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Rob Pattenden 🔶 @polrobuk.bsky.social · 18h

Given the choice between President Zelensky and the disgrace that is currently residing in the White House - I know who I’m choosing 🇺🇦 Come an America - you know what you need to do on the 3rd of November, Trump needs humiliating at the ballot box 🇺🇸

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Tony Robertson @socialliberaltony.bsky.social · 19h

Liberals have to return to being radical. The bind that Lib Dems face has effectively been defined by the fallout from the Coalition Gov' but they have to find a way to get back to their roots, roots that Kennedy & Grimond would recognise. There's no Liberal future in being moderate centrists.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 14h

Once you realise the destruction of the upland deserts of these islands you can never unsee it. The moors and mountains are in a terrible state and the National Parks are a failure, total reform and refocus required. If nothing else for flood and fire prevention, a total policy failure

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 14h

Not much better for welfare in Oxfordshire hills where we have to call the 'shepherds' to tell them their sheep have no water, push them back over when stuck on backs; often lame and carcasses litter the fields. Ecologically less an issue obviously but the business does not work.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Friends still with bookseller. Will never forget the SLA/ Israeli torture facility at the old French cavalry base at Khiam, grim does not start to explain it. Or the border going across a prophets grave - or a gypsy camp in three countries. Or the fact that the fucking top soil was stolen. 4/4

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Full disclosure i have a photo of myself and wife on border in Southern Lebanon in 2001 with Hezbollah flags behind, taken by a Hezbollah senior figure after they (and others) defeated the Israelis and SLA. Tour arranged via our bookseller we both refused to speak to the camera afterwards- 3/4 umps

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

No Palestinian (or to be fair Syrian refugee) had the slightest idea who Corbyn was, or cared. Although our tankies support for the worst people in Mid East caused confusion. Not one of those fuckers was considered helpful. 2/3 sorry

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the fucking point - it does the opposite. Performative BS on grand scale & no one, not one person actually thinks about a Palestinian, just symbols,they are ignored During Corbyn years debating (wrong word) with his supporters, called all sorts. Even when in a Palestinian refugee camp. 1/2

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Holburne Museum, Bath @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Have you seen our new exhibition ‘Ancient Landscape, Modern Times’? This exhibition brings together works by Eric Ravilious, William Nicholson, Paul Nash, John Nash, Tirzah Garwood, Peggy Angus and other British artists. Book your tickets and find out more: ow.ly/lnX650ZUuuE

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Philarsopher @philarsopher.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Man City fans thinking they can spot flaws in a decision made by three senior lawyers is the new Dads think they could win a game against Serena Williams.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Well that was a game. Just chuck the kids at it. O'Shea gets MoM, but lots of academy players - Brookes in front row and in particular Wood in backs were great. Craig Casey at captain is not something I ever expected to type. Well done 👍#munbul

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good game this. Ulster - Glasgow was a great one earlier. Last night a great game in Galway. Leinster bit of a mess in Durban.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Just scored a brilliant try out wide. This is a brilliant first start. I would strongly recommend that Irish out halves don't get injured (starring at you Jack). May not be missed...

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Charlie O'Shea is apparently 20 - which is still impressive. Looks a real prospect. And just got a try, brilliant charge down Obviously Fly Half s are parasites that feed of work of others but...got the conversion.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Munster seem to have a kid at fly half, first start before he has needed to shave. Just produced a cross kick from God and then hit the conversation from touch line. Incredible

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Maybe the only Labour Party Leader speech that still lives, pure future is here. Labour after this seemed mostly looking back to a passed age. Blair lacked substance, Brown theatre.

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Tides of History @tidesofhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#OTD 1963. In Scarborough, Harold Wilson delivers first leaders speech to party conference. "The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or out of date methods, on either side of industry"

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Met a few Senior US military personnel, about 20% shouldn't run a bath but obviously Pigsbreath will promote those and sack the competent of which there are many, indeed majority. Extraordinary seeing an incredible military power just destroying itself so quickly. Xe & Putin money well spent

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Good to see Manchester top of the league. From a public health POV (obviously) hope they join City in their dive down the leagues - Penryn Campus next fixture?

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Evri driver is obviously having a good one. Book that 'was delivered' at 1801 arrives along with a couple of packages First next door, fine walk 10m & ring bell on gate - the other 'where the fuck is that?' On reflection think I know where it is. Try on way to work tomorrow or let them find us?

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t... Don't know what you were doing whilst studying for A levels - in my case mostly smoking, drinking, playing snooker, trying to get off with, far too sensible, girls and occasionally running around a hockey pitch - feel Arya has used the time better.

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This High Schooler Invented a Plant-Based Plastic That Removes Microplastics From the Environment as It Biodegrades

Eighteen-year-old Arya Satheesh created her award-winning Eco Purge to help address the global problem of plastic pollution

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No. He was the master, beautiful voice, wonderfully paced and always painting pictures with words.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hopefully there will be a series of similar mugs for Bicester, Banbury etc all over the county very soon.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

replay.bfi.org.uk/video/556765... From 1945 around my bit of North Oxfordshire, slightly to SW mostly. Not a great advert for rural living at that time. And for those of a certain vintage John Arlott's dulcet Hampshire tones will waft you back to a County or Test ground from your youth.

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Twenty-four Square Miles | BFI Replay

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Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine @ldfpalestine.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

HE Husam Zumlot, Palestine’s Ambassador to the UK, thanks Ed Miliband for his remarkable Conference speech on Palestine yesterday. He refers to momentum towards change, Palestine’s ‘South Africa moment’, & gratitude to Zumlot & Miliband’s mothers! Link to video posted on X: x.com/hzomlot/stat...

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is obviously the correct answer. And lets hear no more about it until legalisation has completed it's way through parliament.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Concur. Think our leadership could be more nuanced or just STFU, it's not as if it's going to be reported anywhere.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The great Dillie Keane stood a couple of times for the District Council, which is mostly on my Division fir the Lib Dems. Feel that her winning and singing this in the Council chamber would be a joy of the ages.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We really need to teach @laylamoran.bsky.social how to hit things... and some of us really liked the quiet walk in from the station to centre - sprints for cover as Layla very quickly learns how to hit me 😳

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Horrific old genocide denial maniac. Shame on you, shame on you...

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So Micheál was at UN. Great. Now, Ireland has a massive income, have more to give. Now give. But 👍

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Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Addressing hunger and malnutrition is a priority firmly rooted in Ireland's history. Prevention is not only the right choice morally, but also the smart choice economically. Ireland will continue to champion child nutrition and work closely with our global partners.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apologies. To the north then I guess. If so I think you are correct.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Certainly compared to the pricks that normally use it before 1. Going to jail for fraud or 2. Getting v rich and forgetting about it.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone know the odds on Mike getting reelected? Because doubt it's worth it bothering now. Quick counting Tunbridge Wells thum9

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 24/09/2026

Cranbrook, Sissinghurst & Frittenden (Tunbridge Wells) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 37.3% (+22.9) 🌳 CON: 31.6% (-14.6) ➡️ RFM: 21.0% (-4.4) 🌍 GRN: 10.1% (-3.9) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Localist. Changes w/ 2026.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now if Mayor Mamdani is not in Cork (probably getting Freeman of city) in next 6 months then Micheál, we will known you are standing down, or lost plot.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Assume something to do with UN but anyone know why the Taoiseach is on the underground in NY expect @irishtimes.com Pat Leahy to inform us. Will wait for next Inside Politics podcast.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh great Eason the 🦮 has just discovered sex. The poor blanket is getting a real workout. He's not old enough to have to boil wash it afterwards happily.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All quiet there yesterday, except a slightly angry dachshund, when canvassing. BBC man I bumped into was from BBC East did explain the East angle something about a Parish Council from Suffolk meeting Piddington PC. Assume to discuss how to get Roderick Spodes Blackshorts to terrorise his village.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You do wonder whether it would have been better to listen to his mother just once. And obviously Fred never. Suppose have to admire Andy for just sitting there during this stream of vacuous nonsense.

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

(flying mammals not sticks to hit balls) were on agenda. Roderick Spode and his black shorts very much not wanted - by those I spoke to. Didn't realise Pink Ladies had been there as well as the RNLI boat slasher, and add to the joy the local Trots had been out being, well, the usual Trot help. 3/3

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

To take a viewing in a couple of weeks and distribute flyers. Not many locals around those spoke to all friendly enough - a dachshund puppy had my number and was distinctly in a get across the border to your own Division mood. But ditch needs work, roads also and bats 2/ obviously not 2

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Out canvassing in Piddington (Peoples Republic of ?) this morning. No obvious border infrastructure apart from the village sign and gates (assume whole parish was independent not just village, but may be not). Pleasant enough village, seems to have quite an active Art movement and was collared 1/2

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not sure it's Sherry (for the second time in 24 hours using this term & third time heard) maybe Glue?

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Dr James Hartley Cllr Chesterton & Launton OCC🔸️ @banburylibdems.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

In the replies to this beauty is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War why did I not know this when serving with Aussies; why is every sailor, soldier, marine and aviator not told this before serving with aussies? They lost twice. Even tell the Barmy Army

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Emu War - Wikipedia

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