Keir Starmer’s statement on Iran:
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Keir Starmer’s statement on Iran:
The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.
We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Imagine devoting your entire career to selling the idea that the British public hates wokery and is clamouring for radical right wing populism, only to then be defeated in an actual election by the most left wing possible coalition of politicians and activists in the country.
It's got to hurt
Dear @lucympowell.bsky.social,
I have enjoyed our exchange of letters about which of our parties is best placed to stop Reform. Hannah Spencer MP and I trust that you agree that this question has now been resolved once and for all.
Thanks,
Zack Polanski
For all its efforts, and all its dishonesty, the media could not prevent the Greens succeeding in Gorton & Denton. The revealed impotence of the media might be the most important consequence of the by-election.
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
UK median annual wage for employees is £31,056.
£25,880 after income tax and NIC. Graduates take home even less.
Tax thresholds frozen since 2021.
Millions can't afford to buy homes, start family or business.
No govt curbs profiteering.
Can't build sustainable economy without redistribution.
A Victorian-era letterpress circus poster from 1843 advertising "Pablo Fanque's Circus Royal" at Town Meadows in Rochdale. The black and white poster, which inspired the Beatles' song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!", features bold, varied typography and two small woodcut illustrations: a performer balancing on his head on a pole, and an acrobat. It advertises a benefit performance for Mr. Kite and Mr. J. Henderson. Jones & Crosskill, printers and booksellers, Yorkshire Street, Rochdale, Public Domain
Immortalised in the Beatles’ song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!, based on one of his circus playbills (below), Pablo Fanque (1810–1871), born William Darby in Norwich, was Britain’s first recorded Black circus proprietor, He was one of the great showmen of the Victorian age. Orphaned
Calderdale’s housing scandal: paying more for worse yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/calde...
A photograph of a lush green forest with tall trees in the background and lower foliage at the front. White text is over the centre of the photo. The text says: “Turn off the news. Go outside. Breathe. You were never meant to Carry the weight of the entire world. “
Sometimes we need a little nudge….
Agree totally
The law of the badge: when abuse of power is mistaken for justice | Badges are meant to represent public trust: too often, they become a licence to silence, punish, and control | J 'Masharubu' Strauss
I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.
Make this go viral.
Labour MP Louise Haigh.
OK so It’s Christmas Eve & petitioning Govt might not be front of mind today - but *please* take just 20 secs to sign this, calling for a funded national #climate resilience plan to help protect us all. Just 1700 more needed to get a Govt response! 🤞🙏https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730062
NEW: last night, the US govt launched an assault on the ‘global censorship industrial complex’, aka European tech researchers/campaigners.
It’s a deeply chilling move & speaks as to why we need international solidarity more than ever.
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THE DEATH OF HUMANITY!!
“The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Hannah Arendt
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“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.”
Elon Musk
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END EVERY REPUBLICAN before REPUBLICANS END HUMANITY!!
Fond memories of his 2002 visit to Thorne & Hatfield Moors SSSI when we delivered a conference celebrating buy out of peat extraction permissions on T,H & at Wedholme Flow.
Peatlands, he once wrote, were a “Cinderella habitat”: overlooked, abused, & hardworking.
www.butlernature.com/2025/12/22/s...
An absolute disaster for nature, climate and humanity - everything we depend on to survive, from food to water, requires a healthy natural world. In the UK nature is already at rock bottom, one of the worst in the world. This Government is doing the unthinkable and harming what little is left.
🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.
Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for DEFRA to fund the restoration of our publicly owned ancient woodlands?
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...
Alan Sked, the founder of Ukip, has made such an allegation, saying that the 33 year old Farage spoke about black voters being unreachable for Ukip using racial slurs in 1997, the year Farage replaced Sked as leader. See this 2014 interview
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/nightma...
What I did on my holidays.
@caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
‘By summer’s end I had an entire housing estate of avian abodes, a metropolis of miniscule mansions for our feathered friends.’
This year, @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social built more bird boxes than he could ever possibly have purpose for www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/12/shad...
This is a link to the developers website - 41 200m high turbines over an area of 2,300 hectares of blanket bog covered peatland protected by SSSI, SAC and SPA designations.
@yorkswildlife.bsky.social Thank you for this web page, can you promote it on here please? www.ywt.org.uk/calderdale-e...
@support.bsky.team we notice you now have to age verify to access messages. How do we do this as an organisation please?
Yesterday an NGO boss told me that all funders now use "AI" to assess bids.
Later a community activist told me all the community funding these days is for people to learn to use "AI" (eg, to generate 'community visions')
& jeez what a waste of money & water to produce stuff no human will ever read
