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Andrew Riddlestone

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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality:
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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...
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Statement of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales on the publication of the EHRC Draft Code of Practice - Church in Wales
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage Listens to the News
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Mark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Thread (1/38) Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal
A diagram showing how accepting the taboos leads to failure
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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jonnythatcher.bsky.social @jonnythatcher.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
That’s so yesterday’s news. They’ve just announced they’re going to take down the flags and replace them with ads. No, really. www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-n...
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Reform's £16k Union Jacks across Notts could be replaced with ads
The 164 flag banners will be used as 'advertising spaces' and will be paid for by 'businesses and partners'
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
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Polling shows immigration concern ‘manufactured’, say campaigners
A YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe".
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Britain has been multicultural for the last 2000 years. That's why we have the Roman alphabet, a Middle East religion, Arabic numerals, a Syrian patron saint, an aristocracy with French ancestry and a German royal family.
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Sarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 29/08/2025
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Did a new one
Government style ad in watercolour. Image of a burglar stealing a painting from the wall of a home. Tagline: "It's not theft... if you say you're using it to train your AI algorithm". Body text: "Theft is now legal, so we can boost the economy by eliminating jobs. If that doesn't make any sense, ask a chatbot to explain it to you." HM government logo in the corner.
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Tony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Based on the figures quoted by this Murdoch shitrag to drum-up anti-immigrant sentiment, foreign-born residents (and citizens!) are 15.5% less likely to be criminals, and 28% less likely to be sex offenders. You're welcome.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Parliament and Hansard have removed “We are all Palestine Action” from my speech on Wednesday 2 July 2025 — despite me saying it. This is a blatant attempt to censor me and rewrite the record. This is not how a democracy behaves. We will not be silenced.
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Will Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
London is over
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A reminder that poverty is expensive to the state. More illness. More anti social behaviour. More unemployment. Less spending. Less attainment. And it's a cycle
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This guy, @albertburneko.bsky.social, is a genius. Please read his brilliant article on Elon Musk's deranged and morally repugnant Mars colonisation schtick. defector.com/neither-elon...
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Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic ac...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A thread fact checking Trump's claims about Ukraine, which appears to have come directly from the Putin propaganda agency. 1/8
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?”
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Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
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The Dread Duck Pirate Mark Brooks @markbrooksart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Well shit.
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Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
@thegargle.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/s...
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Sri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nation
Simian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization?
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
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Literally every company now
YouTube video by Eleanor Morton
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I literally can’t believe that we’re hearing the case being made for austerity again. After it destroyed growth, destroyed communities, trashed public services & gave us all this far right backlash to deal with. These smug rich men still saying Reeves should make the case for more cuts🤦‍♀️ #r4today
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The new centre ground of our migration debate is going to be between Nigel Farage & Tommy Robinson if the media gets its way. Labour needs, desperately, to get a grip on the narrative & stop chasing the tails of the far & further right. #r4today
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Paul Lomax @paullomax.co.uk · 02/01/2025
The ONLY solution is safe routes. Make the gangs unnecessary. And invest instead in faster processing.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
"The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must." -- Jimmy Carter, 2002, Nobel speech R.I.P
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
New video! 👀 GBNews has a brand new presenter to fill the gap in their anti-migrant coverage! His name is Matthew Goodwin & luckily enough he knows HOW TO STOP AN INVASION! Is this the solution at last? I looked into it... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyKI...
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GBNews’ new man SOLVES the small boats crisis
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This #InternationalMigrantsDay, we teamed up with @zoejardiniere.bsky.social to call for a fairer asylum system. Share this video & let people in power know we need real solutions – not fearmongering 💛 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtgz... #HumanRights #PaidPartnership #RefugeesWelcome
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It's time to have a serious conversation about migration.
YouTube video by Amnesty International UK
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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The public services YOU'VE lost in the past 14 years... This is the numbered list Keir Starmer should be talking about today We won't feel rich as a country until we get back what's been stolen weownit.org.uk/blog/destruc...
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The destruction of the last 14 years, in numbers
This is the reality of austerity. Since 2010, government cuts to public services mean the UK has become a broken country. Our public buildings and spaces have been sold off, our children have fewer pl...
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This post from the PM is problematic for a number of reasons. A thread…🧵
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