Nick Cooper
@thenctoo.bsky.social
Democratic Socialist, Dad, Grandad, Retired IT guy.
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
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Reform/Tories hate the Employment Rights Bill as it gives workers a bit more control over their lives.
They also moan about how many people are off work, sick and Farage says NMW is too high
“being pro-worker is not a barrier to success, but a launchpad to it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They also moan about how many people are off work, sick and Farage says NMW is too high
“being pro-worker is not a barrier to success, but a launchpad to it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
We can’t let the Tories sabotage this once-in-a-generation chance to reshape the world of work | Angela Rayner
The employment rights bill is in the Commons today. As Zohran Mamdani’s victory shows, people are desperate for policies that actually improve lives, says Labour MP Angela Rayner
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November 6, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Reform/Tories hate the Employment Rights Bill as it gives workers a bit more control over their lives.
They also moan about how many people are off work, sick and Farage says NMW is too high
“being pro-worker is not a barrier to success, but a launchpad to it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They also moan about how many people are off work, sick and Farage says NMW is too high
“being pro-worker is not a barrier to success, but a launchpad to it.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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84% of trans people polled by YouGov said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. A terrifying story - founded on actual data - which the BBC still refused to carry.
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
November 6, 2025 at 7:43 AM
84% of trans people polled by YouGov said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people. A terrifying story - founded on actual data - which the BBC still refused to carry.
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
Link to polling in the blog. goodlawproject.org/abject-terro...
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PPE Medpro linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes.
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC
www.theguardian.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 AM
PPE Medpro linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes.
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
The company also owes the public purse £148m for supplying unusable surgical gowns.
Company is bankrupt. HMRC ranks as unsecured creditor for taxes owed by the company.
Where has the money vanished to? Will anything be recovered?
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Day 1330 of Russia's war. Remember Putin's aims were to take Kyiv, install a puppet "president", take all Ukraine's ports, energy fields, and leave a rump 'state' next to Poland.
How well and bravely Ukraine has fought. We MUST see this through to a just peace.
Here's today's🧵
How well and bravely Ukraine has fought. We MUST see this through to a just peace.
Here's today's🧵
October 15, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Day 1330 of Russia's war. Remember Putin's aims were to take Kyiv, install a puppet "president", take all Ukraine's ports, energy fields, and leave a rump 'state' next to Poland.
How well and bravely Ukraine has fought. We MUST see this through to a just peace.
Here's today's🧵
How well and bravely Ukraine has fought. We MUST see this through to a just peace.
Here's today's🧵
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To give human rights only to those tyranny likes is to destroy their very purpose.
October 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
To give human rights only to those tyranny likes is to destroy their very purpose.
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An Afghan ex-commando who served alongside the British Army fighting the Taliban was deported back to Afghanistan with his family while waiting for UK relocation under a government scheme.
Read more: trib.al/lPblht1
Read more: trib.al/lPblht1
October 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM
An Afghan ex-commando who served alongside the British Army fighting the Taliban was deported back to Afghanistan with his family while waiting for UK relocation under a government scheme.
Read more: trib.al/lPblht1
Read more: trib.al/lPblht1
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I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes | Peter Sagar
“They make a desert and call it peace”
I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes
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October 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I am reminded of these words when seeing photographs of the long, sad column of Gazans returning north to see what, if anything is left of their homes | Peter Sagar
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Nearly 30% of your Energy bill is profit, and that's just for the big companies.
If Energy was nationalised bills could be nearly halved overnight, the infrastructure is only worth £109.5bn.
Time for a compulsory purchase order.
If Energy was nationalised bills could be nearly halved overnight, the infrastructure is only worth £109.5bn.
Time for a compulsory purchase order.
October 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Nearly 30% of your Energy bill is profit, and that's just for the big companies.
If Energy was nationalised bills could be nearly halved overnight, the infrastructure is only worth £109.5bn.
Time for a compulsory purchase order.
If Energy was nationalised bills could be nearly halved overnight, the infrastructure is only worth £109.5bn.
Time for a compulsory purchase order.
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The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.
And we go where others fear to tread…
Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door
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And we go where others fear to tread…
Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door
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October 15, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The new edition of @bylinetimes.bsky.social goes to the printers tomorrow.
And we go where others fear to tread…
Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/
And we go where others fear to tread…
Subscribe by tonight and you’ll get it delivered to your door
subscribe.bylinetimes.com/editions/
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I assure you A-level politics students have noticed that nothing works like the books say it is meant to work
We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.
Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies
October 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
I assure you A-level politics students have noticed that nothing works like the books say it is meant to work
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I'm still going! And Ukraine is still free.
Day 1329 and we all do our bit to stop Russia's imperialism and worse, genocide of Ukraine, its people and culture.
Reporting, sharing, making people care who didn't before, holding politicians to account. It's all so important.
Welcome to the🧵
Day 1329 and we all do our bit to stop Russia's imperialism and worse, genocide of Ukraine, its people and culture.
Reporting, sharing, making people care who didn't before, holding politicians to account. It's all so important.
Welcome to the🧵
October 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
I'm still going! And Ukraine is still free.
Day 1329 and we all do our bit to stop Russia's imperialism and worse, genocide of Ukraine, its people and culture.
Reporting, sharing, making people care who didn't before, holding politicians to account. It's all so important.
Welcome to the🧵
Day 1329 and we all do our bit to stop Russia's imperialism and worse, genocide of Ukraine, its people and culture.
Reporting, sharing, making people care who didn't before, holding politicians to account. It's all so important.
Welcome to the🧵
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NEW: The latest episode of The Breakdown just hit 750,000 views on the @meidastouch.com network! THANK YOU for supporting independent media! You can watch the episode here: www.youtube.com/live/8oJvw7F...
LIVE: Trump Case Against NY AG IMPLODES INSTANTLY with NEW PROOF
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October 14, 2025 at 1:13 AM
NEW: The latest episode of The Breakdown just hit 750,000 views on the @meidastouch.com network! THANK YOU for supporting independent media! You can watch the episode here: www.youtube.com/live/8oJvw7F...
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The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.
October 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.
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Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax | Peter Sagar
County Durham residents fear higher bills as Reform UK plans council tax changes
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax
northeastbylines.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Reform UK won control of Durham County Council in May, hoping to cut council tax; they now contemplate a significant increase in that tax | Peter Sagar
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She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.
ITALIAN PM GIORGIA MELONI COULDN'T GET AWAY FAST ENOUGH.
October 14, 2025 at 4:32 AM
She's plainly repulsed by him, understandably so.
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Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.
October 14, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Concerned about what the peace means for Palestinians? Concerned whether there will be peace at all? Concerned about accountability for the Israeli genocide? Shabana Mahmood has this to say to you.
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A beauty from @markwhit.bsky.social for your #FoxOfTheDay today - thank you Mark !
October 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
A beauty from @markwhit.bsky.social for your #FoxOfTheDay today - thank you Mark !
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Absolutely nuts.
Over the past 10yrs, 110,000 new homes were built in the highest risk flood zones ( 1 in 13 of new homes built).
If this trend continues, 115,000 of the gov't's planned 1.5m new homes would also be in the highest-risk flood zones.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Over the past 10yrs, 110,000 new homes were built in the highest risk flood zones ( 1 in 13 of new homes built).
If this trend continues, 115,000 of the gov't's planned 1.5m new homes would also be in the highest-risk flood zones.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds
Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Absolutely nuts.
Over the past 10yrs, 110,000 new homes were built in the highest risk flood zones ( 1 in 13 of new homes built).
If this trend continues, 115,000 of the gov't's planned 1.5m new homes would also be in the highest-risk flood zones.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Over the past 10yrs, 110,000 new homes were built in the highest risk flood zones ( 1 in 13 of new homes built).
If this trend continues, 115,000 of the gov't's planned 1.5m new homes would also be in the highest-risk flood zones.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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October 14, 2025 at 6:40 AM
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Holding govts to ransom.
Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.
Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.
Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.
Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.
Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.
Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.
Goldman chief delivers warning to Reeves over bank tax hikes
David Solomon urged the chancellor during a private meeting last week not to hit the industry with savage tax rises in her crucial budget statement next month, Sky News learns.
news.sky.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Holding govts to ransom.
Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.
Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.
Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.
Goldman Sachs warns Rachel Reeves against tax rises on banks.
Banks happy to be bailed out, take QE, mis-sell products, not to be prosecuted for frauds, hike charges, pay lousy rates on savings.
Need windfall taxes. Raise top rate of income tax.
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“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care
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🚨UK will leave the ECHR if Tories win next election Kemi Badenoch has announced
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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October 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
“The European Convention on Human Rights protects us all. The rights within it are the reason why families devastated by disasters like Hillsborough could demand justice, why victims of abuse can seek safety, & why disabled people are treated with dignity in care
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President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...
President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...
President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20!
Right now, the world stands at a crossroads: billionaires are hoarding obscene wealth while millions struggle just to survive.But for the first time ever, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has
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October 12, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...
President Ramaphosa: back the billionaire tax at the G20! action.eko.org/a/president-...
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There are countless stories from around the world documenting the damage that humans are doing to the natural world | Peter Sagar
Putting right our relationship with nature
There are countless stories from around the world documenting the damage that humans are doing to the natural world
northeastbylines.co.uk
October 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM
There are countless stories from around the world documenting the damage that humans are doing to the natural world | Peter Sagar
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After 10 long days, the hearing challenging Texas' gerrymandering ended. By the end, all of legacy media had vanished. But Democracy Docket stayed to keep you informed about just how far Republicans went to manipulate the state’s maps.
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October 11, 2025 at 10:19 PM
After 10 long days, the hearing challenging Texas' gerrymandering ended. By the end, all of legacy media had vanished. But Democracy Docket stayed to keep you informed about just how far Republicans went to manipulate the state’s maps.
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