@ontenterhooks.bsky.social
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Note that Vance's cavalcade drove on the wrong side of the road.
Breathtaking arrogance.
Breathtaking arrogance.
Who is paying for this and why won't anyone tell us?
Because you know... if we're not told it's tempting as hell to think it's the British taxpayers
Because you know... if we're not told it's tempting as hell to think it's the British taxpayers
Utterly ridiculous.
What’s he doing? Moving house? Well either way, he can f right off.
What’s he doing? Moving house? Well either way, he can f right off.
August 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Note that Vance's cavalcade drove on the wrong side of the road.
Breathtaking arrogance.
Breathtaking arrogance.
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"London lives rent free in their heads as it's living proof of how completely wrong their politics is - they 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 to lie about it!"
As the far-right push a thinly veiled anti-immigrant narrative by branding London a "crime-ridden hellhole" - Jon and Lewis push back.
As the far-right push a thinly veiled anti-immigrant narrative by branding London a "crime-ridden hellhole" - Jon and Lewis push back.
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"London lives rent free in their heads as it's living proof of how completely wrong their politics is - they 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 to lie about it!"
As the far-right push a thinly veiled anti-immigrant narrative by branding London a "crime-ridden hellhole" - Jon and Lewis push back.
As the far-right push a thinly veiled anti-immigrant narrative by branding London a "crime-ridden hellhole" - Jon and Lewis push back.
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This is bonkers.
August 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
This is bonkers.
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So… that traitor, farage, was lying?
Again?
No? Really?
I. Cannot. Believe. It…
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Again?
No? Really?
I. Cannot. Believe. It…
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Farage’s EU-entry myth busted after red-tape claims
Exclusive: Nigel Farage warning that holidaymakers going to Europe must ‘prove medical insurance’ is false
www.independent.co.uk
August 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
So… that traitor, farage, was lying?
Again?
No? Really?
I. Cannot. Believe. It…
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
Again?
No? Really?
I. Cannot. Believe. It…
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...
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"Farage’s card is not actually a tax on these non-doms – it is handing them a “license to dodge tax”...
"Tax Policy Associates did the sums and showed that the scheme would give away £34 billion to the wealthiest individuals."
informuk.org/farages-tax-...
"Tax Policy Associates did the sums and showed that the scheme would give away £34 billion to the wealthiest individuals."
informuk.org/farages-tax-...
Farage’s “tax dodgers’ license” for non-doms
Inform UK | The truth about the Reform party
informuk.org
July 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"Farage’s card is not actually a tax on these non-doms – it is handing them a “license to dodge tax”...
"Tax Policy Associates did the sums and showed that the scheme would give away £34 billion to the wealthiest individuals."
informuk.org/farages-tax-...
"Tax Policy Associates did the sums and showed that the scheme would give away £34 billion to the wealthiest individuals."
informuk.org/farages-tax-...
📽️ old (and not so old) films I don’t understand how people haven’t yet watched:
Idiocracy,
Night on Earth (one of my fav scenes ever, no spoiler, Gena Rowlands, just saying),
Brazil
Nine Queens (the original, from Argentina)
Subway (French)
Matador (Spanish)
Ladybird (the old one by Ken Loach)
Idiocracy,
Night on Earth (one of my fav scenes ever, no spoiler, Gena Rowlands, just saying),
Brazil
Nine Queens (the original, from Argentina)
Subway (French)
Matador (Spanish)
Ladybird (the old one by Ken Loach)
June 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
📽️ old (and not so old) films I don’t understand how people haven’t yet watched:
Idiocracy,
Night on Earth (one of my fav scenes ever, no spoiler, Gena Rowlands, just saying),
Brazil
Nine Queens (the original, from Argentina)
Subway (French)
Matador (Spanish)
Ladybird (the old one by Ken Loach)
Idiocracy,
Night on Earth (one of my fav scenes ever, no spoiler, Gena Rowlands, just saying),
Brazil
Nine Queens (the original, from Argentina)
Subway (French)
Matador (Spanish)
Ladybird (the old one by Ken Loach)
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#Zuckerberg is hiring 50 top engineers to build Meta’s “Superintelligence.” With 4B users across platforms, here are 7 urgent questions: What is it? Who controls it? What data? What guardrails? What laws? What rights do users have?
#AI #Meta #Regulation #Ethics
#AI #Meta #Regulation #Ethics
June 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
#Zuckerberg is hiring 50 top engineers to build Meta’s “Superintelligence.” With 4B users across platforms, here are 7 urgent questions: What is it? Who controls it? What data? What guardrails? What laws? What rights do users have?
#AI #Meta #Regulation #Ethics
#AI #Meta #Regulation #Ethics
For those who know about image manipulation, is this video real? (Not for a moment doubting ISIS is the most dangerous evil, it’s just that the video looks unreal to my eyes, neat and blurry at the same time).
This is how lSlS terrorists separated Yezidis women and children from men after they refused to convert to lsIam!
10K Men and boys above 14 yrs old were killed in mass graves.
7K women were kidnapped and raped.
10 yrs passed and still 2703 are missing.
10K Men and boys above 14 yrs old were killed in mass graves.
7K women were kidnapped and raped.
10 yrs passed and still 2703 are missing.
June 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
For those who know about image manipulation, is this video real? (Not for a moment doubting ISIS is the most dangerous evil, it’s just that the video looks unreal to my eyes, neat and blurry at the same time).
“We can have strong democracy or corporations, not both.”
Grenfell fire was caused by corporate greed; calls for unlimited fines, ban on public contracts.
72 people died, no one prosecuted.
Corporations responsible for corruption, bribery, tax dodges, sewage dumping, energy price rip-offs.
We can have strong democracy or corporations, not both.
72 people died, no one prosecuted.
Corporations responsible for corruption, bribery, tax dodges, sewage dumping, energy price rip-offs.
We can have strong democracy or corporations, not both.
‘Grenfell was caused by corporate greed’: report calls for far stronger penalties over unsafe cladding
Exclusive: Thinktank calls for stronger penalties for corporate negligence in England, including directorship and public-contract bans
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“We can have strong democracy or corporations, not both.”
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Girl who skipped dinner so parents could eat - the true reality of UK child poverty.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
Girl who skipped dinner so parents could eat - true reality of UK child poverty
Growing up Georgia Sullivan would force down food she didn't like – in case there was no food at home. Now the 26-year-old and four other young people are calling on the government to end child povert...
www.mirror.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Girl who skipped dinner so parents could eat - the true reality of UK child poverty.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
Human suffering is hidden by numbers.
16m Britons live in poverty.
1% have more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
50 families have more wealth than 34m people.
Poverty is a political choice.
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Private equity bidders trump rival to buy doctors' surgeries, hospitals and hospices with £1.7bn Assura bid.
NHS estate privatised by Tories/Blair, now bought/sold for profit.
NHS pays escalating rents, less money left for frontline services. All part of creeping privatisation
NHS estate privatised by Tories/Blair, now bought/sold for profit.
NHS pays escalating rents, less money left for frontline services. All part of creeping privatisation
Private equity trumps rival to buy doctors' surgeries with Assura bid
Healthcare property firm Assura Group is set to be acquired by a consortium of US private equity firms after they trumped a rival bid.
www.thisismoney.co.uk
June 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Private equity bidders trump rival to buy doctors' surgeries, hospitals and hospices with £1.7bn Assura bid.
NHS estate privatised by Tories/Blair, now bought/sold for profit.
NHS pays escalating rents, less money left for frontline services. All part of creeping privatisation
NHS estate privatised by Tories/Blair, now bought/sold for profit.
NHS pays escalating rents, less money left for frontline services. All part of creeping privatisation
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Because writing tends to be portrayed as something done by middle-class people, it's easy to overlook how many classic works were produced by writers who were working class –
That's why we made our Working Class Library podcast: episode one is up now🐝
thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
That's why we made our Working Class Library podcast: episode one is up now🐝
thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
The Working Class Library Episode 1: New Grub Street by George Gissing
Gissing expert Simon James joins us to consider how **New Grub Street** became so topical again, and to ask if it deserves a place in our fantasy library.
thebeemagazine.com
June 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Because writing tends to be portrayed as something done by middle-class people, it's easy to overlook how many classic works were produced by writers who were working class –
That's why we made our Working Class Library podcast: episode one is up now🐝
thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
That's why we made our Working Class Library podcast: episode one is up now🐝
thebeemagazine.com/the-working-...
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This is why we publish.
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social
First they came for...
@orwellprize.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@thetimes.com
@newstatesman.com
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social
First they came for...
@orwellprize.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@thetimes.com
@newstatesman.com
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 7:51 AM
This is why we publish.
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social
First they came for...
@orwellprize.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@thetimes.com
@newstatesman.com
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
The Accidental Immigrants @jomcmillan.bsky.social
First they came for...
@orwellprize.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
@thetimes.com
@newstatesman.com
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
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"...how can Starmer and Reeves find £138bn for war when they declare that the government is too skint to pay £1.4 billion to keep pensioners from freezing or £3.4 billion to lift 1.6 million kids out of poverty?"
Me: They must think our heads button up the back!
Me: They must think our heads button up the back!
Starmer shows once again that he's both stupid and immoral
A place to come and read about why the sovereign People of Scotland, in order to thrive and realise their potential and that of their land and resources, must restore their sovereignty and end the fai...
open.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"...how can Starmer and Reeves find £138bn for war when they declare that the government is too skint to pay £1.4 billion to keep pensioners from freezing or £3.4 billion to lift 1.6 million kids out of poverty?"
Me: They must think our heads button up the back!
Me: They must think our heads button up the back!
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Rachel Reeves’ pension plot that is set to shortchange women | Personal Finance | Finance
https://www.europesays.com/uk/156137/
Rachel Reeves’ new megafund pension announcement could shortchange women, a finance expert has warned. The chancellor’s plans to…#uk #news #uknews
https://www.europesays.com/uk/156137/
Rachel Reeves’ new megafund pension announcement could shortchange women, a finance expert has warned. The chancellor’s plans to…#uk #news #uknews
Rachel Reeves’ pension plot that is set to shortchange women | Personal Finance | Finance - United Kingdom
Rachel Reeves' new megafund pension announcement could shortchange women, a finance expert has warned. The chancellor's plans to combine smaller funds into a
www.europesays.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Rachel Reeves’ pension plot that is set to shortchange women | Personal Finance | Finance
https://www.europesays.com/uk/156137/
Rachel Reeves’ new megafund pension announcement could shortchange women, a finance expert has warned. The chancellor’s plans to…#uk #news #uknews
https://www.europesays.com/uk/156137/
Rachel Reeves’ new megafund pension announcement could shortchange women, a finance expert has warned. The chancellor’s plans to…#uk #news #uknews
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Guess which parties support free zones in the UK?
The Tories, Labour, and Reform UK...
The Tories, Labour, and Reform UK...
https://europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes…
May 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Guess which parties support free zones in the UK?
The Tories, Labour, and Reform UK...
The Tories, Labour, and Reform UK...
Vote for The Thyroid Trust to share in £300,000 in grants from MyGivingCircle
May 4, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Vote for The Thyroid Trust to share in £300,000 in grants from MyGivingCircle
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#ToriesGone273
#Labour #Change
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#AusterityKills
Women will suffer most from UK Govt’s CUTS to #DisabilityBenefits
Cuts will push 💯's of 1000's of Women into POVERTY or force them out of Workforce
Mary-Ann Stephenson
03/04/25
www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
#Labour #Change
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#AusterityKills
Women will suffer most from UK Govt’s CUTS to #DisabilityBenefits
Cuts will push 💯's of 1000's of Women into POVERTY or force them out of Workforce
Mary-Ann Stephenson
03/04/25
www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
Women will suffer most from cuts to disability benefits
Cuts will push hundreds of thousands of women into poverty or force them out of workforce
www.opendemocracy.net
April 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
#ToriesGone273
#Labour #Change
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#AusterityKills
Women will suffer most from UK Govt’s CUTS to #DisabilityBenefits
Cuts will push 💯's of 1000's of Women into POVERTY or force them out of Workforce
Mary-Ann Stephenson
03/04/25
www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
#Labour #Change
#PovertyIsAPoliticalChoice
#AusterityKills
Women will suffer most from UK Govt’s CUTS to #DisabilityBenefits
Cuts will push 💯's of 1000's of Women into POVERTY or force them out of Workforce
Mary-Ann Stephenson
03/04/25
www.opendemocracy.net/en/disabilit...
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Sign up to give Starmer his marching orders.
April 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sign up to give Starmer his marching orders.
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Feed: "North West Bylines"
By: Andrew Rosthorn on Tuesday, April 1, 2025
By: Andrew Rosthorn on Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Vote for Rejoin EU at Runcorn and Helsby
Ex-MEP John Stevens will stand against the big three Brexit parties to offer Runcorn and Helsby a vote for Rejoin EU
northwestbylines.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Feed: "North West Bylines"
By: Andrew Rosthorn on Tuesday, April 1, 2025
By: Andrew Rosthorn on Tuesday, April 1, 2025
No company’s legal challenge should be in private courts. There should be no private courts.
TL;DR: Apple's legal challenge against the UK government regarding encrypted customer data was heard behind closed doors, preventing media access. This case raises critical questions about data privacy and government surveillance.
Apple’s UK encryption legal challenge heard behind closed doors
Media organisations including the Guardian and the BBC fail to gain entry to proceedings
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:32 PM
No company’s legal challenge should be in private courts. There should be no private courts.