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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 1d

The richest 150 people in the UK make £300m a week and pay almost no tax on it.

Does anybody really think that is acceptable?

(They own Energy, Banks, Supermarkets, Telecoms, Mobile Phone Companies etc, so it is all money coming from you)

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

As Wes Streeting comments to condemn some vandalism by trans activists has he said anything about this?

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 1d

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable, coroner rules https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/09/nhs-wait-times-trans-girl-suicide/?utm_content=1760127601&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

17-year-old trans girl's suicide over NHS wait times was preventable says coroner

A 17-year-old trans girl's death by suicide over NHS wait times could have been prevented with swift intervention, a coroner has ruled.

www.thepinknews.com

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

“Britain is a nation of neighbours, not strangers — and it’s time we built a politics of hope that reflects that.”

Zack Polanski with a message of unity and hope having been out door knocking Handsworth today.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Ana-Cristina Santos 🏳️‍🌈 (she/her) @anacristinasantos.bsky.social · 4d

Outrageous. One of the very first symptoms of a wanna-be) authoritarian regime is their declared dislike for Sociology and Gender Studies. Those are usually the first they go after, as we saw in Brazil during Bolsonaro, in Hungary, etc. It's time to rise. #publicSociology
#academicfreedom

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a news article this week asking whether the “996” (working 9 til 9 6 days a week) work culture is coming to the UK. Perhaps it is here already?

Chang Kyung-Sup argues in East-Asia so much time is now spent on production there is no time for social reproduction. Hence plummeting birth rates.

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 3d

Iguana!!! 😮

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

People need homes where they work🤷‍♀️

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful!

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Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️ @leftiestats.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 BREAKING | Greens hit 10% in poll average for the very first time, an all-time high for the party.

This is the first time in the party's history that they have hit double-digits in polls, and comes as the party stands within touching distance of 100,000 members.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 3d

We just hit 93,000 members.

We're polling on average higher than we have ever before.

Over 1000 people joining a day!

Join our movement.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Join the Green Party

Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 3d

Mice I can understand

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

Yes!!! Absolutely this!!

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 4d

Well, well, well... Glasgow and, my own alma mater, Heriot-Watt

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

Is there anyone left that doesn’t know that cutting taxes for wealthier people means cutting services for everyone else?

Tories will scrap stamp duty on primary residences, Kemi Badenoch tells conference
Leader announces tax cut plan in policy-heavy speech aimed at boosting beleaguered party's fiscal credibility

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 4d

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

Reform, Tories and Labour compete over who can be the most racist

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Opinion | I know the real Handsworth – it’s a far better place than Robert Jenrick’s toxic vision of Britain — The Guardian

The shadow justice secretary complained of a lack of integration in an area that has shown, time and time again, that it is for everyone, says Nazia Parveen, an assistant managing editor at the Guardi...

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 4d

Lol it shows what a £200m gift from the Blackstone group can do.
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/oxfords...

Oxford’s largest-ever project ‘shows what the humanities can do’

New building which brings together disciplines for the first time will also open its doors to the public to engage with big questions facing the world

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

People need homes where they work🤷‍♀️

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

So the aim of AI is to take the pleasure out of everything?

Miller on the Threshold @iammilliam.bsky.social · 4d

Just the latest way in which technology is enabling people who don’t actually like reading to diminish the cultural relevance of those who do.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 4d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

One thing we *won’t* have to worry about as the Tories will never again be in power.

Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 4d

This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

Badenoch: Curb students taking "rip-off" degrees such as English. The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Ruth Holliday @ruthholliday.bsky.social · 4d

Ragdoll Bros 😂

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 4d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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