Sheila Jones

Equity boycotts “unfit for purpose” BBC Charter survey Equity has announced today its boycott of the government’s survey in relation to BBC Charter renewal, calling it “unfit for purpose in either detail or scope”. The union points to the survey’s complet...

Why we're boycotting the government's BBC Charter Survey:

👉Absence of workforce consideration
👉Limited detail and scope
👉Possible use of AI to aggregate responses, likely to generate overly simplistic conclusions

Read what we're calling for instead 👇

The fall and fall of Tony Blair Never has a former prime minister so tarnished their own reputation

The fall and fall of Tony Blair
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Forget the country. Save the party The world may be burning but members of Britain’s governing Labour party seem more interested in a fight over the leadership

Forget the country. Save the party
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Stop the water stitch-up! Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the water stitch-up!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

A Declaration of Independence From The Mad King It's time.

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Video shows ICE agent in Minneapolis fired at driver as vehicle veered past him An analysis of video footage raises questions about claims by President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem about the fatal shooting in Minneapolis.

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Jeffrey Sachs attacks US over Venezuela Analysis of the UN adviser’s statement by Labour CND, together with model motions for CLPS from the Campaign for Labour Democracy and Momentum and details of upcoming events. American economist and…

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We Can Make an Impact. Urge Audible to cease AI narration rollout

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The Post The Liverpool Post

Where your attention and subscription money should be directed. www.livpost.co.uk

Albert Dock & Salthouse Dock looking festive last night, and thankfully calm! George's Dock Building looking well lit up in red!

Trump's Hot Mess Rally The Fyre Festival of Affordability Tours Begins

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The public has not agreed to this!

Why Britain doesn’t have enough dentists Plenty of trained foreigners want to work, but slots for the qualification exam seem as hard to get as Glastonbury tickets

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Gritty, cheeky, sincere: How Martin Parr captured the spirit of Merseyside The renowned photographer has died aged 73. We look back at his chronicling of the Wirral

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I wonder if anyone else sings "Zalando!"* to the tune of "Orlando!" from the Book of Mormon. *a German outlet chain like TK Maxx, although it's also here. Few apart from @mssjones.bsky.social and @frescoleraye.bsky.social could tell you, without searching, why it's "TK" on this side of the Atlantic.

Brexit is the ball and chain holding Britain back. Time to download the re-application form Things have not got better since 2020. In fact they've got worse.Our politicians need to wake up and smell the expresso

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Ask your local councillors to fix housing for people with MND Charlotte’s just 30. Diagnosed with MND two years ago, she’s struggling to adjust to her new reality. Like most people with MND, she needs major changes to her home. Things like a ramp, and a wet room...

“It’s taken so long, and Charlotte hasn't got time.”https://act.mndassociation.org/2025-11-Unlock-the-Door

YouTube video by Kat Abughazaleh Trump Wrongly Indicted Me, I’ll Rightly Impeach Him | Kat Abughazaleh Speaks at Lincoln Memorial

Impeachment isn’t an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent.

Impeach, convict, remove. And if our current leaders won’t do it, they need to step aside for people who will: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo54...

The truth behind Reform UK’s reckless budget £25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning

£25bn of imagined savings, real-world cruelty and mathematics that should come with a trigger warning.

Why does a massive US private healthcare company own 2 NHS PFI projects?🚨🚨🚨

We Can Make an Impact. Prevent American Buy-ups of British TV channels

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What the right-wing offensive against the BBC is really about By Tim Lezard The BBC is so left-wing that since 2010 its biased reporting has resulted in the election of four successive Conservative governments and, last year, of the most right-wing Labour adm…

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Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales dies aged 93 Scales played hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil, in the classic British sitcom.

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Lovely orange layers of sky after sunset over Birkenhead and the River Mersey, glistening on a low tide with a wide band of ridged sand on the Liverpool side.

Lovely sky over Birkenhead and Liverpool tonight

Stephen Miller: Lord of the Flies at the heart of Trump's assault on democracy The deputy Chief of Staff at the White House is the descendant of immigrant Jews fleeing anti-Semitism. And yet he's the president's persecutor in chief.

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America's Sleeping Giant roared when police attacked civil rights marchers.

And after tens of thousands of young Americans were killed in Vietnam.

And when Nixon tried to cover up Watergate.

Today it roars once more — at the tyrant in the Oval Office.

Kristi Noem is mad they wouldn’t let her in to use the restroom in Illinois today.

Americans want it, but Congressional Republicans and Donald Trump don’t.

Why?

So Trump can continue his vendetta campaign across the country by withholding already approved funds for critical infrastructure and energy projects and firing thousands of hard working Americans from their jobs.

This is due to a law signed by Ronald Reagan and has nothing to do with this shutdown fight.

But consider this...

Emergency Medicaid spending in 2023 cost $3.8 billion — just 0.4% of total Medicaid spending.

Now what about the $20 billion taxpayers are giving to Argentina?