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Alan Wardrop

@alangw.bsky.social
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Just an older British bloke who is very dismayed by the series of rightward lurches the world has taken lately. I respect diverse opinions, but not flagrant refusal to see the truth. I still #FBPE. Unsolicited unwelcome DM = instant block.

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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I just received am email from ChatGPT. Offering me vocabulary lessons. 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱😱
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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A lot of people coming out with their "why Starmer failed" takes today. But if you look at the big picture, there's only really one answer: Brexit. Every prime minister since the EU referendum has had a short term and then fallen. It wasn't at all like that before! The reason is Brexit.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 21/06/2026
A lot of presumably Burnham supporters getting very arsy when it's suggested the membership should have a say in any leadership challenge, methinks they're not very confident he'll win. All together now, they're clearly worried he'll be once, twice, three times a loser, oh well.
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
That “small majority” is still bigger than the “majority” that voted to leave!! Brexit was ridiculously stupid and the fact we smashed everything up because of such a small vote difference in an ADVISORY referendum will never not make me angry.
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hubertlaneite.bsky.social @hubertlaneite.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
A collapse in his popularity contrived by the power brokers of the right wing media. He made a few mistakes but nothing the nation wasn’t beginning to alter and overcome.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I am beyond speechless with anger, disappointment and despair. I think it is no exaggeration to say we will look back on this day as a terrible, terrible milestone on the road to the death of democracy. Whatever happens now there MUST be a contest. Oh God how can people be so fucking stupid??
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
On the other place: Should I be worried?
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
The 1% have stopped even pretending to care. Everything is totally fine for them and never won't be. The rest of us will be incrementally priced out of homes, necessities, healthcare and food and they do not care. We have solutions at our disposal. Now is the time to start implementing them.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again…’
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Seriously??
Screenshot showing Apple Watch software update, showing “about 2 days remaining”
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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The face of someone who’s devoted their life to service, science and space exploration needing to listen to some draft-dodging, out-of-shape bozo brag that he easily could’ve been an astronaut.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
2 days ago.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Media Do you think, perhaps, you could all agree to add a disclaimer to positive Iran peace talk news? “Previous events suggest it is possible that this news is premature. Until and unless fully signed by all relevant parties it would be most unwise to assume that a real agreement will be reached”
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Grant Stern @grantstern.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Donald Trump just lost his war and conceded defeat to Iran. Trump's war gave Iran more power than they've ever had. He's conceding to them on every level, and for good reason. He lost. America lost. America lost because of Donald J. Trump and his blunder.
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butterflynetz.bsky.social @butterflynetz.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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✊🏼🖇️zabbeth 🦋❌👑 @zabbeth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
It is a profound irony when the nation under attack feels more empathy for the attacker's citizens than the attacking government itself.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
I’m telling my grandkids that this is why Victor Orbán was so roundly kicked to the curb by the wise people of Hungary.
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Mostly True News @mostlytruenews.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Trump is suggesting that he will direct US resources to the nation of Hungary in association with the outcome of their scheduled election. He's trying to buy a foreign election. Plain and simple. Absolutely impeachable offense.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
That looked sloppy. They literally pulled the divers with the stabilisation collar away from the capsule, and the poor buggers couldn’t swim as fast as the wind was taking the capsule away. They didn’t shown us what happened to them but I think they got back in the boat and started from scratch.
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Exactly this 👇👇
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I’d say we are closer to WW3 than ever before. But there is an astonishing novelty: It’s by no means clear who will be fighting who. Old, rock solid alliances are breaking up. Dyed in the wool enemies are close to forming alliances.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
After reading around the first hand statements by Iran, Pakistan, Israel, US and others, one thing ONLY is crystal clear: This is a two week ceasefire between US and Iran. Whether or not it results in a protracted truce, and if so on what final terms, is anybody’s guess.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
So we are all going to pay for Trump and Netanyahu’s vainglory. The world should demand that Israel and the US pay this “tax”.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Make of this what you will. (“the depot” is in the Cotswolds, and heavy loads have been leaving regularly for some weeks) x.com/boejets/stat...
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BOEjets on X: "The 4 loads still appear to be scheduled to leave the depot as originally planned. 🤷" / X
The 4 loads still appear to be scheduled to leave the depot as originally planned. 🤷
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I only just learned what the Artemis 1 orbit was like. Fascinating; remarkable. I thoroughly recommend this video. youtu.be/PNQ7MoL7erI?...
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Apollo 8, Artemis 1 & 2 Orbit Comparison
YouTube video by The Overview Effekt
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sorry, but I have to break my rule of not posting stuff from X on here: x.com/justinboldaj...
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Earthset. Emotional.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is appalling. How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead after this?
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Jake @jake2404663.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Circular corruption
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/03/2026
Trump starts the week with market manipulation and threats of war crimes
The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran. Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately “Open for Business,” we will conclude our lovely “stay” in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet “touched.” This will be in retribution for our many soldiers, and others, that Iran has butchered and killed over the old Regime’s 47 year “Reign of Terror.” Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
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mjk4mj.bsky.social @mjk4mj.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Trump in bed with an underage girl. bsky.app/profile/ones...
Lego cartoon from Iran depicting Trump in bed with a crying underage girl being held close to Trump by his arm while Trump rage tweets.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Iranian state media released LEGO style animated videos mocking Trump and Netanyahu.🥴
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
WOW! This ad from Iran.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 24/03/2026
We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Housing Secretary!! The media are paying far too little attention to the fact that Iran DENIES these launches. I’m struggling to understand why they would do that. (Whether or not they did actually launch them) 🤔
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I don’t believe for a second that anything really changed today. No 10 woke up to what exactly those planes have been doing for the last 10 days and retrospectively gave this broader permission. The rest is spin.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
If both sides keep striking each other’s oil facilities, the Strait of Hormuz will pretty soon be irrelevant. And the crisis far worse.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Although Iran is launching far fewer missiles than it was at the outset, it seems to me that in the last couple of days a FAR higher proportion have been landing. #Justsayin
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Starmer really should answer this. His silence strongly implies the answer “no”.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
How can anyone who was on this planet in 2003 believe this bollocks again?? There may very well be a mass casualty event connected with Islamic fundamentalism at any time. Epic Fury won’t be making that less likely.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.
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Afghan asylum-seeker dies after less than 24 hours in ICE custody
Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, a father of six who worked with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, had no known health iss
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What have we become as a country?
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 14/03/2026
Last week Trump said he didn't need Britain's help because he'd already won this war. So we mustn't let him push the UK around now. Any decision on the deployment of our Armed Forces should be made in the UK's national interest and subject to a vote in Parliament.
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Dan Murphy @bungdan.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Trump said US strikes on Kharg Island “totally demolished” most of it but that “we may hit it a few more times just for fun.” Blowing shit up and killing people for no good reason, Trump says, is a lot of fun. The entire Republican Party laughs along in agreement. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump says Iran is ready to negotiate a ceasefire but he's not ready to make a deal
The president said the "terms aren't good enough yet" to make a deal with Iran amid a widening war in the Middle East.
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Alan Wardrop @alangw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Here it is from the horse’s mouth. It’s hardly a shock that one demented old pervert sees his armed forces as toys, and sends them to destroy and kill for his fun. What’s beyond shocking is that he’s being allowed to.
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