Sharon Payne
@shazzlep.bsky.social
Ex-X lurker. Left views - interested in how politics can work for the many. Book lover, cat lover. Must stop shouting at the radio!
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50 years ago it was accepted by everyone that Water, Energy, Public Transport, Social Housing, Child Social Care, Telecoms and much more was all owned by the Government (you) and was free from profit.
We need to make that normal again, as it is the source of most of the problems
We need to make that normal again, as it is the source of most of the problems
February 13, 2026 at 11:45 PM
50 years ago it was accepted by everyone that Water, Energy, Public Transport, Social Housing, Child Social Care, Telecoms and much more was all owned by the Government (you) and was free from profit.
We need to make that normal again, as it is the source of most of the problems
We need to make that normal again, as it is the source of most of the problems
We are certainly living in topsy turvy times!
Zack Polanski calls for a discussion on the legalisation and regulation of drugs and the right in the UK lose their collective shit.
The US Health Secretary gives a bizarre interview in which he says he's not scared of germs because he used to snort coke off toilet seats and...
The US Health Secretary gives a bizarre interview in which he says he's not scared of germs because he used to snort coke off toilet seats and...
a cartoon of spongebob saying " nothing " with his hands in the air
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob saying " nothing " with his hands in the air
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:40 AM
We are certainly living in topsy turvy times!
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Amazing news! 🎉🚌🎉🚌🎉🚌
Well done @mayoroflondon.bsky.social "If a private company is making profit, would it not be nice if it was run by us, and we made the profit and reinvested it in public transport rather than in our shareholders getting dividends?" 👏👏👏
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
Well done @mayoroflondon.bsky.social "If a private company is making profit, would it not be nice if it was run by us, and we made the profit and reinvested it in public transport rather than in our shareholders getting dividends?" 👏👏👏
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
TfL wants to create a publicly owned bus company for London
If established, it would be the first major publicly owned bus company to operate in the capital for thirty years.
www.cityam.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Amazing news! 🎉🚌🎉🚌🎉🚌
Well done @mayoroflondon.bsky.social "If a private company is making profit, would it not be nice if it was run by us, and we made the profit and reinvested it in public transport rather than in our shareholders getting dividends?" 👏👏👏
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
Well done @mayoroflondon.bsky.social "If a private company is making profit, would it not be nice if it was run by us, and we made the profit and reinvested it in public transport rather than in our shareholders getting dividends?" 👏👏👏
www.cityam.com/tfl-wants-to...
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Definitely worth a few minutes of your time
I missed all the kerfuffle around this in the MSM
Maybe I read the wrong papers? 🤭
I missed all the kerfuffle around this in the MSM
Maybe I read the wrong papers? 🤭
Michael O’Leary and Elon Musk have been in a running online battle about Ryanair declining Starlink on its aircraft.
While it’s amusing to watch two grown men in a pissing contest, there is a much more worrying trend happening - the word “no” not being treated as a full sentence anymore.
While it’s amusing to watch two grown men in a pissing contest, there is a much more worrying trend happening - the word “no” not being treated as a full sentence anymore.
O'Leary Said No. Elon Musk Lost His Mind.
Ryanair, Musk, Trump, Greenland - same instinct, different scales of refusing to hear "no".
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
January 21, 2026 at 8:44 AM
Definitely worth a few minutes of your time
I missed all the kerfuffle around this in the MSM
Maybe I read the wrong papers? 🤭
I missed all the kerfuffle around this in the MSM
Maybe I read the wrong papers? 🤭
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The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
January 12, 2026 at 8:02 AM
The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
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Go to prisonersforpalestine.org to support the campaign
December 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Go to prisonersforpalestine.org to support the campaign
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An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 AM
An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...
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We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
December 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.
Keyless ignition - the most pointless invention we didn’t need!
Today I learned, through an unfortunate chain of events, that it’s possible to start a car with the keys on the roof, have the keys stay on the roof for five miles, ask “what’s that clunk” as they fall off, continue for a further 20 miles, then find you can’t lock your car and it won’t restart.
August 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Keyless ignition - the most pointless invention we didn’t need!
Just listening to R4 this morning & thinking exactly this!
August 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Just listening to R4 this morning & thinking exactly this!
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Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐
August 21, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Ignore the haters. London is the 🐐
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Our own @pimlicat.bsky.social explaining why giving Musk a foothold in our energy infrastructure is a REALLY bad idea, to @lewisgoodall.com on @lbc.co.uk just now.
"If you were a UK regulator, why would you think somebody who has said 'I don't give a damn about regulations' is fit and proper?" ~AA
"If you were a UK regulator, why would you think somebody who has said 'I don't give a damn about regulations' is fit and proper?" ~AA
August 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Our own @pimlicat.bsky.social explaining why giving Musk a foothold in our energy infrastructure is a REALLY bad idea, to @lewisgoodall.com on @lbc.co.uk just now.
"If you were a UK regulator, why would you think somebody who has said 'I don't give a damn about regulations' is fit and proper?" ~AA
"If you were a UK regulator, why would you think somebody who has said 'I don't give a damn about regulations' is fit and proper?" ~AA
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August 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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We published a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza. It made an impact globally – and created controversy | Elisabeth Ribbans
We published a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza. It made an impact globally – and created controversy | Elisabeth Ribbans
Initially, we did not know that Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq had existing health needs. But his medical details do not diminish his suffering, or that of other children in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We published a photo of a malnourished child in Gaza. It made an impact globally – and created controversy | Elisabeth Ribbans
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I wrote this up - how “hard working local MPs” are facilitating a genocide:
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
A 'good constituency MP'? how ‘hard working local politicians’ are facilitating a genocide
I ran into my MP today...
open.substack.com
July 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I wrote this up - how “hard working local MPs” are facilitating a genocide:
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
open.substack.com/pub/abolishw...
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London's crime rate now is half of what it was in 1990 and nearly a quarter of 1975.
But all Farage has is BS and lies.
But all Farage has is BS and lies.
July 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
London's crime rate now is half of what it was in 1990 and nearly a quarter of 1975.
But all Farage has is BS and lies.
But all Farage has is BS and lies.
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Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, proposes a new model of support for people in his area, based on their needs.
Burnham’s alternative welfare reform for Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, proposes a new model of support for people in his area, based on their needs
northwestbylines.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, proposes a new model of support for people in his area, based on their needs.
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Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
www.vanityfair.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Rümeysa is one of the kindest, most compassionate people I have ever met. Many of you came to know her first and foremost as an ICE abductee, seized by a state that wanted to strip her of her humanity. I would like for you to know her in her own words, which are resoundingly human.
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This is unsurprisingly very good, although we should be clear that the narrative of Jenrick, Goodhart and Goodwin that immigration has ruined London is no different in either its factual basis or its racist motivation from Trump/Vance's "Haitians are eating your pets".
New comment piece. Those who lament a "lost" or "fallen" London, & these days blame it on immigration, are engaging in a populist scam: www.onlondon.co.uk/dave-hill-la... #London #Jenrick #Reform @sundersays.bsky.social @lewisbaston.bsky.social @richardbrown.bsky.social @charleswright57.bsky.social
Dave Hill: Lamenting a 'lost' London is a populist scam
Claims that the capital has fallen into lawless decline with immigration as a main cause are false and unpatriotic
www.onlondon.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 10:08 AM
This is unsurprisingly very good, although we should be clear that the narrative of Jenrick, Goodhart and Goodwin that immigration has ruined London is no different in either its factual basis or its racist motivation from Trump/Vance's "Haitians are eating your pets".
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Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.
But he didn't.
Don't RT 🤣
But he didn't.
Don't RT 🤣
June 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Tommy Robinson sent a letter to himself, he meant to log out and send it from a different account.
But he didn't.
Don't RT 🤣
But he didn't.
Don't RT 🤣
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Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London.
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
They hate London because it is beautiful
Matthew Goodwin went to that there London the other day and what he found shook him to his core.
open.substack.com
June 27, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Blistering piece from @iandunt.bsky.social on Matthew Goodwin's visit to London.
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
"The success of London is a point-blank, up-against-the-wall-motherfucker refutation of the right-wing populist world view."
open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
Good information to know.
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Good information to know.
So true!
June 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
So true!
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This is excellent, if you are already weary of Google AIsplaining everything.
I use udm14.com which routes your search to Google plus a term which switches off the "AI"; who knows how long it will keep working.
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
udm14.com
June 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This is excellent, if you are already weary of Google AIsplaining everything.
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Dismissed FAA staffer Ronicsa Chambers said her team members — five Black women and one white man with a disability — were told they would be reassigned but remain without work.
“As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.”
New, @davidmcswane.bsky.social @propublica.org
“As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.”
New, @davidmcswane.bsky.social @propublica.org
Dismissed by DEI: Trump’s Purge Made Black Women With Stable Federal Jobs an “Easy Target”
The president’s attack on diversity efforts has derailed the government careers of highly educated civil servants — even though the jobs some lost were not directly involved with any DEI programs.
www.propublica.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Dismissed FAA staffer Ronicsa Chambers said her team members — five Black women and one white man with a disability — were told they would be reassigned but remain without work.
“As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.”
New, @davidmcswane.bsky.social @propublica.org
“As far as we know, we’re the only ones still on administrative leave.”
New, @davidmcswane.bsky.social @propublica.org