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Phil M

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Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), ExFirefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (Menière’s). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. ADHD. @HRRBFireSafety.

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Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · Jun 7

Remember how they lied about Brexit? Unsurprisingly, they're lying about ECHR too.
Don't give up your rights!! 👇

Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · Jun 7

Should we follow Putin out of the ECHR?

Or is it just another Brexit where we give up our rights in the vain pursuit of making migrants disappear?

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Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 15h

I'm grateful to tory Duncan-Smith for going on the TV news and explaining that China are a threat because they want to sell us their cheap electric cars.
China is not ripping off ecar-buying consumers and, presumably, he owns some JLR shares in his pension pot, so we should regard them as an enemy.

Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 16h

"The situation is so dire that nearly 100 heads of radiotherapy and oncology – three-quarters of England’s radiotherapy leaders – have warned in an open letter that the government is failing patients." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

More than 60,000 cancer patients in England ‘not getting necessary radiotherapy’

Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data by Radiotherapy UK also shows some patients face waits of up to six months

www.theguardian.com

Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 16h

"The number of people who died while homeless in the UK reached a record high last year, according to new figures.
The Museum of Homelessness, which compiles the data, said that 1,611 homeless people died in 2024.
The figure is 9% higher than the year before" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high

Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.

www.bbc.co.uk

Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 17h

The interest from their existing wealth, specifically the interest from billionaires' UK wealth, will exceed the entire UK GDP this year.
It cannot go on; they are hanging all of us out to dry. As a society, we are being hollowed out by the wealthiest.
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

Lifetime of earnings not enough for UK workers to join wealthiest 10%, report says

Research finds it would take average worker saving all their earnings for 52 years to match wealth of richest 10th of society

www.theguardian.com

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KeithG @datchmog.bsky.social · 19h

She’s another one bought by the Zionists…

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 19h

This is how we turn our country around.

Away from the forces of hate and division.

We're going to do it together.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18h

This is devastating but hard to think of more important journalism. 18,457 children have been killed in Gaza (many more not accounted for). Here, The Guardian prints their names and beautiful faces and tells us what they were like before Israel stole their lives. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 18h

Annual cost of Eton school fees: £53k

Average UK salary: £35k

Guess which one the right-wing press is more concerned about?

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History Daily - This Many Years Ago @thismanyyearsago.bsky.social · 21h

196 years ago, on the 8th of October 1829, Stephenson’s Rocket won the Rainhill Trails in which five locomotives competed. Stephenson’s Rocket was the only one to complete the rails. A light engine running speed of 30 mph (48 km/h) was reached. Prize money was £500. #otd #history 🗃️

Later conjectural drawing of the Rainhill trials. In the foreground is Rocket and in the background are Sans Pareil (right) and Novelty.

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 18h

"This surveillance supersystem," Thiel wrote, could act as “a political framework that operates outside the checks and balances of representative democracy as described in high school textbooks.” www.wired.com/story/the-re...

The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession

Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.

www.wired.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h

- Grim that media barons are buying up mainstream media and making them fascism-enabling propaganda engines

- ULTAGRIM that so many of the big-name journalists escaping that fire are voluntarily leaping directly into a completely separate newsletter website trap set by the same fascists

Substack’s “Nazi problem” won’t go away after push notification apology

Substack may be legitimizing neo-Nazis as “thought leaders,” researcher warns.

arstechnica.com

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 17h

LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating marker of how far the Tory target voter has shifted from ‘middle class parents wanting their kids to go to uni’ to ‘old people who didn’t go and don’t see what anyone else should either’. (Obv there’s a solid case for apprenticeships, but not convinced that’s what this is about)

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is expected to announce plans to cut the number of UK university places by about 100,000 annually by reintroducing student number controls, reports Patrick Jack #edusky
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/badenochs-number-caps-plan-would-cut-100000-university-places

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Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 18h

"I want a mandate to do more and as deputy leader tackling child poverty will be my number one priority".
Labour doesn't know who it is where it's going or what it's doing. It's a fractured party in disarray, avoiding & subverting some of the most serious issues. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 19h

"Do some billionaires earn more in a night than the population of Bournemouth earns in a year?"
R4 More or Less scrutinises a claim made at conference by @zackpolanski.bsky.social - give it a listen why don't you?
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - More or Less, Does half the UK get more in benefits than they pay in tax?

UK benefits, Zack Polanski’s billionaire claim and Gen Z job interviews.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 20h

The Green surge continues ... We’ve just passed 90,000 members! 💚

People everywhere are joining the movement for real change.

Want hope to be normal again? Join the Green Party today ↩️

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Levenshulme Old Library @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social · 20h

We’re absolutely delighted to share that Levenshulme Old Library is a finalist at this year's Manchester Culture Awards!

We're shortlisted in the 'best event' category for last year's Ghosts at the Old Library, our homegrown winter storytelling project.

Huge thanks to all involved.

Wish us luck!

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Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 1d

Fed up kicking disabled people, the government is now turning it's steel toecaps towards children.
GDP, according to corrupt formulas enforced by the most capitalist, and most unequal of regimes, the WEF. When they say that cutting benefits = growth, neolibs start kicking.

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1d

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants.

By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...

London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding

Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...

www.politicshome.com

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No Masters Zone @nomasterszone.bsky.social · 7d

Greens are new Reds in UK.

The Scottish Greens just won rent controls for Scotland for the first time in nearly 40 years

The Scottish Green Party has secured a win for renters in Scotland, after Holyrood passed a bill that will reintroduce rent controls

www.thecanary.co

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BuDS Disability Service @buds-disability.bsky.social · 1d

People are right to be angry. It is absolutely shameful that the Government have restricted Covid boosters to such a small group. This is a huge gamble with the nation's health purely to save money. Here is how their argument runs: a thread 🧵

A headline reading "Pharmacies facing angry patients over Covid jab confusion". Below it is an image of a nurse drawing up a vaccine into a syringe from a vial.

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Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 1d

If Robert Jenrick has to travel more than 90 minutes from Newark to Handsworth, where there's a bin strike, to make a video about litter, then really, litter isn't a serious issue.
Alternatively, maybe the litter thing is bullshit, and he went to see brown faces and to be his usual racist self.

A snip of a map showing the driving route, over 80 miles, from Jenrick's constituency Newark, to Handsworth (where there's a bin strike), a journey taken by Jenrick to make a video, he's stated, about litter.

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Will Yeates @wyeates.bsky.social · 2d

Theresa May has condemned a promise made by Kemi Badenoch to repeal the Climate Change Act if the Tories win the next general election, calling the plans a “catastrophic mistake”.

May called it a “retrograde” step that upended 17 years of consensus

Senior Tories dismayed at Badenoch’s ‘catastrophic’ vow to repeal Climate Change Act

Theresa May, Alok Sharma, business and church leaders say plan would harm UK and not even Margaret Thatcher would have countenanced it

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Phil M @phillm.bsky.social · 2d

@carolvorders.bsky.social and @garyseconomics.bsky.social