DavidxRose
@davidxrose.bsky.social
76 yr old Pacifist Green Party member, MMT, Social Justice, Health Equality, Climate, Music, Food, Arts, Anti Zionist - not Anti Semitic, atheist/humanist. Left X after 11 years because of Musk's broadcast to Tommeh's Fascist Fest
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DavidxRose
@davidxrose.bsky.social
· Dec 18
Why economic policy matters for the Greens
As readers here will be aware, I have been tackling those who are seeking to drive the Greens in what they might describe as a Marxist direction, but which does, in reality, do two things.
The first i...
www.taxresearch.org.uk
This is the point IMO, in Zack's leadership where we must decide how we are going to vote next year on our economic policy. If you don't know enough to have a firm opinion a good starting point is this discussion between Richard and many MMT supporting Greens. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/12...
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100% agree - all you’re doing is delaying young people from falling into a bear pit.
What we need is the already mentioned accountability, but also social media literacy - not only for kids, but adults as well.
A ban would be about as useful as a crochet condom if you don’t address root causes.
What we need is the already mentioned accountability, but also social media literacy - not only for kids, but adults as well.
A ban would be about as useful as a crochet condom if you don’t address root causes.
The Social Media giants need to be accountable.
Banning SM for kids under 16 simply lets those corporations off the hook and those kids who want to, will not only get round it - but do so surreptitiously and in my opinion that's far more dangerous.
Banning SM for kids under 16 simply lets those corporations off the hook and those kids who want to, will not only get round it - but do so surreptitiously and in my opinion that's far more dangerous.
January 22, 2026 at 6:24 AM
100% agree - all you’re doing is delaying young people from falling into a bear pit.
What we need is the already mentioned accountability, but also social media literacy - not only for kids, but adults as well.
A ban would be about as useful as a crochet condom if you don’t address root causes.
What we need is the already mentioned accountability, but also social media literacy - not only for kids, but adults as well.
A ban would be about as useful as a crochet condom if you don’t address root causes.
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New Oxfam report finds that billionaire wealth increased 3x faster last year than in previous years. A clear reminder that right-wing populism is fake populism.
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality | Oxfam International
www.oxfam.org
January 21, 2026 at 5:04 PM
New Oxfam report finds that billionaire wealth increased 3x faster last year than in previous years. A clear reminder that right-wing populism is fake populism.
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
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Green gain from Reform.
🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
January 21, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Green gain from Reform.
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On the 20th of January, 1973, Portuguese agents assassinated Amílcar Cabral, the anti-colonial revolutionary who led the struggle to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
"Either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it."
"Either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it."
January 21, 2026 at 5:06 PM
On the 20th of January, 1973, Portuguese agents assassinated Amílcar Cabral, the anti-colonial revolutionary who led the struggle to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.
"Either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it."
"Either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it."
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The Green's have it, the Green's have it.
🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
January 21, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The Green's have it, the Green's have it.
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Make this happen all over the UK, hope will beat hate.
January 21, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Make this happen all over the UK, hope will beat hate.
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🎉 Green GAIN from Reform! 🎉
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
💚 Congratulations to Lian Pizzey on being elected in Horsley division on Derbyshire County Council!
January 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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Asylum seeker interviewed on #r4today explains in excellent English that he has grown up his entire life believing that the UK is a safe place that respects & protects people.
He's even an Arsenal fan. He knows our culture. Not French culture, Greek, or Bulgarian culture. Ours.
He's even an Arsenal fan. He knows our culture. Not French culture, Greek, or Bulgarian culture. Ours.
January 21, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Asylum seeker interviewed on #r4today explains in excellent English that he has grown up his entire life believing that the UK is a safe place that respects & protects people.
He's even an Arsenal fan. He knows our culture. Not French culture, Greek, or Bulgarian culture. Ours.
He's even an Arsenal fan. He knows our culture. Not French culture, Greek, or Bulgarian culture. Ours.
‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance!
The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells us all to WAKE UP!
www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kag...
The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells us all to WAKE UP!
www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kag...
‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance
The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells Carole Cadwalladr how deep the roots of American white nationalism are – and that Europe needs to wake up, fa...
www.thenerve.news
January 21, 2026 at 1:39 PM
‘Europeans have to understand that it’s over’: historian Robert Kagan on Trump’s coming ‘dictatorship’ and the end of the western alliance!
The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells us all to WAKE UP!
www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kag...
The geopolitics expert, who warned of the president’s authoritarianism a decade ago, tells us all to WAKE UP!
www.thenerve.news/p/robert-kag...
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Water companies have extracted £57bn+ in profits, built up huge debts, raised bills, & now expect us to pay £104bn more!
The govts response? We'll have a new regulator. They'll do anything other than scrap the profiteering companies & take our water back into public ownership
The govts response? We'll have a new regulator. They'll do anything other than scrap the profiteering companies & take our water back into public ownership
January 20, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Water companies have extracted £57bn+ in profits, built up huge debts, raised bills, & now expect us to pay £104bn more!
The govts response? We'll have a new regulator. They'll do anything other than scrap the profiteering companies & take our water back into public ownership
The govts response? We'll have a new regulator. They'll do anything other than scrap the profiteering companies & take our water back into public ownership
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Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/vkqt
January 20, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Israel plans to take over Gaza City. Starmer says their plan is wrong & they must rethink it, but the UK is still supporting Israel with arms sales, training, RAF surveillance flights & more. Sign the petition: tell Keir he MUST end this support: 38d.gs/vkqt
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If Labour won’t nationalise water, their “big overhaul” is a con.
Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Profits protected.
Public services should be in public hands.
Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Profits protected.
Public services should be in public hands.
January 20, 2026 at 9:09 AM
If Labour won’t nationalise water, their “big overhaul” is a con.
Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Profits protected.
Public services should be in public hands.
Sewage in our rivers. Bills going up. Profits protected.
Public services should be in public hands.
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The only way to beat fascism is with socialism.
This truth is why the centrists always side with fascism. They'd rather see concentration camps than an end to capitalism.
This truth is why the centrists always side with fascism. They'd rather see concentration camps than an end to capitalism.
January 18, 2026 at 1:03 PM
The only way to beat fascism is with socialism.
This truth is why the centrists always side with fascism. They'd rather see concentration camps than an end to capitalism.
This truth is why the centrists always side with fascism. They'd rather see concentration camps than an end to capitalism.
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via Truth Against Hate
January 19, 2026 at 5:40 PM
via Truth Against Hate
Why are court artists so piss poor?
"[T]his newspaper applauds Prince Harry for daring to confront one of the biggest, under-reported, ongoing, scandals of our time: that we have an entire power bloc in this country, which can impact all of our lives, that receives hardly any scrutiny. Not of its owners, intentions or consequences"
"Too much of established British journalism remains an elite, closed club. Close to power & influencing it; while claiming to have none when it is scrutinised in the slightest. That it continues to get away with its ability to distort our society is one of the biggest stories & scandals of our time"
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Why are court artists so piss poor?
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100% this. As ever we need Greens to speak the truth & stop this ludicrous pretence (complicity and imperialism). Starmer must stand with Europe, cutting USA out of everything till trump is gone. No sports (relocate World Cup matches to Canada/Mexico); no trade; boycott US movies and businesses.
January 19, 2026 at 2:09 PM
100% this. As ever we need Greens to speak the truth & stop this ludicrous pretence (complicity and imperialism). Starmer must stand with Europe, cutting USA out of everything till trump is gone. No sports (relocate World Cup matches to Canada/Mexico); no trade; boycott US movies and businesses.
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The world is on fire and Donald Trump is only fanning the flames.
It's time we stopped sucking up to imperialism and stood on our own two feet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
It's time we stopped sucking up to imperialism and stood on our own two feet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The world is on fire and Donald Trump is only fanning the flames.
It's time we stopped sucking up to imperialism and stood on our own two feet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
It's time we stopped sucking up to imperialism and stood on our own two feet.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
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Absolutely buzzing after seeing @zackpolanski.bsky.social speak to @calderdalegreenp.bsky.social in Halifax today.
I'm newly involved in local politics, please take it from me, if you're on the fence, get involved, everyone is so supportive 💚.
Can't wait to see what we can do in 2026!
I'm newly involved in local politics, please take it from me, if you're on the fence, get involved, everyone is so supportive 💚.
Can't wait to see what we can do in 2026!
January 18, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Absolutely buzzing after seeing @zackpolanski.bsky.social speak to @calderdalegreenp.bsky.social in Halifax today.
I'm newly involved in local politics, please take it from me, if you're on the fence, get involved, everyone is so supportive 💚.
Can't wait to see what we can do in 2026!
I'm newly involved in local politics, please take it from me, if you're on the fence, get involved, everyone is so supportive 💚.
Can't wait to see what we can do in 2026!
Another UBI in Bristol trial - is it really necessary? There have been countless trials, and everyone points to UBI being a positive policy
thenoosphere.substack.com/p/just-how-m...
thenoosphere.substack.com/p/just-how-m...
Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need?
Another major experiment, another set of predictable results
thenoosphere.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Another UBI in Bristol trial - is it really necessary? There have been countless trials, and everyone points to UBI being a positive policy
thenoosphere.substack.com/p/just-how-m...
thenoosphere.substack.com/p/just-how-m...
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Literally the only party in UK politics that is awake to threat we face. For this, the pundit clas insults them as "lunatics and dreamers".
When Trump says "one way or another we're going to have Greenland" - we should sit up and listen.
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Time for British leaders to stop burying their heads in the sand.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Trump's threat to Greenland must be a wake up call for Britain
For too long our politicians have toadied to a dangerous president
www.newstatesman.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Literally the only party in UK politics that is awake to threat we face. For this, the pundit clas insults them as "lunatics and dreamers".
Just give up on the whole, hate filled God thing! Humaninism & atheisam are the only 100% reliable, science based belief systems. Follow them & start living in the real world! Look after your fellow human beings and fuck the elites that survive & get richer by getting people to fight each other!
Two people you should never trust; A religious leader who tells you how to vote, and a polition who tells you how to pray.
January 18, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Just give up on the whole, hate filled God thing! Humaninism & atheisam are the only 100% reliable, science based belief systems. Follow them & start living in the real world! Look after your fellow human beings and fuck the elites that survive & get richer by getting people to fight each other!
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When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided.
When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.
The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.
It's time for a rethink.
When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.
The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.
It's time for a rethink.
January 18, 2026 at 7:36 AM
When we said NATO wasn't working we were derided.
When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.
The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.
It's time for a rethink.
When we said a nuclear weapons system relying on the US is dangerous we were called stupid.
The truth is the establishment are more interested in kissing US feet than keeping the UK safe.
It's time for a rethink.
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2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
January 18, 2026 at 10:12 AM
2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?
2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?
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January 17, 2026 at 8:51 AM
As ever, chef’s kiss from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com - his Substack that he runs is filled with even more of his razor sharp work, I highly recommend you subscribe.
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AmeriKKKa is run by a Nazi Rogue Government. End of!
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 PM
AmeriKKKa is run by a Nazi Rogue Government. End of!