Colin

Colin

@colinstamp.bsky.social

Retired but still talking ....

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Colin
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Tax The Rich News: UK 60y ago: Debt being repaid Free health & education (world leaders) Society safe After Top Rate Tax cuts Society & Democracy decline Poorest taxes INCREASE (NI VAT) + allowance frozen vs inflation! Trickle down ALWAYS a lie, needs reversing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comWhy won't MPs tax the rich? We asked them – and their answers gave us hope | Faiza ShaheenEven most Reform voters are in favour of a tax on the super-wealthy. Yet the first budget of the Burnham era looks set to dodge the issue, says Faiza Shaheen, executive director of Tax Justice UK

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Pat Bagley
@bagleycartoons.bsky.social

For 30 years FoxNews brainwashed viewers to believe white people are the most discriminated against group in America Absurd, but it is the core of idiot MAGA dogma. It’s the lie that fuels their hate and their devotion to that racist squatting in what’s left of the WH I don’t know the cure

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Robert Reich Weekly Cartoon Competition News: My fav three: “It’s raining corruption.” “Land of the Fee, Home of the Bought!!” “From Musk til dawn, the corruption never ends.”

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Dark Money Dark Politics News: Reform's latest donor, brown skinned sharia law enthusiast Iranian Hossein Ghandehari, held 49% stake in Iran's AQR, Prop: ayatollah Abbas Tabasi, who called all protest “sedition” & “enemies of god” to be executed under sharia law! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comRevealed: billionaire Reform donor was in business with foundation linked to Iranian regimeExclusive: Sasan Ghandehari’s partnership with religious foundation raises questions about past dealings with republic criticised by Nigel Farage
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Meta Censors Free Speech at No Kings News: At height of the pro-voting events, Meta took down the main No Kings organizing page on Instagram for 4 hours. Once account viewable again, “Meta told us in their response email that they made a bad call.” heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-17...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.comOctober 17, 2026Around the United States of America and the world, people gathered today at more than 3,000 No Kings: Vote Early events to encourage Americans to vote in the November 3 midterm elections.

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

Revealed: French police used UK-funded 4x4 vehicles to charge student protesters

theguardian.comRevealed: French police used UK-funded 4x4 vehicles to charge student protestersFrench government launches investigation into why cars funded by UK to prevent asylum seekers crossing Channel were used in school protests French police have used 4x4 vehicles paid for by British taxpayers to charge at student protesters during the school protests that have swept the country. The French government has confirmed that an investigation has been launched into why the cars, funded by the UK government specifically to prevent asylum seekers crossing the Channel, were used during a protest involving school students in Dunkirk. Continue reading...

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Lefty (Colin) Wright
@leftywright.bsky.social

Replying to @pigznzen.bsky.social

Schrödinger's law: The law applies to republicans only if you don't apply the law to republicans If you try to apply it to republicans it is ignored and the law dies. Aka Schrödinger's law

Colin
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Alt-Right Going To War With The EU News: Unusually, I agree with Robert Jenrick! What if a French gunboat pushes small boats onto UK shores? UK Navy won't be firing at asylum seekers, we will be in open warfare in UK/French territorial waters with the French Navy! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.comFarage denies Reform would let troops shoot small boats after Jenrick’s ‘lethal force’ claimParty leader says Jenrick’s comments ‘misconstrued’, after MP said Royal Marines would be allowed to fire at those on boats
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Caught Looking The Wrong Way News: Alt-Right MI5 spooks & police undercover agents spied & bugged ONLY left wing organisations for 50 years, even having children with protestors, but not a single terror act was discovered. Seems Alt-Right was the danger all along! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comRightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief saysMove from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last year

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Private Eye Magazine
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Businessman in the Eye: Tax exile Ineos boss Sir Jim Ratcliffe loves complaining about anything – from high energy prices to taxes – that doesn’t suit him. But he’s more forgetful about the British economic policies and fortuitous conditions that have bestowed vast riches on him.

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Savings vs Safety News: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

theguardian.comEx-director who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting leaves council housing role after backlashSurvivors had criticised ‘outrageous’ appointment of Laura Johnson to £150,000 job with Barnet Group
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Savings vs Safety News: Laura Johnson was housing director at Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC) at time of 2017 Grenfell fire Her cost cutting was jointly responsible for deaths of 72 residents on her watch, but hasn't affected her employability to make further savings! www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

theguardian.comDirector who oversaw Grenfell cost-cutting given senior council housing roleFire survivors and bereaved urge Barnet Group to ‘reconsider’ appointment of Laura Johnson, who pushed for cheaper contractor

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Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.

propublica.orgKen Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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End Of US Democracy News: Felicia Schwartz of MS NOW reports that Trump administration has not invited Election Monitors from the OSCE to observe U.S. midterms. First time since 2002 U.S. has not had observers. Only 2 of 57 OSCE members refuse all observation namely Russia and Belarus. Now the U.S.