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Swimmer, gardener, mother, grandmother. Worrier about the future of our NHS, the UK, democracy and the planet.
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A water company trying to fiddle the regulations again. Please sign. chng.it/NThYgHZZGr

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Keep the faith @uklabour or lose funding. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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For me, this piece by Kenan Malik is the first truly sensible article I've read on the causes of Southport. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

submitted 34 days ago • 1360 comments

Reform says it's raising millions - but what has Farage's party done with the money it's received in the past? I took a deep dive into Reform's 'wholly exceptional' accounts, and found a 'black hole' and some major questions Full story here: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-black-...

submitted 43 days ago • 21 comments

Climate ready??? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Get Hannah, a young girl in Gaza an eye operation, to remove her eye cancer. Please. 6pm BBC News.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Change your mind Rachel, please. More tax or join the Customs Union? app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/127031...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Absolute garbage of a headline - what just happened is that a bill to protect vulnerable young people was voted through www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 50 days ago • 128 comments

Why is Elon Musk (and the far right, Reform, Conservative Party, and billionaire owned mass media) focusing on British grooming gangs, and not focused on Jeffrey Epstein's client list????? meme via Anonymous participant

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Opinion | All that is good or decent in the Conservative tradition dies gurgling in the sewer 🖋 @IanDunt.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3Ps2JkZ

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

Best advice on Covid open.substack.com/pub/independ...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I hope someone in Keir Starmer's team is listening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I suspect government's are so busy they miss common sense arguments. A pity @uklabour. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

“More safe and legal routes are needed to provide a lifeline for those fleeing war and persecution." If you want to stop the deaths, you have to make safe routes. Anything else is allowing the deaths to continue. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

Thoughts for the day. Only a little hope left. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Nigel Farage, who leads a constant revolt against the metropolitan elite and foreigners, is a multimillionaire former city trader, whose kids have German passports, and who works as a brand ambassador for a gold billion firm.

submitted 63 days ago • 25 comments

I want to thank Elon Musk for attacking Wikipedia for being a part of the internet he can't currently control. It reminded me to donate to support Wikipedia, the best remaining thing about the internet. You can donate here: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

submitted 63 days ago • 60 comments

Last week, the government undertook some of the most wide-reaching policy initiatives we've seen in years. And hardly anyone seems to know a damn thing about it. inews.co.uk/opinion/fina...

submitted 73 days ago • 76 comments

More chargers at motorway service stations would reduce range anxiety. I'm glad I rarely need to use my EV on long drives, even though it is delightful to drive. Finding an empty, functioning charger can be tricky. More please. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

More power to her elbow! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Hope Labour read this and take heed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

Private healthcare is lobbying Wes Streeting to sign a new PFI deal with them. Time is running out to ask Wes Streeting to say NO. Please add your name to this petition now. #NoNewPFI weownit.org.uk/act-now/tell...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

More on similar lines. If you can't beat them, join em. But ...... Elsewhere a chilling account of Nazi history showed that many civil servants there kept moving up the promotion ladder. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

This is an important point, and leftist centrists in UK and US won't face it. In stead many turn to self serving nationalists rather than recognise rampant neoliberalism as the cause of their woes. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

'Do as you would be done by' is a key in most religions. It isn't a bad moral code for atheists either. A thoughtful piece from Kenan Malik. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

20+ years ago anxiety and other moderate mental illnesses took money from those with severe mental illnesses. Now this... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

A good reminder. Tax the rich - if only as much as they owe now! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

A good point, well made and on an important issue. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

These findings tie with the long term research from a New York study on early learning published about 20 years ago. But this below for @samfr.bluesky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

15 minutes of BBC 6pm news on the farmers march with 10,000 people. About 2 minutes questioning a celebrity farmer. None on a 60,000 march against austerity. A few minutes if that, after the Brexit marches. Balance!

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Action sounds so simple........ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

A good point. And Kuensberg's mistake only amplifies this. open.substack.com/pub/jonty/p/...

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Lovely stuff! open.substack.com/pub/jonty/p/...

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

It seems simple? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

I do hope Richard Partington is right. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Investment, investment, investment should be Rachel Reeves slogan. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Read to the end for a surprise www.politicshome.com/thehouse/art...

submitted 275 days ago • 8 comments