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Andy Mawby

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Refugee from the other place. If I am not on here, I am out on my bike.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 57m
🔴NEW: Ben Delo has given Reform £44MILLION Delo’s money comes from his now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX In 2019, a BitMEX investor asked about the status of his investment Delo responded by sending this meme, according to court documents. There’s more, a lot more (new investigation🧵)
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Locate International CIO @locateintl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🔎 Two unidentified people. Two cases. Could you help give them back their names? Shakespeare Cliff Man and Dover Woman were found decades apart in Dover. Could you recognise their clothing or possessions? #DoverWoman #ShakespeareCliffMan #Dover #Kent
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Kath Coyle @mrscoyle.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...
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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to join SIPA faculty
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will join the School of International and Public Affairs as a fellow at SIPA’s Institute of Global Politics in March, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"with Claude, we will no longer need lightly stoned weirdos who work at record stores because they are neurodivergent as hell and some band you've never heard of but is about to change your life is their special interest" these tech bros really hate anyone who was cooler than them in high school
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The rate of ectopic pregnancy deaths in states with abortion bans is nearly double that in states where abortion is legal.” That stat should shame every anti abortionist in the world.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Luxury retailers want taxpayers to fund a 20% tax break for foreign tourists. They paid consultancy Cebr to claim this will raise £2.6bn for the UK. That convinced Sadiq Khan and Kemi Badenoch. But it's false: a free lunch. Four basic errors mask a £600m loss. Thread:
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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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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Racist organisation set up by a racist to appeal to racists is somehow being taken over by racists.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Farage (et al) literally panting for Fairford to be linked to asylum seekers and, as usual, the ludicrous demand for immediate information with totally irresponsible implication that the absence of such information is suspect.
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
🧵The Marks & Spencer story began in 1884 when Michael Marks, a Polish-Jewish refugee opened a market stall in Leeds. It was ten years later though on the 28th September in 1894 that Marks and Spencer, one of the most recognisable names in retail history was born when cashier Thomas Spencer from
Leeds Market, by Van Jones 1955, oil painting. The artist Van Jones was commissioned by M&S in the 1950s to create a series of paintings of the early Penny Bazaar stalls. This picture is Van Jones' interpretation of the first Marks’ Penny Bazaar in Leeds Kirkgate Market in 1884. Image © M&S Archive CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
May 2026: Reform UK takes control of Sunderland City Council September 2026: Sunderland City Council withdraws support for anti-racism group Show Racism the Red Card after 30 years declaring it a “politically charged" organisation "with an agenda”. Conclusion?
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The Equity & Insight Resonance @theeqinres.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He's not wrong. Britain's soul had fallen into a pit... from which we don't know how to climb out of. www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...
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Stewart Lee: Why don’t we stage public drownings of migrants, to address people’s legitimate concerns?
The collapse of compassion in post-Brexit Britain suggests it’s now time for Roman-style lethal spectacles.  The alternative – stopping malign global influences from destabilising our society, say – s...
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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is a tendency to talk about people who receive support from the state as though they are somehow a completely different group from the rest of us: ‘taxpayers’ over here and ‘benefit claimants’ over there. My piece for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/non...
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None of us knows what is around the corner
A personal testimonial of the life-saving benefits of a social security system that supports the people, and the dangers of villainising those who find need of it
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's funny how, under her administration, it was just an "immigration issue", but now it is about "women's safety" Nothing's changed - except immigration is down, boat crossings down, hotel use down, backlog down... But they have to keep the narrative going and hope you don't know that!
She warned that Labour's asylum crisis is now bigger than an immigration issue because it is now about women's safety.
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 25/09/2026
Why have we reached a stage where people call in to @natashadevon.bsky.social and say they want people to drown? Well headlines like this don’t help. Let’s forget that numbers are way down on years previous and just keep stoking fear and division. This is why the RNLI is under attack.
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Richard Perryman @richperr501.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Investigations can take years and rarely result in meaningful penalties. More than two years later, the EA has yet to take action over the incident at Furnace Brook.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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👻 🎃 🦇 Boola Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Over 3,500 people are currently facing terrorism charges in the UK for holding signs saying "I support Palestine Action".
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Far-right activist Daniel Thomas slashes dinghy in Channel with blade while rescue worker onboard
Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 22/09/2026
1/23 Sorry, this will be long... There is a lot of shouting about what happened in the Channel yesterday. So I want to go back to basic law. Not immigration policies or political rhetoric. At sea, the starting point is simple: Preservation of life comes first under all maritime conventions.
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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Samantha Asumadu @samanthaasumadu.substack.com · 22/09/2026
'New analysis on UK media: British media is not delivering the news to its readers. They are delivering an agenda. The seven days after Channel 4 filmed James Orr are a damning indictment of the British press. Orr is a Cambridge associate professor.' via @newscord.org
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/09/2026
The real problem isn't that he's rich, insufferable, full of shit, or even that he's a landlord. It's the trick whereby a person's own success is presented as proof that structural constraints don't exist. “I managed it” becomes “anyone can”. “Anyone can” becomes “poverty is your own fault”.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
George Orwell's Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia Cartoon by Guy Venables
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Christina Martin @christinamartin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
South coast people. I'm doing a charity event for St Michael's Hospice in St Leonards on 5 October. All proceeds to them. Hastings Waterstones will be there with my books. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/get-ahead-...
Poster for St Michael's Hospice event. Get Ahead of Being Dead with Evie King.
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CynInEmbra | she/her @cynderness.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A poorly but enthusiastic @christinamartin.bsky.social this morning, doing her thing. (PS: BUY THESE BOOKS)
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Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Libraries BUY books. Unlike tech companies wot steal them. Also: PLR! The Public Lending Right scheme meaans authors in the uk and ireland and a few other places get money for each library loan!
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026
In 2012, Addison Lee boss John Griffin was all over the news when he ranted that cyclists should “pay road tax.” Yesterday, HMRC won its case saying that, since 2013, the taxi man has been avoiding paying income tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Telegraph headline from 2012:

Cyclists should pay road tax, says taxi boss Careless cyclists are on a
'voyage into the abyss'
The head of London's largest minicab company says cyclists should think more about their own safety before "throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world".Guardian headline today:

Addison Lee founder owes
£20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin's claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood. With pic of old man in office.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In May of 1940 there was a mass panic in Britain - stirred up by the tabloid press - about 'fighting aged men' who had come to Britain as 'refugees' posing a threat to the women and children of this country - and essentially forming a 'fifth column' that could, at any moment rise up against everyone
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WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
ALT: WW2 Soldiers in Croatia: Ivan Janjic Storefront
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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.
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
RNLI have closed (temporarily) the Portsmouth station because of these violent ‘men’. Patriot Platform needs to be proscribed now
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RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Sinan Kose @thesinankose.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genuinely: where is the Prime Minister? Critical infrastructure has been occupied by a fascist paramilitary, volunteers who save people's lives have been threatened and it seems to have gone unremarked upon.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Steve Reed on 25 March explaining that the £100k cap on donations "will therefore apply retrospectively, so it includes all donations from overseas electors received from today". Yes, but how are people who never bother going to Parliament supposed to know that?
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Bryan @elwick70.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NB. Union member individual contributions are voluntary. As an individual you can withdraw from the political fund at anytime; and not all unions are affiliated with the Labour Party.
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone know why a newspaper owned by the Fourth Lord Rothermere, who inherited a fortune from the Third Lord Rothermere, who inherited his money from the Second Lord Rothermere, who inherited it from the First Lord Rothermere, is so strongly opposed to inheritance tax?
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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Listened to The World at One. Ben Delo mentioned numerous times. Not once did any 'journalist' say he had been pardoned by Trump!
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George E. Osborn @georgeosborn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I think we're at the point where we can incredibly comfortably say that your attitude towards Reform, Restore, MAGA, the AfD etc is how you'd have responded to fascism in the 1930s
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Everyone’s Favourite Jim @jimmeruk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Cunts have just stolen my bike from the garage and fucked my garage door. If anyone sees this around Croydon, let me know.
Norco Threshold A1 with orange Brooks bartape and saddle.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.
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Juliet Brando @sliderulesyou.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In the 1935 dystopian novel "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis (I read it a decade ago, for obvious reasons) an American dictator promised $5000 per year to American citizens (who weren't Black or immigrants)...
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