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Jo Bird @jobirdjobird.bsky.social · 4h
Watch the Leader of Wirral Council try to silence questions on her blatant conflict of interest.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h
The 'British' Press is racist and antisemitic.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 6h
Pro-Green + tactical Ant-Reform voting wins again!! "Another humiliation for Farage’s party as Reform loses to the Greens in a local election in Derbyshire The contest played out as a two-horse race between the Greens and Farage's party. Source: Derby Telegraph" via Politics in the U.K.
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Monty Dodge @montyofdodgington.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
@badassmutha.bsky.social @donmcgowan.bsky.social Russian interference update. Farage called Burnham a liar! Will someone please ram this down his throat? ⬇️
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The UK Green Party has said it will not engage with The Telegraph after the newspaper published a "racist and antisemitic" cartoon depicting deputy leader Mothin Ali (pictured) preparing to devour the severed head of party leader Zack Polanski.
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...
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Israel demolishes 80 homes in Palestinian village in Negev, displaces around 400 people
Arab parties decry demolitions in Al-Dhahiya village as ‘blatant assault on the most basic human and national rights’ | Anadolu
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.trtworld.com/article/e543... The killing never stops. Israel is evil
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TRT World - Israeli drone strikes kill five in Gaza City as air raids destroy four homes
Warplanes target residential buildings in Gaza City and Deir al-Balah following deadly drone strikes.
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is genocide.
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Hunt Saboteurs Association @huntsabs.org.uk · 12/10/2026
𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗗𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼-𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 '𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴', 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝗛𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝘅. Read about the hunt’s history of convictions and the political connections behind the continued smokescreen of 'trail hunting'. Read more here ⬇ www.huntsabs.org.uk/david-camero...
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South-East London for Europe (Selfe) @selfe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Reform UK has now lost 171 councillors: 60 resigned, 45 went Independent, 30 defected, 24 were kicked out, 5 lost their seats, 5 are suspended and 2 were disqualified. Jim McIlroy is the second group leader to quit in a fortnight, after Brian Smith on North Tyneside. Updated chart.
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SUPPORTING PALESTINE @apirus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
www.nzherald.co.nz/world/thousa...
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Thousands join Palestine marches in London and Berlin to end Gaza horror
Organised marches in the capitals of the UK and Germany called for Israel to stop strikes.
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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 11/10/2026
Who said demanding climate action couldn’t be a party? 60,000 in Brussels today! We want renewables to be a priority, not a backup plan. We want polluters to pay and our health to be protected. We want a future where destroying nature is considered a crime.
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D.Moore @d-moore.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Correctly blaming Putin & Farage for the demise of the UK in one day. G'wan lad.
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 11/10/2026
It's national coming out day.
An LGBTIQA+ Greens logo is on a green background with text that reads:
Happy national coming out day from all of us in LGBTIQA+ Greens

We will always work hard to make sure we can live in a society where coming out is joyous.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Eight years ago
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Barbara Cooney @barbaracooney.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
#BBC still explaining that Zionism simply means 'the right of Israel to exist'. Far from it: #Zionism is the belief that only one ethnic group has the right to occupy large swathes of the Middle East and that all other groups may be annihilated, displaced or subjugated. It is the epitome of racism.
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Julia Curlee @juliacurlee.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Weak men hide behind their phones. If the President or Hegseth want to throw slurs at a trans woman who served them — they can say it to my face. Then everyone can see the hate behind their policies. Thanks to @nicollewallace.bsky.social for having me on.
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LGBTIQA+ Greens @lgbtiqa.greenparty.org.uk · 10/10/2026
Policy Update E30: Standing up for patients and good science in healthcare for trans+ youth passed at conference.
Policy Update E30: Standing up for patients and good science in healthcare for trans+ youth passed at conference
This Motion pushed back at the attacks on healthcare for trans youth.
‘The Green Party calls for an immediate reversal of the recent legal restrictions on puberty blockers, and for the recommissioning of puberty blockers by NHS
England for this patient group, in line with policy RR 538.’

‘The Green Party calls for an unbiased independent review in the structure and evidence-based practice of gender-affirming healthcare for children and young people.’
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Up to 60 red-listed curlew roosted on the Cambois data centre site: 15% of the number Northumberland Shore SSSI was designated for (found in QTS's own surveys). Now it's being cleared. Mitigation: just £40k to extend a council wader site already created for another development in 2014.
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🗣 "We would still have Starmer if it wasn't for Zack Polanski." 🟢 More Green members 🟢 More Green MPs 🟢 More Green councillors 🔴 And one less failure of a Labour Prime Minister 💚 The Green Party is making real change. 🤝 Join us: Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Howard Breen He/Him @howardbreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This was not a war. This was genocide.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Lynne #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare. Eco-Socialist. Pro-🇵🇸 @bebsdotteragain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The hysterical reaction by politicians and the media to the Green Party’s ‘Zionism is Racism’ policy is ignorant, manipulative – and entirely predictable. Ilan Pappe thinks The Greens are on the right side of history. open.substack.com/pub/zeteouk/...
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‘Zionism Is Racism’: Israeli Historian Ilan Pappe Dissects the Outrage
The hysterical reaction by politicians and the media to the Green Party’s ‘Zionism is Racism’ policy is ignorant, manipulative – and entirely predictable. The Greens are on the right side of history.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
UK Terrorism Arrests up 1,553% Since Palestine Action Ban 94% of arrests in the year ending June 2026 were linked to the proscription. “We are seeing a shameful attack on our right to protest. It’s past time to end the proscription of Palestine Action” novaramedia.com/2026/10/08/u...
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UK Terrorism Arrests up 1,553% Since Palestine Action Ban
Terror arrests in the UK have hit a record high thanks to the government’s ban on Palestine Action.
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Patrick Galey @patrickgaley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hurricane Isaias has shut in 1.28 million barrels per day of US Gulf oil, 62.89% of output, and 57.35% of Gulf gas. 121 of 371 manned platforms have been evacuated. A rather neat example of how dumb it is to double down on fossil fuels during a climate breakdown www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Hurricane Isaias Intensifies as Oil Producers Shut In Output
Hurricane Isaias is intensifying in the US Gulf, marking the first such cyclone in the Atlantic this year, with oil and gas producers shutting in wells and evacuating personnel as the storm tracks tow...
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 08/10/2026
“Daniel Greenberg, the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, is expected to send his findings to the Commons Committee of Standards within days after Parliament returns next week, according to sources close to the inquiry.” archive.ph/2026.10.08-1...
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"The science is crystal clear: our only chance at a future without such extreme weather and a thriving green economy, depends on rapidly phasing out fossil fuels. There is no economic growth on a dead planet." via Greenpeace UK
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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Current policies are taking the world to a 2.8 degree temperature rise...that spells catastrophe, yet the collective response remains pitiful." – @antonioguterres There is no time to wait. #ActOnClimate #climate #energy #renewables
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 09/10/2026
If Sadiq Khan is truly a trans ally, he shouldn't be allowing J.K. Rowling's new Harry Potter lights on Oxford Street. Help us pull the plug on transphobia 👇 goodlaw.social/3440b9
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We have reached an unthinkable milestone: three years of genocide.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
North Tyneside Reform group leader leaves party to sit as independent councillor www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-e...
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Reform group leader leaves party to sit as independent councillor
Coun Brian Smith became the council's first Reform councillor after winning a by-election last year
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
While leaching from GoFundMe suckers ... "How Very Patriotic: British Companies, Missing Accounts And Unpaid Tax. Portuguese Company, Accounts Filed And Tax Paid. Tommy Robinson has spent years wrapping himself in the Union Jack. Britain..." www.facebook.com/TruthAgainst... via Truth Against Hate
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Shell’s refineries expected to make record profits. Profit margins of $42 a barrel, up from $24 a barrel. Cashing in on global conflicts. Bumper payouts for execs and shareholders. Misery for households and businesses. Millions plunged into poverty. Must levy 100% windfall tax.
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Shell expects refineries to almost double the profit from every barrel of fuel made
Record prices caused by global shortages amid shutdown of war-damaged refineries in Middle East and Russia
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026
Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Reform tried to cancel Black History Month in town, now it will be 'bigger than ever' www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...
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Black History Month to be 'bigger than ever' after Reform UK move
After St Helens Council leader withdraw support for annual celebration, locals in the town have had another idea
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
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Margaret Hamilton, trailblazer whose software powered Apollo 11 moon landing, dies at 90
MIT computer scientist led development of software for moon mission and earned Presidential Medal of Freedom Margaret Hamilton, the computer pioneer whose software powered the first moon landing, has died, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced on Wednesday. She was 90. In an era before titles such as software engineer and computer scientist became mainstream, Hamilton, who died on 30 September, learned to program under the tutelage of a renowned MIT meteorologist. Continue reading...
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🌳 The Tories would decimate our already nature-depleted countryside, towns and cities. ✅️ Vote Green to protect and restore nature.
Graphic. blue background with large tree. at too reads: Conservatives to rear up environmental standards and abolish nature protection organisations. newspaper headline in middle of tree: Tories to pledge to scrap Environment agency and natural England
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
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Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second home ownership on rural communities A Reform UK MP bought an £800,000 second home on a picturesque Welsh island two days after raising concerns in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Sarah Pochin completed the purchase of a Grade-II listed property on the southern coast of Anglesey (Ynys Môn). Continue reading...
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Claire Bellamy was found guilty under the Hunting with Dogs (Scotland) Act 2023 after Glasgow Hunt Sabs filmed her deliberately hunting a fox with a pack of hounds last January. It's thought to be the first conviction of a registered fox hunter under the new act.
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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Brexit Britain: continuing to look good ... "UK haulage company enters liquidation after 13 years | Messenger Newspapers" share.google/J93DHkkf3oq2...
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'Family-run' UK haulage company falls into liquidation after 13 years
"Family-run" UK haulage and warehousing company Q Delivery Services has entered liquidation after more than 13 years in business.
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Paul Cowling @picowlo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
When someone is banning news outlets you have to wonder what are they afraid of?
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Ryan Coogan — leader of the Reform group at the Huntingdonshire District Council who claims he was an international toy exporter at AGE TWELVE — has been ARRESTED on suspicion of making false statements on his election nomination papers!" www.facebook.com/politicsinth...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Green party of England and Wales facing ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
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Green party of England and Wales facing ostracism over ‘Zionism is racism’ vote
European Green party says motion goes against its policy, with German Green co-leader calling it ‘intolerable and unacceptable’ * Zack Polanski may rue lack of leadership when Greens needed him to act The English and Welsh Greens are facing international ostracism after adopting a policy declaring Zionism as a form of racism, which has drawn dismay from the group representing European Greens. The co-leader of the German Greens separately said the policy was “intolerable and unacceptable”, running contrary to its belief in the right of Israel to exist. Continue reading...
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