Jonny
@jonnye.bsky.social
Gay bloke. Beardy. Equality, social justice, fairness, left. Antifascist.
Scottish independence. EU. Paint, swim, cycle, books. 🏴🇨🇦
Critical thinking should be core education.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
Scottish independence. EU. Paint, swim, cycle, books. 🏴🇨🇦
Critical thinking should be core education.
Edinburgh, Scotland.
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🚨🚨 V welcome ruling: #USSupreme Court rejects a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #same-sex marriage nationwide turning away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 🧵 apnews.com/article/supr...
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🚨🚨 V welcome ruling: #USSupreme Court rejects a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized #same-sex marriage nationwide turning away an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky court clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. 🧵 apnews.com/article/supr...
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Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
November 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Spotify is running ads recruiting more ICE agents to infringe our rights and terrorize our communities, so we’re calling on users to stop paying for or using the app until Spotify stops streaming fascism: indivisible.org/cancel-spoti... #CancelSpotify
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
The Lords’ Work? How Tory Shadow Ministers Are Cashing In
Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid to ‘advise’ the same industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
🔴 MPs are banned from been paid to give 'political advice' - but Lords can.
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
And guess what? Many Conservative shadow ministers in the Lords are being paid by the industries they’re meant to scrutinise.
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/the-lords-...
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The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them.
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain’s Corporate Welfare Bonanza
Rachel Reeves’ budget rhetoric hides the biggest corporate giveaway in modern British history
open.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The EU is winding down freeports due to money laundering and tax evasion. Britain is expanding them.
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
Please read and share my latest article on Substack 'The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain's Corporate Welfare Bonanza. It is absolutely explosive.
open.substack.com/pub/european...
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
November 4, 2025 at 2:58 PM
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
One if my all time favourite Noirs PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953). Candy and Skip 🔥 Peters' best role IMO and masterful casting. And the marvellous Ritter stealing the show. Superb.
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#Noirvember #FilmNoir
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
One my earliest exposures to niche noir Bs and still an absolute favourite DARK CORNER (1946). Deeply dark, some great cinematography and a classy script.
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Second class England
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
No free bus passes for under 22s, says goverment
The Commons Transport Committee recommended scrapping bus fares for young people in August.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Second class England
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
No free bus passes for under 22s in England
Under 21s don't get full minimum wage; pay rent, food, groceries, transport, tax, NIC at full rate.
Scotland: 5- 22yr olds and over 60 get free bus travel, England at 66 rising to 67.
No uni fees, prescription charges in Scotland.
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The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight.
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
October 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight.
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.
Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.
That's easy: because there's no outrage
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He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
October 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
He's a pro-Israel propagandist. He's not Jewish.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
He works for a right-wing pro-Israel organisation.
He's posted vile things about Palestinian kids shot by Israeli soldiers.
But Sky News presented him as an ordinary Jewish football fan subjected to online hatred.
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In September 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm and now, remarkably, what they claim is “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last three years.”
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October 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In September 2024, Chancellor Rachel Reeves flew to New York. Her mission? To meet Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity firm and now, remarkably, what they claim is “the largest provider of newly built affordable housing in the UK for the last three years.”
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A shocking must-read from Carole Cadwalladr on Blair and Gaza - and Musk's mentor, 2nd most wealthy man in the world, and long time friend of Netanyahu - Larry Elison.
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
'WHAT WILL JESUS SAY?' TONY BLAIR, BIG TECH AND THE ISRAEL CONNECTION
As Trump announces the former British PM as his choice to help govern Gaza, Carole Cadwalladr investigates the opaque workings of Blair's institute, its funding from friends of Israel – including bill...
www.thenerve.news
October 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
A shocking must-read from Carole Cadwalladr on Blair and Gaza - and Musk's mentor, 2nd most wealthy man in the world, and long time friend of Netanyahu - Larry Elison.
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
So where does all this leave Starmer?
www.thenerve.news/p/tony-blair...
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸
(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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October 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Let’s recognise it for what it really is, Trump’s speech to US military chiefs was a thinly veiled shaping of authoritarian rule - Today’s column👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
David Pratt: Donald Trump’s military speech was a thinly veiled authoritarian rule
I’M far from being an apologist for the US military. God knows I’ve seen enough of their handiwork up close in places like Iraq and Afghanistan.
www.thenational.scot
October 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Let’s recognise it for what it really is, Trump’s speech to US military chiefs was a thinly veiled shaping of authoritarian rule - Today’s column👇 www.thenational.scot/politics/255...
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The government has "no plans" to end its relationship with Israeli drugs firm Teva - which supports Israel's military - since the UK continues "a trade and partnership agreement" with Israel, health minister says.
#DCUKparliament
Read about Teva/NHS 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-...
#DCUKparliament
Read about Teva/NHS 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-...
The Israeli firm aiding the NHS and IDF
Drugs corporation Teva makes one in seven of the medicines prescribed in the UK. It’s also backing the Israeli military during the genocide.
www.declassifieduk.org
October 2, 2025 at 7:55 AM
The government has "no plans" to end its relationship with Israeli drugs firm Teva - which supports Israel's military - since the UK continues "a trade and partnership agreement" with Israel, health minister says.
#DCUKparliament
Read about Teva/NHS 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-...
#DCUKparliament
Read about Teva/NHS 👉 www.declassifieduk.org/the-israeli-...
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If, like us, you're frustrated with inauthentic vapid MSM -
-then do back the Bylines Network to bring a new type of grassroots media into the landscape, with monthly 300,000-400,000 article reads & millions of social media + search engine impressions. 💪
-then do back the Bylines Network to bring a new type of grassroots media into the landscape, with monthly 300,000-400,000 article reads & millions of social media + search engine impressions. 💪
Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
At a time when billionaires and oligarchs own the majority of our press, when local journalism is in decline, and social media is rife with misinformation and abuse, there has never been a greater nee...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
If, like us, you're frustrated with inauthentic vapid MSM -
-then do back the Bylines Network to bring a new type of grassroots media into the landscape, with monthly 300,000-400,000 article reads & millions of social media + search engine impressions. 💪
-then do back the Bylines Network to bring a new type of grassroots media into the landscape, with monthly 300,000-400,000 article reads & millions of social media + search engine impressions. 💪
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YouTubers are earning up to £20,000 a month by making provocative videos that have targeted a Norfolk hotel used to house asylum seekers.
Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’.
Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’.
Lucrative hate: YouTubers target migrant hotels for clicks
YouTubers are cashing in by harassing asylum seekers at hotels, turning human misery into profitable, divisive entertainment
eastangliabylines.co.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
YouTubers are earning up to £20,000 a month by making provocative videos that have targeted a Norfolk hotel used to house asylum seekers.
Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’.
Hotels up and down the country are regularly targeted by content creators known as ‘auditors’.
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Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.
90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.
90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.
Public ownership would make a difference.
90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.
90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.
Public ownership would make a difference.
If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
leftfootforward.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends.
90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.
90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.
Public ownership would make a difference.
90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts.
90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends.
Public ownership would make a difference.
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Keep signing, keep sharing.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
September 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Keep signing, keep sharing.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Anas Sarwar urged to ‘come clean’ after Labour MSP Foysol Choudhury suspended
Mr Choudhury, who was elected to Holyrood in 2021, has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. 👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Mr Choudhury, who was elected to Holyrood in 2021, has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. 👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Anas Sarwar urged to ‘come clean’ after Labour MSP Foysol Choudhury suspended
Mr Choudhury, who was elected to Holyrood in 2021, has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation.
www.independent.co.uk
September 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Anas Sarwar urged to ‘come clean’ after Labour MSP Foysol Choudhury suspended
Mr Choudhury, who was elected to Holyrood in 2021, has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. 👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Mr Choudhury, who was elected to Holyrood in 2021, has been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation. 👇
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
September 26, 2025 at 1:22 PM
A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.
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Well done The SNP. We're lucky to have a Scottish party running our government 👏
From Sept 1, peak rail fares will be scrapped permanently by the SNP government in Scotland.
SNP: "Commuters travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh will save over £10 per return journey. This will mean that someone commuting between Glasgow and Edinburgh every day will save over £200 each month."
SNP: "Commuters travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh will save over £10 per return journey. This will mean that someone commuting between Glasgow and Edinburgh every day will save over £200 each month."
August 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Well done The SNP. We're lucky to have a Scottish party running our government 👏