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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 41m

I'm surprised that the car manufacturers and sellers aren't kicking off over this. Motobility accounts for a very significant portion (currently about 20%) of new UK car sales.

Reeves is an absolute piece of shit, who is obsessed with grinding the poor into the dirt. She's also very stupid.

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OrangeSage @orangesage.bsky.social · 4h

#NoKings Miami!

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 4h

The vast majority of people have absolutely no idea that this is happening and, few that do know understand the consequences.

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 5h

We live in a post democratic system. The super rich own and manage almost all media. The political elite are owned by their super rich donors. The poor are a resource used to generate profits for the super rich at the cost of increased misery and death for everyone else

STOP THE WAR ON THE POOR

Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 5h

The majority of those hooligans will already presumably have served in the IDF. That must surely have added to the security concerns. Its going to cost a great deal of OUR money to keep THEM safe.

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 5h

I can't do it
We can do it
Build Community
Defend it

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 18h

Authoritarians fear only one thing: DEFIANCE‼️

(Downtown Portland)

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 5h

Thank you very much for this. Really cheered me up, on a grey day.

Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 5h

When I was a kid, alf-a-dolla was considered decent pocket money

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 6h

What a perfectly composed image by the brilliant Dorothea Lange. Just wonderful.

womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15h

Dorothea Lange,
Girl with an umbrella,
Louisiana, 1937
#WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a young Black women in an outside space, upper half, holding an umbrella, wearing a checked shirt and apron as well as a small round hat, she looks down to her hands

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 6h

A perfect insight into the consequences of the complete corporate capture of both major political parties. It is also another perfect example of:

THE SLOW VIOLENCE OF THE STATE

The state continuing to drive completely discredited neoliberalist policy, largely at the cost of working class people.

EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 7h

The EU Prohibition: Why Rejoin is Impossible
From the EU Commission on State Aid:
"Parliament stresses that State aid should support ecological transformation and foster the development of services, knowledge, and infrastructure rather than providing support to specific companies."
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d

Your occasional reminder that Mone can not be stripped of her peerage without an act of parliament.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Baroness Mone-linked PPE firm misses deadline to pay £122m

PPE Medpro was ordered to repay damages by 16:00 BST on Wednesday after breaching a Covid-19 contract.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 2d

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Sign the Petition

Support Refugee Families in Hoylake – Say No to Their Removal from King’s Gap Hotel

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 10d

Going from liberal hero to liberal pariah! Greta Thunberg has transgressed against the only values the liberal class understands: imperial values. For this they abandoned her www.donotpanic.news/p/the-libera...

The Liberal Abandonment Of Greta Thunberg

The Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has been detained by Israel and reportedly maltreated by her Israeli captors after she was kidnapped, along with hundreds of other activists, from Gaza’s territoria...

www.donotpanic.news

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 11d

It’s known as:

THE SLOW VIOLENCE OF THE STATE

It allows the state to “shorten the lives” of people, just as long as they are poor.

Yes, well spotted; that is a euphemism for MURDER.

STOP THE WAR ON THE POOR.

neilfromneath 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @neilfromneath.bsky.social · 11d

This article is from 2017, but research from the Glasgow Centre for Population Health and University of Glasgow estimates 335,000 excess deaths across Scotland, England, and Wales between 2012 and 2019 as a result of austerity policies. That was six years ago, so we're probably pushing 500,000, now.

Mark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @markportis.bsky.social · 11d

Nope it's the way the tories work, from 2017👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 12d

Very strong 70’s Eurovision vibes.

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 12d

REALLY love this.

The continuation of GENOCIDE and APARTHEID is not inevitable. We can all take meaningful action, however small it may feel, to help.

I can't stop this terrible crime, but WE can stop this.

cordeliaappleby.bsky.social @cordeliaappleby.bsky.social · 12d

How to stop a genocide when they will not let you

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 14d

Why is the UK Government failing in its legal duty to protect its own citizens from the illegal actions of the IDF?

THE UK GOVERNMENT IS AIDING AND ABETTING A GENOCIDE

How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/h...

How Western Media Whitewashed Israel’s Mass-Abduction of Activists

Over 450 members of the aid flotilla to Gaza are now being held by Israel in an “anti-terror” prison in the Negev desert

bylinetimes.com

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 14d

This is a great response from Zack Polanski, again showing how to lead with courage and honesty.

Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 15d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social is asked about the Home Secretarys comments that yesterdays protests about Israels actions were dishonourable (she also said they were unBritish).

Zack is spot on.

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 17d

The abolition of rent controls has allowed the rich to massively abuse private renters and also the public purse, through the Housing Benefit scheme.

PRIVATE LANDLORDS ARE THE REAL SCROUNGERS

Ross Greer (he/him) @ross-greer.bsky.social · 17d

Join the movement taking on the rich & powerful to build a fairer Scotland 👇
members.greens.scot/join

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 20d

Almost everything that he has done since then has pandered to those driving those riots, while cracking down on the types of genuine civil activism associated with the soft left

The interesting question is whether he'll be replaced by the Burnham left or the careerist political vacuum of Streeting

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 20d

If that is true, then he must be overcome by self-loathing. The alternative is that he is just a political chancer, who has never had any solid personal political principles.

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 21d

The tide is turning, slowly but surely. Israel is an Ethno-nationalist Zionist state, built upon a principle of Apartheid and committed to the Genocide of the Palestinian people.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

World must deny Israel ‘tools of genocide’, says growing alliance of activist states

New York meeting of Hague Group warns of shared responsibility to prevent genocide and proposes steps to isolate Israel

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 23d

A beautiful article.

My own interest is in the subject of Sir Gawain, the flawed character of the hero and the acceptance of that flaw by the others around that Round Table.

I also live on Wirral, close to the Hall of the Green Knight.

Supereffable www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tom Johnson · Supereffable: Mysteries of the Pearl Manuscript

Any book made by hand is unique, but the Pearl Manuscript’s claim to uniqueness is unparalleled: the manuscript...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · 28d

The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli version of Romeo and Juliet, was and still is the best ever version of the play.

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Peter Clee @peterlclee.bsky.social · Sep 15

Approximately 65,000 verified signatures so far.

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