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Loves cricket, gardening, baking and books. Married, 2 children and grandma to 5. Extremely woke! Retired NHS nurse. Born and raised in Canada but I live in UK.
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submitted 15 days ago • 12 comments

This is not only morally reprehensible, but a breach of the UN Refugee Convention. No refugee should be discriminated against on the basis of how they entered the country www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 days ago • 94 comments

🇺🇸🩷🇺🇸 May I repeat my request: Please ask whatever/ whoever your deity of choice is to surround #mariannbudde with a shield of protection (My NY daughter has attended her church) If however you are #jewish, please join me in wishing lice, boils, frogs on the orange **nt Thank you #bishopbudde #trump

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

This is the face of courage and compassion. Thank you Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde for speaking truth to power on behalf of the marginalized.

submitted 37 days ago • 1416 comments

This is such a valuable campaign. Do please take a look if you can.

submitted 85 days ago • 5 comments

We’ve already got too many right-wing media barons (often tax exiles) controlling what people read and hear and ultimately believe. Out of that concern I’ve expressed an interest in the sale of the Observer and discussed the situation with the GMG. bit.ly/4eQYGZO

submitted 89 days ago • 126 comments

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.

submitted 95 days ago • 84 comments

We're just 700 short of the magic 20,000 and at the rate we are growing on BlueSky that could be tomorrow. Please spread the word about our unique brand of citizen journalism here on BlueSky.

submitted 107 days ago • 24 comments

Nobel prize winning economist Paul Krugman on why Donald Trump's mass deportations policy will increase the cost of living in the USA. Non-paywalled NYT link: archive.ph/cckgg

submitted 108 days ago • 2 comments

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam) www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX3v...

submitted 111 days ago • 191 comments

As a woman I truly despair! To think this person is running for Tory leader! I wouldn’t trust her to run a bath.

submitted 151 days ago • 3 comments

Found this and it moved me, so I'm sharing.

submitted 152 days ago • 14 comments

It's crazy that Paul Marshall can own GB News and The Spectator (wants to buy The Telegraph as well), can employ Farage, Gove, Anderson, Rees-Mogg, etc. They declare their salary and Marshall buys a huge amount of political influence. Yet some glasses and suits are somehow far more of a threat.

submitted 155 days ago • 3 comments

I am still amazed at the venomousness of some people who do not know me at all, but nevertheless feel they have to rudely insult me and accuse me of statements I never made. In everyday life, they would never do that. Why is social media often so toxic? Why is that considered normal?

submitted 155 days ago • 8 comments