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Senior Researcher at Social Life | Doctoral research at Birmingham City University in youth and urban planning | Trustee RTPI | Design Council Expert Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/simeonshtebunaev

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The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...

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The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇

11.12.2025 07:05 — 👍 1334    🔁 811    💬 62    📌 84
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This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

30.11.2025 09:57 — 👍 3277    🔁 1226    💬 334    📌 334

@mark--watts.bsky.social, Executive Director of C40 Cities, said:

“C40 Cites stands fully behind Colombia’s Belém Declaration on a just transition away from fossil fuels. We respond to their invitation for subnational involvement with an ‘absolutely… yes!’

21.11.2025 13:18 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus

This is shocking. Up to 50,000 nurses could quit the UK over the government’s immigration proposals, plunging the NHS into its biggest ever workforce crisis, research suggests

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

20.11.2025 14:32 — 👍 335    🔁 192    💬 40    📌 18
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

16.11.2025 12:12 — 👍 1292    🔁 507    💬 34    📌 25
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Reeves considers cut to green levies in effort to reduce cost of energy bills Exclusive: Chancellor hopes to save up to £170 from average bill but industry insiders say move would be ‘disastrous’

Can’t quite believe the Chancellor is seriously considering slashing support for home energy efficiency as a way to cut fuel bills 👀. Locking people into cold & leaky homes which will cost them more to heat & decimating the insulation industry at same time. Total madness 👇

04.11.2025 23:04 — 👍 405    🔁 148    💬 29    📌 12
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Miss Me? - Listen Bitch! Nostalgia Used to be an Illness - BBC Sounds Miquita and Jordan answer your questions about the things that scare us.

Jordan has read Time Shelter, woop woop great Bulgarian book!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

03.11.2025 18:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

31.10.2025 19:37 — 👍 2669    🔁 853    💬 26    📌 33
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Victoria Derbyshire, "One of your policies that wouldn't hit most people is a wealth tax, 1% on those with £10m+"

Zack Polanski, "Patriotic Millionaires say between £15-25 billion a year"

Zack Polanski, "This isn't about creating public investment it's about reducing inequality"

19.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 797    🔁 171    💬 37    📌 15
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Join the Green Party Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Sorry you've been a victim of fake news.

I said this morning to @vicderbyshire.bsky.social that the Green Party had passed 123,000 members.

A couple of hours later it's out of date. @greenparty.org.uk have 126,000! 🎉🚀

Join.greenparty.org.uk

19.10.2025 11:48 — 👍 1770    🔁 400    💬 61    📌 54
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Join the Green Party Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

join.greenparty.org.uk

19.10.2025 14:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Join the Green Party Join the Green Party from just £6 a year. Become a member today - join the only party standing up for people and planet.

Tomorrow I'll be on Laura Kuenssberg.

Will I be able to say "I can announce the Green Party have just overtaken the Tories in members!"?

It's tantalisingly close to happening!

Join.greenparty.org.uk

18.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 2004    🔁 502    💬 152    📌 62

Trumpist slogans are never a good look

14.10.2025 13:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘Brummies united against racism’: poster campaign takes on the far right A message of neighbourly solidarity is thriving in Birmingham against a backdrop of racist intimidation

Proud to support this powerful campaign begun by residents in Moseley. It has resonated with people across the country
who are sick and tired of seeing nothing but divisive rhetoric in our news every day.
#noplaceforhate #Brumunited.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

12.10.2025 22:46 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

09.10.2025 21:36 — 👍 38716    🔁 10667    💬 1796    📌 838
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CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

09.10.2025 14:34 — 👍 17422    🔁 10290    💬 2838    📌 1848

Not only are we at record numbers of members and growing every day - this is our highest ever poll rating.

We're just getting started.

This is the politics of the 99% Vs the 1% for a country we can all afford to live in - plenty of room to grow.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

09.10.2025 12:48 — 👍 1119    🔁 309    💬 54    📌 20

1/2 These days Jewish life exists in the UK by virtue of a large amount of security, which is very expensive, & which many organisations cannot afford. it is an invisible tax on Jewishness. The Community Security Trust provides this security free of charge, alleviating the burden

02.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/28/labour-conference-keir-starmer-latest-uk-politics-news-live-updates&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTI2MTgwMzA5Mjg5Nzc2MDQ1NzkyGjc2MzUxOTYzNjFmYmFiNTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qqgdthtgelfZIvqTxP2_r

https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/28/labour-conference-keir-starmer-latest-uk-politics-news-live-updates&ct=ga&cd=CAEYASoUMTI2MTgwMzA5Mjg5Nzc2MDQ1NzkyGjc2MzUxOTYzNjFmYmFiNTM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0qqgdthtgelfZIvqTxP2_r

Labour stand for one thing to everyone - to protect the super rich.

@greenparty.org.uk will cut bills, bring public services back into public hands, and protect our NHS.

Labour takes cash from oil & gas, gambling, and the arms trade.

Make your choice.
👉🏼 Join.greenparty.org.uk

28.09.2025 16:33 — 👍 414    🔁 130    💬 22    📌 17
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The Green Party now has 78,000 members.

Thats 10,000+ new members this month alone who want to draw the line.

I know there are so many more people who want to take a stand.

Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

21.09.2025 21:23 — 👍 1194    🔁 381    💬 28    📌 54
The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

18.09.2025 02:41 — 👍 26724    🔁 8820    💬 861    📌 504
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The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

18.09.2025 01:59 — 👍 30178    🔁 10048    💬 614    📌 422
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"The era of trickle down economics was always a lie."

@zackpolanski.bsky.social lays out the Green Party's plan for a fairer taxation system on Sky News.

07.09.2025 09:10 — 👍 524    🔁 168    💬 13    📌 18
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Green Party leader Zack Polanski: 'I feel compassion for Angela Rayner The newly elected leader said he sympathises with the former Deputy PM and asks whether Reform UK’s Nigel Farage should also quit

However, Mr Polanski ruled out working with Sir Keir Starmer’s current government.

“While they’re still arming a genocide, cutting disability payments, and the two-child benefit cap, I wouldn’t dream of working with them,” he said.

www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

06.09.2025 22:14 — 👍 425    🔁 91    💬 13    📌 3

The AI prompt writer straight out of Stalinist school of art

31.08.2025 12:23 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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El gabinete de seguridad de Israel aprueba el plan militar de Netanyahu para ocupar la Ciudad de Gaza Una larga reunión del Ejecutivo concluye con el aval para invadir la urbe, pero no el conjunto de la Franja, lo que era el objetivo declarado del primer ministro y había levantado críticas internas

El Gobierno de Sánchez, Europa y la comunidad internacional no pueden seguir mirando hacia otro lado.

Es urgente frenar la ocupación de Gaza: embargo total de armas y ruptura de relaciones comerciales y diplomáticas con el Estado genocida de Israel.
www.eldiario.es/internaciona...

08.08.2025 08:23 — 👍 70    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 0

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

07.08.2025 12:22 — 👍 15189    🔁 4232    💬 367    📌 108

The great dismantling

05.08.2025 12:14 — 👍 322    🔁 176    💬 32    📌 16
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Behind every austerity measure is a choice: to protect markets over people.

Clara Mattei joined our recent webinar to break down how austerity reinforces market rule—by design, not by accident.

04.08.2025 15:55 — 👍 28    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0

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