Loraine
@lor85.bsky.social
Retired teacher. Interested in climate, nature, education and politics. Striving for a fair and just society.
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The current Russian troll farm defence of its invasion, massacres and tortures is to go ‘what about Israel’?
Don’t be derailed. Human rights are human rights whether in Palestine or Ukraine
Don’t be derailed. Human rights are human rights whether in Palestine or Ukraine
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The current Russian troll farm defence of its invasion, massacres and tortures is to go ‘what about Israel’?
Don’t be derailed. Human rights are human rights whether in Palestine or Ukraine
Don’t be derailed. Human rights are human rights whether in Palestine or Ukraine
Fantastic news!
Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Fantastic news!
Awful, just awful.
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Awful, just awful.
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Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
petition.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Takes a few seconds and this is definitely needed so please do your bit.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Carole Cadwalladr asks why the Labour gov are choosing not to
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
investigate Russian interference in British elections and referendums
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🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 25, 2025 at 9:39 PM
🚨BOOM!! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 50,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 100,000. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
November 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Seeing how much of the right-wing on Twitter is just bot farms, kinda lays bare how much hate and hatred is a project that needs to be constantly maintained, a fire that needs to be fed all the time lest it go out for a moment, so much time, effort, and resources to keep people angry and hateful.
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This is exactly what I said would happen when I analysed the NHS 10 year plan. Clever words are hiding the reality-people are agitating to pull as many services out of hospitals as possible. Why? Because it’s a lot easier to privatise services that way🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This is exactly what I said would happen when I analysed the NHS 10 year plan. Clever words are hiding the reality-people are agitating to pull as many services out of hospitals as possible. Why? Because it’s a lot easier to privatise services that way🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
And yet Labour continues with trying to make Brexit work.
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 AM
And yet Labour continues with trying to make Brexit work.
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As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Why we - and the Home Secretary - disapply the ECHR at our peril
By Jessica Frank-Keyes
bestforbritain.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
As Labour proposes limiting the protection of the ECHR, we must remember what it was set up to do; protect us all from abuses of power by our govts.
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
Be v wary then of anyone calling to do that. You may not be the target now. But why shouldn’t you be next?
bestforbritain.substack.com/p/why-we-and...
This 👇
We don't need to "protect our borders"
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
Our biggest threat doesn't need to cross a border to harm us.
From a yacht, billionaires can move markets, pressure govs, dodge taxes & bankroll politicians to rewrite our laws.
The threat isn't the "outsider"
It's the concentrated power already inside.
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This 👇
These statistics can't be shared often enough as well as a reminder that the focus should be on the poor victims.
"So that we are all clear:
1. Any sexual offence by anyone is abhorrent.
2. Any sexual offence by anyone, or any group, against a child is abhorrent.
From the data, below, we can see that white British men are disproportionately the perpetrators."
via Coral Fineman
1. Any sexual offence by anyone is abhorrent.
2. Any sexual offence by anyone, or any group, against a child is abhorrent.
From the data, below, we can see that white British men are disproportionately the perpetrators."
via Coral Fineman
November 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
These statistics can't be shared often enough as well as a reminder that the focus should be on the poor victims.
I don't believe for one minute that they were given donations from the neighbours to put flags up. Who funds all this flag buying?
Scumbags flying a flag right outside this guy's house even though he tells them not to.
Then they post about it on Social Media.
Thugs is what they are.
Then they post about it on Social Media.
Thugs is what they are.
November 12, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I don't believe for one minute that they were given donations from the neighbours to put flags up. Who funds all this flag buying?
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Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy | Dr Russell Jackson
@docrussjackson.bsky.social
yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/def...
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BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Yes indeed!
This needs to be said over and over and over again. Immigration is a distraction, it is a trivial cost when compared to what really causes the problems in this country.
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Yes indeed!
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A crucial and refreshingly concise summary of the ideological synergy between the far-right nexus among US, Russia, and Europe. By @peterjukes.bsky.social
Too few understand this, despite the best efforts of many
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
#philsky #irsky #econsky #legalsky #polisky
Too few understand this, despite the best efforts of many
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
#philsky #irsky #econsky #legalsky #polisky
The Apocalypse Network: Dugin, Bannon, Thiel and the Media Machinery of the Dark Enlightenment
More background around the important meeting of minds between Steve Bannon and Alexander Dugin on the eve of the Maidan Revolution, as Bannon forges his new ‘weapons’ of Breitbart/Cambridge Analytica
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
A crucial and refreshingly concise summary of the ideological synergy between the far-right nexus among US, Russia, and Europe. By @peterjukes.bsky.social
Too few understand this, despite the best efforts of many
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
#philsky #irsky #econsky #legalsky #polisky
Too few understand this, despite the best efforts of many
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
#philsky #irsky #econsky #legalsky #polisky
One of the many, many red flags re: Reform!
I'd sooner trust a stoned monkey with a bag of hand grenades than this lot with the economy.
Amazing story in The Times. Reform UK failed to pay VAT to HMRC on its sales (tickets, merchandise). About £400k in all.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
Not tax avoidance. Not tax evasion. They just didn't realise when you sell stuff you have to charge VAT.
October 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
One of the many, many red flags re: Reform!
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No one on the left should ever say "Antifa" again. always say "anti-fascist." Make the right explain why they're anti-anti-fascism.
October 15, 2025 at 9:00 PM
No one on the left should ever say "Antifa" again. always say "anti-fascist." Make the right explain why they're anti-anti-fascism.
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"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
Reform’s Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality from former Russian finance minister’s wife
'Tice and Oakeshott stayed at the Chernukhins’ “turreted villa” with “a stunning view of the Mediterranean” and had supper with them at a Michelin-starred restaurant'
leftfootforward.org
October 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"Another Reform MP has been accused of being in breach of Parliamentary rules, after its deputy leader Richard Tice failed to register lavish hospitality he received from Lubov Chernukhin – wife of a former Russian deputy finance minister"
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...
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Daisy Cooper, "Will the Prime Minister Keir Starmer ask our security services to assess the threat that Elon Musk poses to our democracy"
October 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Daisy Cooper, "Will the Prime Minister Keir Starmer ask our security services to assess the threat that Elon Musk poses to our democracy"
Can't believe that Badenoch wants to cut numbers of students including those wanting to study English. Totally bizarre.
Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Can't believe that Badenoch wants to cut numbers of students including those wanting to study English. Totally bizarre.
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1,611 homeless Britons died last yr, including 11 children & babies under the age of one.
Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.
Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.
How civilised are we?
Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.
Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.
How civilised are we?
'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children
The government's homelessness minister, Alison McGovern MP, has described the increased number of deaths as an "abject failure that cannot be tolerated".
news.sky.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:35 AM
1,611 homeless Britons died last yr, including 11 children & babies under the age of one.
Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.
Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.
How civilised are we?
Contrary to Suella Braverman, homelessness isn't a lifestyle. It is a failure of society.
Yet govts cut wages/benefits, public services, local council funding; no curbs on profiteering.
How civilised are we?
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Reform lied to get elected to Kent County Council, promising tax cuts in their election material.
The only tax councils have any say over is council tax & now Reform are saying they will increase it.
Failure to deliver on what they promised after just 5 months.
#NeverVoteReform #NeverFarage
The only tax councils have any say over is council tax & now Reform are saying they will increase it.
Failure to deliver on what they promised after just 5 months.
#NeverVoteReform #NeverFarage
October 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Reform lied to get elected to Kent County Council, promising tax cuts in their election material.
The only tax councils have any say over is council tax & now Reform are saying they will increase it.
Failure to deliver on what they promised after just 5 months.
#NeverVoteReform #NeverFarage
The only tax councils have any say over is council tax & now Reform are saying they will increase it.
Failure to deliver on what they promised after just 5 months.
#NeverVoteReform #NeverFarage