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We’re trying. Have been trying. I think it’s becoming increasingly clear to no avail. Thats because the Lab right burned all the democratic mechanisms that could have forced the matter. When authoritarian politics came it was always going affect the body politic more generally. Now we see how.
From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:
It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.
We must protect jury trials.
Know that the far-right USA gangs are supplying money to this political party. They are trying to upset every democratic country. Scary. We are also dealing with this crap in Canada.
Three cheers for Keir Starmer! 🤮
Here he is targeting the most vulnerable members of society again, instead of targeting the richest, most privileged as he blood well should...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Daily mail beware the green menace
Didn't expect Daily Mail to be doing free branding.
Lower bills, protect the NHS and fund public services.
Can imagine why Lord Rothermere isn't so keen....
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rethink plans for jury trials, thousands of lawyers tell Starmer
Ministers are being warned their plans will save less than 2% of court time
news.sky.com/story/rethin...
So, as people stuggle with their mortgages and bills, Farage invests £215,000 in Kwasi Kwarteng’s crypto business.
And plans to deregulate that high-risk industry by removing our rights and consumer protections.
He’s laughing at voters. All the way to the bank.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This civilisation is so toxic that it panics at the thought of the living hell shown in this image being shut down
Heat pumps:
♨️ 3x more energy efficient than gas boilers
💨 No air pollution
❄️ Work in cold weather - just ask heat pump mega-fans Norway, Finland, and France
"Reform can’t balance the books in Kent… so they’re selling off the county’s art.
360+ works owned by Reform-run Kent CC are heading to auction. Paintings, drawings ... Works that capture Kent’s landscapes, history and identity ..."
www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
via Reform Are Not Your Friends
UK democracy in action.
Thousands of unpaid carers prosecuted for inadvertently breaching benefit rules.
No Post Office exec prosecuted for false prosecutions of postmasters.
In 2017, 72 people died in Grenfell fire. Execs “deliberately concealed” the fire risks of cladding. No one prosecuted.
They’re advancing NHS privatisation🚨
Bumblebees are the superstars of the insect world. Here are five more things you didn't know they can do 🐝
How many of these bumblebee hidden talents did you know?
The “common ground” issue of today: Jury Trials
Across the political spectrum & media landscape, among the electorate, in the judiciary, in both Houses of Parliament and, most embarrassingly, in the Labour Party itself.
Nobody wants to lose jury trials.
www.defendourjuries.net
Best wishes. Have a good one Oliver.
Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music
Several dozen folks did
Some even dubbed music over the original clip.
I haven't been able to get this out of my head.
So I give you
A Bluesky exclusive:
Reservoir Ducks
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BBC radio this afternoon insisted on calling them people rather than children.
These images show the burial of young girls in Minab, Iran, who were killed in a U.S.–Israeli attack on an elementary school that massacred 165 girls aged 5 to 13.
“How a Labour Government Is Dismantling Eight Centuries of Justice, One Clause at a Time”
labourheartlands.com/trial-by-jury/
' #WesStreeting quietly PUT OUT a directive on #health-data requiring #NHSEngland to RELEASE a MASSIVE cache of #GP-PatientRecords -VALUABLE to the #NHS & #PrivateVultures! #Streeting TOLD #GPs there was NO NEED need to INFORM their #patients of this #data-THEFT!'🤬
goodlawproject.org/duncan-mccan...
“By removing trial by jury, Keir Starmer & David Lammy are abolishing the ultimate guarantee of independence in our criminal justice system, & are placing extraordinary, unprecedented & untrammelled power into the hands of whichever politicians come after them”
thesecretbarrister.com/2026/03/07/k...
for those unaware, this would be perfidy, explicitly prohibited by the 1907 Hague convention and 1977 protocol to the Geneva conventions as war crimes; these (particularly The Hague convention) are customary international law and thus binding on Israel
“EXCLUSIVE: I’m the Palestinian Who Has Been in ICE Detention for Almost a Year”
Writing for Zeteo from inside of prison on International Women’s Day, Leqaa Kordia asks us not to forget the female detainees being held and mistreated in ICE detention camps.
March 8 isn’t a cute celebration. It began as a protest. A reminder of the women we lost to femicide, abuse, and systems that failed them. The flowers and slogans came later. The reason still remains: women organizing, resisting, and demanding the right to live safely. #Momsky #8M
The Greens’ candidate, Hannah Spencer @greenpartyhan.bsky.social a working-class #plumber from #Manchester, overturned a seat held by Labour since the 1930s
#VoteGreen #JoinGreens> join.greenparty.org.uk
leftfootforward.org/2026/03/righ...
Thank you Ellie, for this reflection and the understanding that the harms are ongoing. Every year more people die and are disabled by Covid infection. The Green Party is unique in having policy that recognises this and seeks to address it.
Today I am taking time to remember the hundreds of thousands of people in Britain who lost their lives in the pandemic, and to pay tribute to all those in the NHS and public health fields who worked tirelessly to manage the disease and save lives. #CovidDayofReflection
Even as NASA moved to digital computers, John Glenn famously wouldn't fly until Katherine "checked the numbers" by hand.
Despite the barriers of segregation and gender, her brilliance was the bedrock of the Space Race. We don't get to the moon without Katherine Johnson. 🌕🏛️
#InternationalWomensDay
