Stephanie Bowgett
@silverbowsteph.bsky.social
Retired, school governor. Poetry, writing, readings and workshops. Ex Labour
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🔴How Nigel Farage Played the British Media
Politics as spectacle and outrage as a business model, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social looks at how the Reform UK leader has been given a free pass by Britain's news organisations
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-nigel-...
Politics as spectacle and outrage as a business model, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social looks at how the Reform UK leader has been given a free pass by Britain's news organisations
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-nigel-...
How Nigel Farage Played the British Media
Politics as spectacle and outrage as a business model, James Bloodworth looks at how the Reform UK leader has been given a free pass by Britain's news organisations
www.bylinesupplement.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:09 PM
🔴How Nigel Farage Played the British Media
Politics as spectacle and outrage as a business model, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social looks at how the Reform UK leader has been given a free pass by Britain's news organisations
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-nigel-...
Politics as spectacle and outrage as a business model, @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social looks at how the Reform UK leader has been given a free pass by Britain's news organisations
www.bylinesupplement.com/p/how-nigel-...
Housing benefit is failing to cover the true cost of private rent is forcing people across Britain into poverty, ill health and homelessness. I’ve asked my MP to urge the Chancellor to fix this at the Autumn Budget. Will you join me? @crisis-uk.bsky.social campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/176493/...
Email your MP: unfreeze housing benefit
Ask your MP to tell to the Chancellor to unfreeze housing benefit to prevent homelessness.
campaigns.crisis.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Housing benefit is failing to cover the true cost of private rent is forcing people across Britain into poverty, ill health and homelessness. I’ve asked my MP to urge the Chancellor to fix this at the Autumn Budget. Will you join me? @crisis-uk.bsky.social campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/176493/...
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Monday Musings
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Monday Musings
Reposted by Stephanie Bowgett
If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If I was devising a set of announcements to elevate (but not satisfy) the hard right, alienate the middle ground and completely discourage your base, I couldn’t come up with a much better strategy than McSweeney and Number 10
Top camper van makers: Clean up your tropical wood supply chain -- no more deforestation on wheels! action.eko.org/a/no-more-de...
No more deforestation plywood for camper vans
Camper vans have become increasingly popular and a symbol for recreation in pristine nature – but the truth is, they are deforested orangutan habitats on wheels. A breaking report revealed that one ro
action.eko.org
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Top camper van makers: Clean up your tropical wood supply chain -- no more deforestation on wheels! action.eko.org/a/no-more-de...
Penguins Don’t Belong in Basements action.eko.org/a/sea-life-l...
Penguins Don’t Belong in Basements
Fifteen penguins are trapped underground in central London, cut off from sunlight and outdoor access.SEA LIFE London Aquarium keeps them in a windowless basement, pacing under harsh artificial lights
action.eko.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Penguins Don’t Belong in Basements action.eko.org/a/sea-life-l...
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma: 38d.gs/5urg
Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax break...
38d.gs
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 PM
While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma: 38d.gs/5urg
I'm saying no to the far right alongside Friends of the Earth and thousands of others - join me foe.uk/cbbyi
Stop the far right now and for future generations
The UK’s growing far right movement is trying to whip up racism to distract from the real causes of our problems. It’s threatening to impose a future where climate breakdown is allowed to ravage our p...
foe.uk
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 PM
I'm saying no to the far right alongside Friends of the Earth and thousands of others - join me foe.uk/cbbyi
Our NHS is being held to ransom by Donald Trump and Big Pharma. The government must not give in. act.globaljustice.org.uk/our-nhs-bein...
Our NHS is being held to ransom by Donald Trump and Big Pharma. The government must not give in.
Big Pharma and Donald Trump are holding the NHS to ransom. Under the threat of tariffs and withdrawal of investment, they are trying to force the NHS to pay more for our medicines. This risks our abil...
act.globaljustice.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Our NHS is being held to ransom by Donald Trump and Big Pharma. The government must not give in. act.globaljustice.org.uk/our-nhs-bein...
53,000+ voices are demanding gambling giants pay their fair share 💸 The goal? Lift 500,000 kids out of poverty. Help us reach 75,000 signatures: sign & share today. 38d.gs/6eeq
We’re in a child poverty emergency, and it'll only get worse unless the Government does more.
Gambling giants don't pay their fair share but taxing them more could raise billions to help children.
38d.gs
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
53,000+ voices are demanding gambling giants pay their fair share 💸 The goal? Lift 500,000 kids out of poverty. Help us reach 75,000 signatures: sign & share today. 38d.gs/6eeq
I’ve just signed a petition calling for ministers to properly fund NHS dentistry! We’ve got 92,597 signatures and need to get to 100,000 to really ramp up the pressure! Add your name now: 38d.gs/62ha
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
38d.gs
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’ve just signed a petition calling for ministers to properly fund NHS dentistry! We’ve got 92,597 signatures and need to get to 100,000 to really ramp up the pressure! Add your name now: 38d.gs/62ha
Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...
Keep the Baltic Sea clean and safe!
Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚
action.wemove.eu
October 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Imagine your favourite beach crowded with oil rigs and spills 😢 I just signed a petition to stop drilling in the Baltic - let’s keep our seas clean and safe for wildlife, climate, and our future! 🌊💚 action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-10...
The Government has revealed plans for a new mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)
Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives.
Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 25, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The Government has revealed plans for a new mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Housing benefit no longer covers the true cost of private rent – and it’s forcing people into poverty, ill health and homelessness. That’s plain wrong.
I’ve asked the Chancellor to fix it with the Autumn Budget. Will you join me? @crisis-uk.bsky.social
campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/179077/...
I’ve asked the Chancellor to fix it with the Autumn Budget. Will you join me? @crisis-uk.bsky.social
campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/179077/...
Email the Chancellor: restore housing benefit to match the cost of rent | Crisis UK
Rachel Reeves must use the Autumn budget to unfreeze housing benefit. Take action now.
campaigns.crisis.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Housing benefit no longer covers the true cost of private rent – and it’s forcing people into poverty, ill health and homelessness. That’s plain wrong.
I’ve asked the Chancellor to fix it with the Autumn Budget. Will you join me? @crisis-uk.bsky.social
campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/179077/...
I’ve asked the Chancellor to fix it with the Autumn Budget. Will you join me? @crisis-uk.bsky.social
campaigns.crisis.org.uk/page/179077/...
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky
October 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg
Sign the petition: Save our National Parks
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:
38d.gs
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg
I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b
Tell Keir Starmer to scrap his ID card scheme
With his government in turmoil and Nigel Farage breathing down his neck, Keir Starmer has reached for the panic button, announcing a scheme for ID cards that would be compulsory to prove your right to...
goodlaw.social
October 18, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I've just used Good Law Project's tool to tell Keir Starmer that his ID scheme is a recipe for repression. Will you do the same? goodlaw.social/364f2b
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
I just learnt that over £100,000 of NHS funds have been wasted on defending bullying instead of paying frontline staff fairly.
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Say no to bullying of NHS staff
Treatment of striking NHS staff
This helps to explain the treatment of NHS workers on strike in Gloucestershire in recent months.
A small but mighty group of workers have been on strike since...
www.megaphone.org.uk
October 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I just learnt that over £100,000 of NHS funds have been wasted on defending bullying instead of paying frontline staff fairly.
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Sign the petition to demand that Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust investigate how their CEO, Kevin McNamara, treats NHS staff. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
15 penguins are trapped in the basement of @london_aquarium
No sunlight. No fresh air. No deep water to dive in or swim freely. Just concrete walls and artificial lights.
Sign the petition: Free the 15 penguins in underground captivity: 38d.gs/6uj4?utm_cam...
No sunlight. No fresh air. No deep water to dive in or swim freely. Just concrete walls and artificial lights.
Sign the petition: Free the 15 penguins in underground captivity: 38d.gs/6uj4?utm_cam...
Save the penguins! Free them from Sea Life aquarium!
Right now, penguins at Sea Life London are suffering terrible conditions. I’ve just signed the petition demanding they’re moved from their underground basement to a more natural environment NOW. Will ...
38d.gs
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
15 penguins are trapped in the basement of @london_aquarium
No sunlight. No fresh air. No deep water to dive in or swim freely. Just concrete walls and artificial lights.
Sign the petition: Free the 15 penguins in underground captivity: 38d.gs/6uj4?utm_cam...
No sunlight. No fresh air. No deep water to dive in or swim freely. Just concrete walls and artificial lights.
Sign the petition: Free the 15 penguins in underground captivity: 38d.gs/6uj4?utm_cam...
Tell Coach, Chanel, Gucci and other luxury brands to stop profiting from Amazon destruction. action.eko.org/a/coach-chan...
Coach, Chanel, Gucci and other luxury brands, stop profiting from the Amazon's destruction.
The Amazon is being chainsawed so Coach, Chanel and other luxury brands can sell $9,000 handbags. A new investigation shows Gucci, Balenciaga and other luxury labels source leather from cattle raised
action.eko.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Tell Coach, Chanel, Gucci and other luxury brands to stop profiting from Amazon destruction. action.eko.org/a/coach-chan...
After Trump directive, Florida removed rainbow crosswalk that honors the 49 people killed at Pulse. Demand the crosswalk be restored and protected! Sign now! a.allout.org/s/P8Egz/
Tell Florida to restore and protect the Pulse Memorial Now!
After Trump directive, Florida removed rainbow crosswalk that honors the 49 people killed at Pulse. Demand the crosswalk be restored and protected! Sign now!
a.allout.org
October 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
After Trump directive, Florida removed rainbow crosswalk that honors the 49 people killed at Pulse. Demand the crosswalk be restored and protected! Sign now! a.allout.org/s/P8Egz/
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg
Sign the petition: Save our National Parks
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:
38d.gs
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3
Keep Hampstead women’s pond inclusive
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back
goodlawproject.org
October 13, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A transphobic pressure group is trying to ban trans women from Hampstead women’s pond – we’re fighting back goodlawproject.org/s/4860b3
Following Trump directive, Florida removed the Pulse memorial crosswalk! This is a cruel attempt to erase the legacy of the 49 lives lost, and to silence our community. Join me in signing the petition calling on Florida officials to bring back the memorial NOW! a.allout.org/s/P8Egz/
Tell Florida to restore and protect the Pulse Memorial Now!
After Trump directive, Florida removed rainbow crosswalk that honors the 49 people killed at Pulse. Demand the crosswalk be restored and protected! Sign now!
a.allout.org
October 11, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Following Trump directive, Florida removed the Pulse memorial crosswalk! This is a cruel attempt to erase the legacy of the 49 lives lost, and to silence our community. Join me in signing the petition calling on Florida officials to bring back the memorial NOW! a.allout.org/s/P8Egz/