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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1h

I understand that the latest Highway Code places pedestrians at the top of the hierarchy of road users, above both cyclists and vehicles. Have also to say being struck by a vehicle is probs a tad more dangerous than running into an unwary pedestrian.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1h

His (aka Musk’s) lawyer says the Yaxley-Lennon views are well known. A pity the identities of his funders are somewhat less opaque.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1h

Tommy Robinson police stop unlawful, lawyer says

The Yaxley-Lennon Legal bill being paid by #ElonMusk which reassures us that everything’s squeaky-clean & above board cos Musk’s a decent & trustworthy public figure too.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 9h

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.

news.sky.com

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 6h

“Venezuela shuts embassy in Norway following opposition leader's Nobel award”

Straight out of the #OrangeFelon’s peevish grumpy child play book.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 6h

🤣🤣🤣

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 9h

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 12h

War torn Portland.
I am

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 8h

With the particular cycle tracks I have in mind, I’m not sure I’m persuaded by the “more dangerous” argument.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 8h

Cyclists rightly call for segregated cycle lanes in Oxford. It’s worth noting, however, there are several busy roads with such lanes but cyclists often don’t use them & cycle in the road. Another dangerous phenomenon is the number of people cycling at night with no lights or reflective clothing.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 9h

I guess I’ll take more notice of the #ClactonCuxkoo’s “outrage” when he condemns the verbal & physical assaults by his supporters (evidenced on video) as opposed to this “alleged” assault on Finch apparently reported to the police as a man being “pushed” at 2 a.m. in Nuneaton

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 21h

Chris Packham, "This country voted in a party with a massive majority and a mandate for change"

"All we see is Labour kowtowing to the far right. This causes me enormous concern"

"I'm frustrated, I'm angry, and I've frightened"

"And I get more scared every single day"

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 20h

Thanks - that would be helpful.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 20h

Agree - but my question is factual - what actually happened? A lot of allegation but little fact available on line.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1d

Where can factual evidence of the attack be found? Has anybody claimed responsibility for the attacK? Having been burnt a few times on social media, I feel hesitant to jump to comment without more and better particulars.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1d

One word in my mind - HUBRIS (deliberate high case)

Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1d

The asteroid image is telling. It took an external asteroid to wipe out those pesky dinosaurs but humans are generating their own.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 1d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He needs to be tried in court and imprisoned. But that only happens to us: the little people.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1d

I so wish that’s not going to happen but the more the #OrangeFelon Trumpets his great achievements the more I fear it’s inevitable.

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1d

Like what you did there.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 1d

How austerity hit young people.

In the decade after 2010 councils’ funding for youth services in England and Wales suffered a real-terms cut of 70%.

By 2023, 1,200 publicly run youth centres closed.

Young people abandoned to fund tax cuts for corporations the rich.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Andy Brown @andybrown1951.bsky.social · 1d

In other news we are wrecking the joint and those who are making money out of it are happy to carry on as if everything was normal.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Ralph-Bowman @emmahbea.bsky.social · 1d

Freedland’s voice could be a very important one for good, but he’s rather given way to being a self-promoting chancer.

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Hanniba-LINA Lecter 💀 @agirlcalledlina.bsky.social · 1d

The bbc focussing on what the ceasefire means for the hostages way more than what it means for Gazans, again seeing that disproportionately we’ve become accustomed to for years, this isn’t new, and it’s certainly not ok

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