Paul Prentice
@paulprentice.bsky.social
Railway media type | Councillor for Barton on @canterburycc | Chair, Overview Committee | TSSA Union | 🚄 🏳️🌈 🌹🐝
Having done jury service three times now, this is overdue, sensible and proportionate. Trial by jury must remain, but not for a year-long trial for complex fraud involving cryptocurrency, nor is it appropriate and proportionate for the theft of a Mars bar.
Thousands to lose the right to trial by jury in drive to fix court logjam
The court minister is proposing a new intermediate court to speed up delays caused partly by an increase in rape cases.
https://bit.ly/3LHDLzo
The court minister is proposing a new intermediate court to speed up delays caused partly by an increase in rape cases.
https://bit.ly/3LHDLzo
Thousands to lose the right to trial by jury in drive to fix court logjam | The Observer
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November 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Having done jury service three times now, this is overdue, sensible and proportionate. Trial by jury must remain, but not for a year-long trial for complex fraud involving cryptocurrency, nor is it appropriate and proportionate for the theft of a Mars bar.
I was at an anti-racist protest outside a children’s home in my ward earlier today where we outnumbered the far right by 3-1. Thanks to @kentonline.co.uk for giving it the coverage it needed. Canterbury is a lovely, hospitable place, but not for extremists.
www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
Second anti-immigration protest takes place outside children’s home
An anti-immigration rally over accommodation being used to house young asylum seekers was met with a counter-protest.
www.kentonline.co.uk
October 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I was at an anti-racist protest outside a children’s home in my ward earlier today where we outnumbered the far right by 3-1. Thanks to @kentonline.co.uk for giving it the coverage it needed. Canterbury is a lovely, hospitable place, but not for extremists.
www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/n...
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On the same day in the Telegraph:
![The Telegraph
Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement
Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty
Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence
[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]
Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent
29 August 2025 8:57am BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihe5mm7nwmwvzhtgadmsafyvsaxhrufuai2d2j2rju5zt6g2lytea@jpeg)
![The Telegraph
Money > Property > Second homes
How to avoid tax on your second home
From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net
[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]
Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer
29 August 2025 1:21pm BST](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreieuwgc2vsmyfcctmf4cnpcqckij2pqdk2gmzajpnihrsqyqmzyr5e@jpeg)
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs
July 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I’m hiring a reporter for London Centric, looking for someone smart who can use a phone, knock on doors and wants to cause trouble. Don’t care if you’ve got qualifications, just want evidence of caring about news. Initial six month contract, pay above national rates. www.londoncentric.media/p/jobs
Back Pup and Tiger—Canterbury Needs This Space www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
Back Pup and Tiger—Canterbury Needs This Space
Pup and Tiger is a queer-owned art space and café, serving great coffee while fostering creativity, inclusivity, and community.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
June 14, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Back Pup and Tiger—Canterbury Needs This Space www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
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June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
Pick a side – hate or Pride
June is Pride month. So our social feeds will be awash with corporate rainbow logos performatively signalling their support for the LGBTQ+ community. But some of the same companies celebrating Pride a...
action.goodlawproject.org
May 29, 2025 at 8:44 AM
June is Pride Month. Let's call out companies who show support for LGBTQ+ people while also advertising on GB News, a channel that pumps out LGBTQ+ hate. Tell these companies to pick a side - hate or Pride: action.goodlawproject.org/pick-side-ha...
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We're opening a queer-led art space + café in Canterbury! A home for bold queer art (local + beyond), warm brews, and radical joy. Help us bring it to life 💥
🌈 Support the crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
#PupAndTiger #QueerArt #SupportQueerSpaces #Canterbury
🌈 Support the crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
#PupAndTiger #QueerArt #SupportQueerSpaces #Canterbury
April 24, 2025 at 4:13 PM
We're opening a queer-led art space + café in Canterbury! A home for bold queer art (local + beyond), warm brews, and radical joy. Help us bring it to life 💥
🌈 Support the crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
#PupAndTiger #QueerArt #SupportQueerSpaces #Canterbury
🌈 Support the crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
#PupAndTiger #QueerArt #SupportQueerSpaces #Canterbury
Please, if you can, donate to this much needed cause in Canterbury. At the moment there’s nothing like it in terms of queer spaces. I love what @pupandtiger.bsky.social are planning.
We're opening a queer-led art space + café in Canterbury! A home for bold queer art (local + beyond), warm brews, and radical joy. Help us bring it to life 💥
🌈 Support the crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
#PupAndTiger #QueerArt #SupportQueerSpaces #Canterbury
🌈 Support the crowdfund: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/pup-and-ti...
#PupAndTiger #QueerArt #SupportQueerSpaces #Canterbury
May 29, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Please, if you can, donate to this much needed cause in Canterbury. At the moment there’s nothing like it in terms of queer spaces. I love what @pupandtiger.bsky.social are planning.
I’m interested in speaking with any of the bus campaign groups in the north of England that have worked to secure bus franchising and public control of routes - now being rolled out or planned to be. Manchester, Yorkshire, Merseyside? Grateful for any thoughts and useful contacts people might have.
May 6, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’m interested in speaking with any of the bus campaign groups in the north of England that have worked to secure bus franchising and public control of routes - now being rolled out or planned to be. Manchester, Yorkshire, Merseyside? Grateful for any thoughts and useful contacts people might have.
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Young need a “moral re-education”, says party led by a man who posts photos of himself with rapists.
May 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Young need a “moral re-education”, says party led by a man who posts photos of himself with rapists.
This just isn’t where voters are. Net zero policies are entirely ‘rational’ and supported by Labour, Tory, Lib-Dem and even many Reform voters, let alone Greens. You just need to bring people with you along the journey and ensure that the transition is just and fair.
April 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
This just isn’t where voters are. Net zero policies are entirely ‘rational’ and supported by Labour, Tory, Lib-Dem and even many Reform voters, let alone Greens. You just need to bring people with you along the journey and ensure that the transition is just and fair.
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“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train”
Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says
Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right
www.theguardian.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:39 AM
“He and his party have never run anything – a local council, a parish council. He’s spent a lifetime doing what he accuses others of doing, which is riding the political gravy train”
Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Farage will take your votes and then take the piss. Don’t give him that chance.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
On one hand, when so many people are struggling even to put food on the table, £91,000 is more than enough to live on, is it not?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Some British MPs spending equivalent of a day a week doing second jobs
Guardian analysis finds seven MPs have worked at least 300 hours since July in outside employment
www.theguardian.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:18 AM
On one hand, when so many people are struggling even to put food on the table, £91,000 is more than enough to live on, is it not?
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Doing our regular councillor surgery at lunchtime today with @feistywomankent.bsky.social and Pat. Always nice to drop by Spring Lane Neighbourhood Centre!
April 15, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Doing our regular councillor surgery at lunchtime today with @feistywomankent.bsky.social and Pat. Always nice to drop by Spring Lane Neighbourhood Centre!
One of the most fascinating days out I’ve ever had - an awesome experience.
Among many geopolitical arguments for saving British Steel there’s also the fine volunteers who will let you spend an afternoon in Scunthorpe driving a train around the active steel works on a massive private railway past vats of molten metal.
April 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
One of the most fascinating days out I’ve ever had - an awesome experience.
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I had an incredibly surreal and delightful afternoon there with @paulprentice.bsky.social and @mrtimdunn.bsky.social who was greeted like a god by the gentlemen who ran the trains. And was left in awe by the scale of the operation.
April 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I had an incredibly surreal and delightful afternoon there with @paulprentice.bsky.social and @mrtimdunn.bsky.social who was greeted like a god by the gentlemen who ran the trains. And was left in awe by the scale of the operation.
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Among many geopolitical arguments for saving British Steel there’s also the fine volunteers who will let you spend an afternoon in Scunthorpe driving a train around the active steel works on a massive private railway past vats of molten metal.
April 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Among many geopolitical arguments for saving British Steel there’s also the fine volunteers who will let you spend an afternoon in Scunthorpe driving a train around the active steel works on a massive private railway past vats of molten metal.
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"You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt."
Clem Attlee, to his cabinet, on the first day of the 1945 Labour government.
Clem Attlee, to his cabinet, on the first day of the 1945 Labour government.
I am getting increasingly frustrated by Labour bigwigs speechifying about how the world has changed and we need to be bold and then... not being bold
April 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"You will be judged by what you succeed at gentlemen, not by what you attempt."
Clem Attlee, to his cabinet, on the first day of the 1945 Labour government.
Clem Attlee, to his cabinet, on the first day of the 1945 Labour government.
The funniest thing about this proposal is the idea that buses would only go in one direction at peak times, as if people’s lives and work fit into neat patterns that match the aspirations of this bizarre transport-based NIMBYism (they don’t like HS2 either, surprise!)
The Portishead Busway Campaign, apparently. www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerse...
'White elephant' railway project slammed as 'pointless nostalgia'
The Portishead Busway Campaign has labelled the return of trains between Bristol and Portishead as "ill-conceived", "scandalous" and "pure kneejerk nostalgia"
www.somersetlive.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The funniest thing about this proposal is the idea that buses would only go in one direction at peak times, as if people’s lives and work fit into neat patterns that match the aspirations of this bizarre transport-based NIMBYism (they don’t like HS2 either, surprise!)
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The Portishead Busway Campaign, apparently. www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerse...
'White elephant' railway project slammed as 'pointless nostalgia'
The Portishead Busway Campaign has labelled the return of trains between Bristol and Portishead as "ill-conceived", "scandalous" and "pure kneejerk nostalgia"
www.somersetlive.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The Portishead Busway Campaign, apparently. www.somersetlive.co.uk/news/somerse...
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If you don't already support independent outlets battling the far-right tide, now's the time...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
Spectator owner said to be planning to fund new generation of UK journalists
Multimillionaire Paul Marshall understood to be talking to senior figures in Britain’s right-leaning media about the idea
www.theguardian.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
If you don't already support independent outlets battling the far-right tide, now's the time...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
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LGBTQ+ people are some of the strongest I know.
They aren't 'snowflakes' for asking to be treated with dignity in public life. This LGBT+ history month, I asked for a timeline on:
➡A full trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban
➡making anti-LGBT hate crime an aggravated offence
➡Reforming the GRA
They aren't 'snowflakes' for asking to be treated with dignity in public life. This LGBT+ history month, I asked for a timeline on:
➡A full trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban
➡making anti-LGBT hate crime an aggravated offence
➡Reforming the GRA
Progress isn't inevitable - we need to fight for LGBTQ+ rights | Sarah Owen MP
YouTube video by Sarah Owen MP
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:51 AM
LGBTQ+ people are some of the strongest I know.
They aren't 'snowflakes' for asking to be treated with dignity in public life. This LGBT+ history month, I asked for a timeline on:
➡A full trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban
➡making anti-LGBT hate crime an aggravated offence
➡Reforming the GRA
They aren't 'snowflakes' for asking to be treated with dignity in public life. This LGBT+ history month, I asked for a timeline on:
➡A full trans-inclusive conversion therapy ban
➡making anti-LGBT hate crime an aggravated offence
➡Reforming the GRA
Finally, a Brexit benefit.
February 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Finally, a Brexit benefit.
I’ve got a better idea for growing the economy that doesn’t involve Heathrow Airport…
January 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’ve got a better idea for growing the economy that doesn’t involve Heathrow Airport…