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#WorkingClass #PunGeordie represented by KAB Literary: https://www.kabliterary.com/authors/seema-mcardle The John Blanke Project: https://www.johnblanke.com/seema-mcardle.html #ShowRacismTheRedCard Ex-Primary Teacher (17yrs) Photo credit: Amber Merry

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Hillsborough Law will 'criminalise lying' by senior ministers, say campaigners It's via a new standalone offence - which will apply to the prime minister - of "misleading the public", punishable by up to two years in jail.

We’ve all had enough of politicians lying to us, right?

Reckon on that we can all agree

Which is why I’m absolutely buzzing for this legislation that would criminalise lying in politics

…”punishable by up to two years in jail!”

GAME-CHANGER

news.sky.com/story/hillsb...

20.02.2026 07:24 👍 1122 🔁 327 💬 76 📌 18

Thank you for sharing @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Signed ✅

19.02.2026 23:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.

Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.

Tell the government to end the contract!

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

19.02.2026 16:28 👍 1278 🔁 660 💬 27 📌 19

Thank you! I'd also add:
1) BLACK TUDORS by Dr Miranda Kauffman
2) WHO IS JOHN BLANKE? by Michael Ohajuru
#BlackHistory #book #review #BritishHistory #EDI #DEI

01.02.2026 11:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Stop the water stitch-up! Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the water stitch-up!.

Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

23.01.2026 12:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is like a 'What to read' prompt 👌🏼

10.12.2025 00:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Terrible! I'll have a party the day the fascists get booted out!

19.11.2025 22:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I had the honour of hosting Prof Keon West at #NorwichBookFestival discussing his groundbreaking book, THE SCIENCE OF RACISM.

Strongly recommend it, esp if you run your own business, are in management, work in #education #DEI #EDI & are interested in making our world a kinder place💖

02.11.2025 23:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

100% this, Louie👌🏼
All of my parents' friends were Aunties & Uncles to me & my sister.
Some people's cultural ignorance is shocking and really p's me off tbh!

28.10.2025 18:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Very worrying...🇯🇲🙏🏼🥺

28.10.2025 18:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happening this Sunday, 26th October @ 1-2pm, in The Forum's Auditorium - join us!!

22.10.2025 12:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Ask Emma Reynolds to base water policy on facts not water industry fake maths. Everyone deserves clean, affordable water. Lobbyists say it’ll cost £100bn to bring it back into public hands - but experts disagree. I’ve asked the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence ...

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us.
So I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first.

Join me:

actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

@labourlewis.bsky.social #Water #PublicOwnership

21.10.2025 07:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Did you watch The Hack?
I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation.
Join me:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
#press #accountability

17.10.2025 07:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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BBC and news agencies launch film calling on Israel to allow foreign journalists into Gaza Israel does not allow foreign journalists into Gaza independently, citing security grounds.

#BBC and news agencies launch film calling on #Israel to allow foreign journalists into #Gaza

www.bbc.com/news/article...

25.09.2025 01:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#Heiresses US edition has arrived at my house! Out October 7th, available to pre-order now: a.co/d/ejxh4ph

24.09.2025 20:45 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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Huge house spider found in my bath!
#SpiderSeason #spiders

22.09.2025 11:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Girls just wanna be in our history textbooks | The Observer Women are still largely missing from the history we teach in classrooms. If we want a fairer future, we must stop erasing half the past

We need an honest representation of #history in #education systems, including EVERYONE (religions, gender, colour, sexuality, age, abilities, class...) who played a part in each story.

observer.co.uk/news/columni...

#books #school #college #university #EDI #DEI #inclusion @neunion.bsky.social

21.09.2025 09:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The corporations/billionaires are not only crushing the opposition but remolding formerly time-honored institutions into something unrecognizable. There’s a reason Trump’s 2nd state visit involved King Charles 👑 entertaining numerous corporate heads from across tech, media, and business. 💰💷💶

20.09.2025 12:22 👍 17 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 0
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Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR

Reform UK intends to withdraw our human rights

They want us to join Russia and Belarus as the only European states not signed up to the ECHR.

20.09.2025 21:57 👍 524 🔁 207 💬 30 📌 7

Ooh good luck and have fun, Louie🍀

21.09.2025 09:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Keon West: The Science of Racism // Norwich Book Festival

I'm hosting this event, on Sunday 26th Oct 2025 @ 1-2pm, at The Auditorium in The Forum, Norwich.

'KEON WEST: THE SCIENCE OF RACISM'
norwichbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/keo...

Ground-breaking science cuts through rhetoric, debate and stereotypes to reveal shocking and tragic truths about racism.

22.08.2025 14:27 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Huge spider in my outdoor porch 🕷️🕸️

06.09.2025 23:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Without the ECHR justice might never have been served for Hillsborough Without article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered

"If you celebrated justice for Hillsborough, you have to support the European Convention on Human Rights

Without article 2 of the European Convention on Human Rights the gross negligence behind the deaths at Hillsborough would never have been uncovered"

02.09.2025 18:37 👍 715 🔁 324 💬 5 📌 2

😂👌🏼

31.08.2025 19:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."

-Haruki Murakami

18.08.2025 01:06 👍 1148 🔁 194 💬 27 📌 7
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Keon West: The Science of Racism // Norwich Book Festival

I'm hosting this event, on Sunday 26th Oct 2025 @ 1-2pm, at The Auditorium in The Forum, Norwich.

'KEON WEST: THE SCIENCE OF RACISM'
norwichbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/keo...

Ground-breaking science cuts through rhetoric, debate and stereotypes to reveal shocking and tragic truths about racism.

22.08.2025 14:27 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Sunny Singh on Love, Endurance & Overlooked Voices in 'Refuge' Sunny Singh discusses 'Refuge', a 25-year journey of short stories on love, endurance, and overlooked voices amid a century of wars.

“Singh challenges readers to confront entrenched myths and to consider war from the perspective of those who endure it rather than those who wage it.”
#Refuge www.desiblitz.com/content/sunn...

19.08.2025 07:53 👍 41 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 2
Paperback copies of Jason Okundaye’s book Revolutionary Acts. The cover features the title and the authors name in green writing and it is overload with a black and white image of a black man wearing a tank top, trousers and studded leather gear.

Paperback copies of Jason Okundaye’s book Revolutionary Acts. The cover features the title and the authors name in green writing and it is overload with a black and white image of a black man wearing a tank top, trousers and studded leather gear.

If you’d like to buy a copy of my book, which looks at the lives and history of Black gay men in Britain, you can get a copy from a bookshop or any of the retailers on the attached link. And please do buy books from the other withdrawn authors linktr.ee/revolutionaryacts

16.08.2025 11:06 👍 150 🔁 67 💬 6 📌 2

Looking forward to reading 'Heiresses' by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
Her previous book 'Black Tudors' was brilliant! 👌🏼

18.08.2025 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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18.08.2025 10:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0