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Markais @markais.bsky.social · 20d

Feeling very shocked about this. Racism is everywhere but this community where I used to live ( my house was a few streets away ) has always been harmonious. Plus those people knew they would be acting on a day when the synagogue and surrounding streets were full of people. Horrible

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · 20d

I used to live here. A community characterised by diversity and harmony. So very very sad to see this and on a day when the synagogue and surrounding streets would have been packed. They knew what they were doing news.sky.com/story/stabbi...

Manchester synagogue attack: Two killed and suspect shot 'dead' on Yom Kippur

Sir Keir Starmer says he is "appalled" by the attack and is set to fly home early from a meeting of European leaders to chair an emergency Cobra meeting, and the King says he is "deeply shocked" to le...

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Sep 13

www.libdems.org.uk/bbc

Balance the BBC

The BBC is our national broadcaster, people expect and deserve balanced news coverage.

www.libdems.org.uk

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 5

This is a huge story.

Don't let him get away with it.

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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings

Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Sep 4

It’s long been thought that psychopaths are prevalent amongst CEOS. How true this actually is I don’t know but thinking that fossil fuel companies must be headed by psychopaths

Markais @markais.bsky.social · Sep 3

While you're on holiday, the EU is dismantling environmental protections 🏖️➡️💔 #HandsOffNature
You have until 10 September to tell the Commission what you think. Your voice matters: handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

Take Action - Hands Off Nature

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 31

Please SIGN: Violence in eastern #DRCongo is a disaster for the forest and human rights. Neighboring #Rwanda is driving #BloodMineral mining and reaping the profits. Tell the #EU to end its partnership with Rwanda on critical raw materials! #petition
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#petition DRC: Europe’s green transition must not cost Congo’s blood and forests!

The violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not only a humanitarian catastrophe but also an environmental disaster. The exploitation of mineral resources and forests driven by neighboring Rwan...

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ocado handed out 221 million plastic bags last year! 😱 Sign the petition and tell them to ditch single-use bags for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/oc...

Ocado: Ditch the plastic bag

In 2024, single-use plastic bag sales in England rose for the first time since the carrier bag levy was introduced in 2015 - a 7% increase, reaching 437 million bags. Shockingly, Ocado alone was respo...

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 30

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate

Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...

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My Zero Carbon #ClimateAction @myzerocarbon.org · Aug 19

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Public buildings across Greater Manchester to go green

We need to take urgent #ClimateAction right now to avoid the worst of Climate Change!

Find out more: www.burytimes.co.uk/news/25...

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Public buildings across Greater Manchester to go green

Public buildings across Greater Manchester will receive eco-friendly upgrades thanks to a £695,000 grant from Great British Energy

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay: act.gp/3RIc9dq

Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay

Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 18

There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Take Big Money Out of Our Politics

British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 14

Well done.

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 14

I’m a fighter. Not a give up sort of person. I will not give up trying to encourage people to address climate change - to press our politicians and take some personal responsibility but it’s very hard right now to feel any sort of optimism.

Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 14

How is it that we are the most ? intelligent species on the planet with the capacity to save ourselves and everything on it but we don’t have the will to do it ?

Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 8

Kill another green law? The EU wants to continue protecting polluters spreading greenwashing lies. Finally political momentum is on our side to stop this. Sign to demand the anti-greenwashing law. action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-07...

No more “green” lies! Don’t let the EU kill the anti-greenwashing law.

Kill another green law? The EU wants to continue protecting polluters spreading greenwashing lies. Finally political momentum is on our side to stop this. Sign to demand the anti-greenwashing law.

action.wemove.eu

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 6

Pollinators like bees, butterflies and bugs are vital to our ecosystems but they’re under threat! Join this free email course to learn how we can help protect them:

Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 5

Wasn’t it De Gaulle who never wanted the UK in in the first place ?

Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 3

Who knows but moving closer step by step is one way to find out. And we are.

Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 3

This is a serious issue. As a retired social worker I remember feeling that colleagues in high security psychiatric hospitals were subjected to fewer risks than those of us going about our work in community settings.

Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 3

When we moved to France we needed a microchip for one of my cats. She came from my ex who had died but she was already chipped. We could not ask him or the cat how he came to have her which was required. Eventually got Cat rescue to sign the forms even though she had lived with us for 12 years !!!

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · Aug 3

Women’s rights: do not give them away, not for anything
Many leaders, like Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees Mogg and Kemi Badenoch argue fervently for Britain's withdrawal from the ECHR
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Women’s rights: do not give them away, not for anything

Many leaders, like Nigel Farage, Jacob Rees Mogg and Kemi Badenoch argue fervently for Britain's withdrawal from the ECHR

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 3

Support of course

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Markais @markais.bsky.social · Aug 3

Please. Can someone tell Keir Starmer

Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · Aug 3

BREXIT IS OVER.

52% would vote Remain.
Only 29% would vote Leave.
49% want a rejoin referendum.

The public has moved on.
But the government hasn’t.

Brexit lost the people. The mandate has flipped.

And now, public wants a say on Europe, on rights, on who we are.

#Rejoin #BrexitRegret #ReUnion

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · Aug 3

For a moment a majority was for it. And at peak leave we voted bit.ly/45cjF6p Like every summit, all around it was only downside. “The greatest act of national self harm” as many have said from Geldof to Ian Kershaw to Heseltine.

Only 29% would back Brexit now — poll proves tables have turned

We asked Britain about Europe, China and their least favourite world leaders, but one answer stands out

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