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Chris Darlaston

@cdarl67.bsky.social
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Anti fascist,anti racist,anti imperialist,Bennite Socialist. Husband,father,grandfather and Aston Villa season ticket holder. Proud of my Irish roots!

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Emma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The ability of politicians and media commentators to rewrite even very recent history is something to behold - even when the actual receipts are everywhere. As Saul says, destroying Corbyn was the main priority, inside and outside the Labour Party.
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Emma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I don't know who is more contemptible, the so-called Labour party, or the people who perpetuate it whilst lecturing us about how it will be different this time.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Only Marmite for those who don't care that she dismissed & covered up child sex abuse on her watch, that she smeared socialism & weaponised fake anti-semitism to protect her lower tax rate. Hell has a penthouse prepared for this one. 🤮 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘I am seen as a Marmite figure’: Margaret Hodge on political battles, victories, errors – and regrets
At 82, the politician and anti-corruption champion is indefatigable. She discusses fighting the BNP, tackling antisemitism, and why, with her new memoir, she’s reclaiming the word ‘battleaxe’
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Andy Burnham is just Tony Blair. Big promises, carefully planned speeches, lots of hot air. While behind the scenes everything continues on exactly as Margaret Thatcher started in 1979.
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Emma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
To quote Burnham s hero: "I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories And spit upon the name Oliver Cromwell And denounce this royal line That still salute him and will salute him forever"
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The result of Centrism is Fascism. They do nothing to undo the changes that the Right Wing parties make. While they fight the Left Wing parties even harder than the Fascists because the Left Wing might make them pay more tax. Don't support the Centrist drivel.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Left (the many) have always been at war with the Right (the rich few). They have just successfully convinced too many people on the Left that they can't fight because fighting is bad. So instead you'll just have to accept their tyranny forever.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Government bonds are hard to understand, but not that hard, and most of the mystery is spread by the City, which wants to use them as a weapon to deny you what you need from the government. I wrote this infographic. AI drew it, directed by me.
An infographic on government bonds.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This one is important because MMT is. I used AI, among other tools, when creating this post. I also used a word processor and about 50 years of experience writing about these issues. Drawing the infographic was the smallest part, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
An infographic on  modern monetary theory
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Capitalism is just slavery of everyone to a handful of the super rich. Abolish slavery.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Much of what is said about economics is little better than gaslighting.... I used AI tools when writing this post, including a spell checker. I also used 50 years of experience writing about these issues. The drawing was the smallest part of all that, and I had no budget to do it any other way.
An infographic on economic gaslighting
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The thin line between US President policy making satire and reality ... via Arthur Barnes
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Andy Burnham previously called for “aspirational socialism“. Before becoming PM he said for water industry: “Public ownership is absolutely an option ... I would say for Thames Water, that is what should be done.” After becoming PM, it is ‘more public control’. Test coming soon.
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Andy Burnham can’t transform the country while sticking to the current fiscal rules
Sticking to the 2024 election manifesto and fiscal rules will make it harder for him to deliver the headline promises and the change that he has paraded.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
England water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites since May. All water companies have criminal convictions, violated terms of their licence. All defended by govts, allowed to trade, inflict harms.
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Water companies have breached official guidance on discharging sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May
WATER firms discharged more than 100,000 of hours-worth of sewage at 65 popular swimming sites in England since May.Sewage overflow pipes released a total of 117,001 hours between mid-May and July 21,...
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Angela Rayner rules out rent controls in England. Millions can't afford to buy a home. Rents swallow 41% of take-home pay. Social housing sold off by successive govts and is scarce. 1.5m waiting list. Can't deal with the cost of living crisis without ending profiteering.
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Angela Rayner rules out rent controls in England
The housing secretary tells the BBC that the Renters Rights' Act is already having a significant impact on the market.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism? AOC: They want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here
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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Repost @mickydolenz: This month in 1967, @themonkees released “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Written by the extraordinary Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 in the U.K. And somehow, it still feels just as much fun to sing all these years later.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/07... John Healey outlined what he saw as the role of the Treasury in a speech yesterday. It was pure George Osborne. There is no hope for Burnham with Healey in No. 11.
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I had some hopes. John Healey has shattered them
John Healey’s appointment as Chancellor surprised many people, me included. The biggest reason for surprise was that he has no record as an economic thinker. As I noted on Monday evening, he might ha...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I was asked yesterday what neoliberalism is. This is the answer:
An infographic on neoliberalism
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Michael Legel @mjlegel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Absolutely, definitely, not “the Establishment”…
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"Any different to 1940s' Germans?" via Nas Ali
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
If Jeremy Corbyn had taken a dodgy £5 gift he would have faced more scrutiny than Nigel Farage has faced for £5m. Farage cries like a little baby when his outrageous behaviour gets the slightest criticism.
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Chris Darlaston @cdarl67.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Poor old Nige 😂
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This is exactly why we have Pride. Because a few years ago this would have just been a hateful fringe figure - but this is where our politics is heading with a Government that kertows. We will resist. And bring hope (*and* electing progressive politicians.) We will win. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Tommy Robinson - it's about seducing women and cutting off their dicks and breasts. It's not a protest. It's industrial scale child mutilation, chemical castration. Take your queer agenda and fuck right off mate, you weirdo.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
A MI6 document leak has revealed that Peter Mandelson was considered a 'privileged contact' by Russian Spies. Mandelson of course helped smear Jeremy Corbyn as being a 'Russia lover'. They always accuse people of what they are guilty of.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Everything broken in Britain comes from Thatcher. Filthy rivers. Ripoff electricity. Landlords. Trillions in Oil/gas stolen. No Social Housing. All Thatcher's poison.
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Chris Darlaston @cdarl67.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
• UK is now going to open new safe and legal routes for refugees to come to the UK. Tories closed down safe routes to cause the boat crisis to drive voters to the right. Delighted that families will be able to come to the UK and settle into our communities & build a life here
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The Lucky Heron @luckyheronsay.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Good fucking riddance you genocide supporting, Farage enabling loser @Keir_Starmer. Bloody awful Prime Minister, at least Burnham can't be worse.
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Boricuabc2 @boricuabc2.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
THe World Cup has proven one thing. THE PROBLEM with this world IS NOT it citizens its the govt that runs its citizens
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Tory Fibs @toryfibs.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
• Keir Starmer 2019-2026 “His Red Purge caused a Green Surge.”
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Chris Darlaston @cdarl67.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Lovely 2026 season shirt by Galway United FC. A tribute to Eamonn Darcy and his time at the Villa
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Since 1980, under the Thatcherite policies, 2.8m social homes sold, 1.9m in England for £51bn. In 2024, England homes were worth £430bn. Councils didn't receive full sales proceeds, couldn't replenish housing stock. Vital depts closed. Social homes down from 6.8m to 5.4m. Huge housing crisis.
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The housing crisis is manufactured. We can end it.
Wage cuts and the right to buy are to blame
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Emma writes songs ☘️ @emmagee.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The people already radicalised by the likes of Farage have gone- no use debating. The rest of us have to step up, otherwise it's Gilead as @natashadevon.bsky.social says.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The UK is spending £369m refurbishing Buckingham Palace for King Charles, who has £22bn and gets £500m more a year. He can pay for his own renovations, £369m is more than England spends on building Social Housing in an entire year for the whole country.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Henry's brutal murder and the failures of the police have been appalling. His father's words are vital: "We don't want Henry's murder to be used to create further hatred, division or tension."
In a statement outside court, Marks father said "we want to use Henry's heartbreaking story to make change for the better. As the KC for the prosecution summed up in court; this is not a case about Sikhism. This is not a case about racism. This is a case about murder."
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We're not fools. Afghanistan. Iraq. Libya. Syria. Iran. Palestine... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Putin's cabal must be brought to trial for crimes in Ukraine. With this plan, the world can do that | Gordon Brown
A special tribunal akin to Nuremberg will not only force Russia to explain its culpability, it will show how vital it is to uphold international law, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What turned Tony Blair into a neoliberal dinosaur? youtu.be/bq2RYrW2eCo?... The man is now prehistoric in his attitudes, and a threat to us all.
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What turned Tony Blair into a neoliberal dinosaur?
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
What Monbiot is missing, is that The Establishment has no interest in tackling climate crisis. Look at the evidence: the promised Green New Deal is dead in the water; 'grey belt' now allows building on 'green belt', today Blair calls for net zero to be abandoned. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain’s green transition should belong to everyone. Why is Labour so intent on stopping us having our say? | George Monbiot
Tearing up planning and using protest laws to criminalise local people – this isn’t how to build the broad consent needed, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I’ve been reading a lot about the end of the Roman republic recently, and the slide of that empire into imperial monarchy. The stamping of the leader’s face on coins, colossal statues and a reworking of the forum. But even Augustus didn’t build himself a ballroom-fortress.
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Chris Darlaston @cdarl67.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Does anyone have any info on when season tickets will be out for renewal? #AstonVilla
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
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AVDB @avfchistory.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
2. It's on record. AVDB. avdb.co.uk/match-iq #avfc
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Tesco could pay every worker an extra £10,000 and still make a profit. British Gas could pay every worker an extra £35,000 and still make a profit. Shell could pay every worker an extra £300,000 and still make a profit. It is the billionaires who are ripping you off.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Almost zero coverage of the worst anti Muslim hate we have witnessed in the UK in our lifetime. This is deeply concerning and hugely damaging. How the nation responds in these immediate days is vital. A lack of response is the worst possible response.
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