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BristleKRS

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Slackness. Love. Hugs. Kisses. Podcasts. Comics. Fillums. People. Music. Masterless. Lapsed blogger (bristle.wordpress.com thebristle.wordpress.com aweekinfilm.wordpress.com [etc]). #spycops #shelfies #screenagekicks

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Helen121 @helen121.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"As well as the surveillance, the senior officers authorised the expenditure of £2.5m of public funds to relocate Dines to ensure that Steel did not find him. This included *helping him buy a new house*". WTAF?! #spycops
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
#Spycops 'Steel’s sister collected the family and drove them to her home 90 minutes away. Again, none of them knew surveillance officers employed by New Zealand police were tailing them.' www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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Netpol @netpol.org · 26/07/2026
The #spycops inquiry has heard how senior Scotland Yard officers arranged for covert surveillance by New Zealand police on a leftwing campaigner visiting family in Auckland, to protect the identity of her former partner, the undercover police officer John Dines www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The John Dines-grifted-£2.5 million-public money for a relocation based on fabricated ‘evidence’ concocted by his pal Bob Lambert feels like a tipping point in the ongoing #spycops scandal www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Spycop HN5 John Dines grifted over £2.5 million helped by proven liar HN10 Bob Lambert in collusion with senior officers of the Met Police

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#spycops, Police Spies Out Of Lives, Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance and Undercover Research Group
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Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
TV historian Laurence Westgaph sued us to expose our sources and posted sinister threats about me and the 'cutthroats and sell outs'. We spent £75,000 fighting him in court - a crucial first test of the 'journalism exemption' in GDPR. And we won!! ✌️ www.livpost.co.uk/a-dish-best-...
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A dish best served cold: Laurence Westgaph sued us to reveal our sources - and lost
The former TV historian waged a legal campaign to find out who had spoken to The Post. A year later, we met him in court
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Reposting because they still have a ways to go to meet the goal. This is horrifying bullshit on top of a lot of already horrifying bullshit.
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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Our site was hacked earlier this week & this important blog post by ‘Lisa’ about #spycops so-called 'genuine feelings' hadn't been backed up. Reposted here. Please share. policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/genuine-feel...
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'GENUINE FEELINGS' & SPYCOPS ABUSES - by 'Lisa'
On Friday 19th June 2026, at the end of an emotional day for Helen Steel who was giving evidence to the Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing about being deceived into intimate sexual relationship w...
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Evan Dorkin @evandorkin.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Throw some money in if you can. I did. We're all we have. gofund.me/4df4cf2cd
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Donate to Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!, organized by Jonathan Rochkind
Our friend Des Revol has been wrongly arrested and convicted over a b… Jonathan Rochkind needs your support for Get Artist Des Revol Help with His Legal Case!
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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The State vs. the Emma Goldman Book Club | Sara Van Horn
The prosecutorial strategy is a puerile one: completely overwhelm the jury with unrelated images of leftist protest—for ten full days!—and then hope for guilt by association.
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Phil Chamberlain @philchamberlain.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
#spycops officer Andy Coles deceived a vulnerable 19-yr-old into a relationship to provide cover to infiltrate protest groups. The wannabe Tory Cllr just got beat by the Greens #karma
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Netpol @netpol.org · 30/04/2026
General practice is for the Attorney General to bring contempt proceedings unless immediate action is necessary. Left unsaid is the likelihood that AG Richard Hermer wouldn't have wanted the political controversy of prosecuting a fellow Kings Counsel for a closing speech in a Palestine Action case
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Netpol @netpol.org · 30/04/2026
The barrister for the defendant is arguing it is drastic and unprecedented for a judge in a Crown Court to refer an alleged contempt to the High Court, rather than deal with it immediately or refer it to the Attorney General to consider
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Netpol @netpol.org · 30/04/2026
We're here at the Royal Courts of Justice. Both the court and the overflow are full. If ever a secretive trial was more deserving of the 'Streisand effect', it's this one.
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
It's a great edition and my youngster has been loving reading through it 😎
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2000 AD Comics @2000ad.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Leo Baxendale’s “Mervyn’s Monsters” is Now Available to Pre-Order! Get all the details here ▶️ bit.ly/3OXqiFD
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Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Coming soon! Premiere: Saturday 4th April, 9:05pm THAT SUMMER (1979) stars #RayWinstone #JulieShipley #TonyLondon #StephanieCole British drama #TPTVsubtitles
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That Summer! Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Perhaps the most gruesome day yet at the #spycops public inquiry as 'Maya' describes the intense misogynistic abuse she suffered from officer HN18 Robert Hastings. Here's a summary during the afternoon break. Hastings will give evidence himself next week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_MN...
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Spycops inquiry reaction: afternoon of 18 Mar 2026 - 'Maya' evidence
YouTube video by Cops Campaign
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Instant reaction at the end of a harrowing day at the Undercover Policing Inquiry as 'Maya' talks about appalling abuse inflicted by #spycops officer HN18 Robert Hastings who deceived her into a relationship in the 2000s & reappeared in her life after the inquiry was announced youtu.be/BdPUL_R7iis
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Spycops inquiry reaction: end of 18 Mar 2026 - 'Maya' evidence
YouTube video by Cops Campaign
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social TLIO is getting mentions in the #spycops inquiry due to undercover officer HN3 ‘Jason Bishop’ reporting on 1999 Diggers event: x.com/copscampaign... May be crossposted here by @copscampaign.bsky.social soon.
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COPS on X: "@ucpinquiry @tombfowler @bristolnoborder @UndercoverNet @PeterSalmon7 @metpoliceuk The earliest report the Inquiry has found is dated 5th March 1999. HN3 attended an event commemorating the anniversary of the Diggers (which included an attempted occupation at St George’s Hill near Weybridge, organised by The Land is Ours). #soycops" / X
@ucpinquiry @tombfowler @bristolnoborder @UndercoverNet @PeterSalmon7 @metpoliceuk The earliest report the Inquiry has found is dated 5th March 1999. HN3 attended an event commemorating the anniversary of the Diggers (which included an attempted occupation at St George’s Hill near Weybridge, organised by The Land is Ours). #soycops
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Matt Salusbury 🇳🇱 @mattsalusbury.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Roger Geffen in closing remarks notes that ahead of Mayday 2000, "police concocted opportunities to raid the homes of 10 people in RTS" (raids based on evidence provided by Boyling,) to prevent leaflets going out explaining the aims of the action. #spycops
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Just out - our long-read report on #spycops officer James Thomson at the Undercover Policing Inquiry. He not only deceived women into relationships, he deceived bosses too. His deviousness is matched by his cruelty & inability to feel remorse campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/02/05/u...
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UCPI Daily Report, 5-10 Nov 2025: James Thomson evidence
Long-read summary of spycop James Thomson's appearance at the Undercover Policing Inquiry - 3 days documenting abuse and lies, and no remorse
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Veggies Catering Campaign 🌱 @veggiesnottm.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Updated link to hear 'Alison", one of the women from the ITVX Documentary 'The Undercover Policing Scandal' Women's Hour at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Follow the #spycops Inquiry via the links at sumac.org.uk/event/spycop... Including link to ITVX documentary from Police Spies Out of Lives
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Woman's Hour - Undercover Police Inquiry, Anne Boleyn, The Puppini Sisters, Cyber voyeurism - BBC Sounds
We hear from one of the women giving evidence to the Undercover Police Inquiry.
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Another happy Christmas for this book-loving present-receiver! Yuletide blessings to @mikeowencarroll.bsky.social and all the other authors bringing joy to readers old & young 🫡
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Netpol @netpol.org · 02/12/2025
The Metropolitan Police throughout the #spycops deployment period was widely known as contemptuous of the everyday racist harassment of Black communities. The undercover unit spying on the Lawrences and other justice campaigns reflected the force it was a part of www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Two Met officers running spycops unit were ‘incredibly racist’, inquiry told
Undercover unit monitored Stephen Lawrence’s family, as well as thousands of mainly leftwing political activists
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Tom's joined by Kate Wilson, author of Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files which tells the jaw-dropping story of her 10 year legal battle that got 1000s of secret police files released & the whole #spycops operation declared unlawful www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
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Disclosure
'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN 'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING' STUART JEFFRIES, OBSERVER 'It w...
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Instant reaction to the emotional end of Doreen Lawrence being questioned at the Undercover Policing Inquiry today. 32 years since her son was murdered she's still seeking the truth, trying to find out how much her campaign for justice has been stymied by the police www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVQ...
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Spycops inquiry reaction: end of 20 Nov 2025 - Doreen Lawrence evidence
YouTube video by Cops Campaign
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Undercover policeman ‘Dave Hagan’ HN81 spied on the family of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence & those around them, to protect the reputation of the Met Police. Yet he refuses to give evidence before the #spycops inquiry. JUDGE MITTING MUST CALL HN81 TO THE INQUIRY!
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Netpol @netpol.org · 19/11/2025
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestinian cause tribunemag.co.uk/2025/11/pale...
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Palestine Solidarity Behind Bars
On the one-year anniversary of being jailed for vandalising an Israeli arms factory, political prisoner Aleks Herbich writes that state repression has only strengthened her commitment to the Palestini...
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rob evans @robevansgdn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The mother of Stephen Lawrence is pressing for the “cowardly” undercover police officer who spied on her family’s campaign for justice to be questioned at #spycops public inquiry. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
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rob evans @robevansgdn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
The #spycops inquiry has previously ruled that the undercover officer, David Hagan, was too ill to give live evidence, after submissions by his lawyers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
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rob evans @robevansgdn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Hagan was told by his superiors that his surveillance reports were being sent directly to Sir Paul Condon, the then Metropolitan police commissioner and now a peer, who congratulated him on his “excellent” work, the #spycops inquiry has heard. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Doreen Lawrence calls for ‘cowardly’ undercover officer to face public inquiry
Mother of murdered teenager to challenge ruling that David Hagan is too ill to give live evidence at spycops inquiry
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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We wrote a detailed summary of Kate Wilson's landmark #spycops court case, it's in two parts starting here: (@copscampaign.bsky.social)
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Kate Wilson was deceived into a relationship by #spycops officer Mark Kennedy. The courts ruled the entire political spying operation unlawful. She's written a book, Disclosure: Unravelling the Spycops Files & is doing a speaking tour in Nov/Dec 🧵 www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/kate-...
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Disclosure
'GRIPPING . . . DISTURBING . . . INVIGORATING' OLIVIA LAING, GUARDIAN 'ASTOUNDING . . . DEVASTATING . . . COMPELLING' STUART JEFFRIES, OBSERVER 'It w...
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Police Spies Out Of Lives @spiesoutoflives.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Thank you @cwunews.bsky.social for inviting us to speak about #spycops at your #equalities conference today, and for your support & solidarity.
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
The new #spycops inquiry hearings will hear from Doreen Lawrence who says that not only did officers spy on her grieving family but that it was sanctioned by the Home Office. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Doreen Lawrence alleges Home Office was involved in Met spying on family
‘Egregious’ police surveillance was sanctioned by government department, mother of Stephen Lawrence tells inquiry
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The #SpyCopsBot @spycopsbot.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
In 1987 Winston Silcott, along with Mark Braithwait and Engin Raghip, was convicted of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock. their convictions were quashed in 1991 #spycops (@tombfowler.bsky.social)
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Veggies Catering Campaign @veggies.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
Tom Fowler has done a short recap of Monday at #spycops inquiry. A surprising change of tone from Met Police lawyer; apologizing, admitting wrongdoing and how the managers had failed. The Home Office lawyer claimed new codes & safeguards in place in 2000, shifting responsibility for previous […]
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 11/10/2025
#OtD 11 Oct 1946 the UK govt announced that 39,535 people were squatting in 1038 military camps across England and Wales. Many were ex-servicemen's families demanding housing after WWII, and eventually a forced the govt to build mass council housing stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8350...
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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
“Drawing on unpublished first-hand accounts, this is a gripping history of the experiences of the Commandos and their unsung allies in one of the bloodiest battles of the Burma Campaign.” bookshop.org/p/books/jung...
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Jungle Commandos: The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
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Unofficial Guardian (UK) Bot @guardian-uk-rss.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Demand the Impossible review – powerful punk rage at injustices of police violence and spycops scandal
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Demand the Impossible review – powerful punk rage at injustices of police violence and spycops scandal
Everyday oppression is explored through the narratives of a Black Lives Matter activist, a blacklisted construction worker and an environmental campaigner
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Just received my copy of 'Jungle Commandos' by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson - looking forward to digging into this long-needed account of the hellish Battle of Arakan and getting some sense of what those there endured. @lmbd1418.bsky.social
Copy of 'Jungle Commandos' by Lucy Betteridge-Dyson plus framed photo of veterans at the Commando Memorial in Lochaber
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
@alexdecampi.bsky.social @andiewington.bsky.social @rhi.bsky.social @calumalexanderwatt.bsky.social I think he likes it 🤣
Kid pisses himself laughing as he reads 'Campaigns & Companions' by Andi Ewington, Rhiannon Pratchett, Calum Alexander Watt & Alex De Campi
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Review by Steve Holland of ‘Irish Conflict in Comics’ by James Bacon - looks fascinating! bearalley.blogspot.com/2025/08/iris...
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Irish Conflict in Comics by James Bacon
There are very few studies of historical events as they are portrayed through comics. An introduction may tackle the origins of individual c...
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COPS campaign @copscampaign.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Catching up on our summaries of #spycops public inquiry hearings, we've just published the day they heard from Liz Fuller who was deceived into a long-term relationship by officer HN1 'Matt Rayner' in the early 1990s campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2025/08/06/u...
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UCPI – Daily Report: 14 January 2025 - Liz (Denise) Fuller
The Undercover Policing Inquiry hears from Liz Fuller who was deceived into a relationship by spycop HN1 'Matt Rayner' in the early 1990s
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
@mikeowencarroll.bsky.social Another satisfied reader 🫡
A young reader chugs from a bottle of orange juice whilst avidly devouring 'Rico Dredd: The Titan Years' by Michael Carroll
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Matthias Monroy @matthimon.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
‘So that attention does not diminish’: Members from three German parties visit Maja T. in custody in #Hungary. They return with information and demands. digit.site36.net/2025/07/22/s...
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‘So that attention does not diminish’: Members from three German parties visit Maja T. in Hungarian custody | Matthias Monroy
Three members of the Bundestag visited anti-fascist Maja T., who is being held in Hungary. They are calling for a political reappraisal and her return to Germany. An inter-party delegation of three…
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
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BristleKRS @bristlekrs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Just spotted that Rebellion is reprinting the Don Lawrence historical epic Maroc The Mighty! Not seen it since it got a cheap airing in the mid-80s in the Eagle Picture Library - even with watered-down ink and on newsprint the art jumped off the page 👍 2000ad.com/news/out-now...
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Out Now: Don Lawrence's Maroc The Mighty Brings Thirteenth-Century Action! | 2000 AD
Originally serialised in Lion, Maroc the Mighty is a action-packed adventure story about a thirteenth century superhero! During the Crusades in the Holy Land, an English yeoman, John Maroc, came into ...
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