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17.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0… children that refugees in the UK have? What will become of them? And to say that “illegal” (undocumented, irregular) immigration is tearing the country apart is to peddle in the same mistruths of the far right.
16.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely awful from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. The party has lost all sense of propriety and humanity in a desperate act of self preservation in the face of a right wing threat. It’ll leave countless people with a sort of vague, othered status. And what of the …
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“These great platforms, which were platforms for human expression, human content, and human connections, will increasingly become pipelines for algorithmically recommended entertainment content, where we as humans become passive recipients.” - #NickClegg
14.11.2025 14:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“What we experience online is swiftly mutating from something that was driven by humans – content that humans would generate, good, bad, lovely, ugly – to content that is synthetically generated and algorithmically recommended to you ...
14.11.2025 14:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Had a little play around on #Twitter today responding to a controversial post. The response to it was quite deranged. Though this is business as usual it was novel to experience it directly. It’s a proper Wild West of rage, conspiracy and untruths - a cesspit of hellish nightmares.
13.11.2025 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A brilliant must read by @arusbridger.bsky.social here: www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
12.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“… It suits them to have all the channels of social media to be concentrated in the hands of a few billionaires, who then duly fall in line. It suits them that much of the mainstream news media is economically on its last legs—and that its ownership is concentrated into fewer and fewer hands.
12.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“We have seen, the world over, that populist and authoritarian leaders move swiftly to diminish or kill off public service media. It suits them to (in the words of Steve Bannon) “flood the zone with shit”, so no one knows who or what to believe …”
12.11.2025 15:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“Our natural world, like the planet earth, is one of our kind. Everything it consists of, from the complex, delicate and harmonious balance of animals, plants, rivers and trees to all the phenomenon that takes place beneath the thin kármán line, is exceptional ..."
12.11.2025 09:00 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0“As a survivor of grooming gangs and now an advocate working to expose what went wrong, I’m constantly asked: why do we need a specific inquiry into grooming gangs? Here’s my response.”
08.11.2025 09:52 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0It's #JournalismMatters Week. If you believe in the work we're doing, please sign up today to as a paid member. We really need your support to offer an alternative to local news in #WestYorkshire. Link below.
06.11.2025 16:34 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0"I often think about what I’d fund in Keighley and Ilkley if someone offered me a million pounds to spend, no strings attached ..."
04.11.2025 09:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Living as we do in the long aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and a post-meaningful world of growth – coupled with the anti-worker agenda of AI ...
31.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
@iandunt.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen already …
28.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A graphic from Bradford Green Party Councillors featuring a quote from Cllr Ros Brown of Ilkley Ward. The background is green with white and dark green text that reads: “Public ownership is not just viable – it’s essential for a cleaner, fairer, and more resilient water system.” Below the quote is Ros Brown’s name and ward. On the right is a photo of Ros Brown smiling, wearing a red and blue floral top. At the bottom is a white banner with the Green Party logo and the website Join.greenparty.org.uk.
🚰 Councillor Ros Brown is quoted in the @theilkleyjournal.co.uk talking about the 'essential' need to bring water back into public ownership.
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Our essay next week looks at how this kind of disturbing racist language is unashamedly being voiced without fear of reproach and no sense of shame …
26.10.2025 12:56 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0See the shocking video here: www.instagram.com/reel/DQMBP4X...
Image credit: @politicsjoe.bsky.social
“It’s a proud refusal to be bound by the most basic standard of goodness, a deliberate expression of contempt for everything decent …”
25.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
To openly quote Hitler and call all non-white immigration illegal is, to quote the American journalist George Parker writing recently about the “depth of America’s moral collapse”, antihuman:
25.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
District council meetings are a big deal.
Especially the full council meetings.
The ones where most councillors turn up.
The ones where lots of important decisions get discussed and debated.
The ones that affect us all.
But ask yourself: when was the last time you turned up to one?
Like Paul Marshall, the very Conservative Christian academic James Orr has mastered the art of political and cultural influence away from the public eye. That’s changing - as his appointment as a senior advisor to Reform UK shows. Learn more about him at the link below by @iainoverton.bsky.social …
24.10.2025 15:00 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0“A breath in. A breath out. I thrust myself forward and I’m submerged in the chilled waters of the lake. It’s a shock to the system, but I manage to keep my breathing controlled …”
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17.10.2025 07:08 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Answers on a postcard …
15.10.2025 10:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“Who am I to justify
“All the evil in our eye
“When I myself feel the high
“From all that I despise.”
