Steve Lee
@harbottlej.bsky.social
Organiser, trade-unionist and campaigner, with unfortunate penchants for horse racing and Everton FC. Cracking on a bit.
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BP's reported profit for the third quarter of 2025 was $2.2bn, on top of 2.4bn in Q2 and 1.4bn in Q1.
BP's reported profit for the third quarter of 2025 was $2.2bn, on top of 2.4bn in Q2 and 1.4bn in Q1.
BP to scrap paid rest breaks and most bank holiday bonuses for forecourt staff
Exclusive: Plans to offset increase in minimum ‘fair pay’ set by Living Wage Foundation will affect 5,400 employees
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December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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BP's reported profit for the third quarter of 2025 was $2.2bn, on top of 2.4bn in Q2 and 1.4bn in Q1.
BP's reported profit for the third quarter of 2025 was $2.2bn, on top of 2.4bn in Q2 and 1.4bn in Q1.
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"On the first night he struck a happy medium, under-acting in the rehearsal and Titania scenes but bursting out with hilarious bravado when performing Pyramus before the Duke. This play scene can have seldom been made so funny."
A chance to see Frankie Howerd's Bottom
Put your titters away, because I'm talking about Shakespeare. In 1957 Frankie Howerd was invited to appear as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's ...
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December 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
"On the first night he struck a happy medium, under-acting in the rehearsal and Titania scenes but bursting out with hilarious bravado when performing Pyramus before the Duke. This play scene can have seldom been made so funny."
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Sadiq Khan's policies have provided over 100 million free school meals for London's primary school pupils. Can it show Keir Starmer the way?
Sadiq Khan and his free school meals hold lessons for Labour on child poverty
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December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Sadiq Khan's policies have provided over 100 million free school meals for London's primary school pupils. Can it show Keir Starmer the way?
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Keir Starmer’s government is advancing NHS privatisation 🚨
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Keir Starmer’s government is advancing NHS privatisation 🚨
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Time for a new Bretton Woods agreement to end the inequality emergency - Stiglitz
Time for a new Bretton Woods agreement to end the inequality emergency - Stiglitz
The Guardian view on the inequality emergency: why a Nobel prize winner’s warning must be heeded | Editorial
Editorial: Rising economic division is destabilising nations and eroding accountability. Joseph Stiglitz’s G20 blueprint offers a way toward global economic renewal
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December 1, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Time for a new Bretton Woods agreement to end the inequality emergency - Stiglitz
Time for a new Bretton Woods agreement to end the inequality emergency - Stiglitz
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SAS ‘SHOT TODDLERS IN THEIR BEDS’
Declassified has reported how the inquiry was forced on the Ministry of Defence after increasingly credible claims of “cold-blooded murder”; of planting weapons on innocent civilians and deleting incriminating documents.
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Declassified has reported how the inquiry was forced on the Ministry of Defence after increasingly credible claims of “cold-blooded murder”; of planting weapons on innocent civilians and deleting incriminating documents.
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SAS ‘shot toddlers in their beds’, Afghanistan inquiry told
Special forces soldier feared the elite regiment would “go down the sewer” unless he blew the whistle
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December 1, 2025 at 9:29 AM
SAS ‘SHOT TODDLERS IN THEIR BEDS’
Declassified has reported how the inquiry was forced on the Ministry of Defence after increasingly credible claims of “cold-blooded murder”; of planting weapons on innocent civilians and deleting incriminating documents.
www.declassifieduk.org/sas-shot-tod...
Declassified has reported how the inquiry was forced on the Ministry of Defence after increasingly credible claims of “cold-blooded murder”; of planting weapons on innocent civilians and deleting incriminating documents.
www.declassifieduk.org/sas-shot-tod...
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RMT members who clean the DLR and who are employed by Bidvest Noonan are back on the picket lines today - fighting for sick pay.
The current offer: One weeks pay - but ONLY if you're dying!
Share if that's unfair.
The current offer: One weeks pay - but ONLY if you're dying!
Share if that's unfair.
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
RMT members who clean the DLR and who are employed by Bidvest Noonan are back on the picket lines today - fighting for sick pay.
The current offer: One weeks pay - but ONLY if you're dying!
Share if that's unfair.
The current offer: One weeks pay - but ONLY if you're dying!
Share if that's unfair.
The demolition of Ealing homes is one part of developer's trail of chaos around London
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The demolition of Ealing homes is one part of developer's trail of chaos around London
A deserted site in Greenford and damp and unsafe flats in Croydon are fallout from the collapse of Henry Construction but the family owners are still in business
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November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The demolition of Ealing homes is one part of developer's trail of chaos around London
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As the Budget dust settles, it looks more and more like an inducement for our young best and brightest to think about moving elsewhere. See towards the end of this >>https://www.standard.co.uk/business/london-economy-rachel-reeves-growth-budget-b1260134.html?ref=cupure
A shackled economy, no long-term vision for growth — and no help for London
Once again the capital did not get a single mention in the Chancellor’s speech
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November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
As the Budget dust settles, it looks more and more like an inducement for our young best and brightest to think about moving elsewhere. See towards the end of this >>https://www.standard.co.uk/business/london-economy-rachel-reeves-growth-budget-b1260134.html?ref=cupure
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Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Somehow this got missed off the "Benefit Street" front pages today
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Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
November 27, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Today's 70% fall in net migration to 205,000 was not one of the six stories in BBC ten o'clock news.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
Ta massive assymetry in whether rises in immigration and falls in immigration are considered newsworthy by broadcasters
Down by 140k isn't thought to be.
Up by 140k undoubtedly would be.
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The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
November 27, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.
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This has been seen by over 200,000 people across social media platforms so far. It’s desperately important. Please keep sharing the video 👇🚨🚨🚨
It’s unbelievable that Starmer, Reeves and Streeting are doing this…🚨
November 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This has been seen by over 200,000 people across social media platforms so far. It’s desperately important. Please keep sharing the video 👇🚨🚨🚨
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What you see is not what you will get. Free Zones - free from regulation, free tax exemptions.
The cost will be borne by the environment, the workers and those who live in these areas.
The cost will be borne by the environment, the workers and those who live in these areas.
THE BRITISH PUBLIC IS NOT BEING TOLD THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THEIR LAND
Across the UK, vast swathes of countryside, farmland, national parks, green spaces, digital infrastructure, and even local democratic powers are being reorganised into free zones.
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Across the UK, vast swathes of countryside, farmland, national parks, green spaces, digital infrastructure, and even local democratic powers are being reorganised into free zones.
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Forest City: The Ideological Coalition That Should Never Exist
Behind the glossy green washing brochures of 'Forest Cities' lies a libertarian charter cities pattern the MSM is blindly embracing and refusing to investigate.
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November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What you see is not what you will get. Free Zones - free from regulation, free tax exemptions.
The cost will be borne by the environment, the workers and those who live in these areas.
The cost will be borne by the environment, the workers and those who live in these areas.
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All Labour, Green and independent councillors at Oxford City Council have just called for public ownership of Thames Water
This government can't stop the rising tide of public opinion, even from their own councillors.
📣 Public ownership of Thames Water NOW.
This government can't stop the rising tide of public opinion, even from their own councillors.
📣 Public ownership of Thames Water NOW.
Council calls to nationalise Thames Water amid 'disgusting' sewage spills
Oxford City Council has called for Thames Water to be brought back into public ownership, amid complaints about "disgusting" sewage spills.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
All Labour, Green and independent councillors at Oxford City Council have just called for public ownership of Thames Water
This government can't stop the rising tide of public opinion, even from their own councillors.
📣 Public ownership of Thames Water NOW.
This government can't stop the rising tide of public opinion, even from their own councillors.
📣 Public ownership of Thames Water NOW.
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The price I’m paying as a self employed person for nearly half a million kids to be lifted out of extreme poverty.
Stop listening to the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to convince you that this is a bad thing.
Stop listening to the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to convince you that this is a bad thing.
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The price I’m paying as a self employed person for nearly half a million kids to be lifted out of extreme poverty.
Stop listening to the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to convince you that this is a bad thing.
Stop listening to the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to convince you that this is a bad thing.
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"Welfare spending went up, you raised taxes 20 times in the last parliament... you added £1.5 trillion to national debt..."
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Harriett Baldwin, Shadow Business Minister, on her party's 14-year record - after her criticism of Labour's Budget.
#Newsnight
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Harriett Baldwin, Shadow Business Minister, on her party's 14-year record - after her criticism of Labour's Budget.
#Newsnight
November 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Welfare spending went up, you raised taxes 20 times in the last parliament... you added £1.5 trillion to national debt..."
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Harriett Baldwin, Shadow Business Minister, on her party's 14-year record - after her criticism of Labour's Budget.
#Newsnight
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social challenges Harriett Baldwin, Shadow Business Minister, on her party's 14-year record - after her criticism of Labour's Budget.
#Newsnight
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❌ "Brexit has made touring the EU almost impossible and grassroots venues are continuing to close."
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
November 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
❌ "Brexit has made touring the EU almost impossible and grassroots venues are continuing to close."
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
"Does she recognise that without meaningful action, we risk creating a music industry where only the privileged and rich can afford to build a career?"
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November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
Iran’s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe
The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are also to blame
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November 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...
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Spain has forgotten the brutality of the Franco dictatorship.
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Spain has too rosy a view of Franco’s regime. Let’s remind ourselves of its horrors | Giles Tremlett
Little is taught about the murderous, incompetent dictatorship – and now almost one in five young people say Franco was good for the country, says historian Giles Tremlett
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November 21, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Spain has forgotten the brutality of the Franco dictatorship.
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