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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 1d

“The people outside looked from Tory to Labour, and from Labour to Tory, and from Tory to Labour again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Apologies to George Orwell (Animal Farm)

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Revealed: Labour-run council using legal loophole to serve families with no-fault evictions

Exclusive: London council created an arm’s-length body to manage some of its housing stock

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks

Govts of Australia, Bermuda, Canada, Cayman, China, France, Germany Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Singapore, Spain, UAE, US would like to thank UK for letting their entities own UK infrastructure.

Vast profits exported, Britons stare at sewage in rivers.

If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership

Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.

leftfootforward.org

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Kevin J. CREATURE @kevinjkircher.com · 2d

Over 40% of corn grown in Indiana is used to make ethanol that cars burn. One acre of corn yields about 16,500 vehicle-miles per year of ethanol, which sounds high until you realize that one acre of solar yields about 2,700,000 vehicle-miles per year: 16,000% more driving for a given plot of land.

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Megan Manson @meganmanson.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you @victoriapeckham.bsky.social for giving a shout-out to @natsecsoc.bsky.social’s report on how charity law enables religious misogyny. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d

The new Faustian pact? Yes you can become rich beyond your wildest dreams but it rots your brain.

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 2d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Luce Leonard @luceleonard.bsky.social · 3d

Via Sheikhspeare memes

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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 2d

I've never been more convinced that the Green Party are the vehicle for the long overdue change Britain needs.

It's time to wave goodbye to failed vulture capitalism and neoliberalism, and time to welcome Green Eco-Socialism.

Exciting times 💚

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Pete Baird @petebaird.bsky.social · 2d

And Zia Yusuf was introduced as a "self-made millionaire". 🤔 #BBCBias #bbcqt

Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 2d

Absolutely disgracefully biassed intro of #bbcqt (Questiontime) by Fiona Bruce: alone of all the panellists, she singled out a controversial policy of Zack Polanski / the Green Party for comment in her intro remarks. #BbcQT is systematically biassed in favour of the Right, and against the Greens.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody out except the Celts.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

Lot of people confidently missing the point in the replies to this: if every cent of Elon musks net wealth was liquid, which it isn’t, that’s not even enough money to run the govt for two weeks. The problem less that they have money, and more how they use that money in destabilizing ways.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 1d

There's still the Booby Prize to be awarded.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch blames those crossing borders for our problems. It’s a lie aimed to distract.

The real issue is a system protecting the super-rich while nurses & carers can’t make ends meet. Tax wealth fairly, fund public services properly. This is how we give Britain hope again.

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The Ghost of Will Rogers @ghostofwillrogers.bsky.social · 4d

This 1000 times over. My father fought in Europe. My uncle died there. These 21st century NAZIs are just as despicable as their predecessors and deserve the same fate.

New Popular Front ❌👑 @ouaisouaisdubuffet.bsky.social · 4d

No notes.

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 3d

Antifa = anti facism

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 2d

Pirates don't ask for permission, it would kill the industry.

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Normal Island News @normalisland.co.uk · 5d

BREAKING: Shabana Mahmoud has clarified that British people are allowed to protest as long as they don't protest too often, their protests aren't seen by anyone, and they are completely ineffective. Anything else is un-British and basically terrorism x

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National Secular Society @natsecsoc.bsky.social · 5d

Prayers shouldn't play a part in formal business of the state. We want parliament & councils to be equally welcoming to all attendees, whatever their personal beliefs. Join our campaign to end prayers in parliament & councils 👇 www.secularism.org.uk/end-governme... #ParliamentaryPrayers

End prayers in parliament and councils

Prayers aren’t government business.

www.secularism.org.uk

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 5d

They really should.

If they had to wear them people would be more informed about what they were voting for.

And they might be more careful about who they take money from.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5d

Someone should ask what Miller was doing between 2021 and 2025, why David Horowitz recruited him to the foreign policy team of the Trump campaign, why the Democrats never followed through on their 2017 investigation of alleged lies on Miller's SF-86 clearance forms, but no one asks real questions

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 5d

It seems pretty clear to me now: Keir Starmer would rather lose to Reform than to the Labour left, which is his real enemy. Any policy that might recover lost ground with voters has to be struck down, as it looks like a concession to the Labour left. And he and his team cannot contemplate that.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6d

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 4d

Just forgive the debt and give them renewable tech for free.

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Gregory Claeys @gclaeyshistory.bsky.social · 4d

I thought "cumulative impact" was the whole point of demonstrations. This way the only demonstrations to be permitted will be those which fail to make any impact. Alice in Wonderland logic.

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