Sarah Hardy
@sarahhardy.bsky.social
Marketing Director for TITAN at the University of Cambridge | Fmr comms at UCL for the PETRAS National Centre of Excellence
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So what if they weaken ECHR human rights protections? So what if they interpret protection from torture differently? Will that improve services? Help the NHS? Bring better food, air & education? Eradicate poverty?
Crushing rights is the most destructive distraction from the wrongs that need fixing.
Crushing rights is the most destructive distraction from the wrongs that need fixing.
December 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
So what if they weaken ECHR human rights protections? So what if they interpret protection from torture differently? Will that improve services? Help the NHS? Bring better food, air & education? Eradicate poverty?
Crushing rights is the most destructive distraction from the wrongs that need fixing.
Crushing rights is the most destructive distraction from the wrongs that need fixing.
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Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
December 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits
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Crypto investor Christopher Harborne, who has just donated £9 million to Reform, is also an aviation fuel entrepreneur.
In other news Reform, which has pledged to scrap all Net Zero plans, just declared a £36,000 donation from Heathrow
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
In other news Reform, which has pledged to scrap all Net Zero plans, just declared a £36,000 donation from Heathrow
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK as Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Crypto investor Christopher Harborne, who has just donated £9 million to Reform, is also an aviation fuel entrepreneur.
In other news Reform, which has pledged to scrap all Net Zero plans, just declared a £36,000 donation from Heathrow
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
In other news Reform, which has pledged to scrap all Net Zero plans, just declared a £36,000 donation from Heathrow
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
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I didn't exactly have high hopes for the next iteration of Nigel Farage's defence against allegations of racism, but even I expected better than 'I can't be a racist because Bernard Manning was on telly in the seventies'
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I didn't exactly have high hopes for the next iteration of Nigel Farage's defence against allegations of racism, but even I expected better than 'I can't be a racist because Bernard Manning was on telly in the seventies'
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So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So tell me again how Nigel Farage, who just took the largest ever political donation, from a Tory mega-donor, and another donation from the Viscountess wife of the non-dom owner of the Daily Mail, is planning to "take on the establishment"
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What do I want for Christmas? I want to be thrown through a window of stunt glass
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
What do I want for Christmas? I want to be thrown through a window of stunt glass
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As in the West Bank and Gaza, so in occupied Syria, Israel uses any form of resistance to its own illegal actions as proof of its binary narrative of legitimate state power versus terrorism - a binary the West loves and laps up. But in this definition, the French Resistance in WW2 was terrorism.
According to Syrian media, Israel accuses the Syrian government of having affiliations with the "militants" (Syrian locals) who resisted the Israeli raid on Beit Jinn
November 29, 2025 at 11:26 AM
As in the West Bank and Gaza, so in occupied Syria, Israel uses any form of resistance to its own illegal actions as proof of its binary narrative of legitimate state power versus terrorism - a binary the West loves and laps up. But in this definition, the French Resistance in WW2 was terrorism.
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Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
World ‘very likely’ to exceed 1.5C climate goal in next decade: UN
Despite Paris Agreement pledges, countries 'have landed off target' on climate goals multiple times, the UN warns.
www.aljazeera.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Okay, yes, humanity did not enact the single best possible outcome in response to the single worst problem we have ever faced as a species
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
In no way was it wrong to try, and in no way is it wrong to continue trying to jam a wrench in the greedy fossil fuel economy. Everything is still on the table
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ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING
65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction
China is an outlier - but maybe not for long
@e3g.bsky.social
www.e3g.org/publications...
65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction
China is an outlier - but maybe not for long
@e3g.bsky.social
www.e3g.org/publications...
November 4, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ACTUAL GOOD NEWS WARNING
65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction
China is an outlier - but maybe not for long
@e3g.bsky.social
www.e3g.org/publications...
65% of the planned coal capacity from 2015 ended up not existing, thanks almost entirely to climate policy and renewable energy construction
China is an outlier - but maybe not for long
@e3g.bsky.social
www.e3g.org/publications...
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This is a horror story for Jamaica. Climate change is making storms like #HurricaneMelissa more intense.
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is a horror story for Jamaica. Climate change is making storms like #HurricaneMelissa more intense.
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
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In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.
October 19, 2025 at 1:44 AM
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Reminder that the GOP leadership, as a bloc, is preventing the House of Representatives from sitting normally, and has shut down the funding of the entire US government, including the court system.
The USA is currently being run as a dictatorship. This is a simple fact.
The USA is currently being run as a dictatorship. This is a simple fact.
It is a scandal totally unprecedented in history that the Vice President has shared a video depicting the President as king. It’s an obscene violation of every founding American principle.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
And nothing will come of it. It makes me physically sick.
October 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Reminder that the GOP leadership, as a bloc, is preventing the House of Representatives from sitting normally, and has shut down the funding of the entire US government, including the court system.
The USA is currently being run as a dictatorship. This is a simple fact.
The USA is currently being run as a dictatorship. This is a simple fact.
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Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.
Scientists are worried that the natural land and ocean “sinks” that remove CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating
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What’s amazing about this is that it’s not activists, it’s random people in the street, dudes in trucks. They know who the villain is.
I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize
I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What’s amazing about this is that it’s not activists, it’s random people in the street, dudes in trucks. They know who the villain is.
I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize
I think MAGA has a bigger problem here than they realize
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Police already have huge powers to restrict protests.
Handing them more would undermine our rights further while failing to keep people safe from violence like the horrific and heartbreaking anti-Semitic attack in Manchester.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Handing them more would undermine our rights further while failing to keep people safe from violence like the horrific and heartbreaking anti-Semitic attack in Manchester.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests
The move is not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Shabana Mahmood tells the BBC.
www.bbc.com
October 5, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Police already have huge powers to restrict protests.
Handing them more would undermine our rights further while failing to keep people safe from violence like the horrific and heartbreaking anti-Semitic attack in Manchester.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Handing them more would undermine our rights further while failing to keep people safe from violence like the horrific and heartbreaking anti-Semitic attack in Manchester.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
September 27, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Nigel Farage & Alex Phillips have been awfully quiet about Nathan Gill pleading guilty to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in European parliament and articles.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
Just wanted to refresh their memories about how they were all a team through that period.
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Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
"Migrants will have to carry out community work or volunteering to qualify to permanently remain in the UK, according to the Home Secretary." [Telegraph]
September 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Migrants already carry out work for their communities, it’s called ‘having a fucking job’ and it’s mandatory because we aren’t eligible for benefits
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It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor
September 22, 2025 at 10:29 AM
It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor
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Unclear how far back this would go and if would attack settled status for EU nationals. But clear that we must oppose this because mass deportation is a crime and an attack on basic rights rather than "unworkable" or "bad for the economy". It is your family, friends and neighbours he's coming for
Farage vows to axe indefinite leave to remain and ban migrants’ benefits access
The Reform UK leader will outline a planned crackdown on legal immigration at a Monday press conference.
www.independent.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Unclear how far back this would go and if would attack settled status for EU nationals. But clear that we must oppose this because mass deportation is a crime and an attack on basic rights rather than "unworkable" or "bad for the economy". It is your family, friends and neighbours he's coming for
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Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.
A group called 'Our Party' is trying to take over 'Your Party'
A group called ‘Our Party’ is trying to take over ‘Your Party’
They've called for Corbyn and Sultana to 'hand the reins over to the grassroots membership'
leftfootforward.org
September 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.
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Even if the costs of eliminating fossil fuels were a net reduction in GDP globally, we should still do it, because we all consider our lives, our safety and our environment to be more important than a weird metric that means nothing to most of us
September 15, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Even if the costs of eliminating fossil fuels were a net reduction in GDP globally, we should still do it, because we all consider our lives, our safety and our environment to be more important than a weird metric that means nothing to most of us
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Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
September 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed
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Less than one percent of seats in Parliament. But featured in a quarter of news bulletins.
That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage
That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage
BBC under fresh pressure over extent of Reform UK coverage
Nigel Farage’s party featured in considerably more News at Ten bulletins than Lib Dems over six months, study finds
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Less than one percent of seats in Parliament. But featured in a quarter of news bulletins.
That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage
That's some impartiality right there BBC 👀
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/12/bbc-under-fresh-pressure-over-extent-of-reform-uk-nigel-farage-coverage
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The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
September 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.
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get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions
September 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions