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Andy_Bilson

@bilson.org.uk

Emeritus Prof, mountain biker and Owls fan. CoFounder of Parents, Families and Allies Network https://pfan.uk Campaigning to transform child protection so children & families are not oppressed & social workers help them.

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What a US$ 345 million judgment means for Greenpeace - Greenpeace International A US court has just sided with fossil fuel pipeline giant Energy Transfer and ordered Greenpeace International and Greenpeace entities in the US to pay US$ 345 million.

So let’s be clear: this type of corporate bullying is designed to rob us of our rights and freedoms. 

But we will not be silenced.

www.greenpeace.org/internationa...

02.03.2026 03:16 👍 310 🔁 285 💬 17 📌 15
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Board of Peace - Season 1

24.01.2026 07:45 👍 11501 🔁 6476 💬 467 📌 802
Our Song (Remastered)
Our Song (Remastered) YouTube video by Joe Henry - Topic

So here's a song - Your Song (no not that one) by Joe Henry
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZAT...

31.12.2025 14:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
US map with Black X through it

US map with Black X through it

I guess that's me excluded from going to the states anytime soon with the new regulations on giving details of all social media

31.12.2025 12:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...

Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: 38d.gs/cc-df

31.12.2025 11:56 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Led By Donkeys on Instagram: "We need to talk about Nigel Farage and Russia. Location: Kyiv" 3,098 likes, 46 comments - ledbydonkeys on December 21, 2025: "We need to talk about Nigel Farage and Russia. Location: Kyiv".

See Farage's connection to Putin
www.instagram.com/reel/DSiGU4f...

21.12.2025 18:36 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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Shady billionaires can quietly pour money into our elections, completely hidden from view. Join me and add your name to the petition to stop this.

I've just signed this petition to stop political parties taking unaccountable cryptocurrency payments
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/stop-sha...

18.12.2025 12:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...

A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

08.12.2025 17:39 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Alf Dubs Accuses Shabana Mahmood of 'Letting the Country Down' With Plans to Outdo Reform on Asylum The veteran Labour peer and lifelong campaigner for child refugees, Alf Dubs, tells Byline Times that the Home Secretary's plans are "bitterly disappointing coming from a Labour Government"

“She is doing things that I think are letting this country down".

Labour peer Alf Dubs, who arrived in the UK on the Kindertransport, tells @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social that he is deeply disappointed in Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer's betrayal of child refugees

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/28/a...

28.11.2025 10:05 👍 570 🔁 217 💬 10 📌 6

Also the Romans literally had a welfare system that included cash transfers for poor children. (And subsidised grain for low income workers...).

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She also says spending on welfare is unchristian

28.11.2025 12:31 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the petition: End the tax break for big pharma like GlaxoSmithKline at the Autumn budget While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax break...

While the NHS is at breaking point, Britain's biggest pharmaceutical companies are receiving BILLIONS in tax breaks - enough is enough, sign the petition calling for Rachel Reeves to end the tax breaks for Big pharma: 38d.gs/big_pharma_df

09.11.2025 08:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID) Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...

The government is pushing forward with something that could change life in Britain forever - a mandatory digital ID scheme. You'll need it to prove who you are, to work, to access services, to be trusted. Right now, Starmer’s plans are still in development. Sign up now 38d.gs/0h2c

26.10.2025 16:38 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‘Why fabricated or induced illness needs to be dropped as a child protection category’ By Andy Bilson and Taliah Drayak The term fabricated or induced illness (FII) was introduced in 2002 to replace the discredited idea of Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSbP). The label was meant to…

Excellent article by @bilson.org.uk & Drayak about the urgent need to withdraw the dangerous @rcpch.bsky.social FII guidance

⚠️Instead of support for complex care the system is primed for suspicion

The need for co-produced evidence based frameworks is vital

Campaign details👇

14.10.2025 11:03 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Sign the petition: Save our National Parks 🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:

Please sign this petition to protect our national parks from changes to the planning laws being debated by government ministers
38d.gs/save-nationa...

09.10.2025 20:56 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Josh Shapiro wades into a Pennsylvania court campaign with major 2028 stakes | CNN Politics Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is wading into a state Supreme Court race this fall that both parties say has far-reaching implications for the 2028 presidential race, upcoming midterms and future redi...

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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is wading into a state Supreme Court race this fall that both parties say has far-reaching implications for the 2028 presidential race, upcoming midterms and future redistricting in the premier battleground state.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/07/p...

07.10.2025 10:43 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
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UK Government: Keep your promise to protect workers Zero hours contracts, unfair ‘fire and rehire’, waiting months or even years to be able to access benefits – the world of work in our country is weighted against actual workers. It’s billionaire bosse...

A new law could give millions of us better rights at work, but corporate lobbyists & politicians are trying to gut it. Tell the Government: protect workers, not profits!
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/uk...

15.09.2025 15:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Nothing prepared me for the child poverty I see in Britain. November’s budget can and must halt its inexorable rise | Gordon Brown Homes without heating, bedrooms without beds. If we are to offer any hope to the children of austerity, the next few weeks will be decisive, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

Here's the shame of our past and current government and how we could start to end it
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

15.09.2025 07:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sumud Flotilla – Safe Passage Now They’re risking their lives to break the blockade on Gaza - join to demand safe passage and an end to the siege!

Support this flotilla for peace and to end the blockade secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...

11.09.2025 06:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Great Yarmouth to Host Britain’s Biggest White Power Concert in Years – HOPE not hate Great Yarmouth is set to host the largest white power music gig held in the UK for at least 10 years, HOPE not hate can...

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

30.08.2025 14:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is an important set of questions and the lack of services show the problems of short term thinking that plague the child protection system

30.08.2025 06:31 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

I totally agree

30.08.2025 06:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Understanding Parent Blame edited by Luke Clements and Ana Laura Aiello

Understanding Parent Blame edited by Luke Clements and Ana Laura Aiello

Timely and important book that covers/uncovers the difficulties/trauma experienced by families when they are blamed for the illnesses/disabilities of their children. Plenty of coverage of false FII allegations. Parents of children failed by the SEND system will find the content all too familiar.

24.08.2025 14:26 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0

Sadly one of many such stories

15.08.2025 15:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As my daughter died of ME, the state met in secret to blame me Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s mother had no idea she was being accused in private of causing or fabricating the illness that would take her life aged 27

Another article in the @thetimes.com on the awful impact of a false suspicion of fii on a dying young woman. Heartbreaking
www.thetimes.com/article/c5de...

10.08.2025 07:35 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Expert calls for new official guidelines on identifying fabricated or induced illness (FII) for children New official guidelines on identifying fabricated or induced illness (FII) in children are needed after research has found previous guidance to be inaccurate

My press release on my research is www.lancashire.ac.uk/news/fii-ser...

19.07.2025 22:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Article in Sunday Times looking at miscarriages of justice due to misidentification of fii. Covers my research showing no deaths contrary to guidance suggesting high mortality rates

19.07.2025 22:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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BREAKING: New polling from @yougov.co.uk shows 75% of Brits support taxing extreme wealth.

But today Keir Starmer once again brushed off calls for higher taxes on the super-rich.

When will the PM stop siding with billionaires and listen to the British public instead? 350.org/tax-their-bi...

09.07.2025 14:11 👍 100 🔁 119 💬 10 📌 10

No such thing as a free return for the planet!
www.instagram.com/reel/DKZx62P...

07.07.2025 21:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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1/4 Do you know what a SLAPP suit is?

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