Paul Flower
@paolofiori.bsky.social
Recovering misanthrope with a passion for truth, equity and justice. With all this data surely we can do better than pander to prejudice and idiocy?
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It's #CarbonMonoxideAwarenessWeek, and we are working with @nea.org.uk on their Warm Homes, Healthy Futures Project helping vulnerable residents be safer in their homes & more aware of the dangers of unsafe gas boilers.
Find out more here: actonenergy.org.uk/news/warm-homes-healthy-futures
Find out more here: actonenergy.org.uk/news/warm-homes-healthy-futures
November 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's #CarbonMonoxideAwarenessWeek, and we are working with @nea.org.uk on their Warm Homes, Healthy Futures Project helping vulnerable residents be safer in their homes & more aware of the dangers of unsafe gas boilers.
Find out more here: actonenergy.org.uk/news/warm-homes-healthy-futures
Find out more here: actonenergy.org.uk/news/warm-homes-healthy-futures
100x this
Have been thinking about “immigration has been tearing this country apart.” Surely I’m not the only person to think that it isn’t true, but inflamed rhetoric about immigration by politicians is what is tearing this country apart and so statements like that only makes it worse.
November 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
100x this
300,000 complaints, 64 prosecutions. I think I see a discrepancy.
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in past three years
Two-thirds of English councils have not prosecuted a single landlord in past three years
Exclusive: Councils prosecuted just 64 landlords despite receiving 300,000 complaints from tenants in unfit homes
Two-thirds of councils in England have not prosecuted a single landlord in the past three years, despite receiving 300,000 complaints from desperate tenants living in unfit homes.
From 2022 to 2024, nearly half of local authorities responsible for housing did not fine a landlord, while more than a third did not issue any formal action against people letting out homes unlawfully in the private rental sector. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
300,000 complaints, 64 prosecutions. I think I see a discrepancy.
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New Ways November - Day 2: Respond to a difficult situation in a different way actionforhappiness.org/new-ways-nov... #NewWaysNovember
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
New Ways November - Day 2: Respond to a difficult situation in a different way actionforhappiness.org/new-ways-nov... #NewWaysNovember
This is a great & frightening episode of an exceptional podcast #QuestionEverything
October 31, 2025 at 8:37 AM
This is a great & frightening episode of an exceptional podcast #QuestionEverything
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Posting old halloween comics, #2
![A comic from 2022 I think, Halloween week - here's the script:
The scene is a darkened woods, at night. All is depicted in dingy blues and purples. In a lonely moonlit clearing we see a CABIN. its windows are dark, clearly unoccupied. A lone figure runs towards it, from the trees. Closer in on them now - we see they are terrified. The race for the door of the cabin, desperately trying to enter. They rattle the door, frantically. It is locked. They look behind them. We see the darkened, black trees of the woods. In amongst the forest, we see the black silhouette of a figure. It walks closer. Closer still. Closer - and now we see it is holding a chainsaw. It emerges into the light, slowly the shadow lifts from its face. It is wearing a mask. The victim silently screams in a rictus of horror. This can't be happening, no, no, no. Closer, closer now it lifts the chainsaw high above its head as it speaks:
MURDERER:
This murder is brought to you by MeUndies.
VICTIM:
What?
MURDERER:
If you're like me you'd kill for comfortable underwear -
VICTIM:
Sorry -
VICTIM:
Are you...
doing a *podcast*?
MURDERER:
I knoooww...
It's such a cliché
Everybody's got one these days!
VICTIM:
But I thought you were trying to murder me?
MURDERER:
Indeed! I'm a true crime podcaster driven mad by having to change gear between horrific human tragedy and adverts for MeUndies.
MURDERER:
So just tap in offer code I'M BEING MURDERED with your bloodied, trembling hand for 20% off some pants!
MURDERER:
Now, back to the murder-
[he revs up his chainsaw again]
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October 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Posting old halloween comics, #2
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Next week starts the first or our Into the Warmth events!
We have got 4 events coming up, where we will be hosting a one-stop-shop for support this winter!
27 October - Birmingham
28 October - Wolverhampton
5 November - Stratford
6 November - Solihull
We have got 4 events coming up, where we will be hosting a one-stop-shop for support this winter!
27 October - Birmingham
28 October - Wolverhampton
5 November - Stratford
6 November - Solihull
October 20, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Next week starts the first or our Into the Warmth events!
We have got 4 events coming up, where we will be hosting a one-stop-shop for support this winter!
27 October - Birmingham
28 October - Wolverhampton
5 November - Stratford
6 November - Solihull
We have got 4 events coming up, where we will be hosting a one-stop-shop for support this winter!
27 October - Birmingham
28 October - Wolverhampton
5 November - Stratford
6 November - Solihull
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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
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Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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Judge the next UK budget by how much it improves the purchasing power of the bottom 50%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.
Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses
This is how to secure sustained economic growth
leftfootforward.org
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Judge the next UK budget by how much it improves the purchasing power of the bottom 50%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.
@hiddenbrain.bsky.social the brain bit is even more hidden than usual.
October 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@hiddenbrain.bsky.social the brain bit is even more hidden than usual.
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Nigel Farage is owned by Russia. Vote Leave was illegally financed by Russia. Brexit was and is a Russian active measure to harm Britain and its home in Europe.
October 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Nigel Farage is owned by Russia. Vote Leave was illegally financed by Russia. Brexit was and is a Russian active measure to harm Britain and its home in Europe.
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"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.
September 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
"I hope Starmer wakes up tomorrow morning and feels ashamed about what he has done," says man who unveiled this poster the day Jo Cox was assassinated by a far-right terrorist.
The truth is horrific
When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My column today.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot
Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The truth is horrific
House of Guinness, Peaky Brewers or Drinky Blinders?
September 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
House of Guinness, Peaky Brewers or Drinky Blinders?
Walking with James yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/poet...
Walking with James
“What are you rebelling against?” – “Whaddya got?” (Rebel Without A Cause)
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Walking with James yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/poet...
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Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone:
Healthcare
Economy
Prices
There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally:
Immigration
Healthcare
Economy
Prices
There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally:
Immigration
Fantastic piece. This graph particularly caught my eye. What is going on here?
September 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Fascinating data. There are three things here that really matter to people, and they think matter to everyone:
Healthcare
Economy
Prices
There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally:
Immigration
Healthcare
Economy
Prices
There is ONE thing that they assume matters to everyone, because it dominates so much of the narrative, but it is NOT affecting them personally:
Immigration
Some people are happy to instigate a fight but would run a mile from the actual violence.
"It's not outside interference designed to ruin the uk, it's grass roots British concerns about boats. Anyway shush, here's a South African, illegal US immigrant billionaire who doesn't pay much tax to tell us what to do."
September 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Some people are happy to instigate a fight but would run a mile from the actual violence.
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If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough)
Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
September 7, 2025 at 8:40 AM
If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough)
Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE
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Duolingo British Idiom Unit 26:
“He tells it like it is”
Translation: He panders to my prejudices and tells me exactly what I want to hear.
“He tells it like it is”
Translation: He panders to my prejudices and tells me exactly what I want to hear.
September 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Duolingo British Idiom Unit 26:
“He tells it like it is”
Translation: He panders to my prejudices and tells me exactly what I want to hear.
“He tells it like it is”
Translation: He panders to my prejudices and tells me exactly what I want to hear.
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If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
If Rayner had set out to minimise her tax bill, she could have waited til her son turned 18 before buying the Hove house. She didn't because she wasn't trying to minimise her tax bill.
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Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
www.theguardian.com
September 5, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on £400,000 GB News earnings.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
Poor attendance record in parliament, collects £94,000 salary+expenses.
Has used a trust fund in an offshore tax haven.
Previously described people who try to avoid tax as the “common enemy”.
A further reminder to know your place and not get ideas above your station. 'Patriot' Jenrick deprived a council of £30-50m as a favour to a friend and donor. Did anyone vandalise his house?
September 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A further reminder to know your place and not get ideas above your station. 'Patriot' Jenrick deprived a council of £30-50m as a favour to a friend and donor. Did anyone vandalise his house?
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Childhood cancer awareness month
September 2, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Childhood cancer awareness month
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This is called domicide
August 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is called domicide
Compelling and crucial journalism. Certainly not easy listening.
Ira joins Hamed on his Monday commute in the West Bank. He has to navigate a constantly changing series of checkpoints and roadblocks to get to work each day. link.podtrac.com/vs1l4bmw
The Other Territory
Since October 7th, while the world has focused its attention on Gaza, the Israeli government has tightened the screws on the three million Palestinians in the West Bank in all sorts of dramatic ways. ...
link.podtrac.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Compelling and crucial journalism. Certainly not easy listening.