Barry Hope
@barry-hope.bsky.social
Retired, ex-voluntary sector, ex-English teacher, now focusing on writing, painting and my garden. Living in Normandy, France.
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop foreign interference in British politics
British politics has a foreign interference problem. An undercover investigation by Democracy for Sale and Led By Donkeys has revealed how shockingly easy it is for secretive Chinese interests to pene...
you.38degrees.org.uk
January 12, 2026 at 11:48 AM
🚨 An undercover sting just exposed alarming loopholes in Westminster’s weak lobbying system: a fake Chinese company bought meetings with ministers and MPs, and it may not have even broken any rules! ✍️ Sign & share: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Trump is acting outside the law in Venezuela. Keir Starmer must speak up, not stay silent. Cowboy diplomacy puts us all at risk. ✍️ Sign the petition. 38d.gs/ae5q
Stand up to Trump’s lawless actions in Venezuela
Trump is acting outside the law in Venezuela. Keir Starmer must speak up, not stay silent. Cowboy diplomacy puts us all at risk. ✍️ Sign the petition.
38d.gs
January 5, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Trump is acting outside the law in Venezuela. Keir Starmer must speak up, not stay silent. Cowboy diplomacy puts us all at risk. ✍️ Sign the petition. 38d.gs/ae5q
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
38d.gs
December 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/vzgv
Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view.
Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.
38d.gs
December 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
🚨 Nigel Farage’s Reform UK Party opened the floodgates to dark money in our politics by becoming the first UK party to accept untraceable crypto donations. Sign the petition to stop shady crypto donations flooding our politics: 38d.gs/vzgv
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up 38d.gs/bbc_o_eaio
Sign the petition: save our BBC: don't let the likes of Trump and his UK cronies meddle with our public broadcaster
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up & replaced by the likes of GBNews or Fox win. Sign the open letter now to demand the new BBC boss is someone that will protect...
38d.gs
November 11, 2025 at 7:38 AM
🚨Our BBC is under attack 🚨 We can't let those that want to see it torn up 38d.gs/bbc_o_eaio
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
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Beautiful!
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Beautiful!
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
The BBC should rebrand #Radio4 as ‘Radio Re4m’. Tuned in for 2 minutes to hear the news only to switch off again as another interview with Tice is scheduled.
September 5, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The BBC should rebrand #Radio4 as ‘Radio Re4m’. Tuned in for 2 minutes to hear the news only to switch off again as another interview with Tice is scheduled.
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The BBC are constantly bending over backwards to please Reform.
I fear they're becoming a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage, a guy who wants to destroy them.
I fear they're becoming a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage, a guy who wants to destroy them.
July 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The BBC are constantly bending over backwards to please Reform.
I fear they're becoming a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage, a guy who wants to destroy them.
I fear they're becoming a mouthpiece for Nigel Farage, a guy who wants to destroy them.
@simonpt19.bsky.social How about a catch up on Zoom?
July 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
@simonpt19.bsky.social How about a catch up on Zoom?
@lbcwatchuk.bsky.social I must stop listening to @benkentish.bsky.social before I go to sleep. He’s okay with callers that broadly agree with him, but then he gets all shouty. Not the best listen when you’re winding down for the night.
June 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
@lbcwatchuk.bsky.social I must stop listening to @benkentish.bsky.social before I go to sleep. He’s okay with callers that broadly agree with him, but then he gets all shouty. Not the best listen when you’re winding down for the night.
Reproductive rights are under attack! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
Ask your MP to put reproductive rights into law
The right to make decisions about our families and bodies is not protected by law. The 1967 Abortion Act allows people to seek abortion under certain circumstances but abortion otherwise remains a cri...
action.goodlawproject.org
June 14, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Reproductive rights are under attack! Take 2 mins to write to your MP TODAY to demand that abortion is decriminalised
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
action.goodlawproject.org/decriminalis...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Safe Homes, Not Hotels: join the call for safe housing for asylum seekers
Right now, thousands of people seeking asylum in the UK are being housed in unsafe hotels and barges, cut off from communities and support. Some have faced serious harm - including abuse, racism, and ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
May 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
May 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Let’s not put more money in his pockets - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
Don't allow Trump's Turnberry golf course to host The Open Championship
The Open Championship must not give in to the UK government's lobbying and allow Donald Trump to host one of the world's biggest, oldest and respected golf tournaments at any of the golf courses he ow...
you.38degrees.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Let’s not put more money in his pockets - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop employers covering up abuse
Hey! Do you remember the Harvey Weinstein case? Non Disclosure Agreements silenced victims of abuse - and it's not just happening in Hollywood. They're used in the UK to cover up all kinds of miscondu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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It's wild that Europe, the allies the United States joined hands with to stand up against Russia (then doing evil business as the "Soviet Union"), is now having to stand up against *the United States* for enabling Russia's war crimes.
April 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It's wild that Europe, the allies the United States joined hands with to stand up against Russia (then doing evil business as the "Soviet Union"), is now having to stand up against *the United States* for enabling Russia's war crimes.
Rachel Reeve is right not to follow the Tangerine Scream’s exhortation to isolate China. If we need to be severing ties with anyone it’s the Trump Administration/Junta
April 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Rachel Reeve is right not to follow the Tangerine Scream’s exhortation to isolate China. If we need to be severing ties with anyone it’s the Trump Administration/Junta
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Labour will lose the next election due to the cowardice of not nailing Brexit as a disaster, not burying it, and not citing Farage as a fascist and the chief architect of the breaking of Britain.
April 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Labour will lose the next election due to the cowardice of not nailing Brexit as a disaster, not burying it, and not citing Farage as a fascist and the chief architect of the breaking of Britain.
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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Le trumpisme est un nouveau maoïsme.
Trump's new loyalty test: "golden Trump bust lapel pins"
Members of Trump's cabinet, as well as Congresspeople and Senators, are being instructed to wear a tribute to their inglorious, convicted felon leader.
boingboing.net
April 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Le trumpisme est un nouveau maoïsme.
NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop employers covering up abuse
Hey! Do you remember the Harvey Weinstein case? Non Disclosure Agreements silenced victims of abuse - and it's not just happening in Hollywood. They're used in the UK to cover up all kinds of miscondu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
April 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NDAs can silence victims of abuse & harassment. Let's change this! Sign the petition to ensure the Employment Rights Bill bans NDAs in cases of misconduct. #StopAbusiveNDAs #EmploymentRightsBill you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...