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🚨The SHOCKING IPP SCANDAL is one of the most cruel & inhumane injustices of the past half-century

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12h

🚨The IPP scandal is one of the most cruel, monumental and shocking injustices of the past half century. If you are not yet familiar with it watch this jaw dropping update.

PM Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to take the politics out of it and end this injustice

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More than 450 Russian drones attack Ukraine's energy sites, President Zelenskyy says

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UNGRIPP @ungripp.bsky.social · 22h

Last week we relaunched our exhibition at the Labour Conference ‘IPP sentences - Abolished but not gone’

Thank you to @lungtheatre.bsky.social for partnering with us for this event and the ones to follow.

Film by: instagram.com/immanentproduc…

Photos by: @andyaitchison.bsky.social

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING: Russia has used more than 450 drones and 30 missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine's energy sector, President Zelenskyy has said

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Russia has used more than 450 drones and 30 missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine's energy sector, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.

Starmer denies ministers involved in China spy trial collapse

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 23h

Keir Starmer has denied any ministers were involved in the collapse of the trial of alleged Chinese spies

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The collapse of the trial has resulted in a blame game between Downing Street, the former Conservative government and the Crown Prosecution Service.

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

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Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d

Very interesting: Since 2013, polls have consistently shown that the British people don't want to leave the European Convention on Human Rights👇

🔗 theconversation.com/do-british-p... via @uk.theconversation.com

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

Do British people want to leave the ECHR? What a decade of polls reveals

In the most recent YouGov poll on this issue, 54% of Conservative voters and 72% of Reform voters were in favour of leaving.

theconversation.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Religious hate crime recorded by police in England and Wales has reached a record high, new figures have shown

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Hate crime rises in England and Wales with religiously-motivated offences at record level

Hate crimes targeted at Muslims rose by almost a fifth, with the Home Office noting a “clear spike” in these offences after the Southport murders and riots that followed last summer.

🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

🚨The petition is now well on its way to 75,000 signatures! Let’s get it there today 🙏

You can support the campaign to change the law by signing the petition here👇

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

The ECHR has protected British people from abuses of power by its own government

We must protect it, not leave it

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No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Downing Street has vetoed release of an assessment that says the loss of the Amazon ecosystem could drive up food inflation as well as lead to mass migration

www.thetimes.com

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected rises to their inflation-busting bills after the companies disputed limits imposed by the industry regulator
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Customers of five water firms are facing higher than expected hikes to bills

While most claims for extra cash were found to be unjustified, rises to bills on top of what Ofwat has allowed look set to be granted at each company

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Those that died served their country. They and their families now deserve honesty and transparency and justice from this government

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

🚨I'm joining ChinookJustice in calling on Keir Starmer to hold a judge-led public inquiry.

The Prime Minister promised transparency & accountability in public office. His disgraceful decision to deny the families an opportunity to find out the truth is the opposite of that
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October 7, 2025

Video emerges of Deputy PM,Defence Secretary & other Ministers BACKING compensation for Nuclear Vets

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

Keir Starmer has finally promised to meet the nuclear test veterans “hopefully by end of the year"

That’s progress but still not good enough. These national heroes have already waited more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition

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The pulse of a city on edge - hundreds protest Trump's plan to deploy troops in Chicago

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

The pulse of a city on edge - hundreds protest Trump's plan to deploy troops in Chicago

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Hundreds of National Guard troops have set up camp at an army training centre on the outskirts of Chicago. Their presence drew a diverse crowd of protesters to the city centre - their faces lit by pho...

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

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The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".