Inky-fingered rapscallion, rebooting for digital age with occasional defaults to factory settings. RTs for sharing.
London, Stourbridge, Dundee
Joined May 2008
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Fanfare for the Common Man: GB Newsβ no-nonsense βMan of the Peopleβ Lee Anderson MP given tens of thousands in donations by aristocratic shipping dynasty | Sam Bright for Novara Media novaramedia.com/2023/03/10/gβ¦
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Thread on the housing crisis maze. . .
Have just been blocked by @PricedOutUK, the self-styled grassroots campaign tackling the housing crisis. They put out a bad take attacking govt plans to ban rogue developers from the market for refusing to sign special contracts to make good their dangerous flats. Who funds them?
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Donβt Fence Me Out: Insist on your Freedom to Roam - petition: mailchi.mp/2c84d216b840/4o5iβ¦
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Scrapping of BBC Singers: Leaked letter warns Chairman Richard Sharp of βa toxic culture of fear and paranoiaβ created at the BBC from Director General Tim Davie down | Norman Lebrecht for SlippedDisc slippedisc.com/2023/03/leakeβ¦
Insulate Britain protester jailed after vowing to return to streets: Stephen Pritchard tells Judge Silas Reid before sentencing that peaceful resistance is βmost responsible thing I can doβ | Damien Gayle for The Guardian
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Former Tory minister who tried to sell off forests is given Natural England role amid cronyism allegations | Helena Horton for The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/β¦
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The BBC's unjustified suspension of Gary Lineker has thrown public service broadcasting into crisis. To restore the BBC's independence it must now get rid of its chair, Richard Sharp, who helped sort an Β£800,000 loan for Boris Johnson. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/sharp-resign/
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Feudal Britain: How Brexit Robbed Us of Our Democratic Rights
How plans to scrap thousands of EU-derived laws are part of a project designed to take away our power as citizens | Hadley Coulls and Dr Chris Ogden for Byline Supplement bylinesupplement.com/p/feudaβ¦
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I just chipped in to help farmers take on Monsanto. Will you join me and @Eko_Movement (formerly SumOfUs)? sumof.us/795928728t
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Donβt Execute Mohana Kameli! Free Her! - Sign the Petition! chng.it/McGsXXQZ via @UKChange
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Steve Bell on Matt Hancockβs care for care homes β cartoon theguardian.com/commentisfreβ¦
Activists jailed for seven weeks for defying ban on mentioning climate crisis in their explanations for protest | Anita Mureithi for openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/en/activisβ¦
The anti-abortion lobby group that launched Kate Forbesβs political career: evangelical group supporting SNP leadership candidate aims to replicate US anti-abortion movement in UK | Adam Bychawski for openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/en/christiβ¦
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Two more Kill the Bill defendants imprisoned this week in Bristol, bringing incarceration total to over 100 years for Bridewell protesters | Tom Anderson for The Canary news cooperative thecanary.co/discovery/analyβ¦
Bailiffs Are Dressing Up Like Police Officers to Scare Tenants Out of Their Homes | Andrew Kersley for Novara Media novaramedia.com/2023/02/27/bβ¦
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Economic growth is fuelling climate change β a new book proposes βdegrowth communismβ as theΒ solution | TimothΓ©e Parrique, Lund University, for The Conversation
theconversation.com/economic⦠via @ConversationUK
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