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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social

@cityhobo61.bsky.social
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Cricket, Hull City Far too much politics, wanted Tories out, as they travelled right I drift left! They’ve gone - I’m already calmer!

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Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 5h
Please read this Hope not Hate article.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 22h
This a million times. People of colour being dragged on to debate maniacs about imaginary labels & race science is an abomination. proper ‘how German are you’ Nazi shit Note that people like me with white migrant parentage never asked to defend our identity Englishness. Is. A. Made. Up. Thing
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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 20h
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... What I don’t understand is Ref has an assistant who must have seen Soucek got the ball even if he was too daft himself to notice where ball went! Absurd decision.
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West Ham United v Queens Park Rangers: Follow live text and radio analysis
Follow live text commentary and radio analysis from West Ham v QPR in the Championship.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One other thought - Rubio, Hegseth, Trump etc’s concept of greatness is so narrow- what about medical researchers, scientists, engineers, environmental experts etc finding life saving cures, energy efficient mechanisms, water-saving measures, disease resistant crops etc. Aren’t they today’s heroes?
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202... Nothing to see here, hmmm - doesn’t really explain the pub lunch. If Reform had nothing to hide why didn’t they commission an external independent investigation!!!
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The lack of meaningful analysis is staggering - no reference at all to mess Tories made of prisons when announcing the new build policy. Surely #BBC Licence fee payers deserve better than this - all framed behind a partial headline & snidey comments. (Burnham more popular 'for now') Impatial my !!!
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Suzanne Brown @suzannebrown.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Reform don't get 20-30% of the vote in Tottenham. They got 4%at the last election. The Greens got 19%. Why no Green rep on #bbcqt tonight ? members.parliament.uk/constituency...
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Election result for Tottenham (Constituency) - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament
Shows the election result of the 2024 General Election.
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Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shame on you Ollie Pope, Luke Wood, Moeen Ali, Reece Topley, James Vince, Tom Kohler-Cadmore and Laurie Evans for caring more about the money in your own pockets than the human rights of women and girls. This was a personal choice by you, and you chose wrong.
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England players told to think of 'daughters, sisters or mothers' before committing to Afghanistan Premier League T20 tournament
English cricketers aiming to play in a men's T20 franchise tournament organised by the Afghanistan Cricket Board have been urged to think about their "daughters, sisters or mothers".
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Playing politics rather than preparing to be part of the solution - terrible look for Conservatives. Interested only in power, not remotely interested in serving the people.
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Aye!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
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,

Johnson on X
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every day there is a story about BBC having to make cuts. It's really weird that #Strictly is paying 3 people to do the job of at most 2. Emma Willis is excellent but being prevented from doing the job properly by having an unnecessary, out of place co-presenter next to her. Bizarre
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Brilliant work as ever from Emma, debunking the dishonest, divisive & plain nasty rhetoric of a person who wants to be the next PM. Badenoch so fact free it's frightening & appallingly beneath her role!
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 24/09/2026
We endorse this excellent comment piece by @labourlewis.bsky.social on the glaring integrity gap in Tom Watson’s Palantir appointment. (And not just b/c it links to our reporting. 🙏) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Tom Watson’s move to Palantir is the latest sign of how far the rot has spread in UK politics | Clive Lewis
When a former Labour deputy leader joins a firm built on surveillance and military targeting, it deepens public cynicism – and democracy depends on trust, says Labour MP Clive Lewis
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can anyone explain to me why this article doesn't mention anywhere that small boat crossings are down 42% from last year? That doesn't mean it's not an issue 781 people arrived in one day. But it seems like the sort of context a reputable news source might mention www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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No 'switch' to stop small boats, Lucy Powell tells BBC
Labour's deputy leader was speaking to BBC local radio ahead of the party's annual conference
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/09/2026
🤔 Last night Farage used his GB News slot to again attack Burnham and side with Donald Trump over Chagos. 👇 Sign our petition calling for an investigation into his programme today. bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shouldn’t @lisanandymp.bsky.social be reminding BBC of it’s public service remit which should matter a thousand times more than clicks & impressions!!
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gianni Infantino says he is open to dialogue over FIFA reform www.nytimes.com/athletic/761... I will do this, I will do that what an a@@hole #InfantinoOut
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Gianni Infantino says he is open to dialogue over FIFA reform
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 20/09/2026
Good morning @tomwatsonofficial.bsky.social Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the pay packet is worth it. 💰 Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇
A throwback to Tom Watson’s days as the MP fighting back against Facebook after the Nerve team published the Cambridge Analytica investigation at the Observer 
(Tom’s standing, with investigative reporter Carole Cadwalladr on right and whistleblower Chris Wyler 2nd from left)🏁
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Madame Defarge @labma02.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Does #bbclaurak have an ounce of self-awareness? (rhetorical question) No-one knows about Lib Dem policies because Laura and her MSM colleagues prefer to platform a private company of grifters with a fraction of the MPs the LDs have. “Why aren’t the Lib Dems cutting through?” she asks. Get a mirror.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
If you knew he was abhorant and dangerous but were perfectly happy to let Farage drum up the vote for Brexit because you thought it was the surest route to UK-EFTA or whatever dumb shit you convinced yourself would magically happen, I'm just not that interested in hearing from you in public life.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
Reform UK
Follow
@reformparty_uk
Charities' actions in aiding and abetting the invasion of our country will be illegal under
Reform UK.

Photo of Farage on Gb news
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Credit to @bestforbritain.org … and to @the-independent.com for its pro-EU/anti-Brexit reporting. Good to have some organisations willing to represent us and our shared best interests, rather than those of non-dom billionaires and populist politicians who couldn’t care less. bsky.app/profile/best...
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
So why aren’t Fox & the rest walking out in solidarity & to protect the constitution they swear by & freedom of the press?
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Terrific from @sturdyalex.bsky.social but of course BBC will argue they are right & everybody else is wrong.
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If only @andyburnham.bsky.social & Shabana Mahmood spent half the amount of time listening to the likes of Rachel as they do to legitimising the concerns of the bigots, xenophobes & tools of the far right we might be in a better place as a Country. Rachel is right to label it as a fascist wave
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is pitiful. Allowing the very thing it claims to condemn because it is too cowardly and self-interested to support that which would stop it.
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Every word of this👇from Sam Wake the F up labour & be bold, use your power instead of cowering & appeasing.
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is the type of video UK Labour should’ve put out on their first day in July 2024. Instead they did the opposite & told the xenophobes, racists & haters they had a point or as the vernacular goes had ‘legitimate concerns’. Starmer wasted 2 years on appeasement what is Burnham doing differently?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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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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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This 👇
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It would be more helpful for him to acknowledge and explain the role that his austerity policies played in encouraging people to vote for what he correctly critiques here.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I’m just a person on my fucking knees begging the government to use its absolutely massive majority to do something extremely fucking popular: save our democracy.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Harborne calls his latest bung to Farage a “philanthropic gift to the country”. Philanthropy isn’t funding racists and climate deniers. Or funnelling cash into deregulation and removal of our rights so tax-avoiding billionaires can profiteer from the chaos. That’s just corruption. We don’t want it.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What an arrogantly vile man Harborne is. How patronising to describe his entitled buying up of our democracy as ‘philanthropy’. Get over yourself and go and build some hospitals, fund children out of poverty, eradicate disease… Sticking your grubby wealth in Farage’s pockets can only do us harm.
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Last weekend Kent police described a far-right protest in Dover as "spontaneous". They've now admitted they were warned the night before - likely by a resident of the small village were several hundred men dumped their cars, camped out then boarded vans to Dover: www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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How balaclava-clad activists swarmed a quiet Kentish village
Police failed to follow up on a tip-off before hundreds descended on Preston, using it as a staging post for anti-immigration protests across the south
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two-tier policing. @andyburnham.bsky.social silence on this has been disturbing. Duty to protect citizens must include intimidation. He needs to stop his shambolic ministers justifying fascism through 'legitimate concerns' & lead. PS also f@cked up royally by backing off political donation limits
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is outrageous in and of itself. It's also outrageous that the government isn't doing anything about it. There's a constant political refrain that 'the first duty of government is to protect its citizens'. So do it.
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Sweary Spider @swearyspider.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
On the eve of 9-11, I’m reminded of how Canada stepped up and cleared the skies of 230+ planes from US airspace and landed them in Canada, then hosted the 30,000 or so stranded passengers. It throws into sharp focus how disgusting the recent treatment of Canada by Trump’s government is.
en.wikipedia.org
Operation Yellow Ribbon - Wikipedia
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A failure of policing & intelligence. A Home Sec that appeases the haters, ignores the far right threat & ignores the genuine fear of the decent majority to the intimidation & threatening behaviour of far right mobs. Where is the reaction to our ‘legitimate concerns’ Home Sec, Prime Minister?
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Kate Allen @kateallen.ft.com · 06/09/2026
Police are facing growing questions over how up to 500 masked activists dressed in black brought parts of Dover to a standstill on Saturday. Authorities have been accused of failure to act, intelligence failures and being ‘caught on the hoof’. www.ft.com/content/f244...
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Police face questions over Dover disruption caused by masked protesters
Up to 500 activists dressed in black with their faces covered brought part of UK port town to a standstill on Saturday
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This strikes me as another reason why there should be resignations including from the Home Secretary.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Welcome to WTAF Is Wrong With Roughly One-Third Of People, Episode 4,629
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026
Every time the Labour government does this, it not only suggests that the broad thrust of these direct far-right actions – led by thugs with convictions for violence – are legitimate, they explicitly suggest they are *more* legitimate than left-wing protests. It is as contemptible as it is stupid.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 07/09/2026
If every statement about Extinction Rebellion had opened with "Climate change is the single biggest issue facing humanity, and we understand why people have legitimate concerns the world isn't doing enough to tackle it…" this approach might be *faintly* defensible. But they didn't, and it isn't.
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DavidW@cityhobo61.bsky.social @cityhobo61.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching the Policing & Crime Ministers statement its nauseating how much she & how quickly Philp talks about immigration instead of the issue that frightens most of us - mobs of mask wearing men(they are largely men) taking to our streets to intimidate & threaten. They are out of touch with many!
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