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Have I given up the battle, only time will tell? For now, you'll find me in the orchard, out cycling or mooching around in my camper.
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Finally!! Great news - congratulations to all who campaigned for this 👏👏Now we need to make it as inclusive as possible eg covering colleges & apprenticeships @europeanmovement.co.uk

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

I love how Trump, Vance and Musk style themselves defenders of free speech, while simultaneously banning government agencies from mentioning climate change or diversity (inc biodiversity!), equity and inclusion, or even possessing maps which show the Gulf of Mexico. Torquemadas the lot of them.

submitted 12 days ago • 108 comments

Question Time last night was pretty fierce. And had to be. There's a deliberate effort now to shift the ground: towards appeasement, inhumanity and authoritarianism. Once more, we must resist it. We must fight hard for kindness. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

submitted 15 days ago • 139 comments

Labour bending over to appease Murdoch or trying to imitate the right will not help matters. The billionaire press barons only care about money, not policy, or even Britain. We need a govt that takes a firm stand for the majority and remembers its roots, not Poundland one nation Tories.

submitted 24 days ago • 35 comments

An absolutely damning indictment of care at the Countess of Chester Hospital by a panel of world experts This is what comes of convictions based upon no scientific evidence www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Having robbed our youth of the freedoms we enjoyed whilst in the EU, surely a youth mobility scheme is the least we can give them - it falls far short of “free movement” because it only allows individuals to come for a limited period & does not allow them to settle in the UK or EU member state

submitted 25 days ago • 14 comments

Absolutely it can. Huge brain gain potential.

submitted 34 days ago • 39 comments

i don't have a joke here, i just think it's rad as hell that this guy is making tiny tiny homes that are attached to bikes for people experiencing homelessness in toronto

submitted 37 days ago • 110 comments

Elon Musk does not represent the views of British people. So I've signed the open letter telling him to butt out of UK politics. Agree? Sign & share far & wide across social media so he sees & knows we won't stand for his meddling. act.38degrees.org.uk/act/elon-mus... Just butt out Musk.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

5 years on from Brexit, there is still no workable solution to the creative touring crisis facing artists and crew wanting to tour the EU and conversely the UK. We’re seen a 74% reduction in UK artists touring the EU, and with increasing difficulty obtaining US visas, the opportunities for UK

submitted 41 days ago • 8 comments

Isabel Oakeshott (went to same school as King Charles) has moved to tax haven Dubai, such is her love of UK. Give me strength Boyfriend Tice's family built skyscrapers there Reform UK Ltd aka RICH KIDS fooling those who have nothing...but filling them with hatred of others who have nothing either

submitted 41 days ago • 256 comments

Time to Carrie Underwood Snoop Dogg. Go to spotify, hit those three dots, look him up and select "do not play this artist." Disrupt the corrupt. #brucecoffman

submitted 41 days ago • 613 comments

Minister Stephen Doughty to visit Spain and Portugal to reset relationships and advance opportunities for investment and growth with European partners www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

A big part of the reason the rich bad guys are winning is that they understand that buying mainstream media and social media isn’t about making money on that mainstream media or social media. It’s about power and control, and making MUCH more money as a result of that power and control.

submitted 43 days ago • 19 comments

🔥 🔥 Fantastic - the ball is really rolling now on pressure for a youth mobility scheme with the EU. If you haven't yet written to your MP to attend the debate on it this afternoon... please send that email now via this easy link --> action.stayeuropean.org/campaigns/yo...

submitted 44 days ago • 12 comments

Labour's rivers policy is unbelievable. 1. Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, has decided our rivers are insufficiently polluted with chicken shit, so he’s loosening the rules. Never mind that it's the primary cause of rivercide in the Welsh border region. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧵

submitted 45 days ago • 51 comments

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submitted 45 days ago • 23 comments

The @conservatives.bsky.social shameful decision to join the hard right campaign to weaponise child sexual abuse and exploitation for political gain is beneath their office; and the cynical opportunism is clearly shown by the fact that Badenoch has never previously raised this in the House. #PMQs

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

"There is absolute horror at the highest levels of government at the incendiary language we have seen from Elon Musk." Political Editor Nick Watt explains how Elon Musk's comments on Keir Starmer and British grooming gangs could damage UK-US relations. #Newsnight

submitted 52 days ago • 28 comments

Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.

submitted 52 days ago • 1055 comments

Predictable backlash from NFU to proposed releases of White-tailed Eagles raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/06/p...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏

submitted 53 days ago • 224 comments

“Many people who live in rural areas are surrounded by fields, but effectively live on islands that they can only venture in or out of by car.” Good work over the break by @danravenellison.bsky.social & @slowwaysuk.bsky.social on the action needed to develop safer & more inclusive walking network

submitted 57 days ago • 4 comments

Sarah Finch is a climate hero, whose Supreme Court case last year may have ended all new fossil fuel extraction projects in the UK. Read her new blog & give her a follow: bsky.app/profile/sara...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

2024 highlights. The Monks Wood Bottle passed another year as a Song Thrush anvil to smash snails. It's probably been in that exact spot since World War 2, when a farmer kept pigs in the wood. The Huntingdon Brewery named on the bottle closed 1954, so it's at least 70 yr old. It's stuck to the soil.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Superb news. Historic footpaths will now have a chance to be returned to maps. The onus has always been on voluntary groups and individuals to research and appeal the loss of rights of way. To place a deadline on such activity is insulting and daft. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent to see Labour getting rid of the arbitrary deadline to register all historic rights of way. Landowning lobbyists had got the Tories to put in a deadline of 2031 to register 49,000 miles of lost paths. Next step: a right of responsible access, please! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 65 days ago • 8 comments