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Real Science & finance/economics, environment, health & well being. 💙NHSSOS. Rejoin the EU🇪🇺 Zero tolerance to bs, lies

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Your occasional reminder that Democracy for Sale now has its own YouTube channel. Do subscribe to watch videos like this discussion with the amazing @amywestervelt.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=xas6...

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LATEST: The polls are open! John Swinney has urged voters in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election to reject the 'gutter politics' of Reform UK in one final pitch

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Hi everyone, below is a petition I've drafted for the UK Govt demanding transparency on their nationwide rollout of 86 free zones. It is now in the standard checking phase, hopefully it passes the checks, meaning it will go live in a few days.

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❗️Contracts cancelled. ❗️Senior resignations. ❗️Fraud investigations. ❗️And now the Serious Fraud Office is kicking down doors. Even by Thurrock’s standards, the last six weeks have been explosive. ✍️ J.J. Jackson & Celina Błędowska report what’s going on now ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

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I believe history will judge us harshly for sending kids back to school without making any improvements to ensure their safety. We didn’t upgrade ventilation or add air purifiers. We didn’t relax attendance policies or give hybrid options for sick kids. We did nothing. And kids paid the price

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Race, history, and misinformation: unravelling the myths around white persecution in South Africa Emigration, race, and rural crime dominate headlines. But history offers a more complicated view of South Africa’s present @westenglandbylines.co.uk westenglandbylines.co.uk/news/world/r...

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No one consents to being disabled. We don’t choose it. It chooses us. We aren’t asked how we feel about it. Whether we can afford it or if we have family to care for us. It just happens. It’s not a moral failing, you can’t “try harder” your way out of it. Disability justice benefits everyone

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🟢 No National Park: A betrayal of working-class communities 🟢 @lauramoodie.bsky.social writes about the decision to reject the creation of a new National Park - a glaring example of how the interests of wealthy landowners and businesses continue to overshadow the needs of working-class communities.

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via People's Chancellor - Economics For The Many

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Murdering bastards are luring starving population out, with promises of food, then picking off and slaughtering them one by one!! open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

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Failed COVID PPE contracts during the pandemic cost UK public purse £1.4bn. £762m lost - PPE over ordered and defective, delays in checking quality. Govt trying to recover £468m. But some got richer. Would govt snoop on their bank accounts, like it will on benefit claimants?

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Tory legacy. Fire stations in England “falling apart”, Funding down by £1bn, call outs up by a fifth. Firefighter numbers down by a quarter in seven years, 11,000 full-time staff. Population increased but lack of investment in infrastructure, tax cuts for the rich. Readying for privatisation?

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Public ownership ‘not the answer’ says Minister as Thames Water teeters. Wrong. After 36 yrs of market solutions. Result - sewage in rivers, unplugged leaks, customers fleeced, high dividends. Govt dithered. TW added another £3bn debt, spends £200m a year on advisers. Need public ownership now.

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your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary

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Selling off national parks to private corporations is theft — of land, ecosystems, and public trust. Once they’re sold, they’re stripped, drilled, mined, and wrecked. And most of that damage can’t be undone.

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This video sets out the difference between the two proposals to change abortion law - only NC20 decriminalises abortion. It then would also protect safe and legal access by making it a human right. Please share and ask your MP to put their name to this amendment if you agree this matters.

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“pathetic poisonous little man” Farage neck deep in his own bullshit, again. Par for the course for this shabby little scrote.

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Not all disabled people have family or friends who can take care of them. Charities are woefully ill equipped to provide the level of care many of us need. Being abandoned for being sick is common, and it’s not our fault. Disability is not & has never been a moral failing.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

As predicted... that #DWP report still in hiding ?? #suicide #disability #benefits #vulnerable

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vm.tiktok.com/ZNdB5wrUo/ the horrifying reality that #Laws are created by men to protect men NOT to protect #women... #crime #violenceagainstwomen @crimeanalystpod

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I think this is almost certainly true. We now hail Atlee’s government as a beacon of Labour principles but they only served one term?

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