@anji66.bsky.social
Love trees and nature and books. Staying optimistic and positive.
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The best thing to do is ban all donations and publicly fund our politics. The cost is tiny in the scheme of things, the outcome would be politics without the suspicion.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The best thing to do is ban all donations and publicly fund our politics. The cost is tiny in the scheme of things, the outcome would be politics without the suspicion.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
December 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This Christmas Eve, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
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Not only is it terrorism to support Palestine Action, it is terrorism to support hunger strikers who have not been convicted of alleged offences that took place before Palestine Action was even proscribed. Read that back.
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/british-po...
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/british-po...
British police have decided that Greta Thunberg is a terrorist
Every sane person was horrified when Greta Thunberg was arrested, stripped, tortured, and photographed undressed by the Israeli government.
www.councilestatemedia.uk
December 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Not only is it terrorism to support Palestine Action, it is terrorism to support hunger strikers who have not been convicted of alleged offences that took place before Palestine Action was even proscribed. Read that back.
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/british-po...
www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/british-po...
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If you've ever wondered what it takes to become a multimillionaire baroness, here is a breakdown x
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/how-to-get...
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/how-to-get...
How to Get Rich Quick by Lady Michelle Mone
Former underwear model Michelle Mone is truly one of the success stories of our time, having got rich and become a baroness, despite having no talent and contributing nothing to society.
www.normalisland.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
If you've ever wondered what it takes to become a multimillionaire baroness, here is a breakdown x
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/how-to-get...
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/how-to-get...
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"There are reasons to be cheerful about UK plc in 2026.", says a headline.
I object to headline saying a country is a "plc".
PLCs are not communities, have no long-term interest in people/place; exploit people & the environment, inflict harms; deny social responsibility, dump liabilities on others
I object to headline saying a country is a "plc".
PLCs are not communities, have no long-term interest in people/place; exploit people & the environment, inflict harms; deny social responsibility, dump liabilities on others
There are reasons to be cheerful about UK plc in 2026. Here are four | Heather Stewart
From better prospects for consumer spending to tentative signs of improving productivity, the doom and gloom of 2025 could be behind us
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"There are reasons to be cheerful about UK plc in 2026.", says a headline.
I object to headline saying a country is a "plc".
PLCs are not communities, have no long-term interest in people/place; exploit people & the environment, inflict harms; deny social responsibility, dump liabilities on others
I object to headline saying a country is a "plc".
PLCs are not communities, have no long-term interest in people/place; exploit people & the environment, inflict harms; deny social responsibility, dump liabilities on others
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Alan Milburn to review rise in youth minimum wage.
Will he oppose all adults getting the same rate?
Says welfare bill is “unsustainable fiscally and economically”. Expect real cuts.
Silence on corporate welfare, redistribution, progressive taxation, taxing the rich.
Will he oppose all adults getting the same rate?
Says welfare bill is “unsustainable fiscally and economically”. Expect real cuts.
Silence on corporate welfare, redistribution, progressive taxation, taxing the rich.
Alan Milburn to review rise in youth minimum wage
Exclusive: Blair-era minister echoes concerns about young people being priced out of jobs, in intervention likely to dismay Labour MPs
www.theguardian.com
December 20, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Alan Milburn to review rise in youth minimum wage.
Will he oppose all adults getting the same rate?
Says welfare bill is “unsustainable fiscally and economically”. Expect real cuts.
Silence on corporate welfare, redistribution, progressive taxation, taxing the rich.
Will he oppose all adults getting the same rate?
Says welfare bill is “unsustainable fiscally and economically”. Expect real cuts.
Silence on corporate welfare, redistribution, progressive taxation, taxing the rich.
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🚨it’s unlikely the government will see any of the £148m it’s owed by PPE Medpro.
🗣️A reminder that at least £60m of profits from the disastrous VIP Lane PPE deal is sitting in family trusts funds controlled by Baroness Mone and Doug Barrowman.
Please do keep sharing this!!
Viplanebook.com
🎥 ⤵️⤵️⤵️
🗣️A reminder that at least £60m of profits from the disastrous VIP Lane PPE deal is sitting in family trusts funds controlled by Baroness Mone and Doug Barrowman.
Please do keep sharing this!!
Viplanebook.com
🎥 ⤵️⤵️⤵️
December 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
🚨it’s unlikely the government will see any of the £148m it’s owed by PPE Medpro.
🗣️A reminder that at least £60m of profits from the disastrous VIP Lane PPE deal is sitting in family trusts funds controlled by Baroness Mone and Doug Barrowman.
Please do keep sharing this!!
Viplanebook.com
🎥 ⤵️⤵️⤵️
🗣️A reminder that at least £60m of profits from the disastrous VIP Lane PPE deal is sitting in family trusts funds controlled by Baroness Mone and Doug Barrowman.
Please do keep sharing this!!
Viplanebook.com
🎥 ⤵️⤵️⤵️
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Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after being ordered to repay £148m
In a ruling, Insolvency and Companies Court Judge Sebastian Prentis placed the company into liquidation
www.independent.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Michelle Mone-linked PPE Medpro wound up after order to repay £148m for faulty goods.
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
Company has £600,000 assets. Govt is unsecured creditor, won't recover anything.
Hard to trace money in offshore bank accounts.
Govt could sue directors for fraud, will take years, what will it recover?
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The Electoral Commission has criticised the Government for proposing to delay 63 Council elections in May next year
It says elections should go ahead as planned & capacity issues linked to local government reform are not a valid reason for postponement
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre...
It says elections should go ahead as planned & capacity issues linked to local government reform are not a valid reason for postponement
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre...
Electoral Commission responds to potential election postponements
We are concerned by the possibility of some council elections in May being postponed, and even more by any further postponement to those which already had been deferred from 2025.
www.electoralcommission.org.uk
December 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Electoral Commission has criticised the Government for proposing to delay 63 Council elections in May next year
It says elections should go ahead as planned & capacity issues linked to local government reform are not a valid reason for postponement
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre...
It says elections should go ahead as planned & capacity issues linked to local government reform are not a valid reason for postponement
www.electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre...
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More housing developments will be exempt from rules requiring builders in England to improve wildlife habitats, the government has said.
December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
More housing developments will be exempt from rules requiring builders in England to improve wildlife habitats, the government has said.
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£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
December 18, 2025 at 3:10 PM
£18 - hourly rate for a resident doctor after the 29% rise
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
£24 - hourly rate for a physicians assistant
If you're ok with assistants earning more than actual doctors, congratulations, you've fallen for Streeting and Starmer's attack on the people who will keep you safe when you fall ill, doctors
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Absolutely shocking.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
December 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Absolutely shocking.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
We're offering an overall award of £10k for information that leads to a conviction in these cases.
We need to make raptor persecution a thing of the past.
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A total fucking waste of time.
A pantomime where government should be.
A pantomime where government should be.
LibDem Calum Miller, "Will the review look back.. Including the 2014 and 2016 Referendums?"
Steve Reed, "It will be forward looking, there will be no relitigating of previous elections or referendum"
"There have been no findings that any elections to date were affected by foreign interference"
Steve Reed, "It will be forward looking, there will be no relitigating of previous elections or referendum"
"There have been no findings that any elections to date were affected by foreign interference"
December 17, 2025 at 6:23 AM
A total fucking waste of time.
A pantomime where government should be.
A pantomime where government should be.
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December 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Former UK chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI
Lucrative appointments for failed ministers.
They aren't hired for technical know-how but to exploit political links acquired with public money. What is the return to taxpayers for that investment?
Remember former PM Cameron lobbying for Greensill.
Lucrative appointments for failed ministers.
They aren't hired for technical know-how but to exploit political links acquired with public money. What is the return to taxpayers for that investment?
Remember former PM Cameron lobbying for Greensill.
Former chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI
Osborne said it was a privilege to become managing director of OpenAI for Countries based in London.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Former UK chancellor George Osborne joins OpenAI
Lucrative appointments for failed ministers.
They aren't hired for technical know-how but to exploit political links acquired with public money. What is the return to taxpayers for that investment?
Remember former PM Cameron lobbying for Greensill.
Lucrative appointments for failed ministers.
They aren't hired for technical know-how but to exploit political links acquired with public money. What is the return to taxpayers for that investment?
Remember former PM Cameron lobbying for Greensill.
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Let's get one thing straight.
What's REALLY putting jobs at risk is owners of the big fishing boats insisting on being allowed to continue hoovering up tons of wild animals way faster than they can reproduce, using ecosystem-killing methods.
*Nobody* else is to blame.
share.google/CCiKK8WnQTCz...
What's REALLY putting jobs at risk is owners of the big fishing boats insisting on being allowed to continue hoovering up tons of wild animals way faster than they can reproduce, using ecosystem-killing methods.
*Nobody* else is to blame.
share.google/CCiKK8WnQTCz...
EU quota deal putting 2,300 jobs at risk - fishing groups
Minister of State for Fisheries Timmy Dooley has said that the outcome of an EU fishing quota agreement for next year will present a "very real challenge" for fishermen as fishing organisations say th...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Let's get one thing straight.
What's REALLY putting jobs at risk is owners of the big fishing boats insisting on being allowed to continue hoovering up tons of wild animals way faster than they can reproduce, using ecosystem-killing methods.
*Nobody* else is to blame.
share.google/CCiKK8WnQTCz...
What's REALLY putting jobs at risk is owners of the big fishing boats insisting on being allowed to continue hoovering up tons of wild animals way faster than they can reproduce, using ecosystem-killing methods.
*Nobody* else is to blame.
share.google/CCiKK8WnQTCz...
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2025: Labour's Steve Reed, "There have been no findings that the outcome of any election to date were affected by malign foreign interference"
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
2025: Labour's Steve Reed, "There have been no findings that the outcome of any election to date were affected by malign foreign interference"
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
2020: Stuart Hosie, "The UK government have actively avoided looking for evidence of Russian interference"
Labour as pathetic as Conservatives
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A vote for reform is a vote for legalising fox hunting. Remember that.
December 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
A vote for reform is a vote for legalising fox hunting. Remember that.
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The “Trade Barriers” in question are food safety regulations and taxation to the tune of 2% on digital services from massive US tech giants - tech giants that make billions from UK consumers anyway.
This is a blatant shakedown.
This is a blatant shakedown.
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
The “Trade Barriers” in question are food safety regulations and taxation to the tune of 2% on digital services from massive US tech giants - tech giants that make billions from UK consumers anyway.
This is a blatant shakedown.
This is a blatant shakedown.
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US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice.
Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance.
Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products.
Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU
Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance.
Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products.
Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 AM
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice.
Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance.
Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products.
Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU
Trump doesn't honour agreements. It's about dominance.
Demands that UK ends digital services tax on US tech companies and it's food safety rules which bar certain US agricultural products.
Say NO to Trump slavery. Better off joining the EU
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THIS.
So he’s suing BBC and now this. Remind me again why we rolled out the red carpet for him TWICE!? Did we really think it would make a difference? The only difference it’s made is show the whole world that, since Brexit, we are all alone, weak and desperate.
US puts £31bn tech ‘prosperity deal’ with Britain on ice
Pledge to invest billions in UK paused, with Washington citing lack of progress on trade barriers across pond
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
THIS.
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Cutting right to appeal is profoundly dangerous, KCs tell David Lammy
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Cutting right to appeal is profoundly dangerous, KCs tell David Lammy
Labour wants to give magistrates’ courts more sentencing power with no automatic chance to challenge their rulings
www.thetimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Cutting right to appeal is profoundly dangerous, KCs tell David Lammy
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Let's see where the patriots live.
Tommy Robinson - Spain
Nigel Farage - Belgium
Richard Tice - Dubai
Isabel Oakeshott - Dubai
Charlie Mullins - Dubai
Have I missed anyone?
Tommy Robinson - Spain
Nigel Farage - Belgium
Richard Tice - Dubai
Isabel Oakeshott - Dubai
Charlie Mullins - Dubai
Have I missed anyone?
December 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Let's see where the patriots live.
Tommy Robinson - Spain
Nigel Farage - Belgium
Richard Tice - Dubai
Isabel Oakeshott - Dubai
Charlie Mullins - Dubai
Have I missed anyone?
Tommy Robinson - Spain
Nigel Farage - Belgium
Richard Tice - Dubai
Isabel Oakeshott - Dubai
Charlie Mullins - Dubai
Have I missed anyone?