Josette
@makedo.bsky.social
No DMs. Leftist, feminist, Craftivist, Married, French and Irish roots. Dog Mam, working to reuse, recycle and mend. Would love to have never left the European Union. Resist Resist Resist.
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Imagine being born just to be killed for someone’s sandwich.
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Imagine being born just to be killed for someone’s sandwich.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social not arguing about the PPE but all NHS workers are offered free flu vaccination - these are the figures for last year - 37.8% of frontline NHS staff in England were vaccinated against seasonal influenza during the 2024/25 winter season (September 1, 2024, to February 28, 2025.
December 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social not arguing about the PPE but all NHS workers are offered free flu vaccination - these are the figures for last year - 37.8% of frontline NHS staff in England were vaccinated against seasonal influenza during the 2024/25 winter season (September 1, 2024, to February 28, 2025.
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Given recent press attention to the rotation of South African oligarchs through the White House, I am re-posting "Oligarchs’ Island," which I wrote back in November 2024.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
Oligarchs' Island
A Sitcom Pitch in a Tragic Moment
snyder.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Given recent press attention to the rotation of South African oligarchs through the White House, I am re-posting "Oligarchs’ Island," which I wrote back in November 2024.
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
snyder.substack.com/p/oligarchs-...
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A report alleges that Andrew Tate has nurtured a relationship with Barron Trump and that Barron spoke to Tate on a Zoom call.
Barron Trump got dating advice from Andrew Tate associate: report
www.newsweek.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A report alleges that Andrew Tate has nurtured a relationship with Barron Trump and that Barron spoke to Tate on a Zoom call.
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Unclear where this war profiteering plan came from or why it emerged right now, but clear that it is in every way disastrous
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Unclear where this war profiteering plan came from or why it emerged right now, but clear that it is in every way disastrous
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According to environmentalist George Monbiot, you could "fly bananas six times around the world before they have the same impact as locally sourced beef."
Why Plant-Based Foods Are Vastly More Climate-Friendly Than Local Meat
The data is clear: cutting meat — not choosing local — is key to lowering your impact.
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
According to environmentalist George Monbiot, you could "fly bananas six times around the world before they have the same impact as locally sourced beef."
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The Nerve Weekend Dish: a comforting, autumnal mushroom pie from Beth Adamson, the cook behind the popular social media account Borough Chef
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
November 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The Nerve Weekend Dish: a comforting, autumnal mushroom pie from Beth Adamson, the cook behind the popular social media account Borough Chef
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
www.thenerve.news/p/the-nerve-...
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BREAKING: Democrats released three email messages from sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein talking about President Donald Trump. www.huffpost.com/entry/epstei...
Jeffrey Epstein Claimed Trump Knew About His Conduct, New Emails Show
In one message, Epstein said one of his apparent victims "spent hours at my house" with Trump.
www.huffpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
BREAKING: Democrats released three email messages from sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein talking about President Donald Trump. www.huffpost.com/entry/epstei...
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Just how little can you value life before you lose your own humanity?
🐣 At the speed of sound, machines hurl and kill fragile little lives.
Day and night, billions are processed — feeling, innocent beings.
All for eggs. 💔
Will you help end this cruelty?
Ditch eggs 🙏
#eggtruth #vegetarian
Day and night, billions are processed — feeling, innocent beings.
All for eggs. 💔
Will you help end this cruelty?
Ditch eggs 🙏
#eggtruth #vegetarian
November 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Just how little can you value life before you lose your own humanity?
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Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Cop28 is a farce rigged to fail, but there are other ways we can try to save the planet | George Monbiot
Inaction and self-interest are built into climate summits. Instead, we need a voting system that can’t be subverted by fossil fuel producers, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Two years ago, I wrote this about how the COP climate summits are designed to fail, and how they could be designed to succeed. Sadly, nothing has changed.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
November 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The resignations of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness must be an opportunity for the BBC to turn a new leaf, rebuild trust and resist those like Nigel Farage who want to destroy it
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
We must stand up for a strong, independent BBC, to stop Trump’s America becoming Farage's Britain.
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Why has BBC News Channel put former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to react to the BBC Director General / BBC News boss resign?
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Why has BBC News Channel put former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie to react to the BBC Director General / BBC News boss resign?
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How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...
The BBC’s Road to Appeasement
As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish Adam Bienkov and Patrick Howse's 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
How the BBC kowtowed to Boris Johnson. Amazing that, even though we now know what a corrupt, mendacious, useless Prime Minister Johnson was, the BBC are kowtowing to him again
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I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I had my disagreements with the BBC under Tim Davie but he was a decent man doing a difficult job.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
To see Trump's White House claiming credit for his downfall and attacking the BBC should worry us all.
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When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
When was the last time anyone at the BBC had to resign for misrepresenting a leftwinger?
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
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I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
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So let’s just get this out in the open. rump has stolen so much money that nothing can open up or be paid. He’s talking about finding money for snap when there’s money set aside for it.
Our Treasury is empty.
Our Treasury is empty.
November 9, 2025 at 1:44 AM
So let’s just get this out in the open. rump has stolen so much money that nothing can open up or be paid. He’s talking about finding money for snap when there’s money set aside for it.
Our Treasury is empty.
Our Treasury is empty.
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Scientists warn deep-sea mining plumes could starve tiny marine life, disrupting food webs and threatening fisheries
Ocean mining may harm tiny species at heart of marine food webs
Scientists warn deep-sea mining plumes could starve tiny marine life, disrupting food webs and threatening fisheries
l.euronews.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Scientists warn deep-sea mining plumes could starve tiny marine life, disrupting food webs and threatening fisheries
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Book 6/150. 'A Bitter Remedy' - Alis Hawkins. A Christmas gift from my brother, he bravely took on the challenge of attempting to buy me a book that a) I haven't already read and b) I might enjoy (most people don't take the risk 😆).
He succeeded. Not read this author before but will again.
📚💙
He succeeded. Not read this author before but will again.
📚💙
January 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Book 6/150. 'A Bitter Remedy' - Alis Hawkins. A Christmas gift from my brother, he bravely took on the challenge of attempting to buy me a book that a) I haven't already read and b) I might enjoy (most people don't take the risk 😆).
He succeeded. Not read this author before but will again.
📚💙
He succeeded. Not read this author before but will again.
📚💙
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Today we've been to parliament again - supporting
@leahtalks.bsky.social and calls for an independent regulator to oversee public bodies involved in wrongdoing - like
@defencehq.bsky.social.
More here www.chinookjusticecampaign.co.uk/news/chinook...
@leahtalks.bsky.social and calls for an independent regulator to oversee public bodies involved in wrongdoing - like
@defencehq.bsky.social.
More here www.chinookjusticecampaign.co.uk/news/chinook...
Chinook families join calls for an independent regulator to oversee public bodies involved in wrongdoing | Chinook Justice Campaign
Poppy in memory of those who lost their lives on ZD576 outside Westminster Abbey - November 4th 2025
www.chinookjusticecampaign.co.uk
November 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Today we've been to parliament again - supporting
@leahtalks.bsky.social and calls for an independent regulator to oversee public bodies involved in wrongdoing - like
@defencehq.bsky.social.
More here www.chinookjusticecampaign.co.uk/news/chinook...
@leahtalks.bsky.social and calls for an independent regulator to oversee public bodies involved in wrongdoing - like
@defencehq.bsky.social.
More here www.chinookjusticecampaign.co.uk/news/chinook...
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Goodnight everyone 💞. Dream of a better world ☮️. I know that's not easy right now. #Goodnighteveryone #KindnessMatters #WeMissYouRex #Dogsofbluesky #LoveYouRex #SweetDreamsSpike
November 4, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Goodnight everyone 💞. Dream of a better world ☮️. I know that's not easy right now. #Goodnighteveryone #KindnessMatters #WeMissYouRex #Dogsofbluesky #LoveYouRex #SweetDreamsSpike
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It's very brief and you could miss it after 1.5 hours (maybe Alastair and Rory did miss it), but at 1:30:00, Michael Gove admits that he and Vote Leave did not spell out the trade-offs involved in leaving the EU.
You don't say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrm...
You don't say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrm...
The Man to Blame For Brexit? | Michael Gove
YouTube video by The Rest Is Politics: Leading
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
It's very brief and you could miss it after 1.5 hours (maybe Alastair and Rory did miss it), but at 1:30:00, Michael Gove admits that he and Vote Leave did not spell out the trade-offs involved in leaving the EU.
You don't say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrm...
You don't say.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwrm...
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After 18 months, ministers have finally agreed to meet our families.
Last night, the PM confirmed ministers would meet us.
But we want @primeministeruk.bsky.social to join that meeting or else
@defencehq.bsky.social will be marking its homework again.
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
Last night, the PM confirmed ministers would meet us.
But we want @primeministeruk.bsky.social to join that meeting or else
@defencehq.bsky.social will be marking its homework again.
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
www.itv.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
After 18 months, ministers have finally agreed to meet our families.
Last night, the PM confirmed ministers would meet us.
But we want @primeministeruk.bsky.social to join that meeting or else
@defencehq.bsky.social will be marking its homework again.
www.itv.com/news/meridia...
Last night, the PM confirmed ministers would meet us.
But we want @primeministeruk.bsky.social to join that meeting or else
@defencehq.bsky.social will be marking its homework again.
www.itv.com/news/meridia...