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Andy Banshee

@andybanshee.bsky.social
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Proponent of active travel. Cycle, run, trail runner. T1D. Brit curmudgeon.

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Leicestershire Active Travel Alliance @leicsactivetravel.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
@jeevunsandher.bsky.social @amandahack.bsky.social Look! Your colleague is doing the right thing about pavement parking. Please help us in Leicestershire. www.andrewpakes.org.uk/survey/pavem...
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Cleminson Street, Salford. Salford pioneered play streets, traffic-free from 8am till sunset (borrowed from New York) in the 1930s. Legislation followed: there were 700 in England and Wales in the 1950s, all but forgotten by the 1980s.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The Bridge. Creative developed with @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social
An unfinished bridge with a gap 

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"WE'RE NOT SEEING DRIVERS
USING THE NEW BRIDGE WE BUILT

CONNECTED NETWORKS ARE JUST AS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE ON BIKES AS THEY ARE FOR THOSE DRIVING
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Wow I never thought we would be approaching WW III against Russia and USA. History repeating itself. Wasn't WW II possible due to weak leadership allowing Hitler invade other countries, sending envoys trying to appease him? Will king Charles and William be detained on their visit?
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Paul Luton @paulluton.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/chlorine...
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Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try to impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petitio...
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The other night I dropped off a parcel for Evri pick up at my local garage. When I left there was a guy who parked his van across the forecourt exit so he could be near a cash machine. There was a queue of cars waiting to get out. I just stopped and stared at the idiot. He saw me and asked me..
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty. Finally, this government has found its mission | Polly Toynbee | The Guardian share.google/rAlvgyXze4xP...
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Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty. Finally, this government has found its mission | Polly Toynbee
The new strategy lays out Britain’s social disgrace in painful detail. But it also offers hope and a clear way forward that is worthy of a leftwing party, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Last Tuesday I came off my bike on an icy road. My rhs slammed down pretty hard. Really winded me and could tell I was pretty banged up. Yes I checked my bike. Took me a minute to get back on and finish my commute. By the end of the day I was struggling to walk and ribs felt very delicate. 1/n
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Hell even the bots telling me how bad Labour is are making sense.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Agree this movie is very good and have watched it multiple times. I would say the movie I absolutely love though is The Red Shoes. Amazing.
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Moirashearer Ballet GIF
Alt: Moira shearer GIF from the film The Red Shoes. Hands over her temples with a shocked expression.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
A grassy field, camera held low to frame a dandelion seed head in front of the sun.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I am in Leicester today so took the opportunity to look for some clothes etc . Jeez the paucity of offerings other than bland for men is depressing. Okay, I currently have a pink mohican but I do like a good 3 piece suit. I was looking for a decent tweed waistcoat to wear with my kilt. Boots too
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Paul Allen @marsflyerpaul.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
More of this sort of thing. Seen today in "Woke" North London
A sticker on a lamppost, with a Reform style logo, but saying RUSSIAN ASSET.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
My wife and I went for a walk this morning through the fields and orchard surrounding the village. Beautiful morning, light, cool breeze, and very warm sunshine. My wife likes to cut dried grasses to arrange in a pot at home. We saw a white-tailed deer bounding away. Birds chirping away. 1/n
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Further evidence that the UK, or at least some of the people are less tolerant, disrespectful and just plain selfish and than ever. They'd not like it if it happened to their family's funeral. A few seconds of respect. That's all. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Beverley funeral director tells drivers to show respect
Beverley-based Lewis Northen says drivers are pushing into funeral processions.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
But they were okay with his interviewing Jimmy Saville though? Complete lack of understanding interviewee choices. Source: The Guardian search.app/w5LG3
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British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview
Airline says singer’s defiant interview breached its policy on politically sensitive or controversial subjects
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LGBTQ Shrink @drronholt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
This is a welcoming account.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
UK children living in the most disadvantaged areas are more likely to die in intensive care, children living in poverty projected to rise to 4.8m by 2029. Govts tinker with poverty. Push real wage/benefit cuts, don't curb profiteering, appease the rich, destroy futures.
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UK children dying through poverty, data shows
A new report published by the Child of the North initiative shows that the two-child benefit cap is pushing 109 families a day into hardship.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can.
Key quote from the great Lewis Mumford in 1955 — “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.”
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
In my view I saw an increase in public cruelty in the UK when The Weakest Link started broadcasting. It normalised it.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Workers hired to remove flags are being intimidated and abused leftfootforward.org/2025/10/work...
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Workers intimidated and abused for taking down flags
There are numerous reports of workers being assaulted, spat at and verbally abused
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Freida @freidaoctothorpe.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Did you see this report from a couple of weeks back? Theyre on bluesky...
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I don't use social media as much as many others do although I do use free YouTube to watch videos. The number of gambling adds has increased massively. I will say that any shleb promoting gambling, you are dead to me.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I have type 1 diabetes. In the UK I have to reapply for my driving licence every 3 years. I have to provide quite a bit of information, by post. My GP is legally bound to also inform DVLA if they believe my diabetes control isn't sufficient. 'healthy' people have no checks besides the initial test.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
High street slot machine shops, owned by Merkur, are paying their staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose. Companies chase profits by spreading misery, exploiting vulnerable people Gambling Commission must shut down these parasites.
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High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose
Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
How microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds. “The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do.” Microplastics like those from car tires. The bigger and heavier the vehicle, the more microplastics shed.
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The plastic inside us: how microplastics may be reshaping our bodies and minds
The particles are in our blood, brains and guts – and scientists are only beginning to learn what they do
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
@jeevunsandher.bsky.social
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
@jeevunsandher.bsky.social Epinal Way is a prime example of the ridiculous flag-shagging with intent.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
“The second anyone suggests that a man whose entire political career has been devoted to attacking migrants and making discriminatory comments about non-white people, might be a racist, all hell breaks loose” Enough. Farage is a racist menace. We must say so. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
Nigel Farage Is a Racist

The media is refusing to state the most bleedingly obvious facts about a man whose entire career has been devoted to pursuing a racist political agenda
ADAM BIENKOV
OCT 04, 2025

Nigel Farage is a racist. That is my honestly held opinion based on absolutely everything he has said and done since entering politics in the late nineties.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Wife is returning from Preston today. Train already delayed by 5 minutes but is also on pause due to track being inspected. She has a 10 min window to get her connection in Crewe. FFS what a shit show the UK rail network is.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
The UK rail system is fucked. My wife was getting a train from Derby to Preston. I dropped her off, train arrived late. She missed her connection in Sheffield. Had to pay for a later train, although one of the trains was cancelled due to trespassers on the line. 1/2
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Driving along the A6004, Loughborough. Every, and I mean every, lamppost has either a England or Union flag attached. A friend asked what I thought about it. Well in all my years I have only experienced similar for a parade, one that is special due to the cost 1/n
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tonnes of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, generated by normal driving, account for 28% of microplastics entering the environment globally. Heavy vehicles eg SUVs/EVs especially. Via @us.theconversation.com
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Car tyres shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment – urgent action is needed
Tiny flakes of plastic, generated by the wear and tear of normal driving, eventually accumulate in the soil, in rivers and lakes, and even in our food.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
BBC still finding it difficult to mention a driver was involved. Even the headline is misleading. E-bike rider in critical condition after Grimsby crash - BBC News share.google/4iZg9pWZdOTl...
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E-bike rider in critical condition after Grimsby crash - BBC News
The 36-year-old man remains in a critical condition with injuries to his head and legs.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
So I looked into The Green Party near me. Loughborough being the nearest. The official website was old stock images. share.google/idykKdnOZN4x... A search engine showed Loughborough does indeed have a Green party, but is active on FB. Why? I don't use that shitty platform.
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Welcome to Loughborough Green Party - Loughborough Green Party
We’re working hard to improve your area 🚮 Regularly reporting fly-tipping to make the area clean and safe for local residents. Organising and attending litter picks to keep our communities clean. 📃 Re...
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Duncan Poundcake @duncanpoundcake.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Neil is not on the payroll...
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
A village near me. Shepshed has gone bonkers. Pretty much every pole has either a England or Union flag attached. Glad I don't live there tbh.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Morning bicycle commute. An older gentleman shuffling across a side street. A drivist turns from the main road, stops, blares their horn at the guy. I stopped cycling, shouted very loudly, 'oi'! We made eye contact. I then shouted 'you arsehole'. He slowly drove away. Older guy looked confused.
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Rich @hoxtonrich.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Lou Haigh 👏. It is well past time Labour recognise the OBR is George Osbourne’s undemocratic zombie hand on finances and reform how it works. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I’m not running for Labour deputy leader. I want the freedom to fight for an economic reset | Louise Haigh
The failed status quo and the OBR are holding us back from investing in ways that will transform the UK for the better, says Labour MP Louise Haigh
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Bridget Phillipson, "Labour believes there needs to be reform to the ECHR" Trevor Philips, "You want to see changes in the ECHR?" Bridget Phillipson, "Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is looking at Article 8 Provisions to see if they need updating" *Article 8: Right for private and family life*
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Many councils in the UK have said that they won't paint over the red crosses on mini roundabouts. I wonder what they would do if someone painted these roundabouts white, or rainbow? In Shepshed, Lecs. Every lamppost has a flag. Does this mean I can attach whatever I want to a lamppost?
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Remember that all these people proudly showing their bigotry and racism. They have always had these views, but have now been emboldened by msm to spout them. Social embarrassment no longer exists.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I’m looking forward to another round of Two Words challenges! I’ll be taking on as many players as I can, so do join me, whether you’re an old hand or new to the game. Details for joining to follow on the day. twowords2.page.link/play
An announcement of another Play Susie tournament on Friday.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
This was my gateway to horror.
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a man in a black coat and tie is standing in a room
Alt: a man in a black coat and tie is standing in a room. Christopher Lee playing Count Dracula
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The UK is getting overrun with flag-shaggers. I wonder what flag I could put up in protest. I obviously don't mind real patriotism of course, but I doubt very many are being put up out of patriotic sentiments.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Imagine killing someone and only getting a sentence of unpaid work! search.app/EjRw3
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Bin lorry driver who killed boy cycling to school in Edinburgh given unpaid work
Ross Wallace admitted hitting 11-year-old Thomas Wong while driving a refuse truck in Edinburgh last year.
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Andy Banshee @andybanshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Yeah we have cycling infra.. This is shared use AND bidirectional. This is not wide enough for 2 people to walk side-by-side in most of the track length. The road to the right is very wide with ghost buffers. It is also has a easier gradient.
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