Toby Risk
@tobyrisk.bsky.social
Green Party member because environmental justice equals social justice. Neither capitalist or socialist. A balanced economy has room for the best of both. It's not 'the economy stupid', its the quality of life that matters.
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We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy!
Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.
Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.
Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.
Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.
February 6, 2026 at 5:20 PM
We need a UK Digital Sovereignty Strategy!
Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.
Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.
Our over-reliance on foreign tech giants is a huge risk to our security and resilience when faced with Donald Trump’s ever increasing belligerence.
Companies like Palantir have no place in our critical digital infrastructure.
You know I think it's a bit insulting for the #whiteHouse to call #POTUS just a #staffer. What position does he hold? #bootBoy maybe. #trumpCriticism
February 6, 2026 at 7:51 PM
You know I think it's a bit insulting for the #whiteHouse to call #POTUS just a #staffer. What position does he hold? #bootBoy maybe. #trumpCriticism
@newsagents.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com Excellent episode on the #scandal of #studentLoans.
#ministers often state that #graduates will earn more so they should pay more. Well when they earn more they will pay more tax anyway.
#ministers often state that #graduates will earn more so they should pay more. Well when they earn more they will pay more tax anyway.
February 6, 2026 at 6:57 PM
@newsagents.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com Excellent episode on the #scandal of #studentLoans.
#ministers often state that #graduates will earn more so they should pay more. Well when they earn more they will pay more tax anyway.
#ministers often state that #graduates will earn more so they should pay more. Well when they earn more they will pay more tax anyway.
We living in an age, not the 1st, where the rich and powerful persist in corrupting or destroying the engines of state that have been created over hundreds of years to protect people from those same people. #mandelson, #trump, #musk and #farage are all part of this. #ukPolitics
February 5, 2026 at 7:05 PM
We living in an age, not the 1st, where the rich and powerful persist in corrupting or destroying the engines of state that have been created over hundreds of years to protect people from those same people. #mandelson, #trump, #musk and #farage are all part of this. #ukPolitics
Shrink the #HouseOfLords and move parliament to Buckingham Palace. Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years
February 5, 2026 at 6:49 PM
Shrink the #HouseOfLords and move parliament to Buckingham Palace. Parliament revamp could cost £40bn and take 61 years
#4Today Steve Reed trying to blame the ‘vetting process’. #Mandelson should never have got anywhere near the ‘vetting process’ it has been provably unfit for public office for two decades.
February 5, 2026 at 8:24 AM
#4Today Steve Reed trying to blame the ‘vetting process’. #Mandelson should never have got anywhere near the ‘vetting process’ it has been provably unfit for public office for two decades.
#Starmer HAS to quit now. he is utterly without political competence. @uklabour.bsky.social #ukPolitics
February 5, 2026 at 8:13 AM
#Starmer HAS to quit now. he is utterly without political competence. @uklabour.bsky.social #ukPolitics
I hope @10dowingstreet.bsky.social is putting #mcsweeney through the ringer. I’d bet money he has shared info with #mandelson that is at the very least confidential.
February 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
I hope @10dowingstreet.bsky.social is putting #mcsweeney through the ringer. I’d bet money he has shared info with #mandelson that is at the very least confidential.
February 5, 2026 at 8:08 AM
#subprime all over again
Banks seek out new buyers for Oracle data centre loans ft.trib.al/tgOjDEx
Banks seek out new buyers for Oracle data centre loans
Rare investment-grade rating helps attract insurers and private credit funds to construction debt
ft.trib.al
February 4, 2026 at 8:04 PM
#subprime all over again
@newsagents.bsky.social Fascinating discussion between @lewisgoodall.com and #davidRunciman about why the current parlous state of our politics is actually pretty normal. Worth a good long listen. Not to mention the best advocation of changing our bonkers electoral system.
January 30, 2026 at 9:04 PM
@newsagents.bsky.social Fascinating discussion between @lewisgoodall.com and #davidRunciman about why the current parlous state of our politics is actually pretty normal. Worth a good long listen. Not to mention the best advocation of changing our bonkers electoral system.
Quite.
@uklabour.bsky.social think they are entitled to your #vote. They are not. They are a dying party that cannot reconcile their small 'c' conservative origins and base with progressive politics.
If you want progress on equality and #green issues there is only one party to vote for. #voteGreen
@uklabour.bsky.social think they are entitled to your #vote. They are not. They are a dying party that cannot reconcile their small 'c' conservative origins and base with progressive politics.
If you want progress on equality and #green issues there is only one party to vote for. #voteGreen
To those saying, "but the Greens will split the vote":
1. Things have changed.
2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit)
3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.
1. Things have changed.
2. It's not the Green's fault that Starmer has the Merdas Touch (turns everything to shit)
3. When the Greens offer the only inspiring option, perhaps we should see the Labour candidate as splitting the vote.
January 30, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Quite.
@uklabour.bsky.social think they are entitled to your #vote. They are not. They are a dying party that cannot reconcile their small 'c' conservative origins and base with progressive politics.
If you want progress on equality and #green issues there is only one party to vote for. #voteGreen
@uklabour.bsky.social think they are entitled to your #vote. They are not. They are a dying party that cannot reconcile their small 'c' conservative origins and base with progressive politics.
If you want progress on equality and #green issues there is only one party to vote for. #voteGreen
The whole #groundRent debate is just a sideshow and distracts from the real issue of our #ukLand being commoditised. We need far reaching #landReform
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
The whole #groundRent debate is just a sideshow and distracts from the real issue of our #ukLand being commoditised. We need far reaching #landReform
The #UKs geriatric electoral system forces people to vote for the party they dislike least. Then when the elected #MP who takes 100% of the elector's power defects to another party, there ceases to be any #democratic representation whatsoever. #FPTP #reformDefection #byElection #suellaBraverman
January 26, 2026 at 7:41 PM
The #UKs geriatric electoral system forces people to vote for the party they dislike least. Then when the elected #MP who takes 100% of the elector's power defects to another party, there ceases to be any #democratic representation whatsoever. #FPTP #reformDefection #byElection #suellaBraverman
If this continues, 2 things could happen.
1) The Lib Dems will become HM Opposition
2) The Tories may become vaguely electable again, albeit from a base of 60 MPs
1) The Lib Dems will become HM Opposition
2) The Tories may become vaguely electable again, albeit from a base of 60 MPs
Reform, the care home for failed tories. 🤦♂️
BBC News - Suella Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform UK - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - Suella Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform UK - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Suella Braverman accuses Tories of betrayal as she defects to Reform UK
The MP was unveiled as Reform's latest recruit by leader Nigel Farage at a rally, bringing the number of the party's sitting MPs to eight.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 26, 2026 at 7:36 PM
If this continues, 2 things could happen.
1) The Lib Dems will become HM Opposition
2) The Tories may become vaguely electable again, albeit from a base of 60 MPs
1) The Lib Dems will become HM Opposition
2) The Tories may become vaguely electable again, albeit from a base of 60 MPs
There's a darker side to this. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social keep running away from democratic accountability. In a move that #Trump would love to, they cancelled 100's of local elections in 2025 and are aiming to do the same in 2026. Now this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour can reverse its decision to block Andy Burnham. Here is why it must | Neal Lawson
Good politics is about collaboration and contestation. The NEC’s ruling means the party has turned its back on that, says Neal Lawson, director of campaign organisation Compass
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:08 AM
There's a darker side to this. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social keep running away from democratic accountability. In a move that #Trump would love to, they cancelled 100's of local elections in 2025 and are aiming to do the same in 2026. Now this.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Has anybody in @10dowingstreet.bsky.social got a even 1 IQ of political nous? They now look utterly weak and insecure. They are scared of someone skilled getting a platform, even if that person would be good for @uklabour.bsky.social and the #unitedKingdom
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Has anybody in @10dowingstreet.bsky.social got a even 1 IQ of political nous? They now look utterly weak and insecure. They are scared of someone skilled getting a platform, even if that person would be good for @uklabour.bsky.social and the #unitedKingdom
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Really @sainsburys.bsky.social the product would fit in a box half this size. #fakingIt, #CO2Emissions.
January 13, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Really @sainsburys.bsky.social the product would fit in a box half this size. #fakingIt, #CO2Emissions.
If #UK and #EU deployed 20,000 troops and 100 fighter jets to #greenland Donald Trump would piss his pants and claim it was all a big joke.
January 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
If #UK and #EU deployed 20,000 troops and 100 fighter jets to #greenland Donald Trump would piss his pants and claim it was all a big joke.
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The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026
The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026
Revenues may be rising rapidly, but not by nearly enough to cover the wild levels of investment under way
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2026 at 8:29 PM
The cost of AI slop could cause a rethink that shakes the global economy in 2026
Let 2026 be the year that we finally agree not to sell off any more #publicLand. Councils are broke because of the high cost of paying private companies to provide essential services. Why because councils have no land to build the services they need on. #costOfLandCrisis
January 1, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Let 2026 be the year that we finally agree not to sell off any more #publicLand. Councils are broke because of the high cost of paying private companies to provide essential services. Why because councils have no land to build the services they need on. #costOfLandCrisis
If the #UK #housingPolicy was designed to provide homes not profits then #blackpool council would either renovate the existing homes or build new ones BEFORE bulldozing these. Of course it may not be possible as #ukGov continues its 40 yr project to force the sell off of #publicLand
Hundreds of Blackpool families to be evicted in ‘mass dispersion’ of vulnerable people
Hundreds of Blackpool families to be evicted in ‘mass dispersion’ of vulnerable people
Up to 400 homes face demolition under a £90m regeneration scheme that promises only 230 replacement properties
Hundreds of families in one of England’s poorest neighbourhoods will be evicted under a £90m plan described by critics as a “mass dispersion” of vulnerable people.
Four hundred homes in Blackpool will be bulldozed this summer and replaced with 230 new properties under levelling up proposals signed off by Rishi Sunak’s government. The area has more than 800 people – about 250 of them children – who are in the poorest 10th of the population of England, according to official documents. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM
If the #UK #housingPolicy was designed to provide homes not profits then #blackpool council would either renovate the existing homes or build new ones BEFORE bulldozing these. Of course it may not be possible as #ukGov continues its 40 yr project to force the sell off of #publicLand
So if reports that #reeves is falling over backwards to pull #privateEquity into the #UK housing market, this wld not only further commoditise the housing market but channel the UK’s last store of significant wealth to US financial investors. @itvpeston.bsky.social you need to look at this.
December 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
So if reports that #reeves is falling over backwards to pull #privateEquity into the #UK housing market, this wld not only further commoditise the housing market but channel the UK’s last store of significant wealth to US financial investors. @itvpeston.bsky.social you need to look at this.
#networkRail #greatBritishRail and all train companies. What is the point of advertising a train to leave at 7.47 when you shut the doors at 7.46. Stop gaslighting passengers and show some transparency. #trainTimetable
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
#networkRail #greatBritishRail and all train companies. What is the point of advertising a train to leave at 7.47 when you shut the doors at 7.46. Stop gaslighting passengers and show some transparency. #trainTimetable