James Bourke
@jayarrbee36.bsky.social
Sign the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Sign the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
July 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Privatisation broke our water system.
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
@labourslewis.bsky.social has a people-first, evidence-based alternative, and I’m backing it.
Add your name to the People’s Plan for Water: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/water-belongs-to-all-of-us-back-the-peoples-plan-for-water?source=bluesky&
MAGA Voter Says He Wants His Vote Back
YouTube video by A Different Bias
youtu.be
July 9, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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The US is utter chaos. Complete and utter chaos, for at least another four years and probably long into the future. Any British government working in the national interest will be investigating how to quickly reduce our exposure to it.
April 9, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The US is utter chaos. Complete and utter chaos, for at least another four years and probably long into the future. Any British government working in the national interest will be investigating how to quickly reduce our exposure to it.
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I think liberals in the West need to understand that they have not stumbled across any kind of contradiction or hypocrisy in the Global far right. When they said “people have a right to free speech” they simply never saw racialised people as people to begin with 🧵
People in the USA & beyond are being punished, fired, defunded, deported, disciplined & silenced by Trump’s administration for their opinions & beliefs. In unprecedented numbers. I thought the ‘anti-woke’ warriors really hated this stuff? They all seem to have disappeared…
March 29, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I think liberals in the West need to understand that they have not stumbled across any kind of contradiction or hypocrisy in the Global far right. When they said “people have a right to free speech” they simply never saw racialised people as people to begin with 🧵
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
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This is true for the UK too, we just haven't come to terms with it yet
Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."
March 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
This is true for the UK too, we just haven't come to terms with it yet
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There are now just three types of media figures on both sides of the Atlantic: people clear-eyed & honest about the obvious evil of Trump; people explicitly supportive of Trump’s obvious evil & people implicitly supporting Trump’s obvious evil by ‘both sidesing’ every lurch further in to fascism…
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
There are now just three types of media figures on both sides of the Atlantic: people clear-eyed & honest about the obvious evil of Trump; people explicitly supportive of Trump’s obvious evil & people implicitly supporting Trump’s obvious evil by ‘both sidesing’ every lurch further in to fascism…
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
March 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office.
2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor.
3) Donors make a huge profit.
4) Repeat.
For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.
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“There is no enemy like a friend betrayed”. How true.
As the world superpower, America once had friends around the globe. But not anymore. All gone."
Once again Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life.
As the world superpower, America once had friends around the globe. But not anymore. All gone."
Once again Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life.
Pecksniff: ‘There is no enemy like a friend betrayed’: American power is gone for good
In which Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life
eastangliabylines.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“There is no enemy like a friend betrayed”. How true.
As the world superpower, America once had friends around the globe. But not anymore. All gone."
Once again Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life.
As the world superpower, America once had friends around the globe. But not anymore. All gone."
Once again Mr Pecksniff lays before his readers for their approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life.
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Broadly as predicted that if you make trade with your nearest market harder there will be a fall in exports. Worth noting that an SPS deal doesn't automatically mean all of these losses are reversed - as there are many different barriers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit
Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Broadly as predicted that if you make trade with your nearest market harder there will be a fall in exports. Worth noting that an SPS deal doesn't automatically mean all of these losses are reversed - as there are many different barriers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.
March 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@privateeyenews.bsky.social on top form as usual this issue.
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This is the problem with the timidity and fake balance of BBC political coverage. A historic betrayal of Ukraine to Russia by Europe's former ally is boiled down to an utterly superficial row about a man's clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
How Zelensky's lack of a suit may have fuelled Oval Office spat
The Ukrainian president's military-style attire came up before he was upbraided by President Trump and JD Vance.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
This is the problem with the timidity and fake balance of BBC political coverage. A historic betrayal of Ukraine to Russia by Europe's former ally is boiled down to an utterly superficial row about a man's clothes www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
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"Be vigilant: this movement is not one of beneficial libertarianism.
Its aim is to remove personal freedoms and replace them with unquestioning obedience, and it has global ambitions."
@guyanthonyayres.bsky.social
Its aim is to remove personal freedoms and replace them with unquestioning obedience, and it has global ambitions."
@guyanthonyayres.bsky.social
America’s growing darkness: a timely warning to the UK
Living amidst chaos in the US, I fear a creeping regime reminiscent of 1930s Germany. Project 2025 echoes a history threatening democracy
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
"Be vigilant: this movement is not one of beneficial libertarianism.
Its aim is to remove personal freedoms and replace them with unquestioning obedience, and it has global ambitions."
@guyanthonyayres.bsky.social
Its aim is to remove personal freedoms and replace them with unquestioning obedience, and it has global ambitions."
@guyanthonyayres.bsky.social
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The US first began sterilising people with mental illness – requiring neither their consent nor that of their next of kin – in Pennsylvania in 1905.
Is this 👇 part of the growing darkness our US correspondent has warned about? See 🧵
Is this 👇 part of the growing darkness our US correspondent has warned about? See 🧵
✍️ The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
By Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
By Jennie Kermode
@jenniekermode.bsky.social
The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The US first began sterilising people with mental illness – requiring neither their consent nor that of their next of kin – in Pennsylvania in 1905.
Is this 👇 part of the growing darkness our US correspondent has warned about? See 🧵
Is this 👇 part of the growing darkness our US correspondent has warned about? See 🧵
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A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse.
– absolutely terrifying where the US is going right now.
– absolutely terrifying where the US is going right now.
The US is talking about mass sterilisation – again
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse – his country has been here before
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 25, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A senior US government official has called for “lower quality humans” to be sterilised en masse.
– absolutely terrifying where the US is going right now.
– absolutely terrifying where the US is going right now.
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The one thing I really wanted to say on live TV tonight: If politicians want to be “muscular”, they should go to the gym. No one needs muscles in politics, it’s not a boxing ring and it should not become one. What one needs is intelligence, strategic thinking & an ability to collaborate.
February 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
The one thing I really wanted to say on live TV tonight: If politicians want to be “muscular”, they should go to the gym. No one needs muscles in politics, it’s not a boxing ring and it should not become one. What one needs is intelligence, strategic thinking & an ability to collaborate.
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"The US is opposed to calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine"
America's bad faith approach to Ukraine worsens. By the time Starmer sees Trump next week, the situation will be even more abominable.
archive.ph/2025.02.20-2...
America's bad faith approach to Ukraine worsens. By the time Starmer sees Trump next week, the situation will be even more abominable.
archive.ph/2025.02.20-2...
February 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
"The US is opposed to calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine"
America's bad faith approach to Ukraine worsens. By the time Starmer sees Trump next week, the situation will be even more abominable.
archive.ph/2025.02.20-2...
America's bad faith approach to Ukraine worsens. By the time Starmer sees Trump next week, the situation will be even more abominable.
archive.ph/2025.02.20-2...
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In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
February 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
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PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana.
For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5.
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