Vikki Nelson
@vikkinelson.bsky.social
Remainer/returner/rewilder. 🇪🇺I work in the arts. London - North Wales. Believer in fundamental good for our planet’s survival - getting harder!
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This _is_ good news. @europarl.europa.eu deserves a pat on the back here.
The social media giants have skirted/avoided responsibility for too long.
Now, protect our rights and personal data against the snake-oil "AI" industry as well please.
The social media giants have skirted/avoided responsibility for too long.
Now, protect our rights and personal data against the snake-oil "AI" industry as well please.
🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...
November 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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They want to take away our BBC.
They want to take away our NHS.
They want to take away our human rights.
They want to take away everything we have that makes life worth living.
All for their own greedy enrichment.
The f***ing far right, led by Trump and Farage, Badenoch and the rest.
They want to take away our NHS.
They want to take away our human rights.
They want to take away everything we have that makes life worth living.
All for their own greedy enrichment.
The f***ing far right, led by Trump and Farage, Badenoch and the rest.
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
They want to take away our BBC.
They want to take away our NHS.
They want to take away our human rights.
They want to take away everything we have that makes life worth living.
All for their own greedy enrichment.
The f***ing far right, led by Trump and Farage, Badenoch and the rest.
They want to take away our NHS.
They want to take away our human rights.
They want to take away everything we have that makes life worth living.
All for their own greedy enrichment.
The f***ing far right, led by Trump and Farage, Badenoch and the rest.
In case you were wondering #SamirZitouni - heroic train worker - Sam
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November 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
In case you were wondering #SamirZitouni - heroic train worker - Sam
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Anyone else wishing they knew more as they start to creak?! 👇
October 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Anyone else wishing they knew more as they start to creak?! 👇
And Manchán Magan a guiding light who protected what he loved. A greatly missed bee.
Redford. Keaton. Goodall.
We owe it to them and to each other to keep going. To build what they imagined. To protect what they loved. To live as they lived, truthfully, fearlessly, fully.
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We owe it to them and to each other to keep going. To build what they imagined. To protect what they loved. To live as they lived, truthfully, fearlessly, fully.
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The Light They Left Behind
Three souls who reminded us what it means to live fully, and what we can’t afford to lose.
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 AM
And Manchán Magan a guiding light who protected what he loved. A greatly missed bee.
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every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
October 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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Powerful words...
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. This is her final message from it.⚜️💙⚜️
October 6, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Powerful words...
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Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message
"Intelligent creatures don’t destroy their only home.”
www.motherjones.com
October 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Jane Goodall’s final, urgent, message www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Dear Reform voters,
These guys are laughing at you.
They promise to make your lives better… but they couldn’t give less of a shit. You’re their playthings. Their route to power. When they’ve got it, they’ll be done with you. And they’ll trash the place.
Get some self-respect.
The rest of the UK.
These guys are laughing at you.
They promise to make your lives better… but they couldn’t give less of a shit. You’re their playthings. Their route to power. When they’ve got it, they’ll be done with you. And they’ll trash the place.
Get some self-respect.
The rest of the UK.
Nigel Farage (Dulwich), Danny Kruger (Eton), Richard Tice (Uppingham) and Isabel Oakeshott (Gordonstoun) aren't 'standing up to the elite'. They are the elite.
September 16, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Dear Reform voters,
These guys are laughing at you.
They promise to make your lives better… but they couldn’t give less of a shit. You’re their playthings. Their route to power. When they’ve got it, they’ll be done with you. And they’ll trash the place.
Get some self-respect.
The rest of the UK.
These guys are laughing at you.
They promise to make your lives better… but they couldn’t give less of a shit. You’re their playthings. Their route to power. When they’ve got it, they’ll be done with you. And they’ll trash the place.
Get some self-respect.
The rest of the UK.
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Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
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This is how blatantly the #BBC and other news favours Reform.
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:41 AM
This is how blatantly the #BBC and other news favours Reform.
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
This is appalling and unbalanced and needs addressing NOW.
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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Classic Welsh response to flags appears on bridge and people are loving it -
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Classic Welsh response to flags appears on bridge and people are loving it
"I've been feeling so downhearted but this is glorious"
www.walesonline.co.uk
September 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Classic Welsh response to flags appears on bridge and people are loving it -
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...
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Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
September 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Far right protest today:
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
29 - police officers injured
9 - protestors arrested
Proscribed group protests:
0 - police officers injured
1,600 - protestors arrested
We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly
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It’s time for a politics, free of vested interests, free of dogma, free of corruption, free of populist easy answers to complicated questions. A politics which puts justice, the individual and the community ahead of narrow self interest. A politics based on evidence, rationality and compassion. Now!
September 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It’s time for a politics, free of vested interests, free of dogma, free of corruption, free of populist easy answers to complicated questions. A politics which puts justice, the individual and the community ahead of narrow self interest. A politics based on evidence, rationality and compassion. Now!
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Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead on.ft.com/4pgpzwx | opinion
Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead
Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism
on.ft.com
September 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead on.ft.com/4pgpzwx | opinion
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Next time a Tory or Reform politician resigns swiftly after conceding an error they themselves brought to the public’s attention I’ll listen to them braying about Angela Rayner.
Until then, sit down.
Until then, sit down.
September 6, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Next time a Tory or Reform politician resigns swiftly after conceding an error they themselves brought to the public’s attention I’ll listen to them braying about Angela Rayner.
Until then, sit down.
Until then, sit down.
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That’s exactly what this feels like!
September 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
That’s exactly what this feels like!
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The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
September 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Here is a problem.
The UK has low economic growth, low investment, faltering public services, rising poverty.
Despite failures, govts cling to same policies - privatisation, PFI, wage/benefit cuts, no curbs on profiteering, won't redistribute.
UK is stuck in that loop.
Why do govts not rethink?
The UK has low economic growth, low investment, faltering public services, rising poverty.
Despite failures, govts cling to same policies - privatisation, PFI, wage/benefit cuts, no curbs on profiteering, won't redistribute.
UK is stuck in that loop.
Why do govts not rethink?
How successive government have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few.
leftfootforward.org
September 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Here is a problem.
The UK has low economic growth, low investment, faltering public services, rising poverty.
Despite failures, govts cling to same policies - privatisation, PFI, wage/benefit cuts, no curbs on profiteering, won't redistribute.
UK is stuck in that loop.
Why do govts not rethink?
The UK has low economic growth, low investment, faltering public services, rising poverty.
Despite failures, govts cling to same policies - privatisation, PFI, wage/benefit cuts, no curbs on profiteering, won't redistribute.
UK is stuck in that loop.
Why do govts not rethink?
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
September 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…
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Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.
That, right there, is the problem.
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Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
September 5, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments
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In a functioning democracy with a decent press, these would be wall-to-wall headlines:
Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain
Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty
But no...
"The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career"
FML
Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain
Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty
But no...
"The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career"
FML
September 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
In a functioning democracy with a decent press, these would be wall-to-wall headlines:
Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain
Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty
But no...
"The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career"
FML
Fury as Farage Urges U.S. to Punish Britain
Farage Accused of Undermining UK Sovereignty
But no...
"The stamp duty receipt that ended Angela Rayner’s career"
FML