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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 1h

16% of UK school leavers are illiterate!

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jpkearney.bsky.social @jpkearney.bsky.social · 1h

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 1h

She’ll rob from the poor to appease and pay the bankers.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7h

Holding govts to ransom.

Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.

Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.

Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.

Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes

David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 1h

I still can’t wrap my head around why an area that voted Remain has voted in a Reform council.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 1h

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says the International Federation for Human Rights

Right to protest is under sustained attack in the west, report finds

Counter-terror laws being ‘weaponised’ against pro-Palestine groups in UK, US, France and Germany, says FIDH

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 3h

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Ashley Davies @msashleydavies.bsky.social · 3h

Yesterday I learnt that kids travel for free on the Glasgow Subway during school holidays and half-term. Nice one, Glasgow. Round and round for nowt on the Clockwork Orange, gorgeous free museums and free rodent fun in Kelvingrove Park.

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flossyflook.bsky.social @flossyflook.bsky.social · 1h

Independence is closer than some folks realise

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 7h

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Oor Blaze fae Skye 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @blazespage.bsky.social · 2h

If anyone is interested in getting hold of my stuff, just drop me a DM.

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 2h

Being male the second qualification required.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 7h

Another corporate scandal.

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing.

98% of the the 23,000 homes fitted with botched external wall insulation need repairs.

Companies have vanished, people left with the problems.

Almost all external insulation fitted under Tory scheme needs repair or replacing, report finds

Homeowners who took advantage of government programmes left with cladding likely to cause damp

www.theguardian.com

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Greg Moodie @gregmoodie.bsky.social · 2h

You probably haven't heard of this particular Cool Scot, but it's time you knew about Victoria Drummond, the first woman to become a chief engineer in the Merchant Navy. My tribute below.

More 'Cool Scots' here: gregmoodie.com/product/cool...

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SharG @hapkidogal.bsky.social · 2h

Healthcare should never be about the bottom line for investors. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Private equity takeover of hospitals led to rise in Medicare emergency patient deaths, says study

Study found seven more deaths per 10,000 patients in private equity hospitals’ versus non-private equity hospitals

www.theguardian.com

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 2h

Labour’s “change” seems to be whichever way the wind blows.
Next week, month, year Brexit will be “good” again.

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 2h

What a pantomime Peace Deal is, it’s not what it says on the tin. It’s still land grab.

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 2h

Perhaps we all need a “thinking stone”?

Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly we were called Remoaners and everything we said was called Project Fear.
Now … it is Project Truth.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 4h

To all you patriots (and UK authorities)

Is this not political interference of the most egregious and socially divisive kind?

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 4h

'#Scotland will not be UK's #nuclear playground'.
Deputy first minister said nuclear energy will 'take longer, be more expensive, increase bills' and leave 'dangerous waste'.
news.stv.tv/politics/sco...

'Scotland will not be UK's nuclear playground', says Kate Forbes

The deputy first minister said nuclear energy will 'take longer, be more expensive, increase bills' and leave 'dangerous waste'.

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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 4h

#ClimateCrisis is now
Please sign and share widely
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition: Fund a National Climate Resilience Plan: protect communities from climate impact

From floods to extreme temperatures, climate impacts risk damaging homes, health, businesses, services, and the economy. We want Government to prioritise adaptation; fund a new Resilience Plan that wo...

petition.parliament.uk

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 4h

Yet another wake up call about the scale & cost of #climate risk. That’s why we urgently need a National Climate Resilience Plan with emphasis on local funding, nature based solutions & community resilience - pls sign & share petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Towns may have to be abandoned due to floods with millions more homes in Great Britain at risk

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable, Guardian investigation finds

www.theguardian.com

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 7h

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Melissa Eco-Zealot 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @melissapudding.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely up n at em! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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