Tim Cooper
@timcooper61.bsky.social
Against global capitalism and for social justice. Author of "The Story of Sheffield".
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Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
Whatever your party politics, @zackpolanski.bsky.social leaders speech deserves to be heard..
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Leader's Speech - Zack Polanski at Green Party Conference 2025
YouTube video by Green Party of England & Wales
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October 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Please help combat BBC news blackout of Green Party!
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
@zackpolanski.bsky.social was the only party leader not interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg during their party conference.
So please RT his cracking conference speech..
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🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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August 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries
The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly.
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Heroes. Every single one of them.
Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots.
Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots.
August 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Heroes. Every single one of them.
Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots.
Keir Starmer, Yvette Cooper, David Lammy — and the rest of this Labour government enabling genocide — aren’t fit to lace their boots.
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As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
August 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
As peaceful protestors are arrested for holding placards, starving Palestinians are being shot in the street.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
This will go down as one of the most shameful moments in British legal history.
No amount of suppression can hide the truth: our government is complicit in genocide.
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The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.
It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.
Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.
Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.
It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.
Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.
Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.
How we can fight back against the right-wing coup
For a better future the power of corporations and wealthy elites must be curbed and reversed
leftfootforward.org
August 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The UK is in the grip of an ongoing right-wing coup.
It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.
Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.
Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.
It is the main cause of economic decline and social tensions.
Successive govts have been enrolled to make us subservient to corporations and the rich.
Corporate power must be curbed/reversed for a better future.
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Did you vote for this?
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Did you vote for this?
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
Cut in real wage/benefits
Queues for NHS appointments
Lousy social care
Crumbling schools
Poor housing
Corporate profiteering/abuses
Tax abuses by corporations/rich
Sewage in rivers
Political corruption
It happens because Govts indulge corporations and the rich.
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Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Yvette Cooper is asked about her decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and she claims she received detailed security assessments & advice & is in receipt of disturbing information that the rest of us don't know about
August 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Behind every draconian decision, there's secret evidence ("detailed security assessments") we're not allowed to see. We should just suck it up and believe them.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
Sorry, Yvette Cooper, that's not how democracy should work. When you make a decision of such consequence, we need to see the basis for it.
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The Israeli Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B'TSELEM, agonised long (too long in my view) and hard before coming up with this report and its crystal clear verdict: Israel is committing genocide. Nothing more needs to be said www.btselem.org/publications...
www.btselem.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Israeli Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, B'TSELEM, agonised long (too long in my view) and hard before coming up with this report and its crystal clear verdict: Israel is committing genocide. Nothing more needs to be said www.btselem.org/publications...
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85 children starved to death in Gaza on the day that the man who legitimizes this abomination was playing golf in Scotland. Does the world's media not have a problem with this?
July 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
85 children starved to death in Gaza on the day that the man who legitimizes this abomination was playing golf in Scotland. Does the world's media not have a problem with this?
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Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure.
It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.
That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.
Put water back into public hands, now.
It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.
That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.
Put water back into public hands, now.
July 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Water privatisation has been a complete & utter failure.
It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.
That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.
Put water back into public hands, now.
It is absurd that the government's report into the water industry didn't even consider public ownership.
That's not a report. That's a political broadcast for the private sector.
Put water back into public hands, now.
Starmer and UK government: do what you are required to do by international law - end your support of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Stop providing weapons and assistance. Stop delegitimising dissent. NOW.
Israel's DARK SECRET Genocide Economy EXPOSED
Israel's DARK SECRET Genocide Economy EXPOSED | Francesca Albanese
The REAL Reason US Sanctioned UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese
www.doubledown.news
July 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Starmer and UK government: do what you are required to do by international law - end your support of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Stop providing weapons and assistance. Stop delegitimising dissent. NOW.
This is a positive action in defiance of attempts to silence opposition to the UK-supported genocide of Palestinians.
Massive Attack announce alliance of musicians speaking out over Gaza
Brian Eno, Fontaines DC and Kneecap say group will support those subject to ‘aggressive, vexatious campaigns’ by pro-Israel advocates
www.theguardian.com
July 18, 2025 at 11:13 AM
This is a positive action in defiance of attempts to silence opposition to the UK-supported genocide of Palestinians.
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Southern Water doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban.
SW has 119 criminal convictions.
£6.2bn debt, 91m litres lost daily to leaks, hosepipe ban, sewage dumped in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 53%; 27% of bills service debt
Looting approved by the state.
SW has 119 criminal convictions.
£6.2bn debt, 91m litres lost daily to leaks, hosepipe ban, sewage dumped in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 53%; 27% of bills service debt
Looting approved by the state.
Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban
Lawrence Gosden’s award comes amid high levels of corporate debt, serious sewage leaks and recent hosepipe ban
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Southern Water doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban.
SW has 119 criminal convictions.
£6.2bn debt, 91m litres lost daily to leaks, hosepipe ban, sewage dumped in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 53%; 27% of bills service debt
Looting approved by the state.
SW has 119 criminal convictions.
£6.2bn debt, 91m litres lost daily to leaks, hosepipe ban, sewage dumped in rivers.
Customer bills to rise 53%; 27% of bills service debt
Looting approved by the state.
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Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism.
July 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Martin Forde concluded Labour operates a hierarchy of racism, where anti-Black racism & Islamophobia are brushed aside.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism.
Now we have a Prime Minister who mimicked Enoch Powell with “island of strangers” & suspended the UK’s first Black woman MP twice.
It’s institutional racism.
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Under Gandhi’s statue. For holding placards.
A priest, a professor, medics - arrested for peaceful protest.
This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent - and it’s leading us down an ever darkening path.
A priest, a professor, medics - arrested for peaceful protest.
This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent - and it’s leading us down an ever darkening path.
Tim Crosland, a former government lawyer and founder of charity Plan B was one of 27 people arrested today at the foot of the Gandhi statue in Parliament Square for allegedly showing support for a proscribed organisation.
“The ‘mother of all democracies’, people”.
“The ‘mother of all democracies’, people”.
July 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Under Gandhi’s statue. For holding placards.
A priest, a professor, medics - arrested for peaceful protest.
This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent - and it’s leading us down an ever darkening path.
A priest, a professor, medics - arrested for peaceful protest.
This is not about terrorism. It’s about silencing dissent - and it’s leading us down an ever darkening path.
An interesting perspective on the growth of authoritarianism in the west from the perspective of international law.
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
www.theguardian.com
July 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
An interesting perspective on the growth of authoritarianism in the west from the perspective of international law.
Explaining their action, a spokesman for the police said "Where we believe an offence has been committed, we will make arrests." No you won't. Ten people in our area were burgled in the last six months and the police didn't do so much as investigate a single one.
Met police arrest activists holding signs referring to Palestine Action
Officers arrest protesters day after direct action group banned as terrorist organisation
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Explaining their action, a spokesman for the police said "Where we believe an offence has been committed, we will make arrests." No you won't. Ten people in our area were burgled in the last six months and the police didn't do so much as investigate a single one.
It's clear that with each of these statements the government wants to undermine your sense of priorities. What's more important: getting someone in the BBC sacked, or stopping the genocide in Gaza?
Lisa Nandy questions lack of BBC sackings over Gaza war documentary
Culture secretary says BBC must ‘get a grip’ in wake of film featuring son of Hamas official and Bob Vylan Glastonbury row
www.theguardian.com
July 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
It's clear that with each of these statements the government wants to undermine your sense of priorities. What's more important: getting someone in the BBC sacked, or stopping the genocide in Gaza?
After a week of campaigning against the appalling ban on PA on Facebook, I will be migrating protest against complicity in the ongoing genocide to this platform to keep FB for personal matters. The UK is now effectively an authoritarian police state. Resistance is going to demand a lot from us.
July 5, 2025 at 7:02 AM
After a week of campaigning against the appalling ban on PA on Facebook, I will be migrating protest against complicity in the ongoing genocide to this platform to keep FB for personal matters. The UK is now effectively an authoritarian police state. Resistance is going to demand a lot from us.
Checking up on the Five Weirs Walk (much still to be done, watch this space) revealed that historic Carbrook Hall (which I'd never visited) is now a Starbucks! Not many places you can take your flat white in an oak panelled room with decorative plaster ceiling.
January 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Checking up on the Five Weirs Walk (much still to be done, watch this space) revealed that historic Carbrook Hall (which I'd never visited) is now a Starbucks! Not many places you can take your flat white in an oak panelled room with decorative plaster ceiling.