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Simon Ferrigno

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Dad Writer Editor Researcher Sustainability (esp cotton) Some history Long 'sanity' project "The Charge of the Lightweight Brigade", a satire on the idiots of Brexit ('C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie') Rejoiner Liberal

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · Nov 13

Dismantling of the state and its accountability mechanisms means dismantling of citizen's recourse against abuse by the state

Screenshot about Trump appoint Musk as 'efficiency' tsar

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 1m

An idea whose time was yesterday, but Lenny Henry is right, we need to move forward. The legacy holds everyone back. Just look at the negative energy people put into defending empire ...

Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 3m

Ushering Farage into No 10, with the powers to crack down on dissent from day 1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 4m

Indeed. Compounding it today

Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 4m

Yes. A total failure

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3Crows @pamelab52.bsky.social · 5h

Boycott Amazon
I do

New York Magazine @nymag.com · 5h

Amazon’s October Prime Day event has discounts on lots of Strategist-approved products. And while Amazon is the best place to shop right now, retailers across the internet have competing sales.

All the Best Deals We’ve Found on the Internet This Prime Day

Amazon’s October Prime Day event has discounts on lots of Strategist-approved products. And while Amazon is the best place to shop right now, retailers across the internet have competing sales.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 5h

Good news - Derby has great little museums www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Relief at £800,000 cash boost for Derby Museums

The funding will pay for six month's of expenditure to run its three visitor attractions.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 5h

Frederick Forsyth's The Dogs of War...sad

Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 5h

Tulip mania, meet South Sea Bubble

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 7h

They broke Britain!

Farage, Trump, Brexit… and 50% tariffs on our steel. Workers pay the price while the guilty play the hero.

Has Britain gone mad? 👇
#Brexit #SteelCrisis #Farage

The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain
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The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 7h

AI is a giant leap forward and should not be regulated, they said www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Scammers are using AI to lure shoppers to fake businesses

Foreign firms use AI-generated images and false back stories to pose as family-run UK businesses.

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 8h

🔴Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New ‘Green Wave’

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using “racist rhetoric” in chasing Reform UK

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Green Party Leader Zack Polanski to Run for Parliament, as Party Rides a New 'Green Wave'

EXCLUSIVE: New Green leader eyes a Westminster run, and accuses Prime Minister Keir Starmer of using "racist rhetoric" in chasing Reform UK

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 8h

Good luck

Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 9h

My ex wife does. Try and push for a diagnosis, because treatments can vary/depend on individual. Don't leave it.

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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 10h

Well said 👏👏👏👏 Non entity politics, parroting nonsense.

Rafael Behr @rafaelbehr.bsky.social · 11h

Badenoch’s only achievement is to have shrunk the Tories to a low-wattage Faragist think tank and warehouse storing future parliamentary candidates for Reform www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Badenoch’s ‘thoughtful Conservatism’ turns out to be just the slower road to Faragism | Rafael Behr

The Tory leader’s intellectual meanderings have shrunk her party into little more than a holding pen for future Reform party candidates, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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Ian H 💚🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈🇪🇺 @muchechops.bsky.social · 10h

the more capitalism undermines legislation to maximise £££ the more it weakens & impoverishes the very source it seeks to exploit... 🤦‍♂️😭😡

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Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 10h

A shamocracy

Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile, Derby City Council keep taking down the anti-homelessness caravan - and Farage and his thugs are conspicuous by their absence running soup kitchens www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 11h

Agreed. We all end up having to vote for 'least worst' rather than what we want

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 13h

Each time they do this, the UK is asset stripped to pay for it. True ever since Thatcher and north sea oil www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 13h

Osborne, visiting the home of human rights abuses www.gov.uk/government/n...

Chancellor makes historic first visit to China’s North West

Chancellor makes historic visit in major push for new trade and investment ties with emerging regions.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 13h

Cameron www.politico.eu/article/the-...

David Cameron is the smiling face of Chinese interests in the Indo-Pacific

New British foreign secretary promoted controversial Colombo Port City project at investment conference in the Middle East.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 13h

I'm sure entirely coincidentally senior Tories, including Cameron/Osborne, were very much on board the belt and roads thing.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Threat assessment of China led to spy case collapse, says CPS

The dropping of charges against two men last month prompted criticism from some ministers and MPs.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 21h

But doesn't give a toss about the millions of people he's endangered with his division, even as he weaponises this. Alt.right snowflake, anyone? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "Farage 'genuinely worried' by death threat"

a sign that says snowflake on it with a red light behind it

ALT: a sign that says snowflake on it with a red light behind it

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 22h

It's world cotton day: "women make up at least 40% of the global cotton workforce (typically more), yet this rarely shows up in data, policy, and leadership. Many women are denied recognition as farmers, and with it, access to land and subsidies." cottondiaries.substack.com/p/five-stori...

Five Stories Centring Women on World Cotton Day (& Every Day)

Women in cotton are leaders, farmers, sustainers and food sovereignty actors. Yet, their roles are overlooked. We’ve collected five stories that show why women must shape cotton’s future.

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Simon Ferrigno @brexcyclopaedia.bsky.social · 22h

Remember to thank Farage for leaving us between a rock and a hard place www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

EU steel tariff hike threatens 'biggest crisis' for UK industry

The EU is the destination for 78% of steel products made in the UK for overseas markets.

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