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🚨We are surrounding Parliament right now. 🚨 Holding the line. And telling PM Keir Starmer loud and clear: Starving children is a red line. Stop arming Israel. #RedLine #StarmerActNow #ArmsEmbargoNow #SanctionIsrael

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Simon O' Hagan has written this lovely piece about the end of NowPlaying@6Music on his Substack - if you like it, please share: simonohagan.substack.com/p/tom-robins...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

@aaronjbastani.bsky.social Really disappointed to hear you sum up the degrowth movement as "stop vacuuming your house" on NM. It's far more nuanced than that, and allows for some sectors to grow while others shrink. Limits exist that we need to transition within, not exceed.

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Can the #GreenParty attract votes from disaffected #Labour AND #Reform voters? Leadership contender @zackpolanski.bsky.social thinks so, as he tells @goldbergradio.bsky.social From @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod.fo/e/2d6a7c

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

❓Are you unsure about which voting system you support? We made a little quiz to help you find out. Let us know your results!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

If the producers of Question Time wanted a true representation of political views across the spectrum they could have a panel of Starmer 2016, Starmer 2019, Starmer 2021, Starmer 2023 and Starmer 2025.

submitted 31 days ago • 6 comments

Brilliant achievement! Now MPs must consider the petition for a debate in Parliament - it couldn’t be more urgent to stop fossil fuel ads creating a social licence of trust & acceptability

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Lois is a brave woman! 🤩 She's taking on privatised water by holding her MP, Environment Minister Steve Reed, to account Please share: Day 3 of her inviting him to the football (like private lobbyists did) to make him consider PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

Manchester has the highest NO2 #AirPollution in the country. Hospital admissions for under 3s have risen by a third. As @lizgdfy.bsky.social says: “We have to be changing the narrative across #GreaterManchester to focus on #Health, and we’ve got to be prioritising protecting our children’s lungs.”

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Netanyahu — wanted by the ICC for war crimes — has declared plans to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and annex Gaza. This follows 64 days of starving a besieged population by blocking food and aid. The UK must implement a full arms embargo and expel the Israeli Ambassador NOW.

submitted 38 days ago • 20 comments

To all those people who told me we have to retain First Past The Post because proportional representation would allow in the far right, I refer you all to the recent elections. We’ve reached a tipping point.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

Starmer's government actually defended this outrageous and undemocratic use of Henry VIII powers by Braverman. Now the High Court rules in favour of Liberty and a very slightly increased right to protest

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Very well put, @libdemdaisy.bsky.social 💯 There is a reason why trust in politics has broken down. We have a system that severely limits voter choice, while forcing politicians to argue instead of figuring out what they have in common. Proportional Representation is the solution.

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

London bus stop near Amazon HQ 🔥

submitted 55 days ago • 335 comments

The Supreme Court sided with FWS. But it didn’t hear from a single trans person. This ruling sets a dangerous precedent and erases trans women from protections. It puts trans rights back 20 years. We won't stop fighting for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 57 days ago • 39 comments

Solidarity with trans women after today’s Supreme Court ruling. The rollback of LGBT rights — especially trans rights — is global, bankrolled by billionaires and the far-right. Trans rights are human rights. We must defend the Equality Act and its protections for trans people.

submitted 57 days ago • 96 comments

Never forget, change is possible!

submitted 63 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Public ownership of water companies would reduce bills by £3–5bn a year. A report by the University of Greenwich and @weownit.org.uk shows households would be £113 a year better off with nationalised water companies. The Green Party wants to see water back into public hands

submitted 66 days ago • 4 comments

As the article (in thread) says, outsize SUVs cost the public purse more in terms of strain on the infrastructure & pollution, and are far more dangerous for pedestrians & cyclists. Yes, we should tax them and their usage heavily. Why on Earth should the rest of us subsidise this obnoxious trend?

submitted 69 days ago • 104 comments

We changed our minds. We will no longer be campaigning for electoral reform. Now our campaign will focus on raising awareness of the benefits of First Past the Post. Livvy explains why 👇

submitted 72 days ago • 8 comments

Selling off reservoirs, failing to invest, polluting our water – these aren't just acts of negligence. They undermine our national water security. In an existential crisis we might call that what it is: sabotage. In a time of national peril, sabotage has another name: treason. #sewagecrisis

submitted 76 days ago • 41 comments

“The world has changed” says Chancellor on #bbclaurak. Yes it has - so why stick to outdated counterproductive austerity agenda & arbitrary fiscal rules? You can’t cut your way to growth. Taxes on extreme wealth of super rich would be fairer & more effective than more cuts @patmillsuk.bsky.social

submitted 81 days ago • 99 comments

The anti-solar farm line was we shouldn't waste "productive land". All the while we're pouring landfill leachate into our sewage, which either spills into our rivers or gets spread on our farms. "RIP FFS" sounds apt.

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An article that never feels like it quite answers the question. This is key: “…manufacturers are attracted to high profit margins from SUVs: they can make more money from SUVs even though they make fewer vehicles.” Missing context = government inaction and financialisation of car purchase.

submitted 87 days ago • 7 comments

Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?

submitted 87 days ago • 60 comments

@yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social talking about Technofeudalism: a small number of companies like Amazon, Facebook & Google are enclosing digital space - just as the 18th century enclosures turned common land into private property - then charged everyone rent to use it: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pypgf...

submitted 99 days ago • 3 comments

‘I went on Channel 4 Show Go Back To Where You Came From – There’s One Thing We All Agreed on’ Mathilda Mallinson was one of two pro-immigration cast members on the controversial Channel 4 show. She explains what the show taught her

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freshonthenet.co.uk/2025/02/batc... Hi everyone! The listening post is up! Who’s up for some new tunes? Come and check out 25 tracks picked by the team and vote for your favourite 5 tunes! #music #musicblog #musicblogger

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