Clare Bonetree
@blooyonder.bsky.social
poet; trees, radical hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire, arthritis mental health, disability, anarchism. Join a union!
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Auntie Jean @auntiejean1.bsky.social · yesterdayI have a friend who is on the RNLI board. They tell me they’ve had a lot of D/D cancellations this week. They crews are getting intimidated by the thugs and are frightened This is NOT this country You know what to do. rnli.org/support-us/g...
Someone recently described the queenofgreens.co.uk as a “nice to have”; not an essential service. I disagree. We need more mobile greengrocers to improve access to healthy fresh produce for all. Thoughts?
Home - Queen of Greens
Welcome to Queen of Greens The Queen of Greens bus brings affordable fresh fruit and vegetables to communities across Liverpool and Knowsley. You can pay with cash or card. We accept Healthy Start car...
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Absolutely it has to be made clear to far too many that 40% of UC claimants are in work. I have to say it far too often. 🙄
The Bear@bearlypolitics.co.uk · yesterdayI think what Badenoch meant to say here is: “British employers are dependent on welfare to subsidise a massively underpaid workforce” - particularly when you consider that around 40% of claimants are actually in work. But that’s just me splitting hairs, I suppose.
#OtD 10 Sep 1676 pioneering English revolutionary Gerrard Winstanley died aged 66. He was a tailor and the primary theoretician of the Diggers during the English civil war who took over enclosed lands and farmed them stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8250...
Statement from the RNLI Chief Executive, Peter Sparkes, beautifully written, 'Courage is the RNLI’s currency; dependable, loyal, service to others and our nations is our hallmark': rnli.org/news-and-med...
Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes
Watch a video message from the RNLI's Chief Executive Peter Sparkes on our work in the Channel and our commitment to save lives
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The Home Affairs Committee, @demos-uk.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social have published their findings following engagement events around the country, like this one in Leicester, exploring public perspectives on workforce migration. Read more: committees.parliament.uk/committee/83...
After a weekend of anti-migrant protests in Dover and Portsmouth, our CEO Nick Lowles spoke to BBC Radio 4 about the growing “climate of fear”.
Top episode on what we can learn from this year's ignoble prizes www.theguardian.com/science/audi...
Are rich people really worse behaved? Here’s the science – podcast
Science editor Ian Sample and Madeleine Finlay chat through their favourite winners of the 2026 Ig Nobel prizes for science that makes you laugh and then think
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One of the most misunderstood points about 1.5°C: Crossing it doesn’t mean we’ve lost. It’s not a cliff edge, and every /°C still matters. Using the article’s metaphor: the climate freight train may have passed one marker... but we can still hit the brakes. theconversation.com/yes-passing-...
Yes, passing 1.5 C of global warming is cause for alarm, but not despair
Exceeding 1.5 C of global warming is a giant warning flag telling us not to give up, but to redouble our efforts to slam on the brakes on climate change.
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I regret to inform you that the name Lalage Pulvertaft has already been taken.
The ones who remember … The 70+ were the age group who provided the *least* support to the AFD in their victory in the Saxony-Anhalt state election.
If "legitimate concerns" were considered to excuse illegitimate methods, then nobody from Just Stop Oil or Palestine Action would have been arrested. So we know it doesn't. In fact that phrase is only ever used in one context. Only in that context is uniformed mob intimidation "peaceful protest"
Peter Geoghegan@petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 4d agoNick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
#democracy - it would be a good idea
Sian Berry MP@sianberry.bsky.social · 4d agoUnder the UK’s non-proportional voting system, the far-right AfD in Saxony-Anhalt would today have a huge, dominating majority of representatives - on a minority of the vote - with the power to be as awful as they wanted.
“Even if you support Labour or you want to give Andy Burnham a chance, voting Green in this election still makes sense because it’ll make him be a better Labour prime minister”. Exactly! #VoteGreen
‘We can win here’: Zack Polanski presses the flesh in Holborn and St Pancras
Polanski is confident of taking seat vacated by Keir Starmer, but says he will stay on as Green party leader even if he loses
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A bunch of fash are currently in a standoff protest with the #RNLI in Portsmouth, simply because they brought a boatload of people ashore today. The RNLI! I’ve just donated to the RNLI. You can too 👇 rnli.org/support-us/g... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
140 migrants in single dinghy rescued in English Channel
They were transferred onto two lifeboats and taken to shore in the UK.
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NEW: Every week, a Philadelphia nun drives to the immigration court in Harlingen, Texas, to sit beside unaccompanied children, some as young as four, who face a deportation judge with no lawyer and no parent. An undocumented migrant who is facing deportation called Sister Rose Kuhn his “angel.”
💖✊🌈 Amore ihr F*cker! #jetzterstrecht
Update from Germany on the options in Saxony-Anhalt following the large AfD vote this weekend
www.slowtravelberlin.com@slowberlin.bsky.social · 5d agoRead more on our Substack: substack.com/@slowtravelb...
If of interest, please sign up, please share. #migrantstrike #migrantstrike2028
POLITICO Europe@politico.eu · 5d agoBREAKING: Germany’s far right is on track to claim its biggest electoral success since World War II, with exit polls predicting it will win about 44 percent of the vote in the eastern region of Saxony-Anhalt today. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/exit...
My first cartoon for adults for a while, on the Dover business
Any politician calling to leave the ECHR is lying about what that will achieve. It won’t solve any problem or improve our lives It will make us worse off and remove our rights. Just like Brexit. The ECHR belongs to us all. It’s not theirs to take. Please sign www.europeanmovement.co.uk/echr-petition
Act now to protect the UK's place in the ECHR
Sign the European Movement UK's petition now if you agree: Britain must remain in the ECHR
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Masked Far Right Wing Thugs blockading roads in Dover today intimidating people. No arrests Nearly 3,000 unmasked protesters including senior citizens have been arrested at Palestinian Action Marches I’ll just leave that there ..
Despite a ceasefire, the killing continues. And Andy Burnham continues to send military planes to aid Israel.
If you are a political journalist, work in policy / public affairs, are concerned about social justice, have any interest in democracy - if you have any dealings with the state* & any concerns about its relationship with citizens, you need to read this incredible book #PoliceSpiesOutOfLives
Masked men, blockading a port & roads, & apparently refusing to speak to anyone don’t get arrested. Climate protesters, after the summer we’ve had, chatty, non-threatening, visible & open, politely explaining their cause & reason are treated as terrorists. Where the hell are we going with this?
HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk · 6d ago🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6d agoMasked protesters block access at Port of Dover
This should have been just as big a news story today as the illegal donation sting and the Nazis in Dover: a woman being assaulted at the Reform conference and Farage watching and laughing.
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
