Simon Spoerer

I suspect it’s far more mainstream than meets the eye.

Peter Sullivan has murder conviction quashed after 38 years in jail Hearing told that DNA evidence found at the scene of Diane Sindall’s murder was not that of the 68-year-old

The best possible argument against capital punishment.

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/may...

This!!!

Voting reform has never been more important. Everyone needs to feel able to first preference vote for the party of their choice, but also to have representatives that reflect the values of the people in their constituencies.

Given wealth inequality and crumbling public services I so want to tax the rich. But they have all sorts of ways of avoiding that. If wealth was distributed more equitably the tax take would also rise.

Would campaigning against obscene wealth inequality be a better use of energy?

For the Rich, One Nation Isn’t Rolling Out the Red Carpet - Inequality.org Norway, maybe more than any other nation, is really working to share the wealth.

#WealthTax works: Norway’s wealthiest have faced a wealth tax since 1892, and over the generations, no nation has taken taxing wealth as seriously. If we want less inequality, tax policies must be distributive. This is the fairest way and provides a better foundation for the country to create value.

I got drunk with John Prescott once. A long time ago, when he was in the political wilderness in the early days of New Labour. Such a great guy, I really liked him.

A very sad loss.

1. The difference so far (and for god's sake let's keep it that way) between X and Bluesky is not between right and left but between abuse and respect.
A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean?
A short thread.🧵

Ronald Reagan turned millionaires into billionaires on the backs of the working class.

Now Trump is going to turn billionaires into trillionaires on the necks of the working class.

Wealth inequality is a scourge on society which will ultimately destroy us all.

Tax the rich.

A lot.

Looks like it!

European Movement We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

🔥 OK, let’s REALLY test out the power of this new Bluesky community.

All of you #Rejoin folk out there… You saw that we just appointed Dominic Grieve & Caroline Lucas as co-Presidents…

And you know our 23,000 membership is now growing fast…

So - are we doing this? Are you IN?

Then join! 👇👇

Ask Wes Streeting to rule Palantir out of his NHS technology revolution Wes Streeting has announced plans to launch care records – a central store of all our health data and doctors’ notes. But we haven’t heard him address the elephant in the room: Palantir. Palantir’s tr...

Okay, let’s get down to business.

Wes Streeting’s planning a centralised system for our health data & doctors’ notes. That could bring great benefits.

But we can’t risk handing them over to a rogue operator like Palantir.

Write to him to demand he rules out their involvement:
goodlaw.social/ss1q

As the Trump reality hardens into something world-threateningly grim with a cabinet chock full of dangerously vindictive inadequates; including power-abusing billionaires, sex pests, conspiracy theorists, Russian assets, racists and climate deniers…

Never forget who cheered this nightmare on…

Mea culpa.

I jumped in too quickly here. Check the poster’s bio.

Good advice.

It’s just appalling. But will the MAGA base even care? Ugh!

I have a lot of sympathy with your basic premise. However, it remains true that successive governments have kicked social care reform into the long grass.

Change is long overdue. I remain hopeful that the new gov will get stuck in, but not exactly convinced.

We met floor-crossing Tory then Labour MP @rosieisaholt.bsky.social

And she’s still defending Brexit…

America.

BBC News, "What's your reaction to RFK junior as Health Secretary?"

Kim Darroch, "This is the wildest of the Trump cabinet appointments.. This guy is an anti-vaxer who believes vaccines cause autism, and he's a conspiracy theorist.. It's going to be a bumpy ride"

Imagine sitting down for a drink or a meal with people whose company you enjoyed & being told by management that half of the table would be now occupied by people who just wanted to shout ‘C**t’ at you. The exodus has absolutely nothing to do with ‘opinions’. Media reports must reflect this more.

The very definition of a conflict of interest.

So the way forward is to support a campaign that ended in 1291?

I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.

Is Trump trying to kill us? Authoritarian expert says yes. Here’s how It sounds hyperbolic, but it's not

“There are five areas that authoritarians want to control when they attempt to decapitate a democratic state, authoritarian expert Timothy Snyder writes: health, law, administration, defense & intelligence... each of these arenas, the goal is to create chaos — and yes, even death.”

bit.ly/3ABgZEm

A painting depicting a nude man, his back is arched and his fists are clenched. He stares up at the ceiling.

Medical historian here to remind you of the benefits of #vaccines!

This is the final stage of tetanus when nerves fire continuously & body contorts into agonizing posture known as opisthotonus. The mastication muscles clamp down to form the hallmark lockjaw.

A vaccine didn't appear until 1924.

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