Ruth Bolton
@ruthml55.bsky.social
Granny, gardener, singer and poet - still protesting but removing myself from the toxicity of the oligarchs.
@elizlmckay.bsky.social
Hello Elizabeth, thank you for following me. You must be the “Wee Granny’s Magic Bag” writer! 🙂
Hello Elizabeth, thank you for following me. You must be the “Wee Granny’s Magic Bag” writer! 🙂
September 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
@elizlmckay.bsky.social
Hello Elizabeth, thank you for following me. You must be the “Wee Granny’s Magic Bag” writer! 🙂
Hello Elizabeth, thank you for following me. You must be the “Wee Granny’s Magic Bag” writer! 🙂
@lbc.co.uk Emily Thornberry calmly stating facts about immigration
this morning. Good to have her on.
this morning. Good to have her on.
August 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
@lbc.co.uk Emily Thornberry calmly stating facts about immigration
this morning. Good to have her on.
this morning. Good to have her on.
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Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while preventing others from having a say or knowing what he’s going to do next.
This, my friends, is called a dictatorship. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-trump-decides
This, my friends, is called a dictatorship. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-trump-decides
July 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Never before in our history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while preventing others from having a say or knowing what he’s going to do next.
This, my friends, is called a dictatorship. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-trump-decides
This, my friends, is called a dictatorship. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-trump-decides
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Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
Italy chemical plant execs jailed for pollution
An Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals".
www.france24.com
July 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Italy court sends 11 executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water, a total of more than 141 years.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
Puts UK to shame.
UK buries corporate crimes - water, Post Office, Grenfell, infected blood, bank frauds.
Govts/Regulators serve corporations, not people.
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I’ve read several stories in major newspapers about the outrageous attack by Iran on a hospital in Israel. Not one of them mentioned Israel’s missile strikes on hospitals in Gaza. Nothing justifies these attacks by either country. Nothing. But when reporting Israeli outrage, context matters.
June 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I’ve read several stories in major newspapers about the outrageous attack by Iran on a hospital in Israel. Not one of them mentioned Israel’s missile strikes on hospitals in Gaza. Nothing justifies these attacks by either country. Nothing. But when reporting Israeli outrage, context matters.
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Imagine stumbling across a century-old choral work in your dad’s music cupboard —–and deciding to perform it.
That’s exactly what’s happening in Woolpit and Horringer in the next few days.
👇🏽
That’s exactly what’s happening in Woolpit and Horringer in the next few days.
👇🏽
A weekend of forgotten voices and dancefloor memories
From sacred cantatas to forest raves – a weekend of rediscoveries, memories and local favourites worth celebrating
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Imagine stumbling across a century-old choral work in your dad’s music cupboard —–and deciding to perform it.
That’s exactly what’s happening in Woolpit and Horringer in the next few days.
👇🏽
That’s exactly what’s happening in Woolpit and Horringer in the next few days.
👇🏽
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‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers
‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers
After fears £11m would be diverted to Treasury, money will be spent on restoring polluted areas where penalties issued
Millions of pounds of fines imposed on water firms will fund environmental schemes to protect the country’s waterways after fears the…
www.theguardian.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:16 AM
‘The sewage scandal ends now’: UK water company fines to be used to clean up rivers
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I don’t do Amazon but, thought I’d share this if anyone is interested in participating.
March 4, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I don’t do Amazon but, thought I’d share this if anyone is interested in participating.
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If Trump was President in 1940
March 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If Trump was President in 1940
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If you are reeling from Trump & Vance's disgusting performance towards Zelensky last night, might you consider donating to www.hospiceukraine.com, the tiny charity I set up with Henry Marsh to support local Ukrainian palliative care teams?
We delivered this Land Rover to a rural hospice in Dec...
We delivered this Land Rover to a rural hospice in Dec...
March 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
If you are reeling from Trump & Vance's disgusting performance towards Zelensky last night, might you consider donating to www.hospiceukraine.com, the tiny charity I set up with Henry Marsh to support local Ukrainian palliative care teams?
We delivered this Land Rover to a rural hospice in Dec...
We delivered this Land Rover to a rural hospice in Dec...
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There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.
February 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Good to hear you speaking the truth on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight.
Good to hear you speaking the truth on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight.
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social
Good to hear you speaking the truth on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight.
Good to hear you speaking the truth on @channel4news.bsky.social tonight.
@tomswarbrick.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk.
I really disliked the way you spoke to Aimee Shalan, Director of Makan.
You asked her to speak about the Gaza video and you wouldn’t let her answer your original question and even cut her off .
I would like to have listened to her!
I really disliked the way you spoke to Aimee Shalan, Director of Makan.
You asked her to speak about the Gaza video and you wouldn’t let her answer your original question and even cut her off .
I would like to have listened to her!
February 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
@tomswarbrick.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk.
I really disliked the way you spoke to Aimee Shalan, Director of Makan.
You asked her to speak about the Gaza video and you wouldn’t let her answer your original question and even cut her off .
I would like to have listened to her!
I really disliked the way you spoke to Aimee Shalan, Director of Makan.
You asked her to speak about the Gaza video and you wouldn’t let her answer your original question and even cut her off .
I would like to have listened to her!
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Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
February 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Complete batshit lunacy on the president's Truth Social account. Yes, he really posted this.
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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
February 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]