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Dogged conviction that our species has a huge capability for reason and social cooperation that can overcome the current dominance of oligarchy

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Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · Sep 4

It is hard to stay optimistic when there is a tsunami of disinformation pouring through our world. We have to withdraw from the media sometimes for the sake of sanity, sit back and try to think out the most effective strategy to stop the drift towards fascism

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 6h

Pass it on.

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Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 6h

World data on share of energy, showing decline of polluting forms and progress of clean, sustainable energy.

Reform Ltd wants Britain to get off this pathway and get us back to smog-making and climate disruption

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 6h

The world’s richest corporations, valued in trillions. If they paid tax at 40% and the money wisely distributed, the whole world could be a happy, healthy place. Hunger, disease, ignorance, pollution, fossil fuels all fading away.
As it is, wealth is trickling up and away

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 7h

Lee Anderson used to trick the Benefits Office when he was working for Citizens Advice. But Reform Ltd aims to cut Civil Service staff substantially, making it easier to trick the system

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 8h

Reform MP admits to ‘gaming the benefits system’

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Reform MP admits to ‘gaming the benefits system’

The Reform MP added he wanted to crack down on the ‘anxiety generation’

www.independent.co.uk

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 1d

Research at UCL shows that over the 13 yrs to 2023, wind energy saved £133 Billion in terms of gas not burned. Over that time we paid £43 Billion subsidies to wind, giving a net saving of £104 Billion.
Reform want to stop wind power
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds

Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand

www.theguardian.com

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 1d

Pochin. Why is she wrong to say she gets angry when she sees Asians in advertisements?
What is racism?
It is a psychological reaction that sees other people as different, a threat. As an individual thought, it’s a pity. As a political opinion, it can lead to community violence.

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 1d

“It is likely that the global proportion of Category 3–5 tropical cyclone instances has increased over the past four decades”
#climatescience #melissa #jamaica #NetZero
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...

Chapter 11: Weather and Climate Extreme Events in a Changing Climate

www.ipcc.ch

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 2d

Reform Ltd membership has fallen by 10,000 in a month. They are also losing councillors at such a rate that it is hard to keep up

Maybe it’s time for Farage to think about starting a new party?

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Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 2d

#r4today is asking “Is China a threat to UK?”

Well, if it is, we would have to ask them to stop building Hinkley C nuclear Power Station, wouldn’t we? But we won’t, so they can’t be a threat.

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mja66 @mja66.bsky.social · 3d

Led By Donkeys doing the good work yet again.

Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 3d

Farage: epic grifter

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Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 3d

Trump in his 2nd inauguration: "My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,"

Unifier? He is putting Republican troops into Democrat cities!

Peacemaker? He is planning a war on Venezuela to take over their oilfields!

Trump is a lying fascist. Farage is his dog

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 3d

Claims of an “exodus” of millionaires have been debunked taxjustice.net/press/millio...

Millionaire “exodus” claim backtracked but media re-run story anyway - Tax Justice Network

Henley & Partners have backtracked their claims about an "exodus" following the Tax Justice Network's review, but media re-run the story again

taxjustice.net

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 3d

Today is Vasily Arkhipov day. 63 years ago this courageous and wise Soviet Russian naval officer single-handedly prevented a global nuclear holocaust. You have not heard of him because the elite want you to believe that nuclear deterrence is infallible.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_...

Vasily Arkhipov - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 3d

And here is a six-point plan to move the wealthy back from the position of domination that they are creating to a position of integration taxjustice.net/take-back-co...

Take back control - Tax Justice Network

taxjustice.net

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 4d

Six simple, feasible ways of making tax affairs of the super rich fair and open, to stop the loss of $483 Billion per year from the global economy taxjustice.net/take-back-co...

Take back control - Tax Justice Network

taxjustice.net

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 4d

Every year, the world economy loses $483 Billion, leaching out to billionaires’ tax havens.
This is like a person with constant loss of blood, so the worlds’ economies, instead of helping people flourish and look after themselves, become anaemic and weak taxjustice.net/take-back-co...

Take back control - Tax Justice Network

taxjustice.net

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 4d

After a lot of comment on @threads I feel my post above needs amendment. Tories and Reform Ltd are the parties that clearly want to cut and privatise.

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 5d

If Britain is broken, it is because all major parties except the Greens want to cut public services and privatise them, so that wealth trickles up out of the economy and away into tax havens.

Greens are not perfect but they are a lot less imperfect than Labour, Tories and Farage’s Reform plc

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Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 5d

UK is 30th from the top in list of countries in terms of percentage age of population born in another country (17% for us). High, but not highest, and a legacy of our Empire.

If you don’t like migration, join the struggle against wars, dictators, poverty, and climate change.

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 5d

I just had a nice rant about prison service underfunding on @LBC. I blamed this mistake in releasing a sex offender to offend again on politicians and media. He terminated me when I blamed the media, but they are to blame for politicians who starve the public services of money

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 6d

My post on MEDACT, the peace/wellness campaign organisation for health workers, that applies logic to the problem of nuclear weapons www.medact.org/2025/blogs/t...

The fallibility of nuclear deterrence - Medact

Given that nuclear deterrence is not infallible and that nuclear war is not survivable, it must follow that we divest from nuclear weapons.

www.medact.org

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 6d

Well done, Plaid! With thanks from a Green old enough to remember our parties’ cooperation

Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 6d

Impressive victory for Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly - with Reform UK 11 points behind

Politico: "Reform played up its chances, spent a lot of cash and even had plans in place for a celebration (complete with balloons)" Farage was a no-show at the count, despite many prior trips to the seat, apparently

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 7d

Luke Campbell’s support for green energy will probably be stomped on by Fuhrer Farage, because that is his style

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

Luke Campbell grilled on Reform UK loyalty

Hull and East Yorkshire mayor Luke Campbell has opposing views to the party he stands for - Reform UK.

He represents a region that benefits from exactly what Reform UK oppose - a progressive green economy.

Luke Campbell grilled on Reform UK loyalty - BBC Sounds

Hull & EY mayor quizzed on green stance & Reform UK control in BBC Hotseat interview.

www.bbc.co.uk

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 7d

It is no surprise that the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (#IICSA) is having difficulties over choosing an acceptable chair.

Historically, 60 CSA inquiries were closed down if they began to follow a line leading towards powerful people vipcsa.wikidot.com

Welcome to the VIP Child Sexual Abuse Wiki - Child Sexual Abuse in the British Establishment

Paedophile MPs

vipcsa.wikidot.com

Doc Richard @docrichard.bsky.social · 7d

They could get a letter from their parents to be excused, of course. But that raises questions about what it is that don’t want to see