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Chris Read

@christophe-read.bsky.social
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Labour leader, Rotherham MBC. Deputy Mayor of South Yorkshire. Swinton Rockingham ward councillor. Building a better borough, one day at a time. www.chrisread.uk

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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A welcome boost to our local food network: www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/people/...
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£222K boost to provide better access to healthier food options
£222K boost to provide better access to healthier food options
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
John Healey to use Rotherham as blueprint for reindustrialising Britain www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politic...
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John Healey to use Rotherham as blueprint for reindustrialising Britain
South Yorkshire MP John Healey used Rotherham as the backbone for his speech as Chancellor at Labour Party Conference.
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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Meanwhile, on Facebook
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Lee Dixon’s commentary - an endless list of “lots to be proud of”s - as England lose to the team nominally ranked two places above them says a lot about our mentality. As if he’s encouraging the under 11s rather than supposedly serious contenders to be the best in the world.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A little culture at the kiln, courtesy of Flux Rotherham this afternoon - 200 years after it ceased production.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What is a financial therapist?
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Cog to Gear @cogtogear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Profound - and a beautiful piece of writing from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The makers of the 7 Up series set out to prove a point about class. What they achieved is far more profound | Jonathan Freedland
The epic documentary series reveals much about the shifting social attitudes of the last 60 years – and much more about the quiet mystery of human life, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The debate (in as much as there is one), like the institutions, will take time to mature - to say the least.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
British capitalism doing its thing. www.rothbiz.co.uk/2026/09/news...
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News: At £631.7m, Harworth agrees to Peel deal
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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ChatGPT "advised Van Rootselaar to always frame her content as fictional or hypothetical in order to “never get flagged again” by OpenAI’s moderation systems. “Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT said, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.”"
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Local plan processes are invariably awful, but this is a wilful misunderstanding from Sheffield campaigners: "…this is Sheffield's plan, not the inspectors' or the government's…” www.thestar.co.uk/news/politic...
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Council leader asks for government rethink on controversial green belt housing plan
“But this is Sheffield's plan, not the inspectors' or the government's, and Coun Belbin is accountable for it”
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“English” is an “ethnicity” in the same way that being right handed is music and speaking with short vowel sounds is maths. Yorkshire is godliness, obviously.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Swinton public realm works are set to complete next week so Gina and I did a late check this morning. Last bits to go but it’s looking good!
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
something has gone very, very wrong with the UK
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This was the most bizarre thing: www.thestar.co.uk/news/courts/...
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Woman admits stealing more than £40,000 from parish councils in South Yorkshire
She stole tens of thousands of pounds over the course of four years
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Debra Rotherfed @debrarotherfed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Got an idea to improve your home or neighbourhood? 🏠 Any RMBC tenant can suggest an issue for the Tenant Scrutiny Panel to explore. Previous reviews include ASB and repairs. Have your say and submit your idea: bit.ly/4uKFN2O
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
FT asking the big questions here - could Anthropic maintain its growth trajectory if AI destroys humanity? www.ft.com/content/96d0...
Investors are questioning whether
Anthropic can sustain its extraordinary growth as competition, price-sensitive customers and the potential for Al to destroy humanity cloud its blockbuster IPO.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A good first step should be a visit of the King to show support. Then the PM, then every member of the Portsmouth squad.
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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
While Piddington dominates the news, at Leicester Crown Court this man was sentenced today Ivan Jennings, a former Conservative councillor, called for terror attacks on small boat migrants and Muslims and shared target ideas, telling fellow white supremacists to kill as many “subhumans” as possible
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
More details will emerge in time I suspect, but great news about the expansion of McLaren today (complete with correct location!) @henrimurison.bsky.social www.thestar.co.uk/business/sup...
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Supercar company to invest £40m and create 300 jobs in South Yorkshire
A new range of luxury models and its first SUV are planned
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Guardian having a classic Rotherham day. Iffy stats on NEETS? Oh Rotherham. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Revealed: the UK towns with the fewest jobs for young people
Rotherham has 46 online vacancies for every 1,000 young people but there are 288 in Cotswold district council area
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fran Belbin, Oliver Coppard and I welcomed the Steel Minister, Blair McDougall MP to Speciality Steel at Parkgate this morning following the government’s announcement that puts public ownership on the table yesterday.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Steel workers in Rotherham and across South Yorkshire have shown remarkable resilience through a prolonged period of uncertainty. They deserve a sustainable plan that gives them confidence in the future. Today’s government announcement begins to give them that. www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Government moves to acquire Speciality Steel UK
The Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds has today announced the Government will work towards the public acquisition of Speciality Steel UK (SSUK).
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🚨 So many warning lights flashing in the world now.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Given that this policy is designed to deprive me of whatever advantages poshness might have conferred on me, I don’t expect my views on the matter to be taken seriously.” Good.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The biggest Ponzi scheme in history is now trying to buy British politics.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the kind of nonsense the internet is for. www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/news/controv...
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A controversial website ranks MPs by their sexiness - here's how Doncaster's fare
The website lists scores for all of the country’s MPs
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’ But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...
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Reform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors said
Ben Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Must just be a coincidence that two of Reform's main donors have been convicted of money laundering related offences (Delo and George Cottrell).
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Risks?!!
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Bridget Phillipson MP @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Governments have rightly looked at how race, sex and disability affect people’s lives. It’s time we looked at the impact of class too. When inequality of any kind holds people back and limits life chances, it's Labour's job to tackle it. www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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Ministers to put white working-class people in UK at heart of new equalities unit
Bridget Phillipson to announce creation of unit which will make class a key part of its equalities agenda
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Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Delighted our Social Housing Bill passed its Second Reading this week. At its heart are radical reforms to the Right to Buy to protect precious social rented homes and incentivise the building of more of them. The Bill also gives greater protections to tenants who are victims of domestic abuse.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Britain’s Forgotten Girls on BBC2 followed by the #C4Dispatches on Tommy Robinson is a bleak reminder of the misery of exploitation. Starting with London survivors told their abuse didn’t count because their abusers weren’t Asian (+ the usual police guff) thru to Robinson using a secretly recorded
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Phew.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Rotherham is a striking lesson in growth for the rest of Britain www.thetimes.com/article/c41f...
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Rotherham is a striking lesson in growth for the rest of Britain
The town’s Advanced Manufacturing Park shows how scaling up and spreading economic development much more widely is what Britain needs
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
England's young people performing esp well, putting UK in the top ten for maths, reading and science. One driver of bucking trend is better integration: closing white/minority attainment gap for children of migrants, where west European countries lag www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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England’s teenagers outperform peers in most countries in maths, reading and science
OECD test sees results dip in almost all member nations and warns of ‘digital distractions’ eroding academic skills
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Some nice pictures from the weekend: www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/wwwroth...
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Thousands flocked to the park for the borough's free cultural festival
Organised by Rotherham Borough Council and partners, the event celebrated everything that makes the borough special and the communities that make it thrive.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Will the AfD winning in Saxony-Anhalt I've taken the paywall off the post I wrote last year about how memories of WW2 are being distorted by them and other radical right parties. "Never again?" samf.substack.com/p/never-agai...
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Never again?
Memory entrepreneurship and the radical right’s assault on the postwar order
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Wild that his defence is “you can’t expect me to listen when people are talking”
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Did someone say it was #RotherhamShow weekend?
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It has been a bad day for Nigel.
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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CJ The West Wing: I Did!
ALT: CJ The West Wing: I Did!
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is absolutely correct and part of a pattern that shows the UK media are no better prepared than their American counterparts were a decade ago.
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John O’Shea @politicalhackuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Where we're going, you don't need human rights, is Farage's message. Looking at how judges are appointed, threatening to sweep clean the civil service - all of this should send a chill down the spine. We've seen this before and it doesn't ever end well.
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🧵1/ I worked in anti-corruption for years before becoming an MP. Nigel Farage has serious questions to answer following the undercover investigation into Reform UK's fundraising practices. This is now for the police and donations watchdog to resolve, but here is what I want to know:
theguardian.com
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 News shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/09/2026
Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
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Reform officials ‘plotted to break law on foreign donations’ in undercover film
Investigation broadcast by Channel 4 shows man posing as ‘impermissible donor’ paying for polling that helped Reform Nigel Farage is facing fresh criticism on the eve of the Reform UK party conference after some of his team were filmed appearing to plot to avoid electoral laws on foreign donations in an undercover investigation broadcast by Channel 4. A group of investigative journalists called Verbatim, funded by the Centre for Climate Reporting, posed as a potential Reform supporter and his wealthy American father, an impermissible donor, who paid for £30,000 of polling commissioned by Reform and which benefited the party. Continue reading...
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Chris Read @christophe-read.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So they wave our flag and conspire with foreign interests to undermine our country.
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