Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Here in map form in case that helps anyone else: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...google.comSign in - Google Accounts 000
Reposted by Anthony TooleCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026“The only sensible solution at this point is a moratorium on datacentres until very basic questions about how many we need, what for, where, and how pollution will be avoided are answered satisfactorily by the government” - @olliehayes.bsky.social 👏theguardian.comDrax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flightsExclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year 29751310
Reposted by Anthony TooleJoanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Be under no illusion: this is a significant victory for everyone who stuck their neck out and defended jury trials, day after day, clause by clause. But it is not a comprehensive victory. Magistrates should not be allowed to send people to prison for two years. 16589158
Reposted by Anthony ToolePeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Prime Minister Andy Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials 👏 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukBurnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trialsThe key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead. 1533767
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026“People don’t seem to understand what I’m saying” I blame the rest of the panel and the room full of plebs for not understanding what is a nuanced and well articulated argument that she doesn’t know what nationality is. 040
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The police should but largely don’t deal with. There are a lot of bikes out there, and modern e-bikes are difficult to spot so how many has your statement failed to include? Vibes based policy doesn’t seem very sensible. 000
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026What is the evidence for your claim that “many are being modified”? I’m aware there feel to be a lot of electric motorbikes around riden by deliveroo, etc. but what evidence is there that this is anything but a corner case? A small proportion of bikes in a very specific use case that 110
Reposted by Anthony Toolemaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 169188804735
Reposted by Anthony TooleCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Sadly there was a climate & nature shaped hole at the heart of Burnham’s speech. Nothing on the benefits of nature restoration & same old words on a “pragmatic” approach to N Sea drilling. There’s nothing pragmatic about pouring fuel on a scorching earth - he should rule out Rosebank & Jackdaw now 11475148
Reposted by Anthony TooleGillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/202694 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. 11237931403
Reposted by Anthony TooleStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*. 471185353
Reposted by Anthony ToolePeter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The number of times Nigel Farage has fallen over himself to get a racist xenophobic slant on some breaking news SHOULD be a wake up call to anyone who thinks he isn’t just a hate monger, trying to distract from his crypto millions with some new scapegoat 931793
Reposted by Anthony TooleAlice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...humanists.ukReform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymnsReform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave... 2991861564
Reposted by Anthony TooleSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession. 631164454
Reposted by Anthony TooleMatthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sorry Andy. Lifting the ban on drinking in the stands would soon be regretted. And let’s be fair, you’ve got more important things to be speaking out on. Balaclava wearing thugs for a start. 27719119
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m also reminded of the scene in Shoah (the documentary) where people basically admit they turned the Jews over that lived near a nice square so they could take their house. There is nothing new on this earth, only novelty in hell. 050
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It is amazing to hear of AI that makes the killing of others so much more palatable as if that isn’t exactly what the nazis did. They industrialised the murder not out of efficiency but because Germans found it too traumatic to kill so much. So they got Jews to crank the handle on the death machine. 151
Reposted by Anthony TooleRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good. Now arrest those who were with him for conspiracy, and then arrest those who tried to set fire to a hotel for arson. And then proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation. Which is what you are if you use violence for political ends. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comPolice arrest far-right activist Daniel Thomas after dinghy slashed in ChannelThirty-seven-year-old in custody on suspicion of crimes including criminal damage with intent to endanger life 1123015851
Reposted by Anthony TooleBest for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/09/2026🚨 NEW BEST FOR BRITAIN RESEARCH 🚨 If Labour commit to rejoining the EU in the next manifesto they will be the party most likely to form a government. If Burnham wants to stop Farage, grow our economy and bring Britain to the top table, he must commit to EU membership. 14464143
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026They have now reported on it but decided to minimise his crimes by calling it a “small knife”. I’d be interested to know what legal basis he had to be carrying a 3 or 4” fixed blade, because most people would be immediately arrested for that. I hope at least now Burnham will shut about this… 130
Reposted by Anthony TooleNick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI 301472412
Reposted by Anthony TooleSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026So, £72million from crypto billionaires to get Reform “ready for government”. Absolutely no chance. They have over 300 candidates to find and this is their track record… They attract total liabilities and Reform is too racist, corrupt and idiotic to recruit anything better. 19425140
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Came to see if @andyburnham.bsky.social had bothered commenting on the masked gangs of fascists yet but looks like he is back to being Mayor so probably not his remit any more. Probably best. 000
Reposted by Anthony TooleaidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I mock the Far-Right on YouTube. And THIS is a comment i get way too frequently... 27120
Reposted by Anthony TooleSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred. 1171828728
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026How do you know they aren’t immune to trains? Maybe they have been running over themselves with ever larger trains to build up tolerance? #teamNumNums 1140
Reposted by Anthony ToolePrem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 18/09/2026MPs call for emergency legislation for public control of Thames Water, let govt restore it and resell. Hedge funds want to takeover TW, want exemption from penalties for breaking laws. Neither will do. Profit motive is the cause of the crisis. Need public ownership.theguardian.comMPs urge ministers to break off Thames Water talks with US hedge fundsEfra committee calls for emergency legislation enabling government to take public control of the company 31483216
Reposted by Anthony TooleFionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep. 13460202
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Did you mean to link to the site? Here if so: caskaleweek.co.uk there is a map of events (@stalbansbf.bsky.social being one!). Welwyn is, of course, void of any activity. 122
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Herts and Essex police at least pretend to act on RTO reports (but hide behind Data Protection Act so won’t tell you if anything actually happens) but the Met don’t even bother doing that. (I know, shocking that the Met are ineffectual in stopping aggressive and dangerous behaviour) 010
Reposted by Anthony TooleDale Vince @dalevince.com · 15/09/2026William Hague, a man who otherwise I probably have no views in common with - today called for a total ban on political donations. We have that in common - our arguments for this are in this report, for the cost of a packet of crisps we can clean up politics properly and forever. 29634
Reposted by Anthony TooleRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026"Recognise the full scale?" Reform has no shadow minister for defense, pensions, home affairs, foreign affairs, NHS, work, environment, food, transport, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, or the treasury. They have opinions on brown people. And now on crypto. But only because it just bought them. 820549
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Libertarian. No matter what he says to the masses to get elected, that is what he is. Low tax, low regulation, small and ineffectual government. 010
Reposted by Anthony TooleDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below. 145136914886
Reposted by Anthony TooleDale Vince @dalevince.com · 12/09/2026Ridiculous sums of money don’t level the playing field - they distort it. It’s increasingly urgent that we get to grips with Political funding in Britain - our democracy is for sale to the highest bidder. 19519134
Reposted by Anthony TooleRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 12/09/2026£72 million from 2 individuals - both of whom have faced questions about money laundering, both of whom live/d overseas to avoid tax - is not compatible with democracy. I don't care if it's Reform, Labour or whoever. We can't function like this. Not for long. So how do we fix it? My plan: 551289422
Reposted by Anthony TooleStella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy. 114956510
Reposted by Anthony TooleAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026A reminder that Delo previously pled guilty in the US to violating money laundering protections and agreed to pay a $10 million fine for "willfully” breaking the law with his BitMex platform, which was described as "in effect a money laundering platform.” This is who owns Farage now 14623521203
Reposted by Anthony ToolePeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...telegraph.co.uk 641512603
Reposted by Anthony TooleProf Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Oops!! I think we can safely say, then, that these are going to be given the green light So, everyone in Holborn & St Pancras, you know where to put your cross @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comNorth Sea gasfield decision likely delayed until after Holborn and St Pancras byelectionGreens accuse Labour of hiding position to avoid criticism before contest, in which Zack Polanski is standing 323897
Reposted by Anthony ToolePaul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Sincere speech from Muslim MP Sadik Al-Hassan, who says that while his faith means he would be unlikely to choose an assisted death for himself, he does not believe he should stop others from having the choice. The role of faith in politics is a recurring theme of this debate. 712222
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It is a sliding scale of fanciness! If you had the means (I don’t!) then these look impressive: groundfridge.comgroundfridge.comGroundfridge | The natural cool cellarDiscover the Groundfridge: the natural, underground cold storage that works without electricity. Store your harvest, wine, and preserved goods sustainably and fresh. Check it out now! 110
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I can only suggest doing the sensible thing and start researching garden based beer cellars. 110
Reposted by Anthony TooleOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Truly disgusting social media post from one of Brexit's most influential backers. 2802019527
Reposted by Anthony TooleHOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 10/09/2026Lennon’s been getting away with it for too long. We’re calling on the Government to refer him to HMRC for a full investigation. Add your name: secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...secure.hopenothate.org.ukCALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNONA year-long Channel 4 Dispatches investigation has raised serious questions about Stephen Lennon’s finances. Add your name and call on the Government to refer them to HMRC for investigation. 210641
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026What did you mean by quadratically? Some have claimed damage increases with weight to fourth power, though that isn’t universally true. (Quad in quadratic doesn’t mean 4, it means 2 - as related to Latin for square) 110
Anthony Toole @stoduk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Temu wolverine even said “I have every doubt”. Freud will be turning in his mother. 000
Reposted by Anthony TooleAndrew Lewin MP @andrewlewinmp.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We don't need to play by Elon Musk's rules. In the Commons yesterday, I commended Lisa Nandy on her decision to leave X and take DCMS off the platform. I left more than a year ago, for reasons that will be familiar to people on BlueSky. I would like to see the whole government follow her lead. 1419743
Reposted by Anthony TooleDuncan Jones (aka Merrion) (he/him) @duncanjonesmerrion.bsky.social · 06/09/2026If you take nothing else away from the Farage fraud, you should, at the very least, be much more sceptical of any polling reported in the newspapers. 321750
Reposted by Anthony TooleCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Christopher Harborne - the Reform mega donor who gave Farage £5m - is suing ex-Reform deputy leader, Ben Habib. The particulars of claim have now been published. And we need to talk about them. 1/ 13595343