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Gill Kimber
Gill Kimber
@brumus.bsky.social
“We don’t quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.”
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We’re calling on Ofcom to: 🔍Open a formal investigation into Nigel Farage presenting GB News shows 📃Clarify its rules around TV news channels 👀Open an inquiry into whether sitting MPs or political party leaders should be allowed to present news programmes Add your name ⬇️
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It’s not too late to ask your MP to be at the debate in Parliament on Monday about the U.K. joining the European Union. This handy tool makes it super easy to do 👇 bestforbritain.org/take-action/...
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#Oxford
Oxford - please join another unity march against the far right. 12pm Manzil Way, Sat 17th October. It's really important that we show them 'there are many many more of us than you'. The first unity march last autumn was a really joyful event, music, drums and a positive welcome all along Cowley Rd
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Another shining moment for Reform UK Durham… Volunteers threatened with legal action for restoring parks freedomineverydaylife.org/volunteers-t...
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In a striking revelation, former Trump White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham has raised alarms about Jared Kushner's so-called "volunteer" status in the current administration....
Clive Lewis’s penultimate paragraph in this article is a neat summary of what has to happen if we want to preserve democracy in the UK.
Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics. Like Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Mandelson, hired to open govt networks to companies and corporate capture of the state. They sell political capital built with public money. What do we get in return?
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I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.
Canada has a total ban on company/corporate donations. Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions and it's capped at $1,750 a year. They still have functioning parties and the sky hasn't fallen in. Quite the opposite... www.elections.ca/content.aspx...
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This. It only confirms what the majority of us already know but the hard of thinking Reformers could do with watching it. Everyone knows at least one 'white, angry old man', show them.
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘white, angry old man’s’ advice to go back where they came from.
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Nick @nicklowles.bsky.social tells me that we won't want to miss this.
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More than a quarter of police forces (12 out of 43) in England and Wales are involved in pilot contracts with Palantir of the same kind that prompted the London mayor to order the Metropolitan Police to sever its links with the US technology company www.ft.com/content/01bb...
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Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
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Replying to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
The fact that these tech billionaire-funded racists have penetrative the University of Cambridge to the extent they have really ought to be a bigger story bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p...
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🚨We're taking legal action. Our lawyers have now sent the Home Office a warning letter over its ‘grant in error' policy, which lets pre-settled status expire without a right of appeal. This is the first step before potential further action. Please support 👇 www.crowdjustice.com/case/eu-citi...
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Hard to overstate what an extreme position* is being advocated by the FT here, in historical terms 1/🧵 *she gets it wrong of course: settlement after 5 or 10 years is standard now (for those who qualify: it’s not “automatic”); Mahmood proposes to increase it to 20 years or never for many people
A really miserable piece of writing, wholly based in electoral impressionism. No thought for principles or the rights of migrants, and including spurious calculations about lifetime fiscal costs and benefits that simply ignore the real costs of what would happen if these workers were absent.
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Williams: “Although Nigel Farage thought it was worth getting a theologian on board for Reform UK, I don't think he lies awake at night thinking about his soul” No. Just the MAGA money that will roll in if he prances about in some racist fake-religious fervour. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Totally disgusting Ban then from any public sector contracts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
@samfr.bsky.social Just one insidious result of detailed devolution:
Librairies are indeed wonderful places but I did find one problem: it’s up to the individual person in charge of a library which newspapers they bring in for those oldies to read. In my local library the selection was Telegraph/Daily Mail/Times. Not a single paper of a different hue.
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Thank you 🙏 @marina-purkiss.bsky.social for saying what needs to be said with the anger and feeling it deserves. RIP Jason Arday
Marina Purkiss, "188 articles on this man, Jason Arday, who was not a public figure, over 9 days" "It was a blood sport for The Telegraph, The Times, The Spectator" "They have blood on their hands for this man"
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"Not just those who pose an immediate threat. There are people there who don’t deserve to live . . . They are not even people.” as.ft.com/r/24f6ccb3-2...
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We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Given that driving without insurance is not an imprisonable offence, these 220 people should probably think about appealing.
"Why have we got 220 people behind bars for motoring offences like driving without insurance?" @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social thinks there are better ways to free up prison space than the early release scheme.
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📌 ICYMI — Zack Polanski Promotes Radical Plan to Break Up Britain’s ‘Billionaire Media’ — @josiahmortimer.bsky.social Green leader throws weight behind Media Sovereignty Act campaign to stop press barons "literally buying democracy"