Juditty
@juditty.bsky.social
Socialist. I enjoy a good discussion and hate inequality and unfairness. Passionate about the NHS and about stripping privatisation out of it.
Quite impressive to completely undermine your own defence and insult most of your party's elected officials in the same sentence.
Chris Terry-Enescu@cjterry.bsky.social · 23h agoIt's OK for criminal ex-neo Nazis to run your bins is a hell of a line.
If you like footage of Piers Morgan being set right, you'll love this vid. Here's the magnificent astrophysicist and science communicator Neil DeGrasse Tyson explaining why Piers's belief in God doesn't add up. #PiersMorgan #NeilDeGrasseTyson #GodOfTheGaps #Humanism #Atheism #COnfirmationBias
Phang: "Capital One said, 'We don't want the business anymore of the 45th president of the United States, his businesses, his failed sons, and his revocable trust.' So you can imagine -- I am just hypothesizing... but it suggests whatever Capital One uncovered was pretty bad. Makes you wonder..."
The state of this. A lovely day out for Badenoch and Philp, playing dress up and making pronouncements about early release schemes - having left the country with one hundred available men's prison places, after fourteen years in charge. You read that right. One hundred places.
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
What I really want to hear Burnham say is that awful, evil politicians have been fearmongering and weaponising the whole issue of immigration, in a way that causes everyone harm. He doesn’t even need to mention that Starmer was one of them.
How come Farage is allowed to hold a press conference, which was broadcast on the BBC?
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
Seeking to identify. '11.30am Mon 29 June, a woman was asked to stop vaping on the Elizabeth Line platform at Whitechapel by a member of staff. The woman punched them in the face twice, causing a fractured eye socket, and also kicked the staff member in the chest.' www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/new...
We should never forget how the BBC has changed this country by giving endless airtime to Nigel Farage and other rightwing extremists, while shutting out progressive voices.
Nicolas Chinardet@zefrog.eu · 3d agoAnd why is #r4today giving (yet again) such prominence to a hair-brained scheme that has little chance to ever be implemented? A GE is unlikely soon and the threat of Reform winning it is apparently receding. What is the justification for legitimising it?
I was off living my life so hadn’t noticed until now that Lewis Goodall is preparing for a future as a Telegraph columnist.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s vile national security minister, arguing — having previously defended the fine and ancient cultural practice of arson — that spitting on Christians is just an old Jewish custom. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 6d ago🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12
Nigel Farage struck a secret deal to return as Reform leader months before the election, and showed it to the treasurer in May 2024.So the man who claimed he “wasn’t involved in politics” and therefore didn’t need to declare gifts was already cutting leadership deals behind the scenes.😆
I can’t believe these arrests are still happening - the new PM could end this utterly absurd proscription if he chose. As Jonathon Porritt says - trying to save lives is not terrorism. Exposing this government’s complicity in genocide is not terrorism
Defend Our Juries@defendourjuries.bsky.social · 7d agoNEW: Sir Jonathon Porritt, arrested under Terrorism law outside Westminster Magistrates Court. As police escorted him away he said "I am a supporter of Palestine Action, trying to save lives is not terrorism, exposing this Governments complicity in genocide is not terrorism." www.wedonotcomply.org
The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes
Govt planning c. 100 new data centres by early 2030s, mostly in already water stressed areas. They have no legal obligation to disclose how much water they use. Meanwhile Govt launches £75m publicity campaign to urge us to reduce water use & privatised water companies waste 19% thro leaks. Madness
Searingly good piece by @johnjcrace.bsky.social on Jenick who gets really rattled when GBNews attacks him at what he thought was going to be his first real pitch for the leadership of Reform Jenrick and uneven paving stones - a perfect match www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Even GB News cringes as Reform turns dementia patients into a political football
Honest Bob was rattled at the idea of joining cross-party talks on social care. Why bother behaving as a serious opposition?
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For many years it’s been my proud boast that I’d never been to IKEA. Recently my husband told me we’d been to one when our youngest started uni. Do I accept he’s telling the truth or file for divorce?
Brighton has been truly parched, and meanwhile water infrastructure crumbles. In 37 years since privatisation, not one new major reservoir for England. In the 35 years before that, nearly 100 major reservoirs were created. The new PM must renationalise water as a matter of urgency.
Worth saying out loud: Foreign mass murdering criminals like Trump and Netanyahu are given state visits and welcomed with open arms while British citizens are jailed and criminalised for holding up placards protesting against genocide.
Lord George Foulkes is 100% correct. “Membership (of the House of Lords) should be seen as a job and peers as working peers. Unfortunately it is also seen as an honour and that should be stopped, members required to attend and contribute, and those unable or unwilling to do so removed.”
MMark Philip Rennie@eslibrarian.bsky.social · 2w ago
@allshorts.bsky.social @richardknott.eurosky.social House of Lords peers facing axe under proposed new rules... So the thinking is that there should be a minimum limit on attendance to keep sitting in the Lords under new rules www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
It's National Marine Week. Over the past 5 years, East Anglia Bylines has published articles about seals, oysters, fishing, the impact of heatwaves, sewage & plastic pollution on marine life as well as this from our youngest citizen journalist - Amaya Edwards
World Oceans Day: save the jellyfish!
Ten-year-old Amaya Edwards has saved 535 jellyfish and wants your help to protect ocean life
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