@davidor74.bsky.social
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German Chancellor Merz is right when he says: "We are seeing more and more clearly that Russia’s aggression was and is part of a plan targeted against the whole of Europe,"
It's critical we are in lock step with our European friends to protect ourselves.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
It's critical we are in lock step with our European friends to protect ourselves.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Germany's Merz tells Europe to assert itself to safeguard peace, prosperity
Europe must assert its interests more strongly to ensure peace and prosperity in 2026 amid challenges from Russian aggression, global protectionism and changing ties with the U.S., German Chancellor F...
www.reuters.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
German Chancellor Merz is right when he says: "We are seeing more and more clearly that Russia’s aggression was and is part of a plan targeted against the whole of Europe,"
It's critical we are in lock step with our European friends to protect ourselves.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
It's critical we are in lock step with our European friends to protect ourselves.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Call the Midwife's Helen George says Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate are 'really terrifying'
Call the Midwife's Helen George says Farage and Tate are 'really terrifying'
In the BBC drama, Call the Midwife, the action takes place in 1971, and the nurses of Nonnatus House will be seen protesting and burning their bras
www.mirror.co.uk
December 31, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Call the Midwife's Helen George says Nigel Farage and Andrew Tate are 'really terrifying'
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Advance UK to split the Reform UK vote?
Reform UK are seeing their first former-councillor standing against them in a by-election.
Paul Stevenson who resigned over “Farage’s leadership” is standing in 2 by-elections against them in January.
Reform UK are seeing their first former-councillor standing against them in a by-election.
Paul Stevenson who resigned over “Farage’s leadership” is standing in 2 by-elections against them in January.
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Advance UK to split the Reform UK vote?
Reform UK are seeing their first former-councillor standing against them in a by-election.
Paul Stevenson who resigned over “Farage’s leadership” is standing in 2 by-elections against them in January.
Reform UK are seeing their first former-councillor standing against them in a by-election.
Paul Stevenson who resigned over “Farage’s leadership” is standing in 2 by-elections against them in January.
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Reform UK in Durham can’t stand the fact that the government are injecting funding in to Durham. It doesn’t help their narrative…
www.palatinate.org.uk/financial-sh...
www.palatinate.org.uk/financial-sh...
Financial changes at Durham County Council - Palatinate
New funding from Westminster boosts DCC finances, but council tax rises and cuts to services remain likely.
www.palatinate.org.uk
December 31, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Reform UK in Durham can’t stand the fact that the government are injecting funding in to Durham. It doesn’t help their narrative…
www.palatinate.org.uk/financial-sh...
www.palatinate.org.uk/financial-sh...
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What's your New Year's resolution?
How about getting involved with impactful campaigns to improve transport?
Join our email list and we'll send actions and updates to your inbox. We'd love to have you on board in 2026!
bettertransport.org.uk/support-us/n...
How about getting involved with impactful campaigns to improve transport?
Join our email list and we'll send actions and updates to your inbox. We'd love to have you on board in 2026!
bettertransport.org.uk/support-us/n...
Join our email list
Join the thousands of people on our email list, and we'll send campaigning actions straight to your inbox.
bettertransport.org.uk
December 30, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What's your New Year's resolution?
How about getting involved with impactful campaigns to improve transport?
Join our email list and we'll send actions and updates to your inbox. We'd love to have you on board in 2026!
bettertransport.org.uk/support-us/n...
How about getting involved with impactful campaigns to improve transport?
Join our email list and we'll send actions and updates to your inbox. We'd love to have you on board in 2026!
bettertransport.org.uk/support-us/n...
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I like a big mural…have you seen the mural of Leonard Cohen in Montreal?…it’s enormous
December 30, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I like a big mural…have you seen the mural of Leonard Cohen in Montreal?…it’s enormous
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Don’t know who needs to hear this but “taking back control” from a Union you’re a member of, with full voting rights, to hand it to an American lunatic you bent over backwards to flatter yet he publicly humiliates you, is not taking back control at all, it’s relinquishing it.
White House demands British supermarkets stock chlorinated chicken
White House pushing Sir Keir Starmer to make concessions on food standards
www.telegraph.co.uk
December 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Don’t know who needs to hear this but “taking back control” from a Union you’re a member of, with full voting rights, to hand it to an American lunatic you bent over backwards to flatter yet he publicly humiliates you, is not taking back control at all, it’s relinquishing it.
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"A new report has analysed 113 countries, representing more than 97% of global GDP and 93% of global emissions. It shows that an increasing number of countries are slashing CO2 emissions while continuing to grow their economies. This debunks decades of climate-blocking arguments."
#NetZero 🌻
#NetZero 🌻
Most of world’s economic growth no longer linked to emissions - study
A decade on from the Paris Agreement, and the link between GDP and rising emissions is starting to break.
www.euronews.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"A new report has analysed 113 countries, representing more than 97% of global GDP and 93% of global emissions. It shows that an increasing number of countries are slashing CO2 emissions while continuing to grow their economies. This debunks decades of climate-blocking arguments."
#NetZero 🌻
#NetZero 🌻
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Some hopes for 2026:
Starmer establishes a commission on electoral reform.
Starmer begins negotiations on a Customs Union with the EU as a first step on the journey back to membership.
Trump loses the midterms and resigns in disgrace.
Putin withdraws from Ukraine and pays reparations.
I can dream!
Starmer establishes a commission on electoral reform.
Starmer begins negotiations on a Customs Union with the EU as a first step on the journey back to membership.
Trump loses the midterms and resigns in disgrace.
Putin withdraws from Ukraine and pays reparations.
I can dream!
December 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Some hopes for 2026:
Starmer establishes a commission on electoral reform.
Starmer begins negotiations on a Customs Union with the EU as a first step on the journey back to membership.
Trump loses the midterms and resigns in disgrace.
Putin withdraws from Ukraine and pays reparations.
I can dream!
Starmer establishes a commission on electoral reform.
Starmer begins negotiations on a Customs Union with the EU as a first step on the journey back to membership.
Trump loses the midterms and resigns in disgrace.
Putin withdraws from Ukraine and pays reparations.
I can dream!
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"Old coal mines are often just left as a scar on the landscape, but repurposing mines for solar development offers a rare chance to provide new benefits to former coal communities. It brings together land restoration, local job creation, and clean energy deployment in a single strategy."
#NetZero 🌻
#NetZero 🌻
Report reveals huge solar power potential of abandoned coal mines
“The same ground that powered the industrial era can help power the climate solutions we now urgently need,” analysts say of the 300 GW solution.
www.euronews.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
"Old coal mines are often just left as a scar on the landscape, but repurposing mines for solar development offers a rare chance to provide new benefits to former coal communities. It brings together land restoration, local job creation, and clean energy deployment in a single strategy."
#NetZero 🌻
#NetZero 🌻
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Great to visit the Breastfeeding Network in Dorset to learn more about their brilliant work supporting parents. They run drop-in groups locally at Wareham Family Hub and Lytchett Matravers Youth Hut, as well as other locations across Dorset. Do check out their website for session details and support
December 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Great to visit the Breastfeeding Network in Dorset to learn more about their brilliant work supporting parents. They run drop-in groups locally at Wareham Family Hub and Lytchett Matravers Youth Hut, as well as other locations across Dorset. Do check out their website for session details and support
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Forget bath bombs, the latest video game, and partridges in pear trees, this year, why not give the gift of a wilder future by donating to Wild Card’s Christmas Appeal?
Please help us to make things happen for nature in 2026
👉https://chuffed.org/project/162185-wild-cards-christmas-appeal
Please help us to make things happen for nature in 2026
👉https://chuffed.org/project/162185-wild-cards-christmas-appeal
December 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Forget bath bombs, the latest video game, and partridges in pear trees, this year, why not give the gift of a wilder future by donating to Wild Card’s Christmas Appeal?
Please help us to make things happen for nature in 2026
👉https://chuffed.org/project/162185-wild-cards-christmas-appeal
Please help us to make things happen for nature in 2026
👉https://chuffed.org/project/162185-wild-cards-christmas-appeal
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Last month Wild Card attended the first ever National Emergency Briefing for climate and nature at Westminster Central Hall.
We're now calling for a televised briefing to demand that our government act now.
Sign here: buff.ly/gVoyhRG
@nebriefing.bsky.social
#NEB2025 #ClimateCrisis
We're now calling for a televised briefing to demand that our government act now.
Sign here: buff.ly/gVoyhRG
@nebriefing.bsky.social
#NEB2025 #ClimateCrisis
December 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Last month Wild Card attended the first ever National Emergency Briefing for climate and nature at Westminster Central Hall.
We're now calling for a televised briefing to demand that our government act now.
Sign here: buff.ly/gVoyhRG
@nebriefing.bsky.social
#NEB2025 #ClimateCrisis
We're now calling for a televised briefing to demand that our government act now.
Sign here: buff.ly/gVoyhRG
@nebriefing.bsky.social
#NEB2025 #ClimateCrisis
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Hi BlueSky friends (new and old)...
We're a grassroots campaign calling on the Britain's biggest landowners to rewild their land!
We'd love to connect with everyone who believes in a fairer, wilder Britain.
Make it wild & make it ours!
We're a grassroots campaign calling on the Britain's biggest landowners to rewild their land!
We'd love to connect with everyone who believes in a fairer, wilder Britain.
Make it wild & make it ours!
November 15, 2024 at 12:35 PM
Hi BlueSky friends (new and old)...
We're a grassroots campaign calling on the Britain's biggest landowners to rewild their land!
We'd love to connect with everyone who believes in a fairer, wilder Britain.
Make it wild & make it ours!
We're a grassroots campaign calling on the Britain's biggest landowners to rewild their land!
We'd love to connect with everyone who believes in a fairer, wilder Britain.
Make it wild & make it ours!
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This year has shown the real impact of practical, values-led policy to deliver change across the country and in our communities.
December 28, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This year has shown the real impact of practical, values-led policy to deliver change across the country and in our communities.
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Ian Sollom successfully campaigned to secure the UK’s return to Erasmus.
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Ian Sollom successfully campaigned to secure the UK’s return to Erasmus.
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We are glad this post is doing numbers today for no particular reason. Claudia forever! ❤️
RIP Claudia Cardinale. Much like Robert Redford, she was a rare case of a beautiful performer with a filmography full of bangers who did NOT become right-wing later in life. Here she is punching fascist Brigitte Bardot in the face in Les Pétroleuses (1971).
December 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
We are glad this post is doing numbers today for no particular reason. Claudia forever! ❤️
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A new civic energy is taking shape across Serbia. Yesterday, after months of large demonstrations, a nationwide petition was launched calling for early parliamentary elections. Under the slogan “Raspiši pobedu” (“Demand victory”), almost 500 stands were set up in more than 100 cities. 1/3
December 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
A new civic energy is taking shape across Serbia. Yesterday, after months of large demonstrations, a nationwide petition was launched calling for early parliamentary elections. Under the slogan “Raspiši pobedu” (“Demand victory”), almost 500 stands were set up in more than 100 cities. 1/3
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The Liberal Democrats held 82% of seats they defended in Council By-Elections in 2025 #ByElectionsWrapped
1) LDM (82%)
2) GRN (67%)
3) RFM (60%)
4) CON (32%)
5) LAB (28%)
1) LDM (82%)
2) GRN (67%)
3) RFM (60%)
4) CON (32%)
5) LAB (28%)
December 23, 2025 at 9:35 AM
The Liberal Democrats held 82% of seats they defended in Council By-Elections in 2025 #ByElectionsWrapped
1) LDM (82%)
2) GRN (67%)
3) RFM (60%)
4) CON (32%)
5) LAB (28%)
1) LDM (82%)
2) GRN (67%)
3) RFM (60%)
4) CON (32%)
5) LAB (28%)
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December 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Don't rule out EU customs union, TUC boss tells Starmer - The policy advocated by the @libdems.org.uk for a long time. But will Starmer listen?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Don't rule out EU customs union, TUC boss Nowak tells Starmer
Trade unionist Paul Nowak says he wants to see the
www.bbc.co.uk
December 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Don't rule out EU customs union, TUC boss tells Starmer - The policy advocated by the @libdems.org.uk for a long time. But will Starmer listen?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Ditch Brexit divisions and forge closer EU ties as Trump
'unreliable", says TUC leader - The ridiculous Starmer red lines are well past their sell by date!
'unreliable", says TUC leader - The ridiculous Starmer red lines are well past their sell by date!
December 27, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Ditch Brexit divisions and forge closer EU ties as Trump
'unreliable", says TUC leader - The ridiculous Starmer red lines are well past their sell by date!
'unreliable", says TUC leader - The ridiculous Starmer red lines are well past their sell by date!
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Business is ‘right to be worried’ by Reform UK, says Liam Byrne
Business is ‘right to be worried’ by Reform UK, says Liam Byrne
The party should insist on a ‘hell of a lot more scrutiny’ as its politicians address investors, according to the Labour chair of the business select committee
www.thetimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Business is ‘right to be worried’ by Reform UK, says Liam Byrne
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Reform UK Review 2025
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
December 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Reform UK Review 2025
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
Nigel Farage earns £511,000 as a presenter for GBNews when he should be serving the constituents who voted for him and on whose behalf he is paid a salary as the MP for Clacton.
#AnywhereButClacton
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Reform UK Review 2025:
6% of Reform UK councillors have been suspended, resigned or defected this year alone. A higher percentage than any other party.
6% of Reform UK councillors have been suspended, resigned or defected this year alone. A higher percentage than any other party.
December 26, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Reform UK Review 2025:
6% of Reform UK councillors have been suspended, resigned or defected this year alone. A higher percentage than any other party.
6% of Reform UK councillors have been suspended, resigned or defected this year alone. A higher percentage than any other party.