Mark Langdon
@rethinkscotland.bsky.social
Lecturer in Community Education at UWS EIS member anti-facist. anti- racist, anti- capitalist. Lover of decolonial, feminist and degrowth perspectives of love, care and social and ecological justice. Radical municipalist and tree hugger ☮️🦋🇵🇸
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We shouldn't need to wear protective clothing to stay warm, dry and healthy in our own home.
But since 1 in 4 of us in the UK are living in homes with issues like damp, cold and mould – it's an absurd solution for a very real problem.
Demand change – email your MP today. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
But since 1 in 4 of us in the UK are living in homes with issues like damp, cold and mould – it's an absurd solution for a very real problem.
Demand change – email your MP today. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We shouldn't need to wear protective clothing to stay warm, dry and healthy in our own home.
But since 1 in 4 of us in the UK are living in homes with issues like damp, cold and mould – it's an absurd solution for a very real problem.
Demand change – email your MP today. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
But since 1 in 4 of us in the UK are living in homes with issues like damp, cold and mould – it's an absurd solution for a very real problem.
Demand change – email your MP today. 👉https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
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If you are on a lower income, you’re more likely to have issues like damp, mould and cold in your home.
Hazmat loungewear is not a real solution to this problem. Explore what we're calling for to #MakeHealthEqual. 👉️https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
Hazmat loungewear is not a real solution to this problem. Explore what we're calling for to #MakeHealthEqual. 👉️https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
If you are on a lower income, you’re more likely to have issues like damp, mould and cold in your home.
Hazmat loungewear is not a real solution to this problem. Explore what we're calling for to #MakeHealthEqual. 👉️https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
Hazmat loungewear is not a real solution to this problem. Explore what we're calling for to #MakeHealthEqual. 👉️https://bit.ly/4nHViVo
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The poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
To tackle child poverty the government must deal with parental poverty
Labour's child poverty strategy offers some welcome measures, but it won't address the factors keeping families trapped in poverty
leftfootforward.org
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The poorest 20% Britons pay higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
The bottom 50% of the population owns less than 5% of wealth, bottom 20% has 0.5%.
Can't reduce child/household poverty and relieve suffering without equitable distribution of income/wealth.
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As the so called #Ceasefire continues in #Gaza while Palestinians are freezing under storms & ltd aid, Israel appears to now be turning the #WestBank into a new Gaza. They'll do it all again and there'll be no point of looking back one day and saying we didn't know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACy...
Life caged in the West Bank as Israeli gates, fences and walls isolate Palestinian communities
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
www.youtube.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
As the so called #Ceasefire continues in #Gaza while Palestinians are freezing under storms & ltd aid, Israel appears to now be turning the #WestBank into a new Gaza. They'll do it all again and there'll be no point of looking back one day and saying we didn't know.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACy...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nACy...
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Something big is happening in Europe and most people haven’t heard about it yet.
EU governments are rushing through a new deportation law. It would make it easier to detain people, send them to countries they’ve never known, and outsource deportations to private companies and third countries.
EU governments are rushing through a new deportation law. It would make it easier to detain people, send them to countries they’ve never known, and outsource deportations to private companies and third countries.
December 15, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Something big is happening in Europe and most people haven’t heard about it yet.
EU governments are rushing through a new deportation law. It would make it easier to detain people, send them to countries they’ve never known, and outsource deportations to private companies and third countries.
EU governments are rushing through a new deportation law. It would make it easier to detain people, send them to countries they’ve never known, and outsource deportations to private companies and third countries.
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In 2022, a cocaine conspiracy and a damning corruption inquiry sent shockwaves through the British Virgin Islands
What went wrong? And has anything really changed?
Our reporter travelled to the BVI to find out 👉 bit.ly/4oHeyCS
What went wrong? And has anything really changed?
Our reporter travelled to the BVI to find out 👉 bit.ly/4oHeyCS
December 9, 2025 at 9:20 AM
In 2022, a cocaine conspiracy and a damning corruption inquiry sent shockwaves through the British Virgin Islands
What went wrong? And has anything really changed?
Our reporter travelled to the BVI to find out 👉 bit.ly/4oHeyCS
What went wrong? And has anything really changed?
Our reporter travelled to the BVI to find out 👉 bit.ly/4oHeyCS
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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1/ Last week being on campus for 2025, kicking off with our #HWB fair in which students will show off the resources they have created to teach Maths through physically active learning 😊.
Check the thread for updates om the excellent resources and ideas.
Check the thread for updates om the excellent resources and ideas.
December 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
1/ Last week being on campus for 2025, kicking off with our #HWB fair in which students will show off the resources they have created to teach Maths through physically active learning 😊.
Check the thread for updates om the excellent resources and ideas.
Check the thread for updates om the excellent resources and ideas.
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Good article on another great group challenging fascism in our current climate: Democracy Forward, a progressive legal advocacy group "which has been battling the Trump administration in the courts all year."
‘No One’s Going to Get Out of This Moment Intact by Keeping Their Head Down’
How a powerhouse liberal legal group is challenging Trump 2.0.
www.politico.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Good article on another great group challenging fascism in our current climate: Democracy Forward, a progressive legal advocacy group "which has been battling the Trump administration in the courts all year."
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UK Govt urged to close £2bn tax loophole in car finance scandal
Law rewards abuse.
Non-bank entities can deduct compensation payments from profits before calculating corporation tax, reducing their bill.
Motor finance arms of banks are considered “non-bank entities”.
Law rewards abuse.
Non-bank entities can deduct compensation payments from profits before calculating corporation tax, reducing their bill.
Motor finance arms of banks are considered “non-bank entities”.
Ministers urged to close £2bn tax loophole in car finance scandal
Banks and specialist lenders will not pay tax on compensation payouts, sidestepping 2015 rule
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 PM
UK Govt urged to close £2bn tax loophole in car finance scandal
Law rewards abuse.
Non-bank entities can deduct compensation payments from profits before calculating corporation tax, reducing their bill.
Motor finance arms of banks are considered “non-bank entities”.
Law rewards abuse.
Non-bank entities can deduct compensation payments from profits before calculating corporation tax, reducing their bill.
Motor finance arms of banks are considered “non-bank entities”.
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Farage arrives in Scotland today, and it should make our collective stomach heave that this repulsive, dangerous extremist has crossed the border. Amid scapegoating schoolkids and allegations of antisemitism anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
"Farage in Falkirk? It should make our stomachs heave to have him in Scotland"
Nigel Farage’s Falkirk visit sparks outrage, with many Scots saying his presence north of the border should make “our stomachs heave”.
www.heraldscotland.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Farage arrives in Scotland today, and it should make our collective stomach heave that this repulsive, dangerous extremist has crossed the border. Amid scapegoating schoolkids and allegations of antisemitism anyone who supports this man is morally in the gutter
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
My @heraldscotland.bsky.social column
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BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
Changes to employee benefits would cut take-home pay by at least 6.25%.
Would exec pay and dividends be cut? No chance.
Hard-won rights eroded as corporations rule without ever being elected.
Back to Victorian times.
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Another one bites the dust.
Farage had a cheek to say, this guys racist posts meant it didn't look good for him. Shame he doesn't analyse his own lifetime long racism in the same way.
Reform UK revokes Staffordshire County Council leader's membership - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage had a cheek to say, this guys racist posts meant it didn't look good for him. Shame he doesn't analyse his own lifetime long racism in the same way.
Reform UK revokes Staffordshire County Council leader's membership - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Reform UK revokes Staffordshire County Council leader's membership
It follows an investigation by the party into racist content on social media.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Another one bites the dust.
Farage had a cheek to say, this guys racist posts meant it didn't look good for him. Shame he doesn't analyse his own lifetime long racism in the same way.
Reform UK revokes Staffordshire County Council leader's membership - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Farage had a cheek to say, this guys racist posts meant it didn't look good for him. Shame he doesn't analyse his own lifetime long racism in the same way.
Reform UK revokes Staffordshire County Council leader's membership - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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@heraldscotland.bsky.social answering its own very daft question here 😂😂🤣
December 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
@heraldscotland.bsky.social answering its own very daft question here 😂😂🤣
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READ: Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/a-ne...
‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire
Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on…
mondoweiss.net
December 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
READ: Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/a-ne...
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🪱 DIG IT – It’s #WorldSoilDay!
🥳 This year is ripe for a big soil-ebration as the first-ever #EUSoilLaw comes into force in just days – a key first step toward healthier soils in Europe.
🌱 Still not sure what all the fuss is about? Check it out: meta.eeb.org/2023/12/05/4...
🥳 This year is ripe for a big soil-ebration as the first-ever #EUSoilLaw comes into force in just days – a key first step toward healthier soils in Europe.
🌱 Still not sure what all the fuss is about? Check it out: meta.eeb.org/2023/12/05/4...
4 things you need to know about soil health
For World Soil Day, the EEB explains why healthy soils matter more than you might think.
meta.eeb.org
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
🪱 DIG IT – It’s #WorldSoilDay!
🥳 This year is ripe for a big soil-ebration as the first-ever #EUSoilLaw comes into force in just days – a key first step toward healthier soils in Europe.
🌱 Still not sure what all the fuss is about? Check it out: meta.eeb.org/2023/12/05/4...
🥳 This year is ripe for a big soil-ebration as the first-ever #EUSoilLaw comes into force in just days – a key first step toward healthier soils in Europe.
🌱 Still not sure what all the fuss is about? Check it out: meta.eeb.org/2023/12/05/4...
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Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK.
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK.
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
UKIP/Reform/Farage damaged the economy with Brexit, now destroying the NHS.
The UK is an ageing society, without immigration the economy can't function. Will we ever get an honest debate?
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
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Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
December 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reform accepted £9 million from a former Boris Johnson backer & crypto-multimillionaire.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
Today, Nigel Farage postures as a righteous defender of the same democracy he actively undermines.
Democracy should never be for sale. It's time for a cap on political donations.
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December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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D'you remember Sid - the tagline used by the Conservative government in 1986 to push the idea of privatising gas?
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
December 5, 2025 at 9:22 AM
D'you remember Sid - the tagline used by the Conservative government in 1986 to push the idea of privatising gas?
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
Oxford City Councillor Ottino had some home truths for Sid, in a debate on Thames Water.
After 40 years, privatisation of public services has failed. It's time for public ownership.
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Janet Godley was right . Trump is a cult
A cabinet meeting that would make North Koreans say, “Damn, this is a bit much!”
December 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Janet Godley was right . Trump is a cult
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@runnymedetrust.bsky.social highlight today is #EqualPayDay where 1000s of women in effect start working for free for the rest of the year. This is worse for minority ethnic women who are also subject to the #EthnicityPayGap. These systemic barriers & inequalities need to change.
December 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
@runnymedetrust.bsky.social highlight today is #EqualPayDay where 1000s of women in effect start working for free for the rest of the year. This is worse for minority ethnic women who are also subject to the #EthnicityPayGap. These systemic barriers & inequalities need to change.