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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-22 at 00:32

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A good start to the day :)))

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-21 at 08:43

https://mastodon.scot/@Wen/113865050678478484

Captured by capitalism. #LabourAreTheToriesInDisguise

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-16 at 01:06

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Very pleasing.

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-15 at 00:30

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/14/big-tech-picking-apart-europe-democracy-switch-off-algorithms

[#]Ireland. We're depending on you.

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-15 at 00:24

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/14/wilhelm-miaow-cat-mystery-babe-toy-story-pet-sematary

What a species. While the world is going to hell in a hand basket, some humans focus on the least important details..

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-14 at 00:18

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/13/spain-proposes-100-tax-on-homes-bought-by-non-eu-residents

The UK could do the same. Even 50% would be a start, considering how much London property is owned by non-UK entities.

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-13 at 01:37

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist

Schisms already? That was fast.

Also....it takes one to know one.

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-13 at 01:36

[#]Scots in the fediverse - please sign this petition and pass it on.

The Parliament in London has reaffirmed the Claim of Right - that the people of Scotland are sovereign, as it underpins the Acts of Union 1707.

If the Scottish Parliament implements the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, then another IndyRef could be held by public demand and the result recognised internationally.

[#]indyref2

https://petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE2135

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-12 at 09:37

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/12/what-are-we-paying-senior-royals-for-if-not-to-show-up-at-presidential-funerals

[#]UKRepublicNow

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-12 at 02:36

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/los-angeles-wildfires-karen-bass-mayor

Call me a cynic but if she was white, male and Republican ....the focus of blame would be elsewhere.

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-11 at 01:46

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/10/man-with-epilepsy-leeds-died-pharmacy-prescription-drug

It's not the NHS's fault. Blame decades of underfunding by the Tories. #ToriesAreToxic

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-10 at 02:32

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/10/worlds-richest-use-up-their-fair-share-of-2025-carbon-budget-in-10-days

[#]EatTheRich

[#]BeforeTheyEatYou

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-06 at 03:39

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/jan/05/director-edinburgh-international-festival-warns-cuts-status-risk

Where are the Andrew Carnegies of today? #PhilanthropyIsTheCoolestWayToFlauntYourWealth

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2025-01-01 at 06:18

Happy New Year to all those across the pond, last to the party ( as usual )...

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2024-12-31 at 03:52

A quick note to Australians - when you say " Victorian", many British people automatically think " nineteenth century"....

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2024-12-31 at 03:49

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/30/jewellery-worth-104m-stolen-from-london-home-in-one-of-britains-biggest-burglaries

a) Cost does not equal worth

b) Hands up anyone who actually feels sorry for the victims ?

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2024-12-29 at 01:42

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/28/two-income-households-need-social-housing-too-heres-why

He's right about the need for social housing but doesn't even mention other measures to restrict property price inflation. For example, Land Value Tax - so property developers wouldn't be able to landbank for free - swingeing taxes on second homes, removing foreign investors from the market by restricting ownership to citizens ( works a treat in Thailand).

And so the cause is NOT all down to women getting into the workforce.

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2024-12-24 at 02:03

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/23/tulip-siddiq-questioned-embezzlement-allegations-treasury-bangladesh-russia-deal-nuclear-plant

"Matt Vickers, a Conservative home affairs spokesman, said: “It is high time she came clean. The British public deserve a government that is focused on their priorities, not distracted by yet another scandal.”

That's the biggest display of seasonal Ho-Ho-Ho-Hypocrisy, so far .. but there's still time for more

[#]CorruptTories

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2024-12-24 at 00:44

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/23/revealed-thames-water-diverted-cash-for-clean-ups-to-help-pay-bonuses

This? This is basically #extortion. Extortion of public money by greedy executives, probably prodded by even greedier private equity funds.

[#]ThamesWaterCollapse

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Written by Queen of Teacups on 2024-12-21 at 13:36

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/21/elderly-activist-to-spend-christmas-in-prison-because-tag-does-not-fit

This is why I can't bring myself to live in the UK any more.

What was the point of fighting the Nazis

if this is what we do to our own people?

[#]uk_politics

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