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Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙

@neilmullens.bsky.social

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20 yrs abroad, 17 yrs in Japan. Anti-Brexit. Pro-constitutional & electoral reform. Love vinyl, books, films, cooking, motorcycles, travel, dogs. #FBPPR #Bristol

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Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙 @neilmullens.bsky.social · May 30

Brexit won’t be done until it’s undone

Martin Roche

@bylines.scot @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

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Brexit won’t be done until it’s undone

A long rambling walk along the highways and byways of politics today

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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · Aug 13

Powerful words by London Mayor Sadiq Khan
@london.gov.uk in Byline Times on claims of 'lawless London' 👇

"These people can't stand what London represents... They believe a city as diverse & progressive as ours cannot be allowed to thrive. If it does, it makes a mockery of their entire worldview"

‘These People Can’t Stand What London Represents… It Makes a Mockery of their Entire Worldview’

Sadiq Khan, the Labour Mayor of London, addresses the increasing number of claims by those in the media and politics of the capital city’s apparent decline

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jul 2

When Reform UK's Richard Tice complains about the Chagos islands deal, "giving away our strategic security asset"

The Labour minister responds, "I'm not going to take lessons from a party that fawns over Vladimir Putin"

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El Norte Recuerda @elnorterecuerda.bsky.social · Jul 2

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

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Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙 @neilmullens.bsky.social · Jun 22

Harrowing watch but damn good TV. Blanchett and Kline are standouts in a stellar cast superbly directed by Alfonso Cuarón.

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Watch Disclaimer - Apple TV+

A mysterious delivery threatens to expose a celebrated journalist’s past. Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline star in a series written for the screen and d…

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · Jun 18

The media should be paying *a lot* more attention to Farage's climate views.

He literally doesn't think that carbon dioxide is a pollutant.

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Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙 @neilmullens.bsky.social · Jun 18

Yes.

Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙 @neilmullens.bsky.social · Jun 7

If you don’t, you should. You’re hilarious!

Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙 @neilmullens.bsky.social · Jun 6

🤣 Do you do stand-up?

Neil Mullens 🌻 ✊💙 @neilmullens.bsky.social · May 30

Brexit won’t be done until it’s undone

Martin Roche

@bylines.scot @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

bylines.scot/politics/bre...

Brexit won’t be done until it’s undone

A long rambling walk along the highways and byways of politics today

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · May 29

“It’s almost as if LBC thought no one would notice the fact that Myska had gone, but her case has attracted widespread interest…”

The strange disappearance of Belle and Sangita

Two British journalists have recently been taken off air, potentially for questioning foreign politicians in a manner that displeased them

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · May 29

In Grangetown, where life expectancy is 51.5, a 30-year waste deal risks locking in pollution and blocking progress.

Will Teesside councils act?

The folly of long-term incinerator contracts

In Grangetown, where life expectancy is 51.5, a 30-year waste deal risks locking in pollution and blocking progress. Will Teesside councils act?

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · May 29

“The idea that this country is not a free country is completely and utterly ludicrous. That woman was inciting violence. She's free to think her horrible, racist thoughts. That's fine. What she isn’t allowed to do is go and incite violence.”

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BBC Newsnight Panellist Slams Claims Jailed Tory Councillor's Wife Is Political Prisoner

Ayesha Hazarika said Lucy Connolly is free to think "horrible racist thoughts", but not incite violence.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · May 29

This was a real pleasure.

bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · May 29

NEW EPISODE: 'Broken News'.

The terror of the tabloids @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social talks to @goldbergradio.bsky.social about his new book, “Breaking – How The Media Works, When It Doesn’t And Why It Matters.”

From @bylinetimes.bsky.social

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Byline Podcast: Broken News: Mic Wright On The Media

Adrian Goldberg talks to Mic Wright, Byline Times columnist and author of “Breaking – How The Media Works, When It Doesn’t AndWhy It Matters.”Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg Learn...

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · May 29

🔴NEW🔴 by me for @opendemocracy.net
Ministry of Defence pays out £20m in compensation for sexual misconduct over 10 years, figures obtained by FOI laws reveal

www.opendemocracy.net/en/british-a...

UK military paid sexual misconduct victims £20m since 2014

Huge payouts are sign of “discrimination and misogyny” in British military, warns former Tory defence minister

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · May 29

31% say 'no party represents working people'.

That is a real problem. @yougov.co.uk

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · May 29

A new issue for most people? SEE: Planet’s darkening oceans pose threat to marine life, scientists say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s darkening oceans pose threat to marine life, scientists say

Band of water where marine life can survive has reduced in more than a fifth of global ocean between 2003 and 2022

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · May 29

“The Immigration White Paper aims to reduce international student numbers.

But universities need them.

Can the circle be squared?”

Will the government’s immigration plans be good for our universities?

The Immigration White Paper aims to reduce international student numbers. But universities need them. Can the circle be squared?

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Steve Dawe @stevedawe.bsky.social · May 29

Climate Change is worsening hurricanes. SEE: www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-ch...

Climate change is making hurricanes more destructive

a lot of climate misinformers don't want you to understand this

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John Chambers @jowicha.bsky.social · May 29

If instead of fining water companies money, they were fined shares, they'd either have to do the job they've been paid for or lose the company piece by piece.
Re-nationalisation at no cost to the public.

Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · May 28

If Thames Water can pay its "record fine" by passing the cost on to its customers, how is that a punishment?

(Presumably they'll just tack a few more quid onto every bill.)

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · May 29

"Water pollution is a massive problem. The River Ouse, a major river in Yorkshire, is identified as being at risk from manure pollution from factory farms. UK livestock farming produces an estimated 33,450 tonnes of manure every day."

Is intensive farming a danger to our health and our planet?

Factory or intensive farming affects our waterways, our wildlife, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat

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🎃 Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎃 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · May 15

Marcy Wheeler @emptywheel.bsky.social is keeping a running list of all the claims made by Musk & his team that have been shown to be false:

DOGE Debunking - emptywheel

MuskWatch’s DOGE tracker Running Xitter threads from Momentum Chaser January 30: Fact Check: No evidence US spent $50 million on condoms for Gaza January 30: FACT FOCUS: No evidence that $50 million w...

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · May 15

C4News, "The Prime Minister Keir Starmer, unusually, chose to take only one broadcaster, GB News"

What word would you use to describe a PM who only takes GB News on a trip to another country?

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · May 16

Young people are locked out of opportunities their older siblings took for granted. A UK–EU youth visa deal could begin to change that.
Read Prof. Johanna Waters on why this matters.

From The Conversation -- thanks!

Young, stuck and shut out: a new EU deal could change that

Even a capped, time-limited youth visa scheme would be of value to young people in the UK and EU

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Kevin Schofield @kevinschofied.bsky.social · May 16

BBC Question Time Audience Laughs As Fiona Bruce Skewers Tory Chairman Over His Party's Record

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bbc-qu...

BBC Question Time Audience Laughs As Fiona Bruce Skewers Tory Chairman Over His Party's Record

The presenter pointed out that a key Conservative policy had failed.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · May 16

Restrict cash ISAs and I for one will not shift to a stocks and shares ISA. Tried that twice. Lost money comparatively. To the charges of providers. Now who does the report say is lobbying for this? www.ft.com/content/8455...

UK ministers consider cutting tax-free cash Isa allowance

City groups think such a move will attract money into equity funds and domestic shares

www.ft.com

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