Sam Buca
@sambuca45.bsky.social
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It's bad - really bad: "At the end of 2024, 4.5m children – 31% of all UK children – were in relative poverty, living in households earning less than 60% of the UK’s median income. And 18% of all children were growing up in food-insecure households, without consistent access to nutritious food."
Child poverty: how bad is it in the UK?
Four and a half million children are growing up without basic necessities in the UK.
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It's bad - really bad: "At the end of 2024, 4.5m children – 31% of all UK children – were in relative poverty, living in households earning less than 60% of the UK’s median income. And 18% of all children were growing up in food-insecure households, without consistent access to nutritious food."
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No, #cantpaywontpay. My bill is 30% higher even after the government bailout with taxpayers money. Why should I pay twice. I'm withholding the waste water part of the charge - maintaing they are not delivering this safely or responsibly. #makepolluterspay
December 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
No, #cantpaywontpay. My bill is 30% higher even after the government bailout with taxpayers money. Why should I pay twice. I'm withholding the waste water part of the charge - maintaing they are not delivering this safely or responsibly. #makepolluterspay
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Good ventilation and air filtration are critical tools in preventing respiratory infections.
The Government must assess current standards in hospitals and schools — and act where they fall short.
#Flu #Covid #Ventilation
Full response 👉 hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...
The Government must assess current standards in hospitals and schools — and act where they fall short.
#Flu #Covid #Ventilation
Full response 👉 hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...
December 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Good ventilation and air filtration are critical tools in preventing respiratory infections.
The Government must assess current standards in hospitals and schools — and act where they fall short.
#Flu #Covid #Ventilation
Full response 👉 hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...
The Government must assess current standards in hospitals and schools — and act where they fall short.
#Flu #Covid #Ventilation
Full response 👉 hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2025-1...
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#NHS must learn lessons of COVID to overcome winter #flu
In the Guardian experts including @martinmckee.bsky.social say increasing vaccine uptake, boosting support for people to stay home when unwell & increasing ventilation would help protect from flu.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
In the Guardian experts including @martinmckee.bsky.social say increasing vaccine uptake, boosting support for people to stay home when unwell & increasing ventilation would help protect from flu.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS must learn lessons of Covid to overcome winter flu, say experts
If not, academics say people will continue to get sick and die while schools close and hospitals are overwhelmed
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
#NHS must learn lessons of COVID to overcome winter #flu
In the Guardian experts including @martinmckee.bsky.social say increasing vaccine uptake, boosting support for people to stay home when unwell & increasing ventilation would help protect from flu.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
In the Guardian experts including @martinmckee.bsky.social say increasing vaccine uptake, boosting support for people to stay home when unwell & increasing ventilation would help protect from flu.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Over 380,000 people in England will be spending the festive season homeless, including 175,000 children.
We need to be far bolder if we are going to tackle this crisis.
My piece for @bigissue.com on the cross-government strategy for ending homelessness.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...
We need to be far bolder if we are going to tackle this crisis.
My piece for @bigissue.com on the cross-government strategy for ending homelessness.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...
Labour must be bolder to turn around the state’s failures on homelessness
Labour's homelessness strategy is not enough to end homelessness for good in England, writes MP Paula Barker after Housing First snub,
www.bigissue.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Over 380,000 people in England will be spending the festive season homeless, including 175,000 children.
We need to be far bolder if we are going to tackle this crisis.
My piece for @bigissue.com on the cross-government strategy for ending homelessness.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...
We need to be far bolder if we are going to tackle this crisis.
My piece for @bigissue.com on the cross-government strategy for ending homelessness.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/labo...
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At least 37 have been killed in flash floods triggered by torrential rains in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal province of Safi, according to authorities aje.io/cm2b5j
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
At least 37 have been killed in flash floods triggered by torrential rains in Morocco’s Atlantic coastal province of Safi, according to authorities aje.io/cm2b5j
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Rishi Sunak telling lies at the covid inquiry:
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
December 15, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Rishi Sunak telling lies at the covid inquiry:
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
"Listen to the health and medical advice on what was likely to happen and then do the best you could at designing economic interventions"
Prof Dame Angela McLean and ProfJohn Edmunds called him "Dr Death the Chancellor"
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David Dimbleby has raised an uncomfortable question: is it just possible that our royal family is....plain greedy ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarc...
The King and Prince William must open the books on their enormous riches
The senior royals have amassed a great fortune without any scrutiny. For most of their subjects, these are testing financial times—we must have transp...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 AM
David Dimbleby has raised an uncomfortable question: is it just possible that our royal family is....plain greedy ? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarc...
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‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
Research shows that the British colonial wealth extraction system still influences the region’s tourist industry
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
‘Rebranded plantations’: how empire shaped luxury Caribbean tourism
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We live in an unequal world. And it’s getting worse. 1 in 1,000 people own three times more than 500 of those 1,000 people. It’s not a matter of being unfair - it’s an economic system unfit for the world.
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December 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
We live in an unequal world. And it’s getting worse. 1 in 1,000 people own three times more than 500 of those 1,000 people. It’s not a matter of being unfair - it’s an economic system unfit for the world.
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buff.ly/s6OFX8A
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For Christmas Jumper Day this year I’m donating to UNICEF UK’s Sudan appeal. Sudan receives too little attention, yet its people face unimaginable aggression and grave violations of international law.
Donate here if you can: unicef.org.uk/donate/sudan-appeal
#SudanCrisis | @rspb.bsky.social
Donate here if you can: unicef.org.uk/donate/sudan-appeal
#SudanCrisis | @rspb.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
For Christmas Jumper Day this year I’m donating to UNICEF UK’s Sudan appeal. Sudan receives too little attention, yet its people face unimaginable aggression and grave violations of international law.
Donate here if you can: unicef.org.uk/donate/sudan-appeal
#SudanCrisis | @rspb.bsky.social
Donate here if you can: unicef.org.uk/donate/sudan-appeal
#SudanCrisis | @rspb.bsky.social
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‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
Cyclones like those in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Malaysia that killed 1,750 are ‘alarming new reality’
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:17 AM
‘Not normal’: Climate crisis supercharged deadly monsoon floods in Asia
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NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
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whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
Mapping England’s Landscape Recovery Projects
This post is by Guy Shrubsole. Image: West Penwith, Cornwall – one of over 50 Landscape Recovery pilots. Since Brexit, the UK Government has been engaged in lengthy reforms of farm payments &…
whoownsengland.org
December 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
NEW: Mapping England's Landscape Recovery projects
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
The Government refused to release maps of these groundbreaking projects to restore nature
So I had a go at mapping them myself
1/
whoownsengland.org/2025/12/10/m...
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‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
Kolahoi is one of many glaciers whose decline is disrupting whole ecosystems – water, wildlife and human life that it has supported for centuries
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
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For much much more on the profiteers behind Britain's catastrophic pandemic failure, check out 'VIP Lane' by @russellscott1.bsky.social
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December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For much much more on the profiteers behind Britain's catastrophic pandemic failure, check out 'VIP Lane' by @russellscott1.bsky.social
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The ECHR was set up after WWII to ensure that fascism never again arose in Europe. Why do the right want to curb/limit/leave/abolish the ECHR? Because it does what it was intended to do, that's why...
How many times do we need to point this out?
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
By appeasing the far right, you do not weaken it. You strengthen it.
While weakening your own position.
There's a vast amount of academic research showing this.
But Labour will not listen.
www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The ECHR was set up after WWII to ensure that fascism never again arose in Europe. Why do the right want to curb/limit/leave/abolish the ECHR? Because it does what it was intended to do, that's why...
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This company on the brink of bankruptcy, wants to reward top execs with £millions in bonuses….you have to be kidding - I suspect they are not.
December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This company on the brink of bankruptcy, wants to reward top execs with £millions in bonuses….you have to be kidding - I suspect they are not.
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Beyond a joke - this hideous failure of privatisation, this company that has pumped £billions out of our economy to foreign owners while pumping billions of litres of sewage into our rivers.
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December 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Beyond a joke - this hideous failure of privatisation, this company that has pumped £billions out of our economy to foreign owners while pumping billions of litres of sewage into our rivers.
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We're here to support you through the Christmas break🎄
Our Helpline will be open on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th December 10am–2pm. Call us on 0808 801 0323 or email advice@opfs.org.uk.
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#Christmas2025 #ChristmasSupport #SingleParents #Scotland
Our Helpline will be open on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th December 10am–2pm. Call us on 0808 801 0323 or email advice@opfs.org.uk.
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December 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
We're here to support you through the Christmas break🎄
Our Helpline will be open on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th December 10am–2pm. Call us on 0808 801 0323 or email advice@opfs.org.uk.
Chat to us⬇️
www.opfs.org.uk/talk-to-us/
#Christmas2025 #ChristmasSupport #SingleParents #Scotland
Our Helpline will be open on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th December 10am–2pm. Call us on 0808 801 0323 or email advice@opfs.org.uk.
Chat to us⬇️
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#Christmas2025 #ChristmasSupport #SingleParents #Scotland
Fire chiefs warn about the dangers of throwing away lithium batteries into household rubbish bins🔥🔥🪫
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
#recycling
#fire
#firesafety
#batteries
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
#recycling
#fire
#firesafety
#batteries
Fire warning for unwanted Christmas electronics
Fire chiefs warn of the risks posed by incorrect disposal of lithium batteries.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Fire chiefs warn about the dangers of throwing away lithium batteries into household rubbish bins🔥🔥🪫
www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
#recycling
#fire
#firesafety
#batteries
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#recycling
#fire
#firesafety
#batteries
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Land-based salmon farming is an environmental and ethical disaster:
⚠️ Drains the ocean of wild fish, stolen from coastal communities for salmon feed
⚠️ Devours water and energy
⚠️ Risky tech with frequent failures, pollution, mass die-offs
⚠️ Causes suffering on an industrial scale
(3/5)
⚠️ Drains the ocean of wild fish, stolen from coastal communities for salmon feed
⚠️ Devours water and energy
⚠️ Risky tech with frequent failures, pollution, mass die-offs
⚠️ Causes suffering on an industrial scale
(3/5)
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Land-based salmon farming is an environmental and ethical disaster:
⚠️ Drains the ocean of wild fish, stolen from coastal communities for salmon feed
⚠️ Devours water and energy
⚠️ Risky tech with frequent failures, pollution, mass die-offs
⚠️ Causes suffering on an industrial scale
(3/5)
⚠️ Drains the ocean of wild fish, stolen from coastal communities for salmon feed
⚠️ Devours water and energy
⚠️ Risky tech with frequent failures, pollution, mass die-offs
⚠️ Causes suffering on an industrial scale
(3/5)
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What is land-based salmon? It’s industrial fish farming in tanks.
Salmon – born to swim through rivers and seas – are now crammed into sterile tanks under artificial lights inside factories.
From wild rivers to prison tanks. It’s absurd and cruel. (2/5)
Salmon – born to swim through rivers and seas – are now crammed into sterile tanks under artificial lights inside factories.
From wild rivers to prison tanks. It’s absurd and cruel. (2/5)
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What is land-based salmon? It’s industrial fish farming in tanks.
Salmon – born to swim through rivers and seas – are now crammed into sterile tanks under artificial lights inside factories.
From wild rivers to prison tanks. It’s absurd and cruel. (2/5)
Salmon – born to swim through rivers and seas – are now crammed into sterile tanks under artificial lights inside factories.
From wild rivers to prison tanks. It’s absurd and cruel. (2/5)
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🚨 Land-based salmon is the next brutal frontier of factory farming
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
December 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🚨 Land-based salmon is the next brutal frontier of factory farming
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
Our new briefing #FishOutOfWater exposes how this dystopian technology drives ocean depletion, animal suffering and climate harm.
Read more 👉 foodrise.org.uk/fish-out-of-... #PullThePlug #StopFactoryFish (1/5)
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UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation
Analysis reveals ‘privatisation premium’ of £250 per household per year paid to owners of water, rail, bus, energy and mail services since 2010
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:53 AM
UK public has paid £200bn to shareholders of key industries since privatisation.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
In public ownership that would have gone into infrastructure, lower bills.
Privatisation delivered low investment, high bills, no tax on dividends to foreign investors.
No end to nightmare without public ownership.
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I’m doing a second auction for Patch, a local charity that provides food, cloths and toys for people in poverty. At Christmas time they gift toys to kids who’ve had a referral. What could be more in the spirit of Christmas? This little wren is up for auction to raise money for toys. Please dig deep
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I’m doing a second auction for Patch, a local charity that provides food, cloths and toys for people in poverty. At Christmas time they gift toys to kids who’ve had a referral. What could be more in the spirit of Christmas? This little wren is up for auction to raise money for toys. Please dig deep