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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 2h

I hope Greta Thunberg gets the Nobel Peace Prize! Wouldn’t that send a message to Trump & Netanyahu!!🤔

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely!✨

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 18h

These paintings were made
on boards from ammunition boxes
by Ukrainian soldier
Serhii Herasymenko in 2023.

Seen today at the exhibition
Callsign: Artist

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 18h

About time!🤔

Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 18h

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Yaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 20h

Greetings from Kyiv,
where I’m having a warcoffee
after visiting an exhibition
(don’t know if anyone else shows you all this Ukrainian art).

Kyiv lives.

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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 20h

What has my country become? 😤 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 20h

Good grief!🫣☹️

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 20h

AI should pay if they want to use an artist’s work. It’s not just about fairness but also about the integrity of how a piece of work is used. Why wouldn’t the artist expect to have a say in how their work is used & receive a suitable payment!🤔

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 20h

AI should pay if they want to use an artist’s work. It’s not just about fairness but also about the integrity of how a piece of work is used. Why wouldn’t the artist expect to have a say in how their work is used & receive a suitable payment!🤔

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 21h

Agree

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 21h

Fair enough.

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 21h

What a shame then that Theresa May reduced it!😔
I think the important thing is to dial down the hate in this country. Certain people & groups are encouraging division & the truth gets lost. All people should feel secure in going about their life & worship & we should be able to call out injustice🤔

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 21h

Allowing Israel Air Force planes to land at RAF Brize Norton for refuelling. Shared surveillance in Gaza. They could be far more vocal against Netanyahu whilst still supporting moderate Israeli people there & Jews in the UK.

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 22h

I’m so tired of reading about all this inequality, endless cruelty & oppression! It’s not just here in Afghanistan & Iran, it’s everywhere!😔
It’s made worse by the increasing petty cruelties & attacks from wealthy elites who care only about increasing wealth & power!😪

news.sky.com/story/beaten...

'Beaten for 16 days': Deported Afghans describe brutal treatment by Iran - yet are desperate to return

Some 1.3 million Afghans have been deported by Iran this year - many with stories of violent arrests.

news.sky.com

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 22h

Let’s hope so!🥴🤞

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 22h

Not so Cleverly Cleverly showing us his wisdom!🫣😵‍💫

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 22h

It’s possible to openly support in other, more subtle ways🤔😔

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 22h

Forget the Tories & the one nation Conservatives. Focus on what Lib Dem’s stand for. Be bold, be ambitious, be aspirational. People in this country need hope & a clear road map for the next 2 years, 5 years, 10 years.
I hope rejoining the EU is included in that vision!😊🙏

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 1d

Is that platform still going?😳 I couldn’t get on with it at all

Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 1d

Wonder when Starmer et al will also be mentioned?🤔😔

Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 1d

🔥 Wow!

“Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni says she has been accused of “complicity in genocide” in a complaint lodged with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over Rome’s support for Israel as it bombards Gaza”

Italy’s Meloni says ICC complaint accuses her of Gaza genocide complicity

A complaint lodged with the ICC points to the Italian government's role supplying lethal weapons to Israel amid Gaza war

www.aljazeera.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

1,611 homeless Britons died last yr, including 11 children & babies under the age of one.

Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.

Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.

How civilised are we?

'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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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

It would take the average UK earner 52 years’ worth of earnings to join the richest 10%.

Up from 38 years in 2006-08. Rich buy political influence.

Govts help the rich. Bottom 20% pay higher proportion of income in than the richest 20%.

Inequalities obstruct economic growth, fuel social unrest.

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 1d

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity | BBC News

Renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year - a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank…

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Helen #FBPE #NHS #ClimateCrisis 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💙 @heib20.bsky.social · 1d

I think it would be more attractive to simply stand up for centre left values. How about championing our return to Europe?
The pact with the Tories last time was a disaster for the Lib Dem’s. I don’t think it’s wise to remind people of that mistake or to choose that path again.
Be bold. Stand tall

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

Democide in our times

Austerity, wage & public service cuts kill, but are govt policy.

Millions can't get good food, housing, education, healthcare, pension.

Men in poorer UK areas live 9.7 yrs less than those in least deprived areas. Women 8 years.

Govts silent on the human cost of fiscal rules

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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