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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Newcastle. Never change! You Must admit it's a great view that bit tho.

Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A group of people got together and thought 'What can we do to get clicks'. Social media is the cause of so much that is wrong with the world.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Takes some chutzpah to talk about the damage caused by press intrusion on the Duke and Duchess Sussex whilst having your book serialised in the Daily Mail.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Really, really stays with you, when those caring for you at your most vulnerable are uncaring. A betrayal of trust.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You could FOI numbers of parking complaints registered with local authorities, or numbers of Traffic Regulation Orders (double yellow lines) implemented - sorry to LA colleagues cursing me for another FOI.

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I also find the framing in the media of “are you pro-Israel or pro-Palestine” infuriating and contributing to polarisation I’m pro humanity, I’m pro peace - I’m pro Palestinian life, I’m pro Israeli life, I’m pro preserving human life This isn’t a game, this is people’s lives

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Going to be a warm one, gorgeous sunny day hereabouts.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I rarely watch TV these days, partly because turning it on is such an ordeal. I miss the times when you turned on a machine and it just worked.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yeh, my eldest was born that week. It's been 19 years. I vividly remember those scenes as I adjusted to motherhood.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Pretty much everyone working in the public sector has been hoping for the opposite for most of that time, more urgently so as time has gone on. Friend just left front line policing as it was 'down to the bone marrow'.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Just ahead of the curve, we had fires in Manchester ages ago. It turned cold this morning (18 degrees). It was way, way too hot this week. I'm thinking Northumberland might be the future.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

That I didn't take in. I was too busy thinking is this REALLY where we are! 🤣 But I guess politics is about reaching people and I am just old! Apparently Andy Burnham is very popular on Tik Tok.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

My eldest was showing me the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ranking pub snacks on Tik Tok, feels like there's a new kind of popularism in town!

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

As an immigrant to Manchester, this is *exactly* the kind of Manchesterism the rest of the country deserves. Endless rain.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

💯 this, as someone from near Newcastle who lives in Manchester and travels between a lot. This was my favourite recent 'Manchester is not the North' take in the Newcastle Chronicle.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

If you look at the demographic bump of people hitting very old age (ie likely needing care) soon it's a huge issue that no one is talking about. More than 75% of Stockport Council's goes on supporting vulnerable people.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Is this before 'The Northern Way?' Which is just on the edge of my memory?

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Took this a year ago, I think it's a photo which perfectly captured the #Manchester zeitgeist.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Summer in the city

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The view from Peel Tower today, with smoke from the moor fires drifting towards #Manchester.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Tbf they were just raising thst with the Count in his Newsnight interview.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

There's a bar chart, courtesy of: www.facebook.com/share/14hP4M...

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Yeh, me neither. Was reminiscing about the guy last time whose campaign leaflet featured Greater Manchester statues.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

One of the most important issues facing the country right now, not that you'd know, as the proportion of local government budget that goes into care edges up each year leaving less and less for libraries etc.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I'm really not sure they've thought this through. It is decidedly NOT a popular policy with my 13 yo and they're planning to give him the vote at the next election. 🤣

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

This comment is attracting more interest that expected! Online madness is actually a subject I actually wrote a blog on following the recent local elections. www.healdgreenratepayers.org.uk/councillor-b...

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Feels a lot higher from what I see.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

No, it was actually a very interesting and knowledgeable person from a local support group I was talking to in the course of work.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Maybe it's the sunshine and the heat. A friend in police always dislikes hot weather as it's when riots start.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Pretty confident that the racism is orchestrated, deliberately influenced on social media, from what I see on Facebook. No party is pushing back on any of it or creating a positive alternative narrative so it is becoming entrenched. This is driving the narrative social media needs regulation.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Appreciate the bit about east-west links. Remember when the Olympic Torch was going from Bolton to Wigan it took so long I thought it had got lost until someone explained how bad the roads are.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Now you have the world at your fingertips, and for some their neurons aren't ready for that. It's an environment built to provoke anxiety that, for many neurodiverse people it seems to be the overwhelming issue.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

It's not people who have changed, it's modern life. Back in the day people worked in mills and factories, everyone knew everyone you went to town at the weekend. Life was slower and predictable. You didn't have to self service everything online. You didn't need interpersonal skills.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

You've missed the BIG story in Stockport last night. Heald Green Ratepayers Association won Heald Green ward again, they have won every election since 1929.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Watching the sun set over Manchester from White Nancy

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The Rat Inn is getting absolutely shredded on the local 'Hexham Matters' Facebook page, from people of all political persuasions.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

As a local councillor I have to fact check every social media post I make, I know there will be uproar if I get a single tiny fact wrong. That's the world we live in. To write a highly contentious book without fact checking at all is 'brave'.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

On the plus side I'd be feeling *a lot less worried* if I lived in Greenland rn.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Never understood the attraction of Dubai. I do now.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Whilst the economic back drop has been bad for the last 18 years, is it also the online age which draws politicians into worrying about how stuff plays out above actual delivery? Which is a self fulfilling downward spiral?

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

😬 I'm sensing more than a little schadenfreude here!

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

It kind of felt like safeguarding territory, he'd been knocking back the Kool Aid,in trebles.

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Catherine Stuart @catty8.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Chatting to a guy recently telling me how the £ & $ were absolutely doomed, the end is nigh, they were failing soon, as there was 'Nothing to sustain them,' etc and he was putting all his savings in crypto. It was a bit like talking to a member of a cult.

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