Carl Gibson

Sign the petition: Save Our Swifts Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition ...

Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/ky2i

25.05.2025 12:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Brilliant!

19.05.2025 11:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well said!

05.03.2025 20:37 — 👍 76645    🔁 19250    💬 1241    📌 609

Wonder how many of those federal workers who've lost their jobs are Republican and voted for Trump last November?

19.02.2025 18:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On the one hand this just reinforces that by "free speech" the right actually means "restricted speech for you, free speech for me and people who agree with me only".

On the other hand this clearly signposts that Signal works and we should probably adopt it and dump the Meta-controlled WhatsApp.

17.02.2025 13:32 — 👍 42    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1

Time for change: no more fox hunting Fox hunting, deer hunting, and hare hunting still take place in the UK. These cruel activities have been banned in England and Wales for nearly 20 years, but the law is failing us all. Too many animal...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ti...

14.02.2025 19:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A reminder that Sadiq Khan successfully won three elections in a row by large majorities against Conservative opponents, one of whom, Shaun Bailey, was then given a seat in the House of Lords for life.

Funnily enough I don't remember the Daily Mail describing that as a "reward for failure"

31.12.2024 09:20 — 👍 1952    🔁 533    💬 106    📌 32

There are more than 10m children in school in the UK…but, per Times, 3,000 might move to state sector because of VAT rise…so Whitehall is “braced” 😲😲😲

Says a lot about UK media bubble, the way this story is reported.

You pay VAT on luxuries. Private schooling is that.

26.12.2024 08:34 — 👍 4043    🔁 1058    💬 202    📌 54

Inheritance tax: 'Betrayed' farmers take Budget protest to London Thousands of farmers expected to take part in a march on Whitehall Organisers of Tuesday's protest warn some farmers now

As farmers protest at paying tax for the 1st time on multi-million pound inheritances, a thread on some of the tax breaks farmers get, often uniquely.

Fair enough; food is important. But the idea farmers are being unfairly treated is mad. They get hugely beneficial treatment from the tax system
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19.11.2024 11:58 — 👍 466    🔁 227    💬 35    📌 18

A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss.
She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’
Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️

18.11.2024 16:32 — 👍 10435    🔁 2073    💬 346    📌 104

Gambling Scandal: The perfect end to a terrible government This behaviour is not random. It is a result of poor leadership.

The Tory gambling scandal: A perfectly fitting end to an ethically negligent government iandunt.substack.com/p/gambling-s...

21.06.2024 10:34 — 👍 98    🔁 45    💬 7    📌 2

Import your Twitter follows to Bluesky

I imported 26 friends from Twitter to Bluesky

14.01.2024 18:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Gateway drug to so much lunatic shit and extremism.

Brilliantly designed to build an easily triggered audience of deranged and deluded voters. Then swing them in behind specific reactionary campaigns.

07.01.2024 07:32 — 👍 31    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0

Finally got my invite code.

27.12.2023 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0