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Steve B

@bradder19.bsky.social
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Like Guinness, Crisps and nuts. Climate doomer. Liverpool FC fan. Bit of a Star Wars nerd as well.

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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Rodri absolutely furious with that penalty being given because, as we know, he doesn’t believe in retrospective punishment for clear wrongdoing.
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Amanda @pandamoanimum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Happy 5th anniversary to the time this happened over on that other place.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
THREAD (contains crossness) Getting pretty weary of people telling me I'm doing poverty all wrong, and that I should choose WORSE poverty to make their carefully curated ethics happy. Yeah. Amazon are shits. But I sell books there. Why?
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition to demand the government protects us all from the impacts of extreme weather and the #ClimateEmergency. Add your name too! action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tel...
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Tell the government: stop extreme weather destroying lives
Add my name Extreme heat. Droughts. Wildfires. Flooding. Homes destroyed. Lives shattered. Climate breakdown isn’t a distant threat. It’s happening now, and communities across the UK are on the frontl...
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Dove is flooding the planet with plastic packaging. It’s time that Unilever chooses the health of people and the planet over profits. Join me in demanding Dove kick out plastic packaging! act.gp/44jKo0Z
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Tell Dove: Kick out plastic to protect health! - Greenpeace International
Dove is flooding the planet with plastic packaging. It’s time that Unilever chooses the health of people and the planet over profits. Join me in demanding Dove kick out plastic packaging!
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TheCenci @thecenci.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Very much this. Very smug people about.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/12/2025
Northumberland nature recovery project takes shape with biggest land sale in 30 years
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Northumberland nature recovery project takes shape with biggest land sale in 30 years
Wildlife trust is raising funds to buy largest piece of land in single ownership to come up for sale in England for a generation
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Nick Ames @nickames82.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Not sure anyone still does this but here are five pieces I particularly enjoyed working on in 2025. First, with Bodø/Glimt exploring the traditions that underpin an astonishing tale: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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‘One big dream’: Bodø/Glimt’s modern miracle built on history and humility
Family club, known as a symbol of northern Norwegian self-esteem, prepare to face Tottenham in Europa League semis
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
As fine an actor as he was, Isiah was an even better spirit and the greatest gentleman.
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‘The Wire’ actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. dies at 71
"The Wire" actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. died on Tuesday at age 71.
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
⚠️ The Amazon's powerful ability to regulate climate is under threat ⚠️ Illegal mining and industrial-scale agriculture are cutting and burning down vast areas of forests for a quick profit. Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon act.gp/4c12sje
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Respect the Amazon - Greenpeace International
Add your name to demand global leaders #RespectTheAmazon and protect its forests, wildlife and its people.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/10/2025
Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism
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Sam Fender didn’t need his Mercury prize win – but he earned it with his incisive social realism
Maybe they should have given the award to an album that wasn’t already a huge hit – but Fender’s blend of kitchen-sink drama and stadium choruses is expertly done
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The greatest shit-show on earth www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Ronaldo’s sudden interest in return to US is World Cup Trump card that Fifa craves | Barney Ronay
Portugal star will hand Gianni Infantino the perfect publicity coup if he does play in America for the first time in more than 10 years, having already begun cosying up to Donald Trump
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/09/2025
‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)
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‘It’s better than plastic and cheaper’: 20 sustainable swaps that worked (and saved you money)
From a metal dustpan and solid shampoo to refillable deodorant and organic veg boxes, these are the eco-friendly changes readers stuck with
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
As our kids go #BackToSchool, never forget that we ARE the traffic that we’re afraid of. If more kids walked, biked or rode transit to school, it would erase a massive number of car trips each day, and our kids would be safer, healthier and better at school. HT Ian Lockwood. Spread the word.
Cartoon illustrating, how traffic induces more traffic. “There is too much traffic for Billy to walk to school, so we drive him.”
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Anfield Index @anfieldindex.com · 09/07/2025
Reclaiming Keegan: The Forgotten Great of Liverpool’s Golden Age "At #LFC, Kevin Keegan pressed before pressing had a name, erupted where others glided, and turned Anfield from a cathedral of noise into a launchpad for superstardom." ✍️ @eddiegibbs.bsky.social Available free on Substack 👇
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
No wonder he wanted to wake up Maggie.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 09/06/2025
We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
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We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich
The national guard’s deployment in Los Angeles sets the US on a familiar authoritarian pathway. History shows the results
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The Neymar/Messi years. All part of the same plan. How Qatar completed football www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Qatar bid to complete football with PSG project’s crowd-pleasing third act | Barney Ronay
Whatever the result of Champions League final, PSG’s owners have positioned club as game’s next superpower
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Allister, what have you been inhaling? Nigel Farage IS the establishment. Privately educated at Dulwich College, former commodities broker. A man rich enough to argue about having an account at Coutts. Elected as an MEP in 1999, leader of UKIP, the Brexit Party, Reform Party, current MP for Clacton.
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Nigel Farage is on course to be PM. This is what the establishment will do to destroy him
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Will Hughes was once the next big thing in English football; a teenage prodigy compared with Iniesta and Wilshere. Now he’s 30, a tough-tackling midfielder and two-time Cup finalist. So I wanted to ask him: did he actually “make it”? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Will Hughes: ‘I don’t like the limelight … you’ve got to remember the priority is football’
The Crystal Palace midfielder tells Jonathan Liew about the hype in his early career, ‘shit’ VAR and the embarrassment of Watford’s 2019 FA Cup final
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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 15/05/2025
Quite possibly the biggest climate story of the year (especially when we look back on this in a few years' time) For the first time on record, China's emissions are falling due to clean energy growth, not slow power demand...
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Sachin Nakrani @sachinnakrani.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Leaving Anfield and, well, that second-half was horrible. The most toxic and divisive atmosphere I’ve experienced there since the days of Hicks and Gillett. You can blame Trent but I’d rather blame those who booed and made a day that was meant to be totally and utterly celebratory anything but.
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 11/05/2025
We’re not all going to agree on everything and that’s fair enough. I know there’s people who won’t have a problem with it. But for me, what happened re: booing Trent, has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I didn’t like it one little bit. Never boo a player wearing the Liverpool shirt no matter what.
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Didn’t like Trent being booed
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The BBC is institutionally biased towards the right and the far right, and here's the proof: the results of an almost perfect before-and-after experiment. My column today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot
The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survival, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The UK govt admits it can’t afford to adapt high-risk areas to climate breakdown. As Joseph Tainter said, complex societies fall when the metabolic cost of maintaining complexity exceeds the return. Environmental breakdown raises those costs leading to #collapse www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Government not taking climate threats seriously - watchdog
The government has made little progress in preparing the UK for rising temperatures, climate watchdog the CCC says.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
It's hard to get your head around the scale of the environmental vandalism the Labour government is hoping to unleash. The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is up there with Trump's executive orders. And the reason is the same: corporate power. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Mcginley just said Rory pulled a putt into the hole! 🙄😳. Fuck sake
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Big balls round from Rory that.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/04/2025
PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online A leaked document shows that vested interests may have been behind a “mud-slinging” PR campaign to discredit a landmark environment study, according to an investigation. The Eat-Lancet Commission study, published in 2019, set out to answer the question: how can we feed the world’s growing population without causing catastrophic climate breakdown? Continue reading...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
1. Whenever you see really vicious and widespread "spontaneous" attacks on scientific findings that challenge powerful economic interests, you can be assured that corporate lobbyists have been busy behind the scenes. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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PR campaign may have fuelled food study backlash, leaked document shows
Eat-Lancet report recommended shift to more plant-based, climate-friendly diet but was extensively attacked online
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Hillsborough Law is important for scandals like Windrush, Post Office, Grenfell too. @inquest-org.bsky.social does brilliant work listening to people affected. Starmer must not go back on such an important promise to people who have suffered huge injustice. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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Hillsborough families call for ‘all or nothing’ law as Labour expected to break pledge
Report released as Labour admits it will break promise to enact law by 36th anniversary and rewrites key proposals
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Do we need more QE? Mo. Do we need the government to admit that QE was simply it borrowing from the Bank of England, and that it will need to do more of that to get us through the crisis heading our way? Yes, most definitely we do. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
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Do we need more quantitative easing?
Over the last day or so, I have seen or heard discussion on whether the government might revive quantitative easing as a way of easing the pressure on the UK economy in response to the crisis that Tru...
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Barney Ronay @barneyronay.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Liverpool: still winning it by default, via the sneaky trick of being by far the best team in the country. www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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It’s unfair to blame Liverpool for being the best team: that's how you win titles | Barney Ronay
It has been an odd, slow bicycle race of a season, but this is hardly the fault of Arne Slot’s impressive league leaders
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
1. One of capitalism’s greatest successes is to shut down our imaginations. With the help of its favoured tools - neoliberalism and fascism - it persuades us that “there is no alternative”. Our first task is to re-ignite our moral imaginations and name our alternatives. 🧵
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
10. Capitalism's promise is that we can all aspire to private luxury. Never mind that the system is built on some people exploiting others, who must remain poor if exploitation is to succeed. Never mind that there isn’t even physical space (let alone ecological space) for universal private luxury.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"Poverty in Britain exists not because we don't have enough money to satisfy the needs of the poor, but because we don't have enough money to satisfy the greed of the rich." My bit for @bylinetimes.bsky.social on wealth tax and the new austerity. www.bylinesupplement.com/p/russell-jo...
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Russell Jones's Week Moment: Billionaires, Miscarriages of Capitalism, and Bin Collections
In the week the Government cut £5 billion in benefit payments, Russell Jones takes the UK's tax-dodging billionaires to task and urges Labour to get on with imposing a wealth tax
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Simon Price @simonprice.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
In the last week, Liverpool have failed to prevent Qatar-owned sportswashing atrocity Paris Saint Germain from progressing in the Champions League, and failed to prevent the equally awful Geordi Arabia from winning their first cup in forever. Next fixture's against Hezbollah. What could go wrong?
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
After Newcastle end their 70-year wait for a domestic trophy, you have to say that football (authorities allowing authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records to own top-flight clubs) is the winner.
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Gemma Bristow @konallis.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
#FridayReads Regenesis by @georgemonbiot.bsky.social, a study of the ecological impact of the food system and ways to improve it. Well-written, lyrical in parts, and densely informative, though inevitably depressing.
Paperback copy of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Destroying the Planet by George Monbiot. The cover shows an image of a field, from which a cow has been cut out leaving only a silhouette.
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Super interview. Very excited for this
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Fi 🇪🇺 @rahhead01.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
My lovely 78 year old Dad is walking 100 miles for @ParkinsonsUK during May 2025 (not all at once! 🤣) he’s doing this for my Mum who has Parkinson’s with dementia. I would be so so grateful if you could rt this and possibly donate for such a great cause 💕 events.parkinsons.org.uk/fundraisers/...
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I’m taking part in Walk for Parkinson’s 100 Mile Challenge to help fund specialist care for people with Parkinson’s. I'm uniting with thousands of others, all passionate about improving life for peop...
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Started to well up at the end of this one. Needs a book of these again @knoxharrington.bsky.social
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Dobby Does Doom @sonofscience.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"Humans exceeded the carrying capacity of Earth over 50 years ago, and when a population of animals exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecosystem, the population rapidly declines. Every single time." #overshoot #collapse www.collapsemusings.com/i-believe-th...
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I Believe The World Is Ending - Does That Make Me Crazy?
If you tell the average person that the world is ending, they’ll look at you the same way they’d look at a guy standing on a street corner, screaming and holding a sign that says, “The end is near.” T...
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
An absolute belter this one, super read
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Loved the Green Day reference
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Steve B @bradder19.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Really good this
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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
James Bond: No Time To DEI
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