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Political & economic left winger, Pro-PR. Anti-racist & straight ally. He/him. cheltenham.greenparty.org.uk #ADHD #glawsfamily #lufc No DMs please.

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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 1h
It's only fair that income from wealth is taxed at the same rate as income from work. It was disappointing to hear the chancellor rule this out from the upcoming budget. @georgebangham.bsky.social was on Times Radio to discuss
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 5h
Trump and Musk going all out to protect Putin
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 4h
Private water companies are trying to convince you that taking our water into public ownership is too expensive But we can bring water into public hands for LESS than they will siphon out of our bills over the next 5 years Public ownership now!
Graphic that says "Water privatisation is a scam. Public ownership now. £14 billion the cost of bringing water into public ownership, according to Moody's in 2019 VS £22 billion amount banks and shareholders will take out of our water bill in the next 5 years"
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 2h
It's legitimate for the EU, the UK, Canada and others to support their Ukrainian ally. If Musk is going to (in effect) assist Putin's invasion of Ukraine, Ukraine's allies should sanction Starlink, X and Tesla. At the very least, governments (and people) should stop using his fucking site already.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16h
Calvin Robinson wants to disenfranchise many men & even more women so that the voters could not choose to elect any women at all, least of all ethnic & faith minorities. This is his response to the by-election in Holborn, and his attempt to set a new bar in the radicalisation race on X
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 12h
Swansea’s last-gasp 1-0 win at Millwall was held up for almost seven minutes after an allegation of racist abuse from the crowd towards Swans substitute Eom Ji-sung was reported by the Welsh club to officials.
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Eom Ji-sung targeted by alleged racist chanting as Swansea win at Millwall
Andy Sims, Press Association Swansea’s last-gasp 1-0 win at Millwall was held up for almost seven minutes after an allegation of racist abuse from the crowd towards Swans substitute Eom Ji-sung was re...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14h
Suella Braverman made a solemn affirmation, while holding he Buddhist Dhammapada text. There was no controversy about this. www.parliament.uk/globalassets...
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Tim Atkins #JoinAUnion @timbassman.bsky.social · 15h
Schrödinger's Migrant strikes again! It's just pathetic.
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Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org · 23h
The rising benefits bill is a symptom of a decade of cuts to youth services and early support that once helped prevent problems from escalating. Our research shows that young people are increasingly isolated and distressed, with 1 in 20 now reporting having no friends at all.
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The £1bn child benefits bill that could have paid for therapy instead
Young people are ‘falling down a gap in the system’ as the NHS fails to keep pace with the mental health caseload and welfare rewards inaction
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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Bravo, that man. Thank you to all the people of Ukraine.
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Tim Atkins #JoinAUnion @timbassman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 So many levels.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Oh aye, wildlife on British coinage "is a denial of history", is it now?
A heap of farthings from 1941, all of them showing a rather evil looking wren. For clarity, that's the bird, not the Royal Navy's feminine side. Of course in 1941 the sort of person now trying to turn this into a culture war would be happier trying to change British coinage into something more... Reichsmark shaped.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 12/10/2026
No, they couldn't. Even if it wasn't direct sex discrimination, it would be indirect sex discrimination – unlawful unless it was a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. This is because most people who have a female gender/live as women are also "biologically female" under the EA.
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The law according to the Good Law Project (which is challenging the EHRC guidance). 

If this was how the Equality Act worked then an employer could defend itself in an ordinary sex discrimination case by saying "I don't discriminate against women  because of their sex but because of their gender" 🙄
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Your regular reminder that in 2023 I was asked on Women’s Hour to be interviewed by Emma Barnett about Alice’s inquest. I said no, because Emma is GC, but I’d go on with someone else. They didn’t engage with me after that. The BBC is biased. It’s anti-trans and anti-anyone who supports trans people.
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I can’t stop laughing at this example the government used to justify what they’re doing in the Magistrates’ Courts 😂 Don’t worry. If the Magistrates REVERSE THE ACTUAL BURDEN OF PROOF then you’ll likely have an appeal. Fear not. All is well. Nothing to worry about.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Robert Jenrick for Reform says that Royal Marines using "lethal force" on small boats could end it in days. "Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days."
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Tim Atkins #JoinAUnion @timbassman.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
They bloody well shouldn't for all sorts of very good and rational reasons, but I wish I had your confidence that they won't.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Huge regulatory failure. "No independent regulator oversees the trade-effluent process and there is no central register." On this #PoisonedPlanet huge #PublicHealth implications www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: the ‘black box’ wastewater trade that rakes in millions for UK utility companies
Exclusive: Firms made more than £340m last year from processing industrial and commercial wastewater at sewage works that are unable to remove many chemical pollutants
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Imagine how much coverage this would get if Gove were Green - or if she were Black
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Modern Money Lab @modernmoneylab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We helped support this movie, organising its first major national tour (around Australia) in 2024. It is now, finally, available free of charge on YouTube, everywhere in the world where YouTube is accessible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3TJ...
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Finding the Money | FULL DOCUMENTARY | Politics/Economics
YouTube video by Giant Pictures
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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · 12/10/2026
Reporters Without Borders "deeply concerned to hear of the arrest of journalists covering a protest in Leicester, particularly given they had identified themselves as such to police. “No journalist should have to weigh the risk of arrest against their duty to inform the public."
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At least five journalists arrested at Palestine Action protest
At least five journalists were briefly arrested while covering a pro-Palestine Action protest in Leicester on Thursday.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
More information on the Bureau of Investigative Journalism website. Abramovich’s inner circle presented high court with sham documents and misleading testimony Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit. 👇👇👇👇
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Abramovich’s team presented sham documents to London high court
Documents faked by Deloitte staff were used to help fend off a lawsuit from rival oligarch
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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The fraud, the corruption are never ending and never any consequences. Meanwhile governments cut our services and squeeze every last drop of tax out of the minions.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 12/10/2026
Why should we compensate failing companies when they don't deliver the services we all rely on? They took the risk - they should pay the price.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 11/10/2026
We have a prime minister who promised to end neo-liberalism, and the 40-year failed experiment of privatisation. Our new report sets out how this can be done - starting with Thames Water. vist.ly/5mwtz
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frapacioli.bsky.social @frapacioli.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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‘Where will the money come from?’
The question has bedevilled UK politics for almost half a century. But the answer is surprisingly simple – MPs.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
New research from @jrf-uk.bsky.social www.jrf.org.uk/cost-of-livi...
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How big is the living standards challenge facing Andy Burnham?
As the pressure of the cost of living crisis mounts, the Government has the opportunity to return incomes to growth for low- and middle-income households.
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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
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The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Exclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm
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Media Tell The Truth @mediatellthetruth.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Number of times Nigel Farage lost Westminster elections before becoming an MP: 7 Number of times the BBC called for him to quit: zero.
Nigel Farage and Laura Kuenssberg
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thank you, America! Money from diesel will help me kill even more Ukrainian children.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Police in Bristol said they asked organisers of a far-right protest in city centre to move it or reschedule, because the big Shine Night Walk big cancer charity 10K fundraising walk of 2,000 people - mainly women - was planned for Friday night. Police confirmed the group refused, so walk postponed.
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Far right 'were asked to move' protest for cancer charity fundraiser
Police say they asked far-right Bristol Rises protesters to change their plans but 'an agreement could not be reached' so now the big Cancer Research event has been postponed
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 10/10/2026
"Tax our wealth and provide basic income and we'll all leave and everyone will stop working," says the person with way too much wealth who never stops wanting more more more more more.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Two of the press staff arrested under the Terrorism Act at yesterday’s peaceful vigil at Leicester’s UAV Systems work for @pressgazette.co.uk Five were eventually de-arrested onsite, two others were taken all the way to Northampton and held in cells for hours. pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/fi...
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At least five journalists arrested at Palestine Action protest
At least five journalists were briefly arrested while covering a pro-Palestine Action protest in Leicester on Thursday.
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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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Chris Bogle @chrisbogle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
1. The independent Taskforce — commissioned by NHS England, backed by government — concluded ADHD is under-diagnosed, under-recognised and under-treated in the UK. Not over. The press has reported the reverse of the finding www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...
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ADHD label ‘risks lifelong harm to children’ as diagnoses surge
Landmark government review warns of a ‘tipping point’ as figures show the proportion of youngsters with an autism diagnosis has risen 40-fold
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Don’t ever tell me that the BBC doesn’t favour Reform UK. This was on their feed yesterday?
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Tory £6bn inheritance tax cut plan Increase threshold from £1m per couple to £2m+home. In 2024-25, 30,400 estates paid IHT, may rise to 52,100 in 2029-30. IHT cut for the richest, paid by cutting benefits for old, sick, disabled, unemployed. How will it help economic growth, reindustrialization?
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Kemi Badenoch says Tories would scrap inheritance tax on family homes
Tory leader says her party is "coming back", as she aims to convince voters it has changed after 2024 election defeat.
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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 08/10/2026
All the investment in our water system comes from one place: customers' bills. The government needs to bring not just water back into public ownership, but every critical asset that this country has under our control, owned by us.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Delo and his fellow crypto tycoon Christopher Harborne have now given Reform £100m+ Reform has pledged to deregulate crypto. Delo and Harborne say there is no quid-pro-quo. But should crypto money buy British democracy? 🔴Read the full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Exclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The class action, filed in New York in July, accuses Delo and BitMEX of “theft” and says wants to hold them “accountable for the fraudulent conduct” BitMEX closed down in September, a few weeks after Delo announced he was giving Reform £36m. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reform-meg...
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Reform mega-donor Ben Delo named in Bitcoin “theft” lawsuit
Exclusive: Class action seeks to hold BitMEX founders "accountable for fraudulent conduct". We spoke to the lawyer behind the case against the now-closed crypto firm
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)
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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anyone else think having British care homes sold off for over a billion by a very wealthy man to a consortium from California is not a healthy way to provide a service? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/del...
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'Delighted': Yorkshire businessman's care home company seals £1.1bn deal with US firm
A Yorkshire company which develops UK care homes and owned by one of the region’s wealthiest entrepreneurs has sealed a £1.1bn deal to sell 45 properties to a Californian investment firm.
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Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk · 08/10/2026
Happy #InternationalLesbianDay! 🏳️‍🌈💖 from this proud queer woman to all my fellow femmes, thems, butches, studs, dykes, queers & women-loving-women Today we celebrate our rich history, fierce diversity & unbreakable solidarity. You are seen, valid & loved. 💜👭 ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 #LWithTheT #ILD2026
Graphic marking International Lesbian Day, 8 October 2026. On the left is a close-up portrait of a woman with long auburn hair, black-framed glasses, colourful neck tattoos and a black denim jacket, against a blurred green background. A diagonal black line separates the portrait from the lesbian Pride flag on the right, featuring horizontal stripes of red-orange, orange, white, pink and magenta. White text reads: “INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN DAY, 8th October 2026.”
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tower Hamlets refused the Brick Lane data centre unanimously. The govt approved it in Angela Rayner's name. Her partner, Sam Tarry, is senior adviser at NorthPoint Strategy, a lobby firm working in AI, crypto and energy, chaired by Tory peer Lord Wharton.🧵 europeanpowell.substack.com/p/free-zones...
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Free Zones are Stepping Stones to Free Cities: Brick Lane, Teesside and the Road to Próspera
Tower Hamlets Council unanimously rejected the Truman Brewery scheme. Labour approved it anyway
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