I can think of 101 reasons we need a #WealthTaxNow yet I can't think of even one disadvantage.

And this is why I'm doing my current job. THIS.

For Palestinians being killed and the future of human rights, we must keep calling out our Government’s complicity in this genocide. The UK has now issued more new arms licences than it pitifully suspended last year. Israel's violation of international law is our violation of international law.

Saw this and thought of @bertsbooks.bsky.social Bert needs a rolling ladder......

As the Daily Mail reports today, beavers protect farmland from flooding. But the Telegraph reports wild beaver release as ‘a new front against farmers.’ Once again attacking natural solutions. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02...

So right about the academy getting it wrong. What you can't see is under my totoro hoodie is one of my totoro t-shirts...... #Totoro #Gjibli @tommckinney.bsky.social since Tom Service isn't on here can you let him know please?!

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Annaliese Dodds has made a principled decision to step down from her role following Starmer's move to cut foreign aid to fund defence spending. Like her, I believe withdrawing from humanitarian commitments is both cruel, counterproductive, and short-sighted.

Are you responsible for looking after a listed church? Could you spare 15-20 minutes to complete a survey? The Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has commissioned research on the repair and maintenance of historic places of worship. dioceseofyork.org.uk/lpow-survey

The late, great Janey was right

american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit

@rachic11.bsky.social spied this and thought of you! jonny-baker.com/2025/02/laby...

Who is responsible for this? 🤣

At the stonewall monument rn

The rich keep getting richer. It's time to put people and planet before profit. #TaxTheRich

Incredible.

A reminder that God loves you unconditionally, no strings attached - today and every day ❤️

This Feb we’re celebrating love. It’s #LGBTHistoryMonth too, and at Greenbelt we’ve been honoured to welcome incredible people who’ve stood for love—from Peter Tatchell to Mpho Tutu van Furth. Their stories remind us that love, like hope, isn’t just a feeling. It’s a practice. It’s in the making.

The Green Energy Transition is not just a transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. It must also be a transition of power from corporations to the people. I’m glad that Shetland Islands Council is being bold in this regard.

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This should be changed asap. If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

✈️ In the teeth of a climate emergency, the company that runs Bristol Airport wants to expand it – AGAIN. ✈️ Carla Denyer MP and Bristol Green Party councillors have condemned the proposals in the strongest possible terms, calling it “tone-deaf and reckless”

Thought I’d give this another push. Thanks to all of you who have read and found something of interest in it.

So what did @churchofengland.org #Synod vote for on Safeguarding? We voted for Option 4 We know it will take some time so put Option 3 in place straight away. We are aiming for Mars but to ensure we get there we’ll travel to the moon first. Not the headline I’d wanted but not the end of the story

As part of ensuring all find a welcome, we have provided the option of gluten free communion bread for many years - and continue to do so. ✝️

You can walk into almost any CofE church, and if you ask, they will have at gluten free wafers. I know not all have alcohol free wine, as those I attend don’t. But those that do these alternatives do so *in addition* to regular wheat wafers and alcoholic wine.

NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev

I found this a compelling read, even if I found the use of certain experiments (Milgram … Stanford) less convincing than Rees. His Twelve Warnings, regarding the decay of a democratic institutions into authoritarian rule is timely. Can’t possibly think why …

If you know me, you'll know that a bit of accountability is the only thing that gets my exercise levels anywhere near acceptable. So Mar 22 - Jn 22nd. 150 lengths a week at my local 20m pool. Donations welcome. Reminders and encouragement even more so...... swim22.diabetes.org.uk/fundraising/...

Wow. Rory Stewart giving an impressive preach to J D Vance. Fair play to him. www.thepoke.com/2025/01/31/j...

The Government met today with 700 "business lobbyists." Guess who was amongst them?

Well done for making it to the end of January. Stop whatever you're doing and read a book to reward yourself. If you don't have a book, then buy one from an indie bookshop, that way you'll be making TWO people happy.

This wasn’t hard to Google… www.propublica.org/article/trum...

In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services. Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt. While Norway still owns everything and has the equivilant of +£18.42tn. That's how privatisation 'works'.

@bertsbooks.bsky.social I assume you've seen the latest BBC inside the factory at the book factory printing Penguin 🐧 cloth bound classics.....

The unrelenting presentation of cycling as a sport means the really interesting stuff gets overlooked - like how people with physical challenges use cycles as mobility aids. We're seeing a growing number of adapted bikes on our books, and we couldn't be more thrilled www.eta.co.uk/news/cycling...

I wonder why those anti safe streets protesters weren't arrested for blocking roads like climate protesters have been? Imagine campaigning for more road danger and pollution www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is the important point here. It is not the fault of our elderly that they are bad drivers. It is the fault of decisionmakers (electeds and engineers) that force them to rely on cars in order to continue existing in society. bsky.app/profile/bedf...

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

No. And anyone who says it can is lying to you. Climate Emergency. There's a clue in the last word. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anyone else use the Joint Public Issues Teams weekly intercessions and there's nothing this year?? The daily ones are still coming through?? #UKMethodists #CofEPeeps

Excellent news

Extreme wealth is extreme control. Never has this been so clear. Well we don’t have to settle for it. In our letter to Davos leaders, 370+ millionaires & billionaires say we must draw the line. Protect ppl, planet, & democracy: rein in extreme wealth & tax us, the super rich.

If your Christianity causes you to be offended by someone asking the most powerful person in the country to be merciful towards the powerless, then you have profoundly misunderstood the teachings of Jesus Christ.

100% this 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻🔥🔥🔥

@petroctrelawny.bsky.social gorgeous to drive to work with that Faure. Fond memories of singing it at Wells cathedral school with Andrew Nethsingha conducting. I seem to remember lots of arguments about French pronunciation with an end of term declaration of no more foreign languages with this choir

No single action can change the world? Nah, that's bullshit. Every action changes something about the world. You and the world change each other every day. If nothing else, there are people who need to know right now that their allies will speak out, whether the oppressors ever admit wrong or not

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“The Green Party is clear – President Trump is a misogynist, a racist, a convicted criminal and, we believe, a fascist." greenparty.org.uk/2025/01/20/s...