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From aristocracy to ‘assetocracy’ – how wealth has transformed the House of Lords theconversation.com/from-aristoc...
Richard Osborne
@raosbo.bsky.social
Almost retired bookseller. Likes books, bikes and people who make the world better. Sometimes anti social, always anti fascist
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From aristocracy to ‘assetocracy’ – how wealth has transformed the House of Lords theconversation.com/from-aristoc...
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Polanski is completely correct. I am truly grateful we have a politician on the national stage saying this.
"Do you think Israel has a right to exist?" @zackpolanski.bsky.social is spot on. No state has a right to exist. Did Rhodesia? Does the UK? And this was🎯"The status quo right now is a one state apartheid state where Palestinians do not have the same freedom as Israelis, & that's racist"
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I think most of us already know that Burnham is just another Starmer-like charlatan, but when he fails to do this (which he will), it should at least wake some up who are currently labouring under the misapprehension that he's not just #ContinuityKeir
Allowing this dead-company-walking to be bailed out again, instead of taking it into Special Administration and then permanent public ownership, would be a disgrace and a betrayal by the Andy Burnham government Enough is enough.
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The Labour Lovers of Israel are not a UK government. They’re an Israeli government running the UK, Tory’s no different, Reform Ltd Company of Fascists would be Russia.
Donations to Labour Govt ministers by Israel : Andy Burnham £393,346 Lisa Nandy £184,219 Rachel Reeves £348,652 John Healey £39,216 Shabana Mahmood £137,168 Wes Streeting £459,182 Yvette Cooper £144,650 Angela Rayner £86,800 Chris Bryant £130,940
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What an absolute disappointment that the ex-deputy leader of the Labour Party and a sitting member of the House of Lords, thinks it right to work for Palantir.
It takes a special kind of person to join a company that was started with funding from Jeffery Epstein and Ex Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's hedge fund and now headed up in the UK by Oswald Mosely's Grandson and also employs Tony Blair's son. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Why exactly are crypto billionaires so attracted to the Reform party?
"Dear Diary, £72 million in 48 hours! It sounds a lot, but it's peanuts compared to what they'll make when I keep my promise to slash capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10% and set up a Bank of England Bitcoin Reserve Fund"
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This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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👍👍 Equity argument (clip) is hugely important, and leads to further question: "if a rich nation like the UK cannot take the first step of differentiated fossil phase-out, who will?" #Burnham's decision sends signal to entire world NO kickstarts phase out YES is F-off to Paris, ICJ, Santa Marta
I was asked by a colleague from my oil & gas days (who has remained in the industry) why UK producing its own gas is less acceptable to the Greens (& others) than importing it from America and West Africa.' The full question & my reply is now online at: climateuncensored.com/there-is-no-...
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🚨 An undercover investigation shown on Channel 4 exposed Reform figures allegedly breaking the law over foreign funding. Now demand a full criminal investigation. Sign the petition. 🔥 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...
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It is important that Ed Davey is drawing attention to this and roundly condemning it. But how does the son of two Sri Lankan born immigrants reason himself into holding this position in the first place?
This is racism, straight out of the Trump playbook. Reform are trying to turn our great country into a franchise of Trump's America. There are countless British patriots who came here from overseas, many of them refugees we proudly welcomed. That's the kind of country we are.
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A cycling city isn’t really about bikes. It’s a fairer city, built around people instead of cars. Part one of three for the Edinburgh Inquirer, starting with the issues facing a car dependent capital. @spokes.org.uk @wwctrustscot.bsky.social @livingstreetsedi.bsky.social @cyclingscotland.bsky.social
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Here‘s the real story from @nafeez.bsky.social The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Signed. Maybe they can start by following up on this? bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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Another must-read investigation from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and @nafeez.bsky.social. Open racists were behind the campaign against Jason Arday, and this piece has the receipts.
🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
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[Claire Lehmann] added that, after Jason Arday’s death, she “sent Nathan Cofnas a private message asking whether he was alright”. This piece joins a lot of dots like real journalism should.
🔴 The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday The academic's coordinated targeting by an explicitly anti-black race science network did not come out of nowhere, reports @nafeez.bsky.social
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So Richard Tice, should farmers just "enjoy" low crop yields? Should the thousands who've died from the heatwaves just "enjoy" their premature deaths? What about the families whose homes have burned down in the wildfires? Charlatans with their heads in the sand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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