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Train Driver, Union Rep and Dad. Cat feeder and railway modeller. Despises Tories whatever their colour.

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WuzntMe @wuzntme.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Never trust a Tory says Nigel Farage.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Buckingham Palace band playing 9 to 5 for Dolly Parton
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The £10bn stolen in dodgy PPE contracts would have been enough to pay Doctors pay demands for 30 years. But that is too expensive while PPE money can just be forgotten.
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Nation of Stupids @warwickh.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Time to take out the trash! #binface
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cooperdriver.bsky.social @cooperdriver.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
An Iron Road day for me today. The 17.18 from Euston back to Bletchley to finish.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Starmer’s goodbye gift to UK: a £44.7bn US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid. Pushes up the cost of NHS drugs, boosts US corporate profits. Secret contract, no debate in parliament. The next PM must renegotiate, produce drugs at home wherever possible.
theguardian.com
Starmer’s goodbye gift to Britain: a US pharma deal that could be more lethal than Covid | Aditya Chakrabortty
The deal on medicine imports will cost the NHS billions and take funding away from doctors, nurses, cancer scans and the rest, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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hucktooner.bsky.social @hucktooner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
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cooperdriver.bsky.social @cooperdriver.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Annie thinks hot cats of England should be on trend.
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SteveH @sghendricks.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Joe Darkmoon @skulduggery-joe.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
It should be common, in any society, to simply say "I don't care what your holy book says. It has no bearing on my life" and that should be the end of it.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Today's cartoon by Drew Sheneman. "Insurrections don’t happen often here in America, but the guy who led the last one-and subsequently pardoned the participants-wants you to blame Jimmy Kimmel for turning the nation’s politics hostile..."
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Cartoon by Gábor Pápai, a well-known Hungarian political cartoonist.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Maximum monthly State Pension. Luxembourg £5,426 Norway £1,839 Switzerland £1,657 Denmark £1,486 Sweden £1,373 Belgium £1,338 Netherlands £1,322 France £1,254 Spain £1,238 UK £997 Guess which is unaffordable?
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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
…and:
A woman in a confessional: So Christ’s body is the bread?
Priest on the other side of the screen: Yes
Woman: And he rose from the grave?
Priest: Yes…
Woman: Because of the yeast?
Priest: Please leave
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cooperdriver.bsky.social @cooperdriver.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The beautiful scissors buttress in the main nave at Wells Cathedral, Somerset, England.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Government is considering scrapping the NHS-Palantir deal. Do you want Palantir out of the NHS? RT if you do. #PalantirOUT
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Truss—outlasted by a lettuce—rocks up to the MAGA PAC blaming “DEI”, trans people and Muslims for pushing her out of office. Now she wants a Trump-style revolution so Britain becomes a Christian nation with no holidays. Oh, and by the way, she is paid for this crap from public money. #UKPolitics
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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]

From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:

NEWSREADER:

Extraordinary images here 

of an expat in Dubai 

[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]

…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.

[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. 

CLIVE MYRIE:

To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent

DAVID JONES:

Clive, this is momentous

It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.

[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]

You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.

It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.

CLIVE MYRIE:

Which are…?

DAVID JONES:

You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, 
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.

CLIVE MYRIE:

And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?

DAVID JONES:

I think we can expect to see:

“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”

CLIVE MYRIE:

Mmm. 

[Ends]
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Nick Stone @typejunky.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Remember, if the Greens win, you'll have to go Vegan by law, Kittens and puppies will be banned. Zack Polanski will be declared the fifth horseman of the apocalypse. Him and his trusty horse Lentil will usher us into a new twisted era of bean casseroles and having to walk to the shops.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It's Reform Vs the Green Party. Vote for the Green Party. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Labour must search its conscience if Reform wins Gorton and Denton, says Green leader
Zack Polanski says Labour deliberately splitting left vote as voters head to the polls
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Why isn't this a major news story?
Churchwarden linked to
foreign-born billionaire is
behind £200k Reform gift
The man whose firm made the donations will
not discuss where the money came from, nor
his ties to wealthy Farage allies who may not
hold citizenship


Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Editor
Saturday January 31 2026, 8.00pm, The Sunday Times


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A churchwarden from Potters Bar who works
for the family of a highly secretive,
Kazakhstan-born billionaire can be revealed as
the man behind £200,000 of donations to
Reform UK.,


John Richard Simpson is a 59-year-old
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 21/01/2026
What if the push alerts were “Trump stumbles through major speech, not knowing the diff between Iceland/Greenland; rants about political enemies (both real and imagined); as world watches in horror” instead of this?

WaPo
Breaking News

Trump asks for 'immediate negotiations' to acquire Greenland, says he does not intend to use force to gain territory

WSJ
Live Updates
Trump said the U.S. won't use force to take Greenland

NYT
Trump Speech at Davos
President Trump called for immediate talks to acquire Greenland, but said he
"won't use force" to obtain it.
40m ago
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
If you work and you have a job you are taxed. If you don't work, if you 'earn' your money by being a landlord or a stock trader, you pay half the tax or less than people who work do. If you are a CEO, if you own a company, you pay virtually no tax at all. Tax the rich.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago. They lied to courts, parliamentary committees. Postmasters knowingly wrongfully prosecuted, Lives destroyed. Compensation being paid from public purse, none by those who profited from the scandal. No one charged for conspiracy.
bbc.co.uk
Post Office had deal with Fujitsu to fix Horizon errors 19 years ago
The emergence of a document contradicts claims made by the Post Office over bugs in its IT system during criminal prosecutions.
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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cooperdriver.bsky.social @cooperdriver.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ask your local Reform candidate did they back Brexit knowing it would reduce UK GDP by £billions so increasing poverty & unemployment ... "Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party..." via @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social
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Ke Nalu @kenalu.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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PINO FOTUS @pino-fotus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Release the #EpsteinFiles
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Why? Follow the money — @2change.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
This is not real. Feel better?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Funny* isn't that the Media complain about the 15% payrise for Train Drivers over 3 years, or the 22% payrise for Doctors over 3 years. But they ignore the 76% payrise for CEO's over the last 5 years, or the 38% payrise for Bankers in 1 year. *Disgusting
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Amy @amzomac.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
England nationalized rail passenger services lease carriages from rolling stock companies (ROSCOs). 87% of rolling stock controlled by 3 Luxembourg companies. Paid £1.282bn dividends in last 3 yrs. Not taxed in UK. Privatization has hollowed out the UK - Taxes lost, it is all about exploitation.
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If the government wants economic growth it must bring essential industries into public ownership
Successive governments clobber households and small businesses by hiking interest rates to manage inflation, but don’t inconvenience corporations.
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Debby Williams 💙♐️ @dwilliams1210.com · 03/10/2025
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JazzReads📚🏀 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
So exhausting..
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WomenRiseUp2026 @womenriseup2026.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
If you can't get a job, they call you 'a scrounger'. If you get a job and can't make ends meet, they tell you to find a better-paid job. And if you do get a well-paid job, they tell you train drivers earn too much.
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.
Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…
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alexjackson2325.bsky.social @alexjackson2325.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 01/09/2025
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
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More than 250 media outlets protest over Israel murdering Gaza journalists
Media outlets have staged a front page protest to highlight the killings of more than 200 journalists in 22 months.
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VivianOfTheSierras @vivianofthesierras.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Brilliant!
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dls100.bsky.social @dls100.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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cooperdriver.bsky.social @cooperdriver.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The USA should collectively hang it's head in shame at the daily betrayals being conducted by it's Government. Who will ever trust this country again?
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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