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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 4h

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Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag! | Aditya Chakrabortty

The PM wants to talk about patriotism when the issue that is really affecting people is the cost of living. If he doesn’t wise up, that dissonance will sink him, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrab...

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 18h

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why Tony Blair just can’t kick the habit of imperial interference in the Middle East | Oliver Eagleton

The Blair-Trump fantasy for postwar Gaza shows the former PM still thinks that free enterprise can solve all the world’s ills, says associate editor at the New Left Review Oliver Eagleton

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 22h

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"They poison our democracies" | Yanis Varoufakis on Big Tech, populism and the future of The Left

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

So much energy from Green Party Conference.

Great to hear about all the local parties in England & Wales calling up their new members, inviting them to action days and getting people involved.

Let's go! 💚🚀

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Zack Polanski Must Now Transform His Fans Into Activists | Novara Media

The telegenic eco-socialist has triggered an explosion of interest in the Green party, and a parallel growth in membership. Now he needs to translate enthusiasm into activity, writes Adam Ramsay.

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Martin McKee @martinmckee.bsky.social · 2d

BBC Radio 4 Today takes the political temperature in Manchester by interviewing a cross section of the population … in a golf club
Next, a representative survey of US public opinion in Mar a Lago?

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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2d

Can you imagine if Russia attacked and seized a UK vessel in international waters & kidnapped the people on board, including UK citizens, and the only response from the UK govt was to say that's "a matter for the Russian govt".

No, me neither.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2d

Seeing lots of this tonight after that party political broadcast.

The Green Party are on track to overtake the Tories in membership.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 2d

Did a thing.

A screenshot of an email welcoming me to the Green Party after I signed up to become a member

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 2d

We've already seen judges and lawyers being targeted as "enemies of the people". This increases risk of threats/attacks, while undermining judiciary as a whole. Couple it with Tory plans to scrap immigration tribunals and legal aid for people seeking asylum and it shows utter contempt for the law.

Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 2d

So according to Jenrick, 'not integrated' means black/brown faces outnumbering white faces. How very dare they. Nothing to do with whether they're actually integrated – just what they look like.

Absolutely shameful.

He'll probably become Tory leader.

Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 2d

Jenrick says, Handsworth the area I went to school in isn’t integrated as he didn’t see a white face and the closest he has seen to a slum? So is he saying we should pay minorities much more for their low paid jobs and welcome them to The Cotswolds with their mosques and temples???

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aliciablackgirl.bsky.social @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Greta Thunberg will be in history books. never stop Greta. you are a beacon of hope. More guts than every leader in this world.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2d

No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 2d

Badenoch’s law:

Racism aimed at Badenoch by someone she thinks is on the left: very bad

Racism aimed at literally anybody else: fine

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 2d

More 💩from transphobes. Falsely claiming research supports conversion practices, when the research explicitly condemns conversion therapy as "psychologically damaging" and linked to suicide.

“This is the most upsetting use of my scholarship in my career ...It's lethally dangerous to LGBTQ+ kids"

Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 2d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 2d

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Antisemitism, Racism & Identity Politics | Ash Sarkar

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

A judge blocked Trump from sending Oregon's National Guard into Portland.

That same judge then blocked Trump from deploying California's National Guard to Portland instead.

This isn't a "left wing" judge — Trump appointed her.

Says a lot about Trump's authoritarian power grab.

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 2d

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Greta Thunberg: ‘We Are Not Heroes. We Are Doing The Bare Minimum’

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 3d

Well I have been known to refer to Trump as a turd in human form.

No. It's not funny but it tells the (not literal) truth IMO.

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 4d

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The Police Are Protecting Government Not People

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David Tomkins @davidctomkins.bsky.social · 4d

Fascists deny climate change because they cannot control it. They can’t bend the laws of physics to their ideology. And so they pretend it isn’t real. Our task - as citizens, as voters, as people of conscience - is to prove them wrong.
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Why Fascists Reject Climate Science

At the United Nations last month, Donald Trump stood before global leaders and the world and declared again that climate change is a hoax. He did this while floods and fires are ravaging communities, ...

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 4d

Why?

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paulr01.bsky.social @paulr01.bsky.social · 4d

Brilliant. Thanks Stewart.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 4d

And he’s back!!

Sunday isn’t Sunday without Stewart Lee. We were so thrilled at @thenerve.news that Stewart came with us.

His satirical columns for the Observer were some of our most-read content: funny, surreal, angry true. Essential weekend reading.

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DOUBLETHINK DOES DOUBLETIME

STEWART LEE

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

Kemi Badenoch says her political strategy will "pay off eventually" for the Conservative party.

Here's how it's going so far

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Carmen Harris🇿🇦 @carmenharris.bsky.social · 4d

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