jannur.bsky.social
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@jannur.bsky.social
Northumbrian in Yorkshire anti Brexit anti Tory
Unbelievable. Donald Trump has been invited to a state visit to the UK. We should not be rolling out the red carpet to celebrate this man. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no...
No second state visit for Trump
This is UNBELIEVABLE. Keir Starmer has just handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and I was so outraged when I he...
you.38degrees.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk responds, something we hopefully see a lot more of that from other European leaders. It's never been clearer than in this moment that Trump is Putin's ally, not Europe's.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
February 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Hey Bluesky! I’m here.

Yes, I’m still a bit stunned by my prescient tweet (below) 14hrs before the tragic DC crash, after which many of you encouraged me to finally gravitate to here.

Happy to belatedly join the community. Tom
February 1, 2025 at 4:39 AM
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New Christmas lights just went up in Clacton.

(Farage is still the MP who makes most money from second jobs. By a long way.)
December 17, 2024 at 5:05 PM
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UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’.

Cash from dictatorships, shell companies, companies that never made profit, unincorporated associations with secret funders.

Rewards for corruption - govt contracts, lax laws, favours.

Must ban all political donations.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: UK politics infiltrated by ‘dark money’ with 10% of donations from dubious sources
Cash from dictatorships and shell companies is entering the political system via legal loopholes
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel is under investigation by the lobbying regulator

What is it about certain politicians and their seeming inability to actually do things for the greater good?

Please read @petergeoghegan.bsky.social thread below 👇

It’s important 💪🏼

🚨 Senior staff at Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel are behind a think tank that is urging Labour ministers to adopt controversial private finance deals

Scoop on Democracy for Sale by Adam Bychawski and me:
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
New: Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm behind think tank pushing PFI 2.0
Plus: new report lays bare UK government’s woeful conflicts of interest management
open.substack.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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It really is quite a story - originally reported by my @tortoisemedia.bsky.social colleague Alexi - and part of the reason people should seriously be looking at deleting their DMs if not their entire account.

The whole thing can be heard here www.tortoisemedia.com/listen/elons...
November 13, 2024 at 6:33 PM