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Middle aged grumpy Yorkshireman/Londoner - socialist - progressive & an ardent European 🇬🇧🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The UK Daily Mail obviously did not like the results of its own poll. Its own graphic portrays 75% as less than 50%. #UKPolitics #Brexit #EuropeanUnion
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's pretty smart comms
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Steve 🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧 @wohyeahwohyeah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We have a new icon - MP Miatta Fahnbulleh
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
2016 was built on ridiculous promises of a future that nobody could disprove. 2025 is built on a disastrous history of consequences that everybody can point to. And Farage is volunteering to own it. Burnham must be giving himself a slow, luxury wank tonight. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Burnham’s reopening of Brexit debate is ‘biggest boost in my career’, says Farage
Reform UK leader tells supporters PM’s move has ‘opened up a huge flank to us’
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Its unlikely Simon Clarke has bad memories of the 1970s as he was born in 1984. This helps to explain why he forgets a recession made worse by Thatcher driving interest rates up with her uneccessary monetarist policy. The only thing that saved the tories was the Falklands war & North Sea oil.
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Nick Craw🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇱🇹🇭 @nickcraw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This result at next election would see Labour with decent outright majority. LibDems drawing within 20 seats of the Tories. And a progressive electoral bloc (Lab/LDs/Grn) of over 400 seats... ...more than double the right wing bloc (Tories/Reform) of 200 seats
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Canal Street, Manchester, 1963.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Phillipson also defends pensions minister Torsten Bell, who called Ratcliffe someone who "hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it". She says people who choose to become tax exiles "lose the moral high ground" over such discussions.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bridget Phillipson on the BBC about Jim Ratcliffe's latest complaints about the UK: "You'll forgive me if I do take with a pinch of salt what someone who is a tax tax exile has to say about our country."
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Paddock, Langworthy, Salford, 1977, photo by Phil Portus.
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Helen @futurestand.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
A video statement from the RNLI chief exec about recent events and about the RNLI’s unchanging and single mission, to save lives at sea. rnli.org/news-and-med...
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Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes
Statement from RNLI Chief Executive Peter Sparkes regarding Channel activity.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
share.google/AWA0QowotTF2... The RNLI is one of those institutions that make me proud to be British - join me in donating to show your support
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Absolutely perfect pay off on this clip.
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Belle @bellebetsyb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Preparing to go blue like a Smurf, I won’t hold my breath
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Belle @bellebetsyb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just waiting for Farage to launch a blue light up ring, so that all of the reform cult save up their pension and benefits money to buy one 😂😂
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Belle @bellebetsyb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I’d have coated the insides of those boxing gloves with superglue prior to him wearing them. Yep.
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Rob Bingham @robbingham.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
Big weekend for fascists.
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Dixie @dixie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
PROTESTER VIOLENTLY ASSAULTED AT REFORM UK LTD CONFERENCE SPEAKS OUT "A lot of audience members around us just immediately became very aggressive. "I had people pushing me, pulling my hair and...[READ MORE] HERE: www.paywallskip.com/article?url=... AND HERE: www.thenational.scot/news/2652536...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Every time I think Jenrick could not make my skin crawl even more, he somehow manages to creep under that limbo bar of revulsion.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Couldn’t agree more
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Just Nadine Dorries digging a hole so cavenous and wide as to be visible from Pluto. youtu.be/9Et3igGEKUs?...
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Nadine Dorries quizzed over Reform’s secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I forgot to mention at the time that this poll was commissioned by Reform and paid for illegally with foreign money. Silly me.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
At what point does a British by-election get awarded to the silver medalist, à la Ben Johnson and Carl Lewis? Asking for a friend of a friend, i.e. me. #Clacton
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Stuart Hemingway @stu31.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A full video is available by the investigative team who exposed the scandal may be worth your time watching it… www.verbatiminvestigations.com/full-investi...
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Dirty Money: A Year Undercover in Reform UK
A yearlong investigation into Nigel Farage’s fundraising operation reveals a plot to break the law by bringing foreign money into British politics
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🙌 Come on BlueSky 💪 I’m relying on you to ensure this Brexpress poll reflects reality. 🔗 www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This. Is. Not. Journalism. - It's letting Farage shine. I genuinely do not understand why the BBC does not seem to be able to competently challenge Reform and Farage.
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Reform up against 'complainants' society', Nigel Farage tells BBC
The Reform UK leader said a "whole ecosystem" didn't want "new kids on the block succeeding".
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
A true great in music and in life, really a modern American icon to remind us of what can be.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 25/08/2026
dolly parton taught millions of children to read dolly parton raised millions of dollars for cancer research and disaster relief dolly parton stood by the lgbtq community her entire life dolly parton personally helped fund the moderna vaccine if there was a right side of something she was on it
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Simon🟦❤️♥️🧸 @simon0161.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Goodnight Ms Parton. You were a true icon and beautiful ray of light that the world needed so much. So sad to wave you goodbye 😢❤️♥️
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton dead- hard to think of a more famous woman in the world. A few years ago, there was a poll which showed she was the cultural figure both Democrats and Republicans most mutually loved and admired. Virtually unique. Testament to her achievement.
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🌈Tyranny🫧Sparkles🏳️‍🌈 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton with Keith Haring in 1985, incredible woman and supporter of LGBTQ people for decades going back to a time when few others dared.
Black and white photo of Dolly Parton with gay artist Keith Haring.
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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com
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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/08/2026
If you don’t know about it, it’s a really amazing needs-blind thing and just sends well-judged books to kids until they’re five with a note from Dolly. Getting to open something in the post every month is a key bit of the fun. You can donate to your local bit of it: donate.imaginationlibrary.com
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 25/08/2026
My kids and their friends know Dolly Parton because she’s the person who sends books out to everyone in the post and that’s just really nice isn’t it.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Not sure what Trump thinks are the benefits of being a state. Certainly not healthcare, food protection, equality laws etc etc
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Canada wants the benefits of being a State, without being one!!! They have also charged our great farmers, for many years, massive amounts of Tariffs. No more!!! President DJT
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Deb Chachra @debcha.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
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KING CARNEY ACTIVATES KONG MODE WITH ZERO FUCKS
Carney Reads the Clock Like a Pro Wrestler
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Thank goodness for real citizen journalists doing the work so many professionals failed to do
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26
Photo after Jason's final marathon taken from his archived blog showing Jason surrounded by supporters in orange charity t-shirts
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
David Davis (October 10th 2016), "We will make a success of Brexit" "There will be no downside to Brexit at all, and considerable upside" They promised everything, delivered poverty, barriers to trade and created a case study for the world's worst example of self-harm a nation has ever undertaken.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I do wonder if it's in part a branding thing. Maybe we should just start calling green energy "cheap and clean"
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Belle @bellebetsyb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Morning all xx
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Man who was the laser-eyed target of Twitter and rightwing media for the last month found dead today.
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Did not follow Arday story, when it popped up I could never get to the bottom of why it was getting so much airtime. What a terrible tragedy for him, his family & friends. Eye of the storm is close to unbearable for those of us allowed to acclimatise, unimaginable for those who face it suddenly
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Belle @bellebetsyb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Blackpool, July 1962, photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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