@ralphhickman.bsky.social
Try and be nice to people, avoid eating sugar, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live in peace and harmony with people...
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“No protest movement has ever brought about change through a one-off demonstration”
Civil society groups condemn Labour’s plans to restrict the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests
Labour ought to be repealing the last govt’s anti-protest laws, not adding to them:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Civil society groups condemn Labour’s plans to restrict the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests
Labour ought to be repealing the last govt’s anti-protest laws, not adding to them:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Civil society groups condemn ‘dangerous’ plans for more anti-protest powers
Dozens including TUC join force to oppose ‘wide-ranging’ move to increase police powers in England and Wales
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:36 AM
“No protest movement has ever brought about change through a one-off demonstration”
Civil society groups condemn Labour’s plans to restrict the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests
Labour ought to be repealing the last govt’s anti-protest laws, not adding to them:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Civil society groups condemn Labour’s plans to restrict the ‘cumulative impact’ of protests
Labour ought to be repealing the last govt’s anti-protest laws, not adding to them:
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
Charity plans to make stately homes more welcoming by inviting visitors to use furniture and reading rooms
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:01 AM
‘We want people to sit, pause, relax’: National Trust to open its libraries for public use
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I actually think The Times is worse than the Daily Mail. Everyone knows the Mail is vile, but The Times is still seen as a respectable paper read by "grown ups".
Yep, The Times is going with 'The murder of Renee Nicole Good is the fault of immigrants'.
January 10, 2026 at 1:53 PM
I actually think The Times is worse than the Daily Mail. Everyone knows the Mail is vile, but The Times is still seen as a respectable paper read by "grown ups".
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Why?
Seriously, why?
(Non Labour cultist answers only, please.)
Seriously, why?
(Non Labour cultist answers only, please.)
Mike Johnson to be first US House speaker to address British parliament reut.rs/3N8vkxP
Mike Johnson to be first US House speaker to address British parliament
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson said on Wednesday he will address Britain's parliament on January 20, as the United States marks the 250th anniversary of independence from rule by London.
reut.rs
January 8, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Why?
Seriously, why?
(Non Labour cultist answers only, please.)
Seriously, why?
(Non Labour cultist answers only, please.)
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Frighteningly plausible.
As a Brit, I'd at that we may not be at risk of invasion but we have our own Quislings eager to push Trump/MAGA/Heritage ideas here.
As a Brit, I'd at that we may not be at risk of invasion but we have our own Quislings eager to push Trump/MAGA/Heritage ideas here.
🔎 From February 2025
Trump Isn't Joking About Lebensraum
Trump's plans for Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and Mexico aren't just idle talk. A senior US insider tells us what to expect
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trump-isnt...
Trump Isn't Joking About Lebensraum
Trump's plans for Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and Mexico aren't just idle talk. A senior US insider tells us what to expect
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/trump-isnt...
Trump Isn't Joking About Lebensraum
Trump's plans for Greenland, the Panama Canal, Canada and Mexico aren't just idle talk. A senior US insider tells us what to expect
www.bylinesupplement.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Frighteningly plausible.
As a Brit, I'd at that we may not be at risk of invasion but we have our own Quislings eager to push Trump/MAGA/Heritage ideas here.
As a Brit, I'd at that we may not be at risk of invasion but we have our own Quislings eager to push Trump/MAGA/Heritage ideas here.
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I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil.
TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount)
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount)
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
Venezuela has the world’s most oil: Why doesn’t it earn more from exports?
Venezuela holds the world's largest proven oil reserves, more than five times more than the United States.
www.aljazeera.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:06 PM
I happen to know quite a bit about Venezuelan oil.
TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount)
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
TL;DR it’s hard to extract, notoriously investor-endangering, isn’t needed (global crude is oversupplied to the tune of 3.3 min bpd) and isn’t easily refined (it’s too dense so always sold at a heavy discount)
www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
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If you want a sense of how MAGAworld sees the motivations behind Venezuela and what might be next, my full interview with Angie Wong might help. Must confess, parts left me pretty stunned.
youtu.be/7F9N4eLP0uc?...
youtu.be/7F9N4eLP0uc?...
Was Maduro ‘captured’ or ‘kidnapped’?
YouTube video by LBC
youtu.be
January 5, 2026 at 12:34 AM
If you want a sense of how MAGAworld sees the motivations behind Venezuela and what might be next, my full interview with Angie Wong might help. Must confess, parts left me pretty stunned.
youtu.be/7F9N4eLP0uc?...
youtu.be/7F9N4eLP0uc?...
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From Washington to Europe, the same organisations keep appearing – Heritage, Heartland, Koch-linked groups – pushing identical anti-net zero scripts & climate change scepticism.
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
Inside MAGA’s worldwide campaign to undermine climate science
What began as US culture war politics has become a well-funded, coordinated global campaign to undermine climate science and democracy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 6:41 AM
From Washington to Europe, the same organisations keep appearing – Heritage, Heartland, Koch-linked groups – pushing identical anti-net zero scripts & climate change scepticism.
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
It’s a coordinated, well-funded project of fossil fuel money, think tanks, tech giants & political operatives
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Scores of protesters detained after the Palestine Action ban may have been arrested on false grounds, an internal Counter Terrorism Policing document obtained by Declassified suggests. 👇
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
Palestine Action policing guidance suggests protesters wrongly arrested
A previously unseen counter-terror police document clarifies how demonstrators should be treated. We are publishing it for the first time.
www.declassifieduk.org
January 2, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Scores of protesters detained after the Palestine Action ban may have been arrested on false grounds, an internal Counter Terrorism Policing document obtained by Declassified suggests. 👇
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
www.declassifieduk.org/palestine-ac...
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When in 2021 large public protests swept Oman, one of the Middle East’s most repressive regimes, the UK deepened its support for the dictatorship.
www.declassifieduk.org/largest-prot...
www.declassifieduk.org/largest-prot...
Largest protests since Arab Spring sweep Oman as UK support for regime rises
As Oman’s UK-trained police confront popular protests against unemployment and corruption in the dictatorial Gulf state, the British military prepares to deploy an aircraft carrier to a new UK naval b...
www.declassifieduk.org
January 3, 2026 at 8:58 AM
When in 2021 large public protests swept Oman, one of the Middle East’s most repressive regimes, the UK deepened its support for the dictatorship.
www.declassifieduk.org/largest-prot...
www.declassifieduk.org/largest-prot...
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Gaza has entered a new stage of genocide – low-grade mass killing which does not make headlines because it is not as explosive as carpet-bombing campaigns. But the ultimate result is the same: The extermination of Palestinian life in Gaza.
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes
The ceasefire did what it was meant to do – make Gaza invisible
Mass death in Gaza continues and yet the world no longer pays attention, convinced the genocide is over.
aje.io
January 3, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Gaza has entered a new stage of genocide – low-grade mass killing which does not make headlines because it is not as explosive as carpet-bombing campaigns. But the ultimate result is the same: The extermination of Palestinian life in Gaza.
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes
#GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes
I knew all about the NHS’s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic | Anne Perkins www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I knew all about the NHS’s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic | Anne Perkins
There is something about the care and professionalism to be seen on a ward that defies abstract analysis: a reminder of what it is to be human, says writer Anne Perkins
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I knew all about the NHS’s challenges and flaws. But then as a patient, I saw the love and the magic | Anne Perkins www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Excellent thread, I still can’t believe, Brexit happened 😪
December 28, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Excellent thread, I still can’t believe, Brexit happened 😪
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This is reflected here in Worcester where recent polls have shown that an election tomorrow would be a fight between Greens and Reform.
Let’s go! join.greenparty.org.uk
Let’s go! join.greenparty.org.uk
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is reflected here in Worcester where recent polls have shown that an election tomorrow would be a fight between Greens and Reform.
Let’s go! join.greenparty.org.uk
Let’s go! join.greenparty.org.uk
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Trump's former spiritual advisor and megachurch pastor, Robert Morris, was indicted for molesting a 12 year old girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ex-Trump spiritual adviser surrenders on child sexual abuse charges
Robert Morris, ex-pastor of Texas megachurch, was charged with five counts of lewd or indecent acts with a child
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Trump's former spiritual advisor and megachurch pastor, Robert Morris, was indicted for molesting a 12 year old girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Books! Can always give books! Either new or from Oxfam. Easy to wrap. Don't take up much space, can be lent/given away etc..!
To give or not to give presents at Christmas, that is the question | Letters www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
To give or not to give presents at Christmas, that is the question | Letters www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
To give or not to give presents at Christmas, that is the question | Letters
Letters: Becky Kennedy thinks many people see no need for the performative gift buying for a person who needs very little. Laura Matthews says no one should feel obliged to buy
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Books! Can always give books! Either new or from Oxfam. Easy to wrap. Don't take up much space, can be lent/given away etc..!
To give or not to give presents at Christmas, that is the question | Letters www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
To give or not to give presents at Christmas, that is the question | Letters www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee
It’s all there: more apprenticeships, more rights for workers and renters – and most of all, a focus on children. What a shame Labour wavers about saying so, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t | Polly Toynbee www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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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These two pages are incredibly damning. Even when written in that typically understated English way.
But you be Sam, Sam. All is fine, onwards to victory. And don't worry what a Farage will do with these weak & feeble good chap checks & balances, as Son of Toolmaker will be PM for ages.
But you be Sam, Sam. All is fine, onwards to victory. And don't worry what a Farage will do with these weak & feeble good chap checks & balances, as Son of Toolmaker will be PM for ages.
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
These two pages are incredibly damning. Even when written in that typically understated English way.
But you be Sam, Sam. All is fine, onwards to victory. And don't worry what a Farage will do with these weak & feeble good chap checks & balances, as Son of Toolmaker will be PM for ages.
But you be Sam, Sam. All is fine, onwards to victory. And don't worry what a Farage will do with these weak & feeble good chap checks & balances, as Son of Toolmaker will be PM for ages.
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“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again”
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
December 22, 2025 at 7:18 AM
“We have sacrificed our national success because of our fear of immigration. And now, if Farage has his way, we'll do it all over again”
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
Superb, important analysis of the profound harm Farage does to our country in his rabidly racist and egotistical bid for power
liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/407...
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Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee
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This image did not appear in the Epstein files, and nobody should share misinformation
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This image did not appear in the Epstein files, and nobody should share misinformation
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£90bn a year is too much to ignore in the next election
The harsh financial reality of Brexit and what it means for Labour in the next election
@cliffmitchell.bsky.social
The harsh financial reality of Brexit and what it means for Labour in the next election
@cliffmitchell.bsky.social
£90bn a year is too much to ignore in the next election
The harsh financial reality of Brexit and what it means for Labour in the next election
centralbylines.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 12:26 PM
£90bn a year is too much to ignore in the next election
The harsh financial reality of Brexit and what it means for Labour in the next election
@cliffmitchell.bsky.social
The harsh financial reality of Brexit and what it means for Labour in the next election
@cliffmitchell.bsky.social
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