@iomcarolb.bsky.social
Old lefty northerner living in the Isle of Man. Please note am mainly here to read and learn.
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So so close to £200,000!
Other parties are funded by the super rich, hedge funders with private healthcare, oil and gas and arms traders.
We're growing our movement with the people.
If you want to help take the fight to Reform - please do chip in!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Other parties are funded by the super rich, hedge funders with private healthcare, oil and gas and arms traders.
We're growing our movement with the people.
If you want to help take the fight to Reform - please do chip in!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
So so close to £200,000!
Other parties are funded by the super rich, hedge funders with private healthcare, oil and gas and arms traders.
We're growing our movement with the people.
If you want to help take the fight to Reform - please do chip in!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Other parties are funded by the super rich, hedge funders with private healthcare, oil and gas and arms traders.
We're growing our movement with the people.
If you want to help take the fight to Reform - please do chip in!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
November 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Lying in politics is wrong and should never be rewarded, says newspaper which pays Boris Johnson £1 million a year to be its star columnist
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Why not the UK
"Spain just made history by proving what many thought impossible — the entire country ran on 100% renewable energy for an entire weekday. Solar, wind & hydropower together carried the nation’s energy needs, with not a single fossil fuel source in use for that day."
via Mechanical Mind
"Spain just made history by proving what many thought impossible — the entire country ran on 100% renewable energy for an entire weekday. Solar, wind & hydropower together carried the nation’s energy needs, with not a single fossil fuel source in use for that day."
via Mechanical Mind
November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Why not the UK
"Spain just made history by proving what many thought impossible — the entire country ran on 100% renewable energy for an entire weekday. Solar, wind & hydropower together carried the nation’s energy needs, with not a single fossil fuel source in use for that day."
via Mechanical Mind
"Spain just made history by proving what many thought impossible — the entire country ran on 100% renewable energy for an entire weekday. Solar, wind & hydropower together carried the nation’s energy needs, with not a single fossil fuel source in use for that day."
via Mechanical Mind
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He was 15 when he used racist language to describe classmates, sang Hitler youth songs, joined the NF. Many say we should forgive his youthful waywardness.
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
He was 15 when he used racist language to describe classmates, sang Hitler youth songs, joined the NF. Many say we should forgive his youthful waywardness.
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
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"For us now to withdraw from a key element of [the employment rights bill] is unconscionable"
@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social on Labour ditching their manifesto promise to give workers protection from unfair dismissal on day one.
@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social on Labour ditching their manifesto promise to give workers protection from unfair dismissal on day one.
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"For us now to withdraw from a key element of [the employment rights bill] is unconscionable"
@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social on Labour ditching their manifesto promise to give workers protection from unfair dismissal on day one.
@andymcdonaldmp.bsky.social on Labour ditching their manifesto promise to give workers protection from unfair dismissal on day one.
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UK govt ditches flagship policy from the workers’ rights bill.
Removes the right to protection from unfair dismissal from the first day of employment, introduces a six-month threshold.
Victory for bosses, Tories and LibDems.
Insecurity for workers.
Removes the right to protection from unfair dismissal from the first day of employment, introduces a six-month threshold.
Victory for bosses, Tories and LibDems.
Insecurity for workers.
Government to ditch day-one unfair dismissal policy from workers’ rights bill
Flagship Labour plan to be replaced with six-month threshold after Peter Kyle vows to not let businesses ‘lose’ under new law
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
UK govt ditches flagship policy from the workers’ rights bill.
Removes the right to protection from unfair dismissal from the first day of employment, introduces a six-month threshold.
Victory for bosses, Tories and LibDems.
Insecurity for workers.
Removes the right to protection from unfair dismissal from the first day of employment, introduces a six-month threshold.
Victory for bosses, Tories and LibDems.
Insecurity for workers.
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The traditional English urge to admire (vote for) the privileged who go to elitist private schools with their dumbass 'debate' clubs (i.e. contest to see who speaks most convincingly to manipulate the others) has produced some of the most manipulative, populist grifters in UK politics.
Nigel Farage went to Dulwich college which charges £55,155 a year.
He then went on to be a Stock Trader like Rishi Sunak, he has never worked a day in his life.
He then went on to be a Stock Trader like Rishi Sunak, he has never worked a day in his life.
November 27, 2025 at 6:45 AM
The traditional English urge to admire (vote for) the privileged who go to elitist private schools with their dumbass 'debate' clubs (i.e. contest to see who speaks most convincingly to manipulate the others) has produced some of the most manipulative, populist grifters in UK politics.
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Rachel Reeves' claim that there would be "no austerity" is one of the most disingenuous parts of the "budget". Austerity had never ended and it continues apace whilst the Chancellor worries more about the "markets" than she does human lives.
#LabourOutNow
www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/11...
#LabourOutNow
www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/11...
Reeves' budget fails to break with austerity, says trade union leader
The Fire Brigades Union has responded to Reeve's budget announced today, describing it as a continuation of austerity, with "significant gaps" in public sector funding and a wealth tax needed to tackl...
www.fbu.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Rachel Reeves' claim that there would be "no austerity" is one of the most disingenuous parts of the "budget". Austerity had never ended and it continues apace whilst the Chancellor worries more about the "markets" than she does human lives.
#LabourOutNow
www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/11...
#LabourOutNow
www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/11...
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If they can seize the assets of corrupt Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich, they can seize the assets of corrupt Establishment moguls like Michelle Mone... If they so choose.........
November 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
If they can seize the assets of corrupt Russian oligarchs like Roman Abramovich, they can seize the assets of corrupt Establishment moguls like Michelle Mone... If they so choose.........
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November 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
It all started with Thatcher and I will never believe otherwise.
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
It all started with Thatcher and I will never believe otherwise.
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Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Best Christmas ad yet! Knocks John Lewis into a cocked hat.
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Pete Hegseth is not the "secretary of war" just because he keeps using the term, any more than the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America or Donald Trump is a great American. Saying so don't make it so.
November 26, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Pete Hegseth is not the "secretary of war" just because he keeps using the term, any more than the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of America or Donald Trump is a great American. Saying so don't make it so.
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Tim Wilmot (British). Road to old Sodbury. Winter (watercolour).
November 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Tim Wilmot (British). Road to old Sodbury. Winter (watercolour).
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"The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”
—Wallace Stevens
—Wallace Stevens
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.”
—Wallace Stevens
—Wallace Stevens
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This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
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"Having begun to love you, I love you forever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself."
~ Thomas Hardy,
𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
~ Thomas Hardy,
𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Having begun to love you, I love you forever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself."
~ Thomas Hardy,
𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
~ Thomas Hardy,
𝑇𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑’𝑈𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑠
🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Meanwhile, UNICEF reports that Israel has killed two children every day during the ceasefire. At least 67 children have been killed in Gaza in recent weeks. This is Ahmed Abu Shaweesh, whose relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes over the weekend.
November 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Meanwhile, UNICEF reports that Israel has killed two children every day during the ceasefire. At least 67 children have been killed in Gaza in recent weeks. This is Ahmed Abu Shaweesh, whose relatives were killed in Israeli airstrikes over the weekend.
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I still can't believe that the man who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy; who explained to camera how hard his cognitive screening test for Alzheimers was; who encouraged the assassination of his own vice president is still legally at liberty, let alone being president of the United States.
November 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I still can't believe that the man who bragged about grabbing women by the pussy; who explained to camera how hard his cognitive screening test for Alzheimers was; who encouraged the assassination of his own vice president is still legally at liberty, let alone being president of the United States.
Not just in the USA either sadly
Marjorie Taylor Greene's resigning in time to get a pension is a lesson to everyone.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
Most Americans don't get *any* pension anymore, but Congress gave itself a pension after only five years of work.
Our "representatives" aren't working for us, they are [barely] working for themselves.
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Not just in the USA either sadly
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Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
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Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision
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There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela