Carolyn 💙
@carolynfromsheff.bsky.social
Retired nurse and SCPHN, still very passionate about our NHS. Loves life, family, theatre and getaways. Hates injustice, gammons & bigots! ProEU
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Carolyn 💙
@carolynfromsheff.bsky.social
· Nov 17
My pinned post from the other place, so bringing it with me. Don't usually post much personal stuff but still very proud of my stagey girl.
Thanks all for following me back today. Feels great to be free of the bot infested far right swamp!
Thanks all for following me back today. Feels great to be free of the bot infested far right swamp!
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Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
October 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Reform UK’s Nigel Farage with the Russian Ambassador (that he denied meeting), and with Oleg Voloshyn's wife Nadia Borodi, Voloshyn bribed Nathan Gill.
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
Farage is still silent.
It’s deafening.
#ReformRussianBribes
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
History repeats.
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to change how judges interpret the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that risks weakening everyone’s protections.
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
🚨THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS PROTECTS US ALL. WE MUST PROTECT IT
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
October 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Prime Minister Keir Starmer plans to change how judges interpret the European Convention on Human Rights – a move that risks weakening everyone’s protections.
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
The ECHR has become a convenient scapegoat for challenges around migration and sovereignty.
WE MUST PROTECT IT
youtu.be/Lmad4kujRhQ?...
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This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
October 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
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This is really important work…
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill may well transform workers’ rights. But only if people can access justice and enforcement of remedies can’t be dodged.
Do you really have rights at all, if the barriers to asserting them are so difficult to overcome?
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill may well transform workers’ rights. But only if people can access justice and enforcement of remedies can’t be dodged.
Do you really have rights at all, if the barriers to asserting them are so difficult to overcome?
🚨 Our new investigation out today reveals how thousands of people who've taken their bosses to employment tribunals & won, never got paid, even after they approached the government for help.
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
This has serious implications for the Employment rights bill.
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Thousands of rogue bosses get away with not paying tribunal awards
The government scheme ‘enforcing’ money owed to workers has been unsuccessful in a staggering three-quarters of cases
www.thebureauinvestigates.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:23 AM
This is really important work…
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill may well transform workers’ rights. But only if people can access justice and enforcement of remedies can’t be dodged.
Do you really have rights at all, if the barriers to asserting them are so difficult to overcome?
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill may well transform workers’ rights. But only if people can access justice and enforcement of remedies can’t be dodged.
Do you really have rights at all, if the barriers to asserting them are so difficult to overcome?
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Patriotism? Sovereignty?
No. Our Brexit populists don’t believe in any of it. Just harvesting hatred for power. Profiteering. Doing what they want and to hell with the country, the law, international relations and humanity.
V good from @adambienkov.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
No. Our Brexit populists don’t believe in any of it. Just harvesting hatred for power. Profiteering. Doing what they want and to hell with the country, the law, international relations and humanity.
V good from @adambienkov.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
February 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Patriotism? Sovereignty?
No. Our Brexit populists don’t believe in any of it. Just harvesting hatred for power. Profiteering. Doing what they want and to hell with the country, the law, international relations and humanity.
V good from @adambienkov.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
No. Our Brexit populists don’t believe in any of it. Just harvesting hatred for power. Profiteering. Doing what they want and to hell with the country, the law, international relations and humanity.
V good from @adambienkov.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/adambien...
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Not convinced Justin Webb on #r4today should be leading a story on the definition of extremism, given his wild nonsense in the Sunday Times.
The difficulty in defining it is in no small part due to the rightwing goose-stepping off further to the right and resenting liberals for pointing that out.
The difficulty in defining it is in no small part due to the rightwing goose-stepping off further to the right and resenting liberals for pointing that out.
January 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Not convinced Justin Webb on #r4today should be leading a story on the definition of extremism, given his wild nonsense in the Sunday Times.
The difficulty in defining it is in no small part due to the rightwing goose-stepping off further to the right and resenting liberals for pointing that out.
The difficulty in defining it is in no small part due to the rightwing goose-stepping off further to the right and resenting liberals for pointing that out.
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For all the hot air on how Britain is cracking down on SLAPPs, this story by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social shows how nothing has changed. Russian warlord Prigozhin’s lawsuit against Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social ruled not a SLAPP
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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UK law firm that acted for Putin’s warlord Prigozhin 'broke no rules'
Exclusive: Taking cash from a sanctioned Russian mercenary chief to enable him to sue a British journalist is not an abuse of our legal system, solicitors' regulator finds
open.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM
For all the hot air on how Britain is cracking down on SLAPPs, this story by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social shows how nothing has changed. Russian warlord Prigozhin’s lawsuit against Bellingcat’s @eliothiggins.bsky.social ruled not a SLAPP
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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All the pro-Trump Brexit sovereignty-fetishists being exposed again for the lying two-faced pieces of shit that they really are.
No way anyone remotely sane, decent or patriotic tolerates this anti-democratic fuckery from Musk.
www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...
No way anyone remotely sane, decent or patriotic tolerates this anti-democratic fuckery from Musk.
www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...
Musk discussed ways to oust British PM Starmer before next election, FT reports
Billionaire Elon Musk has held private discussions with allies about removing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer from his position before the next general election, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
All the pro-Trump Brexit sovereignty-fetishists being exposed again for the lying two-faced pieces of shit that they really are.
No way anyone remotely sane, decent or patriotic tolerates this anti-democratic fuckery from Musk.
www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...
No way anyone remotely sane, decent or patriotic tolerates this anti-democratic fuckery from Musk.
www.reuters.com/world/musk-e...
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Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
December 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies.
Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model
www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
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If we’d been shown this headline in 2016, we may have struggled to believe such a mess could be possible. But here we are, 8 years on, being asked to consider concessions on fish and opportunities for young people.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
December 16, 2024 at 7:26 AM
If we’d been shown this headline in 2016, we may have struggled to believe such a mess could be possible. But here we are, 8 years on, being asked to consider concessions on fish and opportunities for young people.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
And the inescapable crappiness and tedium of it all is.. well.. just so very sad.
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“My 2023 open letter to the BBC about Question Time, read by more than 300,000 people in 144 countries, was widely reported in the media. It even informed questions posed to the BBC’s director general Tim Davie at a parliamentary select committee.”
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 8:47 PM
“My 2023 open letter to the BBC about Question Time, read by more than 300,000 people in 144 countries, was widely reported in the media. It even informed questions posed to the BBC’s director general Tim Davie at a parliamentary select committee.”
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You know that app many of us are now told to use to book your GP / other NHS appointments? The one that tries to upsell you a private medical appointment, instead of an NHS appointment? Can you guess who now owns it? Yep - US corporation United Health. www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/we...
December 6, 2024 at 5:41 AM
You know that app many of us are now told to use to book your GP / other NHS appointments? The one that tries to upsell you a private medical appointment, instead of an NHS appointment? Can you guess who now owns it? Yep - US corporation United Health. www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/we...
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Wow. This post from @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social has been shared 11,300 times & has 60,400 likes on @bsky.app. On X it has just 8 shares & 13 likes (despite a much larger following). Don’t tell me Musk isn’t throttling accounts. Thankfully the forecast going forward is BlueSky’s.
December 4, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Wow. This post from @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social has been shared 11,300 times & has 60,400 likes on @bsky.app. On X it has just 8 shares & 13 likes (despite a much larger following). Don’t tell me Musk isn’t throttling accounts. Thankfully the forecast going forward is BlueSky’s.
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"There are an estimated 2.9m people in England with malnutrition.
Hospital admissions resulting in nutrition-related diagnoses in England increased by more than 39% over the past decade. Malnourished children are being treated for scurvy, bow legs, rickets and heart murmurs."
Hospital admissions resulting in nutrition-related diagnoses in England increased by more than 39% over the past decade. Malnourished children are being treated for scurvy, bow legs, rickets and heart murmurs."
Who can afford longevity in a cost-of-living crisis?
We all need a healthy diet. So why are politicians normalising food banks and allowing malnutrition and associated illnesses to rise?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 4, 2024 at 9:03 AM
"There are an estimated 2.9m people in England with malnutrition.
Hospital admissions resulting in nutrition-related diagnoses in England increased by more than 39% over the past decade. Malnourished children are being treated for scurvy, bow legs, rickets and heart murmurs."
Hospital admissions resulting in nutrition-related diagnoses in England increased by more than 39% over the past decade. Malnourished children are being treated for scurvy, bow legs, rickets and heart murmurs."
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Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled.
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
All The President's Men
Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Bezos & why press ownership matters.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Why did Jeff Bezos appoint Rupert Murdoch's right-hand man to the top job at Washington Post? To do his bidding. And when he did journalists & readers rebelled.
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
This week, I write about a parallel revolt inside the Guardian & Observer & why press ownership matters
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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The nightmare continues.
Oldest Post Office scandal victim (92 years old) 'treated like dung'
Offered less than a third of compensation claimed.
Lost savings, earnings, job, whilst Post Office and Fujitsu directors collected mega pay/pension.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oldest Post Office scandal victim (92 years old) 'treated like dung'
Offered less than a third of compensation claimed.
Lost savings, earnings, job, whilst Post Office and Fujitsu directors collected mega pay/pension.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Post Office scandal: Oldest victim says she's 'treated like dung'
91-year-old Betty Brown says she's been offered less than a third of what she had claimed in compensation.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 7:45 AM
The nightmare continues.
Oldest Post Office scandal victim (92 years old) 'treated like dung'
Offered less than a third of compensation claimed.
Lost savings, earnings, job, whilst Post Office and Fujitsu directors collected mega pay/pension.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Oldest Post Office scandal victim (92 years old) 'treated like dung'
Offered less than a third of compensation claimed.
Lost savings, earnings, job, whilst Post Office and Fujitsu directors collected mega pay/pension.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This is a graphic illustration of why we must make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, say boll**** to Elon Musk & send him packing. We CAN do it
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/12...
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/12...
Elon Musk should donate to Reform UK, says father Errol - Politics.co.uk
The SpaceX owner has repeatedly issued fierce criticisms of the UK government and prime minister Keir Starmer.
www.politics.co.uk
December 2, 2024 at 9:08 AM
This is a graphic illustration of why we must make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, say boll**** to Elon Musk & send him packing. We CAN do it
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/12...
www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/12...
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No, Nigel Farage.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
November 30, 2024 at 9:26 AM
No, Nigel Farage.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
We emphatically do not talk about this at home.
You will not import your authoritarian christofascist Trump-style threats into our political debate.
Can’t tell you quite how far you’ll be told to fuck off if you try.
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WTAF
That’s not trolling the UK govt anymore - that’s straight up campaigning for a political party in a foreign country.
It’s serious.
That’s not trolling the UK govt anymore - that’s straight up campaigning for a political party in a foreign country.
It’s serious.
November 29, 2024 at 7:56 AM
WTAF
That’s not trolling the UK govt anymore - that’s straight up campaigning for a political party in a foreign country.
It’s serious.
That’s not trolling the UK govt anymore - that’s straight up campaigning for a political party in a foreign country.
It’s serious.
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V sick of being force fed Tory ugliness. Even with a Labour govt, the rightwing media, culture war and prejudices still dominate our national debate, drag govt into their space, drown out liberal voices and stop us scrutinising the toxic shittery of their ideologies.
Was 14yrs of failure not enough?
Was 14yrs of failure not enough?
November 28, 2024 at 8:34 AM
V sick of being force fed Tory ugliness. Even with a Labour govt, the rightwing media, culture war and prejudices still dominate our national debate, drag govt into their space, drown out liberal voices and stop us scrutinising the toxic shittery of their ideologies.
Was 14yrs of failure not enough?
Was 14yrs of failure not enough?
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The guy who set up that petition and thanks Elon Musk for his support of it, tells Kay Burley that “2.5 million people can’t be wrong”
Sorry what?
History and reality perform a massive eye roll.
Agreement (particularly with foreign bots) does not turn your opinion into fact.
Sorry what?
History and reality perform a massive eye roll.
Agreement (particularly with foreign bots) does not turn your opinion into fact.
November 27, 2024 at 7:45 AM
The guy who set up that petition and thanks Elon Musk for his support of it, tells Kay Burley that “2.5 million people can’t be wrong”
Sorry what?
History and reality perform a massive eye roll.
Agreement (particularly with foreign bots) does not turn your opinion into fact.
Sorry what?
History and reality perform a massive eye roll.
Agreement (particularly with foreign bots) does not turn your opinion into fact.
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Elon is not the world's greatest inventor, he is the greatest capitalist. He uses success in one industry to seek colossal funding for a related sector, links the two companies up and creates an overwhelming monopoly.
This is a thread on the true powers and dangers of Elon Musk 🧵
This is a thread on the true powers and dangers of Elon Musk 🧵
November 27, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Elon is not the world's greatest inventor, he is the greatest capitalist. He uses success in one industry to seek colossal funding for a related sector, links the two companies up and creates an overwhelming monopoly.
This is a thread on the true powers and dangers of Elon Musk 🧵
This is a thread on the true powers and dangers of Elon Musk 🧵
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GP Crisis is a funding crisis
If @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social wants quick productivity results he should fund community care & GPs
There are potentially 3000 GPs (WTE) available now to work if the funding was made available
Plus Nurses & other community teams ready to employ staff
#MedSky
If @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social wants quick productivity results he should fund community care & GPs
There are potentially 3000 GPs (WTE) available now to work if the funding was made available
Plus Nurses & other community teams ready to employ staff
#MedSky
November 27, 2024 at 10:35 AM
GP Crisis is a funding crisis
If @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social wants quick productivity results he should fund community care & GPs
There are potentially 3000 GPs (WTE) available now to work if the funding was made available
Plus Nurses & other community teams ready to employ staff
#MedSky
If @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social wants quick productivity results he should fund community care & GPs
There are potentially 3000 GPs (WTE) available now to work if the funding was made available
Plus Nurses & other community teams ready to employ staff
#MedSky