@paultherope.bsky.social
Humanist. Intolerant of intolerance. Be better.
Supports active travel, public ownership of national infrastructure, the NHS, constitutional reform and the separation of government and religion.
Anthropogenic Climate Change is real.
Supports active travel, public ownership of national infrastructure, the NHS, constitutional reform and the separation of government and religion.
Anthropogenic Climate Change is real.
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Keir Starmer, David Lammy, the British media are all still ignoring the fact that several peaceful protestors who've been jailed without trial for more than a year are very close to starving to death in British jails right now...
January 9, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Keir Starmer, David Lammy, the British media are all still ignoring the fact that several peaceful protestors who've been jailed without trial for more than a year are very close to starving to death in British jails right now...
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It's great to see action starting against dangerous pavement parking. Now we need: A clear definition of what "unreasonable obstruction" means; Effective ways to enforce against obstructive and dangerous parking; Enforcement against pavements being broken by heavy vehicles.
Read more: bit.ly/4jsWbRa
Read more: bit.ly/4jsWbRa
January 9, 2026 at 10:11 AM
It's great to see action starting against dangerous pavement parking. Now we need: A clear definition of what "unreasonable obstruction" means; Effective ways to enforce against obstructive and dangerous parking; Enforcement against pavements being broken by heavy vehicles.
Read more: bit.ly/4jsWbRa
Read more: bit.ly/4jsWbRa
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🟥 Brexit promised rule-making.
Delivered rule-taking.
If we’re going to follow EU rules anyway,
why aren’t we helping write them?
Time to Rejoin
Delivered rule-taking.
If we’re going to follow EU rules anyway,
why aren’t we helping write them?
Time to Rejoin
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 AM
🟥 Brexit promised rule-making.
Delivered rule-taking.
If we’re going to follow EU rules anyway,
why aren’t we helping write them?
Time to Rejoin
Delivered rule-taking.
If we’re going to follow EU rules anyway,
why aren’t we helping write them?
Time to Rejoin
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Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
January 6, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
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I think this is the most mind-boggling form of NHS privatisation right now - and hardly anyone knows about it🚨
jujuliagrace.substack.com
jujuliagrace.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
I think this is the most mind-boggling form of NHS privatisation right now - and hardly anyone knows about it🚨
jujuliagrace.substack.com
jujuliagrace.substack.com
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It continues - to describe those who continue to defend actions like this as “apologists” doesn’t seem to be enough.
January 1, 2026 at 12:26 PM
It continues - to describe those who continue to defend actions like this as “apologists” doesn’t seem to be enough.
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The 51st state.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Chlorinated chicken row as US seeks leverage over stalled UK tech pact
Britain is facing renewed pressure from the White House to allow American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into UK supermarkets.
www.farminguk.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
The 51st state.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
Trump demands that the UK allows American chlorinated chicken and hormone-treated meat into its supermarkets.
UK already agreed to pay more for US drugs, reduced tax on private equity managers, considering cutting tax on tech companies.
'Tacking back control', someone said.
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United Nations experts have called on Britain to protect the lives and rights of detained pro-Palestine activists who are on hunger strike.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251229-un-...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251229-un-...
December 29, 2025 at 6:45 PM
United Nations experts have called on Britain to protect the lives and rights of detained pro-Palestine activists who are on hunger strike.
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251229-un-...
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20251229-un-...
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Not only did Israel hunt down Palestinian journalists to silence their war crimes, they hunted down their families too.
December 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Not only did Israel hunt down Palestinian journalists to silence their war crimes, they hunted down their families too.
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Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials.
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
December 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Citizenship stripping has become a political tool for authoritarians to signal their credentials.
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
No matter how abhorrent someone’s tweets, or views, the idea REMOVING THEIR CITIZENSHIP should be the response is deranged.
Philp & the right in general have lost the plot. #r4today
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Reform UK Review 2025
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
December 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reform UK Review 2025
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
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🚨On January 6 Keir Starmer has an opportunity to end one of the most CRUEL, INHUMANE & MONUMENTAL INJUSTICES of the past half-century - the #IPPscandal - by supporting an amendment to the Sentencing Bill tabled by Lord Thomas.
Will he take it?
youtu.be/O1gkY3gByHg?...
Will he take it?
youtu.be/O1gkY3gByHg?...
Keir Starmer now has an opportunity to end the shocking & monumentally unjust IPP scandal - will he?
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
🚨On January 6 Keir Starmer has an opportunity to end one of the most CRUEL, INHUMANE & MONUMENTAL INJUSTICES of the past half-century - the #IPPscandal - by supporting an amendment to the Sentencing Bill tabled by Lord Thomas.
Will he take it?
youtu.be/O1gkY3gByHg?...
Will he take it?
youtu.be/O1gkY3gByHg?...
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What happened starting in 1980?
Mass Privatisation.
So instead of your wages being decided by what your Government could afford and what you earned, you are paid as little as possible to maximise profit.
Mass Privatisation.
So instead of your wages being decided by what your Government could afford and what you earned, you are paid as little as possible to maximise profit.
December 27, 2025 at 5:06 PM
What happened starting in 1980?
Mass Privatisation.
So instead of your wages being decided by what your Government could afford and what you earned, you are paid as little as possible to maximise profit.
Mass Privatisation.
So instead of your wages being decided by what your Government could afford and what you earned, you are paid as little as possible to maximise profit.
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The media like to call it a "fragile ceasefire"
There has never been a ceasefire because Israel never ceasefiring.
#FreePalestine
#EndIsrseliGenocide
#BDS
#IsraelTerroristState
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
There has never been a ceasefire because Israel never ceasefiring.
#FreePalestine
#EndIsrseliGenocide
#BDS
#IsraelTerroristState
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
B'Tselem and Amnesty warn Gaza genocide is not over
B'Tselem reported that genocide in Gaza is not over even 75 days into the ceasefire — is the world inured to Palestinian suffering?
www.thecanary.co
December 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
The media like to call it a "fragile ceasefire"
There has never been a ceasefire because Israel never ceasefiring.
#FreePalestine
#EndIsrseliGenocide
#BDS
#IsraelTerroristState
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
There has never been a ceasefire because Israel never ceasefiring.
#FreePalestine
#EndIsrseliGenocide
#BDS
#IsraelTerroristState
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Some of the things we let slide in 2025:
* Genocide
* Climate catastrophe
* Covid euthanasia
* Child poverty
* Permanent warfare
* Ultra-rich paedophiles
2026 resolutions anyone?
* Genocide
* Climate catastrophe
* Covid euthanasia
* Child poverty
* Permanent warfare
* Ultra-rich paedophiles
2026 resolutions anyone?
December 27, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Some of the things we let slide in 2025:
* Genocide
* Climate catastrophe
* Covid euthanasia
* Child poverty
* Permanent warfare
* Ultra-rich paedophiles
2026 resolutions anyone?
* Genocide
* Climate catastrophe
* Covid euthanasia
* Child poverty
* Permanent warfare
* Ultra-rich paedophiles
2026 resolutions anyone?
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As he tucks into his Christmas dinner today, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer won't bat an eyelid for the peaceful protesters currently starving to death without trial in British jails for giving a shit about genocide... #FascistXmas
December 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
As he tucks into his Christmas dinner today, prime minister Sir Keir Starmer won't bat an eyelid for the peaceful protesters currently starving to death without trial in British jails for giving a shit about genocide... #FascistXmas
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Greta Thunberg being arrested this morning for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide"
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Greta Thunberg being arrested this morning for holding a sign which says "I support Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide"
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
What happened to freedom of protest?
We declare anybody we don't like a 'terrorist'.
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Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Few facts about the Palestine Action protesters on Hunger Strike
1. They never attacked anyone with sledgehammers (That was a different group)
2. They didn't commit aggravated burglary, they didn't attack anyone, they didn't even steal anything
3. They shouldn't be in jail
1. They never attacked anyone with sledgehammers (That was a different group)
2. They didn't commit aggravated burglary, they didn't attack anyone, they didn't even steal anything
3. They shouldn't be in jail
December 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Few facts about the Palestine Action protesters on Hunger Strike
1. They never attacked anyone with sledgehammers (That was a different group)
2. They didn't commit aggravated burglary, they didn't attack anyone, they didn't even steal anything
3. They shouldn't be in jail
1. They never attacked anyone with sledgehammers (That was a different group)
2. They didn't commit aggravated burglary, they didn't attack anyone, they didn't even steal anything
3. They shouldn't be in jail
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SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.
These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.
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Are corporate social media posts about pride the most important part of building an inclusive society? Of course not.
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
Revealed: how big businesses are rolling back public support for Pride
Guardian analysis of 20 major companies in UK and US shows mentions of Pride on social media have fallen substantially in past two years
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Are corporate social media posts about pride the most important part of building an inclusive society? Of course not.
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
But is a 92% reduction in them a worrying sign? Almost certainly:
https://bit.ly/4j6ezPI
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned
Trail hunting sees a scent laid out for the hunt to follow rather than a real animal, and was introduced as a replacement for fox hunting, which was banned by Labour in 2004
www.mirror.co.uk
December 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Boxing day hunts to be thing of the past with trail hunting set to be banned
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.