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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yep. And the most recent example of the UK going against it even in a limited way happened on the back of Greens being radical and popular - straight talking, confident, relatable, united, focused on actions rather postures. I'd like them to get back to that.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Who are the people? Ed Miliband? Andy Burnham? I'm as angry as you about all that - I left as soon as KS became leader - but I don't get how that leads you to a position where the Green Party should not be trying to pressure the Labour Party to do anything through being radical and popular.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But did America want it? I don't defend it as a sufficient response to the (long) genocide. But you're the one saying it's impossible for Britain to do anything that America doesn't want. I view that as self-defeating.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Did Britain do what America wants when Ed Miliband called the occupation illegal, called settlers terrorists and announced (insufficient) sanctions?

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I agree - Corbyn was an electoral threat until he got properly trounced by a combination of Brexit and an anti-semitism scandal - then he really wasn't. I agree Greens have lost momentum - I'd imagine that they'd want to do something about that in the days before their leader's by-election.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't know what your point is.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There's never been a left party in my life time that was as electorally threatening as the Greens were and could be. They were 21% in Spring and now 11%. Of course, not all down to them - victims of their own success etc. - but Hannah Spencer did not win through abstract statements of principles.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I meant specifically Labour compromising on cooperation in advance of a coming election - not compromise on principles/beliefs. Of course, Labour are the more powerful entity (not least because they lead in the polls) and I'd like the GP to doing stuff to increase their power.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The point wasn't that they would be friends. The point was that they would be forced into compromised by Green popularity and values.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Personally, I've been uncomfortable with the GPEW's one member one vote system for all the time I've been a green member. Aside from the issues with the motion, it appears to me to absolve local parties of meaningful politics, and render members more like volunteers rather political actors.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If people as outstanding as Laleh are being treated like this - what hope have the rest of got? Solidarity and love to all folks affected by this.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

For me Zotero is just great at storing and reading pdfs and then v helpful when writing for citations and bibliographies. Obsidian is an optional way of storing notes for recall. Then this plugin helps me do that without the hassle of switching.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm creating this Zotero extension to allow you to create/write/sync obsidian literature notes within Zotero. If you'd like to test it out, I'm looking for feedback about whether it would fit into other's workflows, like it does mine. github.com/Acatechnic/o...

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I've made this extension for Zotero that allows you to create/write/sync your obsidian literature notes with Zotero. It's helped me simplify the zotero->obsidian workflow when wanting to focus on reading especially. github.com/Acatechnic/o...

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

He did do both too little and too much on migration, it's true.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Immigrants & asylum seekers are not our enemies. They are not responsible for the austerity, privatisation, erosion of civic life, thinning of democracy and concentration of power we suffer. But they're being punished for these things. Punished at the behest of the very people who *are* responsible.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If a newspaper (okay, I only read the @theguardian.com) publishes an article solely based upon a report published by another organisation, is there a reason they don't systematically link to that report? Like surely this would help everyone involved?

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

into something so demoralised and vacuous feels like a repeat. How can we overcome these managerial logics that claim to deliver better services by making institutions so hostile and undermining to those who work to make them meaningful?

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

My mum had the experience of working for the NHS (as a speech and language therapist) then the service being privatised and the values of the organisation falling away into a laminated marketing pitch. Universities have always been compromised but watching them go through this convulsion

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

I wish it were true that "no one is above the law". But while the City of London acts as laundromat for the world's dirty money, as almost all fraud and waste crime go unprosecuted, as no one has gone to jail for the financial crash or the poisoning of our rivers, this is manifestly untrue.

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

There is no easier or more important political position to take than to do everything possible to stop this. It will change our society forever, and Democrats are going along with it.

Ice planning to acquire $38 billion in warehouses to create detention centers all over the U.S.

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

If Wes Streeting can release his messages with Peter Mandelson, why not release the ones with private healthcare donors?

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

What kind of economic zone will musk die for?

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Wouldn’t this be a version of mission creep. Proscription is for orgs so serious that even expressing support needs stopping. But now it’s ‘needed’ to allow proscribing less serious groups in more limited ways. I think that it needs to argued for rather be a logical step b/c the gov got embarrassed.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

this feels like a spoof from The Day Today

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War on Want @waronwant.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

“Israel is committing war crimes before our eyes. Their government talks the language of ethnic cleansing”. - Wes Streeting, UK Health Secretary A UK government minister has admitted that Israel is committing war crimes - so why is the UK government refusing to act?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

£240m. With no tender. Palantir. I wrote to Wes Streeting last week demanding answers. Every day without any transparency deepens the scandal. Palantir out.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I want some of these people who are suddenly questioning failures of the wider culture to have a public moment like where a hapless faithful, on entering the final throws of the Traitors, asks 'Why am I here!?' Of course this won't be Streeting. He's conducting some traitor on traitor action here.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I don't know if your message is a rebuttal or another joke at Starmer's expense.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Every day I wake up and fail to understand how no one is getting that if we lose on migrant rights - we lose on everything? Climate, the economy and to the far-right. It's this exact moment everyone needs to step in - but that's just not happening.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

That Starmer and his allies have rid the Labour Party of its diversity and then operate so catastrophically that all they have is saying ‘what’s the alternative’ is hardly a selling point for Starmerism.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Palantir fasciitis

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Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants @jcwi-uk.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The government has gone very far down a very dark road. This announcement of mass deportations while also seeking to gut rights protections is frightening. Meanwhile, the home secretary is openly using fascist rhetoric. We were quoted in the Guardian 👇

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Home Office says nearly 60,000 people deported from UK or left voluntarily since 2024 election

Shabana Mahmood insists deportations will rise, as Labour government is accused of promoting ‘harmful stereotypes’ of migrants

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I hope people focus on the palantir meeting and the contracts and that some technical detail in that was not above board.

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Apparently these were the follow up questions... Their own story makes them look stupid and gullible but I guess they're just hoping that the challengers are so weak they will not be able to capitalise on anything and Keir can bang on about how 'process' was followed.

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Dave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

The Labour Party might be more successful in finding a successor to Starmer who is not tainted by association with Mandelson if only there hadn't been a deliberate effort, led by Mandelson and his mentees, to sideline or expell everyone who didn't fall in line with his faction.l

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If you were looking for an exposition of what British values *could* be you could do a lot worse than Ian McKellen wielding Shakespeare like a rapier.

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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 05/02/2026

Did anyone vote Labour to get a reincarnation of Priti Patel in the Home Office

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Steve Reed continues to pretend that Starmer & the govt didn't know anything about Mandelson when they appointed him ambassador & when they did find out he was sacked. Sophy Ridge knows he's lying. The viewers know he's lying. Even he knows he's lying.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support. People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Ban on asylum seekers using taxis for medical appointments comes into force

It comes after a BBC investigation which showed people travelling long distances at high cost.

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Teresa Degenhardt @drtdegenhardt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

👉The Response of Criminologists for Palestine (C4P) to the recent questions by the ESC to their members. The @ESC is hiding behind the the issue of scientificity - and of following swiss laws on equality- what about international law? Please vote to support C4P criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com

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Criminologists for Palestine

A collective of members of the European Society of Criminology who oppose Israel’s genocide, crimes against humanity and human rights violations in Palestine

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Eric Blanc @ericblanc.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

How we beat ICE👇

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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Tom Kemp @tomkemp.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Wouldn't be surprised if the galaxy brains of labour hq are trying to lose this to reform in order to have something to bash the greens in the long term.

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If you think that Labour will lose the Denton and Gorton seat to Reform and it will be the fault of the GREENS you are actually nuts. Labour has stacked it on every piece of comms, they've fought publicly and stupidly, they've u-turned and are Reform's messenger on immigration.

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