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Avery Bowser @averybowser.bsky.social · 5h

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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

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 1d

Let them eat flags! Illustration for today's @theguardian.com to accompany Aditya Chakrabortty's piece on all the chatter from politicians about patriotism when the cost of living is the real issue affecting people

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23h

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies?

By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it.

Join us and let's make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Poll from find out now showing greens on 15 and labour and Tories on 17. Reform on 32.

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Avery Bowser @averybowser.bsky.social · 22h

The media everywhere is vulnerable to big money - billionaires or malign state actors. Free speech, like free markets, is rarely achieved with a free for all.

Avery Bowser @averybowser.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine what he'd have to say about the state of the world? Have a feeling he might have been besties with Greta Thunberg

Avery Bowser @averybowser.bsky.social · 1d

A long way to go. Rebuilding, trauma, mutual security. What's been happening on the West Bank. And Jerusalem? What happens to Israeli society when the 'war' stops?

Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

Peace first, but then follow the enormous problems to be solved after a war that treated civilians of all ages with cruel indifference bit.ly/4pXGoNj

Almost 55,000 preschool children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli aid restrictions and malnutrition among children aged between six months and five years

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 1d

Peace first, but then follow the enormous problems to be solved after a war that treated civilians of all ages with cruel indifference bit.ly/4pXGoNj

Almost 55,000 preschool children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli aid restrictions and malnutrition among children aged between six months and five years

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 1d

I'll be heading to Belfast for the last of my New Arcana launches, introduced by the wonderful Stephen Sexton, at No Alibis Books, on the 21st October. Free but ticketed- get yours here!

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

This is not what democracy looks like. Anyone who cares at all about the Constitution has to take a stand against this and against MAGA.

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Get PR Done! @getprdone.bsky.social · 2d

With five parties on double digits, the first-past-the-post voting system makes a complete mockery of any semblance of a fair elections.

It’s way past-time to make seats match votes and GET PR DONE
Graphic via @joshhousden.bsky.social
#getPRdone
#MakeSeatsMatchVotes
#ProportionalRepresentation

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 1d

Another day.

Another presidential threat to jail two of his political opponents.

What will it take for Republicans in Congress to speak out?

While we still have a democracy left.

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Sonya Gildea @sonyagildea.bsky.social · 2d

The loveliest thing to hear some of these poems out in the wild last week, a storm raging up outside.

@jesstraynor.bsky.social's NEW ARCANA @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, introduced beautifully by Seán Hewitt at the @gutterbookshop.bsky.social.

How lucky we are❤️

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 3d

“The advantages of a first past the post system, of course, are that it prevents an overly fragmented parliament in which a stable governing majority cannot be found, and that it keeps the radical right down.”

Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 3d

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 27% (-2)
LAB: 20% (-2)
CON: 17% (+1)
LDM: 17% (+2)
GRN: 12% (+1)
SNP: 4% (+1)

Via @yougov.co.uk, 5-6 Oct.
Changes w/ 28-29 Sep.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 2d

Heseltine at the Tory conf:

"Fascists of the 30s are back... Trump's language coincides with words here... The immigrant has replaced the Jew as the problem. We must make clear we will never have any part in the populist extremism of Farage... We don't need Trump's mouthpiece anywhere near No. 10.”

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 4d

Next stop on the New Arcana tour is @kildarereaders.bsky.social on 14 Oct with Kimberly Campanello & Catherine Gander 🍂✨️🔮
Come join us!

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Book Tickets – Poetry in the past and present tense: Kimberley Campanello and Jessica Traynor – Maynooth Community Library

Poetry in the past and present tense: Kimberley Campanello and Jessica Traynor – Maynooth Community Library, Tue 14 Oct 2025 - In their latest collections, poets Jessica Traynor (New Arcana, Bloodaxe)...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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Quakers in Ireland @quakerireland.bsky.social · 5d

Great to see an article in the Belfast Telegraph this week discussing Quaker peace work during the Troubles. Read the full article here: archive.is/QEkye#select...
#Quakers #QuakersIreland #FaithInAction #Peacetestimony

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

What an admirably clear statement from the Jewish Leadership Council, especially when all of those involved must surely have been dealing with so many other urgent challenges in safety, security and grief + shock today before having this further divisive and distracting intervention to address too.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 5d

We are still a rich country capable of affording decent, humane palliative care for all.

Do you really care so little for dying people that you are happy to see them failed them on your watch?

Thank you @channel4news.bsky.social for covering this story.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 5d

I believe that the measure of a civilised country is how well it cares for its most vulnerable members. The difference between politicians and me is that I look the palliative care patients they are failing in the eye.

So I will put it to you directly, @wesstreeting.bsky.social:

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 6d

With Kemi Badenoch saying the Tories would take the UK out of the ECHR, our poll in June found the public wanted to remain members by 51% to 27%

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 6d

"The people who jostled their way into this lane for a grotesquely outsize cash bonanza and then boasted about helping the nation were profiteering, plain and simple."

Brilliantly & appropriately savage from the peerless Marina Hyde 💥

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Michelle Mone told us ‘business isn’t easy’ during Covid. How are things now, your ladyship? | Marina Hyde

After a company she was linked to was ordered to repay £122m it made from pandemic deals, the baroness has embarked on a masterclass in victimhood, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 6d

This weekend's @theipaper.com cartoon

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Avery Bowser @averybowser.bsky.social · 7d

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More on Prof Jones comments on the Review of Children's Social Care Services two years on. Referrals increasing, more children in care, and workforce crisis still with us. Time for the Executive to step up.

Children’s social care reform is being kicked into the long grass'

Dire warning from professor who led review in Northern Ireland

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Avery Bowser @averybowser.bsky.social · 7d

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"This call to action is about more than problems. It’s about solutions that will actually make our lives better if people listen and act. If decisions are being made about young people in care, t...

"This call to action is about more than problems. It’s about solutions that will actually make our lives better if people listen and act. If decisions are being made about young people in care, then w...

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