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M'bro-born-Euro-mudblood YourParty.uk ex🌹 mvc tenor, mathematician, historian, retd teacher; KCL, OU, Linux, gardening, cooking, poetry, Panzoëcosmology RT≠👍

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Sasha Clarkson 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸☮️🌳🐰🤗 @saashaclarkson.bsky.social · Nov 24

'The Hand That Signed The Paper', by Dylan Thomas.

This is a very powerful poem, and I think it speaks for itself.
This was #PoemOfTheDay no 99/365 which I uploaded to social media in 2016/17

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A fantastic result for @Plaid_Cymru in the #Caerphilly byelection.

A high turnout, and more votes than Labpur has *ever* had in the constituency.

It confirms other reports suggesting #LabourIsDead in the valleys - IMO, killed by #Starmer's right wing control-freak regime!

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a house tax, and the more houses you own the faster it should go up.

And if you are a company owning houses it should be double.

It should be impossible to own hundreds of homes, instant bankruptcy.

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 1d

Josh MacAlister: "Weetabix, Sainsburys, Morrisons & Magic Breakfast.. British businesses stepping in"

Weetabix is owned by a US company, the largest shareholder in Sainsburys is Qatars sovereign wealth fund, Morrisons is owned by US private equity & Magic Breakfast is a charity

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Sasha Clarkson 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸☮️🌳🐰🤗 @saashaclarkson.bsky.social · 4d

Having killed the locally owned "pound-shop" style stores, Pundland has closed-down in Tenby. the other year we lost M&Co - mismanagement damages communities!

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d

B&M finance chief quits over £7m accounting error.

Its Audit & Risk Committee oversees effectiveness of internal control, internal/external audit. External auditors KPMG collected £1m in 2024/25.

£7m is a big sum to miss.

What else is flawed in B&M governance?

B&M shares plunge as finance chief quits over ‘embarrassing’ accounting error

The discount retailer said the issue has been resolved but will have a financial impact

www.independent.co.uk

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 4d

It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (w/ Ralph Nader) youtu.be/TLEmyUJNsDQ?...

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 4d

No British prime minister has discarded their claimed beliefs and policies so comprehensively or so swiftly.

The biggest political conman of our age.

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 4d

At least 135 Palestinian bodies mutilated by the Israeli army returned to Gaza.

Yet there is infinitely more outrage over racist Israeli football hooligans being barred from Birmingham's streets.

The world has been turned on its head.

At least 135 mutilated bodies of Palestinians had been held at notorious Israeli jail, say Gaza officials

Documents indicate they came from Sde Teiman, which already faces allegations of torture and unlawful deaths

www.theguardian.com

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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 4d

What an absolute cluster.

Private companies in effect alleging the Thames Water bidding process is rigged. Who’d have guessed!

Ministers should just fess-up. This charade has never been about the public interest.

It was always about keeping water in private hands at any cost.

Screenshot of Financial Times article with the headline: CKI calls for Thames Water renationalisation after 'high risk' creditor plan

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A nice little site - #Furcups™ everywhere🤣

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 7d

Latest Graun toon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Martin Rowson on Trump, Putin and prospects for peace in Ukraine – cartoon

The Russian leader’s surprise phone call to the US president on Thursday appeared to undercut Ukrainian hopes of receiving Tomahawk missiles

www.theguardian.com

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 5d

One of the Manchester bombers, Hashem Abedi, is in the news accused of the attempted murder of three prison officers.

What the media won’t be reporting is what we know of the Abedi family’s role in the UK’s 2011 war in Libya.

www.declassifieduk.org/manchester-b...

Manchester bomber was a UK ally

Salman Abedi and his closest family were part of Libyan militias benefitting from British covert military support six years before he murdered 22 people at the Manchester Arena in 2017. He is likely t...

www.declassifieduk.org

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

Victoria Derbyshire, "You want to spend a lot of public services and welfare, is the wealth tax a panacea?

Zack Polanski, "I don't present it as a panacea. It's not close to a panacea, it's just the start of the things we need to do"

"We need to bring Capital Gains Tax in line with Income Tax"

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 5d

Just ignorant, ahistorical rubbish from Blair.

The average burden of direct taxes (income tax and employee NICs) has barely shifted in two decades. Was 21% of gross incomes in 2004, was 21% last year.

archive.ph/MVNMw

The authors of the book write: “Even Sir Tony Blair, a Labour prime minister, argued that if you look at the levels of direct taxation for people, they’re really high, and in historical terms, they’d be considered extremely high, and people feel they’re getting taxed highly

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Mani Isna La 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 🕊️ 🪶 #IndigenousLivesMatter @maniisnala.bsky.social · 7d

#ff @townseagull.bsky.social @sneakyvixen.bsky.social @hugorelly.bsky.social @gemandmoll.bsky.social @acabchick.bsky.social @tricial8.bsky.social @saashaclarkson.bsky.social @paulinelane.bsky.social @noaitch.bsky.social @regmeuross.bsky.social @fromthewhitehouse.bsky.social

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8d

All very amusing, but especially this:

"The most popular was an “Australian-style points-based immigration system,” with a net 46 percent support. The least popular was “Britain’s current immigration policy,” with -39 percent support."

www.politico.eu/article/labo...

Brits are pining for the pre-Brexit migration system

The idea was that leaving the bloc would give the U.K. back “control” of its borders and create a fairer system. But the widespread perception is it didn’t turn out that way.

www.politico.eu

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That's why *all" "emergency" or "antiterrorist" legislation which weakens judicial process is a bad thing and should be opposed.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11d

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday, many Palestinians (some children under the age of 18) who had been held without charge & denied their basic rights by the Israeli government were finally released

But thousands more remain in arbitrary detention under appalling conditions and must not be forgotten

Screenshot of an article about the treatment of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, with the full article linked in subsequent post

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 12d

Reform UK-controlled Worcestershire County Council is set to slash £3m from its special educational needs and disabilities and social care capital budgets while tightening its borrowing restrictions.

£3m Midland special needs education cuts branded 'shortsighted' and 'bizarre'

Reform UK accused by Tory of cutting a secondary school but not lunches served at full council meetings

uk.news.yahoo.com

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 15d

Latest Morning Star cartoon

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 15d

Latest Graun toon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Martin Rowson on the Gaza ceasefire – cartoon

Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the initial phase of a ceasefire plan in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Rowson @martinrowson.bsky.social · 14d

Latest Graun toon www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Martin Rowson on the Gaza ceasefire coming into effect – cartoon

The US-sponsored agreement between Israel and Hamas puts a stop to the fighting for the first time in six months

www.theguardian.com

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 13d

ChatGPT is currently answering all of my verbal queries in Welsh (a known bug, apparently).

I must say, I find the prospect of a Skynet-style hostile superintelligence a little less daunting when it comes in the form of an accidental housewife from Rhyl.

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There are certain things we're not allowed to *think*, let alone say Mike, because the answer is too inconvenient ...