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Barry North

@barrynorth.bsky.social
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Civil Servant (Ret), IC member, QPR, Middx CCC, Wasps RFC (RIP), FDA TU, Wargamer, History Book Reader, Ben Turkiye’yi. Always stops to look at rocks…

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
🌾💥 Ukrainian strikes have disrupted Russia’s main grain export route, with alternative ports currently able to handle only 10% of volume previously shipped through the Black Sea, - Bloomberg 46.3 million tons of grain passed through Azov-Black Sea last season, 80% of grain exports in 2025.
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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The NEET rate basically hasn't changed for the whole of this century (except post-GFC and post Covid). It's been the same with tougher welfare sanctions and weaker. More apprenticeships and fewer. Higher employer national insurance and lower. I draw two conclusions from this....
Neet rate 2001-26
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James Dart @jamesdart.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Asked to respond to whether his team were 'not German enough' or 'not white enough', Klopp said there was no point in giving room to 'such people and their utterances', adding: 'I have little time in everyday life for idiocy'. Story: @kateconnolly.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Jürgen Klopp disgusted by claims his Germany team are ‘not white enough’
Jürgen Klopp has reacted with disgust to a social media debate questioning whether the Germany team he is in the process of forming are ‘white enough’
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Bad Squiddo Games (Annie) @badsquiddogames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're back shipping! UK are out, the folks are sorting the overseas today/tomorrow and huzzah! So you should treat yourself www.badsquiddogames.com to some amazing hand sculpted, hand cast and hand packed minis of....EVERYTHING.
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Bad Squiddo Games
Sensibly dressed female wargames miniatures and so much more!
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Mail's write-up of the thugs outside is vintage Mail, marred only by the failure to tell us how much his mother's home is worth:
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Balaclava-clad activists led by convicted criminal stage latest demo
The rabble-rouser, real name Daniel Thomas, organised protests that saw hundreds of masked men descend on Dover and Portsmouth over the weekend.
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Never more so than in her dismal #r4today performance this morning. She even tried a joke to defuse one of the grumpier parts of her exchange, to which Emma Barnett's response was a second of complete silence.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties Analysis of the latest Electoral Commission filings shows 87% of the £5.4m in donations newly-declared by Nigel Farage's party… bylinetimes.com/2026/09/10/reform-u…
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Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties
Analysis of the latest Electoral Commission filings shows 87% of the £5.4m in donations newly-declared by Nigel Farage's party came from donors linked to offshore jurisdictions
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Rachel Rees @rachel-rees.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As honoured as I am to see that The Times has picked up my Chagos article practically *word for word*, including my hard-gotten quotes, I’d prefer some credit — or for everyone to read my original FT piece! free link to read the evidently enviable article below (cheaper than a Times sub!) 🌴
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MFCarter @mfcarter.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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TheEnder @theender.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
📫Feel Free to Repost📫 🎞Join For Daily Clips🎞
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Giles MacDonogh @gilesmacdonogh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Theft: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Trump hails 'historic' deal for US to control 65bn barrels of Venezuela's oil
Venezuelan interim president says the unusual agreement will help revive her country's economy.
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Disco Diva (Louise is reading) @booksmusic1973.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Sophie's double life-saving gift to a stranger and science
She donated stem cells from her blood at Anthony Nolan's dedicated collection centre in Nottingham.
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Truth
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Note that in the event of another by election, Tice's seat is highly marginal, unlike Clacton
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
3 August 1902 | German Jewish woman Regina Jonas was born in Berlin. In 1935 she became the 1st woman ordained as a rabbi by the liberal rabbi Max Dienemann. Arrested in Nov 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt & in mid-October 1944 deported to #Auschwitz where she perished.
Vintage black and white photograph of a woman holding a book.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"[Byline] revealed that Cottrell entered corporate finance under a false Swiss identity, hired by the same City network that produced Reform UK’s own treasurer, Mehrtash A’zami. "Byline Times has since confirmed that this identity was stolen from a real person – Cottrell’s old school friend."
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Nigel Farage Funder George Cottrell's Accountant Co-Invested With Russia-Linked Indicted Cocaine Trafficker
The accountancy firm that administers George Cottrell’s Montenegro company, has invested in a property development with the alleged ringleader of the country’s largest money laundering cartel
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wait--I thought it was guaranteed that the US would allow Ukraine to build Patriot interceptors. Everyone told me Trump was pivoting to Ukraine and Laura Loomer was onside. newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-q...
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Donald Trump questions plan to let Ukraine produce Patriot missiles - FT
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Said this before, will again. Badenoch is the most dangerous figure in British politics. She's not as extreme as Farage or Lowe, but her impact is more pernicious. She actively prevents the British centre-right from adopting moderate positions, and thereby facilitates the radicalisation process.
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
The earliest known depiction of the #Trojan #horse, showing the #Greek warriors hidden inside, ca. 670 BCE, 📷 National Geographic. #History #art #mythology #artwork
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Making up numbers to back a racist agenda; I’m shocked, truly shocked 🙄
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Make all donations to political parties or individuals in public life taxable at the Higher Rate
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
No doubt Farage, Lowe, Yaxley Lennon at al will be seeking out every opportunity to condemn this threatened attack in the strongest terms. Twelve arrested over threat to Islamic event www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Twelve arrested over threat to an Islamic event in Suffolk
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood says the police's response "undoubtedly saved lives".
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“4 legs good… …2 legs better”
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
NEW | On the current grim game from Farage and friends… "WE CAN’T SPECULATE, BUT…” Ann Widdecombe's murder has prompted an out break of not-speculating speculating from Nigel Farage, Reform UK, and their friends in the right-wing press. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/we-cant-sp...
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"We can't speculate, but..."
Anne Widdecombe's murder has prompted an out break of not-speculating speculating from Nigel Farage, Reform UK, and their friends in the right-wing press.
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
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History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
📷 Ottoman pilot Ahmed Ali Effendi, born in Izmir (Western Anatolia) in 1883, is considered the world’s first Black pilot. He flew for the Ottoman Empire in 1916 and is regarded as the first Black military pilot in history. His grandmother was from Bornu (present-day Nigeria). #blackhistory
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RG Poulussen @rgpoulussen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What a beautiful sight! Russians are so stupid.
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Leyla Boulton @leylaboulton.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
@robertshrimsley.bsky.social: ‘It would also be right to be outraged at the case of Chas Corrigan, a British construction worker who murdered a Saudi student in Cambridge, stabbing him in the neck. But you probably haven’t heard about it since it doesn’t fit the zeitgeist’ www.ft.com/content/3fa9...
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The business model of white victimhood
Rage on the right and a narrative of disadvantage changing sides is rewarded by social media
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Yes but Reeves would probably provoke a mutiny
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The USA have blocked the Somali Referee Omar Artan from entering the USA, the Referee who is rated the best in Africa was blocked at entry, so he got the Somalian embassy to give him a Diplomatic Passport. But the USA still refuses to let him in. The USA need to be disqualified
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Carers UK @carers-uk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Our Patron Tiggy Walker was interviewed on Times Radio at the start of Carers Week by @hugorifkind.bsky.social. She shared her experiences of being an unpaid carer to her husband Johnnie and the importance of building carer friendly communities. Listen here: carersuk.pulse.ly/vzriw5txen
A woman with short blonde hair is smiling gently at the camera. She is resting her head on her hand, wearing a black top, and a bracelet with multicolored beads. The background is a soft focus dark blue.
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This👇🏼is what those who voted in Reform have to look forward to Rubbish piles on streets as bin collections are missed for 5 weeks in Margate, run by Reform “Flagshit” Kent County Council who can’t manage even basic services.. They managed to spend £600K on 8 parking spaces for Council leaders tho😡
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Waste piling up in Margate after bins not emptied - resident
Residents say rubbish has been left uncollected, with bags torn open and streets “covered in waste”.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 12/05/2026
When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
I used to work with someone whose Personal Development Report was very similar 😂 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Much-loved resident 'pest control' Clumber Park cat retires
Mr Tibbs had
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
@ww2tv.bsky.social ?
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
And now Putin is humiliating Trump by refusing to release the 1,000 pows he promised as part of the ceasefire deal that Trump (ahem)“negotiated”
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
But Reform are the story according to BBC/ITV/Sky
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Interesting to see how many commentators focus on the collapse of the Conservative vote to Reform and Liberal Democrats. Not holding my breath
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Arthur Miller opens up about marriage to Marilyn Monroe in newly unearthed recordings
Exclusive: Taped conversations also cover playwright’s relationship with fame, self-doubt and communism
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Susan @artlovergirl.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Let that sink in…🤔 #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles #Epsteinvictims #justice #womensrights
Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, 412 women have been arrested for pregnancy-related prosecutions. Since the Epstein files were released, there have been ZERO arrests.
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Sarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 06/05/2026
It was wrong when the media did this to Ed Miliband when he was leader and it is wrong to do this to Polanski. Genuinely have no idea how awfulness like this gets past editors… It’s really not that hard to criticise policies or politicians without being antisemitic.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Actually Trump would have "accomplished" 3 things. He would have shown the world that the US is a declining and unreliable power, and he would have entrenched a more hardline regime in Tehran to the detriment of the Iranian people. And he would have given Putin lots more money.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Funny thing with patriots. Always the first to leave the country they profess to love ... while taking their money with them.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Labour.members want Starmer to stay as leader. That should put it all to bed. Labour MPs support him. That should put it all to bed. But the media want him gone. So they keep trying to remove our democratically elected PM and government from office. The media do not get to decide who is PM.
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
I despair of silly conspiracy theories but this incident has a strong smell to it…
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
For most of the time I worked on the Gaza humanitarian response at USAID, this smuggling ring was the bane of our existence. It dramatically impacted price and market stability in Gaza and made the truck drivers jobs far more dangerous. We all knew it was the IDF running it.
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Barry North @barrynorth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
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Midweek Update #7: The Most Corrupt War In US History
Trump Is Passing The Initiative To Iran; Oil Markets, Watch Out If They Lose Their Optimism
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum. Make sure to vote YES. You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.
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