@petershearer.bsky.social
Socialist, NUFC supporter, Nature lover.
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“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum
The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"
bylinetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...
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A brief reminder that everyone should leave X and let that heil hole rot away as it deserves to
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation
Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A brief reminder that everyone should leave X and let that heil hole rot away as it deserves to
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We attended the annual UK Wildlife Crime Enforcers conference this week & met some fantastic people working hard for wildlife. We also had a few interesting chats about potential new projects/partners...plans are already underway with some of them. We'll tell you more when we can!
November 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
We attended the annual UK Wildlife Crime Enforcers conference this week & met some fantastic people working hard for wildlife. We also had a few interesting chats about potential new projects/partners...plans are already underway with some of them. We'll tell you more when we can!
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Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
It takes a special kind of right-wing British political party to literally sell black shirts.
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
Are you going to tell them?
Or shall I?
November 28, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyway from now on we can all legitimately call Reform the "Black Shirts" - given they're flogging them to their actual members.
What an own goal!
Geddit?
What an own goal!
Geddit?
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UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
UK energy bill payers will hand £2bn a year to EDF for new power stations
French government-owned company to receive funding for Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
UK energy bill payers to hand £2bn a year in subsidies to EDF, owned by the French govt, for building two nuclear power stations.
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
That will come handy in keeping energy prices down in France, improving govt finances.
Dividends won't be taxed in the UK.
All because UK govts oppose public ownership
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Brazil has moved to ban cosmetic testing on live animals, a win worth celebrating. But why stop at lipstick while meat giants like JBS keep grinding lives into profit? Click to see the bigger picture behind the “progress.”
Brazil moves forward — but only so far
Herbiⓥore published a post on Ko-fi
ko-fi.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Brazil has moved to ban cosmetic testing on live animals, a win worth celebrating. But why stop at lipstick while meat giants like JBS keep grinding lives into profit? Click to see the bigger picture behind the “progress.”
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This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
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Budget 2025.
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Budget 2025.
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay
The wealthy hardly hit.
Minor tweaks on dividend and mansion tax.
No wealth tax.
No alignment of taxes on dividends & capital gains tax with taxation of wages.
Partnerships won't pay NIC on partners' share of profits
No financial transactions tax.
Lobbying and political donations pay
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Budget 2025
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Budget 2025
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
One lesso: organise, inform, campaign, protest.
UK Govt wasted 18 months, condemned millions of children to poverty. Today govt announced end of the two child benefit cap.
7 MPs had Labour whip withdrawn for opposing the cap. For 18 months Ministers defended the stupid policy.
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"Wonder why the media doesn't talk about taxing billionaires"
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Wonder why the media doesn't talk about taxing billionaires"
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
via Michael Taylor
#TaxBillionairesOutOfExixtence
#TaxTheRich
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Austerity 2.0. Attacks on disabled people. Arming genocide.
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
November 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Austerity 2.0. Attacks on disabled people. Arming genocide.
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
The Labour Party has turned a fundamental corner — and I don’t see it coming back.
Watch my full interview with @newstatesman1913.bsky.social here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4vw...
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A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
A climate deal without explicit language calling for a fossil fuel phaseout is like a ceasefire without explicit language calling for a suspension of hostilities.
#COP30
#COP30
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As mountain glacier melt worldwide accelerates
and government fight for water-guzzling AI
I fear many cities will face the same dire choice as Tehran
and government fight for water-guzzling AI
I fear many cities will face the same dire choice as Tehran
“What once sounded unthinkable is now being said openly: Tehran is not viable; and evacuation orders are imminent.
As I wrote before, President Masoud Pezeshkian himself said that it might be necessary to relocate Tehranis in large number.” open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
As I wrote before, President Masoud Pezeshkian himself said that it might be necessary to relocate Tehranis in large number.” open.substack.com/pub/peterfra...
Makran or Bust: Tehran's water crisis gets worse
Ten days ago I wrote that Tehran was approaching a point where warnings, pressure cuts and appeals to save water would no longer be enough.
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:27 AM
As mountain glacier melt worldwide accelerates
and government fight for water-guzzling AI
I fear many cities will face the same dire choice as Tehran
and government fight for water-guzzling AI
I fear many cities will face the same dire choice as Tehran
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2m UK pensioners live in poverty, 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
Neoliberals pushing to cut/freeze state pension.
Evidence: UK state pension is the worst among G7 nations, last on replacement rates, joint-last on state pension spending.
Britons receive pension for fewer years than most.
Neoliberals pushing to cut/freeze state pension.
Evidence: UK state pension is the worst among G7 nations, last on replacement rates, joint-last on state pension spending.
Britons receive pension for fewer years than most.
State pension generosity compared: how does the UK measure up? | Fidelity UK
Get all the latest news, views and opinions from Fidelity’s savings and investment experts on saving and investing for your retirement.
www.fidelity.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 AM
2m UK pensioners live in poverty, 110,000 a year die in fuel poverty.
Neoliberals pushing to cut/freeze state pension.
Evidence: UK state pension is the worst among G7 nations, last on replacement rates, joint-last on state pension spending.
Britons receive pension for fewer years than most.
Neoliberals pushing to cut/freeze state pension.
Evidence: UK state pension is the worst among G7 nations, last on replacement rates, joint-last on state pension spending.
Britons receive pension for fewer years than most.
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We all value ‘the rule of law’.
But whose law & rules? Corporations/Rich v Masses.
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few.
A few crumbs are thrown to pacify the masses but these are concessions and can be withdrawn.
See the linked article.
But whose law & rules? Corporations/Rich v Masses.
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few.
A few crumbs are thrown to pacify the masses but these are concessions and can be withdrawn.
See the linked article.
Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few
leftfootforward.org
November 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
We all value ‘the rule of law’.
But whose law & rules? Corporations/Rich v Masses.
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few.
A few crumbs are thrown to pacify the masses but these are concessions and can be withdrawn.
See the linked article.
But whose law & rules? Corporations/Rich v Masses.
The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few.
A few crumbs are thrown to pacify the masses but these are concessions and can be withdrawn.
See the linked article.
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Hey @naturescot.bsky.social, would a 2 minute silence in memory of Merrick at the 'Revive' conference in Perth this weekend help to stiffen your resolve? 🧐
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#RaptorPersecution
#SportingEstates
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#RaptorPersecution
#SportingEstates
Merrick was shot & killed as she slept, over two years ago. NatureScot has had all the evidence on its desk for over 18 months. Now we're being asked to wait "a few weeks" more. It's pathetic.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/n...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/n...
NatureScot says “decision in next few weeks” on whether to impose General Licence restriction in relation to shooting & killing of golden eagle Merrick
The Scottish Government’s nature advisory agency, NatureScot, has been now been procrastinating for over 18 months on whether to impose a sanction on an estate in relation to the ‘shooting and kill…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Hey @naturescot.bsky.social, would a 2 minute silence in memory of Merrick at the 'Revive' conference in Perth this weekend help to stiffen your resolve? 🧐
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#RaptorPersecution
#SportingEstates
#ScottishEnvironment🌱
#RaptorPersecution
#SportingEstates
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A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A magnificent piece of work. Comprehesive, revelatory & shocking. Journalism this good is always rare & precious but never moreso than at times like this. Latter day Lord Haw Haws being plumped, preened & delivered to your doorstep in plain sight by a Nazi-saluting goon
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky
The talks focus on ITV's Media and Entertainment division, which include its TV channels as well as its streaming service, ITV X.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
ITV in talks to sell television business to Sky.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
Sky is owned by US-based Comcast, largest shareholders include Vanguard Group, BlackRock.
CMA must block the takeover. No one must own more than one major media outlet. Need diversity and competition.
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Fourth Palestine Action prisoner launches hunger strike over ‘systematic abuse’
Three of the inmates say they have repeatedly been refused medical attention and electrolytes since they announced their strike
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-four...
Three of the inmates say they have repeatedly been refused medical attention and electrolytes since they announced their strike
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-four...
Fourth Palestine Action prisoner launches hunger strike over ‘systematic abuse’
Three of the inmates say they have repeatedly been refused medical attention and electrolytes since they announced their strike
www.middleeasteye.net
November 7, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Fourth Palestine Action prisoner launches hunger strike over ‘systematic abuse’
Three of the inmates say they have repeatedly been refused medical attention and electrolytes since they announced their strike
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-four...
Three of the inmates say they have repeatedly been refused medical attention and electrolytes since they announced their strike
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-four...
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Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Solidarity with @pcsunion.bsky.social workers at the British Library.
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
300 workers on strike. Some of them having to take second jobs or taking out loans just to be able to survive.
A Pay "award" below inflation is a pay cut. Unacceptable.
Solidarity - and keep organising! ✊🏼
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True Faith TV is back!! 🎙️
@alexhurst88.bsky.social and @charlotterob.bsky.social return to discuss Newcastle United's recent performances, hope on the horizon and what is now a HUGE upcoming clash away to Brentford in the Premier League 🔥
Live on our YouTube channel now 📺
#NUFC
@alexhurst88.bsky.social and @charlotterob.bsky.social return to discuss Newcastle United's recent performances, hope on the horizon and what is now a HUGE upcoming clash away to Brentford in the Premier League 🔥
Live on our YouTube channel now 📺
#NUFC
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
True Faith TV is back!! 🎙️
@alexhurst88.bsky.social and @charlotterob.bsky.social return to discuss Newcastle United's recent performances, hope on the horizon and what is now a HUGE upcoming clash away to Brentford in the Premier League 🔥
Live on our YouTube channel now 📺
#NUFC
@alexhurst88.bsky.social and @charlotterob.bsky.social return to discuss Newcastle United's recent performances, hope on the horizon and what is now a HUGE upcoming clash away to Brentford in the Premier League 🔥
Live on our YouTube channel now 📺
#NUFC
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Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders.
Musk used his wealth to incite violence, hatred in the US & UK.
How long before UK execs demand more for mediocre performance.
The ultra rich buy political system, bribe politicians, create pollution and inequity.
Tax them.
Musk used his wealth to incite violence, hatred in the US & UK.
How long before UK execs demand more for mediocre performance.
The ultra rich buy political system, bribe politicians, create pollution and inequity.
Tax them.
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders
The richest man in the world will get hundreds of millions of new shares if he hits his targets.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Elon Musk's $1tn pay deal approved by Tesla shareholders.
Musk used his wealth to incite violence, hatred in the US & UK.
How long before UK execs demand more for mediocre performance.
The ultra rich buy political system, bribe politicians, create pollution and inequity.
Tax them.
Musk used his wealth to incite violence, hatred in the US & UK.
How long before UK execs demand more for mediocre performance.
The ultra rich buy political system, bribe politicians, create pollution and inequity.
Tax them.
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Ffs can you stop peddling the myth that assylum seekers are living in luxury in hotel. - the truth is these hotels are squalid. Your job should be to challenge that view and stop giving it legitimacy
#R4Today
#R4Today
November 7, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Ffs can you stop peddling the myth that assylum seekers are living in luxury in hotel. - the truth is these hotels are squalid. Your job should be to challenge that view and stop giving it legitimacy
#R4Today
#R4Today
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I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism.
Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.
Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.
November 6, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I don't know what is more depressing. That the BBC seems to have no clue what democratic socialism is or that someone who comments on politics for a living thinks it's the same as communism.
Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.
Jesus wept, indeed. GCSE, Introduction to Politics, Chapter 1, stuff.