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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 3h

Co-op Group plans move to 100% ASC certification for farmed seafood

Co-op Group plans to transition 100% of its standard own-brand seafood to Aquaculture Stewardship Council certification by 2027

www.thenews.coop

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 3h

The colours of autumn!😊🐾
🍁🍂🌰

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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 5h

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 3h

Well that didn’t last long!🙄Trump’s peace prize for 2026 is beginning to look a bit shaky!🤭

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · 4h

$5.9bn = the amount spent annually on protecting and restoring forests

$409bn = the amount of subsidies going to agriculture industries destroying forests

Anyone else see the problem here?

The Guardian: "'Dismal' health of world's forests is threat to humanity, report warns. Financial institutions pouring money into land clearance and undermining efforts to stop destruction, says Climate Focus. Jonathan Watts, 14th Oct."

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 4h

Hello thanks for your reply. I don’t DM & I don’t blame Morrison’s for this just some desperate flag admirer looking for attention😊

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 4h

Farage has nowhere to go on this one. Yet msm will still provide a platform for him!

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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😳😱

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 7h

The East of England being especially badly affected with rising tides & coastal erosion.

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 7h

Totally agree! Backdate any interest on these windfall charges to 2008!🤔

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

news.sky.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Konfusi 🇦🇹 @konfusi.bsky.social · 9h

Guten Morgen, Himmelsstürmer!
Der japanische Fächerahorn spielt schon alle Farben. 🌱💚
Habt einen schönen Tag!

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 23h

Two years after Hamas’s brutal attack, Gaza’s guns are silent—and the last hostages are home.
Trump is taking a victory lap for “everlasting peace,” but Gaza’s still in ruins, and both sides are holding their breath.
This isn’t peace. It’s a pause.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

What Comes After Gaza’s Ceasefire?

Inside the fragile peace deal, billion-dollar plans, and bitter realities shaping Gaza’s uncertain future.

open.substack.com

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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 23h

'Greenpeace is threatening to sue King Charles’s property management company, the Crown Estate, alleging it has driven up costs for wind power developers and boosted its own profits and the royal household’s income, due to the "aggressive" way it auctions rights.'
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Greenpeace threatens to sue crown estate for driving up cost of offshore wind

Environmental group accuses king’s property management company of ‘milking for profit’ its monopoly ownership of seabed

www.theguardian.com

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 18h

Follow the money

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 18h

Always worth following Byline Times for real news!🤔

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20h

That New York Times story lots of people are sharing today about Farage's ties to US anti-abortion groups was first reported by @mc00.bsky.social on Byline Times a year ago bylinetimes.com/2024/11/29/n...

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 18h

Me too!🥺

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20h

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 19h

I absolutely love this piece –
marigolds representing the regions of Ukraine.

🇺🇦 Pavlo Makov,
East and West of the Dnipro. Marigolds, 2024
colour and graphite pencil drawing acrylic paper

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 21h

TikTok is getting rid of the London staff who keep you safe from harmful, misleading and illegal content. When did they announce the job cuts? Eight days before those employees were due to vote on unionising.

We’ve signed an open letter with @tuc.org.uk and @cwunews.bsky.social:

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 21h

Well I don’t think he should look to 🇬🇧 taxpayers this time - we’re broke!🕳️
Here’s an idea - why not ask the top 1%? After all since 2008 they’ve made the most financial gains!📈😡

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 21h

Bank of England Governor warns of vulnerable global financial system & possible crash.

Inflated stock markets
AI overvalued
No regulation of shadow banking
Excessive debt - if one domino falls
Deregulation of finance
Trump tariffs

Who will pick-up the cost of bailouts?
archive.md/gQ3x2

G20 risk watchdog warns of potential for financial market crash

The latest surge in global share prices and other assets has left markets susceptible to a crash given the current uncertain economic and geopolitical backdrop, the G20's risk watchdog said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for sharing

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting!🤔✨

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Jul 20

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

Here's the full 'debate': www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S-W...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 21h

Kudos to ⁦‪@mehdirhasan‬⁩.

Not only did he invite me on his show in 2018 to talk about my investigation into Farage’s funders (no UK channel ever did).

But he also asked a former colleague of Nathan Gill’s in the EU parliament whether UKIP had ever taken Russian bribes 🔥

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 23h

Good question

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