AlanR
@pagechord.bsky.social
Hyde United fan, amateur cartoonist, lifelong socialist and trade unionist, blues/soul fan. Old enough to have opinions, dislike any form of social injustice and bad manners.
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM
There’s a HUGE Elon Musk shaped hole in the Government’s new plans to improve our elections: shady billionaires like Musk can still donate massive amounts of money with no cap: effectively buying our democracy. Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...
WASPI scandal: Pay out compensation to the women affected
The Government has announced it will reconsider whether to compensate the WASPI women, following growing pressure and undisclosed "evidence"
Last December, the Government announced women born in the ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/co...
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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That’s the back garden now officially winter ready.
Lawn cut; Borders dug over and hoed; tubs planted out with pansies, cyclamen and dianthus; and birds given a veritable feast of seed and fat balls (no rude jokes)…
🌺 Gardening is such a pleasure and great for mental health and wellbeing ❤️
Lawn cut; Borders dug over and hoed; tubs planted out with pansies, cyclamen and dianthus; and birds given a veritable feast of seed and fat balls (no rude jokes)…
🌺 Gardening is such a pleasure and great for mental health and wellbeing ❤️
October 18, 2025 at 3:22 PM
That’s the back garden now officially winter ready.
Lawn cut; Borders dug over and hoed; tubs planted out with pansies, cyclamen and dianthus; and birds given a veritable feast of seed and fat balls (no rude jokes)…
🌺 Gardening is such a pleasure and great for mental health and wellbeing ❤️
Lawn cut; Borders dug over and hoed; tubs planted out with pansies, cyclamen and dianthus; and birds given a veritable feast of seed and fat balls (no rude jokes)…
🌺 Gardening is such a pleasure and great for mental health and wellbeing ❤️
Rachel Reeves could slash the Cash ISA limit to £4K — a win for hedge funds, a loss for the rest of us 💸 Even the banks are against it. Tell the govt to protect savers, not risky investments! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Protect Cash ISAs
Rumours started swirling that Rachel Reeves might slash the tax-free cap on Cash ISAs from £20,000 to £4,000 after meeting with a group of bank executives back in February. [1] Now it looks like those...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Rachel Reeves could slash the Cash ISA limit to £4K — a win for hedge funds, a loss for the rest of us 💸 Even the banks are against it. Tell the govt to protect savers, not risky investments! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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❌ Thames Water want to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years. Thousands of you have already said NO by signing our petition
✉️ Next? We're taking it to Ofwat's inbox
✍️Take 1min now to send an email to Ofwat, explaining why they must say no to 15 more years of illegal pollution
✉️ Next? We're taking it to Ofwat's inbox
✍️Take 1min now to send an email to Ofwat, explaining why they must say no to 15 more years of illegal pollution
Email Ofwat - say NO to 15 years of illegal pollution
Email Ofwat - say NO to 15 years of illegal pollution
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October 16, 2025 at 9:09 AM
❌ Thames Water want to pollute ILLEGALLY for the next 15 years. Thousands of you have already said NO by signing our petition
✉️ Next? We're taking it to Ofwat's inbox
✍️Take 1min now to send an email to Ofwat, explaining why they must say no to 15 more years of illegal pollution
✉️ Next? We're taking it to Ofwat's inbox
✍️Take 1min now to send an email to Ofwat, explaining why they must say no to 15 more years of illegal pollution
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: 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
October 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: 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 7:44 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
10 years on from the Dieselgate scandal, justice still hasn’t been served in the UK. While other countries made carmakers pay, ours let them off the hook. Sign the petition now and demand accountability now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ma...
Make polluters pay for poisoning our children
10 years ago it was revealed that many diesel cars were being fitted with illegal technology that means they emit levels of toxic gases (NOx) exceeding testing and legal limits. These emissions poison...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
10 years on from the Dieselgate scandal, justice still hasn’t been served in the UK. While other countries made carmakers pay, ours let them off the hook. Sign the petition now and demand accountability now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ma...
Ocado handed out 221 million plastic bags last year! 😱 Sign the petition and tell them to ditch single-use bags for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/oc...
Ocado: Ditch the plastic bag
In 2024, single-use plastic bag sales in England rose for the first time since the carrier bag levy was introduced in 2015 - a 7% increase, reaching 437 million bags. Shockingly, Ocado alone was respo...
you.38degrees.org.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Ocado handed out 221 million plastic bags last year! 😱 Sign the petition and tell them to ditch single-use bags for good. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/oc...
Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
Reform: Stop hiding from press scrutiny!
Nigel Farage says he welcomes freedom of speech, even if people find it offensive. Surely that should apply to freedom of the press too? So why have Reform's Nottinghamshire councillors - who control ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 30, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Reform led Nottinghamshire Council has blacklisted a local paper for asking questions about what councillors were doing. Farage says he welcomes free speech, that should apply to freedom of the press too. Sign the petition to get them to reverse the decision: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...
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On Tuesday Nigel Farage will publish his proposals for mass deportations, Prison camps, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights & scrapping the Human Rights Act, quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention against Torture - is that a country we want?
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Farage proposes mass deportations, Prison camps & leaving the ECHR - is that a country we want?
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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August 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On Tuesday Nigel Farage will publish his proposals for mass deportations, Prison camps, leaving the European Convention on Human Rights & scrapping the Human Rights Act, quitting the Refugee Convention and the UN Convention against Torture - is that a country we want?
youtu.be/-UvfvAYytZY?...
youtu.be/-UvfvAYytZY?...
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This faux patriotism isn’t any different from 86 years ago is it eh❓
Same fascist led demonisation of a group of ppl ❌
Same nationalism & elitism by white supremacists❌
They had Brown Shirt thugs, now they’re masked wearing Union Jack/George Cross Teeshirts❌
Our family members died to defeat them 🤷🏼♂️
Same fascist led demonisation of a group of ppl ❌
Same nationalism & elitism by white supremacists❌
They had Brown Shirt thugs, now they’re masked wearing Union Jack/George Cross Teeshirts❌
Our family members died to defeat them 🤷🏼♂️
August 25, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This faux patriotism isn’t any different from 86 years ago is it eh❓
Same fascist led demonisation of a group of ppl ❌
Same nationalism & elitism by white supremacists❌
They had Brown Shirt thugs, now they’re masked wearing Union Jack/George Cross Teeshirts❌
Our family members died to defeat them 🤷🏼♂️
Same fascist led demonisation of a group of ppl ❌
Same nationalism & elitism by white supremacists❌
They had Brown Shirt thugs, now they’re masked wearing Union Jack/George Cross Teeshirts❌
Our family members died to defeat them 🤷🏼♂️
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Basildon
The good thing about flag-shagging 'patriots' is that they are so monumentally thick that they film themselves committing racially aggravated criminal damage and post it on the internet, making it nice and easy for the police to find them.
August 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Basildon
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I’m extremely worried by increased, coordinated, anti migrant action under the banner of Union Jack & St George’s flag flying. I see it escalating to #FarageRiots
MSM are the catalyst highlighting migrants, spreading & amplifying anti migrant rhetoric
Without them the pressure wouldn’t be building
MSM are the catalyst highlighting migrants, spreading & amplifying anti migrant rhetoric
Without them the pressure wouldn’t be building
August 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I’m extremely worried by increased, coordinated, anti migrant action under the banner of Union Jack & St George’s flag flying. I see it escalating to #FarageRiots
MSM are the catalyst highlighting migrants, spreading & amplifying anti migrant rhetoric
Without them the pressure wouldn’t be building
MSM are the catalyst highlighting migrants, spreading & amplifying anti migrant rhetoric
Without them the pressure wouldn’t be building
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For too long, people have been denied a real political choice.
Not anymore.
My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Not anymore.
My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them | Jeremy Corbyn
More than 500,000 people have signed up to our new party to help build a genuine alternative to poverty, inequality and war, says former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn
www.theguardian.com
July 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
For too long, people have been denied a real political choice.
Not anymore.
My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Not anymore.
My piece for the Guardian on the extraordinary response to www.yourparty.uk
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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IMF upgrades UK growth forecast despite trade tariffs
Britain will be the third-fastest growing economy in the G7 this year and next, says International Monetary Fund as it raises prospect of two interest rate cuts
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Britain will be the third-fastest growing economy in the G7 this year and next, says International Monetary Fund as it raises prospect of two interest rate cuts
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
IMF upgrades UK growth forecast despite trade tariffs
Britain will be the third-fastest growing economy in the G7 this year and next, says International Monetary Fund as it raises prospect of two interest rate cuts
www.thetimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
IMF upgrades UK growth forecast despite trade tariffs
Britain will be the third-fastest growing economy in the G7 this year and next, says International Monetary Fund as it raises prospect of two interest rate cuts
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
Britain will be the third-fastest growing economy in the G7 this year and next, says International Monetary Fund as it raises prospect of two interest rate cuts
www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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In memory of Janey Godley I post this:
July 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
In memory of Janey Godley I post this:
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No fear or favours: how Corbyn and Sultana’s party could blow up British politics
No fear or favours: how Corbyn and Sultana’s party could blow up British politics
With a huge profile and no one to appease, ‘Your Party’ starts on a better footing than new parties of the past
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
No fear or favours: how Corbyn and Sultana’s party could blow up British politics
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#OtD 22 Jul 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist militant and theorist, London ice cream seller, mechanic and member of the Naples section of the International Working Men's Association, died after six years of fascist house arrest at the age of 78 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7864...
July 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#OtD 22 Jul 1932 Errico Malatesta, Italian anarchist militant and theorist, London ice cream seller, mechanic and member of the Naples section of the International Working Men's Association, died after six years of fascist house arrest at the age of 78 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7864...
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Washing Day, by Glen Williams, Huddersfield-based artist born in Rotherham. #NorthernArt
July 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Washing Day, by Glen Williams, Huddersfield-based artist born in Rotherham. #NorthernArt
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“Reform UK will take back control of our streets” Farage promises as part of his unbudgeted, populist, fantasy law and order policies
Let’s remember last time that👇🏼happened with the #FarageRiots
Call me old-fashioned, but I want police to control our streets, not moronic, racist, fascist thugs❗️🤷🏼♂️
Let’s remember last time that👇🏼happened with the #FarageRiots
Call me old-fashioned, but I want police to control our streets, not moronic, racist, fascist thugs❗️🤷🏼♂️
July 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“Reform UK will take back control of our streets” Farage promises as part of his unbudgeted, populist, fantasy law and order policies
Let’s remember last time that👇🏼happened with the #FarageRiots
Call me old-fashioned, but I want police to control our streets, not moronic, racist, fascist thugs❗️🤷🏼♂️
Let’s remember last time that👇🏼happened with the #FarageRiots
Call me old-fashioned, but I want police to control our streets, not moronic, racist, fascist thugs❗️🤷🏼♂️
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#OtD 22 Jul 1920 government forces raided the Santiago, Chile, headquarters of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union. It was trying to break a 3-month-long @IWW strike aimed at preventing the export of cereals during a domestic famine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9483...
July 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#OtD 22 Jul 1920 government forces raided the Santiago, Chile, headquarters of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union. It was trying to break a 3-month-long @IWW strike aimed at preventing the export of cereals during a domestic famine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9483...
🚨 Sports Direct is using fake discounts to trick shoppers, says Which?. This could be breaking the law — but only public pressure will make them stop. #SportsDirect #StopTheScam
✍️ Sign the petition now to call them out: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sp...
✍️ Sign the petition now to call them out: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sp...
Sports Direct caught out over fake discounts, watchdog says
🚨 Sports Direct is using fake discounts to trick shoppers, says @WhichUK. This could be breaking the law — but only public pressure will make them stop. #SportsDirect #ConsumerRights #StopTheScam
✍️ ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
June 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🚨 Sports Direct is using fake discounts to trick shoppers, says Which?. This could be breaking the law — but only public pressure will make them stop. #SportsDirect #StopTheScam
✍️ Sign the petition now to call them out: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sp...
✍️ Sign the petition now to call them out: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sp...