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This to me is terrifying, the level of influence is staggering. “you don’t build public confidence in defence spending by letting powerful contractors write the playbook and then hand them lucrative contracts without competition.”

Africa didn't create the climate crisis, yet pays its highest price while global capital profits. True social democracy demands global justice: funding climate loss and damage, transferring green technology, and holding multinational corporations accountable for the destruction they cause.

The battle against authoritarianism should unite us all As authoritarianism rises, defending the global ban on torture and the rights of refugees must unite us across political divides | Natasha Tsangarides @freedomfromtorture.bsky.social @tashatsanga.bsky.social

💔Tragic: swifts are finding their chicks dumped in skips and their nests blocked up by building work. 🚨We need an emergency system that forces police & councils to act IMMEDIATELY when nests are threatened. Sign the petition now 👇 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Democracy Under Attack Our democracy is under attack. To save it, we must act now. Please support Unlock Democracy by backing its Crowdfunder today. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/democracy-...

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Britain belongs in the room, helping shape Europe’s future. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Sandro Gozi MEP calls for November’s UK–EU summit to deliver fewer barriers and more opportunities, and for the ambition to go much further, with full EU membership on the table. A shared future deserves that ambition.

Although the oil and emissions in Jackdaw are small beer, the reason we are in this mess with the climate is that each marginal extraction and emission is small beer. It's a collective action problem and we are failing and lose our leverage with others if we signal our indifference.

#RejoinEU #JoinEU #Breturn

The ECHR is not a "left-wing project" but a "safeguard against arbitrary government" He describes the Tory party now as “a political party that cannot tolerate support for fundamental human rights.” What a disgrace. How are they different from Reform exactly? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The juxtaposition between Jackdaw approval and today's UN report warning the world is on track to far exceed 2C of warming even if all current net zero plans are delivered is beyond stark. www.businessgreen.com/news/4537621... www.businessgreen.com/news-analysi...

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

Pheasants aren't stupid, wild birds in the UK or live targets! Share if you agree!

Wow! 💙💛🤎🩷💜🖤💚 What a great statement on Britishness ... by Amy the Poet Celebrant! 👏👏👏 [SOUND ON 🔊]

📌 ICYMI — How Reform UK’s Leaders Embraced Far- Right Racists — @nafeez.bsky.social As Nigel Farage's party faces a new racism scandal, investigations reveal how Nigel Farage and his senior colleagues have long cultivated extremist allies and promoted their far-right ideas

Kindness shouldn't be conditional on whether you like a species. Be kind to everyone. Give us a follow if you agree!

One of the most disappointing aspects of Brexit is that even after an entire decade of discourse about the EU and the UK’s position in it or outside it, there remains very little understanding of the EU.

Take that Farridge!!✊🧐

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... In my case I'd been misdiagnosed for over 30 years. I was only given the correct diagnosis after a male member of my family was diagnosed & I asked to be tested too. The GP then said "Well, now you know your aren't a hypochondriac." I'd know that all along.

The correct version of the Brexit regulatory story is that the leave advocates thought only Brussels regulated and then discovered that not only wasn't true, but that business actually wanted things like data adequacy and alignment with their largest markets

They never will; the point is not to convert the unconvertible but to prevent the conversion of the convertible in the other direction.

www.desmog.com/2026/10/12/w... Why would anyone who isn't a multi-millionaire trying to become even richer at the expense of everyone else and the planet ever vote for these charlatans?

Gentle reminder: Brexit isn’t shit just because the Russians backed it. It’s shit, and that’s why the Russians backed it.

Meakin - an old Tunstall name, and one of my dad's employers #Tunstall #ThePotteries

She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Hardly a surprise. Christian Nationalists show antipathy to the central teachings of Christ. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Great work by @europeanmovement.co.uk - their report, backed by prominent figures from different parties, incl Conservative peer and former deputy PM Michael Heseltine, ex-Labour leader Neil Kinnock and the former Lib Dem business secretary Sir Vince Cable, and is being sent to the prime minister

Great initiative by @europeanmovement.co.uk Let's do all we can to push Labour into adopting the right choice for Europe. Add your name NOW! www.europeanmovement.co.uk/heart-of-eur...

I've just added my name to the call for the UK to join the European Union by 2036. A stronger economy, more jobs, greater security, and a louder voice in the world. Add your name: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/join_eu_by_2...

Sagal Abdi-Wali came to the UK aged 7 having fled the war in Somalia with her family. She has thrived. Leader of Camden council and now the MP for Holborn and St Pancras. A narrative that runs counter to all we are told about refugees. Congratulations www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

bsky.app/profile/staf... "Daddy long legs want to mate in your home now - here's how to stop them" Why would I want to? They're welcome in my house but they need to watch out for the cobwebs.

Apparent exodus of super-rich suggests UK is no longer billionaires’ playground www.theguardian.com/news/2026/oc... "Apparent" & "no longer" is a mirage reflecting more than a decade. bsky.app/profile/taxj...

This intensely stupid right wing idea is an extension of Brexit ignorance and prejudice. It represents the failure of our politics and our media to act in our best interests and to inform voters properly. Brexit is more than enough idiocy. Leaving the ECHR shouldn’t even be on the radar.

As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)

EU free movement is an opportunity, not a threat – excellent from @johnspringford.bsky.social for Arguably. "It is strange for a country with big economic problems to reject one of the few policies that we know would raise growth and improve our fiscal position." www.arguably.uk/p/eu-free-mo...

Always remember ... Brexit was the first salvo in a Putin-backed attack upon the West. The same battle is now being fought throughout Europe. If the UK finally bins Brexit and rejoins the EU, it will be seen as a victory for the whole of Europe — and a decisive strike against Putin-backed populism.

"...whether you see Hanley as simply one of the six towns or the city centre, there is one thing that characterises the place: change" 'Up 'anley Duck' #TheHighClearing @ianrpearsall.bsky.social @philshallcross.bsky.social @minxyowlwriter.bsky.social @barewall.bsky.social

With European leaders openly dismantling the myths that drove the UK out of the single market, ignoring economic fallout is no longer viable. Rebuilding national prosperity requires confronting past missteps and restoring close European cooperation. How soon can real repair begin? #FBPE

We have so many issues that require solutions that will take more than one parliament to fix (social care, climate change, Europe, NHS, rebuilding parliament etc etc) that being too immature and belligerent to even *engage* in the process of finding a consensus solution should damn them forever.