Garrie Coleman
@garriecoleman.bsky.social
Family man. MLC mod. Runner. Old music. Progressive patriot. Equality. Ally. #joinaunion. #PUSB. Twitter abandoner. Mids born & bred, now Durham/Tees. “Long-haired communist” - Boss. “Useless git” - Wife.
More examples of me not conforming to gender stereotypes. Yeah nah fuck this.
Tara@theblueststar.bsky.social · 13h agoToday is fucking bollocks. I'm so sorry for my trans brothers and sisters. This is teenage me, they'd challenge me. They really would.
Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Democratic primary for Senate, NBC projects
Progressive advocate overcomes over $60m in spending to defeat pro-Israel Congresswoman Haley Stevens.
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Another member of the Govt apparently not switched on the news or stepped out of an air conditioned London office for the last three months. It’s more than possible to require both job creation and to meet green targets. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Government contracts to require job creation instead of green targets under new rules
Louise Haigh says taxpayer money must benefit local communities amid backlash from environmental groups
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Literally scores of policy issues need to be discussed by the print and broadcast media in this country this morning. The swivel-eyed lunatic notion of using the Royal Navy to prevent small boat Channel crossings isn’t one of them. You wouldn’t think it though.
Land Rover also does a Discovery Metropolitan edition. The name suggests it's for use in cities. Because you never know how high the kerb / cyclist / pedestrian you need to mount might be. And because there must be no limit to the pointless environmental harm you inflict.
Ad hoc Reform press conferences largely irrelevant platforms for ranting & spewing divisive bile. Their leader isn’t even an MP. Our gazing, gossip-mongering pol eds constantly reeled in by them. Partly why we have the party of weirdo bigots polling so well. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Criticism of Reform UK’s pledge to use Navy to stop small boats – politics live
Labour say plan is a ‘desperate attempt to distract from sleaze’ while a retired commander says it ‘lacks substance’
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Labour labels Reform's latest immigration outrage not as immoral, illegal, dangerous and impractical, but as a distraction from the party's various money troubles. #R4Today
Ben Houchen’s drinking pals when Andy Burnham pulls out the Treasury funding stoppers for regions.
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Carers' Allowance is capped at £86 a week. Or £70,000 a year if you're a private equity firm that has bought a care home.
Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices
Shell's net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...
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After 17 and a half years today is my last day working in the NHS. I've worked under 12 Health secretaries. Every single one made it harder for us to look after patients and pursued an agenda of privatisation and outsourcing. The NHS thrives in spite of, not because of it’s political leadership.
As everyone remembers the ‘royal‘ wedding taking place 45 years ago today, also remember that by way of contrast, Ghost Town by The Specials was at number one in the charts the same week. That song itself the soundtrack to a summer of the most violent civil uprisings in Britain since the 1930s.
The unimaginably rich are the only people who should be worried about being on the receiving end of Andy Burnham’s ‘difficult decisions‘ when it comes to funding social care. The vast majority of the country are sick and tired of difficult decisions aimed at them.
National care service now! UNISON's Andrea Egan urges Andy Burnham to 'properly' fund a Fair Pay Agreement for the care sector. And provide a stepping stone for an “ambitious National Care Service, with national standards at its core” morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nati...
National care service now!
ANDY BURNHAM was urged today to prove to keep his vow to abandon 40 years of neoliberalism by legislating for a national care service before the end of this parliament.Health experts, campaigners and…
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Inability to engage in sectorial bargaining is a blocker to improving care workers’ T&Cs, motivation and career ambitions - regardless of how impressed Burnham is with Starmer’s tinkering-round-the-edges workers’ rights bill.
This sounds reasonable but when the answers inevitably come down to immigrant care workers and raising taxes, the Tories will want neither. Just use your 160-odd seat majority and get on with it, lad. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Burnham to seek cross-party consensus over urgent reforms to social care
Prime minister invites Badenoch and Davey – but not Farage – to discuss how to fix one of most intractable issues he faces
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Physics: the inner mechanics of a vape, maths: how Coral uses ratios and probability, business studies: advantages and disadvantages of the Colombian supply chain model. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Burnham to tell schools in England to adapt teaching to local business needs
PM wants curriculums for students aged 14 and above to be more responsive to local jobs market
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There’s one simple way to end all this - ban political donations. All of them. For the price of a packet of crisps a year - each. We can end the endless scandals of donations.
Any contribution to US military combat effectiveness in the region by the UK is complicity. ‘Defence’ doesn’t come into it. If our bases are attacked at home or abroad, it’ll be totally on our Govt‘s choice to abet that maniac in the White House. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
UK ‘ready to defend itself’ after Iranian threat over US bases
IRGC claims base in south-west England was used by US to launch bombing missions, making it ‘legitimate target’
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Can Burnham explain any better than Starmer exactly how US attacks mounted from RAF bases in southern England are defensive, and who they supposedly defend? #R4Today
No better indicator of where the Labour Party is today: the infighting is now between the centrists and the marginally centre-left, not between the centre-left and their socialists.
Unlike his predecessor, Burnham showing that it’s possible to ‘play the long game’ at the same time as announcing positive, generally popular policies. We’ve had 3 in 48 hours already: on rough sleeping, energy bills VAT and now a bus fares cap. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Andy Burnham is playing the long game in an age of short attention spans | Rafael Behr
It is hard to make the case for a 10-year plan in our political culture of constant campaigning frenzy – but the new PM will try, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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He can now use his position do what Britain’s always done. Begin to lead the world - by example and from the front - through the latest emergency at hand. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Miliband has been relentlessly attacked for net zero; what will happen now?
Tories, Reform, fossil fuel industry and some in his party lined up against decarbonisation target as energy secretary
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I note the people who called Andy Burnham a conniving opportunist and advised him to stick to his current role aren‘t saying the same about Darren Jones.
For what it’s worth, Bridget Phillipson, is a loss to the Cabinet and Burnham’s missed a trick there by not appointing her to another Department or reappointing her.
