Sebastian Wakefield
@oldartisan.bsky.social
Photography, politics, fly fishing. Retired artisan.
Woke lefty. Yorkshire Dales. Turning Green
Woke lefty. Yorkshire Dales. Turning Green
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
The BBC needs to urgently review its board structure as to its ability to respond to an existential threat. There are multiple credible reports that board members involved in its response aren’t on-side. There are allegations some leaked. And the response has been slow and disjointed throughout.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The BBC needs to urgently review its board structure as to its ability to respond to an existential threat. There are multiple credible reports that board members involved in its response aren’t on-side. There are allegations some leaked. And the response has been slow and disjointed throughout.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
November 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to see so many great British patriots right now begging an American president to bankrupt one of Britain’s last remaining truly national institutions.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
November 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK.
As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
Once you realise that the political class has been co-opted, that our media is run for their owners not the truth, that there are people whose literal job is to find new ways to disinform, misinform and obfuscate objective reality...
...at that point you can start to see your own shackles.
...at that point you can start to see your own shackles.
November 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Once you realise that the political class has been co-opted, that our media is run for their owners not the truth, that there are people whose literal job is to find new ways to disinform, misinform and obfuscate objective reality...
...at that point you can start to see your own shackles.
...at that point you can start to see your own shackles.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
This is truly shocking!!
I’m extremely worried that this will happen with digital ID cards!!
I’m extremely worried that this will happen with digital ID cards!!
I'm assuming Nigel Farage will get very exercised by this kind of de-banking www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Pro-Palestine activist couple have UK bank account closed without explanation
John Nicholson and Norma Turner’s joint retirement savings account was shut by Yorkshire Building Society
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This is truly shocking!!
I’m extremely worried that this will happen with digital ID cards!!
I’m extremely worried that this will happen with digital ID cards!!
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, paid holiday and sick leave.
It would make them tens of billions a year.
But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
It would make them tens of billions a year.
But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
September 20, 2025 at 10:17 AM
They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, paid holiday and sick leave.
It would make them tens of billions a year.
But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
It would make them tens of billions a year.
But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
"Migrants try to move from Germany and other European countries to Britain partly because of Brexit. After Britain left the eu in 2020, it lost access to the Eurodac fingerprint database that shows whether an asylum-seeker has previously applied in another country"
Oh my goodness
Oh my goodness
September 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
"Migrants try to move from Germany and other European countries to Britain partly because of Brexit. After Britain left the eu in 2020, it lost access to the Eurodac fingerprint database that shows whether an asylum-seeker has previously applied in another country"
Oh my goodness
Oh my goodness
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
Dear Labour government - can you explain to me why a placard about ending genocide Gaza is apparently an arrestable offence, but this is just freedom of speech? Because this is fucking nuts right now.
September 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Dear Labour government - can you explain to me why a placard about ending genocide Gaza is apparently an arrestable offence, but this is just freedom of speech? Because this is fucking nuts right now.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
The real issue isn't immigrants, or disabled people, or pensioners or 'woke'.
The real issue is the people robbing from all of us on every bill you pay, on everything you buy, on every wage you are paid.
The billionaires are THE problem.
The real issue is the people robbing from all of us on every bill you pay, on everything you buy, on every wage you are paid.
The billionaires are THE problem.
September 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The real issue isn't immigrants, or disabled people, or pensioners or 'woke'.
The real issue is the people robbing from all of us on every bill you pay, on everything you buy, on every wage you are paid.
The billionaires are THE problem.
The real issue is the people robbing from all of us on every bill you pay, on everything you buy, on every wage you are paid.
The billionaires are THE problem.
Many of us are feeling duped by Labour
I have lost all hope that Labour will do the ‘right thing’. The list is endless; Palestine,Trump, immigration, low income families, pensioners, climate change ….. I’m angry and disappointed in their stance on all these issues. I’ve always voted Labour, I feel I was duped!
September 1, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Many of us are feeling duped by Labour
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
All you need to know about Nigel Farage is that as soon as he 'got Brexit done' he applied for a German Passport so it wouldn't apply to him.
August 31, 2025 at 4:29 PM
All you need to know about Nigel Farage is that as soon as he 'got Brexit done' he applied for a German Passport so it wouldn't apply to him.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen:
Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
August 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen:
Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
How could they tell?
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party.
It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
August 29, 2025 at 9:37 AM
How could they tell?
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
Want fewer migrants?
Say goodbye to:
* 30% of our tech workforce;
* 1 in 4 hospitality workers;
* 1 in 5 construction workers;
* 16% of the NHS.
Still sound like a good plan?
Stephen McNair reports
Say goodbye to:
* 30% of our tech workforce;
* 1 in 4 hospitality workers;
* 1 in 5 construction workers;
* 16% of the NHS.
Still sound like a good plan?
Stephen McNair reports
Do we really want a big reduction in immigration?
Voters see immigration as the most important issue facing the country. There are things to be done. But can we really afford major reductions?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Want fewer migrants?
Say goodbye to:
* 30% of our tech workforce;
* 1 in 4 hospitality workers;
* 1 in 5 construction workers;
* 16% of the NHS.
Still sound like a good plan?
Stephen McNair reports
Say goodbye to:
* 30% of our tech workforce;
* 1 in 4 hospitality workers;
* 1 in 5 construction workers;
* 16% of the NHS.
Still sound like a good plan?
Stephen McNair reports
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
They banned people holding signs, but gave corrupt, polluting Water Company bosses record pay increases.
August 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
They banned people holding signs, but gave corrupt, polluting Water Company bosses record pay increases.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
FTSE 100 CEOs netted £550m in pay packets, 11% hike.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
FTSE 100 bosses rake in a record £550m haul
The number of significant shareholder protests has more than doubled so far this year compared with a year ago, with 11 FTSE 100 companies seeing revolts of more than 20 per cent.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 6:49 AM
FTSE 100 CEOs netted £550m in pay packets, 11% hike.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
Shareholder revolts make no difference, execs collect up to 1,112 average worker pay. Corporations are private fiefdoms of execs.
Workers in same companies relying on food banks and charity.
Worker real average pay stuck at 2008 level.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
3/4 Real reform starts with ownership. Who controls our water, who it serves, and who it’s accountable to.
The Government’s Cunliffe Review refused to ask those questions. But the People’s Commission did - and it showed public ownership delivers cleaner, fairer, cheaper water.
The Government’s Cunliffe Review refused to ask those questions. But the People’s Commission did - and it showed public ownership delivers cleaner, fairer, cheaper water.
July 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
3/4 Real reform starts with ownership. Who controls our water, who it serves, and who it’s accountable to.
The Government’s Cunliffe Review refused to ask those questions. But the People’s Commission did - and it showed public ownership delivers cleaner, fairer, cheaper water.
The Government’s Cunliffe Review refused to ask those questions. But the People’s Commission did - and it showed public ownership delivers cleaner, fairer, cheaper water.
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action:https://goodlaw.social/66f6a3
July 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
TalkTV is airing attacks on trans people without broadcasting the views of those who support trans rights. Call on Ofcom to take action:https://goodlaw.social/66f6a3
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
The East India Company has come home.
Whether it is water, energy or other sectors corporations rule the roost, exploiting people, workers and the environment.
Political parties funded by corporations obey.
Can't build a good society and democracy without curbing corporate power.
Whether it is water, energy or other sectors corporations rule the roost, exploiting people, workers and the environment.
Political parties funded by corporations obey.
Can't build a good society and democracy without curbing corporate power.
Taming corporations is the key issue of our times
To appease corporations, people may raze mountains, divert rivers, clear forests, cover countryside in tarmac and shower subsidies upon them, but they have no loyalty to any place, people or product.
leftfootforward.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The East India Company has come home.
Whether it is water, energy or other sectors corporations rule the roost, exploiting people, workers and the environment.
Political parties funded by corporations obey.
Can't build a good society and democracy without curbing corporate power.
Whether it is water, energy or other sectors corporations rule the roost, exploiting people, workers and the environment.
Political parties funded by corporations obey.
Can't build a good society and democracy without curbing corporate power.
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
If I didn't know better I'd think private equity was saying the quiet part out loud
July 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
If I didn't know better I'd think private equity was saying the quiet part out loud
Reposted by Sebastian Wakefield
Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia
www.nytimes.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too.
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...
Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...