Pepperg1rl
@pepperg1rl.bsky.social
Left leaning pragmatist & amateur psychologist. Teacher in a previous life. European to my core. No DMs please
As the president of a Surrey WI group I am absolutely disgusted by this
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Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
As the president of a Surrey WI group I am absolutely disgusted by this
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
November 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Glorious, cathartic, taking no shit at all, Stewart Lee.
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
Brexit: “like someone stepping round a massive pile of dogshit on the living room carpet. Every day. For nine years.”
If only all our media could be as ruthlessly challenging as this.
www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Due to an admin error, we have lost our @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social account. (As you can see that account hasn’t posted for a while). So - after many attempts with the Bluesky team to regain the account - this is the new account.
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
If you see this, please could you repost and follow back? 🙏
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Jonathan Freedland finally says it:
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Jonathan Freedland finally says it:
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast
November 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Listening to Steve Reed explain on the radio today that he can't say what Mahmood's plan means for kids of people who give birth after they've been granted asylum because that's a hypothetical Q govt can't be expected to answer right now made me think these reforms are going to unravel quite fast
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"Migrants are also likely to be net fiscal contributors. Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
While @lgilbert.co also argues that a collapse in immigration will harm the UK’s economic prospects
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
While @lgilbert.co also argues that a collapse in immigration will harm the UK’s economic prospects
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
Lower migration is bad news for the UK economy - UK in a changing Europe
Lauren Gilbert argues that migrants to the UK are net fiscal contributors, adding much more to the economy than they take out, and that the recent collapse in immigration will harm the UK's economic p...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:47 AM
"Migrants are also likely to be net fiscal contributors. Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency."
While @lgilbert.co also argues that a collapse in immigration will harm the UK’s economic prospects
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
While @lgilbert.co also argues that a collapse in immigration will harm the UK’s economic prospects
ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...
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Recently there's been a coordinated effort by some to talk down London, because it suits their political agenda. The truth must hurt for them - because London has once again been crowned the greatest city in the world.
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
London proves progressive cities work. No wonder some politicians hate that, writes Sadiq Khan | LBC
We must stand up and defend our liberal, progressive, caring capital
www.lbc.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Recently there's been a coordinated effort by some to talk down London, because it suits their political agenda. The truth must hurt for them - because London has once again been crowned the greatest city in the world.
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
If, like me, you love London, then my message is this:
I am appalled by this. Totally inhumane. Trumpesque. If ever there was a time for a U-turn, it is now.
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Asylum system in UK ‘out of control’ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmark’s controversial system
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I am appalled by this. Totally inhumane. Trumpesque. If ever there was a time for a U-turn, it is now.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Oh really? By whom for god’s sake? You couldn’t make it up
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live
Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendum
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Oh really? By whom for god’s sake? You couldn’t make it up
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
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Keir Starmer needs to wake up and fix our broken voting system before the next election, or he risks letting Nigel Farage into Number 10.
We will keep fighting for fair votes to make sure every voice is heard.
We will keep fighting for fair votes to make sure every voice is heard.
November 7, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Keir Starmer needs to wake up and fix our broken voting system before the next election, or he risks letting Nigel Farage into Number 10.
We will keep fighting for fair votes to make sure every voice is heard.
We will keep fighting for fair votes to make sure every voice is heard.
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"Proportional Representation [is] no longer the subject of an abstract discussion on the margins, but an urgent and compelling proposition supported across our party."
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"Proportional Representation [is] no longer the subject of an abstract discussion on the margins, but an urgent and compelling proposition supported across our party."
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
Great piece in @renewaljournal.bsky.social by Labour MP @annadixonmp.bsky.social.
Read in full: renewal.org.uk/blog/eletc/
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It is painfully and astonishingly obvious that to correct course we need a few simple things.
A wealth tax followed by gradual tax rises for the wealthiest.
Nationalisation of industries that should never have been privatised.
Reform of Voting.
Scotland and Wales must decide their own paths too.
A wealth tax followed by gradual tax rises for the wealthiest.
Nationalisation of industries that should never have been privatised.
Reform of Voting.
Scotland and Wales must decide their own paths too.
November 3, 2025 at 7:23 AM
It is painfully and astonishingly obvious that to correct course we need a few simple things.
A wealth tax followed by gradual tax rises for the wealthiest.
Nationalisation of industries that should never have been privatised.
Reform of Voting.
Scotland and Wales must decide their own paths too.
A wealth tax followed by gradual tax rises for the wealthiest.
Nationalisation of industries that should never have been privatised.
Reform of Voting.
Scotland and Wales must decide their own paths too.
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What a hideous man he is.
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Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage
Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
What a hideous man he is.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
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Brexit was not a one-off hit. It’s bleeding us money and lost opportunity every day we stay in it.
October 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Brexit was not a one-off hit. It’s bleeding us money and lost opportunity every day we stay in it.
So much pettiness by the Labour government. My dear friend who lives with MND waited 3 years for a new Motability car while his old car was a literal bone shaker (believe me, I drove it). 3 bloody years it took to get a new one because ‘there’s no funding’. Well - there’s even less now
October 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So much pettiness by the Labour government. My dear friend who lives with MND waited 3 years for a new Motability car while his old car was a literal bone shaker (believe me, I drove it). 3 bloody years it took to get a new one because ‘there’s no funding’. Well - there’s even less now
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More than 15% of people who voted for Brexit are dead.
Only 4% of people who voted against it are.
It is time for another vote, even if opinions haven't changed, they would lose 55-45%
Only 4% of people who voted against it are.
It is time for another vote, even if opinions haven't changed, they would lose 55-45%
October 12, 2025 at 10:10 AM
More than 15% of people who voted for Brexit are dead.
Only 4% of people who voted against it are.
It is time for another vote, even if opinions haven't changed, they would lose 55-45%
Only 4% of people who voted against it are.
It is time for another vote, even if opinions haven't changed, they would lose 55-45%
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#LondonForEveryone | A Message For All Londoners
YouTube video by Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
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October 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Gary Neville talking sense as ever. The current proliferation of St George and Union flags in our streets is not about patriotism. It is about fuelling racist discord and anger and is being applauded by the likes of Farage and Badenoch
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Gary Neville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’
Footballer turned developer questions spate of flag raisings and says ‘we’re all being turned on each other’
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October 6, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Gary Neville talking sense as ever. The current proliferation of St George and Union flags in our streets is not about patriotism. It is about fuelling racist discord and anger and is being applauded by the likes of Farage and Badenoch
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Farage wants to remove those who have lived in this country for many years
Decent people wouldn't do that
Decent people don't vote Reform
Decent people wouldn't do that
Decent people don't vote Reform
October 4, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Farage wants to remove those who have lived in this country for many years
Decent people wouldn't do that
Decent people don't vote Reform
Decent people wouldn't do that
Decent people don't vote Reform
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Just a reminder of the brilliant folk at Bylines.
September 18, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Just a reminder of the brilliant folk at Bylines.
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If, like us, you're frustrated with inauthentic vapid MSM -
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Support powerful citizen journalism - we need it now, more than ever
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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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MASS WORLD PROTESTS THREAD:👇🧵
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
While 90% of media (owned by 6 billionaires) were focusing on getting teachers fired for calling Kirk a nazi… there were mass protests all over the world!
Did you hear about any of them?
I dug up some videos:👇🧵
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
While 90% of media (owned by 6 billionaires) were focusing on getting teachers fired for calling Kirk a nazi… there were mass protests all over the world!
Did you hear about any of them?
I dug up some videos:👇🧵
September 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
MASS WORLD PROTESTS THREAD:👇🧵
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
While 90% of media (owned by 6 billionaires) were focusing on getting teachers fired for calling Kirk a nazi… there were mass protests all over the world!
Did you hear about any of them?
I dug up some videos:👇🧵
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.
While 90% of media (owned by 6 billionaires) were focusing on getting teachers fired for calling Kirk a nazi… there were mass protests all over the world!
Did you hear about any of them?
I dug up some videos:👇🧵