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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 14h

Coming to the UK if Reform gets in. Probably the Tories too, eventually.

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Right fuck this. I have reported Danny Tommo’s YouTube video and I implore others to do the same. They are platforming a man who live streamed himself essentially committing a crime and he will be making money off of it as well. Please please report the video www.youtube.com/live/lkeZbk8...

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Guardian joins the campaign to abolish the state pension triple-lock. Portrays it as a old v young, social security v defence spending issue. Silence on corporate welfare, tax perks of the rich, maldistribution of wealth, low govt spend on state pension, how future retirees will survive.

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Britain needs cash and everyone knows we should break the pensions triple lock. Where is the courage? | Gaby Hinsliff

The issue cannot be avoided any longer. Andy Burnham and his chancellor must face the fear of a pensioner backlash, and find a fair solution, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Disappointing that none of the billionaires who love their country so much have come forward with a £36m donation to the RNLI.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The government must know full well that many people have neither the space nor the money to store extra food in their homes. It is individuating responsibility for a collective problem. As usual, it is the poorest and most excluded who will suffer from it. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Minister tells Brits to stock up on days of supplies after ‘supersize’ El Niño warning

Exclusive: Angela Eagle urges UK citizens to be ‘a bit more resilient’ as they plan for national emergencies

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Using the UK national emergency warning system to effectively tell people to avoid using barbeques is the height of official idiocy. Must be run by the same people who control motorway variable speed signs. Overuse of the system will lead people to ignore it.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/07/2026

“A simple data-entry error, magnified and broadcast nationwide by a growing surveillance network operated through an opaque partnership between a private company and public agencies, led police to identify me as a car thief and set up a sting to take me down.”

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How Flock Cameras Wrongly Tracked Me for Days Over ‘Stolen’ Plates and Sent Police After Me

A simple error got magnified by Flock's nationwide surveillance camera network and ended with four cop cars boxing me in.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

A message for the class of 2026: We need more friction!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/06/2026

“All of us are going to be walking cameras” as your preferred version of the future is real dire stuff—the fantasy for people who think Black Mirror is a lighthearted comedy.

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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sorry to re-up this, but the media silence on the massive, country-changing shift towards arbitrary justice and authoritarianism is almost the most astonishing aspect of the case. The new dispensation is being normalised even as it's happening. Please spread it far and wide. We need to know. Thanks

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara...

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

These choices are also available to a UK government

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Please retweet.

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I see a future where we no longer have to listen to the continual inane ramblings of Sam Altman.

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Cam @millap.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

What we see here is Donald Trump, acting as he always does, as a global chaos generator. The further we stand away from that, the better off we will be. Well said @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt #IranWar

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Dear Shabana,
I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank.
You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to
make a perilous crossing on small boats.”
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton
and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government
who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division.
When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there
to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done
in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the
flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney.
As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking
points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I
filled water tanks and picked up litter.
What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop
the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country.
Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it.
It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping
migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and
croissants to refugees and food parcels.
When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She
said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for
refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers
whilst risking death on the seas.”
She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on
the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

1. People struggle to reconcile Keir Starmer’s ruthless ambition, Machiavellian manoeuvres, breaking of promises, collaboration in genocide, bans on protest, aid cuts, benefit cuts and war on nature with his history as a human rights lawyer. But perhaps there is no contradiction. Read on.🧵

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

What I find really strange about some of the Epstein Files is how fawning a lot of these men were over him. It's really weird how many supposedly powerful men come across as simpering wimps. What was his hold over them?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Please share. 💔

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Maybe sign it in Budapest again. Then ignore it again when it matters. About as useful as a guarantee on a toaster.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Strikes me that Shabana Mahmood is one of the dark forces she warns of. Labour need to stand up to this anti-immigrantion rhetoric, not amplify it. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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Shabana Mahmood warns Labour MPs ‘dark forces are stirring up anger’ over migration

There is understood to be growing unease in party over home secretary’s sweeping overhaul of refugee rights

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I wonder if Kier Starmer and the UK Home Secretary are listening to this.

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

The absence of even a semblance of self awareness is profoundly depressing.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

About to start watching All the President's Men with my wife, who hasn't seen it. We noticed it came out in the year she was born. I expect to be even more disillusioned with the inadequacy of our current news media in a couple of hours.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Think the Tony Blair Institute looks sinister? You've not seen anything yet. Crucial investigation by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and Democracy for Sale: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

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Inside the Tony Blair Institute

A former PM, tech tycoon Larry Ellison and Britain's data - what could go wrong?

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hypothetical: if you were to move to ban anti-fascism, what do you think that would say about you?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

⏳Final week to sign up to the Green Party. 🗳️ Vote for Bold Leadership on August 1st.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

High water bills, filthy rivers, now drought. England’s water crisis created by privatisation. 1989 - 2023: No shareholder investment. Investment funded by customers. 19% of water lost to leaks. £82.4bn cash extracted. Water bills up 360%. Govt opposes public ownership. Looting continues.

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High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot

In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business

At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Pockets picked Big pharma made £12bn excess profit from just 10 NHS drugs; profit mark-ups up to 23,000%. Energy companies £514bn operating profit since 2020. England Water companies £85bn in dividends, dump sewage in rivers. Govts subservient to corporations. Abuses continue. Wither democracy.

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Taming corporations is the key issue of our times

To appease corporations, people may raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, cover countryside in tarmac and shower subsidies upon them, but they have no loyalty to any place, people or product.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Trumpism HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance. Banks take bailouts, subsidies, sell dodgy financial products, launder money and abuse taxes, but never accept social responsibility. Voluntarism is a fig leaf. Change law. Impose public duties.

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HSBC becomes first UK bank to quit industry’s net zero alliance

Campaigners condemn ‘troubling’ move that follows departure of six of largest US banks after Trump’s election

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Matthew Garrahan @mattgarrahan.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

NEW: Tony Blair's staff took part in a BCG project for the redevelopment of Gaza along the lines of the 'Trump Riviera' plan www.ft.com/content/0b1b...

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Tony Blair’s staff took part in ‘Gaza Riviera’ project with BCG

Former UK prime minister’s institute participated in meetings on plan to turn shattered enclave into trading hub

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Welp. ATI had already narrowed its focus to health, sustainability and security, but are now being told that health and sustainability are no longer legitimate public priorities for AI research, and that this is consistent what ‘the British public expects.’

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Stephen Murray @stemurray.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

share.google/uNJ9FuIIg3pP... So instead of efforts to improve humanity's lot through improving health or addressing climate risks using AI, Peter Kyle thinks we should focus on using it to find more efficient ways to kill people. What a ghoul!

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Minister demands overhaul of UK’s leading AI institute

Peter Kyle calls for new leadership at Alan Turing Institute and greater focus on defence and national security

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