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Tony Booth

@tonybooth1.bsky.social
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Educationalist, nature defender, yearning for a just world. Facing reality but refusing to despair.

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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
11 days ago Jason Arday resigned, saying he was at his limits. The press wrote 188 more articles. 9 days later Jason Arday was found dead. Enough is enough: Demand an urgent inquiry into the role the media had on his death: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de...
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Sign the petition: demand an inquiry into the culture of the press after Jason Arday's death!
Tragically, Professor Jason Arday has died after a vicious and deeply personal campaign of press attacks over the last few weeks. The Government must urgently launch an inquiry into the culture and b...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The illegal war in Iran should do a lot more than "concern" Andy Burnham. And if he's not holding back - when is he going to tell Donald Trump that the UK wants nothing to do with this war and to ban the US military from UK soil?
Burnham also said he had 'concern' about the president starting the conflict with Iran and he "wouldn't hold back from saying what I think is right."What was their crime - BBC visits Iran school where strike killed 120 children
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
South East Water secures £200m cash. Won't stop water lost to leaky pipes, sewage dumping. 23% of revenue used to pay interest. More bill hikes. Govt must use the Special Administration Regime, take over assets, lenders will recover little. Nationalise. archive.ph/EXHPv
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South East Water secures £200mn liquidity boost
Cash-strapped British utility says financing will be used to help future bond issuance
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Thanks WOMAD - that was so uplifting today! Amazing to see so many people in the tent - and a huge overflow too. People want rent controls, wealth taxes and action to tackle the climate crisis. Hope 💚
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I’m joining the fight to end the corrupting of UK law, find out more at: www.wedonotcomply.org @susanjb7.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Saving Lives Is Not Terrorism - Defend Our Juries
Four UK Palestine Actionists have just been sentenced with a “terrorist connection” despite never being charged with, or convicted of, any terrorism offence. The same judge is attempting to prosecute ...
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Mark Bonnick gave 22 years to Arsenal. They sacked him for speaking out about Palestine. Sign the petition to get his job back 👇  the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...
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Arsenal fired their kitman for opposing genocide. Reinstate Mark Bonnick.
Add your name:
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Had laser treatment yesterday to remove clouding of the replacement lenses in my eyes at Addenbrookes hospital. Brilliant care. All the team were born outside UK. Felt like hugging each of them (didn’t!). Felt shame at the anti-migration rhetoric they have to endure. We would be lost without them.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Congratulations to Andy Burnham. But this isn’t a team of advisers which looks like challenging wealth and power. The race for Greater Manchester mayor starts today and it’s Greens v Reform.
Burnham advised by ex BOE, Goldman economists ahead of UK pm bid.
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General_Fondue @generalfondue.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Remind us again, why are the Greens supposed to step aside for this guy?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
He is no outsider, Keir Starmer will already have been told to step down for him if he wins.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Green Party source responds: "The problem is we just don't know which Andy Burnham is going to turn up? The Blairite politician who went along with years of privatisation and welfare cuts, or the one who publicly supported PR and changes to the failed economic model? We just don't know."
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@carolinelucas.bsky.social please do due diligence. Don't trust Burnham. What has he promised Josh Simons who should be nowhere near politics following his smearing of journalists investigating undeclared funding of Labour Together. This looks like continuity McSweeney/Mandelson not a fresh start.
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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Great to be one of hundreds out on @cambridgegreens.bsky.social Day of Action. I missed @zackpolanski.bsky.social talk, but delighted to see him off duty (kind of!) at a brilliant Seize the Day concert organised by Lefty Men Sing. @tonybooth1.bsky.social @terrymacalister.bsky.social
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her. RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.
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Susan Buckingham @susanjb7.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
If only the mainstream media would interview and broadcast discussions with the many Jewish people who support human rights in Palestine, Lebanon (and also for Jewish people, Black people, Muslims ...) @jvl.org.uk @naamoduk.bsky.social @jewishsocialist.bsky.social
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Together, @oceanauk.bsky.social + @zslofficial.bsky.social examined research on harm to wildlife from 1000s of oil spills in UK waters, finding evidence of: - lung lesions in bottlenose dolphins - harm to the livers of minke whales - orcas + dolphins less able to successfully reproduce
Bottle nose dolphins
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Housing for people who need it. Not housing for investment and profit. A better place to start. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Could Zurich’s housing cooperatives be the solution to the rest of Europe’s housing crisis? | Peter Apps
One in every five citizens in the city has bought a share in the company that built and owns their apartment block, says Inside Housing’s Peter Apps
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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UK Home Office loses bid to block Palestine Action from challenging ban as terror group
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Please don't let *15 years of illegal pollution* be the new standard for privatised water My colleague spoke to Ofwat's Head of Strategic Comms on the phone this week They will accept our petition this TUESDAY 22ND October at their HQ ✍️Add your name weownit.org.uk/ofwat
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Meg Howarth @howarthm.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
👏 Calling opposition to #genocide antisemitic is always ignorant & sometimes wicked. My willingness to fight antisemitism, leads me to stand against emerging fascism, and the #genocide that the far-right #Israeli government has unleashed👏 @tonybooth1.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
#FreeDrHussamAbiSafiya who refused to leave his immobile patients in Al-Shifa hospital. One of 10,000 hostages held in Israeli prisons including over 450 children. Where is the international outcry? Why are the humanitarian voices in Israel so few?
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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Campaigners + local businesses claim phosphates + nitrates from the collective poo of as many as 23million chickens packed into the Wye catchment from a growing number of intensive chicken farms are driving algal blooms, harming fish + wildlife. 🧵 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We fasted for 25 hours in front of houses of parliament for Gaza Then we stopped. Not an option in Gaza or Darfur. But important to show where we stand on genocide.
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I sat on the Defend our Juries protest as a Jew opposing genocide and antisemitism countering the absurd insult that to oppose genocide is antisemitic. @defendourjuries.bsky.social @andrewfeinstein.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @jewishvoice.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"I bore witness with my own eyes the appalling humanitarian catastrophe, the genocide that's being carried out. Each time I've been to Gaza its worse than the time before" NHS surgeon Nick Maynard is asked about his reflections from working in Gaza
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
"the IDF say they attack hospitals because Hamas use them as areas to fight from..." NHS surgeon Nick Maynard: "Its disappointing to hear that this is still being raised by the media in our country... there has been no credible evidence to support those claims"
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Cuppa tea challenge chuffed.org/project/1358...
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Cuppa tea challenge
You'd buy your mate a cup of tea right?
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Campaigning for Cam Uni Chancellor to be an ethical force. Focusing on its core purposes, education, research, and caring for all its staff and students. Severing all connections with oil and arms. @mikescialom.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @owenjones.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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tonyforchancellor.bsky.social @tonyforchancellor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yaser's family have been ordered to move again in Gaza or face extermination. With no safe areas they have decided to stay. He calls for Cambridge University and its colleges to end complicity. The University can be an ethical force, follow @kingscollege.bsky.social and divest @susanjb7.bsky.social
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tonyforchancellor.bsky.social @tonyforchancellor.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Peter Freeman, chair of the anti-democratic Cambridge Growth Company, talked to Cambridge residents on 15th May. Tony Booth asks if his plans for massive growth will pay attention to the exhausted carbon budget. He did not seem to know it existed. @susanjb7.bsky.social
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Tony Booth @tonybooth1.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Finding a way to combine reality and hope in dark times @peaceandjustice.bsky.social
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