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Rupert Read @rupertread.bsky.social · 1d

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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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 1d

Important report given our current political environment.

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 2d

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The UK’s independent scientific bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation - over the past 5 months I've been working with @martinmckee.bsky.social to map out their vulnerabilities and it's not good news.

Today our report is published!
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UK’s arm’s length public bodies are highly vulnerable to politicisation

Seven in ten Britons say it is important for top scientific institutions to be independent in exclusive new polling.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 4d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 5d

Shame on @lewisgoodall.com for normalising facism in this conversation. The media chases clicks and ad revenue at the expense of truth and valid information, and this interview is a good example of that.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

We must all keep speaking out.

Thanks for all the kind words for this pretty combatative interview.

The truth is simple. Let's just all keep telling the truth.

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'A classroom of kids is massacred everyday': Zack Polanski on Gaza

YouTube video by LBC

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 5d

It's like she is living in a parallel universe. How out of touch with reality. 🤦‍♀️ The Labour party is dead.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 6d

Irony is dead ☠️

LBC @lbc.co.uk · 6d

“Mass criminality? Holding up a placard…”

Shabana Mahmood denies that the government is showing signs of ‘authoritarianism’ as they continue to clamp down on peaceful protest.

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 6d

Many, many people have now given up on representative party politics. But there are alternatives. Citizens' assemblies make decisions like juries do. No party politics. No representatives. No corruption.

#Real #Democracy

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6d

Well that's the trouble. We did. We voted out the Tories, only to get a government that now does the same or worse. It's not hard to see why people feel like giving up on politics.

John Richmond @johnprichmond.bsky.social · 6d

Vote them out. Replace them with something better. Or stay home and order pizza and scroll cats on Insta while demanding universal basic income and complaining about politics. But you can't have both #Democracy

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 6d

An authoritarian crackdown we've now started to become used to in the UK. This will backfire and more people will come out on the streets.

GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 7d

It's disgraceful exploitation. And it's offensive to say that trying to stop a genocide is "un-British".

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 8d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 7d

Conflating the opposition of genocide with antisemitism defies logic and is dangerous and offensive. It is obviously perfectly possible to oppose genocide and not be antisemitic.

Why do people think it's ok to use a terror attack in which people died as a political tool?

Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 7d

Is there anything more antisemitic than the assertion that opposing genocide on the streets constitutes, by definition, an anti-Jewish hate march? www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

UK antisemitism ‘allowed to grow’, Jewish security group says before pro-Palestine protests

Head of policy at Community Security Trust calls Saturday’s planned protest against ban on Palestine Action ‘self absorbed and insensitive’

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7d

Keeping people in poverty is an expensive luxury.
My column on the false economies of austerity, which costs us all a fortune. Despite the government's claims, austerity continues under Labour. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It hurt when I crashed my bike into a pothole – and it taught me the true price of austerity | George Monbiot

Fixing that hole could have cost under £100; the cost of not doing so is limitless. My prang highlights the neoliberal folly of false economies, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 8d

Storm Aramco threatens travel disruption across UK.

#climate #impacts

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Storm Amy threatens travel disruption across UK with winds of up to 95mph

Some rail services in Scotland to end early on Friday as weather warnings in place throughout Britain into weekend

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 9d

... Along with the vast majority of UK citizens who don't want to be put at risk any more by dangerous, corrupt policies from our politicians.

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 9d

Kemi Badenoch's pledge to scrap the Climate Change Act has now been condemned by Theresa May, Lord Deben (John Gummer), Alok Sharma, the Confederation of British Industry, the Church of England, the Catholic Church - all previously mainstays of the Tory party: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act

Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 10d

In 2021, after two years of high profile Extinction Rebellion actions, the environment was briefly the number one concern for people in the UK

Today it is well down the list

Social movements are powerful because, amongst other things, they force issues into the public consciousness

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 11d

YouGov most important issues tracker, 27-29 September 2025

Immigration: 57% (+2 from 20-22 Sept)
Economy: 55% (+1)
Health: 30% (=)
Crime: 22% (+1)
Housing: 18% (=)
Defence: 18% (-3)
Environment: 15% (-1)
Welfare: 15% (+3)
Tax: 14% (-2)

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 10d

When Tim Crosland of @defendourjuries.bsky.social moved from working on organised crime to working on the climate crisis, he "moved on to the really serious crime".

Absolutely fascinating interview.

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'I can't speak about free speech protests'

YouTube video by The Crispin Flintoff Show

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 10d

BBC bias contributes to climate-related deaths and the collapse of our civillisation. We must hold them accountable for their lies.

Tessa Khan @tessakhan.bsky.social · 10d

Nick Robinson on Today this AM was completely wrong to suggest that pumping more oil & gas from the North Sea would lower bills, something even former Tory Energy Secretaries have accepted.

We’ve burned most of the gas and export the vast majority of the oil—and oil is basically what’s left…

GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 11d

If he'd said "growth is the cause of division" he'd have been closer to the truth.

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 11d

Labour by name, but not by nature.

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 11d

This is another way of saying the collapse of public trust is due to government corruption. Which is true.

Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12d

Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state

The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 11d

As always, they will protect their friends. We need a proper democracy where people have a voice. Let's get organising assemblies in our neighbourhoods.

Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 12d

You can be damn sure that the 'hard choices to come' will impact on the poor and vulnerable

Not the rich and super-rich and their capital

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Rachel Reeves warns of harder choices to come as she hints at tax rises

The chancellor says choices have been made

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 12d

This government’s legacy will be its complicity in the greatest crime of our time.

My piece for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labo...

Labour Party conference: Will Palestinians get a mention in Starmer’s speech?

The legacy of Keir Starmer's government will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes against humanity of our times

www.middleeasteye.net

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GlisGlis @glisglis.bsky.social · 11d

The government have banned @declassifieduk.org for criticising their appalling record on Gaza. That's not what happens in a healthy democracy. That's an authoritarian move.

Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 12d

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 12d

✒️ Parliament has been accused of an “outrageous abuse” that is “worthy of the Trump White House”, after refusing to issue us a media pass.

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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 12d

“Targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle these structural issues or improve people’s lives. It only serves as a dangerous smokescreen to scapegoat the most vulnerable and distract from the very real dangers to our society.”

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Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 17d

The latest episode with Zack Polanski in conversation with Grace Blakeley breaking down the structures that ultimately prop up our inequality is premiering now!

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Why Rachel Reeves Is Obsessed With Growth At Any Cost | Grace Blakeley | Zack Polanski

YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski

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