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Manc, council house lad. Army vet (RCT), Ex: Firefighter (GMFRS), Fire Engineer (IFE) & fire data researcher (Leeds Uni). Medically retired (Menière’s). Vertiginous, going deaf. Pioneered fire risk determination by building type. INFJ. @HRRBFireSafety.
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New Party Leader inspires hope. Well done Zack Polanski
@zackpolanski.bsky.social congratulations. Richly deserved xx
Today Nick Ferrari asked if treaties like the ECHR & the Refugee Convention that were drawn up in the wake of WWII are still relevant to modern Britain. I said the context of racial hatred towards Muslim immigrants now echoes the hatred of Jewish immigrants in the 20th century. We need these laws.
Keir Starmer’s new director of communications isn’t just the founder of Portland Communications – which represented Qatar, Russia and Kazakhstan – he’s also come straight from the board of the anti-trans charity Sex Matters. The government is heading in a dark direction.
🚨BREAKING: Bread is now woke, according to Alex Phillips
"At least 12 people cannot return to their homes after a block of flats was damaged by a fire which took nearly seven hours to contain... ... the fire spread up the outside of the building and ignited some of the timber-cladding, which is covered in copper sheeting." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Migrants didn't cut council funding. Migrants didn't cut NHS funding. Migrants didn't close youth centres. Migrants didn't sell off council houses. Migrants aren't filling our rivers with sewage. Farage and co. will tell you to point the finger at migrants. Don't fall for it.
AI will drive mass unemployment and inequality
"Costa's owner Coca-Cola is reportedly looking to sell the chain, with one analyst suggesting it could go for £2bn - less than half of the £4.9bn it paid in 2019." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
When it comes to right-wing politics, you cannot rely on the Christian faith to stand against fascism.
You've entirely missed the point Robert.
In essence, this is what they're doing in a variety of ways. The story above being only one of the ways, ranting about "small boats" is another.
Don't take the bait. It's published by billionaire newspaper owners and they put it in your face to misinform you and to distract you from the mega-wealth they hoard overseas, and their own tax-dodging ways.
It's people with zero wealth who pay the highest tax rates. "Those with estates of £10 million pay just 10% inheritance tax. This is just one quarter of the headline rate... in 2016 no inheritance tax was paid on the bulk of the Duke of Westminster’s £8bn estate". taxjustice.uk/blog/how-do-...
Not many people whose death would provoke actual worldwide celebration. And they’re all old men, so that’s something to look forward to at least
Easington, County Durham, 1984, photo by Izabela Jedrzejczyk. From her series Striking Women, about women there who were supporting miners during the strike (@sidegallery.bsky.social).
I hope you're feeling well soon mate.
New interview with Greta Thunberg in Barcelona yesterday by Middle East Eye. The climate activist and arguably the leading humanitarian voice of our age is about to set sail along with dozens of ships from dozens of nations to bring urgent food and medical aid to millions of people in Gaza
Yesterday: Nigel Farage says Reform UK "will detain and deport absolutely anyone that comes via that route.. Yes, women and children" Today: Nigel Farage, "Deportation of illegal immigrants, we were not even discussing women and children at this stage. The news reports who said that were wrong"
"Lucasz Zawadzski was accused making high-pitched "hee-hee" noises towards the co-worker at the Co-operative warehouse in Manchester." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've had some incredible nights over the years in the Retro bar basement. Also, I was once the victim of a near-miss drive-by egging whilst sitting at a table outside. #Manchester www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If Arun District Council succeed in reaching their May 2027 completion date for fitting smoke detectors, it will be nine years and eleven months after the fire at Grenfell Tower. #UKhousing
"Over half of its homes did not have smoke detectors & Arun [District Council] does not expect to reach compliance in this area until May 2027. These problems were in addition to around 2,500 open & overdue repairs cases, of which more than 1,500 were overdue by more than three months."
It would help if he gave a bit more support to all of us and paid more tax on his incredibly luxurious assets. Remember when he was ranting at people using zebra crossings, for not thanking him for not running them over? Privileged pr***.
I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂
Imagine being Rylan Clark, you're a multimillionaire TV presenter with his own Radio 2 show, you live in a massive house in a coastal town which is 92.4% white and you think the one thing that can improve your life further is getting rid of the meagre amount of brown people you encounter.
Big issues with the Three network today, this image shows a map of reported outages:
Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is boycotting Trump’s State banquet in protest over Gaza. “I'm…(sending) a message to both Donald Trump and Keir Starmer that they cannot close their eyes and wish away the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
The environmental impacts of conflict www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Yeah, bread will be bread 🤷
Big shoes to fill, I’m covering for Adrian Chiles in tomorrow’s G2. Finally, I can speak about the foreign invasion cursing Britain this summer. American celebrities. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
If you search just the name of the site, Google will auto-generate a slab of text telling you that the website is "comprehensive" and gives you "accurate weather forecasts and critical insights into climate science" Really can't compute the ppl telling me I'm overreacting to this sort of thing
Revenge of the Breads?
FUCK YEAH SCIENCE arstechnica.com/science/2025...
"Bluntly, if the government cannot make the point that it is a bad idea to give money to the Taliban, it is far from clear to me when a better opportunity to attack Farage is going to present itself." @stephenkb.bsky.social is right on the money in his FT newsletter. Again.
Also the competitions in which robots from differing manufacturers compete against each other are hilarious. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
While our infrastructure is crumbling, and having failed to build a fast rail line between London and Manchester, China has the fastest and largest train network in the world and is constantly growing and improving its infrastructure with considerable vigour. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
The perfect weather for it and they'll eat and sleep well afterwards.
Did Farage blame the Human Rights Act?
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
I know that feeling, congratulations, it's a good feeling isn't it?
I like to remind people that Enoch Powell got fired by his Tory PM Ted Heath in 1968 and never had a cabinet position again, and the Times called it an “evil speech”. Now we get great replacement theory in the Times and politicians including Labour advocating for ethnic cleansing on a daily basis
"Police have arrested a 15-yr-old boy & 54-year-old man on suspicion of carrying out an arson attack at a restaurant in east London... 5 people – 3 women & 2men – were injured in the suspected attack... Metropolitan Police said 2 remained in a life-threatening condition." www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...
The crisis is linked to the high price of medicines, a shrinking national budget and cuts in US aid.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
"Wind doesn't work" 😂😂😂 He is absolutely barking mad.
Offensive prick
I listened to a Ma rk Steel podcast recently, he chatted with alexei sale about how thoroughly repugnant the Labour right are, I recommend it.
Ambitious. 6
Swimming?
He gets right up my nose.
Also what "common sense" tends to mean is "my ignorant opinion which defies all facts and logic."
Ahmed Abu Aziz: MEE's Gaza correspondent who reported through pain and loss - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/ahmed-abu-aziz-mees-gaza-correspondent-who-reported-through-pain-and
#OtD 24 Aug 1984 an army of riot police arrived in Easington during the UK miners' strike. For the following two weeks, the village was under siege. More info in our podcast episode about women in the strike, focusing on Easington: workingclasshistory.com/2018/10/30/e...
I don't recall him scoring very many last season, but then I did have him in my FPL team for a while so he must have been at least reasonable.
😂 Me and my massive gob, I hope the boss is well again asap
That Jamie's is empty ;)
That's the poster we used to advertise it. We did it in association with @levyoldlibrary.bsky.social for Levy Fringe, which was a series of low cost local events, as a more accessible alternative to Manchester Int Fest, which many people now can't afford tickets.
It's a long story but a close friend of mine wrote a 15 min play about this. It featured only one actor, stood at a courtroom doc, explaining how it wrecked his career and his life more generally. It was performed in a house before I'd moved in, alongside 4 others featuring stories from that period.
'Hearing aids get smaller as the child gets bigger.' "Fitting her at age 2 with big clunky hearing aids felt like a loss .., but early intervention meant Zoe did not become speech delayed & miss out on crucial developmental & socialisation milestones." 🧪🦻🏼 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I might see you! Let's see what's on the programme.
Doesn't it just Jen! I've been to one of their gatherings before and it was great. I'm looking forward to seeing the programme. Hulme is a good place for it too, lots of good venues.
"Residents who have been waiting nearly five years to go back home have been told their return date has been pushed back once again. The Victory apartments in Oldham was served a prohibition notice in November 2020, with tenants and owners told to leave" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"British politics are on the move. With a new left party emerging, Labour crumbling, Greens transforming & Reform surging, there is an urgent need for the movement to assemble and debate strategy, to build new networks of solidarity, and coordinate for the years ahead." theworldtransformed.org/twt25
The Diary of Anne Frank is among the hundreds of books banned in Florida this year. When I was in school, it was required reading. (Guardian)
"The party was raided by police, with all 47 attendees arrested, fined, outed and publicly shamed over what a detective called 'grotesque dancing'." #ManchesterPride 🏳️🌈 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"UK mothers earn £302 a week less than fathers, analysis shows. ONS data shows they are working for free from 1 September, almost three months earlier than Equal Pay Day for all women" www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Breaking News: The Trump administration ordered construction to stop on a $4 billion wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island that has already mostly been built.
🔥 STEWART: “This is the lie they tell you — that all this money flowing towards corporate interests is actually for YOUR benefit…. That government intervention for corporations is our ‘FREE MARKET’, but government intervention for workers is ‘SOCIALISM’.
Trump halting a fully permitted 80% complete wind turbine project that would have provided clean power to 350,000 homes within a year. www.providencejournal.com/story/news/2...
VPNs just got really popular in Mississippi, just like they did when it was rolled out here.
Tax wealth not work at The Budget
Follow @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social. They push for 10 wealth tax reforms (including a wealth tax) that could raise £60 billion a year. taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...
From this interview with @ladbible.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vlvo...
There is no money. #TaxWealthNotWork
Being a Lab MP is a temporary inconvenience in which contact with the public must be grudgingly tolerated for a few years of stitching up & bullshitting them until you can move onto more lucrative consultancy positions with the privatised utilities, gambling industry or munitions manufacturers
Only a truly evil, monstrous empire will weaponise starvation of a civilian population. Famine as a deliberate and genocidal mass murder. Never forgive, never forget.
🚨 Australia’s home battery boom is exploding: 1,000 installs per day, avg size already 17kWh & rising to 25kWh. Rooftop exports vanish as households self-consume w/ EVs + storage. This isn’t a solar story—it’s a lithium supercycle in motion. ⚡🔋 #Lithium #BESS #EV reneweconomy.com.au/stunning-suc...
More compelling evidence of how Right to Buy is hugely depleting council housing stock & forces people to spend more on private rents. Scotland & Wales abolished it years ago in order to protect & increase the stock of affordable social housing - England should do the same
Research shows England will sell off more than 8 times as many council homes in 2025-26 as were constructed the previous year. Labour need to stop lining the pockets of their private developer mates, invest properly in quality council homes and scrap right to buy (properly!).
In 1979, chambermaids on Park Lane walked out on strike. 36 years later, migrant women - many from Nepal - hotel housekeepers are demanding fair pay and dignity at work at @radissonblu.bsky.social I'll be standing in solidarity with them and @uvwunion.bsky.social Friday, 5.30pm. Join us. ✊🏽
Read Workplace fertility struggles: how "reproductive capital" shapes careers and lives. on Kudos: www.growkudos.com/publications...
🤪 This is incoherent.
If you, like me, have been disgusted at the demonstrations of hatred and bigotry towards migrants over the last weeks, come join us on Tuesday to make some banners to fight back against the hate & show solidarity with migrants ❤️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
NEW STATS THIS WEEK revealed that soaring rents have spread through major cities in England. We need URGENT action to slam the breaks on back-breaking rents. See our Chief Executive, @bentwomeyuk.bsky.social's, response to the stats in the @financialtimes.com ⬇️ www.ft.com/content/5a66...
Shut the fuck up
I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities. I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
Jonathon Porritt, an eminent environmentalist, speaks to Al Jazeera after his arrest over supporting Palestine Action.
Housing is the WORST because of the HA exemption. So many things I want to find out more about on a wider scale and no way of gathering the data to make comparisons.
Tut tut. What a bad decision. More broadly, I've noticed that while FOI functioned perfectly effectively for a long time, it's becoming useless due to the number of refusals. I wonder if the barrier to approval should be reviewed. With inflation, the cost threshold could be lifted to £1,000?
China’s emissions fell in the first half of 2025, and the country is slated to add enough zero-carbon capacity this year to power Germany and the UK combined www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-rec...
Social media is where the fight is – but the left aren't even showing up
A task that feels approximately equivalent to climbing Mount Everest. My left inner ear feels ready to explode and is making a noise like Concorde, and my head is spinning like a carousel...
