Suzanne Gannon
@meandmarmalade.bsky.social
UK-based (West Yorkshire) politically homeless socialist feminist; sex≠gender; fully paid up member of the Anti-Growth Coalition & Tofu-Eating Wokerati; vegan; gardening
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Your Party is officially dead. It just voted to constantly prioritise trans identifying men. It seeks to obliterate women's rights. 'Left wing' politics in this country is an absolute mess.
December 1, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Your Party is officially dead. It just voted to constantly prioritise trans identifying men. It seeks to obliterate women's rights. 'Left wing' politics in this country is an absolute mess.
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For anyone who cares about ensuring their loved ones can die with comfort & dignity, it makes for singularly depressing reading – key findings summarised in pics below.
But perhaps most depressing of all is the government’s response to the report, this glib one-liner from a spokesperson:
But perhaps most depressing of all is the government’s response to the report, this glib one-liner from a spokesperson:
November 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
For anyone who cares about ensuring their loved ones can die with comfort & dignity, it makes for singularly depressing reading – key findings summarised in pics below.
But perhaps most depressing of all is the government’s response to the report, this glib one-liner from a spokesperson:
But perhaps most depressing of all is the government’s response to the report, this glib one-liner from a spokesperson:
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PFI didn’t just burden NHS trusts with huge debt, it trapped them in decades of overpriced maintenance contracts.
One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous.
And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous.
And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
November 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
PFI didn’t just burden NHS trusts with huge debt, it trapped them in decades of overpriced maintenance contracts.
One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous.
And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
One trust was charged + £300 to change a lightbulb. Outrageous.
And now the gov is exploring PFI-style schemes again. Fight back with us: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
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7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Revealed: Thousands of elderly people evicted from care homes every year
Thousands of elderly and vulnerable people have received eviction notices from their care homes in the last year, the Big Issue has found.
www.bigissue.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
7,261 elderly/vulnerable people in care homes given ‘notice to quit’.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Major reason: "revenge evictions’. people “threatened with eviction as a result of raising a complaint"
Care homes are mostly in the private sector, owned by corporations and private equity, profit margins of up to 40%.
Such delicate and feminine "women", who are obviously "the most marginalised in all the universe", carrying out typical male violence against anyone who supports women having spaces free from them.
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Such delicate and feminine "women", who are obviously "the most marginalised in all the universe", carrying out typical male violence against anyone who supports women having spaces free from them.
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Govt reduces London’s affordable housing quotas.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
Ministers confirm plans to reduce London’s affordable housing quotas
Developers will qualify for fast-track planning status if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Govt reduces London’s affordable housing quotas.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
I've been seeing "radical" used as an adjective in collocations I've not seen before. Can anyone explain to me what it means when paired with: radical solidarity; radical empathy; radical trust?
October 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I've been seeing "radical" used as an adjective in collocations I've not seen before. Can anyone explain to me what it means when paired with: radical solidarity; radical empathy; radical trust?
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Disabled Post Office Horizon scandal victim offered 15% of compensation claim
Due to the illegal conviction for fraud she lost her home, served time in prison.
No end to the misery. Why penny pinching?
No culprit charged, forced to pay any compensation to victims.
Due to the illegal conviction for fraud she lost her home, served time in prison.
No end to the misery. Why penny pinching?
No culprit charged, forced to pay any compensation to victims.
Disabled Post Office Horizon victim offered 15% of compensation claim
Janet Skinner had a neurological collapse and was temporarily paralysed after her final court hearing.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 29, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Disabled Post Office Horizon scandal victim offered 15% of compensation claim
Due to the illegal conviction for fraud she lost her home, served time in prison.
No end to the misery. Why penny pinching?
No culprit charged, forced to pay any compensation to victims.
Due to the illegal conviction for fraud she lost her home, served time in prison.
No end to the misery. Why penny pinching?
No culprit charged, forced to pay any compensation to victims.
Does anyone know how to separate the husks from the sprouted urid dhal (or any sprouted beans)?
September 28, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Does anyone know how to separate the husks from the sprouted urid dhal (or any sprouted beans)?
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Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
September 2, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Cooper in 2021: "If there arent the safe legal routes for family reunion we end up with more people being driven into the arms of criminal gangs"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
Cooper yesterday: "we are bringing forward new rules to temporarily suspend new applications under the existing family reunion route"
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“They don’t understand the rights they are giving away, or how hard we had to fight for those rights."
"They stand on the shoulders of giants. It is not just me, but the Maiden crew, the people who got us there, my mother’s generation, my grandmother’s generation"
www.telegraph.co.uk/sailing/2025...
"They stand on the shoulders of giants. It is not just me, but the Maiden crew, the people who got us there, my mother’s generation, my grandmother’s generation"
www.telegraph.co.uk/sailing/2025...
Tracy Edwards: Arguing with trans activists is like explaining Einstein to my dog
Skipper of the first all-female crew in the Round the World Race on her fight for women’s sport and pioneering career
www.telegraph.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 7:59 AM
“They don’t understand the rights they are giving away, or how hard we had to fight for those rights."
"They stand on the shoulders of giants. It is not just me, but the Maiden crew, the people who got us there, my mother’s generation, my grandmother’s generation"
www.telegraph.co.uk/sailing/2025...
"They stand on the shoulders of giants. It is not just me, but the Maiden crew, the people who got us there, my mother’s generation, my grandmother’s generation"
www.telegraph.co.uk/sailing/2025...
Would anyone have access to a book review Kathleen Stock did of one of Judith Butler's book in the TLS? I'm not a subscriber & can't access it. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...
In the face of death
Contemporary Philosophy - Book review | The Force of Nonviolence: The ethical in the political by Judith Butler, reviewed by Kathleen Stock - The TLS
www.the-tls.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Would anyone have access to a book review Kathleen Stock did of one of Judith Butler's book in the TLS? I'm not a subscriber & can't access it. www.the-tls.com/philosophy/c...
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Young people who vape are three times as likely to start smoking, develop asthma, cough, poor oral health, respiratory disease, mental health problems.
Pressure on the NHS, public services increases.
Industry increases misery, doesn't bear social cost.
Pressure on the NHS, public services increases.
Industry increases misery, doesn't bear social cost.
Young vape users three times as likely to start smoking, study finds
Review warns e-cigarettes could act as gateway to smoking and are also linked to higher asthma and other health risks
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Young people who vape are three times as likely to start smoking, develop asthma, cough, poor oral health, respiratory disease, mental health problems.
Pressure on the NHS, public services increases.
Industry increases misery, doesn't bear social cost.
Pressure on the NHS, public services increases.
Industry increases misery, doesn't bear social cost.
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PE has devoured care homes, vets, GP surgeries, high streets.
It buys/sells schools too, albeit private ones.
Education commodified. Parents complain about paying VAT on fees; silent on PE profiteering.
How long before PE is let into state schools?
archive.ph/LDSfI
It buys/sells schools too, albeit private ones.
Education commodified. Parents complain about paying VAT on fees; silent on PE profiteering.
How long before PE is let into state schools?
archive.ph/LDSfI
Private equity sale of €6bn fee-paying schools group Cognita on brink of collapse
Blackstone and CVC had expressed interest in company even as private schools have been hit by UK tax on fees
www.ft.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
PE has devoured care homes, vets, GP surgeries, high streets.
It buys/sells schools too, albeit private ones.
Education commodified. Parents complain about paying VAT on fees; silent on PE profiteering.
How long before PE is let into state schools?
archive.ph/LDSfI
It buys/sells schools too, albeit private ones.
Education commodified. Parents complain about paying VAT on fees; silent on PE profiteering.
How long before PE is let into state schools?
archive.ph/LDSfI
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"... “abrupt changes” are occurring in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, driven by human-caused climate change:
❄️ Sea-ice coverage is declining
🧊 Ice sheet and ice shelf stability is weakening
🐧 Populations of some terrestrial and marine species are struggling"
www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/ne...
❄️ Sea-ice coverage is declining
🧊 Ice sheet and ice shelf stability is weakening
🐧 Populations of some terrestrial and marine species are struggling"
www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/ne...
New study confirms “abrupt changes” underway in Antarctica – Australian Antarctic Program (News 2025)
Antarctica and the Southern Ocean are experiencing “abrupt changes” due to human-caused climate change.
www.antarctica.gov.au
August 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
"... “abrupt changes” are occurring in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean, driven by human-caused climate change:
❄️ Sea-ice coverage is declining
🧊 Ice sheet and ice shelf stability is weakening
🐧 Populations of some terrestrial and marine species are struggling"
www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/ne...
❄️ Sea-ice coverage is declining
🧊 Ice sheet and ice shelf stability is weakening
🐧 Populations of some terrestrial and marine species are struggling"
www.antarctica.gov.au/news/2025/ne...
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Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Yvette Cooper is asked about her decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and she claims she received detailed security assessments & advice & is in receipt of disturbing information that the rest of us don't know about
August 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
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forwomen.scot/04/08/2025/o... “Women’s rights, like any rights, are about ideas, not individuals; principles, not personalities.”
On Poor Jokes, Guilt by Association, and Human Rights - For Women Scotland
There have been many shameful moments in the Sandie Peggie tribunal, not least hearing from the doctors and nurses who cheerfully queued up to trash their professional reputations and shake public fai...
forwomen.scot
August 4, 2025 at 9:07 AM
forwomen.scot/04/08/2025/o... “Women’s rights, like any rights, are about ideas, not individuals; principles, not personalities.”
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With talk of reviving PFIs under a new name – (PPPs) – now’s a good time to remind everyone what PFIs really cost the public💰
PFIs aren’t just flawed, they’re an economic disaster.
Find out more from our research here: 🔗https://everydoctor.org.uk/campaigns/pfi-project/
PFIs aren’t just flawed, they’re an economic disaster.
Find out more from our research here: 🔗https://everydoctor.org.uk/campaigns/pfi-project/
July 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
With talk of reviving PFIs under a new name – (PPPs) – now’s a good time to remind everyone what PFIs really cost the public💰
PFIs aren’t just flawed, they’re an economic disaster.
Find out more from our research here: 🔗https://everydoctor.org.uk/campaigns/pfi-project/
PFIs aren’t just flawed, they’re an economic disaster.
Find out more from our research here: 🔗https://everydoctor.org.uk/campaigns/pfi-project/
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Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business
At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
July 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
I saw an infographic a couple years ago about how to remove source identifiers from links and why it's important, but I can't find it again and too many people I know are sending me links with them so here's an infographic straight from the oven
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Govt's 10 year NHS Plan deepens privatisation.
Govt "will enter discussions enter with private providers".
Pushes PFI. For every £1 investment public purse repays £6 or more. NHS already suffering previous PFI.
Corporate profits guaranteed. We pay more for less.
Say NO to privatisation.
Govt "will enter discussions enter with private providers".
Pushes PFI. For every £1 investment public purse repays £6 or more. NHS already suffering previous PFI.
Corporate profits guaranteed. We pay more for less.
Say NO to privatisation.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
July 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Govt's 10 year NHS Plan deepens privatisation.
Govt "will enter discussions enter with private providers".
Pushes PFI. For every £1 investment public purse repays £6 or more. NHS already suffering previous PFI.
Corporate profits guaranteed. We pay more for less.
Say NO to privatisation.
Govt "will enter discussions enter with private providers".
Pushes PFI. For every £1 investment public purse repays £6 or more. NHS already suffering previous PFI.
Corporate profits guaranteed. We pay more for less.
Say NO to privatisation.
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BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
July 2, 2025 at 9:11 PM
BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air.
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
"Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com.
Here's the trailer:
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Ex-sports journalist attacks elite female swimmer for standing up for equality in sport for women & girls. This is why @TheDemocrats handed the election to Trump. Idiotic sexist men on the liberal/left weaponised women's sport against the right & gifted Trump a wide open goal.
Wanted to congratulate Whiny Gaines on now being able to say she finished tied for FOURTH not tied for FIFTH in the Lia Thomas race
July 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ex-sports journalist attacks elite female swimmer for standing up for equality in sport for women & girls. This is why @TheDemocrats handed the election to Trump. Idiotic sexist men on the liberal/left weaponised women's sport against the right & gifted Trump a wide open goal.
"It is hard to say how exactly well-intentioned people ended up here, but the phrase “bodily autonomy” getting madly out of control is one part of the story. At this point, it seems to be operating more like a hypnotic mantra than an important value to be weighed up against other ethical values."
June 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
"It is hard to say how exactly well-intentioned people ended up here, but the phrase “bodily autonomy” getting madly out of control is one part of the story. At this point, it seems to be operating more like a hypnotic mantra than an important value to be weighed up against other ethical values."