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Sue Ness

@suehinny.bsky.social
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Long in the tooth Northumbrian lass. Concerned optimist. Recently discovered an eco tribe elected me their Tribal Goddess in 1993.

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Russ @pappyparki.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A dementia addled doddering failure announces to the world that his "big brain" with its "highest IQ" has discovered super secret double hidden tarriffs that no one knew about until he found them that Canada has been charging US for years. Vote in Nov. This must stop www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
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Trump Claims Canada Has Been Imposing Secret Tariffs on the US: ‘Nobody Knew’ Except Me
President Donald Trump insisted that Canada has been secretly imposing tariffs on the United States, boasting that “nobody knew” about them except him.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w... Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.” #TheCityBrief
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Fury in California After Trump Suggests Iran Could ‘Take Out’ L.A. or San Diego (Gift Article)
Gov. Gavin Newsom called the president “dangerous and deranged” after his remarks at a political rally, where Mr. Trump said the Iran war was necessary to “keep the world safe.”
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A simple, factual, and effective message.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2026
I LOVE how @propublica.org dealt with official comment here, editorially and stylistically.
The Trump administration says none of this is happening. 

"DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake." "There are no 'indiscriminate' stops." Allegations of "racial profiling are disgusting, reckless and categorically FALSE." "The pattern is NOT of law enforcement using force." "ICE does not zip tie or restrain children." 

But that is precisely what is happening, and at a far larger scale than previously reported.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does protesting actually work? Yes — just look at history. My friend, activist and author Annie Leonard, explains why protesting is so important and why we must protect this powerful tool of dissent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvafufqH7g
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Why Protest Is More Powerful Than You Think (ft. Annie Leonard)
Does protesting actually work?Yes — just look at history.My friend, activist and author Annie Leonard, explains why prot
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Sue Ness @suehinny.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For years, Stephen Lennon has asked supporters to trust him and fund him. A Channel 4 Dispatches investigation, made with HOPE not hate, has raised serious questions about his finances. I’ve added my name calling for a full investigation. Will you? secure.hopenothate.org.uk/page/199860/...
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CALL FOR AN HMRC INVESTIGATION INTO STEPHEN LENNON
A 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.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Sue Ness @suehinny.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Openreach are a bunch of cowboys, they destroyed bricks, failed to pin cables to the wall so my frail husband had to get a ladder & pin it over the kitchen door then knowingly left us without a working landline www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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BT accused of ‘bullying’ customers by pausing broadband in digital landline push
Companies race to switch households to ‘voice over internet protocol’ services by the end of January
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is testament to No.10's frankly astonishing degree of political competence. A policy which was branded electoral suicide 48 hours ago now showing signs of robust popularity.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A *third* Byline Times journalist has now been barred from Conservative conference – Chief Reporter @josiahmortimer.bsky.social. It comes after Political Editor @adambienkov.bsky.social and the late, great David Hencke were barred last year. bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Conservatives Accused of ‘Trumpian’ Tactics After Barring Second Byline Times Journalist From Conference
The National Union of Journalists described the bans as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech"
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
She was an FBI agent. She started an investigation of the murder of Renee Good. Trump forced her to reclassify it as an ICE agent assault. She was then forced to resign. Her evidence confirms that a cover-up of the homicide has been undertaken, directed from the highest levels.
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FBI agent who initially investigated fatal ICE shooting in Minneapolis has resigned | CNN Politics
The FBI agent who initially began working with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to investigate the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, two sources familiar with...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
Someone tell him that tens of thousands of active duty service members are on food stamps.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I had a great in-depth conversation with @hcrichardson.bsky.social about my new book, "HOW RUSSIA WON: Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Fight for America," which she called "so important." (Thanks, Heather.) Give a watch and check out (or buy) the book at HowRussiaWon.com.
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David Corn of Mother Jones | American Conversations
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 23/09/2026
Climate Week is here in New York City, and our work has deep roots. 18,261 trees planted this year. The most in a decade.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 23/09/2026
A lavish wedding celebration is raising serious counterintelligence questions. In this new piece from The Atlantic, our Executive Director Steven Cash and our member Marc Polymeropoulos weigh in on the national-security risks of foreign access, influence, and potential compromise. zurl.co/FsPG5
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Don Jr.’s Wedding Trap
His luxurious, Russian-funded wedding celebration was a counterintelligence nightmare.
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Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every major nightly news show covered the breaking story about a Russian oligarch bankrolling Donald Trump Jr's wedding celebration — except CBS.
PBS NewsHour coverage: "Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarchs Close to Putin"ABC World News Tonight coverage: "Report: Oligarch Paid For Trump Jr. Wedding Parties"NBC Nightly News coverage: "Russian Oligarch Pays For Part of Trump Jr. Party"
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Not quite “no-one” as @rory-stewart.bsky.social spelled out in his memoir “Politics On The Edge”. He wasn’t alone. Yet the Tories still promoted her.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
London Mayor Sadiq Khan : “London's homicide rate hit its lowest level since records began. Yet 40% of the public thought that murders had risen since 2019. 1/
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The political right (even the comparatively mainstream right) prefers Jews as a separate, traditionalist, ethnonationalist community, distinct from the rest of society and available to be stereotyped, patronised, and 'protected', and responds with suspicion to the secular and the assimilated
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”
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gggreat.eurosky.social @gggreat.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Police overlooked tip-off day before far-right agitators blocked Dover roads
Details passed to Kent police after people heard in pub boasting about going to Dover to ‘attack Muslims’
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 09/09/2026
If Miliband's comparatively mild, caveated, and strictly targeted criticism of Israeli settler actions are enough to endanger the UK Jewish community & unleash pogroms then: a) We've passed some point of no return. b) Successive UK governments have utterly failed in addressing antisemitism.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
That's the spirit, big up Leviathan Brewing of Sutton Coldfield. No craft beer for Nasties.
[Facebook post from Leviathan Brewing in Sutton Coldfield showing an older man with a walking stick (Stephen Cooling) assaulting a young woman at the Reform UK conference last weekend]
Leviathan Brewing
a day ago
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Sutton Coldfield pubs and bars. 
We’ll go first…
You’re barred. 
Pulling a woman’s hair and hitting her with your crutch as they dare to have a different opinion? 
No mate. We welcome EVERYONE at Leviathan Brewing. 
Apart from cowardly pieces of shit who look like they need their hard drive checking.
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GylesNaMopaleen @gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I found this video useful for understanding better why so many Jewish people are being cancelled for speaking out against Israel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=URpI... here's a short clip from it... @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social explains what an "assajew" is
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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
If you block the roads you can expect angry condemnation from Rupert. Unless you're a masked far-right fuckwit, in which case you can expect wholehearted support.
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:

[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]

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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 

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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.

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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free 
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-

BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister 

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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?

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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill

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HITLER:
What we are proposing -

CHURCHILL:
Hang on

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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -

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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here

BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate

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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate 
You don't debate fascists

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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!

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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...

CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-

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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!

BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak

[ends]
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Richard Stupid Tice living up to his name by calling a British Jew antisemitic for having a problem with an extremist government carrying out ethnic cleansing.
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Sue Ness @suehinny.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As someone who crosses the Pentland Firth on my hols to Orkney I know the value of the RNLI. Fantastic organisation and volunteers. www.gofundme.com/f/buy-a-new-...
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Donate to Buy A New RNLI Hovercraft - The Flying Farage, organized by Simon Harris
I am trying to raise enough money to buy a new lifesaving hovercraft for th… Simon Harris needs your support for Buy A New RNLI Hovercraft - The Flying Farage
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's explosive. It's also completely predictable. To see Reform say on camera that Electoral Commission is useless and toothless wasn't shocking... it's plain to see.
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Black Voters Matter Fund @blackvotersmatterfund.org · 02/09/2026
Tarrant County’s decision to reduce the number of polling locations ahead of midterm elections is another attempt to put distance between voters and the ballot box. We’re not asking for permission to vote. We’re demanding access. fortworthreport.org/2026/09/01/a...
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Tarrant County’s November elections will have 92 fewer places to cast ballots than 2022
County commissioners approved a list of sites that drew criticism from voting rights advocates and local civic groups.
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LoriPica 💙 @loripica.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Greed is an incurable sick and sadistic disease!!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good news! The USPS whistleblower allegations are now officially in front of a federal judge. The groups challenging Trump’s mail-in voting executive order have submitted the whistleblower disclosure to the federal court in Massachusetts as part of their push for a preliminary injunction.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!
Fun Fact: If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are just carrying coal, oil and gas.
- Bill McKibben, Climate Activist
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fund defence spending from tax rise on middle earners, thinktank tells Healey. Middle earners are struggling too. Why silence on Wealth tax Financial transaction tax Higher VAT on luxury goods Cutting corporate welfare Profit shifting by corporations £500bn not collected by HMRC since 2010
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Fund defence spending from tax rise on middle earners, thinktank tells Healey
Resolution Foundation argues that UK’s internationally low ‘tax wedge’ must rise to pay for defence ambitions
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🔥TOMORROW🔥 Delighted to say lots of people booked to come. Should be superb. Pls share. The link you need —> www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...
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Book your place – Cleaning up politics: how Britain rebuilds trust – Zoom
Cleaning up politics: how Britain rebuilds trust – Zoom, Thu 3 Sep 2026 - LIVE WEBINAR. Part of the Bylines Network "making sense of our times" series. Andy Burnham, Britain’s new Prime Minister, has...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Private equity choking UK health and social care. Taking over mental health, elective care insourcing, patient transport, social care. Control of GP surgeries, IT systems gives PE access to patient records. PE devours everything. Profiteering leaves less for frontline services.
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Tracking the rise of private equity in health and social care - The Lowdown
GP records put private equity ownership in the spotlight The acquisition of Optum UK, the owner of EMIS, a major supplier of GP IT systems, for a reported $400 million (£293.5 million) by the US priva...
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Back to skool - Behind the Lines is back with a discussion with @davidwellsct.bsky.social on how criminals and terrorists are, and are not, using AI. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...
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When the bad guys start using AI: David Wells on counter terrorism and AI
Podcast Episode · Behind The Lines with Arthur Snell · 1 September · 50min
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is always the same betrayal: the public interest is sacrificed for the sake of immensely wealthy people. And Andy Burnham has already gone and done it. My column on how Burnham needs to defy the ultra-rich if he's not to follow Starmer out of the door. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Andy Burnham has already made a mistake that will cost him his premiership: he lost his nerve over political donations | George Monbiot
Being subservient to the interests of the wealthy now means that his hands are tied, and he will be unable to tackle Britain’s most pressing issues, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Alasdair Cameron @alasdaircameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Totally unrelated events I am sure. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Architect of British government’s AI strategy joins Anthropic
Matt Clifford, who drafted AI action plan and advised Starmer and Sunak, hired for senior role at US firm
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A broader point: Polarisation is costing us time we don’t have. We can argue about culture wars, or get on with tackling what’s coming. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Cross-party talks needed to tackle climate crisis, say Lib Dems
Andy Burnham urged to seek consensus over response to extreme heat and forthcoming ‘super El Niño’
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Mark Fairhurst, Chair, Prison Officer's Association, "We had 2,400 more staff in the 1990s than we do now, and now we're locking up twice as many prisoners" "The Conservative government closed 23 prisons, lost over 10,000 cell spaces, imagine if we had those now, we wouldn't be in this mess now"
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I spent happy years as volunteer @britishmuseum.bsky.social & knew quite a few staff. Bet they, & today's volunteers, are rightly _really_ unhappy. "It is understood the museum chair, George Osborne, was aware of the viewing". One thing to say: #OsborneOut www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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British Museum hosted Palantir founder Peter Thiel in private viewing of Bayeux tapestry
Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum
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Gary Gilligan @garygilligan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My latest for NW Bylines. Reposts greatly appreciated. northwestbylines.co.uk/region/more-...
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More haste, less speed?
Why Rupert Lowe’s proposal to raise the speed limit would be a failure in England’s North West
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
More public control is the way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs Control is not the same thing as public ownership. Toothless Ofwat, Ofgem, Ofcom, CMA have not protected people. Need public ownership of water, energy, essentials. Need worker/consumer elected directors, vote on exec pay.
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More public control is the way to grow UK economy, Burnham to tell MPs
Exclusive: Prime minister wants to ‘bring back hope’ by tackling cost of living as MPs call for electoral reform
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I didn't mean to turn this into a thread, but the issue has got me properly triggered (again). Read on for how this approach has been embedded in every aspect of government, who has driven the process and how it works.
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