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'Have I Got News For You'

#BBC1 Friday 7 November 9pm

#HIGNFY

Book Cover “The Big Payback. The case for reparations for slavery and how they would work” by Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder

Just finished “The Big Payback” by Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder, making the case for reparation to those who suffered under transatlantic slavery and their decedents.

Really clear, really readable and a crucial topic for our times.

Strongly recommend

REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE. LET THEM WORK Green Party Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

The government are reportedly planning on moving some asylum seekers from hotels to military bases...

How about, rather than shipping a few hundred people off to military sites, we let asylum seekers work and contribute to our society and fix our broken asylum system? 🤔

Reminder - as frequently pointed out by Surrey Police - high vis does nothing if drivers aren’t paying attention.

#31DaysofGraves Day26 Figure
Memorial to all the fishermen lost at sea. Plaques behind the figure give names and dates. Gjogv, Eysturoy, Faroe Islands.
#Gjogv #FaroeIslands

Person holding up cardboard sign saying "Boot out transphobia". On the sign is a drawing of a boot.

New Opinion Article: Your Party is a waste of time

whatthetrans.com/opinion-your...

An heraldic device engraved on an aged burial monument features the figure of a man lying down and facing away with his hands bound behind his back

#31DaysOfGraves Day 26:Figures

The Bound Man figure was awarded to Robert Riabhach clan chief of the Donnachaidh for his part in the capture, torture and execution of Walter Stewart assassin of King James 1st of Scotland.

A descendant lies at #Brighton St Nicholas
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Dozens of Labour MPs warn of chaos for firms over gender recognition advice Nearly 50 backbenchers write to business secretary over potential costs and legal ‘minefield’ of upcoming guidance

MPs are rightly concerned about the economic impact of the EHRC's Code of Practice. Businesses up and down the country have made clear that it's unworkable.

It's time for the Minister to send it back 🚮

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Women in support of the trans+ community We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. 60,000 have signed. Let's get to 100,000 Kathryn signed 1 minute ago Serinn signed 17 minutes ago Laura signed 19 minutes ago Holly signed 21 minutes ago

60,000 signatures for the @nionwomen.bsky.social petition for cis women opposed to their names being used to justify transphobia,

notinourname.org.uk

The future Sussex Mayor must protect our countryside As the candidates for the new Sussex Mayor become clearer, CPRE Sussex has been busy making sure the countryside and environment are at the top of…

Really strong piece from @cpresussex.bsky.social on the priorities for nature and the environment which the mayoral candidates need to understand and take on.

#LocalGov #Sussex #Devolution

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2555913...

Photo shows Councillor Marina Ladermacher against the backdrop of Thornsdale flats

Meet your local councillor! Friday 10.30am Thornsdale Hub

#Brighton #QueensPark

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver The building was the family home of William Shakespeare's daughter Susanna Hall and her husband, physician John Hall.

“What (tail) light through yonder window breaks?”

news.sky.com/story/bluesk...

🇺🇸 🔥 That. Was. Impressive.

We are watching America reassert itself and its values from the grassroots up. The world saw you and we have huge hope invested in you.

Ace Week, formerly Asexual Awareness Week, is an international campaign dedicated to raising awareness and expanding education of asexuality.

We stand in solidarity with our Ace siblings, team members and supporters!

#AceWeek #AsexualityAwareness #Asexual #LGBTQIA

Image shows the interior of the vault, with some inscripted panels, graffiti and collapsing brickwork

#31DaysOfGraves Day 19 social group
When Hanover Chapel vault became a punk venue “vibrations from rehearsals & gigs caused breaches in the walls and pretty soon skulls, bones & bits of coffin started turning up.”
The venue was closed & occupants reburied as a group
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If reform can rocket through the polls with a politics of despair, then it's time for the green party to do the same thing but with a politics of hope.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

'Jason Momoa sneaking up to Henry Cavill' meme with GREEN PARTY MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS 'sneaking up on' CONSERVATIVE PARTY MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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join.greenparty.org.uk

So in all my fifty *cough* something yrs I have NEVER been inspired to join a political party. Ever. Yesterday, after seeing @zackpolanski.bsky.social ‘s video of Ben Zephaniah’s poem, I joined the Green Party.They understand Britain the melting pot & give us love & hope, not hate & division Join us

#31DaysOfGraves Day 17 - relocated.
Not my normal cemetery, but still Peterborough. Mary Queen of Scots. Beheaded at nearby Fotheringhay Castle on 8 February 1587 (it took two goes with the axe...) she was denied her desired burial in France by Elizabeth.

#31daysofgraves

Day 17: Relocated

St Peter, Cookley

Image shows a graveyard looking along a path full with tombs and headstones taken before 1950

Image shows the same path but almost no headstones or monuments in place. Taken after 1950

#31DaysOfGraves : Removed

“Between 1949 and 1951, all three burial grounds were cleared by the council. Some monument pieces were placed around the perimiter of the site, but most were removed completely.”

Before & After #Brighton St Nicholas

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An Obelisk memorial to Dr Mathew Hilbers in St Nicholas ground Brighton

#31DaysOfGraves Day 16 :Obelisk

“In 1847 he made a kind of history by being the first homeopathic practitioner to seek appointment at a public hospital; also the first such seeker to be rejected.”

mortiquarian.com/2011/07/03/h...

Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Please read my column today in conjunction with Aditya's. The government pretends to be delivering housing to those who need it, but is in fact just appeasing the big corporations. Then it blames nature protections, and rips those down at their behest as well.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

No words.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Screenshot of article. Screen readable version available at link

WOW.

Whole of UK: 371 million tonnes a year

Just this one oil field: 250 million tonnes.

Decision expected soon. All eyes on this Labour government 👀

#StopRosebank @stopcambo.bsky.social

(Hat tip @esmestallard.bsky.social for the article:
www.bbc.com/news/article...)

Image shows an underground brick burial chamber - St Nicolas ground Brighton UK

#31DaysOfGraves - inside

Enter the labyrinth - going underground at #Brighton St Nicholas

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Flyer for the Central Brighton Healthy Neighbourhoods Fund offering £500 grants for health and wellbeing projects.

The Healthy Neighbourhoods Fund is now open for applications - up to £500 for Health and Wellbeing projects. #AlbionLife works with the Trust for Developing Communities to deliver this scheme in our part of town. Apply by Oct 27 more info HERE: trustdevcom.org.uk/project/heal...
#Brighton #Community

Absolutely superb effort by all those who voted for this, many of whom are now dead.