@barty12c.bsky.social
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🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
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Stand with us – sign up. now to become a Friend of Bylines Network
bylinesnetwork.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 4:55 PM
🔥 WE’RE changing the media.
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Citizen journalism is peer-to-peer news, it’s forging information networks from the grassroots up, sidestepping the top-down mainstream media.
Utterly new and fresh.
Become a friend of the Bylines Network and stand with us as we build media as it should be. 👇👇
Money is ‘God’.
Communities across Scotland are set to benefit from £1.8 million in funding in a bid to help deliver more renewable energy projects, it has been announced
£1.8 million in funding announced for Scottish community energy projects
www.thenational.scot
December 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Money is ‘God’.
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We've now raised over a quarter of a million!
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're upping our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
We've now raised over a quarter of a million!
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you!
If you can - please donate to help take the fight to Reform this May:
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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"Both the tone and substance of the National Security Strategy is not just a tilt away from America’s traditional commitment to Europe, it is in fact a calculated insult."
#UK
#Europe
#USA
#Defence
#UK
#Europe
#USA
#Defence
New US national security framework – is a huge win for Russia
As the US releases its National Security Strategy paper; an alignment with Russia and an abandonment from Europe becomes evident
bylines.scot
December 8, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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You can order the book here if you like. It certainly felt like many people were trying to shut me up and bully me out of the room when it was published
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Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
The true, eye-opening account of how the NHS has been failed and what we can do to save it. ‘The NHS is an institution. But it’s also a political football, kicked back and forth between politicians fo...
harpercollins.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
You can order the book here if you like. It certainly felt like many people were trying to shut me up and bully me out of the room when it was published
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This is a quite wonderful piece. Associations are everything when bringing something to mind with love and tenderness for people and place: to be able to transmit the same to paper is remarkable. Transmute the same, because the effect is magical. The dreamy visit is quite something. ❤️
I'm not really starting a substack, I don't think. But 1 of the best things that happened to me this year was being shortlisted for the Anne Brown essay prize. The essay was on my great aunt, her house & her remarkable siblings. You can read it here, if you like. danigaravelli.substack.com/p/lepanto
Lepanto
LEPANTO
danigaravelli.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This is a quite wonderful piece. Associations are everything when bringing something to mind with love and tenderness for people and place: to be able to transmit the same to paper is remarkable. Transmute the same, because the effect is magical. The dreamy visit is quite something. ❤️
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Big questions about energy infrastructure news. 1. Why are we shipping energy across UK fm Highlands to s of England when they have green resources too? 2. Do windfarm communities benefit? 3. Can any of them really object or is this a done deal? A film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXy...
December 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Big questions about energy infrastructure news. 1. Why are we shipping energy across UK fm Highlands to s of England when they have green resources too? 2. Do windfarm communities benefit? 3. Can any of them really object or is this a done deal? A film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXy...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
And #BBCthemoralmaze who ‘selects’ the jury?
December 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
And #BBCthemoralmaze who ‘selects’ the jury?
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Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...
Brussels floats ‘emergency’ powers to raise €210bn from Russian assets
Contentious proposal to fund Ukraine would mark watershed moment for EU
www.ft.com
December 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Anyone who cares about Europe's future and loathes Putin should want this plan to succeed. It's the single most important decision Europe can take for its own defence and Ukraine's survival. America is lost. www.ft.com/content/3c23...
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I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Hello, foreign oligarchs and corporations! Please come and sue the UK for billions | George Monbiot
The case of a planned Cumbrian coalmine shows how governments around the world are being threatened by litigation in shadowy offshore courts, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
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“Don’t Be a Sucker,” a film made in 1943 by the U.S. Department of War, shows how fascists weaponize prejudice to divide and take over nations.
November 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“Don’t Be a Sucker,” a film made in 1943 by the U.S. Department of War, shows how fascists weaponize prejudice to divide and take over nations.
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“Holocaust researcher, when you study Auschwitz & you study the SS & the German Nazis, what they did to Jewish people & you study it & then you see we have on our screens this is what they do to Palestinians to torture them...”
November 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
“Holocaust researcher, when you study Auschwitz & you study the SS & the German Nazis, what they did to Jewish people & you study it & then you see we have on our screens this is what they do to Palestinians to torture them...”
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British broadcaster and football legend Gary Lineker:
“It's not antisemitic to say what lsraeI is doing is wrong. I cry on a regular basis when i see certain images.”
The BBC forced Gary to resign for being “antisemitic”
“It's not antisemitic to say what lsraeI is doing is wrong. I cry on a regular basis when i see certain images.”
The BBC forced Gary to resign for being “antisemitic”
November 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
British broadcaster and football legend Gary Lineker:
“It's not antisemitic to say what lsraeI is doing is wrong. I cry on a regular basis when i see certain images.”
The BBC forced Gary to resign for being “antisemitic”
“It's not antisemitic to say what lsraeI is doing is wrong. I cry on a regular basis when i see certain images.”
The BBC forced Gary to resign for being “antisemitic”
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Save The Iain Anderson Show. I've signed the petition cos we need more support for our musicians, more knowledge & passion - not easy listening shows like every other radio station. The petition's being handed in soon, so if you've been meaning to sign, here's the link. c.org/LMwv5xtQtM
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Save The Iain Anderson Show. I've signed the petition cos we need more support for our musicians, more knowledge & passion - not easy listening shows like every other radio station. The petition's being handed in soon, so if you've been meaning to sign, here's the link. c.org/LMwv5xtQtM
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Just 10k signatures needed now
Just 13k more signatures and the call for a public inquiry into Russian interference has to be debate in Parliament
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Just 10k signatures needed now
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Hope is here.
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
Help us beat Reform in May. Donate today ⤵️
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
”Reform UK's barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don't play the bullies game." Martin Shipton from @nation.cymru on being bullied by Reform's lawyers: www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Read this.
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
A scrappy indie outlet standing up to Farage’s bullyboy lawyers in a way that should shame better-funded outlets
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Also: where’s the fecking investigation, Keir Starmer?
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Also: where’s the fecking investigation, Keir Starmer?
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
The Welsh parliament, Nigel Farage, @prifweinidog.gov.wales @eddavey.libdems.org.uk & @zackpolanski.bsky.social are all now in agreement that we need a govt-led inquiry into Russian interference. So what on earth is the problem??
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Many congratulations to Sergei, Carole, @peterjukes.bsky.social and all those who contributed. Absolutely earned and deserved.
So exceptional it's like a full investigation and inquiry of a national catastrophe sitting right there on a silver plate for the government to take immediate action on...
So exceptional it's like a full investigation and inquiry of a national catastrophe sitting right there on a silver plate for the government to take immediate action on...
Yay!! I couldn’t be there but Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring just won gold at the APA podcast awards!!
Whole thing was crowdfunded by @the-citizens.bsky.social to highlight 5-year legal case to get an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics. Power to the people!
Whole thing was crowdfunded by @the-citizens.bsky.social to highlight 5-year legal case to get an investigation into Russian interference in UK politics. Power to the people!
November 27, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Many congratulations to Sergei, Carole, @peterjukes.bsky.social and all those who contributed. Absolutely earned and deserved.
So exceptional it's like a full investigation and inquiry of a national catastrophe sitting right there on a silver plate for the government to take immediate action on...
So exceptional it's like a full investigation and inquiry of a national catastrophe sitting right there on a silver plate for the government to take immediate action on...
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I've been attending Pam Hogg's fashion shows at London Fashion Week for years, always one of the most creative and eclectic designers. RIP 🙏
November 27, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I've been attending Pam Hogg's fashion shows at London Fashion Week for years, always one of the most creative and eclectic designers. RIP 🙏
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'Human health was never a design criterion in creating these toxic products.
Real food - ingredients from which you can construct a meal - has been priced out of the market or made inaccessible in far too many places.'
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
Real food - ingredients from which you can construct a meal - has been priced out of the market or made inaccessible in far too many places.'
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
The ultra-processed food crisis
Ultra-processed foods now make up at least half of all food sold in UK supermarkets. The Lancet has described them as a “corporate-engineered public health crisis.” That is exactly what they are: industrial products designed for profit, not nutrition. They override appetite control, promote over-consumption, and push out real food...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
'Human health was never a design criterion in creating these toxic products.
Real food - ingredients from which you can construct a meal - has been priced out of the market or made inaccessible in far too many places.'
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
Real food - ingredients from which you can construct a meal - has been priced out of the market or made inaccessible in far too many places.'
@richardjmurphy.bsky.social
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I couldn’t be prouder to be a member of the green party right now. Proud to be supporting this movement.
November 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I couldn’t be prouder to be a member of the green party right now. Proud to be supporting this movement.