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@taylorfitz.bsky.social

Woke, chai latte loving dog person. Views my own. Advocating for kindness and inclusivity for all, especially the vulnerable. Building a just world rooted in our shared humanity.

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Hope Beats Hate: Green Party Defeats Reform and Labour in Huge Gorton and Denton By-Election Victory A concerted political and media campaign to scare voters about a “Green Menace” winning this by-election failed, reports Adam Bienkov

Moments like this show that communities still choose empathy over division. It’s a reminder that people want a future built on fairness, dignity, and shared hope — and that any movement drifting from those values risks losing the trust of the people they serve.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

27.02.2026 07:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Age‑verification for VPNs is not about children.
It’s about creating the first legal foothold for identity‑linked internet access.

18.02.2026 07:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A billionaire living tax‑free in Monaco lecturing Britain about who’s a ‘burden’ is peak hypocrisy. Contribute nothing, blame the vulnerable. Classic

12.02.2026 22:19 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#USA When a state gives its enforcement agencies broad power with no accountability, the result is always the same: vulnerable people pay the price while those responsible rise through the ranks. History has shown this pattern again and again — and we should recognise it when we see it

31.01.2026 11:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#USA If the US can’t uphold basic human rights, political stability, or public safety, it has no business hosting the World Cup or Olympics. Hold it to the same standards as everyone else.

25.01.2026 18:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

the lecture hall, shaping narratives that threaten to drag mainstream debate further toward division and exclusion. Orr’s influence is growing quickly, and it’s not just theoretical it’s strategic, deliberate, and designed to shift the political landscape. #FarRight
#ReformUK #ukpolitics

14.12.2025 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

James Orr isn’t just a Cambridge academic — he’s positioning himself as a rising architect of Britain’s hard‑right politics. Now advising Reform UK, he’s importing the playbook of U.S.‑style culture wars into the UK, blending academic credentials with ideological activism. His reach extends beyond

14.12.2025 18:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

When corruption crowns corruption: a peace prize handed to a president steeped in scandal and corruption . www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

06.12.2025 12:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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22.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If asylum seekers’ jewellery is fair game, why stop there — spare kidneys too? 💔 Stripping it away doesn’t save costs, it strips dignity. Stand against cruelty disguised as policy. #HumanRights

18.11.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Brits in Benidorm, dressed as soldiers, waving “Stop the Boats” banners… while living abroad.
You couldn’t script this level of irony.

18.11.2025 07:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The richest 1% own $54 trillion—nearly half of all global wealth.
The top 10% control over 80%.
Meanwhile, the bottom 50% share less than 2%.
A fair wealth tax could redistribute this extreme concentration into healthcare, education & climate action. 🌍💰 #WealthTax #Inequality

16.11.2025 18:08 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

distract the public with flag‑waving and divisive rhetoric on immigration. This is not a party for working people; it is a vehicle for the powerful to protect their profits while ordinary communities face rising costs and worsening inequality. #reformuk #UKpolitics #ClimateJustice #EndFossilFuels

16.11.2025 09:42 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Reform UK is not a grassroots movement — it is a private company bankrolled by wealthy donors, including fossil fuel interests, who stand to gain from its policies. Their agenda is clear: scrap climate commitments, cut taxes that benefit the rich, and

16.11.2025 09:42 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1
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Teesside gas firm calls for energy profits levy overhaul The levy on oil and gas profits ends in 2030 with the government exploring what might follow it.

www.bbc.com/news/article... If you can afford shareholder dividends, you can afford a windfall tax. Slashing UK investment while posting global profits isn’t a tax problem—it’s a choice.Don’t let “investment uncertainty” become code for public subsidy.

07.11.2025 23:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

everyone is treated with dignity isn’t naïve — it’s the foundation of stability and fairness. Telling people to “lighten up”about their rights is like telling someone to ignore a fire in their house because it’s only burning in one room. #ECHR #UKPolitics

01.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

doesn’t change the fact that some parties are openly proposing to strip away rights, undoing decades of progress. Turning off the TV doesn’t make those policies disappear. Real reform should mean fixing what’s broken, not tearing down the protections that keep people safe. Wanting a society where

01.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

direction we want for the UK?. Taking away protections, or even cutting social safety nets doesn’t build resilience — it creates division and instability. History shows societies thrive when rights, healthcare, education, and workers’ protections are upheld. The media might amplify tensions, but it

01.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

hand out depending on who’s popular. If they’re weakened for one group, they’re weakened for everyone. That doesn’t make society safer — it makes it less fair and less stable. We only need to look at the US to see how quickly rights can be rolled back and divisions deepened. Is that really the

01.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

When people dismiss real struggles as “just perceptions,” it shifts the blame onto those suffering instead of those causing the harm. The challenges minorities face aren’t imagined — they come from laws, media, and groups that actively try to take away rights. Rights aren’t optional or something to

01.11.2025 12:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Labour MPs - Silence isn’t strategy when the stakes are dignity.

29.10.2025 23:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

iOS 26 on iPhone 11 is like putting a jet engine on a tricycle. Impressive in theory, catastrophic in practice. #iOS26 #iPhone11 #TechTantrums

25.10.2025 11:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The ECHR isn’t perfect but, it’s independent. That’s its power. When domestic politics fail to protect your rights, you need a safeguard that doesn’t answer to politicians

20.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tel Aviv football derby cancelled as 'violent riots' see nine arrested Police said dozens of smoke grenades and pyrotechnic devices were thrown, injuring 12 civilians and three police officers.

No words! news.sky.com/story/tel-av...

19.10.2025 20:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Banning Maccabi Tel Aviv fans for hooliganism is a public safety call. Conflating it with antisemitism is dangerous and dishonest. We must protect public order and the integrity of anti-racism. Don’t weaponise identity to excuse bad behaviour.

17.10.2025 20:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Benefit fraud: £6.3bn
Asylum seekers: £1.53bn
Tax avoidance + loopholes: £61.8bn Guess which group gets the headlines.Rage is being outsourced. Choose wisely!

15.10.2025 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

GPs don’t “sign people off” on a whim. They protect patients from unsafe work environments, worsening symptoms, and systemic neglect. Embedding employment advisers in surgeries won’t fix that. Respect clinical judgment. Respect recovery.

10.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Spending £400M on digital ID to tackle illegal working—just 5% of migration—while ignoring upstream fixes like a French processing centre? That’s not strategy. That’s optics. #UKPolitics #MigrationPolicy #digitalID #government

26.09.2025 17:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The billionaire class is the only minority destroying the UK
They and their puppet politicians, not vulnerable groups, are behind the rising costs and gutted public services. The culture wars are a smokescreen to make us fight each other instead of fighting them. The true divide is top versus bottom

14.09.2025 11:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When does a protest become a crime? The UK's proscription of Palestine Action has led to mass arrests, raising a critical question: In a democracy, should citizens be criminalised for protesting what they view as genocide? #Palestine #Protest

07.09.2025 19:17 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0