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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 59m

It was well worth the wait, highly, highly recommend

www.comedy.co.uk/live/news/83...

Grace Petrie announces 'This Is No Time To Panic!' tour - British Comedy Guide

Grace Petrie: This Is No Time To Panic!, "a show of stand-up, music and mild existential crisis", will tour from September 2025 to February 2026.

www.comedy.co.uk

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h

I used to be disparaging of the Green Party media operation, but it’s fair to say that since Polanski took over in England and Wales it’s now firing on all cylinders.

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 1d

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

weownit.org.uk

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 16h

£78 billion of dividends paid to shareholders in water companies since privatisation
£64 billion of debt taken on by water companies since privatisation
“Customers are now paying almost 30p in the pound to service [water company] debts.”

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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 16h

“Despite an increase in demand for water, not a single new reservoir has been built since 1992

“The UK;s National Audit Office estimated that in the first 15 years since privatisation the average household bill for water and sewerage rose by 40% in real terms”.

Not a penny was reinvested

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 1d

Loving the fact that I already don't do business with the ones I've heard of but the majority are complete unknowns

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 1d

Grace Petrie, hilarious and a very talented singer & writer of protest songs.
Off to see her ‘This Is No Time To Panic’ stand up show tomorrow night and am like a kid waiting for Christmas

youtu.be/mzU7aIk1dGI?...

Grace Petrie - Black Tie (Official video)

YouTube video by Grace Petrie

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Eric Rosen @erosen1.bsky.social · 2d

Posting without comment because the absolute idiocy and lunacy speaks for itself 👇👇👇

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2d

Our kids are invisible on our streets in more than one way

a kid in front of a truck with a red backpack
Invisible
The all-new 2026 child

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 3d

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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 3d

UK intelligence chiefs warn that the climate & nature crisis poses a severe threat to UK national security.

Food shortages and economic turmoil around the corner.

That’s why national security is central to the National Emergency Briefing, 27 Nov.
👉 nebriefing.org
Forewarned is forearmed

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

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💙 Chuck Floyd 🌈🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦📎(86 4[57]) @chuckfloyd.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure many of you have realized Andy Behrman's Bluesky account (@electroboyusa.bsky.social) has been suspended.

Please email [email protected] and ask them to reinstate his account immediately.

Andy has ALWAYS acted with the utmost integrity and honesty on this platform.

#Resist

Andy Behrman, a great individual, with a huge loving heart, shares his story via a book that is going to be made into a movie soon. This image is the cover image of his book.

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 4d

So in the last census, the Herefordshire village where he owns a mansion, out of a population of 166, 165 of them identified as white.
In the county as a whole, it was 96.9%.

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 4d

Grew up in northern England and my nan wouldn't let me get anything from the ice cream van on Sunday afternoons as she said it was wrong for people to work on Sundays.

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! No pub either. I spoke to a former resident who wasn't allowed to belong to her preferred craft club at school because her family put washing out on Sundays..

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 4d

Sadly there are many who don't, I took this photo a couple of years ago on the island of Scalpay because I was flabbergasted. Apparently the community had delayed removing the chains which locked the swings away for ages after lockdown too.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 4d

NEW

Freedom is just another word for "a gap in the law"

The Home Secretary wants to ban more things

By me

Substack
emptycity.substack.com/p/freedom-is...

Personal blog
davidallengreen.com/2025/10/free...

Home Secretary tells Sky News that “there is a gap in the law” when it comes to frequent, repeated protests on the same issue. Hence she will be giving police greater powers to move them to another location or time.

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 4d

Whether this bail out plan is lawful, which seems debatable, it's not in the interests of, or to the benfit of the users of an essential utility. It's purely in the interests of the hedge funds and shareholders. This is not good enough.
#RenationaliseWater

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4d

Thames Water's creditors have put a bailout plan to Ofwat which they say is lawful. But are they right? www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/is-the-tha...

Is the Thames Water bailout plan - which relieves the company from fines for up to fifteen years - lawful?

A group of Thames Water’s senior creditors, London & Valley Water (“L&VW”), has submitted to Ofwat proposals for them to be relieved from fines for past or future sewage dumping for a period of up to ...

www.whatthelawdoes.com

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 4d

Jenrick lives in Herefordshire, a county where 96.9% of residents identified as white in the last census.

www.herefordtimes.com/news/2315718...

Census data revealed: are you surprised by how white Herefordshire is?

NEW data has revealed the languages spoken and religions observed in Herefordshire.

www.herefordtimes.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

This is utterly obscene, and even more worryingly, it’s becoming more and more common.

I must reiterate this:

Being called a racist is not a slur or silencing dissent and neither is it the bigger crime.

What Robert Jenrick said was racist. He needs to be challenged.

It’s as easy as that.

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Kathy Hodgson 💚🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🚲🥄 @kathyhodgson.bsky.social · 4d

www.herefordtimes.com/news/2315718...

Census data revealed: are you surprised by how white Herefordshire is?

NEW data has revealed the languages spoken and religions observed in Herefordshire.

www.herefordtimes.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

Part Two is live.

Project 2025 isn’t just an American story anymore - it’s being rewritten in Westminster under a new name:

The Centre for a Better Britain.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

This is shocking racism from Jenrick and Badenoch should sack him immediately.

No further comment necessary.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in Birmingham neighbourhood

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 4d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 4d

"The single most important behaviour, design or regulation for creating streets conducive to walking and cycling, was physical separation between the modes"

We've got a new study out, learning from a broad mixture of street users, planners and designers

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Highlights
For marginalised street users mode separation is the key to human-scale movement.
Streets conducive to walking and cycling have functional, safe and accessible design.
Professionals must approach street design, regulation and user behaviour holistically.
Combinations of influencing factors persuade people to either use or avoid a street.
There are no easy fixes to the public realm that will work for all non-drivers.

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