Sara🏴🇺🇦⚘️💙🇨🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽
@saraeliza.bsky.social
Welsh bird, carer, fiction reader, and veggy. Our world politics drives me nuts. Love a good podcast.
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The charts above show the monthly CPI inflation data for the last 5 and 2 years. Source: ONS.
The Bank of England meets tomorrow to discuss interest rates - and are expected to cut them to 3.75%, from the current 4%.
The Bank of England meets tomorrow to discuss interest rates - and are expected to cut them to 3.75%, from the current 4%.
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The charts above show the monthly CPI inflation data for the last 5 and 2 years. Source: ONS.
The Bank of England meets tomorrow to discuss interest rates - and are expected to cut them to 3.75%, from the current 4%.
The Bank of England meets tomorrow to discuss interest rates - and are expected to cut them to 3.75%, from the current 4%.
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OUT TODAY: Going beyond the doom loop...
Hope and hard truths as we assess 2025
#Trump #NigelFarage #Labour and more
@goldbergradio.bsky.social with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Hope and hard truths as we assess 2025
#Trump #NigelFarage #Labour and more
@goldbergradio.bsky.social with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Ring Out The Old: Beyond The Doom Loop
Podcast Episode · Byline Podcast · 16/12/2025 · 34m
podcasts.apple.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
OUT TODAY: Going beyond the doom loop...
Hope and hard truths as we assess 2025
#Trump #NigelFarage #Labour and more
@goldbergradio.bsky.social with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
Hope and hard truths as we assess 2025
#Trump #NigelFarage #Labour and more
@goldbergradio.bsky.social with @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
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The opening date has been revealed for a new cycle path running through one of Wales' most stunning valleys
Opening date revealed for new cycle path
Richard Youle – Local democracy reporter The opening date has been revealed for a new cycle path running through one of Wales’ most stunning valleys. The council-led has project in Carmarthenshire’s T...
nation.cymru
December 16, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The opening date has been revealed for a new cycle path running through one of Wales' most stunning valleys
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🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:
🟥 school budgets and free school meals
🟥 asylum accommodation
🟥 women's healthcare
🟥 ending homelessness
🟥 #EmploymentRightsBill
🟥 #VictimAndCourtsBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
www.parliament.uk/business/new...
🟥 school budgets and free school meals
🟥 asylum accommodation
🟥 women's healthcare
🟥 ending homelessness
🟥 #EmploymentRightsBill
🟥 #VictimAndCourtsBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
www.parliament.uk/business/new...
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
🕝 #HouseOfLords from 2.30pm includes:
🟥 school budgets and free school meals
🟥 asylum accommodation
🟥 women's healthcare
🟥 ending homelessness
🟥 #EmploymentRightsBill
🟥 #VictimAndCourtsBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
www.parliament.uk/business/new...
🟥 school budgets and free school meals
🟥 asylum accommodation
🟥 women's healthcare
🟥 ending homelessness
🟥 #EmploymentRightsBill
🟥 #VictimAndCourtsBill
➡️ See full schedule and watch online
www.parliament.uk/business/new...
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Good morning lovely phone family. I hope you're all well. I'm full of festive spirit this year, but I've had many where that wasn't the case. If you're struggling, please remember it's ok to not be joining in. If you need support or someone to talk to, this may help (UK) 🙏
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️
December 16, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Good morning lovely phone family. I hope you're all well. I'm full of festive spirit this year, but I've had many where that wasn't the case. If you're struggling, please remember it's ok to not be joining in. If you need support or someone to talk to, this may help (UK) 🙏
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️
#HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️
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BBC bosses ‘right to stick by their guns’ against Trump, says minister
BBC bosses ‘right to stick by their guns’ against Trump, says minister
Keir Starmer urged to ‘stand up for the BBC’ after US president files $10bn lawsuit against corporation
BBC bosses are “right to stick by their guns” against Donald Trump, a minister has said, after the US president filed a $10bn lawsuit against the corporation.
The UK government is under pressure to throw its weight behind the corporation as Trump demands billions in damages over its editing of a speech he made to supporters in Washington before they stormed the US Capitol in 2021. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
BBC bosses ‘right to stick by their guns’ against Trump, says minister
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Ego-fluffing despotic narcissists does not work. You just become a whipping boy, a target for their next outburst.
You cannot contain this. Or appease it. It’s just deferring your losses. It’s never actually winning.
What a cowed and isolated country we are now, if we have to beg not to be punished.
You cannot contain this. Or appease it. It’s just deferring your losses. It’s never actually winning.
What a cowed and isolated country we are now, if we have to beg not to be punished.
Okay, when are we going to answer back? Push back? Fight back? Anything? Because our way of life and society-building institutions are under attack from outside. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump sues BBC for defamation over Panorama speech edit
The US president has requested $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Ego-fluffing despotic narcissists does not work. You just become a whipping boy, a target for their next outburst.
You cannot contain this. Or appease it. It’s just deferring your losses. It’s never actually winning.
What a cowed and isolated country we are now, if we have to beg not to be punished.
You cannot contain this. Or appease it. It’s just deferring your losses. It’s never actually winning.
What a cowed and isolated country we are now, if we have to beg not to be punished.
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Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Keir Starmer needs to stand up for the BBC against Trump's outrageous $5bn lawsuit and protect licence fee payers from being hit in the pocket.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
Trump wants to interfere in our democracy and undermine our national broadcaster. We cannot let him.
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Otherwise, there’s an *awful* lot of copy and pasting of Prescott’s dossier and various Telegraph articles, particularly for a filing that’s otherwise pretty short.
December 16, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Otherwise, there’s an *awful* lot of copy and pasting of Prescott’s dossier and various Telegraph articles, particularly for a filing that’s otherwise pretty short.
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This is the first time that the Conservatives have held fewer than 100 seats. Reform may be a tantrum-throwing toddler of a party, but the Tories are in hospice care. They need this deal
✏️ Matthew d'Ancona
✏️ Matthew d'Ancona
How the Tories will put Farage in No 10
Reform needs a pact to reach Downing Street – and the Conservatives are desperate enough to hand it to them
www.thenewworld.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is the first time that the Conservatives have held fewer than 100 seats. Reform may be a tantrum-throwing toddler of a party, but the Tories are in hospice care. They need this deal
✏️ Matthew d'Ancona
✏️ Matthew d'Ancona
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Allegations about Farage’s school-days behaviour are back in the press. But is his reaction making things worse? @nndroid.bsky.social sits down with journalist and Farage biographer Michael Crick to break down why this scandal has Nigel more rattled than ever.
Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
December 10, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Allegations about Farage’s school-days behaviour are back in the press. But is his reaction making things worse? @nndroid.bsky.social sits down with journalist and Farage biographer Michael Crick to break down why this scandal has Nigel more rattled than ever.
Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Listen: linktr.ee/bunker_pod
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"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.
Donald Trump and the Power of the Little Lie
The war against Venezuela isn’t about drugs. It’s about the destruction of regular order.
lnk.thebulwark.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:00 AM
"No mainstream reporter has the stomach to say, 'By the way, this administration lies all the time and we should assume this is a lie too' after every unsupported statement." They should, because it's true.
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Grifters and liars.
~ Reform run council plans to raise council tax by more than 5% - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate ~
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/12/reform-run-council-plans-to-raise-council-tax-by-more-than-5/
~ Reform run council plans to raise council tax by more than 5% - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate ~
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/12/reform-run-council-plans-to-raise-council-tax-by-more-than-5/
Reform run council plans to raise council tax by more than 5% - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate
As many as eight of the 13 local councils run by Nigel Farage’s party have hinted at plans to raise council tax by next year.
leftfootforward.org
December 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Grifters and liars.
~ Reform run council plans to raise council tax by more than 5% - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate ~
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/12/reform-run-council-plans-to-raise-council-tax-by-more-than-5/
~ Reform run council plans to raise council tax by more than 5% - Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate ~
https://leftfootforward.org/2025/12/reform-run-council-plans-to-raise-council-tax-by-more-than-5/
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"There are people who are genuinely good souls."
December 15, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"There are people who are genuinely good souls."
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It was fascinating to talk to Josh Babarinde, the
Eastbourne MP and new President of the @libdems.org.uk about his route into politics, his life before, his view of what a liberal economic vision for the country would look like and more
🎧👇
Eastbourne MP and new President of the @libdems.org.uk about his route into politics, his life before, his view of what a liberal economic vision for the country would look like and more
🎧👇
BONUS EPISODE: Pints of view, with Josh Babarinde
👑 New Lib Dem president on the party's future and the EU
📳 How broken phones helped him change lives
🍻 The beermat that changed HIS life
With @pimlicat.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2lvB...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
👑 New Lib Dem president on the party's future and the EU
📳 How broken phones helped him change lives
🍻 The beermat that changed HIS life
With @pimlicat.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2lvB...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
BONUS EPISODE: Pints of view, with Josh Babarinde
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
It was fascinating to talk to Josh Babarinde, the
Eastbourne MP and new President of the @libdems.org.uk about his route into politics, his life before, his view of what a liberal economic vision for the country would look like and more
🎧👇
Eastbourne MP and new President of the @libdems.org.uk about his route into politics, his life before, his view of what a liberal economic vision for the country would look like and more
🎧👇
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Loved joining @pimlicat.bsky.social on @quietriotpod.bsky.social this week!
BONUS EPISODE: Pints of view, with Josh Babarinde
👑 New Lib Dem president on the party's future and the EU
📳 How broken phones helped him change lives
🍻 The beermat that changed HIS life
With @pimlicat.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2lvB...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
👑 New Lib Dem president on the party's future and the EU
📳 How broken phones helped him change lives
🍻 The beermat that changed HIS life
With @pimlicat.bsky.social
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2lvB...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
BONUS EPISODE: Pints of view, with Josh Babarinde
open.spotify.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Loved joining @pimlicat.bsky.social on @quietriotpod.bsky.social this week!
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Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
December 13, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Fox News’ Chief National Security Correspondent. We are about to go to war for oil, while citing a lie as justification. Again.
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Stephen Yaxley Lennon Tommy Robinson is holding a carol service today billed as “Britain belongs to the British People.”
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
December 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Stephen Yaxley Lennon Tommy Robinson is holding a carol service today billed as “Britain belongs to the British People.”
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
He wants to create “a muscular Christianity…separate from the Church.”
Meanwhile the Far Right’s next target is to infiltrate the Anglican Church.
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A couple of surfers out at Caswell Bay braving the shitty sea this morning.
Thanks for nothing #DwrCymru
Sewage in all the Gower beaches, Swansea and the Tawe earlier today - including Rhossili. 🤬
Thanks for nothing #DwrCymru
Sewage in all the Gower beaches, Swansea and the Tawe earlier today - including Rhossili. 🤬
December 11, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A couple of surfers out at Caswell Bay braving the shitty sea this morning.
Thanks for nothing #DwrCymru
Sewage in all the Gower beaches, Swansea and the Tawe earlier today - including Rhossili. 🤬
Thanks for nothing #DwrCymru
Sewage in all the Gower beaches, Swansea and the Tawe earlier today - including Rhossili. 🤬
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10 years on from the Paris Agreement, my message for fossil fuel companies is clear: get on board with a green future, or get left behind.
London is leading the way, now we need businesses and governments around the world to step up.
London is leading the way, now we need businesses and governments around the world to step up.
Zero carbon London
The Mayor has set ambitious aims for London to be a zero carbon city by 2030. Read about the work he is doing to achieve this.
www.london.gov.uk
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
10 years on from the Paris Agreement, my message for fossil fuel companies is clear: get on board with a green future, or get left behind.
London is leading the way, now we need businesses and governments around the world to step up.
London is leading the way, now we need businesses and governments around the world to step up.
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Another COVID fraudster held to account for fraudulently obtaining an £80k bounce back loan!
The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
1/2
The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
1/2
Derby fraudster jailed after using Covid loan funds on share dealing platforms
Jail for Bounce Back Loan fraudster
www.gov.uk
December 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Another COVID fraudster held to account for fraudulently obtaining an £80k bounce back loan!
The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
1/2
The funds were spent on a share dealing platforms instead of supporting his business through the pandemic.
He is jailed for 2 years & 4 months and disqualified as a company director for 8yrs.
1/2
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Vote Reform to ensure
you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
meme via NathanDrake2013
you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
meme via NathanDrake2013
December 11, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Vote Reform to ensure
you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
meme via NathanDrake2013
you, your family & friends
get poorer & die younger
meme via NathanDrake2013
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The Senedd has given the green light for a bus services overhaul, putting ministers in the driving seat to decide routes, timetables and fares wp.me/p8Mk4U-1aou
December 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Senedd has given the green light for a bus services overhaul, putting ministers in the driving seat to decide routes, timetables and fares wp.me/p8Mk4U-1aou
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Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Yep, he wants nothing but deregulating crypto to help his crypto business and scrapping net zero to help his aviation fuel business. Which by pure coincidence are two of our policies.