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Alex Sowden

@ajs1977.bsky.social
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European. Virtue Signaller. History nerd. Trying to save the world: mixed results so far. I think the UK has probably run its course as a union of four nations. Views are all my own.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 7h
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 18h
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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 13h
The UAE doesn’t seem to realise the UK govt does not control the Premier League or football more generally
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Tickle Me Elon once read a Wonder Woman comic and believed her invisible jet somehow existed in real life. #ElonMusk #Stealth bsky.app/profile/mger...
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Manchester City's UAE owners are making the case for why UK football clubs should not be sold to and owned by overseas entities. bsky.app/profile/plne...
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This clip should haunt Sue-Ellen Braverman for the rest of her political & her personal life. It should also mark her final ever appearance on Question Time. Not that she should have been on there in the first place, given her prior deranged and obnoxious outbursts #BBCQT bsky.app/profile/impl...
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Having revisited Watergate, next on the US Justice Department's "to do" list is to review the 13th Amendment to consider whether the abolition of slavery in 1865 was lawful and also ethical. #Watergate #RichardNixon bsky.app/profile/wsj....
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Having revisited Watergate, next on the US Justice Department's "to do" list is to review the 13th Amendment to consider whether the abolition of slavery in 1865 was lawful and also ethical. #Watergate #RichardNixon bsky.app/profile/wsj....
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StephMac @stephaniemac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It really isn’t
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Keep digging, guys.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@angrystaffer.bsky.social You of all people should know by now not to believe a word that falls out of the face of MAGA America's senile president or his contemptible fluffer Rubio. Let the UK security services do their job and stop indulging in hare-brained conspiracies. bsky.app/profile/angr...
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
MAGA White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt doesn't know the difference between 180 degrees and 360 degrees. Completely on brand.* *Thicker than a submarine door
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Digger, a film about an environmental catastrophe that the fossil fools running things are too ill-equipped to solve" Digger sounds like it's a documentary rather than a work of fiction. I'll sit this one out #Digger
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jim Ratcliffe is much more of a Restore lad.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An American government politician has said something about Fairford. We should totally ignore it.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Braverman is sowing disinformation here so as to incite the same orcs and knuckle-dragging deadbeats who like to threaten RNLI lifeboat crews.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 28/09/2026
The degradation of British politics has either made Suella Braverman – a former *attorney general* – this stupid and irresponsible, or else entirely indifferent to appearing as such to those who know the law if it gets her applause from her online fan base.
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
GOP Consultants : what do you mean she just fucking tweeted it out
Marjorie Taylor Greene
We have not seen a caravan headed to the U.S.
southern border in several years, why now?
Oh yeah, there is an election coming and the
GOP needs to scare you into voting because
nothing else is working.

Anthony Aguero Live
Over 400 aliens predominantly from
Honduras entered Mexico on Thursday,
ready to make their way to the US southern
border ... Here's footage of the caravan.
Someone is incentivizing this movement, t ...

@mt ... . 1d

@Anth ... . 1d
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Proper steel-tipped, armour-piercing, high-explosive c**tery from traitorous, self-serving botched hay bale Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I wonder what it will take for Canada to close the US embassy in Ottawa and send MAGA America’s ambassador Pete Hoekstra back to Washington DC. bsky.app/profile/real...
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.
apple.news
The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for 'Musk' (Exclusive) — The Hollywood Reporter
The Alex Gibney doc has received denials from YouTube, Meta, TikTok and X on running the trailer. Its U.S. distributor is appealing.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Owen Jones at The Guardian takes a leaf out of Allister "Mad Dog" Heath's headline-writing manual.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“WHERE AM I WHO ARE YOU HOW DID I GET HERE WHAT DAY IS IT”
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Best wishes to all those who celebrate it.
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Stuart Benjamin Pulls It Off. @stuartbenjamin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not an assembly, but the Army turned up at school with a land-rover and ground based missle system which we all had to troop out to look at through the day in case we wanted to join the army. After lunch the whole school was marched out to the playing field as someone had stolen the army's helmets.
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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tommo, shared a YouTube livestream of the boat from the Channel." fucks sake BBC not once do you mention 1. he had a knife 2. he slashed the boat with said knife 3. he committed criminal acts live on camera do fucking better
bbc.co.uk
Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea
Protesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west.
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Amrk @amrk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Incredible
It is the Jews. It has always been the Jews.
Not all of them, but always them.
There is no avoiding this truth. Everything else is a distraction. Once you notice, you cannot unsee.
Marxism/Communism/Socialism, Bolshevism, Feminism, Liberalism/Libertarianism, Anarchism, Psychoanalysis, Critical Theories, transvestism/ transexualism/transgenderism, racism,
Neoconservatism, Zionism.f
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Daily Telegraph is outraged that France should celebrate its wartime leader and one-time president Charles de Gaulle.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I just cancelled my Disney+ subscription. I won't pay a subscription and have to watch adverts as well. To do so defeats the entire object of a subscription. I will likely resubscribe to binge-watch the Marvel miniseries VisionQuest. But I'll cancel it again directly afterwards.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Clacton has another shocker. Probably for the best if Clacton does a Piddington and leaves the UK. Then Farridge can have his own little RefUK fiefdom to lord it over. bsky.app/profile/piml...
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To state the obvious: Jim Ratcliffe is both deeply stupid and deeply unpleasant.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🤦‍♂️ bsky.app/profile/rola...
static.klipy.com
Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) Leaving
ALT: Annalise Keating (Viola Davis) Leaving
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
No doubt UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy is hard at work on an extensive package of reforms to press regulation in this country. These reforms will ensure such egregious behaviour by lazy, irresponsible journalists & editors: and unscrupulous, self-serving media owners, never happens again 🤨
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Then walk out. Talk is cheap
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Elinor Elliot @elinorelliot.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Did I miss the memo or something? Are we supposed to give a shit about Monaco-resident billionaires "losing confidence" in the UK? "Off you fuck, then" seems the obvious response.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In the words of Mark Carney, any agreement that MAGA America makes with anyone is only ever signed in pencil. It's only a matter of time before President Trump-Harkonnen throws a tantrum, rips up this deal, and resumes threatening to take Greenland from Denmark by force. bsky.app/profile/reut...
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Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How is this news? billionaire oil person says uk needs to drill more and tax less, though, of course, he‘s actually in Monaco. And he would do more in the uk if the state subsidised him more. Dear BBC, that‘s like me saying the uk‘s problem is underpaid law profs. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"What a sad state of affairs. What a tragedy. How small-minded, narcissistic." Maria Shriver reacts to the narcissist-in-chief shutting down the Kennedy Center (and potentially demolishing it) because he can't get his name on it like a giant toddler.
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canada and the EU's talks have nothing to do with MAGA America and President Harkonnen. Somebody should tell the senile bloated cabbage-headed imbecile to wind his podgy neck in. #Canada #EU #Europe #ElbowsUp
A screenshot from the BBC News website of a headline that reads, "Trump threatens 'serious tariffs' on EU over proposal to make Canada 'associate member' ".
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Alex Sowden @ajs1977.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Danny Kruger, the RefUK MP for East Gilead 🤦‍♂️#BBCQT #QuestionTime
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Something about those 11 states with the most dots, I've seen that map before
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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This is good and welcome. www.businessgreen.com/news/4535928...
businessgreen.com
Andy Burnham stresses determination for UK to 'reach net zero by 2050'
Prime Minister promotes new funding for community energy projects, as he hails "the green transition as the best chance we will ever have to reindustrialise Britain"
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Brexit domino effect - updated
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