yet again, this is just conspiracy theory masquerading as analysis.
The Times and Sunday Tim... • X.com
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Unforgivable Green conference vote dates from the inability of Marxists to tolerate Israel as a home for Soviet Jews
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
You may have missed it but the Green Party passed a ground breaking new economic policy at conference, proposed by Sheridan Kates of the Economic policy working group. A thread of interviews! First here's mine: youtu.be/7MB_2G5MeNE?...
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Ed Poole speaks to Sheridan Kates about Fiscal Referees
YouTube video by Amplify with Ed Poole
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
@andyburnham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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Niam @niamsuggitt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The Sally Rooney stuff really does show how ludicrous the proscription of Palestine Action is and I feel like Burnham’s government are kind of getting away with not scrapping it. When her next novel comes out and isn’t available in the UK it makes us look ridiculous.
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Art VanDeLay 6.3.3 @fredleroux.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
L'Angleterre, ce pays de droite où les droits humains sont de seconde zone. 🤮 Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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Gledster @gledster.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Starmer's legacy, Burnham's inheritance and he's absolutely not going to do anything to change it. Respect to Sally Rooney.
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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is mad. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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Yaz ♤ @yasminyaps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Banning Sally Rooney isn't about books - it's silencing influential voices advocating for justice. Pure fear-mongering. Shame on Labour. Then again, there is not much to be expected from the same party that called Action Palestine "terrorists" for wanting the UK to stop complicity in genocide.
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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Extraordinary
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Faber to no longer publish Sally Rooney in UK due to Palestine Action legislation
Faber, the publisher of Sally Rooney, has said it will "no longer supply her works in the UK in any format" following legislation on the Palestine Action group from the UK government.
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Kev @caoimhin1.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
As today is Thatcher's birthday, why not take a few minutes to celebrate her death
Thatcher crying
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Truth
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Also: as a haggard and knackered veteran of the 2010s bullshit and shenanigans, I can tell you that the actual messages being put across here are “hardly anyone is feeding us scary, pissy quotes”; “we don’t have much to work with, except for some aggro tweets” and “let’s you and them fight”.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Another bit of advice: if you see some inflammatory story about terrible infighting, check it and see whether it has any substance or whether it’s just the usual drivel and shit-stirring. An incredible number of Labour ones were just a stupid quote from the same drunk MP in the parliamentary bar.
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Between These Spooky Lines - 👻 🌈 ⚽ 🏈 🏀⚾🏒 @footballlibrettist.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They're too calm to say it, so I will. It is yet another sickening antisemitic (actually, not in the being against genocide sense) and Islamaphobic attack by The Torygraph that once again shows their only enemy is progress and our communities.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Green Party has said that until the Telegraph retracts the cartoons and apologises, it will not cooperate with its journalists leftfootforward.org/2026/10/gree...
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Green Party complains to the Telegraph over ‘racist and antisemitic’ cartoons
The Greens have they ‘will not cooperate’ with Telegraph journalists until 'the situation is resolved'
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You can criticise the name of a motion but how many news outlets are talking about "a Green way to health" or "Fiscal referees"?
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Collateral Damage @coldamage.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If I were Palestinian and I saw this much terror in my daughters' eyes, I'd join Hamas in a heartbeat. #EndZionism #GazaHolocaust #SanctionIsrael #BoycottIsrael
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Daily lack of world press news of the ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing & war crimes inflicted upon Palestinians by Israel hoping we think it's all just gone away ... Call them out! "Thousands came out to protest Israel’s continued genocide in Gaza." meme via Mohamed Zantout & Bara Lafi
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