Val
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Val
@valmel.bsky.social
Pro EU. Hate Brexit. An oldie who seems to buck the voting trend. Truth matters.
Love theatre and art - these matter in life and should be valued.
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Write to your paper before the Budget
Five years since #Brexit, and a British Chancellor has finally called out Brexit for what it is. An act of pure economic sabotage and vandalism. Politics is finally catching up with economic reality.
#BestForBritain
www.bestforbritain.org/letter_edito...
Write to your paper to highlight the impact of Brexit on the Budget
Change Minds → Change Politics
www.bestforbritain.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Contrary to some media reports, heat pumps aren’t new tech — they’ve been around for 100+ years!

✅ First built in 1856 by Peter von Rittinger
✅ Zurich City Hall used one from 1938–2001
✅ UK’s first in 1945 (Norwich)
✅ ~200 million in use worldwide today
November 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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So in the end, the man who Davie (ironically considered a Tory) appointed in 2022 to stop the next crisis ended up causing his demise.

Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

🧵3/3
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Three years ago, after the Martin Bashir scandal, BBC boss Tim Davie tried to prevent future crises by appointing two “external editorial experts” to scrutinise BBC journalism. Oddly, both came from PR rather than journalism.

🧵1/3
November 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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I did not have insider knowledge. I have just been around Brussels negotiations for a long time...

EU agrees a mandate for UK negotiations as I predicted. With the bonus that the future path becomes clearer - if you pay you can have more. www.politico.eu/article/uk-s...
November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Funny how all the “Patriots” want the UK Damaged
November 12, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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They're all literally obsessed.

join.greenparty.org.uk
November 12, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Ken Clarke, "Politically you can't rejoin the European Union at the moment it would cause its own nightmare, divisions and crisis"

"Brexit is doing damage to our economy"

"The time has come to rejoin the Customs Union and the EU Single Market would be a huge, huge advantage to us"
November 13, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This!!!
For God’s sake!
Why is Starmer thinking of backing Rosenank????
Does he believe in ANYTHING 🤷‍♀️

act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-keir-st...
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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They're going to crash the global economy by attempting to create an artificial general intelligence, despite having no idea what that is, no proof they can build it & no hope of doing so. Cunts just read too many sci-fi books.
November 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter

The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson

@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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The United Kingdom has stopped sharing intelligence on suspected drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean because of concerns about the legality of recent U.S. military strikes killing people on the high seas.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
U.K. withholds intelligence on alleged drug boats over U.S. strikes, sources say
The U.S. military has been carrying out lethal strikes on what Trump administration officials have said were boats carrying drugs.
www.nbcnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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The rapid rise of renters in their 60s: ‘I hate the idea of house-sharing – but I have no choice’
The rapid rise of renters in their 60s: ‘I hate the idea of house-sharing – but I have no choice’
It is often assumed that people of retirement age will no longer have housing costs to cover. But for a significant and growing group, this is far from the case
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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High blood pressure rates in children nearly doubled in 20 years, global review finds

Poor diet, inactivity and obesity believed to have caused hypertension for millions of under-19s around the world
High blood pressure rates in children nearly doubled in 20 years, global review finds
Poor diet, inactivity and obesity believed to have caused hypertension for millions of under-19s around the world
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Israel’s president says ‘shocking’ settler violence against Palestinians must end
Israel’s president says ‘shocking’ settler violence against Palestinians must end
President Isaac Herzog said the violence committed by a “handful” of perpetrators “crosses a red line."
dlvr.it
November 13, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Reform UK accused of embracing racism over its pick for head of student organisation

Matthew Goodwin argued people from minority ethnic backgrounds born and raised in UK were not always British
Reform UK accused of embracing racism over its pick for head of student organisation
Matthew Goodwin argued people from minority ethnic backgrounds born and raised in UK were not always British
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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🚨🚨 " Surprise, surprise"; new @bylinetimes.bsky.social report by @nafeez.bsky.social reveals that BBC bias memo fuelling #trump's attack was authored by no else than... lobbyist Michael Prescott tied to #trump's pro-tech giants, #Oracle. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b...
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Yes, it would be so much easier to declare defeat. But the climate fight is far from over.

My latest for @thenation.com opens with the 2025 "state of the climate report" by a team of top scientists - incl @michaelemann.bsky.social - then gets personal & political.
www.thenation.com/article/envi...
There’s No Quitting the Climate Fight
This is the worst-ever year for climate politics—but the struggle is far from over.
www.thenation.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Faced with Starmer or Farage I’m sure most international leaders will be taking a view on how relations develop over the coming months and years.

They like and trust Starmer. But then they aren’t influenced by our media twats.
November 13, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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this is what JEFFREY EPSTEIN thought of Trump

“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”

what has gone wrong systemically, and spiritually, in our culture that this is the person who was chosen to lead
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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At this point we have to assume that if the Epstein files are released they will
- end the Trump Presidency
- implicate many other prominent Republicans
- destroy the careers of AG Bondi and his other defenders
This is beginning to feel like the greatest scandal in American history.
Trump has done enormous harm to the country.
He is a deeply corrupt and venal man.
He is wildly unpopular, his agenda more so. He's lost the consent of the governed.
He is old, infirm & clearly no longer mentally competent to run a nation.

It is time now to start talking about him moving on👇
Growing list of reasons Trump should step down:
- Cover up of his involvement in notorious sex trafficking ring
- Unprecedented corruption, self enrichment
- Tariffs are historic, unprecedented abuse of power
- Illegal desecration of most important global symbol of American democracy
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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In case you'd been wondering why Trump rolls over for Putin at every turn:
Jeffrey Epstein claimed he gave Russians insight into Trump
Newly released emails show the late convicted sex offender’s extensive network of foreign contacts, whom he corresponded with about Trump’s policy decisions.
www.politico.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Good piece by David Aaronovitch on the Prescott dossier: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
The Prescott memo flunks the impartiality test | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM