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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 36m

Jonathan Ashworth: "I've wanted to see a ceasefire for 2 years"

The collective position of the Labour shadow cabinet (which you were part of) for months after October 7th was to reject a ceasefire & Labour instructed its MPs not to vote for a ceasefire in Nov 2023.

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Trees for Life @treesforlife.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks to our brilliant volunteers, we’ve collected over 50kg of hazelnuts this year! 🌰

Hazel is a key #rainforest species - one of the first to establish in the west after the last Ice Age, 10,000 years ago.

We're working with @wtscotsocial.bsky.social to boost the availability of native trees

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Maggie Black @witchofscots.bsky.social · 7h

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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The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · 14h

🍩 Missed Professor Kate Raworth’s brilliant 46th TB Macaulay Lecture on Doughnut Economics? Don’t worry! 🙌

Hosted with the Macaulay Development Trust, the full talk + Q&A is now on YouTube 🎥 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnyB...

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TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 24m

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Massive protests taking place right now in Chicago against Trump this evening.

Keep it up!

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Pé 🍺🧿 @forevernever.bsky.social · 16h

Fascists, who deep down know they're pathetic and ridiculous, cannot handle mockery. If there's one thing Portland does well (other than dumplings in chili oil), it's irreverent mockery of everything.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

Michigan Avenue right now.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h

I love that we live in a world where we're all supposed to now praise Trump for his peace-making and ignore the fact that at least 20,000 Palestinians have been killed on his watch, with bombs & bullets - & rhetorical support! - that he supplied to Israel.
That's all erased now.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 1d

Why do some ideas spread widely, while others fail to catch on?

Our new review paper on the PSYCHOLOGY OF VIRALITY is now out in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (it was led by @steverathje.bsky.social)

Read the full paper here: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

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Hugh Barnard @hughbarnard.bsky.social · 10h

Given this, from me, recently:
Overall, one in three workers have called in sick after drinking with colleagues over the past year, but among 18 to 24-year-olds, the figure is 43%.

This is going to 'help' isn't it? But as an early 20th commentator opined 'work is the curse of the drinking classes'.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10h

Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth

Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help ailing hospitality sector but health experts criticise move Pubs, clubs and restaurants will be able to open into the early hours as part of Labour’s drive for economic growth, a move which critics say will lead to more drunken disorder. Ministers are pushing ahead with plans to allow premises that sell alcohol to extend their opening hours in order to boost “the British night out” and help the hospitality sector. Continue reading...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15h

UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.

Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP

No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.

But here's Tice calling us decadent

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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 12h

From Keir Starmer's Un-British to Senator McCarthy's Un-American...
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Times letter. From Un-British to Joe McCarthy’s Un-American

This letter appears in The Times, 8th October. Times letter writers in 2025 often appear to the left of the paper’s Editorial line (which is not to say they are on the left). E P Thompson in …

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Londonist @londonist.com · 13h

We've just done a major update to the map of London bookswaps -- 25 new locations and lots of photos. Is there a free bookswap near you that we've missed? londonist.com/london/maps/...

A Map Of London Bookswaps

Little Libraries around the capital | Londonist.

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Patrick Dunleavy @patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, Yes. When you are the least popular government of all time, especially with your 'natural' supports, it's such a great idea to keep digging your own party's grave with even more crazy and unenforceable laws
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Starmer targets inflammatory chants at Palestine protests for further curbs

PM says Labour will address suggestions of antisemitic hate as he orders review of protest policing powers

www.theguardian.com

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 14h

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63 years of regular and repeated nuclear incidents at Dounreay safely 509 miles downwind of London

By stewartb The public record of incidents at Dounreay from CHATGPT: ‘Here is a chronological timeline of known official / media‑reported pollution, health & safety, and regulatory in…

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Freedom Press @freedompress.bsky.social · 15h

Since the election, anarchists and radical left organisations formed coalitions around common struggles. In 2025 anarchists have made attempts to resume the anti-government protests however, but have failed to reach beyond anarchist and radical left circles.
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Finland: Struggles against the right-wing government - Freedom News

Two years of anti-government protests raise questions about organising around collective struggles ~ Antti Rautiainen ~ The current government of F…

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Hugh Barnard @hughbarnard.bsky.social · 16h

Workplace drinking culture has become a "national economic problem"

Overall, one in three workers have called in sick after drinking with colleagues over the past year, but among 18 to 24-year-olds, the figure is 43%.

Never mind, soon AI will get drunk for them.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

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

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · 20h

Whose old enough to remember when Farage was in the news for allegedly avoiding £44K Stamp Duty re his £850K Clacton house❓

It was days after Angela Rayner had to quit after being relentlessly pursued by MSM, Farage etc re stamp duty..

It’s up to us to stop them burying it so you know what to do 👍🏼

Headline from Guardian about Farage and his dodgy property dealings in Clacton and potentially swerving stamp duty

Headline from BBC, who for five minutes, had to join the pack and report Farage’s dodgy clacton house deal and potentially avoiding stamp duty which as we know if your Angela Rayner, you should be sacked for but if you’re Farage…

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Erin Fogg says Free Link @criminalerin.bsky.social · 17h

Oh 🫠 okay 🫠

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