Mary Evans Young
@maryevansyoung.bsky.social
Author: Ageing with Attitude / Diet Breaking / You Count, Calories Don't.
Activist: Always with the oppressed, never the oppressor.
#NODIETDAY
Activist: Always with the oppressed, never the oppressor.
#NODIETDAY
The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
Sir Jon Cunliffe: put public ownership back on the table!
From day one, the government’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” - a.k.a the Cunliffe Review - has ruled out the solution that 82% of the British public want: public ownership.
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actionnetwork.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Govt’s “largest review of the water sector since privatisation” ruled out public ownership - a solution 82% of us support - before even starting.
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
This review is a sham - but we still have a chance to be heard. Sign @labourlewis.bsky.social’s open letter: actionnetwork.org/petitions/si...
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
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BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage
BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage
‘Premium experience’ for US users will include BBC News livestream as broadcaster looks overseas for income boost
The BBC is to begin charging US-based users for unlimited access to its news content and rolling televised coverage, as it searches for new ways to ease the pressure on its finances.
In the first scheme asking users outside the UK to pay a direct subscription for its news content, US users will be offered the chance to pay for a “premium experience”, including unlimited news and feature articles and a livestream of the BBC News channel. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
BBC to start charging US-based consumers for news and TV coverage
Governments/suppliers must tell Trump to 'Take a jump!'
US embassies tell suppliers to comply with Trump ban on diversity policies - www.reuters.com/world/us-emb...
This latest version of US cultural imperialism is frightening.
We must resist Trump’s insistence we all be racist and sexist like him
This latest version of US cultural imperialism is frightening.
We must resist Trump’s insistence we all be racist and sexist like him
US embassies tell suppliers to comply with Trump ban on diversity policies
The instructions have been sent to a wide range of firms, a Spanish official said, including those supplying the homes of U.S. embassy staff with water, gas and electricity, to newspapers to which embassies subscribe, and catering suppliers.
www.reuters.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Governments/suppliers must tell Trump to 'Take a jump!'
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New Gallup poll shows US support for Israel at record low
A new Gallup poll shows that support for Israel among Americans has dropped to its lowest level in at least 25 years, while sympathy for Palestinians is at a record high.
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/new-...
A new Gallup poll shows that support for Israel among Americans has dropped to its lowest level in at least 25 years, while sympathy for Palestinians is at a record high.
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/new-...
New Gallup poll shows support for Israel at record low
A new Gallup poll shows that support for Israel among Americans has dropped to its lowest level in at least 25 years, while sympathy for Palestinians is at a record high.
mondoweiss.net
March 8, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New Gallup poll shows US support for Israel at record low
A new Gallup poll shows that support for Israel among Americans has dropped to its lowest level in at least 25 years, while sympathy for Palestinians is at a record high.
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/new-...
A new Gallup poll shows that support for Israel among Americans has dropped to its lowest level in at least 25 years, while sympathy for Palestinians is at a record high.
mondoweiss.net/2025/03/new-...
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March 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
March 8, 2025
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March 8, 2025
Yesterday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made it clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to slash the federal government and to privatize its current services.
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 7:38 AM
March 8, 2025
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Erasing Gaza
Another post about the rows surrounding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone & No Other Land.
The reception these received epitomises a pro-Israel mindset in which Gazan people do not exist. They are “simply an undesired presence on land that Israel wants”.
josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/
Another post about the rows surrounding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone & No Other Land.
The reception these received epitomises a pro-Israel mindset in which Gazan people do not exist. They are “simply an undesired presence on land that Israel wants”.
josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/
Erasing Gaza
Two Recent Film Controversies and the Denial of Palestine
josephfinlay.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Erasing Gaza
Another post about the rows surrounding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone & No Other Land.
The reception these received epitomises a pro-Israel mindset in which Gazan people do not exist. They are “simply an undesired presence on land that Israel wants”.
josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/
Another post about the rows surrounding Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone & No Other Land.
The reception these received epitomises a pro-Israel mindset in which Gazan people do not exist. They are “simply an undesired presence on land that Israel wants”.
josephfinlay.com/erasing-gaza/
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#Ageism is the most widespread form of discrimination in the UK, and it will impact us all at some point in our lives.
It's time we made a change.
Find out more about our @agewithoutlimits.bsky.social campaign and how we are challenging ageism in all forms: AgeWithoutLimits.org
#AgeWithoutLimits
It's time we made a change.
Find out more about our @agewithoutlimits.bsky.social campaign and how we are challenging ageism in all forms: AgeWithoutLimits.org
#AgeWithoutLimits
March 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#Ageism is the most widespread form of discrimination in the UK, and it will impact us all at some point in our lives.
It's time we made a change.
Find out more about our @agewithoutlimits.bsky.social campaign and how we are challenging ageism in all forms: AgeWithoutLimits.org
#AgeWithoutLimits
It's time we made a change.
Find out more about our @agewithoutlimits.bsky.social campaign and how we are challenging ageism in all forms: AgeWithoutLimits.org
#AgeWithoutLimits
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More than 80% of the homes that will exist in 2050 have already been built.
It's time for #SafeHomesNow. For many, living in a dangerous home will be life-limiting – and for some, it will even kill them.
Find out more here: buff.ly/JV4W7Zn
It's time for #SafeHomesNow. For many, living in a dangerous home will be life-limiting – and for some, it will even kill them.
Find out more here: buff.ly/JV4W7Zn
March 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
More than 80% of the homes that will exist in 2050 have already been built.
It's time for #SafeHomesNow. For many, living in a dangerous home will be life-limiting – and for some, it will even kill them.
Find out more here: buff.ly/JV4W7Zn
It's time for #SafeHomesNow. For many, living in a dangerous home will be life-limiting – and for some, it will even kill them.
Find out more here: buff.ly/JV4W7Zn
Agreed.
Labour could tax the super-rich to end poverty, build social housing and fix our NHS.
They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.
For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.
They are choosing to go after the worst-off instead.
For a while, many people didn’t know what this government stood for. They do now: tough choices for the poor, endless money for war.
March 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Agreed.
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A brief history of the North Oxfordshire Socialist Campaign Group and the people they met along the way
March 4, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A brief history of the North Oxfordshire Socialist Campaign Group and the people they met along the way
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Issue 18 of the NOSA newsletter , feedback always welcome
March 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Issue 18 of the NOSA newsletter , feedback always welcome
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Yael Kahn is the latest Jew to be arrested by Keir Starmer's Met police, using the UK's draconian anti-protest and terror laws, for expressing opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Kahn, who lost family in the Holocaust, has begun a hunger strike in her prison cell.
skwawkbox.org/2025/01/03/e...
Kahn, who lost family in the Holocaust, has begun a hunger strike in her prison cell.
skwawkbox.org/2025/01/03/e...
Exclusive video: Israeli anti-genocide protester Kahn arrested, goes on hunger- and sleep-strike
Veteran Jewish anti-Zionist held in custody by Met, begins protest Yael Kahn, the Jewish Israeli anti-genocide protester who has been repeatedly targeted by the UK state for her uncompromising oppo…
skwawkbox.org
January 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Yael Kahn is the latest Jew to be arrested by Keir Starmer's Met police, using the UK's draconian anti-protest and terror laws, for expressing opposition to Israel's genocide in Gaza.
Kahn, who lost family in the Holocaust, has begun a hunger strike in her prison cell.
skwawkbox.org/2025/01/03/e...
Kahn, who lost family in the Holocaust, has begun a hunger strike in her prison cell.
skwawkbox.org/2025/01/03/e...
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Raffi Berg, who tightly controls the BBC's Israel-Palestine output, earned his spurs working for a CIA front group, counts Mossad agents as close friends, and frames pictures of Netanyahu on his wall like a starstruck teenager.
More here: www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-israel-c...
More here: www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-israel-c...
Raffi Berg: BBC Middle East Editor Exposed as CIA, Mossad Collaborator
Raffi Berg, now at the center of a media scandal over the BBC’s Israel coverage, once worked for a known CIA front and collaborated with Mossad officials., BBC Middle East coverage, BBC pro-Israel con...
www.mintpressnews.com
January 5, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Raffi Berg, who tightly controls the BBC's Israel-Palestine output, earned his spurs working for a CIA front group, counts Mossad agents as close friends, and frames pictures of Netanyahu on his wall like a starstruck teenager.
More here: www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-israel-c...
More here: www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-israel-c...
Agreed.
This is a fantastic book from Mark Seddon & David Shreeve - Great British Elms. As well as hundreds of other interesting stories about elms, the now famous Chelsea Road Elm in Sheffield also features. Well worth a purchase!
January 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Agreed.