Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Love how Reform are very worried about what's *right* when it comes to the government housing immigrants in hotels (for example), but suddenly only worry about what's *legal* when it comes to their finances. 071
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Party built around the rejection of empathy shows lack of empathy. 072
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 16/08/2026I read this because I didn't know what had happened, and am now saddened by how familiar it feels. Thank you for sharing ❤️ 030
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneAlasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Guy who went on holiday to Toontown and made it his whole personality: 6754461559
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 17/07/2026As with the GOP suddenly forgetting the immutability of the constitution (amendment 2 vs. 22), a lot of people turn out to care more about whether they get their own way (than whatever they were previously claiming) when an opportunity presents itself. 000
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneAnupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Incredible 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-...churchinwales.org.ukStatement of the Bench of Bishops of the Church in Wales on the publication of the EHRC Draft Code of Practice - Church in Wales 191742514
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneMorten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla... 521982
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneMichael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Nigel Farage Listens to the News 10449721890
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneMark E Thomas FB99% FBPE @mrmarkethomas.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Thread (1/38) Three Baseless Taboos are Derailing National Renewal 614179
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 23/05/2026But his first statement mentions supply and demand, and the rest of the post assumes only supply will change. It's economically illiterate at the most basic level. 010
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 22/05/2026And it's not during a general election - they only had one person they needed to check! 010
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Makes me realise how much I miss through hurrying - thank you 010
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Trump: "The pope should stay out of politics" Vance: "And theology!" 010
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026So when Remoaners said that we'd still need to abide by EU rules to trade there but would no longer be able to affect those rules, and that Brexit would therefore be a loss of power... 030
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneChris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I 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: 514177297126
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 24/02/2026"Britain is full" "Have more babies" Umm...?! 162
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneGaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 13/02/2026You know what helps make the streets safer? Paying your taxes 401204289
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneOmg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Sir 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 5783269114044
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 17/12/2025I made it through school without a diagnosis because kind teachers had time to help me. Austerity has removed that space. Maximising efficiency means uniformity becomes more necessary, and those who don't fit have to fight for the support I received, starting with getting a diagnosis. 150
Reposted by Andrew Riddlestonejonnythatcher.bsky.social @jonnythatcher.bsky.social · 10/12/2025That’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...nottinghampost.comReform's £16k Union Jacks across Notts could be replaced with adsThe 164 flag banners will be used as 'advertising spaces' and will be paid for by 'businesses and partners' 154712
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Only ~40% of people in the UK were alive 50 years ago, so either the sample was disproportionate age-wise, or a lot of people said they'd rather live in a time they have no experience of. 020
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneNaomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Our latest polling shows concerns about immigration are manufactured www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...standard.co.ukPolling shows immigration concern ‘manufactured’, say campaignersA YouGov poll found only 26% of people said immigration and asylum was one of the three most important issues facing their community. 48861352
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 26/10/2025This needs some comparative stats. How much was given in contracts to non-donors? How much does a donation change the odds of a company gaining a contract? Just stating that some companies which donated won contracts tells us virtually nothing - we're left to assume the worst, but without any proof. 100
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 13/10/2025"I just wish things could go back to how they used to be." 😂 110
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2025Rep. Jamie Raskin tears into Nigel Farage as a "far-right pro-Putin politician" and a "Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe". 751403536
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneDavid Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Britain 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. 421166371
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneSarah, manic pixie dream MILF @goatsarah.org · 29/08/2025I 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) 6455933318
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneSpelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Did a new one 3777032730
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneTony Watts @wattsburger.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Based 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. 411551
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 14/07/2025As a Christian raised CofE I feel the same 😕😠 000
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneZarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Parliament 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. 702005736
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 07/07/2025It often doesn't feel that way at the time. 110
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Brilliant Will - I shared it, please don't k... 080
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneWill Sebag-Montefiore @wsebag.bsky.social · 30/06/2025London is over 291482447
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Yeah, not the way I'd treat scriptures... Dangerous religious extremism is alive and well ☹️ 010
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025I'm intrigued by the many data points which created these perfectly straight lines. Also, we can presumably extrapolate back to check when Britain was 125% White British. I'm not entirely sure this graph is useful... 000
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 03/06/2025It always amazes me how billionaires apparently shop! 😂 000
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneAthena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025A 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 37814
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 09/03/2025The Great Library from the Thursday Next series? 110
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/03/2025This 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...defector.comNeither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | DefectorMars 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... 1602261900
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 19/02/2025A thread fact checking Trump's claims about Ukraine, which appears to have come directly from the Putin propaganda agency. 1/8 6518203
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestonePaul 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?”english.elpais.comJudith 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 021174
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneThe Dread Duck Pirate Mark Brooks @markbrooksart.bsky.social · 08/02/2025Well shit. 11746231
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 10/02/2025@thegargle.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/s...theregister.comSri Lanka goes bananas after monkey unplugs nationSimian saboteur or a grid screaming for modernization? 010
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 29/01/2025She sells a much more attractive Labour party than I see when Starmer talks. Maybe he should aim to be what she already sees, rather than aiming to be what she wants. 000
Andrew Riddlestone @ariddlestone.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Oh - I assumed I was subscribed, but it turns out YouTube just knows that I love your stuff. Subscribed now 👍 010
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneEleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...youtube.comLiterally every company nowYouTube video by Eleanor Morton 10263782368
Reposted by Andrew RiddlestoneZoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 10/01/2025I 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 52793203
