Shaker
@shakerpainter.bsky.social
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Banner art: Edward Burra 1905–1976
English painter draughtsman, printmaker. Opposed to all forms of cruelty & repression.
Banner art: Edward Burra 1905–1976
English painter draughtsman, printmaker. Opposed to all forms of cruelty & repression.
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Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
November 23, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.
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The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The most on-the-money statement you’ll read today.
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Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
Follow Sam Bright on Substack. He specialises in exposing dark money and the trends in the far right full of charlatans
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Follow Sam Bright on Substack. He specialises in exposing dark money and the trends in the far right full of charlatans
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The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
A paper that knows a thing or two about editorial f*ck-ups...
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Telegraph’s BBC hypocrisy
Follow Sam Bright on Substack. He specialises in exposing dark money and the trends in the far right full of charlatans
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
Follow Sam Bright on Substack. He specialises in exposing dark money and the trends in the far right full of charlatans
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...
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Brexit Party, renamed Reform, were targeted by a Russian spy network, only one traitor Gill has been exposed so far. Well worth a read.
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...
The Russian spy network that targeted Brexit Party MEPs | Searchlight
Accused Russian spy Janusz Niedźwieck, here welcoming a pro-Putin biker gang to Poland When Anton Shekhovtsov, a Ukrainian researcher of Europe’s far right ...
searchlightmagazine.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Brexit Party, renamed Reform, were targeted by a Russian spy network, only one traitor Gill has been exposed so far. Well worth a read.
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...
searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/the-...
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“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
November 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.”
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
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Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
Thousands died.
Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.
He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.
Will he be held to account,?
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Zack Polanski on "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg" announces Green Party has 175,000 members. I also loved his explanation of the difference between 1 million & 1 billion. #GreenSurge
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Zack Polanski on "Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg" announces Green Party has 175,000 members. I also loved his explanation of the difference between 1 million & 1 billion. #GreenSurge
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"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all."
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away.
Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social.
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Gross misconduct in public office!
And what recompense?
The Covid inquiry this week concluded that the UK’s response to the virus was “too little, too late” & the introduction of a lockdown just a week earlier on 16 March could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And what recompense?
The Covid inquiry this week concluded that the UK’s response to the virus was “too little, too late” & the introduction of a lockdown just a week earlier on 16 March could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system
Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Gross misconduct in public office!
And what recompense?
The Covid inquiry this week concluded that the UK’s response to the virus was “too little, too late” & the introduction of a lockdown just a week earlier on 16 March could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
And what recompense?
The Covid inquiry this week concluded that the UK’s response to the virus was “too little, too late” & the introduction of a lockdown just a week earlier on 16 March could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.
The worrying rise of US anti-abortion rhetoric is in full force - how deep is Reform UK's involvement?
Money is pouring into anti-abortion campaigns in Britain, and it seems Nigel Farage’s party isn’t pushing back…
www.cosmopolitan.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.
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November 22, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
November 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
So the line is that he wasn't getting paid for any of this
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Will UK Chancellor redistribute?
End two-child benefit cap, cost £3bn-£3.6bn.
Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cost £2.5bn.
Increase income tax personal allowance by £1000, cost £8.4bn.
Taxing capital gains at same rate as wages, generates £14bn+ more in NIC.
Another world is possible.
End two-child benefit cap, cost £3bn-£3.6bn.
Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cost £2.5bn.
Increase income tax personal allowance by £1000, cost £8.4bn.
Taxing capital gains at same rate as wages, generates £14bn+ more in NIC.
Another world is possible.
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
leftfootforward.org
November 22, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Will UK Chancellor redistribute?
End two-child benefit cap, cost £3bn-£3.6bn.
Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cost £2.5bn.
Increase income tax personal allowance by £1000, cost £8.4bn.
Taxing capital gains at same rate as wages, generates £14bn+ more in NIC.
Another world is possible.
End two-child benefit cap, cost £3bn-£3.6bn.
Abolish VAT on domestic fuel, cost £2.5bn.
Increase income tax personal allowance by £1000, cost £8.4bn.
Taxing capital gains at same rate as wages, generates £14bn+ more in NIC.
Another world is possible.
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Households face higher energy bills.
No end to profiteering - £30bn last yr.
£4.4bn bills arrears.
128000 a year, including 110,000.pensioners die in fuel poverty.
Must remove all subsidies from bills, pay via general taxation.
Exclude gas produced electricity from general Ofgem pricing formula.
No end to profiteering - £30bn last yr.
£4.4bn bills arrears.
128000 a year, including 110,000.pensioners die in fuel poverty.
Must remove all subsidies from bills, pay via general taxation.
Exclude gas produced electricity from general Ofgem pricing formula.
Energy minister says 'there's no shortcut' to bringing down bills - as price cap rise announced
The average annual energy bill will rise by 0.2% in January, despite wholesale costs falling.
news.sky.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Households face higher energy bills.
No end to profiteering - £30bn last yr.
£4.4bn bills arrears.
128000 a year, including 110,000.pensioners die in fuel poverty.
Must remove all subsidies from bills, pay via general taxation.
Exclude gas produced electricity from general Ofgem pricing formula.
No end to profiteering - £30bn last yr.
£4.4bn bills arrears.
128000 a year, including 110,000.pensioners die in fuel poverty.
Must remove all subsidies from bills, pay via general taxation.
Exclude gas produced electricity from general Ofgem pricing formula.
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Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time”
Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
November 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
The Green Party has now reached over 170,000 members!
Membership growth, polling surges, by-election wins and defections, the Green Party is making hope normal again.
Join today to be part of it ⤵️
Why doesn’t anyone from within the Republican Party ever condemn Trump for anything he ever says? Is it cowardice or sycophancy? And nearly the entire cabinet living on military bases isn’t considered odd?
November 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Why doesn’t anyone from within the Republican Party ever condemn Trump for anything he ever says? Is it cowardice or sycophancy? And nearly the entire cabinet living on military bases isn’t considered odd?
23,000 avoidable deaths. lied constantly, broke his own rules.
No remorse. Money is the only thing he cares about, so let’s end the one stream he least deserves!
38d.gs/bojo_all_df
No remorse. Money is the only thing he cares about, so let’s end the one stream he least deserves!
38d.gs/bojo_all_df
Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:
38d.gs
November 21, 2025 at 2:06 PM
23,000 avoidable deaths. lied constantly, broke his own rules.
No remorse. Money is the only thing he cares about, so let’s end the one stream he least deserves!
38d.gs/bojo_all_df
No remorse. Money is the only thing he cares about, so let’s end the one stream he least deserves!
38d.gs/bojo_all_df
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We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.
Government’s last chance to keep control of digital
Digital sovereignty isn’t optional anymore. We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We sold our water to foreign billionaires. Now we’re handing them our health data.