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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 8h

The Rags fearing the Greens? Whatever next? @zackpolanski.bsky.social @carolinelucas.bsky.social @rachelmillward.bsky.social

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 8h

The problem with this piece is that Putin is probably the most right-wing Russian leader imaginable. He seems to have ambitions little different from those of the Czar's and seems to intervene on behalf of right-wing causes worldwide.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 14h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 8h

With Congress effectively suspended, where is the Chief Justice who administered the Prezidential oath? President, Vice-President and Speaker of the House all have a basis for acting to protect the Constitution and its checks and balances. In their absence who else has duties and responsibilities?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11h

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 11h

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 11h

Not that "policia" gives it away at all...

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 23h

@jcsalterego.bsky.social if you still exist post end research study you are storming north in the next few days according to @nhc-atlantic.extwitter.link

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 1d

In Clacton again then? I thought he'd given his EU role.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

I'd actually forgotten how extraordinary it is that when I won the leadership - I wasn't interviewed as it was too close to our party conference interviewed.

And then refused a second time!

Part of the antidote to all of this is creating our own media platforms.

Hey @boldpolitics.bsky.social 👋🏼

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

BBC accused of 'extraordinary' anti-Green bias after party say the Laura Kuenssberg Show scrapped a promised interview with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday.

Green sources say the show also refused to interview Polanski after he was elected as leader last month

bylinetimes.com/2025/10/06/b...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.

Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.

Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?

Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 2d

Tories and Reform want to quit the European Convention on Human Rights.

Since 1980, the ECHR court has heard 29 cases of immigrant deportation. UK won 16. No defeats in the last 5 yrs.

Quitting ECHR won't fix illegal immigration, will destroy our freedoms and rights.
archive.ph/eMg3O

Leaving the ECHR won’t fix illegal migration

Half-baked tales of rulings turning on chicken nuggets are no basis for cutting Britain adrift

www.thetimes.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” —FDR, 1944

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 2d

I always wondered about their courses.... bye Jerry.

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 2d

Who is Portland at war with? Who declared the war? Did an uber run into a cyclist? This Portland stuff all sounds complete nuts to me.

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 2d

If the media covered Palantir/BlackRock's public sector takeover and the rollout of deregulated investment zones with the same intensity as Nigel Farage and immigration, we'd see actual outrage at the seismic corporate power grab secretly remaking Britain. The UK is being privatised.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Still waiting for it to trickle down...

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 3d

Falls apart in first line. Insurrections are not legal.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 3d

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 3d

NHS increased use of the private sector under Labour govt.

Private sector delivered 22.1% of ophthalmic, 20.5% of orthopaedic procedures.

Numbers of NHS patients treated by private sector up by 10%.

With profit margins of up to 40% money buys less.

More efficient to expand NHS capacity.

New ICB figures show uneven trends on use of private sector? - The Lowdown

New figures published earlier this month show the extent to which some Integrated Care Boards (ICBs) have increased their use of the private sector since Labour took office last July, and the extent t...

lowdownnhs.info

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Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 5d

How do people know whether these groups are federal employees or just plain old self-appointed vigilantes?

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 5d

There is even more you can do with these fruits than this. Jams are easily possible. And, crab apple trees can be key indicators of hedge and woodland status.

CPRE Sussex @cpresussex.bsky.social · 5d

Look out for crab apple trees in Sussex #hedgerows. Forage and make #CrabApple jelly – delicious with cheese or meat. See: www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/crab_apple_jelly_49007 Find out about our new hedgerow project: www.cpresussex.org.uk/what-we-care-about/nature-and-landscapes/hedgerow-heroes/

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 5d

Truly incredible if that's how it starts.

Prof Dan Osborn @bowl200.bsky.social · 5d

Are you saying Trump's account actually released tbis video clip?