Debby Hallett 🔶 💙
@debbyhallett.bsky.social
Active Lib Dem, councillor for years. CPRE trustee, DAR registrar. Main interest is adult psychological development. Immigrant to UK (from USA).
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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I think many people would find it impossible to boycott Disney. The figures will be interesting though.
Disney is no longer associated with magic and innocence in the minds of millions now.
There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity.
Boycott Disney.
There are mistakes - and there is catastrophic cowardice that changes your brand identity.
Boycott Disney.
September 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I think many people would find it impossible to boycott Disney. The figures will be interesting though.
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An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953
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www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
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www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
September 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
An Oxfordshire blue plaque to the artist Sir Muirhead Bone was unveiled yesterday (20 September 2025) at Grayflete in Vernon Avenue off Harcourt Hill. He designed this house and lived in it from 1931 to 1953
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www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
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www.oxonblueplaques.org.uk/plaques/bone...
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Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
September 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
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September 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The Campaign to Protect Rural England and SAFERwaterS, have issued a call for a Judicial Review of the Government’s decision to approve the South East Strategic Reservoir Option (SESRO) without a Public Inquiry.
Full story here...
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2024/11/26/j...
Full story here...
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2024/11/26/j...
Judicial Review call launched against approved Abingdon reservoir - Water Magazine
Groups call for Judicial Review of Government’s decision to approve South East Strategic Reservoir Option (SESRO) without a Public Inquiry.
www.watermagazine.co.uk
November 26, 2024 at 6:53 AM
The Campaign to Protect Rural England and SAFERwaterS, have issued a call for a Judicial Review of the Government’s decision to approve the South East Strategic Reservoir Option (SESRO) without a Public Inquiry.
Full story here...
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2024/11/26/j...
Full story here...
www.watermagazine.co.uk/2024/11/26/j...
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The decision to approve Thames Water's mega-reservoir without a public inquiry is being scrutinised in the High Court. 8 storeys high and covering the size of Gatwick Airport, government data suggests it's not necessary.
www.cpreoxon.org.uk/news/thames-...
#SESRO #ThamesWater #AbingdonReservoir
www.cpreoxon.org.uk/news/thames-...
#SESRO #ThamesWater #AbingdonReservoir
Thames Water proposals for Oxfordshire mega-reservoir hit with Judicial Review | CPRE Oxfordshire
On 25-26 June the High Court will hear a Judicial Review case, brought by CPRE Oxfordshire and campaign group SAFERWaters, against Thames Water’s plans for a £2.6 billion mega-reservoir. We believe th...
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June 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The decision to approve Thames Water's mega-reservoir without a public inquiry is being scrutinised in the High Court. 8 storeys high and covering the size of Gatwick Airport, government data suggests it's not necessary.
www.cpreoxon.org.uk/news/thames-...
#SESRO #ThamesWater #AbingdonReservoir
www.cpreoxon.org.uk/news/thames-...
#SESRO #ThamesWater #AbingdonReservoir
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OCC’s plan for a whole-Oxfordshire unitary is vying with the rural districts’ “Two Councils” plan and Oxford City’s “Greater Oxford” ambition. We looked at the City plans in more depth in a long read: oxfordclarion.uk/make-oxford-...
Make Oxford Great(er) Again
Occasionally your Clarion team just stops and stares in admiration at the sheer political chutzpah of our city and county’s politicians.
The ‘Greater Oxford’ proposals unveiled today by Oxford City C...
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June 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
OCC’s plan for a whole-Oxfordshire unitary is vying with the rural districts’ “Two Councils” plan and Oxford City’s “Greater Oxford” ambition. We looked at the City plans in more depth in a long read: oxfordclarion.uk/make-oxford-...
I read somewhere in The Guardian on the last few days her quote something like this. Succinct. Correct. I’m appalled by this government’s lack of courage and ability to do the right thing. Tax wealth to restore local services, and stop cutting benefits from the most vulnerable of our neighbours.
Choosing to take money from disabled benefit claimants rather than levy a wealth tax is simply immoral 👇
Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any | Frances Ryan
Ministers run away from a wealth tax and then concoct a punitive benefits system. They have made that choice and it’s immoral, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
I read somewhere in The Guardian on the last few days her quote something like this. Succinct. Correct. I’m appalled by this government’s lack of courage and ability to do the right thing. Tax wealth to restore local services, and stop cutting benefits from the most vulnerable of our neighbours.
I’ve already voted in tomorrow’s election. I think it’s less important to decide based on the issues du jour and more important to vote on the values demonstrably held by your candidate of choice. Reasonable people, presented with rational argument, can change their mind. Who they are matters more.
April 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I’ve already voted in tomorrow’s election. I think it’s less important to decide based on the issues du jour and more important to vote on the values demonstrably held by your candidate of choice. Reasonable people, presented with rational argument, can change their mind. Who they are matters more.
If 10% of Americans will say they were abducted by aliens, then we can just reduce any rationality measure by about the same. Is that right? Or do I not understand the point.
April 29, 2025 at 7:20 PM
If 10% of Americans will say they were abducted by aliens, then we can just reduce any rationality measure by about the same. Is that right? Or do I not understand the point.
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That is not what the visa application process looks like
The number of migrants applying for visas to the UK has fallen by more than a third over the past year in a sign that net migration is set to tumble from record levels
Number of visa applications falls by more than a third
www.thetimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 10:41 PM
That is not what the visa application process looks like
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The new Labour government is a disappointment. I admit I had some hope.
March 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The new Labour government is a disappointment. I admit I had some hope.
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Jeez. The Government’s own impact assessment on welfare cuts finds they would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Jeez. The Government’s own impact assessment on welfare cuts finds they would drive 250,000 more people, including 50,000 children, into poverty
Even the zillionaires agree that a small (2%) tax on their income would be unnoticeable for them, and would save UK public services.
But Labour aren’t doing that, rather taking benefits away from the most vulnerable of us.
I think this is an open goal for the Lib Dems. If they’ve the courage.
But Labour aren’t doing that, rather taking benefits away from the most vulnerable of us.
I think this is an open goal for the Lib Dems. If they’ve the courage.
March 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Even the zillionaires agree that a small (2%) tax on their income would be unnoticeable for them, and would save UK public services.
But Labour aren’t doing that, rather taking benefits away from the most vulnerable of us.
I think this is an open goal for the Lib Dems. If they’ve the courage.
But Labour aren’t doing that, rather taking benefits away from the most vulnerable of us.
I think this is an open goal for the Lib Dems. If they’ve the courage.
I just watched Turning Point 9/11. The decades leading up to it and two decades since. One reviewer called it “unflinching”.
It made me wonder if they’ve ever turned the work of Chalmers Johnson ( he wrote Blowback, amongst other books) into a documentary.
www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/turning_p...
It made me wonder if they’ve ever turned the work of Chalmers Johnson ( he wrote Blowback, amongst other books) into a documentary.
www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/turning_p...
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror: Season 1 | Rotten Tomatoes
Chronicling events of Sept. 11, 2001, with interviews from administration officials, ex-CIA members, U.S. veterans, Afghanistan National Army soldiers, Taliban commanders, Afghan government officials,...
www.rottentomatoes.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I just watched Turning Point 9/11. The decades leading up to it and two decades since. One reviewer called it “unflinching”.
It made me wonder if they’ve ever turned the work of Chalmers Johnson ( he wrote Blowback, amongst other books) into a documentary.
www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/turning_p...
It made me wonder if they’ve ever turned the work of Chalmers Johnson ( he wrote Blowback, amongst other books) into a documentary.
www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/turning_p...
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HBJ’s tweet is a thousand-word diatribe of Guido Fawkes level quality. All you need to know is that everything that follows after the words “judges will be compelled” is completely made up. Just lie upon lie upon lie.
March 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
HBJ’s tweet is a thousand-word diatribe of Guido Fawkes level quality. All you need to know is that everything that follows after the words “judges will be compelled” is completely made up. Just lie upon lie upon lie.
I’d never have thought I’d repost Richard Branson. But he’s the first BIG VOICE Ive heard mention this 1994 Budapest memorandum. It was USA UK Russia and France who promised to have Ukraine’s back.
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I’d never have thought I’d repost Richard Branson. But he’s the first BIG VOICE Ive heard mention this 1994 Budapest memorandum. It was USA UK Russia and France who promised to have Ukraine’s back.
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This is a dark one. Author/researcher Sarah Kendzior drops the curtain as she answers questions from readers. Don’t read it if you’re afraid it will bum you out. It is disturbing.
She’s one of the writers I follow who has been warning about Trump for years.
She’s one of the writers I follow who has been warning about Trump for years.
On the "Krasnov" rumors, Trump, and Russia. Free full article here: substack.com/@sarahkendzi...
February 27, 2025 at 12:13 AM
This is a dark one. Author/researcher Sarah Kendzior drops the curtain as she answers questions from readers. Don’t read it if you’re afraid it will bum you out. It is disturbing.
She’s one of the writers I follow who has been warning about Trump for years.
She’s one of the writers I follow who has been warning about Trump for years.
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UK PM Starmer to Zelensky:
"You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."
"You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."
March 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
UK PM Starmer to Zelensky:
"You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."
"You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."
lieber.westpoint.edu/budapest-mem...
Today I learned that in 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up its considerable nuclear arsenal in exchange for security protections from Russia, USA and UK.
I’ve never heard of this.
What’s happened?
Today I learned that in 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up its considerable nuclear arsenal in exchange for security protections from Russia, USA and UK.
I’ve never heard of this.
What’s happened?
Ukraine Symposium – The Budapest Memorandum’s History and Role in the Conflict - Lieber Institute West Point
December 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum by which Ukraine gave up its nuclear arsenal.
lieber.westpoint.edu
March 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
lieber.westpoint.edu/budapest-mem...
Today I learned that in 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up its considerable nuclear arsenal in exchange for security protections from Russia, USA and UK.
I’ve never heard of this.
What’s happened?
Today I learned that in 1994, Ukraine agreed to give up its considerable nuclear arsenal in exchange for security protections from Russia, USA and UK.
I’ve never heard of this.
What’s happened?
I wonder how many people are wondering if democracy really is the best way to govern. I know I can’t think of an alternative. But a leader of the lowest common denominator isn’t working. A “benevolent dictator”?
March 1, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I wonder how many people are wondering if democracy really is the best way to govern. I know I can’t think of an alternative. But a leader of the lowest common denominator isn’t working. A “benevolent dictator”?
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We stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
February 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
We stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦
Pretty much summarises the UK position on this, IMO.
I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.
February 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Pretty much summarises the UK position on this, IMO.