Paula Fitzsimon
@paulafitzsimon.bsky.social
CBT Therapist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester.
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Help shape our work 👋
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
December 15, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Help shape our work 👋
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
We’re looking for people with lived experience of the asylum system in the UK to join our first Voices by Experience Advisory Panel.
Find out more about the volunteer role at www.refugeesathome.org/jobs
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How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
December 13, 2025 at 7:08 PM
How the BBC & ITV give disproportionate coverage to Farage & Reform: hard evidence from a serious study. BBC & ITV now give Reform more coverage than the Conservatives, more than the Lib Dems & nine times the Greens. Superb research from Stephen Cushion.
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
www.enhancingimpartiality.com/blog/broadca...
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Love is wise. Hatred is foolish.
November 17, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Love is wise. Hatred is foolish.
Hurry up @newsagents.bsky.social! I need to hear your take on the latest happenings with the Royals….
October 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Hurry up @newsagents.bsky.social! I need to hear your take on the latest happenings with the Royals….
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"Like so many of these so-called think tanks, the Tony Blair Institute dances to the tune of its funders"
Was so great to talk about Blair, Larry Ellison, Keir Stamer and corporate capture with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/george-mon...
Was so great to talk about Blair, Larry Ellison, Keir Stamer and corporate capture with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/george-mon...
George Monbiot on Blair, Starmer and the capture of democracy
I spoke with the celebrated journalist and activist about ‘junk tanks’, dark money - and how we can fight back
democracyforsale.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Like so many of these so-called think tanks, the Tony Blair Institute dances to the tune of its funders"
Was so great to talk about Blair, Larry Ellison, Keir Stamer and corporate capture with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/george-mon...
Was so great to talk about Blair, Larry Ellison, Keir Stamer and corporate capture with @georgemonbiot.bsky.social on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/george-mon...
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EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms
Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:19 AM
EXCLUSIVE: England’s farms are being fertilised with a cocktail of toxic landfill juice + sewage sludge.
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
750,000 tonnes of landfill leachate tankered to sewage works every year → mixed into sewage → spread on farmers' fields. 1/
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
If you’re a National Trust Member, please cast your vote using the Quick Vote option. 👍
National Trust Members.
It’s time to vote to keep the Faragists out.
Best not to split the vote.
Use the QUICK VOTE” link both for people and for motions.
It’s time to vote to keep the Faragists out.
Best not to split the vote.
Use the QUICK VOTE” link both for people and for motions.
Which reminds me, it's that time of year again for National Trust members to vote. The easiest way is to use the 'quick vote' to keep out the traditionalist 'Restore Trust' candidates. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...
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September 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If you’re a National Trust Member, please cast your vote using the Quick Vote option. 👍
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Nigel Farage wants to abolish your human rights youtu.be/Tt0fB-5S388?...
Nigel Farage wants to abolish your human rights
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
youtu.be
August 28, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Nigel Farage wants to abolish your human rights youtu.be/Tt0fB-5S388?...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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Spoke to LBC news earlier about Starmer's PR stunt in Albania today. It shows that, yet again, this government is failing to grasp the complexities of trafficking, and asylum, and instead is focusing on measures which actively make things worse for everyone.
May 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Spoke to LBC news earlier about Starmer's PR stunt in Albania today. It shows that, yet again, this government is failing to grasp the complexities of trafficking, and asylum, and instead is focusing on measures which actively make things worse for everyone.
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🔴Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the UK Government with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
bylinetimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
🔴Matt Hancock Used His Personal Email Account to Help ‘VIP’ Supplier Win £25 Million COVID PPE Contract
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
Excalibur Healthcare, which supplied the NHS with tens of millions of pounds worth of unusable PPE, ultimately folded owing taxpayers £22 million
bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...
This issue is close to my heart for many reasons. Please consider signing this petition if you feel similarly.
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
Sign the Petition
TAX WEALTH – DON'T CUT DISABILITY SUPPORT
www.change.org
March 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This issue is close to my heart for many reasons. Please consider signing this petition if you feel similarly.
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
www.change.org/p/tax-wealth...
If you don’t follow @garyseconomics.bsky.social, now’s the time to start! He also posts some super videos on YouTube and has a wonderful book out. 👍
I'm talking at this tomorrow at 17:45, central London outside the Treasury:
Tell the UK Chancellor to Tax the Super-Rich
secure.waronwant.org/page/167449/...
Tell the UK Chancellor to Tax the Super-Rich
secure.waronwant.org/page/167449/...
Rally: Tax the Super-Rich
secure.waronwant.org
March 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
If you don’t follow @garyseconomics.bsky.social, now’s the time to start! He also posts some super videos on YouTube and has a wonderful book out. 👍
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Disabled people fighting back against cuts with protests across the UK: THIS Saturday
Protests will take place in over 20 areas, including London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Edinburgh.
To find your nearest protest, head to Crips Against Cuts Instagram: www.instagram.com/crips_against_cuts
Protests will take place in over 20 areas, including London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Edinburgh.
To find your nearest protest, head to Crips Against Cuts Instagram: www.instagram.com/crips_against_cuts
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March 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Disabled people fighting back against cuts with protests across the UK: THIS Saturday
Protests will take place in over 20 areas, including London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Edinburgh.
To find your nearest protest, head to Crips Against Cuts Instagram: www.instagram.com/crips_against_cuts
Protests will take place in over 20 areas, including London, Birmingham, Liverpool, and Edinburgh.
To find your nearest protest, head to Crips Against Cuts Instagram: www.instagram.com/crips_against_cuts
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If there’s anything we learned from the pandemic it is that *healthy people=healthy economy*. It’s not health v economy; it’s health And economy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Plans to reform welfare system and cut benefits bill to be announced - live updates
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall pledges to ensure fairness in the benefits system ahead of addressing Parliament at 12:30 GMT.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
If there’s anything we learned from the pandemic it is that *healthy people=healthy economy*. It’s not health v economy; it’s health And economy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
Well worth a read….
Donald Corleone, turning the US into a mafia state. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland
The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Well worth a read….
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This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.
December 11, 2024 at 8:26 AM
This is sort of fascinating because if you were to turn on pretty much any talk radio station or pick up any tabloid, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was the inverse.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
December 6, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
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Royal Mail
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Royal Mail fails to deliver about a quarter of first-class post on time
Deterioration in delivery times adds further pressure on bosses just as takeover deal nears completion
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Royal Mail
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Only 76% of 1st-class mail delivered in time, down from 79%.
93% of 2nd-class post on time, down from 94%.
1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p
Privatisation = Higher price, worse service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...
Study confirms face masks' effectiveness in reducing disease transmission, calls for improved public understanding
Researchers reviewed the benefits, practicalities, and harms of masks and masking, finding that masks are effective in reducing respiratory disease transmission despite some adverse effects, and empha...
www.news-medical.net
November 28, 2024 at 7:39 PM
When the mask mandate was lifted from Mass General Brigham in May '23, hospital transmission of resp virus went up. When the mandate was re-instituted in Jan '24, infection rates went down. www.news-medical.net/news/2024052...
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This from the co-owners of GB News says what many have suspected ....GB News is a political project
To be an Ofcom regulated broadcaster the station is specifically not allowed to be politically biased. It can have shows which lean one way or another, but the balance must exist across a schedule.
To be an Ofcom regulated broadcaster the station is specifically not allowed to be politically biased. It can have shows which lean one way or another, but the balance must exist across a schedule.
The CEO of Legatum, co-owners of GB News, saying the quiet part out loud...
November 27, 2024 at 6:00 AM
This from the co-owners of GB News says what many have suspected ....GB News is a political project
To be an Ofcom regulated broadcaster the station is specifically not allowed to be politically biased. It can have shows which lean one way or another, but the balance must exist across a schedule.
To be an Ofcom regulated broadcaster the station is specifically not allowed to be politically biased. It can have shows which lean one way or another, but the balance must exist across a schedule.
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🚨SCOOP: UK government spent £450MILLION subsiding bills at one of Britain’s worst performing water companies
While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
Revealed: Government gave £450m in subsidies to sewage-dumping water firm
New documents show government handed taxpayer cash to South West Water while the company paid out billions to shareholders and dumped raw sewage into the ocean
democracyforsale.substack.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:03 PM
🚨SCOOP: UK government spent £450MILLION subsiding bills at one of Britain’s worst performing water companies
While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
While South West Water’s owners paid shareholders £1.5 BILLION+ in dividends and company poured sewage into the sea
New on Democracy for Sale
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g...
New free breakfast clubs for children to start next year! Fantastic news! The benefits of these sorts of interventions are immense. Welcome news at a time where people are struggling.
Free school breakfast clubs will start next year with extra childcare for parents
Some 750 schools in England will be picked for a year-long pilot starting in April, as part of a massive expansion of provision of free breakfast clubs across the country👏
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Some 750 schools in England will be picked for a year-long pilot starting in April, as part of a massive expansion of provision of free breakfast clubs across the country👏
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Free school breakfast clubs to start next year with extra childcare for parents
Some 750 schools in England will be picked for a year-long pilot starting in April, as part of a massive expansion of provision of free breakfast clubs across the country
www.mirror.co.uk
November 27, 2024 at 7:36 AM
New free breakfast clubs for children to start next year! Fantastic news! The benefits of these sorts of interventions are immense. Welcome news at a time where people are struggling.
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Morning BlueSkyers
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Morning BlueSkyers
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻
If any of you enjoy The Trawl @thetrawl.bsky.social please can you repost this request to @bsky.app for a bookmark tab
Would hugely help not having to look at the hellhole that is X
🙏🏻