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Robin Smith 🇺🇦 @robin.bobin.uk · 9h

Need to see more of this Gordon Brown impersonation.

Can definitely recommend this ITV docuseries. Some of the things The News Of The World got up to and how they were discovered are mind-blowing.

Millie Dowler and Sienna Miller stories in particular are hauntingly tragic.

#UKPolitics #TheHack

dougray scott as Gordon Brown in ITV series 'the hack'

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 7h

1,611 - One thousand, six hundred and eleven!!

Keep thinking about that.

Successive governments and ministers should be bloody well ashamed of themselves.

Social Housing Posts @uksocialhousing.bsky.social · 7h

“At least 1,611 homeless people died in the UK last year, including 11 children, latest figures suggest.”

news.sky.com/story/abject...

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

news.sky.com

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 5h

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation

For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 7h

1,611 - One thousand, six hundred and eleven!!

Keep thinking about that.

Successive governments and ministers should be bloody well ashamed of themselves.

Social Housing Posts @uksocialhousing.bsky.social · 7h

“At least 1,611 homeless people died in the UK last year, including 11 children, latest figures suggest.”

news.sky.com/story/abject...

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children

The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".

news.sky.com

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 8h

Bloody hell.

Cllr Nick Hartley - Green Party @nickhartleygreen.bsky.social · 9h

The first time I’ve been looking forward to watch Question Time in quite a while!

Go on @zackpolanski.bsky.social!

#bbcqt

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

Reform UK in the dock ⚖

9th October Andy Osborn.
14th October Neil Stevens, Tony Stevens, and Rob Sheridan.
15th October Sarah White.
21st November Nathan Gill.
16th December Mandy Clare.
22nd May 2026 Daniel Taylor.

Under investigation:
Joseph Boam.
Lee Duffy.
George Cottrell.

#ReformInTheDock

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 14h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 10h

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 14h

As revealed by Channel 4 News’ documentary, UK arms exports to Israel have hit record highs — £408,000 in June and £316,000 in September.

The government says it’s restricting sales, but the data says otherwise.

The UK must end all arms sales to Israel now.

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 13h

We’re supporting @nionwomen.bsky.social, a collective of women refusing to let their identity be weaponised to justify discrimination against trans people.

They’re calling on women everywhere to join them:
https://goodlaw.social/xmgc

goodlaw.social

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 12h

The public wants services that work for the public, not for profit. Are YOU the right person to help make that happen?

We've 2 vacancies: Communications & Campaign Support / Operations Lead
Deadline to apply: midnight Sunday 9 November
Apply via our website.
vist.ly/49r92

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 15h

It's that red-green colour blindness vision deficiency isn't it?

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Nelly Probin @lillmagill.bsky.social · 18h

It's happening again.

Skwawkbox @skwawkbox.org · 19h

Breaking video: new flotilla already under severe Israeli attack, crews kidnapped...

Breaking video: new flotilla already under severe Israeli attack, crews kidnapped

Israel detains activists and confiscates aid carried on the Freedom Flotilla as legal group warns of further action

www.thecanary.co

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Si_Brewis @sibrewis.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me this isn't the best party political broadcast you have ever seen. & it was filmed in Leeds!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social is doing great.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxt4...

Let's Make Hope Normal Again - Green Party Political Broadcast

YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales

www.youtube.com

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 20h

I would like to see honesty being the new normal.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Our movement is living rent free in the heads of Telegraph journalists at the moment.

Join me in being ‘a threat to the right that they never saw coming’.

join.greenparty.org.uk

The greens may be the threat that the right never saw coming.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Gem&Molly ⓥ @gemandmoll.bsky.social · 1d

Please follow @premnsikka.bsky.social professor of accounting. He knows what he's talking about.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

There is parade of dud audits, auditors let lying dogs sleep.

UK accounting regulator is changing the rules.There will be fewer investigations.

People will be deceived, fees will keep rising.

There is no transparency about the conduct of audits.

Regulators work for the industry.
archive.ph/YCz1V

UK accounting watchdog to ease its probes of audit firms

FRC’s proposals follow sustained complaints from the industry about lengthy investigations

www.ft.com

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 1d

Where there is despair, let me bring hope.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

It is astonishing that the MSM and majority of Independent Media are not joining the dots on Zone Fever,

I absolutely fucking despair.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the UK corporate governance is being implemented in 12 Freeports, 74 SEZs, Defence Growth Zones, Food and University Enterprise Zones, and AI Growth Zones (200 bids so far). Palantir and Blackrock pulverizing critical infrastructure in the UK and in Gaza.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump, Netanyahu and Tony Blair will install and manage special economic zones (SEZs) under a reconstruction regime engineered to subjugate Palestinian land and labour to global capital — beachfront resorts for investors, not homes for the displaced. progressive.international/wire/2025-10...

PI Briefing | No. 37 | The Plan to Colonize Palestine

The Trump-Netanyahu “peace plan” for Gaza is little more than a blueprint for its colonization.

progressive.international

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 1d

Hear how loudly the reformists will be shouting when they have to clean up and care for their loved ones.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

The NHS and social care would cease to function under UK govt’s new rules on foreign staff.

Workers will have to wait – from 5 to 10 years – before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain, claim any benefit, childcare, or housing support, despite paying taxes

Govt appeasing Reform.

NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses

Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK

www.theguardian.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over tax rises that could drive wealthy away. Ridiculous.

Capital gains, dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.

Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in tax than the richest 20%.

16m live in poverty. Millions rely on food banks.

End tax perks of the rich.

Starmer faces cabinet revolt over Budget tax rises driving wealthy away

‘The trouble is we have crossed a line in trying to encourage aspiration. The non-dom change and the VAT on school fees have sent the opposite message,’ minister tells The Independent

www.independent.co.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

KPMG fined £710,937.50 for dud audit of N Brown Group.

Failed to perform proper accounting checks.

Fines are just another cost of doing Nelsonian audits, passed to other customers

Audits by big firms are worthless, but highly profitable. Partners collect millions, exploit state guaranteed market.

Sanctions against KPMG LLP and Anthony Sykes

www.frc.org.uk

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BethU @beth-u.bsky.social · 1d

"Regulators work for the industry".

Hands up, all those who hadn't worked that out already!

Water bills up - so are dividends and govt subsidies.
Energy bills up - so are dividends.

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

There is parade of dud audits, auditors let lying dogs sleep.

UK accounting regulator is changing the rules.There will be fewer investigations.

People will be deceived, fees will keep rising.

There is no transparency about the conduct of audits.

Regulators work for the industry.
archive.ph/YCz1V

UK accounting watchdog to ease its probes of audit firms

FRC’s proposals follow sustained complaints from the industry about lengthy investigations

www.ft.com

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