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Susan Grey

@susanjgrey.bsky.social
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Socialist and retired clinical psychologist. Northerner turned Southerner. Art, opera, trains.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
this is honestly one of the worst and most irresponsible things he has ever posted, and that's really saying something
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Susan Grey @susanjgrey.bsky.social · 8h
Why isn't #themoralmaze being axed? Surely that's one of the worst programmes on #bbcradio4 #bbc #bbcnews
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Ada Loves Lace @adaloveslace.eurosky.social · 11h
Save 'You and Yours' and scrap 'Moral Maze'. #bbcWATO #wato #bbcPM
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 17h
Stratford is one of Europe’s great regeneration success stories. It’s ready for its next chapter - European rail links. I’m proud to say I’m working with the government to deliver new cross-Channel trains from East London. The benefits would be felt far beyond our city.
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Sadiq Khan: Run international trains from Stratford instead of expanding Heathrow
With more Brits supporting increasing international rail over expanding airports, connecting Stratford to Europe is a no-brainer, writes Sadiq Khan.
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Susan Grey @susanjgrey.bsky.social · 17h
Voted in #myattsfields and had to squeeze past libdem, labour and Tory reps asking for voter numbers. Libdem insisted it was their right to speak to people on their way to vote because it was more "efficient" than asking on the way out. Pleased to see the green rep standing well away. #votegreen
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19h
Private equity owners of Boots sell it to another PE group from Canada for £6.74bn. Debt-laden PE has no long-term interest. Everything is a commodity. No UK tax levied on dividends paid to foreign owners, which sweetens cash extraction. PE dominates town centres, when it crashes ...
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Canada’s Weston family buys Boots for $8.9bn
Former Selfridges owners buy UK high street institution from long-term backer Stefano Pessina
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 19h
Quelle surprise a super-rich exodus recent story is shown to be complete bollocks This billionaire said to have quit Britain over fears of a potential Labour wealth tax actually moved to Monaco in 2014 when the Conservatives were in power. Next. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc...
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‘I reside in Monaco’: billionaire said to have quit UK over potential wealth tax had already left
TaxWatch contradicts claims about David Reuben’s departure and questions stories of super-rich exodus
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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
He did an hour long press conference with a bunch of experts on the climate 2 months ago and the entire MSM ignored it Stuart www.youtube.com/live/bsTXZ2V...
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Zack Polanski delivers an urgent message to the Prime Minister
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19h
Louise Reddy from Surfers Against Sewage "its a really common thing that sewage is being discharged into waterways. It happened 3 million times last year.. in Porthtowan in Cornwall there was a horrific discharge that happened where you could see faeces just sitting on the beach"
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19h
Israel is a genocidal apartheid state led by someone wanted for war crimes. Middle East minister @sdoughtymp.bsky.social says we have lots of common interests with them
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 19h
The ICJ says Israel is an apartheid state. An independent commission of inquiry of the UN says its committing genocide. @sdoughtymp.bsky.social : "We have a strong & ongoing relationship with Israel" Yes, you're siding us with a genocidal apartheid state. Is that why you entered politics?
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 19h
This is one of the most terrifying interviews I’ve ever seen. The slow reveal of the mental landscape at work here. If you don’t end up thinking we should stop these people with as much force as we can muster, I’d be very surprised. youtu.be/lnLDjXy2kRA?...
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Jacob Coxon On Witnessing the Existential Threat of AI from the Inside | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 19h
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 20h
This looks like a crucial investigation to me, building on an essential body of work by @bylinetimes.bsky.social Please help to support it. subscribe.bylinetimes.com/lightuptheda...
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#LightUpTheDark – Byline Times
Dark Enlightenment: The US Far-Right War on British Institutions Help Byline Times Fund aN URGENT New INVESTIGATIVE SERIES #LightUpTheDark What is the Dark Enlightenment? The extraordinary anti-DEI me...
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 21h
Badenoch: No inheritance tax on the family home What constitutes "the family home"? The family first home? Will the state verify its significance for children and grandchildren? Could you downsize - sensibly - and designate the new home "the family home"? #R4Today
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Great to catch up with the Camden New Journal. Tomorrow on the ballot paper in Holborn & St Pancras - a Green win means I'll be in Parliament pushing on housing costs, nationalising Thames Water and keeping oil & gas in the ground. Vote Green! 💚 youtu.be/bM4YgbS96Nw?...
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Zack Polanski in Brighton – one of his few conference interviews
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
".. the govt did respond with attacks on Hamas" They dropped 2,000lb bombs on densely populated refugee camps. Was that attacking Hamas?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Details here: influencemap.org/insight/oil-...
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Oil & Gas Industry Push for North Sea Drilling Misrepresents Climate Change Committee Findings
Oil and gas industry responses to the March 2025 "Building the North Sea’s Energy Future" consultation, accessed through Freedom of Information requests, reveal a campaign to convince the government t...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Previously unseen lobbying shows the oil and gas industry is misleading government on North Sea drilling. For now, it looks like Burnham is listening to them. Only a Green win tomorrow will force them to listen to us. New analysis from Influence Map 👇
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LeoooOOOoooOOOooo @leocrusher.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Also, if labour would be unable to govern without Green support and refused because of this then who's actually playing politics over a slogan?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Final week of the campaign has been epic! Thank you to everyone from the young people I met training, from the women at the community centre,cafes, barbers, high street shops. Voting is tomorrow 7am-10pm in Holborn & St Pancras. Remember photo ID! youtu.be/t0zhIoY379Y?...
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Campaigning With Zack Polanski In Holborn & St Pancras - Episode 3
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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Tax Justice UK @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
We can’t even count the number of headlines we’ve seen recently talking about "Tax raids”. A raid is what Viking pillagers did to coastal villages, and robbers do to homes. It's a very strange way to describe the process through which a democratic society ensures decent lives for its communities.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Long tribute from Kemi Badenoch in her conference speech to Jeffrey Archer, complete with round of applause. The world is a "less colourful" place without him, she says, which is one way to describe a serial fraudster, fantasist and liar who wrecked several lives in the process.
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 07/10/2026
Reform want to rollback workers' rights and cut taxes for billionaires. Spain did the opposite - and has one of the fastest growing economies in Europe.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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lhur.bsky.social @lhur.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Was reminded in the quite fairly brutal obituary on the BBC that he also made a lot of money from insider trading using information from his wife BBC News - Jeffrey Archer: bestselling novelist whose political career ended in scandal www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jeffrey Archer obituary
Politician and best-selling author whose career was mired in scandal and disgrace.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Israel marks the 3rd anniversary of the October 7th attack by murdering a rescue worker who was trying to save injured people shot by the IDF.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Why are the Tories talking about inheritance tax? The economy is riddled with real problems that need attention, but the Tories are talking about their goal of widening the wealth divide. Why? youtu.be/R27sj9UZj3w?...
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Why are the Tories talking about inheritance tax?
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Leader of party - that sold its own shrivelled soul to the devils of austerity and Brexit - will use her conference speech to slag off Labour (yawn) and make the only promise the Tories ever make - cutting taxes… They have nothing new or credible… or just plain nice… to say any more.
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Badenoch promises tax cuts in 'battle for the soul of this nation'
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Troy Jackson on the Iran War: "Sen. Collins voted for it 5 times before she started voting against it. By that time, we're already into it and we're in another forever war that you just heard her say, it's not thought out, we don't know what we're doing, but she made sure that it happened."
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Columbus Free Press @columbusfreepress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Of course, school libraries are just one of the targets of the book ban people. A number of red states have launched attacks on books in public libraries, presuming to protect not only youngsters but the rest of us from reading something they find controversial. freepress.org/article/book...
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Book Bans and Librarians
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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Letter printed in The Times today
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights Calling wood “renewable” doesn’t make the CO2 released when it’s burned disappear. If forests take decades or more to recover that carbon, how should we count those emissions? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Drax datacentre could create nearly twice the yearly emissions of all Gatwick flights
Exclusive: Campaign group’s analysis of North Yorkshire plans finds datacentre would have to burn 4.9m tonnes of wood a year
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Andrew Fisher @fisherandrew79.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"To buy a second home when others cannot afford one is greedy. Invest your money in stocks and shares, antiques, fine art – anything you like, as long as it isn’t an essential good." My new piece for @theipaper.com on raising taxes on second homeowners inews.co.uk/opinion/buyi...
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Buying a second home is pure greed. It's time we taxed it
Tax isn't just about raising money; it's about changing behaviour - and we need something drastic to fix the housing crisis
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Susan Grey @susanjgrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer got away with being a liar and a cheat because he was a jolly good chap and very entertaining. #bbcpm
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Susan Grey @susanjgrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The UK relationship with Israel is fundamentally problematic. Maintaining relations only perpetuates Israeli impunity. #bbcpm
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Susan Grey @susanjgrey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Typical Chris Mason. Not so interested in the policy announcement. More interested in the vibes. #bbcpm
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I will just point out that if the entire Amazon Rainforest is destroyed in Brazil temperatures will increase another 1C and a climate meltdown where all the ice melts and temperatures increase +15C becomes much more likely. So the elections in Brazil really do matter. Vote Lula
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TofuNYG 🏈🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🚫👑🖕🧊 @groguspeak.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Jos. A. Bank Made in China/Vietnam lol
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🔴 NEW Andy Burnham Urged to Put Compulsory Voting at Heart of His Electoral Reform Plans By @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Read below. ↓
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Andy Burnham Urged to Put Compulsory Voting at Heart of His Electoral Reform Plans
Democracy campaigners say changing how Britain votes will not be enough unless the Prime Minister also changes who votes as well
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Kevin Maguire "[Archer] lied on oath about Monica Coghlan, who said he ruined her life. We mustn't forget that, because when she was in the witness box.. she was telling the truth, she was subjected to 2 days of incredibly fierce cross examination.. the judge sided with Archer.."
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When the lads say “this party is unelectable”, that is their cast iron promise: we are going to raise hell and scream abuse until you rue the day you opened your big mouths to criticise. Fuck you.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump: "With the war, it's just artificial. It's a little bit high. It's a small price to pay ... let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is a very small price to pay."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump still doesn't understand how percentages work 🥴
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
Trump calls Natalie on stage, checks out her legs, calls her "perfect," then floats creating a reality show w/ her -- & other lowlights from his rally tonight in Nebraska (Including Trump saying of Iran, "Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego. This is very small price to pay")
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Susan Grey @susanjgrey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Let's use this time to tell the US to keep bombers out of the UK. #bbcpm
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Fairness Foundation @fairness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Today, we've published a new report with @compulsoryvoting.bsky.social. In it, we make the case that compulsory voting could help to address the political inequality caused by extreme economic inequality. 🔗 Read the full report here: fairnessfoundation.com/the-missing-...
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The 'Campaign Against Antisemitism' accuses the Greens of embracing a "Soviet antisemitic doctrine". Your regular reminder that the Campaign Against Antisemitism is a fake anti racist organisation that uses accusations of antisemitism to target/smear critics of Israel
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
We do indeed have a food crisis looming, in part because we have *too little* immigration. We've decimated (using the term correctly) our agricultural sector by prioritising the appeasement of racists over productivity and efficiency. If 70% of voters think immigration is too high, they're wrong.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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