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Just a bloke trying to do the right thing in a world of people only in it for themselves!
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When Trump imposes tariffs on Colombian coffee, Colombian flowers, Colombian bananas and pineapples and avocados, on Colombian oil, it's us Americans who will pay those added costs. We're not even a week into Trump's term and he's already imposed a brand new tax on all of us.

If we are serious about growth, the EU cannot be sidelined www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If your spouse needs a safe word with her friends to protect herself from you, you should be in therapy. Or in prison. Not the Secretary of Defense.

This is perfection.

Without trade unions we wouldn’t have • a minimum wage • maternity & paternity rights • pension provision • holiday & sickness entitlements victories which have benefited every single person in this country Ignore the Victorian pencil, Join a union TODAY youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...

Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education.

It’s kind of incredible how long we’ve been forced to accept social media platforms that are openly hostile to their own users, suppress political content, and throttle third party links.

Apparently, taxing landowners for the first time at half the rate the rest of us pay and giving them 10 years grace to pay it (which we wouldn't get) is the politics of envy. (Only 6% of UK population will be liable for IHT) open.substack.com/pub/benjamin...

Please vote and share this Express poll - we need to get it out of the Brexiter bubble Currently 86% say NO! And, we know that’s just not a true reflection. You do not need to enter your email address, just scroll down & press skip to poll results www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1980...

Slow. Clap.

Literally......

PM to meet police and hospitality bosses over spiking Labour to bring in a new specific law against drink spiking It's time (way past time) this happened We covered this many times on my radio show. Horrific stories against both women and men of all ages www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do you want to sign my petition?

Actually Great Power is evil, and you see that every single day.

There were people who said "Let's get the Tories out first, then we go for PR". Now the Tories are out, they stayed quiet. Petition: Referendum on changing the Electoral System to Proportional Representation petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

"Don't quote me, and don't quote me as not wanting to be quoted." #QuotableQuote

World beating UK, energy prices nearly double anywhere else. Also the UK, every energy firm making 4-10x profits. I wonder if they are related?

Large parts of adult social care in England face collapse, thinktank says. The budget blamed but there are other factors. Massive real cut in local govt funding since 2010. Privatisation: 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less. End Privatisation www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

If you’re ever surprised by how clueless we, as a people, appear to be sometimes, just remember that a scant 25 years ago The Blair Witch project came out and 90% of the population was like “holy shit is this REAL?!”

Be aware

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

As the Trump reality hardens into something world-threateningly grim with a cabinet chock full of dangerously vindictive inadequates; including power-abusing billionaires, sex pests, conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, racists and climate deniers… Never forget who cheered this nightmare on…

Oh man, this I get

BREAKING NEWS: Former federal prosecutor Randall Eliason says Trump's New York hush money case sentencing should still move forward. He argues the election did not wipe the slate clean, and the state jury’s decision stands. Who else agrees Trump must be sentenced?

📈Soaring numbers are turning up at A&E with dental problems. 🏥Last year saw more than 73,000 – up from 60,330 in 2020-21. 🦷This crisis is piling pressure on every corner of our NHS because millions have nowhere to turn say British Dental Association

Just popped into X for a lurk. Racist post ➡️Temu ad ➡️shit Telegraph journo plugging own right wing grifting article ➡️some bollocks from Iain Duncan Smith ➡️a sensible post with no engagement ➡️an advert for some shit online casino ➡️racist post etc etc You've made the right call.

Thoughts on "echo chambers." Twitter was one anyway and had, in fact, become a gigantic echo chamber in itself - full of racist arseholes shouting nonsense and sucking up to Musk. If I'm in an echo chamber, I at least want to be surrounded by intelligent people saying interesting things.

Dear 🇬🇧, Where I come from, one medical emergency is all it takes to bankrupt a family and put them out on the street. Don't ever give up on the NHS. #SOSNHS

A little something to brighten the day of all Bluesky users.

Twitter refugees - follow me and I will follow you back, and hit the like and reply so other people will too.

Yes!!! This is the Mark Hamill we're looking for

2024: Laura Kuenssberg criticises Labour who have been in office for four months for not fixing social care 2019: Boris Johnson, "I am announcing on the steps of Downing Street that we will fix the crisis in social care once and for all with a clear plan we have prepared"

The thing about Twitter versus Bluesky is that the right needs liberals on Twitter to make it feel worthwhile, whereas the left doesn’t need conservatives on Bluesky to make it feel worthwhile.

Im not sure the New York Post has yet made it to @bsky.app so worth posting this opinion piece slamming the latest cabinet picks - from a hugely invested/ Trump friendly paper

I’m absolutely stunned, shocked, how can this possibly be, etc etc.

Why is Raab on Laura K? Isn't there a sun lounger he should be laying on while a country falls to the Taliban.