Paul Crofts
@paulcrofts.bsky.social
Live in the UK. Socialist, anti-fascist, anti-racist, Marxist, grumpy old man. Supports equality, Critical Race Theory, Palestine, LGBTQ+, a Women's Right to Choose, workers rights and the end of capitalism. Not much to ask for really. 😎✊🏾
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🔴Labour MP Accuses Environment Secretary of Misleading Parliament Over ‘£100bn Cost’ of Nationalising Water
Clive Lewis says Steve Reed’s figures are ‘for the birds’ as Thames Water is valued at £21bn despite coming close to collapse
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/24/l...
Clive Lewis says Steve Reed’s figures are ‘for the birds’ as Thames Water is valued at £21bn despite coming close to collapse
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/24/l...
Labour MP Accuses Environment Secretary of Misleading Parliament Over ‘£100bn Cost’ of Nationalising Water
Clive Lewis says Steve Reed's figures are 'for the birds' as Thames Water is valued at £21bn despite coming close to collapse
bylinetimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
🔴Labour MP Accuses Environment Secretary of Misleading Parliament Over ‘£100bn Cost’ of Nationalising Water
Clive Lewis says Steve Reed’s figures are ‘for the birds’ as Thames Water is valued at £21bn despite coming close to collapse
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/24/l...
Clive Lewis says Steve Reed’s figures are ‘for the birds’ as Thames Water is valued at £21bn despite coming close to collapse
bylinetimes.com/2025/07/24/l...
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Duh
Air pollution raises risk of dementia, say Cambridge scientists
Air pollution raises risk of dementia, say Cambridge scientists
Most comprehensive study of its kind highlights dangers of vehicle emissions and woodburning stoves
Exposure to certain forms of air pollution is linked to an increased risk of developing dementia, according to the most comprehensive study of its kind.
The illness is estimated to affect about 57 million people worldwide, with the number expected to increase to at least 150m cases by 2050. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Duh
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Also, while the judge can criticise the officer as a rogue individual, Kent police force issued a press release defending him, saying they stood by him and he was right in his interpretation of the law. It's not just one lone invididual doing this stuff...
July 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Also, while the judge can criticise the officer as a rogue individual, Kent police force issued a press release defending him, saying they stood by him and he was right in his interpretation of the law. It's not just one lone invididual doing this stuff...
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We can have a bolder Green Party.
Come to our campaign rally Wednesday night to find out how you can get involved!
Link in next post!
Come to our campaign rally Wednesday night to find out how you can get involved!
Link in next post!
July 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
We can have a bolder Green Party.
Come to our campaign rally Wednesday night to find out how you can get involved!
Link in next post!
Come to our campaign rally Wednesday night to find out how you can get involved!
Link in next post!
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I did not want to watch it; I forced myself to and it should be obligatory watching. The BBC decision not to air it is terrifying & shocking, particularly in light of Israel’s refusal to allow the media, including the BBC into Gaza or its prisons.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
A forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza
www.channel4.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I did not want to watch it; I forced myself to and it should be obligatory watching. The BBC decision not to air it is terrifying & shocking, particularly in light of Israel’s refusal to allow the media, including the BBC into Gaza or its prisons.
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
www.channel4.com/programmes/g...
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She’s a fucking horrible cunt isn’t she
Quite apart from the obvious xenophobia and cruelty, you'd have thought that this lot would have learnt from Windrush what requiring vulnerable people to provide evidence of citizenship leads to. But perhaps they just don't care.
Ban foreigners from claiming disability benefits, say Tories
Kemi Badenoch makes welfare a dividing line with Labour and Reform
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 10, 2025 at 8:42 AM
She’s a fucking horrible cunt isn’t she
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It's not complicated: refuse people safe routes, they'll travel dangerously. When people travel dangerously more die, more are traumatised.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social is spot on here: years of eroding rights in the name of deterrence hasn't worked yet: it's time to try something new.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social is spot on here: years of eroding rights in the name of deterrence hasn't worked yet: it's time to try something new.
Almost 20,000 asylum seekers in 6 months proves a crucial point
Despite the latest big scary number, this is not a new phenomenon.
buff.ly
July 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
It's not complicated: refuse people safe routes, they'll travel dangerously. When people travel dangerously more die, more are traumatised.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social is spot on here: years of eroding rights in the name of deterrence hasn't worked yet: it's time to try something new.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social is spot on here: years of eroding rights in the name of deterrence hasn't worked yet: it's time to try something new.
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social congratulations and thanks for your contribution on Newsnight
July 7, 2025 at 10:49 PM
@zoejardiniere.bsky.social congratulations and thanks for your contribution on Newsnight
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If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Sharing This Video Could Get You 14 Years in Prison
This NEW Law is TERRIFYING & Will SILENCE Us All
www.doubledown.news
June 27, 2025 at 7:58 AM
If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences?
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
This is where we show them how solidarity works.
My latest with the great @doubledown.news
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At least 50 African people at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-50-african-people-risk-imminent-execution-saudi-arabia
At least 50 African people at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia
Six convicts in Najiran prison have already been beheaded over the past month, inmates tell MEE, amid uptick in executions
www.middleeasteye.net
June 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
At least 50 African people at risk of imminent execution in Saudi Arabia - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/least-50-african-people-risk-imminent-execution-saudi-arabia
"Terrorist" sympathiser?
Well remembered Chris. An excellent example of Yvette Cooper’s hypocrisy; supports all political movements except the current ones.
I am old enough to recall as far back as 2018 when Cooper sported a suffragette rosette. A reminder that the suffragettes, unlike Palestine Action, actually planted bombs and destroyed property.
June 24, 2025 at 7:03 AM
"Terrorist" sympathiser?
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If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.
Well said.
Well said.
June 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
If you are not concerned by the proscription of Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation because you think it doesn’t impact you, you are wrong.
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
This is an authoritarian abuse of power by the government & it curtails all of our civil liberties #r4today
In December 2023, the Israeli President Isaac Herzog signed an artillery shell before it was fired to massacre Palestinians in Gaza.
He belongs in the dock at The Hague, not platformed on the BBC.
He belongs in the dock at The Hague, not platformed on the BBC.
June 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Even if a "millionaire exodus" did happen, who gives a shit? Let them go, we'll be better without them.
🔴The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent”
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was “non existent”
bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...
The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened
The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"
bylinetimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Even if a "millionaire exodus" did happen, who gives a shit? Let them go, we'll be better without them.
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“In the foreword of the report, England’s chief medical officer, Prof Chris Whitty, said: “Air pollution remains the most important environmental threat to health, with impacts throughout the life course.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK air pollution killing more than 500 people a week, doctors say
Royal College of Physicians also says poor air quality costs country more than £500m a week
www.theguardian.com
June 19, 2025 at 6:55 AM
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Iraq WMD 2.0
❗️BREAKING: British Defense Secretary John Healey confirms Eurofighter Typhoons are being deployed to the Middle East.
@PalestineDaily
@PalestineDaily
June 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Iraq WMD 2.0
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Operators of Reform UK's first pub, where Nigel Farage drank last week, previously hosted BNP including jailed neo-Nazi Jack Renshaw
Operators of Reform UK's first pub, where Nigel Farage drank last week, previously hosted BNP including jailed neo-Nazi Jack Renshaw
PLUS: Hope Not Hate say it is unfortunate that Reform UK have joined a 'miserable guestlist'
open.substack.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Operators of Reform UK's first pub, where Nigel Farage drank last week, previously hosted BNP including jailed neo-Nazi Jack Renshaw
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This weekend, as hundreds of thousands gathered for mass protest in opposition to rising US fascism, anti-Zionist Jews around the country made sure that the growing struggle against rising authoritarianism in the US is inseparable from the struggle for Palestinian freedom.
June 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This weekend, as hundreds of thousands gathered for mass protest in opposition to rising US fascism, anti-Zionist Jews around the country made sure that the growing struggle against rising authoritarianism in the US is inseparable from the struggle for Palestinian freedom.
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The Universal Credit and Personal Indenendence Payment Bill is now out. It has no purpose except cutting access to these disability welfare payments. And the cuts have no purpose except peformative cruelty, as they'll cost more than they save. publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
publications.parliament.uk
June 18, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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love how @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social, and the rest of them are looking to 'restore public trust' by constantly attacking human rights and equality legislation.
these ppl are fucking scum and we need to get rid of them.
these ppl are fucking scum and we need to get rid of them.
Hard to believe there was a general election and, notionally at least, a change of Government last year.
June 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
love how @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, @darrenpjones.bsky.social, and the rest of them are looking to 'restore public trust' by constantly attacking human rights and equality legislation.
these ppl are fucking scum and we need to get rid of them.
these ppl are fucking scum and we need to get rid of them.