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catherineparrish.bsky.social
Former teacher and retail manager, now retired. European. History and nature loving leftie activist. Gardens. Hedgehogs. Foodbank volunteer. Great aunt and dog sitter. Living in the Red Wall. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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An important post - from the Conservative former Justice Secretary asked by Labour to conduct a review into prison sentencing.

news.sky.com/story/extra-... Excellent news. Well done Keir and team

Trump’s latest directive reportedly sets women’s sports back 25 years, likely diverting tens of millions of dollars from college women’s programs to men’s.

Donald Trump: “We’re bringing back religion in this country.” (Except when a bishop preaches compassion—I attack her as “the so-called bishop.”)

The failure of the mainstream media to report on the mind-bogglingly huge Nazi movement being built on Twitter with the full cooperation of the site's leadership is a massive scandal

On Holocaust Memorial Day, we remember the lives of six million Jewish people, and the thousands of Roma and Sinti, black, gay, disabled and others, who were murdered. We also remember the genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur and the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang.

Reduce and reuse are the crucial actions - with a focus particularly on the former for the two-thirds of fabrics that are #PlasticWaste producing #PlasticPollution

National Trust will allow citizens to adopt plots of land at nature super-sites around the UK. You can choose something chalky, peaty, meadowy, or even a bit of Celtic rainforest. This land is your land. inews.co.uk/opinion/uk-n...

In no other area would 50k avoidable deaths not be billed as a national emergency. This situation has been hideously normalised and, in some ways, accepted, by various govts. Acute care should've been the priority for govt to address & here's the cold hard proof www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

To stop Farage following Trumps footsteps into power we need to confront Reform Ltd's lies wherever we find them. My letter in the Yorkshire Post. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...

A violent criminal? A threat to society? A danger to democracy? No, no and no. This is someone being punished again and again for giving a damn about humanity and the living world. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Morning Bluesky. Led by Donkeys, Britain’s political pressure group, projected Elon Musk's Nazi salute on to Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin.

Farage: Reform has a "MASSIVE SUPPORT" among youth. Meanwhile the youth: 👇 Like BNP, Ukip, or any British fascist group, their backing comes mostly from the old and uneducated. #ukpolitics

This is delivering on our commitment to support our armed services

Stepping back from the two big stories of the moment, pretty much all of the platforms where the Southport killer indulged his passions for violence, genocide & murder are owned & controlled by men who were in the prime seats at Donald Trump’s inauguration yesterday. And they all *hate* regulation…

NHS - free at the point of use - always has been, always will be with #Labour

While most public transport agencies think their job starts and ends at the turnstile, Dutch railways operate as a door-to-door mobility provider. By investing in cycle parking and sharing, their ridership and revenue levels have steadily increased, creating a virtuous circle of sustainable travel.

Priti Patel : We had no plan to make Brexit work for the UK! #BBClauraK

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

So, Tories finally admit they left the EU with no plan “for growth”. They also had no plan for trade, science, the arts, business, jobs, training, education, travel, farming, fishing, borders, immigration, healthcare, regulations, food security… for ANYTHING… A catastrophe of prejudiced uselessness.

When asked for advice for young entrepreneurs, the previous Duke of Westminster, Gerald Grosvenor, replied: “Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror.” Today, less than 1% of the population owns at least half of England. @tortoisemedia.bsky.social

This. Fitting in is over-rated.

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Great stuff - that's exactly right. Trump is dangerous... and the UK needs to rebuild with the rest of Europe as quickly as possible, for defence, trade, opportunity, environment, standards and protection of our democracy and values from a hostile Trump/Musk-led US.

⚡️ Ukrainian families of war victims can now seek compensation through The Hague's Register of Damage. The International Register of Damage has begun accepting applications for compensation from families who lost close relatives due to Russia's full-scale invasion, the Presidential Office said.

Davey is wrong on this. X is not a fair playing field, its owner boosts hateful content and the platform wilfully refuses to take action on. Staying simply lends it legitimacy and drives traffic to it...

💥 YES! The Youth Mobility Scheme (EU Countries) Bill is looking like it will go through without government opposition today. That’s because of YOU! You have all flooded the zone with 8-10,000 emails to your MPs on this. Keep them coming. And do follow-ups too.

News Corp caught spreading lies about EV demand—this isn’t bias, it’s outright sabotage. Fossil fuel & legacy auto puppeteers using media to protect profits at the expense of climate action. Falsehoods delay solutions & betray the public. Climate change is real. EV demand is soaring! #MediaLies #EVs

Farage and Truss attend UK launch of US climate denial group

That's profit from owning the Electricity Transmission that they spend only ÂŁ150m a year maintaining, and that you used to own only 20 years ago. Another ÂŁ100 a year on everyone's bills for their profits.

Reform - Social media identity versus Reality

'As a climate-minded architect practicing in the PNW, @holz-bau.bsky.social says he never anticipated he'd be designing wildfire smoke-resistant homes. But w/ wildfires breaking out more frequently in WA & smoke events regularly lasting 3 weeks or more, his clients now ask for this advice...'