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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Sep 11

Hypocritical Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk's Horrific Murder to Cynically Smear the Left
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Hypocritical Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk's Horrific Murder to Cynically Smear the Left

Have they forgotten all the Trump supporters who have killed, attacked, and threatened both prominent Democrats and opponents of this president in recent years? I haven't - and I have a list of them.

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Aug 31

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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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Aug 9

Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them
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Allotments are vanishing when the UK urgently needs more of them

In praise of digging for potatoes.

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Jul 27

Excellent from @adamtooze.bsky.social on the deliberate starvation by Israel of Palestinians

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Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context.

For many months, it has been beyond reasonable doubt that the Israeli government, the Israeli military, sections of Israeli politics and society as well as their aiders and abetters abroad, have been ...

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Pete Davies @pete-davies.bsky.social · Jul 18

Cardiff Council has voted by 57-4 to divest its pension fund from companies potentially complicit in war crimes and breaches of international law. The first Council in Wales to take this decision! Cardiff Palestine Solidarity Campaign identified £117 million invested in 52 such companies.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · Jul 16

The newest artwork depicts the architect of the National Health Service alongside one of his most famous quotes.

Stunning new mural of NHS founder Aneurin Bevan unveiled

The latest in a series of murals based on the National Health Service has been completed in Tredegar. The newest artwork has been painted by local artist James Telford and depicts the architect of the...

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Jul 18

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Historic win: Canada certifies Amazon union after ruling on company interference

Amazon warehouse workers in Delta, British Columbia, have won union certification after the province’s labour board sided with Unifor, finding that the company interfered in the unionization process. ...

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RCN Activism Academy @rcnactivism.bsky.social · Jul 15

Breaking 📣

The RCN announced the extent of NHS Nursing pay cuts over the past 10 years!

Remember, we still have time to vote on our pay!

It is OUR pay, OUR say!

Vote here: www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 16

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
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Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business

At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Jul 16

When your personal popularity has hit subterranean depths & your party is polling level with a left alternative that doesn't even exist yet, Starmer decides this is exactly the time to punish Labour MPs in tune with the public mood

Those who the gods wish to destroy...

#grownupsintheroom

Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Jul 16

Full public ownership of rail! Keep the privatising pirates out!

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Open letter: stop First Group, Arriva and other private firms clinging on to our railway | We Own It

Private firms like First Group and Arriva are fighting to cling on to our railway. The government must impose a moratorium on approval of new rail contracts with private firms.

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Jul 10

India: millions of workers go on strike to defend workers’ rights

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India: millions of workers go on strike to defend workers’ rights

Today, millions of workers across India—from both formal and informal sectors and from rural and urban areas—went on strike and took to the streets to defend their rights, which have been severely und...

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · Jul 8

Don’t tax us, we’re too important’ campaign begins as govt seems vaguely attracted to a wealth tax bit.ly/40GWZtB imagine the tsunami if it ever got close!

No 10 and Treasury refuse to rule out wealth tax

Rachel Reeves had rejected the idea in opposition but her deputy, Darren Jones, repeatedly declined to do so in the Commons

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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · Jul 7

When The Times is defending civil liberties against a Labour government led by a former human rights barrister, you know this country is in deep trouble.

Just 22 MPs voted against the proscription of Palestine Action. The rest enabled it. Shame on them.

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Jul 8

Here is the plan for Gaza's annihilation
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Here is the plan for Gaza's annihilation

What 'voluntary emigration' really means

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Inequality News @inequalitynews.bsky.social · Jul 8

📢 We'll say it again, we are going backwards as a country... 😢 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’

Children’s commissioner says any Labour strategy to tackle deprivation must scrap the two-child benefit cap

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Strike Map @strikemap.org · Jul 8

BREAKING 🚨| Last night's #Brighton fundraising social for the #BirminghamBinStrike raised over £1,640.

"This strike has been compared to the past, let it be the strike that shapes our future."

🪧See you at the Megapicket, 25 July bit.ly/RSVPMegapicketII

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · Jul 7

The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals.

Sign the petition: Call time on corporate courts. #StopISDS

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Petition: Call time on corporate courts

The UK's new trade strategy says it will continue inserting controversial corporate courts into its trade deals. At this very moment, the government is negotiating an investment treaty with India that...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · May 26

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say

An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · May 23

"Apologists for Israel might want to reject the charge of genocide [and] suggest its hyperbole or even antisemitic, but the actual experts on genocide know a genocide when they see one - and they see one in Gaza."

My receipts on all the experts who say Gaza *is* a genocide.
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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · May 22

"Serious crashes on 20mph and 30mph roads in Wales are the lowest since records began, according to new data."

Almost as if 20mph is a resounding policy success which has saved lives.

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Serious collisions on 20mph and 30mph roads at record low

New data reveals casualties were at a record low in 2024, despite plans to change some speed limits.

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Greenpeace UK @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social · May 19

FUN FACT: The top 50 richest families in the UK now hold more wealth than the poorest HALF of the population.

Keir Starmer should stop targeting immigrants and introduce a wealth tax on the 1%.

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Fal Rising @falrising.bsky.social · May 18

Over 100,000 people are marching through The Hague against Israel's war on Gaza.

Wearing red clothing and forming a line, they are demanding the government draw a red line in its stance against Israel.

It's the largest protest in the Netherlands in 20 years.

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Steve Davies @unioneyes.bsky.social · May 5

Time to end the looting of the public purse thru outsourcing

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Profits from NHS England eye care outsourcing same as 100 PFI contracts, research finds

CHPI thinktank found five firms made an ‘eye-watering’ £169m in 2023-24, as calls for profit cap grow

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