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🔴‘Keir Starmer Must Stop Chasing Reform’s Cruelty and Embrace the Compassionate Politics His Own Voters Demand’
New polling suggests a progressive majority could come back to Labour if the PM embraces a more compassionate form of politics, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/k...
New polling suggests a progressive majority could come back to Labour if the PM embraces a more compassionate form of politics, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/k...
'Keir Starmer Must Stop Chasing Reform's Cruelty and Embrace the Compassionate Politics His Own Voters Demand'
New polling suggests a progressive majority could come back to Labour if the PM embraces a more compassionate form of politics, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
🔴‘Keir Starmer Must Stop Chasing Reform’s Cruelty and Embrace the Compassionate Politics His Own Voters Demand’
New polling suggests a progressive majority could come back to Labour if the PM embraces a more compassionate form of politics, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/k...
New polling suggests a progressive majority could come back to Labour if the PM embraces a more compassionate form of politics, argues Jennifer Nadel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/19/k...
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"It's not rocket science"
I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are.
*Nothing* was planted here.
"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
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*Nothing* was planted here.
"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
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December 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"It's not rocket science"
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If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue.
It would affect only 173 People.
Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades.
It‘s time for payback.
It would affect only 173 People.
Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades.
It‘s time for payback.
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue.
It would affect only 173 People.
Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades.
It‘s time for payback.
It would affect only 173 People.
Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades.
It‘s time for payback.
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Just a reminder that guy who went to jail for 18 months for an 'anti-immigration' tweet.
This was that 'anti-immigration' tweet.
This was that 'anti-immigration' tweet.
December 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just a reminder that guy who went to jail for 18 months for an 'anti-immigration' tweet.
This was that 'anti-immigration' tweet.
This was that 'anti-immigration' tweet.
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@irishrainforest.bsky.social doing God's work on the Beara Peninsula.
My grandfather and 1000s more emigrated from Beara to the Butte, MT mines in early 1900s. He took up bootlegging instead. Took $ back & moved the family north to easier farming in County Meath
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My grandfather and 1000s more emigrated from Beara to the Butte, MT mines in early 1900s. He took up bootlegging instead. Took $ back & moved the family north to easier farming in County Meath
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘The result was amazing’: one man’s mission to reforest a barren Irish hillside
Eoghan Daltun has spent 14 years rewilding part of Beara peninsula into a showcase of diversity
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
@irishrainforest.bsky.social doing God's work on the Beara Peninsula.
My grandfather and 1000s more emigrated from Beara to the Butte, MT mines in early 1900s. He took up bootlegging instead. Took $ back & moved the family north to easier farming in County Meath
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
My grandfather and 1000s more emigrated from Beara to the Butte, MT mines in early 1900s. He took up bootlegging instead. Took $ back & moved the family north to easier farming in County Meath
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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If the BBC gave Nigel Farage his own weekly television and a £400,000 a year salary, he'd probably stop attacking them
December 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
If the BBC gave Nigel Farage his own weekly television and a £400,000 a year salary, he'd probably stop attacking them
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The NHS has problems because since the 1980s it has been slowly privatised.
Margaret Thatcher outsourced catering, cleaning and many other services
Labour and the Conservatives PFI schemes forced them to sell hospitals and rent them back.
It costs of tens of billions a year.
Margaret Thatcher outsourced catering, cleaning and many other services
Labour and the Conservatives PFI schemes forced them to sell hospitals and rent them back.
It costs of tens of billions a year.
December 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The NHS has problems because since the 1980s it has been slowly privatised.
Margaret Thatcher outsourced catering, cleaning and many other services
Labour and the Conservatives PFI schemes forced them to sell hospitals and rent them back.
It costs of tens of billions a year.
Margaret Thatcher outsourced catering, cleaning and many other services
Labour and the Conservatives PFI schemes forced them to sell hospitals and rent them back.
It costs of tens of billions a year.
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First they make NHS dentistry unavailable. Then they attack working class people for having bad teeth.
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
First they make NHS dentistry unavailable. Then they attack working class people for having bad teeth.
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All that needs to be known about the UK is that the company that built bombs to drop on children continues to operate with no consequences.
While some people who sprayed paint on a plane to try stop Genocide are locked in prison without a trial.
That is UK 'justice'.
While some people who sprayed paint on a plane to try stop Genocide are locked in prison without a trial.
That is UK 'justice'.
December 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
All that needs to be known about the UK is that the company that built bombs to drop on children continues to operate with no consequences.
While some people who sprayed paint on a plane to try stop Genocide are locked in prison without a trial.
That is UK 'justice'.
While some people who sprayed paint on a plane to try stop Genocide are locked in prison without a trial.
That is UK 'justice'.
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🎄Sanctuary
Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
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Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
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Editorial - Sanctuary – Byline Times Digital / Print Edition
It seems quintessentially English. Though most of our subscribers are not London-based, and we have a readership from across the world, Southwark Cathedral is in effect the parish church for the area ...
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December 19, 2025 at 5:19 PM
🎄Sanctuary
Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/81/e...
Our print edition editorial, without a paywall, to celebrate the season, with @peterjukes.bsky.social @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social, and the Dean of Southwark Cathedral on hope in dark times
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You should ask not if Healthcare or Pensions are affordable, but the value of a Politicians who claim they aren't.
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
You should ask not if Healthcare or Pensions are affordable, but the value of a Politicians who claim they aren't.
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Publish Epstein List.
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Publish Epstein List.
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Of course next year the NHS will 'mysteriously' need to make cuts to fund this.
December 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Of course next year the NHS will 'mysteriously' need to make cuts to fund this.
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When you hear "deep and crisp and even" these days, is your first thought of snow... or of pizza?
On this week's Rare Earth we discuss the joys of winter, what nature (esp hedgehogs!) is up to in the cold, and how our relationship with winter is changing. Listen here:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
On this week's Rare Earth we discuss the joys of winter, what nature (esp hedgehogs!) is up to in the cold, and how our relationship with winter is changing. Listen here:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
December 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When you hear "deep and crisp and even" these days, is your first thought of snow... or of pizza?
On this week's Rare Earth we discuss the joys of winter, what nature (esp hedgehogs!) is up to in the cold, and how our relationship with winter is changing. Listen here:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
On this week's Rare Earth we discuss the joys of winter, what nature (esp hedgehogs!) is up to in the cold, and how our relationship with winter is changing. Listen here:
www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
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Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap and now Obamacare.
Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month for 20 million people.
Insulin costs $2 to make.
Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month for 20 million people.
Insulin costs $2 to make.
December 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap and now Obamacare.
Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month for 20 million people.
Insulin costs $2 to make.
Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month for 20 million people.
Insulin costs $2 to make.
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In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
December 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
In 1970 the UK and Norway were roughly equal, almost no debt, and owned all their Public Services.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
Now the UK owns nothing and has £3tn of debt.
While Norway still owns everything and has the equivalent of £10tn.
That's how privatisation 'works'.
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How does privatisation work, and who does it work for?
First billionaires give bribes to politicians, called donations
Then politicians say we need to privatise to 'save' money
Then they sell to the billionaires for peanuts and get kickbacks
Then they privatise something else
First billionaires give bribes to politicians, called donations
Then politicians say we need to privatise to 'save' money
Then they sell to the billionaires for peanuts and get kickbacks
Then they privatise something else
December 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
How does privatisation work, and who does it work for?
First billionaires give bribes to politicians, called donations
Then politicians say we need to privatise to 'save' money
Then they sell to the billionaires for peanuts and get kickbacks
Then they privatise something else
First billionaires give bribes to politicians, called donations
Then politicians say we need to privatise to 'save' money
Then they sell to the billionaires for peanuts and get kickbacks
Then they privatise something else
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Review of the Week: 8-14 December 2025
One or two drake Bufflehead and a new American Black Duck were the highlights of a winter spell that featured some exciting wildfowl action, reports Sam Viles:
One or two drake Bufflehead and a new American Black Duck were the highlights of a winter spell that featured some exciting wildfowl action, reports Sam Viles:
Review of the Week: 8-14 December 2025
One or two drake Bufflehead and a new American Black Duck were the highlights of a winter spell that featured some exciting wildfowl action, reports Sam Viles.
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December 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Review of the Week: 8-14 December 2025
One or two drake Bufflehead and a new American Black Duck were the highlights of a winter spell that featured some exciting wildfowl action, reports Sam Viles:
One or two drake Bufflehead and a new American Black Duck were the highlights of a winter spell that featured some exciting wildfowl action, reports Sam Viles:
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🔴The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
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The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
As the media provides the Reform Leader with a prominent platform, Peter Jukes considers all the concerning lines of enquiry that journalists never confront him with
bylinetimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🔴The Five Questions Nigel Farage is Never Asked About Brexit, Trump and Russia
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
bylinetimes.com/2024/06/19/t...
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Of course it was rigged, there is no way he could have been voted off just because he danced like a sack of spuds.
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Of course it was rigged, there is no way he could have been voted off just because he danced like a sack of spuds.
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Spare a thought this festive season for those who will be spending the Yuletide period all on their own, with no family to visit them. People like ‘A’, who will spend this Christmas without any of his titles.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
December 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Spare a thought this festive season for those who will be spending the Yuletide period all on their own, with no family to visit them. People like ‘A’, who will spend this Christmas without any of his titles.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Sewage releases aren't just a #PublicHealth issue, but also a #biodiversity threat
H/T @inkcapjournal.bsky.social
www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/swlondo...
H/T @inkcapjournal.bsky.social
www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/swlondo...
Thames fish biodiversity rising but sewage can slow recovery | South West Londoner
Fish biodiversity in the Thames has increased in the last 35 years but sewage spills from storm overflows could impede further recovery.
www.swlondoner.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Sewage releases aren't just a #PublicHealth issue, but also a #biodiversity threat
H/T @inkcapjournal.bsky.social
www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/swlondo...
H/T @inkcapjournal.bsky.social
www.swlondoner.co.uk/news/swlondo...
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Reminder, we can't throw anything _away_ on this #PoisonedPlanet.
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
Hidden threats in the dark: Alarming levels of human-made debris in Mediterranean sea caves
Just when we thought we had described all the possible marine environmental recipients of plastic pollution, new research comes in to overturn the picture.
phys.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Reminder, we can't throw anything _away_ on this #PoisonedPlanet.
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
There is no such place
phys.org/news/2025-12...
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Deep in the jungles of Borneo, Indonesia's president has created a $45 billion new capital city called Nusantara
It will only get bigger and bigger and consume more and more of the once pristine Borneo jungle that has existed for millions of years
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...
It will only get bigger and bigger and consume more and more of the once pristine Borneo jungle that has existed for millions of years
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...
The $45 billion headache Indonesia has created deep in the jungles of Borneo
Indonesia's outgoing president is leaving his utopian vision for a jungle capital to his successors to build. Will they pull the plug?
www.abc.net.au
December 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Deep in the jungles of Borneo, Indonesia's president has created a $45 billion new capital city called Nusantara
It will only get bigger and bigger and consume more and more of the once pristine Borneo jungle that has existed for millions of years
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...
It will only get bigger and bigger and consume more and more of the once pristine Borneo jungle that has existed for millions of years
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03...
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Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.
Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’
Exclusive Guardian investigation finds companies set up by people sanctioned by US hired Colombian fighters for Rapid Support Forces, widely suspected of war crimes in Sudan
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.
Company provides address false address but still incorporated.
Companies fuelling and profiteering from death, atrocities.
UK zeal for deregulation encourages murderous companies.