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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · 7d

Not a glitch. It’s the strategy. It’s another way of bypassing reason and argument and speaking directly to ‘feels,’ triggering sympathy from listeners. The whole strategy of the far right is founded on appeals to core emotions. It’s psyops.

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 10d

“Citizens want a government to take food seriously” - @suepritch.bsky.social, FFCC Chief Exec

We’re at Labour Party Conference this week to bring citizen voices to debates around food, farming & land – and encourage govt to put food at the heart of national renewal.

Here's where you can find us👇

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · 11d

He is SO much better when he is not prepped and rehearsed to death…

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 12d

“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.”

Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation.

Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 22d

#LPC25: Get real about growth

Book your spot for the Labour Party Conference Panel Event here: invtdu.to/_73z3k

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 21d

🌿FFCC is at Abergavenny Food Festival this weekend. Join us for two key events on Wales's food future:

🎟️'Can Wales Lead The Way?': www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...

🎟️BBC Food Programme: Cymru on the Future of Food: www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/event/bbc-ev...

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · 21d

🎤Presented by Sheila Dillon, this panel brings together @suepritch.bsky.social with food writer @becalp.bsky.social, food historian @carwyngraves.bsky.social and @susfoodtrust.bsky.social's Patrick Holden to ask: what makes Wales’s food story so unique, and what it could teach the rest of the UK?

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Sep 3

With the ID debate back on the agenda, it’s worth a closer look at who is benefiting from undocumented work. The food delivery firms, the nail bars, the hand car wash outlets… Who makes money from those businesses; who is buying the cheap products? theconversation.com/im-always-de...

‘I’m always delivering food while hungry’: how undocumented migrants find work as substitute couriers in the UK

Our study of food delivery workers in one English city highlights the daily challenges facing undocumented migrants in this sector.

theconversation.com

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is what leadership looks like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams

Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

www.theguardian.com

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Aug 26

Don’t anybody try and tell me we can’t trust 16 year olds with the vote.

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · Aug 26

Trump: They have to give us magnets. If they don't, we have to charge them a 200% tariff or something… Nobody needed magnets until they convinced everybody 20 years ago "Let's all do magnets."

Say what now?

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Aug 16

Garden harvest. More corn to pick. Many more plums and damsons - which will need a ladder. Bumper pear crop in a couple of weeks. Well done, garden!

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Aug 16

This is the kind of thing Welsh farmers get for free or at greatly subsidized rates via #FarmingConnect (side benefit - marveling at the What3Words choices for the farm visits 😂)

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Aug 14

Love this innovation! Healthy street food, easily available everywhere! @ucl.ac.uk on.ft.com/45DuU8d Introducing Larder, the kitchen you can carry on a Lime Bike

Introducing Larder, the kitchen you can carry on a Lime Bike

The portable pantry aims to bring fresh food to the heart of the community

on.ft.com

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Food, Farming and Countryside Commission @ffc-commission.bsky.social · Aug 7

🌽 🍽️ We’re bringing big ideas and bold questions to Abergavenny Food Festival this year with a conference exploring: “A Fairer Food Future: Can Wales Lead the Way?”

🗓️ Friday 19 September | 10am - 4pm
📍 Abergavenny Food Festival Conference

www.abergavennyfoodfestival.com/conference-a...

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Aug 3

A person who was right in the thick of things at the time said to me “No-one can fake authenticity like Farage or Johnson…”

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 31

Feeling seen…

Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 29

It’s a quick but disturbing process. The verifying app looks at your face to decide whether you’re over 18. I gave it my best RBF and it thinks I’m 73.

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 27

Devastating news about the brilliant Sir David Nabarro. I have been so grateful for his wisdom, generosity and grace these last few years. Such a terrible loss.

Reuters @reuters.com · Jul 26

COVID-19 special envoy David Nabarro dies at 75 reut.rs/3IGpHF3

COVID-19 special envoy David Nabarro dies at 75

David Nabarro, the World Health Organization's special envoy for COVID-19 since the early stages of the outbreak in 2020, has died at the age of 75, the WHO said on Saturday.

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 26

www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...

How much tax do the rich really pay? | LSE Research

Read about research from LSE’s Andy Summers and Arun Advani on taxation, how much the rich pay and whether the UK should have a wealth tax?

www.lse.ac.uk

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 26

If a Wealth Tax is too complicated, let’s talk about tax rates. Wikipedia tells me this. UK highest rate 47% (incl NI). Switz 50% Spain 52% Portugal 56% Nethds 49% France 65% Finland 53% Denmark 52% Canada 58% Belgium 60% Austria 55%. Tax wealth. www.thetimes.com/article/486b...

Jonathan Reynolds rules out ‘daft’ wealth tax and says ‘get serious’

Jonathan Reynolds tells Labour backbenchers the idea is a populist gesture and ‘you can’t tax fine wine or art’

www.thetimes.com

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 17

Here’s a wild idea for you, junk food companies, that’ll save you years and £millions in R&D, product testing and marketing!

*Just don’t make bad things!*

You’re welcome.

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Children under seven should not drink slushies containing glycerol, says regulator

Food Standards Agency warns that the drinks can cause decreased consciousness and low blood sugar

www.theguardian.com

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 12

24% of plastic waste with an identifiable brand came from just five companies: Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, and Altria. #PollutersMustPay

Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · Jul 12

Plastic waste colonialism is fuelling injustice for African communities.

Joyce’s story is not an exception. It is the reality of too many African women whose lives are being shaped, and shortened, by a crisis they did not create.

#GlobalPlasticTreaty
www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

Ending plastic pollution in Africa: a matter of justice for African women and communities - Greenpeace International

In Nairobi’s Dandora dumpsite, Joyce, a young mother rises each day not to farm her land or build her dream, but to scavenge through plastic waste to sell and feed her children.

www.greenpeace.org

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 9

While executives and boards design business models to channel profits to bonuses and dividends, people’s lives, and the natural world, are being ruined.

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 9

“these thousands of individual horror stories were not the result of some kind of antagonist-free natural disaster. They happened because there were perpetrators.” This travesty is at the heart of so many scandals of our neoliberal times - water, housing, food
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead | Marina Hyde

You thought it couldn’t get any worse, but the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history just got wider, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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Sue Pritchard @suepritch.bsky.social · Jul 7

“Experts say a better system would start upstream, controlling what enters treatment plants. New EU rules will require pharmaceutical and personal care product makers to pay 80% of waste treatment costs, but the UK has no such mechanism.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘A Trojan horse’: how toxic sewage sludge became a threat to the future of British farming

Sludge used as fertiliser on farmland contains harmful chemicals that scientists suspect are entering food chain

www.theguardian.com

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