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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She's a 94 year old Jewish human rights lawyer. She's been arrested under terrorism legislation for opposing genocide. The least we can do is to listen.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Andy Burnham announces end of triple-lock on the state pension from 2030. It will be replaced by double-lock, slower growth in state pension. Full state pension is already less than 50%of the minimum wage. Poverty awaits future retirees. £500bn of taxes not collected by HMRC since 2010.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I watched this last night. It's terrifying, but hopeful. I feel it's my duty, as a human, to share it. I'd appreciate it if you shared it too. It's specifically made for people in the UK, but it's about everyone, and, the more people see it, the better chance we'll have. www.nebriefing.org/the-film

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National Emergency Briefing

A 50-min film centred around the National Emergency Briefing. The frank facts, but also the huge opportunity if Government steps up and leads a WW2-scale response. Designed to be watched by communitie...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

What I want is a TV documentary channel entirely devoted to documentaries with no quick-cut montages of everything about to happen, which don't give a fuck about keeping my attention, presented by extremely knowledgeable people in a terrible mood who have no interest in trying to make me like them

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 08/09/2026

🚨 THIS IS BAD! 🚨 Palantir’s stated goal is to disrupt democracy by getting control of the systems in the name of technofascism. Their MO is wedging people into positions of power then shoehorning themselves into critical infrastructure. Now they control the grid. www.ft.com/content/f6a2...

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Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids

Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 05/09/2026

What are they going to privatise next? The roads we drive on? YES, and the government pumps public money into it too After privatising the Lower Thames Crossing, the government is also privatising the Dartford Crossings Demand the National Audit Office investigate this: vist.ly/5hdn6

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Investigate the privatised Lower Thames Crossing now!

Action Network

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 28/08/2026

Let's make this count On Monday 14th September MPs are debating whether there should be a referendum on who owns England's water This is a huge opportunity to keep the pressure on Andy Burnham to bring our water into public hands Take 2mins to email your MP: vist.ly/5ggj7

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Give the public a say on who owns our water - email your MP

Public ownership of water is popular. MPs must give us a say on who owns our water.

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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I mean, this is about data centres, isn’t it? And easing the path for technoligarchs to get their resource-vampire castles constructed with fewer people to buy off.

Andy Burnham is set to give mayors new powers to take control of local planning decisions and greenlight large-scale developments in proposals to be unveiled next week.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A dozen academics at Oxford University have signed an open letter defending self-proclaimed 'race realist' Nathan Cofnas as a whistleblower. Cofnas, who received his doctorate from Balliol in 2020, has been suspended from Ghent University. johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here is something you can do in memory of Professor Jason Arday: make a donation to support other Black academics trying to build academic careers. societyofblackacademics.com

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SBA|Society Of Black Academics

Society Of Black Academics

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Clarion Weekly is out! Featuring: 🥐 Tap Social goes big in Milton Park 🏰 Questions over theme park 🎆Fireworks cancelled 🐶Three puppies 📊 Two graphs 🐾One Ozymandias ❓Our first ever survey! Read online or get it delivered to your inbox oxfordclarion.uk/the-clarion-...

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The Clarion, 18 August 2026

Two graphs, three puppies, but there’s only one Ozymandias. Plus our first ever readers’ survey. Read on… This week’s top stories The benefits to Oxfordshire from the proposed Puy du Fou theme park...

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

RAH totally rammed for Berlioz Requiem tonight. Hardly ever performed because of the ludicrous forces required, inc: - 10 timpanists - 4 off stage brass groups - huge choir - all the cymbals in London And yet it's so brilliantly written that you are never overwhelmed in a bad way.

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Anyone else get this earlier? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/767687

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Got home to find the birdbath dry and a queue forming of three pigeons and two wasps.

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some solid middle class parenting happening on this stationary train. - Daddy, how can we watch the eclipse safely? - You could look at it through a colander, so you would see lots of eclipses through all the holes. - So we could use a garlic press. - ...

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The PM says he wants public control of water, but water companies are still spilling sewage and hiking up our bills. Add your name to make sure Burnham keeps his word.https://water-rip-off.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-the-water-industry-rip-off/?utm_source=bluesky

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

A reminder that if you are lucky enough to have a private pension you can choose to invest it in green energy and not in fossil fuels. It's an easy change to make. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Shell’s profits more than double after jump in oil and gas prices

Environmentalists renew calls for windfall tax to support households after Q2 earnings rise to almost $10bn

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/

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Prime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the Arts

Sign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere.

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/29a3b6

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Make the government step up on climate

The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action

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Jack Wallington @jackwallington.com · 21/07/2026

Which plants are coping with heat and drought? Please complete and share this form to help identify established garden plants thriving without watering during hot, dry weather. forms.gle/YVZzHi9sWPEW...

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Which plants are coping with heat and drought?

Help identify established garden plants thriving without watering during hot, dry weather. Check your garden this week 21 - 24 July 2026 and report how your plants are coping. I am researching which ...

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I may not be trans and I may not happen to have trans friends, but that just shows how few they are and how vulnerable. With trans rights under attack as never before, we need to show our support for the trans community. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/d23a8a

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I stand with trans people | Good Law Project

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Few people understand the scope of the powers UK governments have granted themselves, to criminalise us as terrorists for expressing an opinion. Fewer still understand how illiberal the Court of Appeal judgement is. But @davidallengreen.bsky.social does.🧵 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

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What the Palestine Action appeal decision tells us about terrorism law

An already broad law is now matched with broad ministerial powers

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Dr Rebecca Warren @drrjwarren.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes, brilliant.

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

John Kennedy, the World Meteorological Organization’s climate information chief, said Europe had warmed by about 2C in the 50 years since the heatwave of 1976. (Makes the 1.5C target look pretty meaningless.) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Fourth toddler dies in France as Europe’s brutal heatwave forecast to shift east

Scientists say hot spell is worst ever, with nearly half of region’s 850 largest cities facing unprecedented heat stress

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

For three days in a row the heat record for June has been broken in the UK. The same story right across Europe. Any attempts at this key moment to slow climate action is utterly indefensible. We need day one action to accelerate our climate ambition from Andy Burnham.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Great to give a speech to the British Chambers of Commerce. Discussing saving our high streets, the huge opportunities in the green economy and how to support new small businesses. Followed by a Q&A with @sophyridge.bsky.social youtu.be/AIf9AfzmNk4?...

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Zack Polanski speaks to British Chambers of Commerce and Q&A with Sophy Ridge.

YouTube video by Zack Polanski

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action. Will you join us? goodlawproject.org/s/29a3b6

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Make the government step up on climate

The government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Yum. Oxford-adjacent people welcome.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

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Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens

Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The Private Finance Initiative was supposed to be buried. Instead, it’s being exhumed, and this time it will be applied not to individual hospitals or schools, but to entire cities. open.substack.com/pub/european...

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Buy Now, Pay Forever: How Starmer and Reeves Are Reviving Labour’s Most Disastrous Financial Experiment

The Private Finance Initiative was supposed to be buried.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

You must forgive me for not writing for so long, but I just wanted to be on my own for a couple of years or so.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

“Reform has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries… Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels” Private Eye on the anti-thought, pro-corruption threat of Reform

$MELTING TICE RICHARD TICE, Reform UK's deputy leader and spokesman on energy and climate, made an extraordinary appearance on Bloomberg's Zero podcast last week. A few things soon became clear: firstly, he hasn't read the science. Tice claims the UK. is "almost unilaterally" beggaring itself by choosing low-carbon power (tell that to China, building hundreds of gigawatts of solar and wind each year). He hasn't read the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) summary for policymakers. He says "thousands" of scientists disagree with accepted climate science but wouldn't - couldn't? - name any scientists who'd advised him. He thinks net zero will bankrupt Britain (jobs in clean energy are growing faster than much of the rest of the economy). He threatened to walk out twice - once when presented with the IPCC's summary. When asked about batteries, which store solar and wind power safely and cheaply until the evening peak, he said: "We don't need batteries. It's ridiculous." Reform UK has the most extreme policy on energy and climate the UK has seen since modern science on the subject began. The party opposes solar; it opposes wind; it opposes batteries, for God's sake. Its policy is "drill, drill, frack Lincolnshire". Once again: Reform is largely funded by fossil fuels. The main defence Tice wielded was that the IPC recently abandoned its always implausible "RCP8.5" scenario - the worst-case, which predicted coal use doubling or tripling this century. İronically, Tice himself is the British politician who would do more than anything else to bring about that polluted world. 'Young Windy'$

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

And that's why I have a ticket for Berlioz' Grande Messe des Morts at the Proms this summer. Looking forward to being overwhelmed by huge orchestra, choir, ridiculous quantities of brass and ten - count them - timpani.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

A fellow Labour Party member once described Wes Streeting to me as Zippy from Rainbow if he'd been radicalized by Mumsnet. which is a very specific set of references but also disturbingly accurate.

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Palantir: the company that Wes Streeting is trying to embed in the NHS. The company that enabled the Israeli Defence Force to select targets in Gaza and beyond. They have a manifesto you should know about. It's a long read, but it needs to be. deanblundell.substack.com/p/peter-thie...

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Peter Thiel's "Palantir," The Company That Owns The Trump Regime, Just Published Their 22 Point Manifesto For America And It's Terrifying.

22 Points · A Tolkien-Themed Surveillance Empire · A Chairman Who Loved Epstein · A Philosopher-King Blogger On Speed-Dial · And The IBM-Nazi Template Nobody Wants To Name

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Peonies I bought from a bucket by the side of the road for a few quid. My photo’s inspired by the paintings of Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750):

Pink peonies in a white enamel coffee jug on a wooden table with light hitting the flowers from the left of the photo

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Stella @stella-b.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I’ve joined a choir! My first session tonight, it was so good. Songs from musicals plus some others with about 25 friendly people. 🎵🎤. We won’t be going on Britain’s Got Talent but we will be doing a concert for locals.

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Dr Tony Kainth @tonykainth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

As an NHS psychologist I can’t emphasise enough how important it is to get this dangerous company out of our healthcare systems and out of our country. Sign the petition and share it with your loved ones and followers. Our lives may depend on it.

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I checked this too. *20 seconds* of Reform logo display. *No other* party logo displayed. In local election purdah. This is not normal. At all.

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

BBC Radio 3 headlines just now: not a peep about the Hungarian election. Good job I wasn't relying on the beeb for actual news.

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Singing Betty @singingbetty.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Have been singing Scarlatti's Stabat Mater and wondering how I had never heard such a fantastic piece before. I mean, it's been around for 300 years, so it's slightly embarrassing that I haven't kept up.

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Microplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Not involved in the war update.

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