Lorraine Smart
@l-aine57.bsky.social
Retired Child & Family Worker. Worked within a front-line child protection team.
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Thames Water has long passed its notice period.
Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
September 22, 2026 at 3:45 PM
Thames Water has long passed its notice period.
Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
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Labour are worried. They've had the Foreign Secretary, the Chancellor, the Mayor of London & the Prime Minister out in Holborn & St Pancras but we've got you. Hundreds of thousands of you who care & are making a difference!
Donate today to help us win:
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Donate today to help us win:
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Let's get our sixth Green MP elected - Green Party
We have a chance to elect our 6th MP - London's first Green MP, Zack Polanski! But we raise over £200k by 8 October. Will you help us?
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk
September 19, 2026 at 1:03 PM
Labour are worried. They've had the Foreign Secretary, the Chancellor, the Mayor of London & the Prime Minister out in Holborn & St Pancras but we've got you. Hundreds of thousands of you who care & are making a difference!
Donate today to help us win:
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/london-by-el...
Donate today to help us win:
donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/london-by-el...
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Zack Polanski challenges Burnham to nationalise Thames Water now. Pressure on Burnham by Britain’s only bold political leader. Will Burnham do the right thing? Don’t bet on it, Burnham is just a glib loser.
Thames Water has long passed its notice period.
Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
September 22, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Zack Polanski challenges Burnham to nationalise Thames Water now. Pressure on Burnham by Britain’s only bold political leader. Will Burnham do the right thing? Don’t bet on it, Burnham is just a glib loser.
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Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what.
rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org/support-us/g...
Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
rnli.org
September 21, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what.
rnli.org/support-us/g...
rnli.org/support-us/g...
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What could possibly go wrong?
"Growing set of creative financing structures embraced by Big Tech to accelerate AI infrastructure boom. According to FT analysis, tech giants have offered up to $300bn in these guarantees in past 12 months"
www.ft.com/content/7f11...
"Growing set of creative financing structures embraced by Big Tech to accelerate AI infrastructure boom. According to FT analysis, tech giants have offered up to $300bn in these guarantees in past 12 months"
www.ft.com/content/7f11...
Big Tech uses guarantees to keep $300bn of AI exposure off balance sheets
Wall Street finds new way to turn tech giants’ credit strength into cheaper funding for AI build-out
www.ft.com
September 21, 2026 at 3:31 PM
What could possibly go wrong?
"Growing set of creative financing structures embraced by Big Tech to accelerate AI infrastructure boom. According to FT analysis, tech giants have offered up to $300bn in these guarantees in past 12 months"
www.ft.com/content/7f11...
"Growing set of creative financing structures embraced by Big Tech to accelerate AI infrastructure boom. According to FT analysis, tech giants have offered up to $300bn in these guarantees in past 12 months"
www.ft.com/content/7f11...
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Scary. We're going to suffer because of a minority's wilful ignorance.
Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a "scare" and suggests…
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/21/reform-council-leader-denies-climate-change-crisis-after-record-heat-deaths/
Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a "scare" and suggests…
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/09/21/reform-council-leader-denies-climate-change-crisis-after-record-heat-deaths/
Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a "scare" and suggests the world is merely emerging from a "mini ice age"
bylinetimes.com
September 21, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Scary. We're going to suffer because of a minority's wilful ignorance.
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Stop the fossil fuel use madness now. Put all new investment into renewable energy expansion says Zack Polanski as Labour’s Burnham gets ready to put more fossil fuel on the fire.
Absolutely horrifying. How can our government be planning to drill for new oil and gas when we know these are the consequences?
We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
We have to keep the pressure on this Labour Government to keep all fossil fuels in the ground and secure a safe future for our children and grandchildren.
September 21, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Stop the fossil fuel use madness now. Put all new investment into renewable energy expansion says Zack Polanski as Labour’s Burnham gets ready to put more fossil fuel on the fire.
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Parliamentary candidate Zack Polanski campaigning on local issues in Holborn and St Pancras
Joshua was 23 when he died after a railing gave way in Holborn.
Speaking with his mum who is tirelessly campaigning for new laws that say people shouldn't live in unsafe buildings, and I pledge as an MP to take this up in parliament.
Speaking with his mum who is tirelessly campaigning for new laws that say people shouldn't live in unsafe buildings, and I pledge as an MP to take this up in parliament.
September 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Parliamentary candidate Zack Polanski campaigning on local issues in Holborn and St Pancras
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Zack Polanski campaigns on local issues for Holborn and St Pancras, housing and the environment. Vote Green for a better life in Camden, in London and in Britain.
September 21, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Zack Polanski campaigns on local issues for Holborn and St Pancras, housing and the environment. Vote Green for a better life in Camden, in London and in Britain.
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Zack Polanski is in great company, the only British political party leader alongside Mamdani, the King, Thunberg, Ruffalo, Khan, the Pope, Mary Robinson, Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Attenborough, Bloomberg, Sheinbaum and scores of others. The top climate advocates and activists globally.
Thank you to the Independent for including me in Climate List of Worlds Top 100.
The UK Labour Govt are due to approve new oil & gas licences in the north sea. They've delayed the decision post October 8th.
We can invest in renewables instead. Vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras
The UK Labour Govt are due to approve new oil & gas licences in the north sea. They've delayed the decision post October 8th.
We can invest in renewables instead. Vote Green in Holborn & St Pancras
September 21, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Zack Polanski is in great company, the only British political party leader alongside Mamdani, the King, Thunberg, Ruffalo, Khan, the Pope, Mary Robinson, Gates, Mackenzie Scott, Attenborough, Bloomberg, Sheinbaum and scores of others. The top climate advocates and activists globally.
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🔴 NEW
‘Almost Started A War’: Trump Administration’s AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe
By Caroline Orr Bueno
Read below. ↓
‘Almost Started A War’: Trump Administration’s AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe
By Caroline Orr Bueno
Read below. ↓
‘Almost Started A War’: Trump Administration’s AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe
The same technology marketed as the only way to defend the US from China militarily may be the very thing that starts a war with them in the first place, reports Caroline Orr Bueno
bylinetimes.com
September 21, 2026 at 3:45 PM
🔴 NEW
‘Almost Started A War’: Trump Administration’s AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe
By Caroline Orr Bueno
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‘Almost Started A War’: Trump Administration’s AI Policies Are Hurtling Towards Catastrophe
By Caroline Orr Bueno
Read below. ↓
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Come and join the campaign for our #6thGreenMP! Together we can give Holborn & St Pancras a strong Green voice in parliament & make this Labour Govt braver & bolder #VoteZack
September 17, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Come and join the campaign for our #6thGreenMP! Together we can give Holborn & St Pancras a strong Green voice in parliament & make this Labour Govt braver & bolder #VoteZack
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Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
September 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Just look at the glee on Nigel Farage’s face as he watches a Piddington resident cry about the overt racism she, her Caribbean heritage husband, and their two children have felt in the village during the referendum.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
Time and again he’s showing us exactly who he is.
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Half of England's Grade 1 agricultural land is in the Fens, and almost all of it is already at or below sea level
Our biggest breadbasket, home to 400,000 people, and it could be lost within decades
Surely this deserves a bit more attention?
Our biggest breadbasket, home to 400,000 people, and it could be lost within decades
Surely this deserves a bit more attention?
Britain’s most artificial landscape may not survive climate change
The Fens are a food-growing powerhouse, but the landscape only exists thanks to humans holding back the sea.
theconversation.com
September 17, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Half of England's Grade 1 agricultural land is in the Fens, and almost all of it is already at or below sea level
Our biggest breadbasket, home to 400,000 people, and it could be lost within decades
Surely this deserves a bit more attention?
Our biggest breadbasket, home to 400,000 people, and it could be lost within decades
Surely this deserves a bit more attention?
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Greens & TVGs
We need small green spaces in towns.
A few years ago we blocked development on a small green space and 30 locals bought it. We got Town Village Green status which protects the green.
This was a long hard process.
Govt could make it easier.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need small green spaces in towns.
A few years ago we blocked development on a small green space and 30 locals bought it. We got Town Village Green status which protects the green.
This was a long hard process.
Govt could make it easier.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Access to nature inequalities ‘on par with Victorian Britain’s filthy air’
Research finds many in England lack proximity to green and blue spaces as Wildlife Trusts call on Labour to speed up manifesto promise
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Greens & TVGs
We need small green spaces in towns.
A few years ago we blocked development on a small green space and 30 locals bought it. We got Town Village Green status which protects the green.
This was a long hard process.
Govt could make it easier.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need small green spaces in towns.
A few years ago we blocked development on a small green space and 30 locals bought it. We got Town Village Green status which protects the green.
This was a long hard process.
Govt could make it easier.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Lifeboat station in Portsmouth forced to temporarily shut after far-right action
RNLI facility had been targeted by activists trying to stop asylum seekers landing in boats from the Channel
www.theguardian.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Time to deport all these fighting age men terrorising our patriotic lifeboat volunteers
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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🔴 NEW
The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network
By Katherine Denkinson
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network
By Katherine Denkinson
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The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network
A Reform councillor and campaign co-ordinater urged his followers to join and support the masked group
bylinetimes.com
September 16, 2026 at 2:57 PM
🔴 NEW
The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network
By Katherine Denkinson
Read below. ↓
The Reform Councillors Embedded in Britain’s Masked ‘Patriot’ Anti-Migrant Network
By Katherine Denkinson
Read below. ↓
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Reform won #Durham promising to show Britain how it would govern. Now another three councillors have walked away, with one making an extraordinary allegation about what happened after she raised a serious safeguarding concern.
September 16, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Reform won #Durham promising to show Britain how it would govern. Now another three councillors have walked away, with one making an extraordinary allegation about what happened after she raised a serious safeguarding concern.
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Thoughtful piece on rewilding with contributions from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, Isabella Tree (Knepp Estate) and others. Produced three years ago but delayed due to illness, it provides a nuanced overview of the aims and achievements of a movement that has only just begun.
youtu.be/zGXlN3CP0Vw?...
youtu.be/zGXlN3CP0Vw?...
Hope Rewilded | Can Britain Become Wild Again?
YouTube video by Animal Educate
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September 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Thoughtful piece on rewilding with contributions from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, Isabella Tree (Knepp Estate) and others. Produced three years ago but delayed due to illness, it provides a nuanced overview of the aims and achievements of a movement that has only just begun.
youtu.be/zGXlN3CP0Vw?...
youtu.be/zGXlN3CP0Vw?...
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EXCLUSIVE: A Facebook group for the North East chapter of Danny Tommo’s balaclava-clad Patriot Platform was set up by Mark Thorn, a Reform activist from Gateshead.
And at least five Reform councillors joined the group…
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/16/r...
And at least five Reform councillors joined the group…
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/16/r...
Revealed: ‘Patriot Platform’ Facebook group set up by Reform UK activist - and at least five Councillors joined – HOPE not hate
HOPE not hate can exclusively reveal that a Facebook group representing the North East chapter of Danny Tommo’s balaclava boys was set up by a...
hopenothate.org.uk
September 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
EXCLUSIVE: A Facebook group for the North East chapter of Danny Tommo’s balaclava-clad Patriot Platform was set up by Mark Thorn, a Reform activist from Gateshead.
And at least five Reform councillors joined the group…
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/16/r...
And at least five Reform councillors joined the group…
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/09/16/r...
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Nigel Farage said he wanted its councillors to demonstrate how a Reform government would run the UK.
It seems that the chaos erupting before our very eyes is a very accurate representation of what a Reform UK government would look like...
It seems that the chaos erupting before our very eyes is a very accurate representation of what a Reform UK government would look like...
Reform UK 'In Complete Meltdown' After Three More Councillors Quit Party
It came on the same day that Reform’s leader in Wales quit after being arrested for assault.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Nigel Farage said he wanted its councillors to demonstrate how a Reform government would run the UK.
It seems that the chaos erupting before our very eyes is a very accurate representation of what a Reform UK government would look like...
It seems that the chaos erupting before our very eyes is a very accurate representation of what a Reform UK government would look like...
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We are now going to see a rash of pointless micro nation referendums aren't we. This seasons flags on lampposts.
September 16, 2026 at 3:56 PM
We are now going to see a rash of pointless micro nation referendums aren't we. This seasons flags on lampposts.
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Reform councillors reveal chaos at party’s flagship County Durham council
Sky News spoke to a dozen people linked to the council, some of whom were said to be still in the party but five councillors who defected from Reform UK are now talking
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Sky News spoke to a dozen people linked to the council, some of whom were said to be still in the party but five councillors who defected from Reform UK are now talking
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Ex-Reform councillors reveal chaos at party’s flagship County Durham council
Sky News spoke to a dozen people linked to the council, some of whom were said to be still in the party. Some of them claimed to have been fearful to speak out, but five councillors who defected from ...
northeastbylines.co.uk
September 16, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Reform councillors reveal chaos at party’s flagship County Durham council
Sky News spoke to a dozen people linked to the council, some of whom were said to be still in the party but five councillors who defected from Reform UK are now talking
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
Sky News spoke to a dozen people linked to the council, some of whom were said to be still in the party but five councillors who defected from Reform UK are now talking
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...
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While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today
Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
September 16, 2026 at 3:59 PM
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today
Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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How concerned are you about UK political funding - a @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Democracy for sale survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
How concerned are you about UK political funding? – A Democracy for Sale survey
We're Democracy for Sale, a newsletter covering dark money and influence in UK politics. We're trying to better understand our readers' and the wider public's opinions and concerns about political fun...
docs.google.com
September 15, 2026 at 12:12 PM
How concerned are you about UK political funding - a @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Democracy for sale survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...