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Mike Harding

@churchcat.bsky.social
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Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk

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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Fair point
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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🎃 Brand new work to celebrate it being October! 🎃 ‘Halloween in the Suburbs’. Black pen and acrylic inks on off white paper. Unsigned Giclee Prints: £50 +P&P Signed Giclee Prints: £70 +P&P Illustration size: A4 Email Nick at: nicktankardart@gmail.com 🎃👻
An illustration of a small old wooden house with a little porch. Its windows are illuminated by the light within. The house sits on a street in suburban America, it is Halloween. The neighbourhood is active with spooky goings on, ghosts in white sheets on the street and in the windows of the house, mummies amble about, glowing pumpkins on the sidewalk and porch. A black cat strolls in front of the house, a black crow sits on top of the little house. On the porch a little witch with her black dress, broom and crooked hat knocks on the door, trick or treating? Going to a party? Or an unwanted guest? 
The illustration is done in black crosshatch pen on white paper, the pumpkins are orange with yellow glowing eyes in stark contrast to the black & white. Whimsical and celebratory…Halloween in the Suburbs!
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
RIP my pal of many years, Bob Davenport. I am away from home at the moment but this is something I wrote for the Folk Music Hall Of Fame way back when. Love and hugs to Katherine, Rio, Sadie and Ritchie and and all Bob’s family and friends mikehardingfolkshow.com/hof-intro/ho...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What’s your legacy Johnson? Brexit. Total collapse of trust in politics. And this. The small boats symbolise your dishonesty and your failure. You’re responsible for nothing but damage. Not one good thing. Not one proud moment. You’re forever a shameful disgrace who threw his own mandate in the bin.
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It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate from the people. He has no real ideas, and no plan.
BORIS JOHNSON: UK is defenceless against migrants without...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
SHACKLE HIM
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The lunatics have taken over in the USA. From the Pilgrim Fathers to Billy Graham to this 100% Barker. America unless you do something soon you can kiss your M F arse goodbye.
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Doctor Of Music @doctorofmusic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Here you go George. With thanks for the good work which you do ;-)
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Coffee on keyboard moment
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't listen to the Today programme anymore but posters who do are furious about the attempts to compare Union member donations with 2 billionaires donations. Farage has said he'll ban Union donations to Labour if the £72m had to be returned. Today allowing Farage to set the agenda again.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What a brilliant human being. Fight back - thats all we can do.
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Nick Tankard @nicktankard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Journey North from The Woman in Black. Unpublished original handmade artwork. £200 (ruddy bargain) Image size: A4 Email me at: nicktankardart@gmail.com
A black pen and printmaking ink Illustration on off white paper of a steam train and its carriages making their way along a track in a bleak, flat and featureless landscape. It is dusk and the lights are on in the carriages, steam erupts from the sides of the engine. A patchwork of farm fields surround the track, a narrow gully of water sits beneath the slightly elevated line. A leafless and lifeless tree rises from one of the foreground fields. A hint of a wood or darkness on the horizon in the distance. Moody and atmospheric.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Excellnt
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I may have received £72 million, but at least I wasn't given a pair of glasses and some football tickets.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here come The Black Shorts led by a toff doing a Tommy Robbingsod impersonation.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The UK government ceasing automatically to support almost anything the government of Israel does is a major shift. The next step should be to rescind the ban on #PalestineAction, to stop treating protesters as terrorists, and to acknowledge that those seeking to disrupt a genocide may have a point.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
But first we will invade Poland
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How they fixed Trump’s “wounded” ear? Fuck all you can do about his heart.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“DOGE famously used keyword searches for terms like "climate" to terminate federal grants. Among the victims: a collab between USAID and NASA for flood prediction, early warning, disaster readiness, glacier inventories, and mapping dangerous glacial lakes in Nepal.” So Musk could be partly to blame.
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm not a conspiracy guy. I generally believe things happened just as they looked. But, being ex-military and working with weapons, I've yet to hear an explanation for how Bone Spurs was hit in the ear with a high-velocity rifle round and ended up with nary a scratch or a scar. It doesn't happen.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I wonder would it build me one if I asked it nicely? Bit bigger mind.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world is full of remarkable women that manage to tun a home, bring up kids and do really good stuff. That more than counters the Melanias of this world. IMHO
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Yarwanaw @yarwanaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
PRIORITIES MATTER 💙
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
substack.com/@churchcat72...
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Chips For The Baby
A work in progress (possibly for Vol 6 of the short story books.)
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
True. He’s wasted our money and time to save his lizard skin. We, the people pay for elections. This one will have cost about 1/4 of a million. The man is loathsome. Only Good thing ? A cosmic rubbish bin got almost 1/2 the votes the lizard got. He calls it a victory.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
It was Count Binface’s best-ever result at a parliamentary election.
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I know I've got a special bottle set aside for the occasion. 🎉
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Vol 4 - Sahib Stories is ready for final edits and will be published Oct. Meanwhile we’ ve just had another stack of the first three vols reprinted. Signed copies available from the website.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you don't get the A-level grades you wanted, just remember that Richard Tice got an E in his Politics and maths A-Levels and still went on to be an entitled prick who thinks he should be Chancellor.
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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
'mon Clacton, do it for the galaxy! #votebinface
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
How come Bluesky has become so difficult to use. I try to post an image here and the whole thing freezes and I have to crash out. I’ve wasted half an hour just trying to post one image.
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Karen @valkyriekaren.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I really rankle at the assumption that everyone is using it on a daily basis, and is so addicted they wouldn't be able to function without it.
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mary @roughrider994.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I love this poem and this is One of the most beautiful versions i have ever seen. Every good bookshop should stock it
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Happy Yorkshire Day Everybody
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Wonderful
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Amen. What a woman.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“I thought we ordered the fish n chips!”
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I love Larry The Cat and Sarah Murphy. Great team.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Got my postal vote in early - time Farage went out with the garbage.
Mike Harding in a Count Binface teeshirt
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The Grove Bookshop, Ilkley, Yorkshire took delivery of the first 3 books of tales - I think they do mail order - but if you’re close enough to go to Ilkley then do visit the shop - it’s seriously lovely - copies also available at The Portico Library Shop Manchester and Limestone Books, Settle.
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Quiet Riot @quietriotpod.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
“If I drive drunk down the road, I can't then say: Tell you what, instead of appearing before a magistrate, I'll stand for councillor instead and let the people of Bermondsey decide if I am innocent. That's not how any of this f*****g works. You don't get to use popularity as a form of acquittal.”
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Boom!
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hello America. Your president’s brain is not missing. It was never there.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Blatant lobbying, not for the sake of our country, but for the fossil fuel industry, in which almost all the ultrarich - including, in all likelihood, the proprietors of these newspapers - are heavily invested. These people are not and never will be your friends. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...
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Analysis: UK newspapers have already printed 63 editorials in 2026 backing North Sea drilling  - Carbon Brief
UK newspapers have already published 63 editorials this year calling for more oil and gas extraction in the North Sea, according to Carbon Brief analysis.
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TRG @q4nwspunk.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Ever the relentless liars….
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