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Teacher Mother ๐ธ๐ช ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟ Obsessed with climate, politics & human rights
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Zack Polanski
about 12 hours ago
This is obscene. That others in politics canโt or wonโt say that this is obscene hits at the heart of the problems we face. We are the 99.999%. Tax the super rich.
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Ian
1 day ago
I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
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Lee Perry
1 day ago
So in essence the people will be paying to paint private company trains so the government can con people into believing they've been nationalised
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Saul Staniforth
1 day ago
"Trains will be given a union flag inspired paint job as part of the govts nationalisation plan" Meanwhile the trains themselves are still owned by private rolling stock leasing companies which extract huge amounts of ยฃ from the industry (& shovel it into offshore tax havens)
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Prem Sikka
1 day ago
UK households cut spending at fastest pace in 5 years. Average real wage stuck at 2008 level. Energy, water, broadband, rents, grocery, dentist, vets prices rising at more than CPI. Poorest 20% pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. Can't rebuild without redistribution.
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UK households cut spending at fastest pace in almost five years, says Barclays
Bank reports 1.1% drop in card spending despite Black Friday boost for retailers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/09/uk-households-cut-spending-fastest-pace-barclays
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Kate Watson
3 days ago
This is an astounding thing for the leader of a Labour Party who has just witnessed the Tory government crash the UK out of the EU, let Covid rip, and starve people under austerity to say!
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Peter Jukes
3 days ago
Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian assetโs script At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian assetโs script
At least eight MEPs elected for Ukip or Brexit party now known to have been focus of efforts by jailed Nathan Gill
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/07/farage-bloc-meps-alleged-to-have-followed-russian-assets-script-ukip-brexit-party
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No.
3 days ago
Funny how the 'Polanski wants to turn schools in to crack dens' crowd are silent on deaths from alcohol and tobacco. I can see a shop pushing these deadly narcotics from the gates of my son's school, it's called Asda.
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Peter Stefanovic
4 days ago
Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer ยฃ10.9 billion The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Covid fraud under the Tories cost the taxpayer ยฃ10.9 billion
The counter-fraud and error measures during the pandemic under the Conservative Government were accused of being 'so lax they may as well have left the door wide open'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/covid-fraud-under-tories-cost-36362525
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Otto English
4 days ago
I'm really pleased that the accusations against Farage are quite rightly not going away. He appears very, very rattled and deservedly so. This is very long overdue.
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Duncan Weldon
5 days ago
Starting to suspect FIFA might not be an entirely reputable organisation.
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Farrukh
6 days ago
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause"
#BBCQT
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winston
7 days ago
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
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Sian Berry MP
6 days ago
Facial recognition, scrapping juries, and mandatory digital ID. This Labour Government is creating a toolkit for the far-right. The EU has already put strong controls on this intrusive technology, MPs must pass legislation to do the same.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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Facial recognition to be expanded in fresh crime crackdown
Critics called on the government to limit roll-out of facial recognition, but others have urged ministers to accelerate the expansion to โboost safetyโ
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-facial-recognition-cctv-crime-b2877350.html
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The Socialist Dad
7 days ago
We do not have an overdiagnosis of mental health issues We have a cost of greed crisis which is causing mental health issues Tax Wealth not Wages
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Lisa's Muffins
7 days ago
Self-ID for left handed to be ended. Will now require a ten year wait and the opinion of three psychologists. Firstline treatments to include breaking all the fingers on the left hand with a mallet. NHS to offer sinister hand amputation to persistent cases. Move praised by charity Right Matters
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George Monbiot
8 days ago
2. It has *nothing* to do with improving clarity. Thereโs no evidence that people are confused by terms such as veggie burgers, meat-free sausages or oat milk. Itโs a crudely protectionist measure designed to stamp out competition, by forcing plant-based companies to use offputting terms. 2/6
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flyingrodent
8 days ago
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowlingโs money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the worldโs most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
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Prof Bill McGuire
9 days ago
Staggering numbers of people impacted as Indonesia takes its turn in the crosshairs of climate change driven extreme weather
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
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One million people evacuated in Indonesia as death toll from floods surpasses 600
In Indonesia, 3.2 million people have been affected by the floods, while 2,600 have been injured and 472 people remain missing
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/02/indonesia-floods-one-million-people-evacuated-death-toll-rises
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Saul Staniforth
10 days ago
Starmer tells us how abhorrent child poverty is, how proud he is to scrap the two child cap & how politics is about choices Last year you could have chosen to scrap the cap. Instead you chose to suspend 7 Lab MPs from the PLP for voting to scrap it. Youre treating us like idiots
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Dave Vetter
10 days ago
Headlines translated: Britain's far-right media didn't like the budget. In an attempt to please them, the prime minister is going to punish the mentally ill.
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Starmer eyes mental health welfare cuts after 'Benefits Street' Budget criticism
It comes after Reeves's Budget โ which included ยฃ26bn in tax rises and a ยฃ16bn increase in welfare spending โ went down as the most unpopular among voters since the days of Liz Truss
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/starmer-mental-health-welfare-cuts-benefits-street-budget-4076860?srsltid=AfmBOooEoKajj7RXPhQTAqjjufL6rCCWud5zzt9TMBD1XHk6HAc-CR7S
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Reform Party UK Exposed
11 days ago
Farage's alliance with the US hard-right should alarm every British woman
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Nigel Farage's alliance with the US hard-right should alarm every British woman
Womenโs bodies are the new battleground as Nigel Farage aligns with the US hard-right. His link to the group that toppled Roe v. Wade puts UK reproductive freedom at serious risk, writes columnistโฆ
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/aimee-walsh-farages-alliance-hard-36312073.amp
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The Green Party of England & Wales
9 days ago
We kept the receipts. These comments, taken together, paint a picture of the man he is today.
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Prem Sikka
10 days ago
The budget didn't bother the powerful. No windfall tax on banks. Govt subsidy of ยฃ23bn+ continues. No windfall tax on energy companies, ยฃ125bn profit since 2020. Corporate profiteering and subsidies continue. No curbs on corporate welfare. 85,500 have wealth of ยฃ2.8 trillion, hardly touched.
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The governmentโs budget is simply managing decline
The budget does little to improve living standards or facilitate sustained economic growth
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/11/the-governments-budget-is-simply-managing-decline/
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Farrukh
10 days ago
Left: Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she doesn't want children to suffer because of the two child benefit cap, that's why she cancelled it Right: Last year Chancellor Rachel Reeves kept the two child benefit cap, and Labour suspended 7 MPs who voted to scrap it
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Migs
10 days ago
Who knew that a chancellor who worked firstly for the Bank of England, and then HBOS, and who was investigated for misuse of funds before "taking voluntary redundancy", would choose billionaires over the rest of us?
#ColourMeShocked
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ShatteredMirror
11 days ago
They knew about this clause yet still kept the cap for 16 months??? And removed the whip from MPs who fought for it? Thatโs sick from Labour.
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Samantha Wathen
12 days ago
Okay, here we go. Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients. NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer. You know what to do ๐โ๏ธ
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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How do these people live with themselves....
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12 days ago
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The video had me welling up.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
finally gives me some hope and I'm grasping onto that. I've donated, it's a little thing I can do for my child's future. Please consider to donate too - or share.
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Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our ยฃ100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere?utm_campaign=thanksShare&utm_medium=organicsocial&utm_source=bluesky
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Paul Coleman
13 days ago
This paragraph is both a glorious piece of journalism and a frustrating summary of the grifters who hoodwink the masses.
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Zack Polanski
13 days ago
Maybe they should consider changing the name of the party..
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Labour ditches day-one protection from unfair dismissal in U-turn
The right will now be introduced after six months, in a breach of Labour's election manifesto.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2d7j350q1o
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Aparna Nair
15 days ago
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levelsโthey want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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Toby Earle ๐บ๐ฆ
13 days ago
look, the people in homes worth ยฃ2million or more are just going to have to cut back on lattes and netflix
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Rutger Bregman
13 days ago
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Mike Galsworthy
14 days ago
More than 700,000 homes across the ten English councils now governed by Reform UK are projected to face medium or higher flood risk by the middle of the century... That is roughly one in five households in the partyโs local strongholds.
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Drowning in denial: one in five homes in Reform UK heartlands faces flooding in 25 years
Even as the party rolls back climate action, Reform-controlled councils sit on some of Englandโs worst rising flood risks
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/drowning-in-denial-one-in-five-homes-in-reform-uk-heartlands-faces-flooding-in-25-years/
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Ross Greer (he/him)
14 days ago
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ While everyone is distracted by other budget news, Labour have just announced that they will allow more drilling for oil and gas in the North Sea ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Genuinely catastrophic for our climate and further proof that Labour care more about corporate profits than people or planet.
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My only issue with this is that 1% just isn't enough....
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A Stenson-Childs
15 days ago
Not only is Labour losing the next election to Reform but they are making sure Reform have all the tools for complete fascist control on day one. Vote for the Green party
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Peter Stefanovic
15 days ago
๐จBOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Letโs get it to 100,000. If a petition is what itโs going to take letโs get this done!
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Nick Harkaway
15 days ago
Christ, this is heartbreaking. Looking around my bit of Cornwall... the sheer scale of what was thrown away... millions for farmers, hundreds of thousands for schools, more hundreds for young people and culture and...
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myeu.uk โ see what the EU has done for you
The EU invests around ยฃ5 billion a year in the UK. Search by your address or postcode to see some of the investments near you.
https://www.myeu.uk
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Liberal Democrats
15 days ago
Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? ๐ค
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Rutger Bregman
6 months ago
Yes, this is fascism. For years, historians and experts were cautious about using the f-word to describe today's events. But that hesitation is gone now. ๐งต
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This government makes me feel physically sick.
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What a suprise that the people who swallow Farages lies also don't believe in science ๐ what a world we live in... As they said with Brexit "I'm sick of experts" and that turned out just swell didn't it?
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Who would of thought that lowering the criminal age would lead to younger even more vulnerable children being used by gangs. No one could have possibly seen this coming ๐ (SVT translated with Google).
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Otto English
about 1 month ago
If you've ever needed a reason to rally behind the BBC then this is it.
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Zack Polanski
about 1 month ago
Every personal attack. Every attempt to distract or to divide. It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement. Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The right can mock my teeth all it wants โ it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/10/green-party-zack-polanski-struck-nerve-politics?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
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Peter Jukes
about 1 month ago
See whatโs happening. A Trumpist US media company has taken over Channel 5. Another US company is gunning for ITV. Our social media is saturated by Muskโs calls for civil war in the UK. The BBC is the last thing standing, and Trump/Johnson are trying to bring it down
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Emma Monk
about 1 month ago
It blows my mind that there are real people who see a post like this and actually believe the whole โChristmas is being cancelled by Muslimsโ BS ๐ Letโs have a quick look at whatโs happening to Sheffield so you can put your Express reading uncleโs mind at ease!๐ 1/15 ๐งต
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