Jonny
@jonnye.bsky.social
Gay bloke. Beardy. Equality, social justice, fairness, left. Antifascist.
Scottish independence. EU. Paint, swim, cycle, books. 🏴🇨🇦
Critical thinking should be core education.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Scottish independence. EU. Paint, swim, cycle, books. 🏴🇨🇦
Critical thinking should be core education.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
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A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
A supposedly grassroots anti-migrant movement led by 'ordinary' women, which is backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and is regularly invited onto news channels to promote their views, is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/t...
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From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland.
Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.
Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.
December 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
From today, over 96,000 unpaid carers in Scotland will receive a £293.50 Carer’s Allowance Supplement payment - extra support that’s only available here in Scotland.
Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.
Dignity and fairness in action. That’s what you get with an SNP government.
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“Just three companies – DMG Media, News UK and Reach – control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation, a 20% increase in market concentration since 2014. Newsquest and National World – control 51% of the UK’s 882 local newspapers and local news websites”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
“Just three companies – DMG Media, News UK and Reach – control 90% of UK national newspaper circulation, a 20% increase in market concentration since 2014. Newsquest and National World – control 51% of the UK’s 882 local newspapers and local news websites”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.
This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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A partnership for the NHS, run by Tony Blair’s son alongside Palantir. What could possibly go wrong?! 🚨🚨🚨
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A partnership for the NHS, run by Tony Blair’s son alongside Palantir. What could possibly go wrong?! 🚨🚨🚨
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
Here’s the link to read my latest piece…
jujuliagrace.substack.com
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How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More then 2,000 trafficked children and lone child asylum seekers missing from UK councils’ care
Charities say vulnerable young people are being failed by local authorities, the police and central government
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
How is this not the top story on every news bulletin?
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
This has been happening for years and instead of doing anything to protect children successive governments have made the situation worse. This isn't just on councils. It is part of failings on a State level.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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BREAKING: Police instantly start arresting protestors for silently holding signs which say they oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.
Today's protest is happening in Tavistock Square, London — known as the peace gardens with anti-war memorials.
Lift the ban.
Today's protest is happening in Tavistock Square, London — known as the peace gardens with anti-war memorials.
Lift the ban.
November 22, 2025 at 1:24 PM
BREAKING: Police instantly start arresting protestors for silently holding signs which say they oppose genocide and the Palestine Action ban.
Today's protest is happening in Tavistock Square, London — known as the peace gardens with anti-war memorials.
Lift the ban.
Today's protest is happening in Tavistock Square, London — known as the peace gardens with anti-war memorials.
Lift the ban.
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Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Daily Mail owner strikes £500m deal to buy Telegraph titles
Acquisition likely to trigger in-depth investigation by regulator after agreement between DMGT and Redbird IMI
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Well, this is pretty terrifying. The Daily Mail is buying the Telegraph.
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
One massive consolidated right-wing media empire controlled by off-shore interests at a critical moment in global politics.
What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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UK Labour want everyone to know that their new asylum policies, inc stealing the valuables of asylum seekers, were inspired by the Danish Social Democrats.
In Denmark's local elections yesterday the Soc Dems took a hammering, losing Copenhagen for the first time in 122 years. The new mayor? Green.
In Denmark's local elections yesterday the Soc Dems took a hammering, losing Copenhagen for the first time in 122 years. The new mayor? Green.
👏 Congratulations to @sissemariewe.bsky.social who was just elected as the new mayor of Copenhagen.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
💚Congratulations to all of the SF members re-elected or newly elected and for the incredible 17.9% of votes across the country.
🌻Denmark’s people and nature will have a Greener future.
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
UK Labour want everyone to know that their new asylum policies, inc stealing the valuables of asylum seekers, were inspired by the Danish Social Democrats.
In Denmark's local elections yesterday the Soc Dems took a hammering, losing Copenhagen for the first time in 122 years. The new mayor? Green.
In Denmark's local elections yesterday the Soc Dems took a hammering, losing Copenhagen for the first time in 122 years. The new mayor? Green.
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🚨🚨 V welcome ruling: #USSupreme Court rejects a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #same-sex marriage nationwide turning away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 🧵 apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🚨🚨 V welcome ruling: #USSupreme Court rejects a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #same-sex marriage nationwide turning away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 🧵 apnews.com/article/supr...
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Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
The Lords’ Work? How Tory Shadow Ministers Are Cashing In
Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
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The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them.
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain’s Corporate Welfare Bonanza
Rachel Reeves’ budget rhetoric hides the biggest corporate giveaway in modern British history
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them.
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
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Second class England
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
No free bus passes for under 22s, says goverment
The Commons Transport Committee recommended scrapping bus fares for young people in August.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Second class England
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
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The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight.
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight.
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
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He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
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In September 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm and now, remarkably, what they claim is “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last three years.”
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October 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In September 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm and now, remarkably, what they claim is “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last three years.”
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A shocking must-read from Carole Cadwalladr on Blair and Gaza - and Musk's mentor, 2nd most wealthy man in the world, and long time friend of Netanyahu - Larry Elison.
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
www.thenerve.news
October 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A shocking must-read from Carole Cadwalladr on Blair and Gaza - and Musk's mentor, 2nd most wealthy man in the world, and long time friend of Netanyahu - Larry Elison.
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM