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🚨Thames Water is on the brink of collapse.
🙋We asked its customers what should happen next.
54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector.
Read the full results here.
🙋We asked its customers what should happen next.
54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector.
Read the full results here.
New polling: majority of Thames Water customers want Ofwat to reject creditors’ proposal for the utility
New polling has revealed that 54% of Thames Water customers think Ofwat should reject a deal proposed by Thames Water's creditors, and put it into special administration.
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January 12, 2026 at 4:20 PM
🚨Thames Water is on the brink of collapse.
🙋We asked its customers what should happen next.
54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector.
Read the full results here.
🙋We asked its customers what should happen next.
54% think the water regulator Ofwat should put it into special administration. And over two thirds (68%) believe that Thames Water should be run in the public sector.
Read the full results here.
Love is an unarmed intruder A thoughtful and uplifting read.
Love is an unarmed intruder
I mentioned I was just in Sofia, Bulgaria, at a book festival.
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December 21, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Love is an unarmed intruder A thoughtful and uplifting read.
In our blood. In our water. In our babies. 🩸☠️💧Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
Let’s flood the consultation to ban these poisons!
Linked to cancer, fertility issues, and birth defects -- forever chemicals (PFAS) are now found in our food, drinking water, and even our blood. When we reach 100k signatures, 38 Degrees will submit o...
you.38degrees.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
In our blood. In our water. In our babies. 🩸☠️💧Ask @EmmaReynolds to stop the poisoning of Britain, and ban #ForeverChemicals immediately! 🚫 Join the @38_degrees consultation submission to #BanPFAs👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Good to see 'Belonging' is still being reviewed ten years after it came out.
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Review Belonging by Umi Sinha | The Badger
Belonging by Umi Sinha is a Sussex classic. The brainchild of a former Sussex lecturer, the book explores themes of identity, loss, and sense of self.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Good to see 'Belonging' is still being reviewed ten years after it came out.
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thebadgeronline.com/2025/11/belo...
Hey! Festival, Newhaven UK, 18th October. One afternoon of creative events: poetry, writing workshops, art & music, & me and Ahmed Alnaouq, the co-founder of @wearenotnumbers.bsky.social talking about the work we do mentoring young writers in Gaza. www.instagram.com/reel/DPje6wc...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Hey! Festival, Newhaven UK, 18th October. One afternoon of creative events: poetry, writing workshops, art & music, & me and Ahmed Alnaouq, the co-founder of @wearenotnumbers.bsky.social talking about the work we do mentoring young writers in Gaza. www.instagram.com/reel/DPje6wc...
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10cc - Rubber Bullets (TOTP 1973)
YouTube video by Top Of The Pops Redubbed
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October 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3
Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back
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October 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3
A British academic is tracking all Trump's authoritarian actions under different categories to cut through the deliberate confusion created by "flood the zone with shit". A fantastic resource. Take a look www.trumpactiontracker.info?
www.trumpactiontracker.info
October 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
A British academic is tracking all Trump's authoritarian actions under different categories to cut through the deliberate confusion created by "flood the zone with shit". A fantastic resource. Take a look www.trumpactiontracker.info?
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ke...
Keir Starmer - don't promise Trump more giveaways for US Big Tech
We the undersigned call on Keir Starmer to resist Trump’s pressure, and put the interests of the UK before those of US Big Tech.
www.foxglove.org.uk
October 1, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Please sign the urgent petition to Keir Starmer - don't offer Donald Trump more giveaways to US Big Tech companies: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/ke...
So true.
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
October 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
So true.
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I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
I go. I try. And I will keep trying, even though it feels like a losing battle. Because I remember the whole point of the far-right astroturfing of social media is to make it feel like a losing battle, to make us give up.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
Anyway, a few snippets on small boat crossings and immigration.
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August 25, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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PLEASE ACT NOW. Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/hwpb?utm_cam...
Sign the petition: Stop all UK support for the Israeli military in Gaza
I've signed a petition calling for Keir Starmer to end all UK military support in Israel.
38d.gs
August 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
PLEASE ACT NOW. Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/hwpb?utm_cam...
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Younger generations, you need to dust off this Bob Dylan song from 1964 because it's just as applicable now as it was then.
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Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Lyric Video)
YouTube video by siai
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August 21, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Younger generations, you need to dust off this Bob Dylan song from 1964 because it's just as applicable now as it was then.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7a...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7a...
Who Did You Think You Were Fooling?
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Who Did You Think You Were Fooling?
Returning to classrooms with people who marched for every cause except Palestine.
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August 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Who Did You Think You Were Fooling?
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This is very good.
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The real strangers among us – Danny Dorling
Changing places
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July 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This is very good.
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🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations
Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 19, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
A Trump-era trade deal could wipe out 7,000+ green jobs in the UK
Ministers are on the fence! Let’s give them the public push they need to save UK bioethanol before it’s too late:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Ministers are on the fence! Let’s give them the public push they need to save UK bioethanol before it’s too late:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Trump’s deal could kill 7,000 British green jobs – act now
A Trump-era trade deal could wipe out 7,000+ green jobs in the UK
Ministers are on the fence! Let’s give them the public push they need to save UK bioethanol before it’s too late:
you.38degrees.org.uk
June 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
A Trump-era trade deal could wipe out 7,000+ green jobs in the UK
Ministers are on the fence! Let’s give them the public push they need to save UK bioethanol before it’s too late:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Ministers are on the fence! Let’s give them the public push they need to save UK bioethanol before it’s too late:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Starmer's comment about the 'pot of weapons' that we contribute fighter parts to was mind-boggling. He told the questioner scornfully she 'didn't understand the detail'. Do any of us? Shouldn't we? www.thenational.scot/news/2518081...
SNP MP calls out Keir Starmer on weapon exports to 'monstrous' Israeli government
AN SNP MP has challenged Keir Starmer on why Labour are allowing weapons exports to Israel if they deem the country’s actions in Gaza…
www.thenational.scot
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Starmer's comment about the 'pot of weapons' that we contribute fighter parts to was mind-boggling. He told the questioner scornfully she 'didn't understand the detail'. Do any of us? Shouldn't we? www.thenational.scot/news/2518081...
Speaks for itself. theintercept.com/2025/05/25/h...
If you want the real picture, go to wearenotnumbers.org
If you want the real picture, go to wearenotnumbers.org
How to Write About Palestine
A concise guide to proper media behavior when discussing the “complicated” situation.
theintercept.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Speaks for itself. theintercept.com/2025/05/25/h...
If you want the real picture, go to wearenotnumbers.org
If you want the real picture, go to wearenotnumbers.org
I have nothing to add to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMS...
‘You are the real terrorists’: Belgian MP confronts Israeli ambassador
YouTube video by Middle East Eye
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May 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM
I have nothing to add to this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoMS...
Seriously? 38d.gs/dlqc
Sign the petition: Block Thames Water bonuses
Thames Water bosses are cashing in on a £3bn emergency bailout - while pipes leak and bills rise. Stop bonuses for failure. Sign the petition now to get the Government to step in: 👇
38d.gs
May 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Seriously? 38d.gs/dlqc