Michelle Cook Author
@cookiem72.bsky.social
Eco worrier | novelist | Co-Editor-in-Chief @westenglandbylines.co.uk | Debut novel Tipping Point Genre Winner 2022 Page Turner Awards. Views my own. https://www.michellecookauthor.com
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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People who don’t know the difference between ‘entomology’ and ‘etymology’ bug us in ways we cannot put into words.
Back in the 1980s as a young idealistic student, I believed in the power of rational democratic politics to make the world a better place. Today I find myself cheering on a man dressed as a bin in a by-election.
Count Binface on the Clacton by-election on US TV, "If Nigel Farage strikes me down electorally I will become more powerful than he can possibly imagine" "Because the parliamentary committee will look into his £5 million unconditional gift" "But he didn't declare it"
A few years ago, I wrote some books about what it might be like if the world was on fire. Now the world (at least, my world) is on fire, I have complicated feelings about them. Here’s the first book. amzn.eu/d/08oKrUmb
Tipping Point
Tipping Point eBook : Cook, Michelle: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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Reform council tells volunteers to leave Durham park “None of us ever imagined that caring for a public park would lead to the threat of legal action” northeastbylines.co.uk/region/count...
Reform council tells volunteers to leave Durham park
“None of us ever imagined that caring for a public park would lead to the threat of legal action ”
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I know he has a lot on, but in the midst of a ferocious drought, fires, heat events and severe threats to food production, it would be quite edifying to hear Andy Burnham mention climate breakdown.
Well, if Burnham hasn’t yet, he just needs one conversation with this guy about storytelling youtu.be/GK24thp_2Qo?...
A New American Dream: James Talarico's Full Policy Address
YouTube video by James Talarico
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I’d like to ask Burnham what the fuck is ‘pragmatic’ about throwing out more fossil fuels when the world is already on fire???
Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley
Nigel Farage's press conference is just a whole lot of crying about how he's "the real victim" despite his long, long, long history of publicly dehumanizing minorities and fighting to strip away their civil rights. What a weiner. What a small, pathetic man.
Congratulations @andyburnham.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉 Now for electoral reform. If you don’t change the way the sausage is made you just keep on getting the same sausages
I have many issues with Keir Starmer. But his response to Nigel Farage in the House of Commons today was dignified, firm and quietly powerful. It exposed Farage for the shallow and heartless opportunist he is. Could we please see much more like this from the government.
This is a form of psychosis. These people will burn the world if they have their way.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoEnergy Secretary Chris Wright: "The world runs on hydrocarbons. It did when I was born, it does today, it will when I die. We just simply don't have replacements for most all the uses of hydrocarbons. In fact, in the US we're at a record high 74% of US energy comes from oil and natural gas."
Keir Starmer's political failure comes down to one issue above all others: his unwillingness to put the public interest ahead of the demands of the oligarchs, corporations and foreign governments who lobby him. Whoever replaces him had better be prepared to stand up for us, or Labour's finished.
"What is it costing us to look the other way when... people are ripped off the street... and you never see them again... What does it cost us a society when we start looking the other way?" An immigration narrative something like this wouldn't go amiss from Keir Starmer. youtu.be/nbzYO_e9xnw?...
AOC in Conversation with David Axelrod
YouTube video by UChicago Institute of Politics
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BBC drops the coverage of the BAFTA award for Gaza: Doctors Under Attack, the doc they dropped last year that was eventually picked up by C4. In the live show one of the makers asked the BBC: "Given you dropped our film, will you drop us from the Bafta screening later tonight?" The answer? Yes
