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Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

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He doesn't 'get it' and isn't moving in the right direction (rather he's moving further to the right politically) Makes me so cross 🤬

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Great to see thousands of independence supporters marching the streets of Glasgow today. Together we can. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 #ScottishIndependence

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We're overjoyed to see our documentary produced in partnership with the @evidentmedia.org team “In Real Life: A Hidden War,” has been nominated for two News & Documentary Emmy Awards.

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Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

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Whatever the final results today, one thing is certain: if we’re serious about restoring trust in politics, we have to start by replacing our archaic voting system with a fairer alternative

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My latest blog post, the rise of the far right in England and what it means for Scotland. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/05/02/t...

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Mars and the Beehive Cluster. 30 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

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Keir Starmer goes Robocop on fly-tippers, yet it’s legal for private water companies to continue dumping sewage into 83% of England’s rivers and coastlines. theguardian.com/environment/20….

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NEW: A giant protest artwork targeting Donald Trump has appeared beside his Turnberry golf course. The 55m by 40m artwork appeared overnight, urging people: “Time to resist – fight the billionaire takeover."

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Your bills are going up because this government would rather protect the profits of a few corporations than the livelihoods of millions of ordinary people. End this outrageous rip-off, and take water and energy into public ownership now.

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No more lawn-mowing for me, now that I have my adorable team of woolly helpers.

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www.greenpeace.org/internationa... Socialise costs and risks and privatise profit

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Mars and the Beehive Cluster through clouds. 28 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

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The latest stats on job growth in all of the UK's 12 freeports show predictably underwhelming results similar to Thatcher and Cameron's time. Between 77 to 96% shortfalls in job creation in Sunak, Truss and Starmer's Freeports. Thread

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Wordle 1,410 3/6 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 it certainly was

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Private shareholders made dividends of £3.6 billion from owning our trains in the last decade. Yet the government is leaving our trains fully privately owned. Sign We Own It's petition to demand they take our trains into public ownership: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take...

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🚨🚈Take 1 minute to add your name: weownit.org.uk/act-now/take... Demand that the government fully nationalise our railway.

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“Defining women as a biological group is a disaster for feminism. The many feminists who have argued against the biologisation of sex have been so routinely ignored that if you picked up a mainstream paper in the UK, you would not even know they existed.” Important piece by @saranahmed.bsky.social.

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🕊 Lakenheath Peace Camp - yesterday

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This is what a rigged economy looks like: In the 1970s, CEOs made 27 times more than the average worker. In the 1980s, CEOs made 48 times more than the average worker. This decade, CEOs are making 354 times more than the average worker. That has got to change.

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Wearing a bright blue suit, texting, and then sleeping at Pope Francis’s funeral. What an embarrassing mess.

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I’ve been asked to contribute an essay to an upcoming anthology on breakdown and collapse, my focus will be on the UK’s 74 SEZs and 12 Freeports through the lens of societal and political implosion. Yay, I’m going to be published!

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Such bravery is rare - how she found the strength after such damaging abuse is extraordinary. #RIPVirginiaGiuffre

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Here comes the arrests of journalists now.

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France is ready to hold fast fashion accountable with a new eco-label. But the EU might stop it and push a weaker system shaped by big brands. Join the action to protect people and the planet 🌏❗ action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-04...

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Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

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Today we honor the flippered citizens of our icy nation. Whether you celebrate whilst eating a democracy sausage in Oz, doomscrolling in America, pulling maple taps in Canada, or elsewhere, we appreciate the support! #worldpenguinday

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Time to ask: Have you been to Millport? Have you fell in love with it? We bet! @ronniebarbour.bsky.social talks to Amanda Tennent about "My Scottish Island". They chat about living and working on Millport and the great businesses thriving on the island.

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💖 1/3. This weekend we have 2 amazing fundraisers running marathons for Long Covid Support!! 🌟Join us in sending best of luck and a huge thank you to Rebecca Marshall and Bradford Bertumen🌟 To sponsor Rebecca or Bradford, or to find out more, see below!⬇️ #LongCovid #Fundraiser

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1/ It’s exam time. Sending thoughts to all the parent/ carers like me whose young person isn’t sitting the exams the could have. Caused by their opportunities being disadvantaged by ill health, autistic burnout, exclusion, part time timetables, having no friends.

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Last shout out for the annual Wee Ginger Dug blog fundraiser, if you like my work please consider chucking something in. www.gofundme.com/f/wee-ginger...

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A lthread about Starmer's Labour and Blackrock. “I think Starmer is articulating the needs of what we have to do, it just resonated with me — that there are so many fundamentally strong attributes about the UK and Europe and they’ve been so smothered by over-regulation" Larry Fink, CEO Blackrock.

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The Gaza Government Media Office says famine is spreading in the besieged enclave, with “more than a million children at risk, amid a stifling blockade and shameful international silence." 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/t6uw6a

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BREAKING: Labour are accused of "blocking" a vote on giving Scotland immigration powers. Labour MPs ran down the clock to stop the debate going to a vote on Friday afternoon. Read here: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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Labour promised change - but not change for the worse "Why should someone in receipt of benefits have fewer rights to privacy? And why are we asking banks to become an arm of the state?" #NoSnooping #RighttoPrivacy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Flabbergasted is right! #EarthDayIsEveryDay via Women for Justice - NorthEast Region

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The government's decision to maintain the two-child benefit cap has forced hundreds of thousands of families into poverty. Labour must reverse this appalling policy and end the disastrous austerity ripping our communities apart.

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I cannot fathom why there isn't sufficient media coverage of Starmer's Faustian pacts with Synthesia, Blackrock, Blackstone, and Palantir. These companies are criminally corrupt destroyers and infiltrators of UK democracy.> 1/4

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1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

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Daisy Cooper, "The Labour government should raise taxes on big corporations that are making billions in profit, who can afford to pay more to get our public services back on their feet" "We've got to get growth back into the economy.. Renegotiate our relationship with the EU"

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Watch people in North London tell how utterly awful Liz Kendall's disability cuts are. Did you know a mum, aged 60, took own life after DWP rejected her PIP application, and her mortgage went up £600 a month? www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHKi...

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