Old Fred
@captainfred.bsky.social
Prog metal-loving, cat-worshipping, Green anti-fascist, Blue Meanie hating, raving democratic Commie.
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"I don’t think there was any point in [Trump’s] adult life where he…cognitively inclined."
@swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss Trump’s apparent cognitive decline – and how no one in the inner circle is allowed to talk about it.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/murder-inc...
@swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss Trump’s apparent cognitive decline – and how no one in the inner circle is allowed to talk about it.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/murder-inc...
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"I don’t think there was any point in [Trump’s] adult life where he…cognitively inclined."
@swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss Trump’s apparent cognitive decline – and how no one in the inner circle is allowed to talk about it.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/murder-inc...
@swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social discuss Trump’s apparent cognitive decline – and how no one in the inner circle is allowed to talk about it.
Watch: zeteo.com/p/murder-inc...
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A new campaign against the far right - to bring us TOGETHER against division and racism.
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Unity is stronger than division.
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
That’s why we’ve formed Together Alliance with 50+ organisations and thousands of individuals — all pushing back against the far right.
#Together we show where this country really stands.
Join us: togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
A new campaign against the far right - to bring us TOGETHER against division and racism.
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
Could not be more urgently needed 🙏❤️
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“Sluggish labour productivity and weak working-age population growth, partly due to slowing inward migration, will continue to act as a drag on the economy”.
It would appear that the UK does need immigrants after all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It would appear that the UK does need immigrants after all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
New blow for Reeves as Labour’s anti-migration policies blamed for sluggish UK growth
Less than a week after her controversial Budget, Rachel Reeves has been warned that tax hikes and spending cuts will pile pressure on the UK economy in next two years
www.independent.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“Sluggish labour productivity and weak working-age population growth, partly due to slowing inward migration, will continue to act as a drag on the economy”.
It would appear that the UK does need immigrants after all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
It would appear that the UK does need immigrants after all.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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It is clearly outrageous and unacceptable that this is going to allow the Government to handout 3 year jail sentences to anyone it doesn't like.
And even if you believe the current Government won't do that.
Others surely will.
And even if you believe the current Government won't do that.
Others surely will.
December 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
It is clearly outrageous and unacceptable that this is going to allow the Government to handout 3 year jail sentences to anyone it doesn't like.
And even if you believe the current Government won't do that.
Others surely will.
And even if you believe the current Government won't do that.
Others surely will.
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Labour’s anti-migration policies are contributing to the UK’s sluggish economic growth, the world’s foremost economic forecaster has warned
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
New blow for Reeves as Labour’s anti-migration policies blamed for sluggish UK growth
Less than a week after her controversial Budget, Rachel Reeves has been warned that tax hikes and spending cuts will pile pressure on the UK economy in next two years
www.independent.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Labour’s anti-migration policies are contributing to the UK’s sluggish economic growth, the world’s foremost economic forecaster has warned
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
December 1, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Your reminder of what the Mail, Express and Sun thought about Liz Truss and her Kamikaze budget
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Day 30 of hunger strikes in UK prisons:
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
December 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Day 30 of hunger strikes in UK prisons:
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
Demanding shutdown of Elbit Systems, deproscription and immediate bail.
The largest since 1981, ignored by government and media.
All the while people here can’t afford bills, food or rent …yet are forced to subsidise Israeli arms dealers.
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The budget didn't bother the powerful.
No windfall tax on banks. Govt subsidy of £23bn+ continues.
No windfall tax on energy companies, £125bn profit since 2020.
Corporate profiteering and subsidies continue. No curbs on corporate welfare.
85,500 have wealth of £2.8 trillion, hardly touched.
No windfall tax on banks. Govt subsidy of £23bn+ continues.
No windfall tax on energy companies, £125bn profit since 2020.
Corporate profiteering and subsidies continue. No curbs on corporate welfare.
85,500 have wealth of £2.8 trillion, hardly touched.
The government’s budget is simply managing decline
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth
leftfootforward.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The budget didn't bother the powerful.
No windfall tax on banks. Govt subsidy of £23bn+ continues.
No windfall tax on energy companies, £125bn profit since 2020.
Corporate profiteering and subsidies continue. No curbs on corporate welfare.
85,500 have wealth of £2.8 trillion, hardly touched.
No windfall tax on banks. Govt subsidy of £23bn+ continues.
No windfall tax on energy companies, £125bn profit since 2020.
Corporate profiteering and subsidies continue. No curbs on corporate welfare.
85,500 have wealth of £2.8 trillion, hardly touched.
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Many people have not forgotten
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Boris Johnson 'barely able to walk' after partying with billionaire
The then Foreign Secretary was on his way back to London after Perugia, Italy, after a 'heavy night' at the castle of media mogul Evgeny Lebedev when he was spotted.
www.dailymail.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Many people have not forgotten
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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“I’ve been called much worse than a despot, so it’s not that insulting” | Trump & Mamdani’s Awkward Oval Office Meeting
November 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
“I’ve been called much worse than a despot, so it’s not that insulting” | Trump & Mamdani’s Awkward Oval Office Meeting
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'A new set of forest towns will be built in the area between Oxford and Cambridge, nestled in the middle of a new national forest'.
These are charter cities and are being set up in deregulated SEZs.
Yet again, The Guardian omits to investigate the truth.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These are charter cities and are being set up in deregulated SEZs.
Yet again, The Guardian omits to investigate the truth.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
New set of forest towns to be built between Oxford and Cambridge
Communities in the middle of new national forest to show how housebuilding can be delivered alongside nature
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:43 AM
'A new set of forest towns will be built in the area between Oxford and Cambridge, nestled in the middle of a new national forest'.
These are charter cities and are being set up in deregulated SEZs.
Yet again, The Guardian omits to investigate the truth.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
These are charter cities and are being set up in deregulated SEZs.
Yet again, The Guardian omits to investigate the truth.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
When the racist comedian Bernard Manning fell out of fashion in more tolerant times and stopped appearing on TV he defended his long history of appalling offensive "jokes" as nothing more than "banter"and insisted that he "had a go at everyone".
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
This is the Bernard Manning defence.
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Under Bolsanaro the govt tried to save money by stopping treatment of waters used by disease bearing insects.
Saved maybe $5m
Cost of treating the resulting disease and then treating the waters about 6 times as much.
WHen the corporate/far right talk about "saving money" they ignore necessity.
Saved maybe $5m
Cost of treating the resulting disease and then treating the waters about 6 times as much.
WHen the corporate/far right talk about "saving money" they ignore necessity.
Four justices voted to keep the former right-wing president in police custody after his ankle monitor was damaged.
Brazil’s Supreme Court panel votes to keep Bolsonaro in police custody
Four justices voted to keep the former right-wing president in police custody after his ankle monitor was damaged.
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Under Bolsanaro the govt tried to save money by stopping treatment of waters used by disease bearing insects.
Saved maybe $5m
Cost of treating the resulting disease and then treating the waters about 6 times as much.
WHen the corporate/far right talk about "saving money" they ignore necessity.
Saved maybe $5m
Cost of treating the resulting disease and then treating the waters about 6 times as much.
WHen the corporate/far right talk about "saving money" they ignore necessity.
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Muhammad. Muhammad was an accountant prior to this but his workplace was destroyed and his home severely damaged. He’s hoping to leave Gaza with his family including his daughters Iman, 5 and Lian, 6 so that they can get a better education.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Muhammad. Muhammad was an accountant prior to this but his workplace was destroyed and his home severely damaged. He’s hoping to leave Gaza with his family including his daughters Iman, 5 and Lian, 6 so that they can get a better education.
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Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.”
We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
youtu.be/BJ8nEeiFmH4?...
We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
youtu.be/BJ8nEeiFmH4?...
How ultra-processed food became a corporate-engineered health crisis
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.”
We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
youtu.be/BJ8nEeiFmH4?...
We can change this — but only if we confront corporate power.
youtu.be/BJ8nEeiFmH4?...
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Rachel Shabi: "This whole idea of the BBC being too liberal.. on Gaza, is just gaslighting on an epic scale. If anything, as we all know, people have been watching with increasing frustration as the BBC has massively failed to accurately report a war described as genocide in Gaza"
November 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Rachel Shabi: "This whole idea of the BBC being too liberal.. on Gaza, is just gaslighting on an epic scale. If anything, as we all know, people have been watching with increasing frustration as the BBC has massively failed to accurately report a war described as genocide in Gaza"
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The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... My alternative budget is drawing towards its close.
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms
Rachel Reeves will be presenting her Budget on November 26, if the Labour government of which she is a part lasts that long.
I will be commenting on that Budget on the day on BBC Radio 2, and elsewhe...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 9: Essential economic reforms www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... My alternative budget is drawing towards its close.
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Up to 7m extra working-age people could be denied minimum standard of living in retirement if UK state pension triple lock is ditched.
Neoliberals squeeze wages and call for real cuts to pension.
Thousands will die prematurely.
State pension must not be less than the minimum wage
archive.ph/UaHIw
Neoliberals squeeze wages and call for real cuts to pension.
Thousands will die prematurely.
State pension must not be less than the minimum wage
archive.ph/UaHIw
The total number of retirees facing poverty if state pension triple lock is cut
Figures have been released days before the Budget, in which Reeves may target tax perks given to pension savers
inews.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Up to 7m extra working-age people could be denied minimum standard of living in retirement if UK state pension triple lock is ditched.
Neoliberals squeeze wages and call for real cuts to pension.
Thousands will die prematurely.
State pension must not be less than the minimum wage
archive.ph/UaHIw
Neoliberals squeeze wages and call for real cuts to pension.
Thousands will die prematurely.
State pension must not be less than the minimum wage
archive.ph/UaHIw
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I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵
April 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵
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Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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Apsana Begum is right, the chancellor needs to scrap the two child benefit cap entirely.
Apsana was of course suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party by Keir Starmer last year for voting to scrap the cap.
Apsana was of course suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party by Keir Starmer last year for voting to scrap the cap.
November 24, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Apsana Begum is right, the chancellor needs to scrap the two child benefit cap entirely.
Apsana was of course suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party by Keir Starmer last year for voting to scrap the cap.
Apsana was of course suspended from the Parliamentary Labour Party by Keir Starmer last year for voting to scrap the cap.
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"Children don't choose to be born & I don't think children should be punished or disadvantaged because their parents can't afford to put food on the table for them"
A woman in Coventry on the two child benefit cap. Well said #GMB
A woman in Coventry on the two child benefit cap. Well said #GMB
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 AM
"Children don't choose to be born & I don't think children should be punished or disadvantaged because their parents can't afford to put food on the table for them"
A woman in Coventry on the two child benefit cap. Well said #GMB
A woman in Coventry on the two child benefit cap. Well said #GMB
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We’re still DRAMATICALLY understating how completely batshit-level unhinged this is.
Seriously. Imagine this happening in any other presidency.
You can’t, because it’s completely inconceivable that it could happen, or that it would be allowed.
Seriously. Imagine this happening in any other presidency.
You can’t, because it’s completely inconceivable that it could happen, or that it would be allowed.
This is what rock-bottom polling does to a man with a fragile ego.
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 AM
We’re still DRAMATICALLY understating how completely batshit-level unhinged this is.
Seriously. Imagine this happening in any other presidency.
You can’t, because it’s completely inconceivable that it could happen, or that it would be allowed.
Seriously. Imagine this happening in any other presidency.
You can’t, because it’s completely inconceivable that it could happen, or that it would be allowed.
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Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
Architect George Clarke calls for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell inquiry
TV personality wants homeowners and businesses to shun ‘dishonest’ firms Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Call for boycott of firms criticised by Grenfell fire inquiry.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.
Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex behaved with “systematic dishonesty”, “engaged in deliberate and sustained strategies to manipulate the testing processes, misrepresent test data and mislead the market”
72 died in 2017. No one prosecuted.