Bluesky have just verfied that I'm over 18 by checking what I look like through a photo. Looks like I need to get that mirror in the attic replaced.....
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"Nuclear plants will be decades too late". My letter in today's Observer.
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Starmer and Reeves should consider wealth tax, says former shadow chancellor
Anneliese Dodds urges government not to duck ‘big decisions’ in autumn budget
Treasury should consider a wealth tax to close the growing gap in the public finances, according to Labour’s former shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
31.07.2025 16:43 — 👍 234 🔁 62 💬 14 📌 0
It’s been 10 years since community appeared in a Bill's title in UK law.
It's the first time the word empowerment has ever been used.
Watch the introduction of the new English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, featuring the Community Right to Buy.
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"By committing to changing this, the Government has wisely taken a step in the right direction - but First Past the Post is just as flawed when it comes to general elections."
🌹 @alexsobel.co.uk #Labour4PR
10.07.2025 13:55 — 👍 75 🔁 42 💬 5 📌 4
40+ years ago I was an NVDA trainer with the Greenham Common Peace Camp women. They invaded base, peacefully like PA. Photo of them dancing on top of one of the nuclear bunkers. Mrs Thatcher never thought to define them as terrorists or make membership of the Peace Camp a criminal offence.
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Pressure grows on Yvette Cooper to abandon plans to ban Palestine Action
UN experts and hundreds of lawyers warn that proscribing group would conflate protest and terrorism
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... I too am really alarmed by this. Non violent direct action (NVDA) has been a cornerstone of the right to peaceful protest, which is itself a cornerstone a democratic society. We are slipping rapidly into an authoritarian and anti-democratic state.
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🚀 Public support for electoral reform is the highest it's been since records began
💥 60% now want to change to a fair, proportional voting system... including a majority of supporters of every party
🌹 Chair of @appgfairelections.bsky.social, Labour MP @alexsobel.co.uk, welcomes the news
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Nature. Writer. Reader. Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning On Gallows Down. Ghosts of the Farm coming 30/11!
Climate Fic Prize Judge.
North Wessex Downs.
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Head of the UK’s Mission for Clean Power by 2030.
Former CEO of the UK’s Climate Change Committee.
Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
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Member of Parliament for Taunton & Wellington in Somerset’s proud Liberal tradition.
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Change maker. Localist, internationalist and last minute cobble togetherer of packed lunches.
Head of Politics at Green Alliance | ex @UKParliament | unrealistically optimistic about energy & environment | views own ✊
Advisor and consultant to various, esp creative sector.
art, books, writing, roses, music, languages (I struggle but it’s worth it)
Member of the House of Lords.
Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Oxford City Councillor for St Clements ward. Associate Professor in Law at Oxford Brookes University. Research: gender, sexuality, law; migration; and legal theory. Views my own.
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With my community I help make long form photography stories that broadcast the realities of being marginalised & the brutality of successive political policies.
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PhD student | Oxford Seascape Ecology Lab | University of Oxford
Passionate about seascape ecology, geospatial science, and all things fish 🐠🌊🗺️. She/Her. Views my own.
Supporting asylum seekers, refugees, and vulnerable migrants in Oxfordshire.
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Campaigning to build the broadest possible support across the Labour Party to adopt a policy of replacing the monarchy with an elected head of state.
