Arfur Towcrate
@arfurztowcrate.bsky.social
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Trump and Starmer, the new Brezhnev and Honecker
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Terrifying that Wes Streeting continues to try and pressurise hospitals into giving patient data to Palantir.
Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Terrifying that Wes Streeting continues to try and pressurise hospitals into giving patient data to Palantir.
Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
Take action here: goodlawproject.org/campaign/sto...
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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GB News grilled me apparently?
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
GB News grilled me apparently?
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Only problem with this is I've never been on their nonsense channel.
They lie - obsessively.
Help us grow an alternative to all the bollocks:
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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Nothing says Christian fellowship like using the most important festival in your religious calendar to Tweet about your hatred of the "woke liberati"
December 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Nothing says Christian fellowship like using the most important festival in your religious calendar to Tweet about your hatred of the "woke liberati"
“Europeans have turned so many cheeks to Trump that one wonders if they have any left at all” - @nathalietocci.bsky.social, director of Italy’s Institute for International Affairs
December 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
“Europeans have turned so many cheeks to Trump that one wonders if they have any left at all” - @nathalietocci.bsky.social, director of Italy’s Institute for International Affairs
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Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just so we're clear, one incident of alleged anti-semitism by a musician = a major national scandal that should be roundly condemned.
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
Multiple incidents of alleged anti-semitism from the man leading the race to run the country = a load of nothing that should be completely ignored
"A full collapse would have profound consequences for the UK. Winters longer, colder, -20°C. Summers hotter than the present. This would cause a huge drop in UK food production, huge impacts upon transport, energy, water, and other infrastructure, increased migration as people seek to relocate"
The politics of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
Growing evidence suggests that the AMOC system of ocean currents may be heading towards collapse
@stevedawe.bsky.social
westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/cli...
Growing evidence suggests that the AMOC system of ocean currents may be heading towards collapse
@stevedawe.bsky.social
westenglandbylines.co.uk/features/cli...
The politics of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)
Growing evidence suggests that the AMOC system of ocean currents may be heading towards collapse
westenglandbylines.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 8:52 AM
"A full collapse would have profound consequences for the UK. Winters longer, colder, -20°C. Summers hotter than the present. This would cause a huge drop in UK food production, huge impacts upon transport, energy, water, and other infrastructure, increased migration as people seek to relocate"
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Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests
A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions
centralbylines.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests
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POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
POV: Big Oil explains the weather they caused.
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🔴Our Humanitarian Response Adviser explains how severe storms sweeping across Gaza are making an already desperate situation even worse for Palestinians. The Israeli authorities continue to obstruct aid and are preventing us from bringing in life-saving equipment. #GazaCeasefire
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🔴Our Humanitarian Response Adviser explains how severe storms sweeping across Gaza are making an already desperate situation even worse for Palestinians. The Israeli authorities continue to obstruct aid and are preventing us from bringing in life-saving equipment. #GazaCeasefire
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Farage’s Reform UK attack on the young: austerity revisited
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Farage’s Reform UK attack on the young: austerity revisited
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support
centralbylines.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Farage’s Reform UK attack on the young: austerity revisited
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK Ltd is taking aim at the young over the minimum wage, voting age and mental health support | Mark Cunliffe
@markcunliffe.bsky.social @centralbylines.co.uk
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🚨🔔‼️This is the missing context in 🇬🇧 debate about Brexit, ECHR, IHT farm tax and Starmer’s behaviour.
Trump’s classified National Security Strategy is explicitly about dismantling Europe from inside.
The targets are not random:
🇵🇱 Poland
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇹 Italy
🇦🇹 Austria
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Trump’s classified National Security Strategy is explicitly about dismantling Europe from inside.
The targets are not random:
🇵🇱 Poland
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇹 Italy
🇦🇹 Austria
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Leaked files ‘show US wants to persuade four nations to leave EU’
The countries seen as targets to follow Brexit are Austria, Hungary, Italy and Poland, according to leaked details of the US national security strategy
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🚨🔔‼️This is the missing context in 🇬🇧 debate about Brexit, ECHR, IHT farm tax and Starmer’s behaviour.
Trump’s classified National Security Strategy is explicitly about dismantling Europe from inside.
The targets are not random:
🇵🇱 Poland
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇹 Italy
🇦🇹 Austria
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
Trump’s classified National Security Strategy is explicitly about dismantling Europe from inside.
The targets are not random:
🇵🇱 Poland
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇮🇹 Italy
🇦🇹 Austria
www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
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1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵
December 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
1/ You wouldn’t know it from the coverage, but two recent employment tribunal rulings have vindicated those of us who have said from the start that the Supreme Court judgment did not require the automatic exclusion of trans people from single-sex toilets and changing rooms. 🧵
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Questions have been raised about potential links between British intelligence gathered on spy flights over Gaza and Israeli massacres in a new documentary
Links between UK's Gaza spy flights and Israeli massacres examined in new documentary
www.thenational.scot
December 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Questions have been raised about potential links between British intelligence gathered on spy flights over Gaza and Israeli massacres in a new documentary
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UK police forces knew they were using biased facial recognition technology for the last year.
This is because forces were unhappy that the more accurate version produced fewer potential suspects.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is because forces were unhappy that the more accurate version produced fewer potential suspects.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
UK police forces lobbied to use biased facial recognition technology
Exclusive: System more likely to suggest incorrect matches for images of women and Black people
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
UK police forces knew they were using biased facial recognition technology for the last year.
This is because forces were unhappy that the more accurate version produced fewer potential suspects.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
This is because forces were unhappy that the more accurate version produced fewer potential suspects.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Highlights from the Railways Bill session in Parliament pt4.
Here's Brighton Pavilion MP Siân Berry on the scandal of Rolling Stock Companies.
🤑Every time you buy a train ticket, approx 25% of the cost goes on paying the rent being charged by the ROSCOs to the train lines. @sianberry.bsky.social
Here's Brighton Pavilion MP Siân Berry on the scandal of Rolling Stock Companies.
🤑Every time you buy a train ticket, approx 25% of the cost goes on paying the rent being charged by the ROSCOs to the train lines. @sianberry.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Highlights from the Railways Bill session in Parliament pt4.
Here's Brighton Pavilion MP Siân Berry on the scandal of Rolling Stock Companies.
🤑Every time you buy a train ticket, approx 25% of the cost goes on paying the rent being charged by the ROSCOs to the train lines. @sianberry.bsky.social
Here's Brighton Pavilion MP Siân Berry on the scandal of Rolling Stock Companies.
🤑Every time you buy a train ticket, approx 25% of the cost goes on paying the rent being charged by the ROSCOs to the train lines. @sianberry.bsky.social
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So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
Nigel Farage Accepts Another £135,000 From Gold Bullion Firm for Just 12 Hours Work
The Reform UK leader has pocketed £415,500 so far this year to act as the company's “Brand Ambassador”
bylinetimes.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
So Nigel Farage, who claims to be standing up for ordinary working people, has taken hundreds of thousands of pounds so far this year for a handful of hours as a "brand ambassador" for a gold bullion company, while facilitating a £9m donation from a crypto millionaire
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/11/n...
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What in the obvious distraction from the Epstein files is Donald doing?
December 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
What in the obvious distraction from the Epstein files is Donald doing?
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UK farmers lose £800m after heat & drought cause one of worst harvests on record. Many farmers are now concerned about ability to make a living in fast-changing climate.
The reinstatement of Nature based solutions are now critical to us all. #ClimateAction
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The reinstatement of Nature based solutions are now critical to us all. #ClimateAction
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record
Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
UK farmers lose £800m after heat & drought cause one of worst harvests on record. Many farmers are now concerned about ability to make a living in fast-changing climate.
The reinstatement of Nature based solutions are now critical to us all. #ClimateAction
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The reinstatement of Nature based solutions are now critical to us all. #ClimateAction
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🔴 REVEALED 🔴
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.
📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
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What did Sagan propose?
- End fossil fuel subsidies. We didn't. Americans still pay $10-50B/yr to fossil fuels and hundreds of billions indirectly.
- Build solar. We did… starting 25 years later.
40 years ago we knew the science knew what to do. Big Oil's lies cost us decades of damage and time.
- End fossil fuel subsidies. We didn't. Americans still pay $10-50B/yr to fossil fuels and hundreds of billions indirectly.
- Build solar. We did… starting 25 years later.
40 years ago we knew the science knew what to do. Big Oil's lies cost us decades of damage and time.
December 10, 2025 at 6:08 PM
What did Sagan propose?
- End fossil fuel subsidies. We didn't. Americans still pay $10-50B/yr to fossil fuels and hundreds of billions indirectly.
- Build solar. We did… starting 25 years later.
40 years ago we knew the science knew what to do. Big Oil's lies cost us decades of damage and time.
- End fossil fuel subsidies. We didn't. Americans still pay $10-50B/yr to fossil fuels and hundreds of billions indirectly.
- Build solar. We did… starting 25 years later.
40 years ago we knew the science knew what to do. Big Oil's lies cost us decades of damage and time.
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"If you don’t worry about it now, it’s too late later on."
"We are passing on extremely grave problems for our children when the time to solve the problems… is now."
"The overall picture is, I think, quite clear and quite widely understood and accepted."
- Carl Sagan to congress, December 10, 1985
"We are passing on extremely grave problems for our children when the time to solve the problems… is now."
"The overall picture is, I think, quite clear and quite widely understood and accepted."
- Carl Sagan to congress, December 10, 1985
December 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"If you don’t worry about it now, it’s too late later on."
"We are passing on extremely grave problems for our children when the time to solve the problems… is now."
"The overall picture is, I think, quite clear and quite widely understood and accepted."
- Carl Sagan to congress, December 10, 1985
"We are passing on extremely grave problems for our children when the time to solve the problems… is now."
"The overall picture is, I think, quite clear and quite widely understood and accepted."
- Carl Sagan to congress, December 10, 1985
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The Labour government’s “aspiration” is to become “Europe’s leading defence [ie, arms] exporter”.
#DCUKparliament
#DCUKparliament
December 10, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The Labour government’s “aspiration” is to become “Europe’s leading defence [ie, arms] exporter”.
#DCUKparliament
#DCUKparliament