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I just signed the petition calling on the PM not to cut support for the world’s poorest to pay for more defence spending - tax the ultra rich instead! Can you sign too?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 9 days ago • 1330 comments

There's a common path in the development of authoritarian or totalitarian regimes, regardless of whether they are overseen by Catholic Inquisitors, Protestant enforcers, monarchists, fascists, Nazis, Stalinists, Maoists .... First they eliminate words. Then they eliminate people.

submitted 10 days ago • 39 comments

Bernie Sanders laying down the facts about Russia's invasions of Ukraine and Trump palling around with dictators www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKBM...

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

This is amazing. Via @nytimes.com

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

Some estimates are as high as 320,000, with its supporters ranging from churches and football clubs to film festivals. The rise of the far right is a danger to our human rights, our economy and our environment. There must be no hesitation in calling it out.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Our NHS is not for sale. Trade talks with Trump must not open the door to US healthcare companies profiting from our NHS. Keir Starmer must protect our NHS by keeping it off the table during negotiations. Join me by adding your name to 38 Degrees’ petition:

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely nothing about this case appears to be about protecting people. It seems an excuse for transphobes to get another platform to push for the continuing discrimination of trans individuals. There's no other reason to demand this deliberate misgendering in public. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

For all the hot air on how Britain is cracking down on SLAPPs, this story by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social shows how nothing has changed. Russian warlord Prigozhin’s lawsuit against Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social ruled not a SLAPP open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

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TEESWORKS scandal continues (Teesside Freeport) Where is Labour on this? Promoting more Freeports and SEZs when none of them have proved in the slightest bit beneficial to anyone but investors Tell me otherwise if you know any genuinely “good” stories which aren’t number juggling

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We need to spread the word. Tell the UK government to ban deep sea mining before it starts.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Librarians moving dystopian novels to the nonfiction shelves.

submitted 111 days ago • 427 comments

Sagan, the sage? From his 1995 book. The state of #America

submitted 112 days ago • 191 comments

Make no mistake, the UK is being privatized, and carved up into corporate governed enclaves, 74 Special Economic Zones and 12 Freeports. bylinetimes.com/2024/09/09/l...

submitted 175 days ago • 2 comments

I’d love it if you could take some time to read about those who’ve been celebrated for their work as corporate parents in Scotland and consider if you too could be a part of the solution for Care Experienced people. www.whocaresscotland.org/blog/corpora...

submitted 186 days ago • 0 comments

Find out more at www.whocaresscotland.org

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