Fiona Simmons
@fionasimmons.bsky.social
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Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
September 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&
The worst line here, and the most worrying, is
"It just could not happen in Britain"
"It just could not happen in Britain"
Newly released emails from Mandelson to Epstein - “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.
"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...
"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...
Epstein’s pal Mandelson COACHED paedo through arrest, leaked emails reveal
PETER Mandelson coached “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein through his “years of torture” over teen sex allegations, leaked emails suggest. While the predator was facing charges in June 2008 over solicitin…
www.thesun.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The worst line here, and the most worrying, is
"It just could not happen in Britain"
"It just could not happen in Britain"
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Israel has launched a second attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, this time against a vessel carrying the British flag
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-has...
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-has...
Israel has launched a second attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, this time against a vessel carrying the British flag
When news of the attack on the Family Boat of the Global Sumud Flotilla broke, Zionists were quick to insist, without evidence, the fire was caused by a cigarette.
www.councilestatemedia.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Israel has launched a second attack on the Global Sumud Flotilla, this time against a vessel carrying the British flag
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-has...
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/israel-has...
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So when Mandelson said there was more embarrassing stuff to come out he was somewhat underplaying it....
Newly released emails from Mandelson to Epstein - “I think the world of you and I feel hopeless and furious about what has happened.
"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...
"It just could not happen in Britain... fight for early release and be philosophical about it as much as you can."
www.thesun.co.uk/news/3665359...
Epstein’s pal Mandelson COACHED paedo through arrest, leaked emails reveal
PETER Mandelson coached “best pal” Jeffrey Epstein through his “years of torture” over teen sex allegations, leaked emails suggest. While the predator was facing charges in June 2008 over solicitin…
www.thesun.co.uk
September 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
So when Mandelson said there was more embarrassing stuff to come out he was somewhat underplaying it....
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While most of us enjoy a Bank Holiday, I defy anyone to read this account of the life of journalist Mohamed Abu in Gaza by Rana Sabbagh and not fail to see the horrors committed with our silence and complicity with Israel
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-grave-...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-grave-...
The Grave that Lives Inside Him
Rana Sabbagh reports on the life of a Palestinian journalist for whom journalism has become about survival, and memory about resistance, with grief colouring everything
www.bylinesupplement.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
While most of us enjoy a Bank Holiday, I defy anyone to read this account of the life of journalist Mohamed Abu in Gaza by Rana Sabbagh and not fail to see the horrors committed with our silence and complicity with Israel
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-grave-...
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-grave-...
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Last year, 53 people became billionaires by inheritance. And over ten million people died of hunger.
August 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Last year, 53 people became billionaires by inheritance. And over ten million people died of hunger.
84% of Labour Party members want the government to end the two-child benefit limit.
In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently.
@compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...
In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently.
@compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...
More than eight in ten Labour members support end to two-child benefit cap - LabourList
More than eight in ten Labour members support ending the two-child benefit limit, according to a new poll.
labourlist.org
August 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
84% of Labour Party members want the government to end the two-child benefit limit.
In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently.
@compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...
In a country as wealthy as the UK, allowing child poverty to deepen is a political choice. Labour must choose differently.
@compassoffice.bsky.social polling & motion in LabourList: labourlist.org/2025/08/end-...
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'It is just another layer of debacle being heaped upon the burning shambles that has become the oversight and regulation of the water industry.'
Feargal Sharkey reacts as it's revealed that serious water pollution incidents by water companies rose by 60% last year.
@matthew-wright.bsky.social
Feargal Sharkey reacts as it's revealed that serious water pollution incidents by water companies rose by 60% last year.
@matthew-wright.bsky.social
July 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
'It is just another layer of debacle being heaped upon the burning shambles that has become the oversight and regulation of the water industry.'
Feargal Sharkey reacts as it's revealed that serious water pollution incidents by water companies rose by 60% last year.
@matthew-wright.bsky.social
Feargal Sharkey reacts as it's revealed that serious water pollution incidents by water companies rose by 60% last year.
@matthew-wright.bsky.social
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'Amid general public dissatisfaction as the UK neared 15 years of Tory rule, Labour – an undervalued party with weak management – was identified by the finance industry as a target, and the work began.'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
The City’s investment in Labour is about to pay dividends
Reeves’ Mansion House speech shows the corporate takeover of Labour is complete
www.opendemocracy.net
July 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
'Amid general public dissatisfaction as the UK neared 15 years of Tory rule, Labour – an undervalued party with weak management – was identified by the finance industry as a target, and the work began.'
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...
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UK had banking crisis in every decade since the 1970s.
2007-08 crash: Govt provided £1,162bn (£133bn cash + £1,029bn of guarantees) to bailout banks.
£895bn QE handed to capital markets.
Govt deregulating finance, post crash reforms being repealed.
What would the next bailout cost?
2007-08 crash: Govt provided £1,162bn (£133bn cash + £1,029bn of guarantees) to bailout banks.
£895bn QE handed to capital markets.
Govt deregulating finance, post crash reforms being repealed.
What would the next bailout cost?
Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House speech offered nothing for most people
'The state needs to be hands-on, and not leave it all to the pirates of City of London'
leftfootforward.org
July 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
UK had banking crisis in every decade since the 1970s.
2007-08 crash: Govt provided £1,162bn (£133bn cash + £1,029bn of guarantees) to bailout banks.
£895bn QE handed to capital markets.
Govt deregulating finance, post crash reforms being repealed.
What would the next bailout cost?
2007-08 crash: Govt provided £1,162bn (£133bn cash + £1,029bn of guarantees) to bailout banks.
£895bn QE handed to capital markets.
Govt deregulating finance, post crash reforms being repealed.
What would the next bailout cost?
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Please sign and re-post!!!
July 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Please sign and re-post!!!
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This is what happens to a country when, for decades, the narrative around welfare is that of scroungers, benefits cheats & feckless single mothers - it becomes politically popular to degrade benefits people rely on to the point you’re the stingiest, nastiest, most pathetic country on your continent.
Despite the Government’s ambitious reforms, the UK’s labour market will continue to be ‘insecure’ in important respects.
Statutory Sick Pay and unemployment benefit offer some of the lowest rates of earnings replacement in the OECD.
Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
Statutory Sick Pay and unemployment benefit offer some of the lowest rates of earnings replacement in the OECD.
Read more: buff.ly/0OSArrI
July 9, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is what happens to a country when, for decades, the narrative around welfare is that of scroungers, benefits cheats & feckless single mothers - it becomes politically popular to degrade benefits people rely on to the point you’re the stingiest, nastiest, most pathetic country on your continent.
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Trump is a Putin stooge
Both dictators, both hate democray & equality
Trump conquered America by starting extreme culture wars. Now he is exporting this war to Europe in order to flip govts
We need to realise that America is not withdrawing from Europe, but is actually trying to subjugate it
Both dictators, both hate democray & equality
Trump conquered America by starting extreme culture wars. Now he is exporting this war to Europe in order to flip govts
We need to realise that America is not withdrawing from Europe, but is actually trying to subjugate it
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
euobserver.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Trump is a Putin stooge
Both dictators, both hate democray & equality
Trump conquered America by starting extreme culture wars. Now he is exporting this war to Europe in order to flip govts
We need to realise that America is not withdrawing from Europe, but is actually trying to subjugate it
Both dictators, both hate democray & equality
Trump conquered America by starting extreme culture wars. Now he is exporting this war to Europe in order to flip govts
We need to realise that America is not withdrawing from Europe, but is actually trying to subjugate it
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“On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
Politicians all over Europe would do well to read this document carefully before they and their spin doctors start concocting strategies for their upcoming election campaigns”
Politicians all over Europe would do well to read this document carefully before they and their spin doctors start concocting strategies for their upcoming election campaigns”
Trump is working on regime change in Europe — fact, not conspiracy theory
On 27 May, an official document, The Need for Civilizational Allies in Europe, calling for regime change in European countries was published, written by a senior adviser for the Bureau for Democracy, ...
euobserver.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
“On 27 May, an official document calling for regime change in European countries was published in Washington DC.
Politicians all over Europe would do well to read this document carefully before they and their spin doctors start concocting strategies for their upcoming election campaigns”
Politicians all over Europe would do well to read this document carefully before they and their spin doctors start concocting strategies for their upcoming election campaigns”
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Another reason to rejoin the Single Market! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
12 of the top 20 global nations with the highest per capita GDP participate either fully or partly in the EU's Single Market (which includes Freedom of Movement).
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#SingleMarketNow 🇬🇧🇪🇺
July 9, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Another reason to rejoin the Single Market! 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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The word is "massacres"
Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Gaza aid workers overwhelmed by ‘mass casualty incidents’ at food distribution sites
Doctors say hundreds have been wounded by Israeli gunfire while trying to reach convoys
Medical officials, humanitarian workers and doctors in Gaza say they have been overwhelmed by almost daily “mass casualty incidents” as they struggle to deal with those wounded by Israeli fire on Palestinians seeking aid.
Doctors said many of the casualties they are treating describe being shot as they try to reach distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a secretive US- and Israel-backed organisation that began handing out food in late May. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:13 AM
The word is "massacres"
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75% of Britons say they would support a wealth tax proposed by former Labour leader Lord Kinnock of 2% on wealth over £10 million
Support: 75%
Oppose: 13%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Support: 75%
Oppose: 13%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
July 8, 2025 at 3:17 PM
75% of Britons say they would support a wealth tax proposed by former Labour leader Lord Kinnock of 2% on wealth over £10 million
Support: 75%
Oppose: 13%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
Support: 75%
Oppose: 13%
yougov.co.uk/topics/polit...
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Water should be run as a public good, not for private profit.
Public ownership of water in England and Wales is best way to improve industry, people’s commission finds
Exclusive: Report says public ownership will mean cheaper bills, less pollution and more investment in infrastructure
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Water should be run as a public good, not for private profit.
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Four decades of neoliberal policies later: “Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty”—4.5 million children.
Children in England living in 'almost Dickensian poverty,' report says
Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty and the report comes as the government faces growing pressure to scrap the two-child benefit limit. #EuropeNews
www.euronews.com
July 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Four decades of neoliberal policies later: “Almost one in three children in the UK live in poverty”—4.5 million children.
What on earth has happened to the Labour Party?
Missed this in Friday's Politico PM: "Home Sec Yvette Cooper took GB News and the Sun on an immigration raid at a caravan park in Kent this week." Cosy!
"She talked tough about cracking down on illegal migrant workers, although none were found on the raid."
"She talked tough about cracking down on illegal migrant workers, although none were found on the raid."
July 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
What on earth has happened to the Labour Party?
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Grip of the state.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
OECD: the top performing governments for open data
OECD's new report reveals which countries have come out on top when it comes to government open data initiatives.
www.government-transformation.com
July 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Grip of the state.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
The UK is less open and transparent than Colombia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Ireland, Korea, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden.
Weak parliament, press, civil society makes democracy difficult in a secretive state, facilitates elective dictatorships.
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A new UN report exposes the global infrastructure behind Israel’s genocide. UN expert Francesca Albanese names over 60 corporations—including Amazon, Microsoft, Caterpillar, Booking.com, and Maersk—as profiting from and enabling the extermination of Palestinians.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
July 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A new UN report exposes the global infrastructure behind Israel’s genocide. UN expert Francesca Albanese names over 60 corporations—including Amazon, Microsoft, Caterpillar, Booking.com, and Maersk—as profiting from and enabling the extermination of Palestinians.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.
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Morning Bluesky.
Russian propagandists are this morning claiming there was no historical country called Azerbaijan - and no ethnic group called Azerbaijanis - it was always part of the Russian Empire.
A familiar line that was used with Ukraine.
Russian propagandists are this morning claiming there was no historical country called Azerbaijan - and no ethnic group called Azerbaijanis - it was always part of the Russian Empire.
A familiar line that was used with Ukraine.
July 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Morning Bluesky.
Russian propagandists are this morning claiming there was no historical country called Azerbaijan - and no ethnic group called Azerbaijanis - it was always part of the Russian Empire.
A familiar line that was used with Ukraine.
Russian propagandists are this morning claiming there was no historical country called Azerbaijan - and no ethnic group called Azerbaijanis - it was always part of the Russian Empire.
A familiar line that was used with Ukraine.
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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babies
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...