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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱

@crooksontherun.bsky.social
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i cook, drink coffee, play tabletop and video games. despairing Labour activist. recovering atlanticist. no, i didn't notice that fucking typo. (he/him)

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
When I say the politics will become increasingly obvious... I mean look at this. If you want to unite the left/centre and split the Tories, without a big spending committment there's no better option.
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Groovy goodies @kokojo66.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
It's like watching Baby's First Factional Meltdown
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Will Reid-Tong @willthong.com · 08/10/2026
As someone who's written these sorts of emails for Labour before: two can play at this game
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Rob B @robbarbour.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Everyone loves Zack Polanski’s Green Party, the hot new left-wing party that absolutely isn’t full of the kind of cranks you spent three years avoiding at University parties! *5 seconds later*
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How ironic: they used the machine to replace the bit that wasn't the problem.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The first thing I've learned at #Lab26 is I should have changed my accommodation. A half-mile walk on a healing ankle is hell in Liverpool.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bay of Pigs' ear
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
To what end?
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
We've put together one competent drive. The scoreline is tied but we are losing this game to penalties and rain. #GoPackGo
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
At least my fantasy teams won.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I don't know what was worse: the O-Line play or the officiating. Either way that 4th quarter is the worst quarter of football I've watched in as long as I can't remember. Our coaches have learned nothing and we have no resilience. Ugh. #FireMLF #GoPackGo
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I knew the jump from the Championship to the Premier League was going to be hard but *fucking hell* #ccfc
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pink jimi photon @pinkjimiphoton.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/08/2026
Come on. This is too much. First Dolly Parton, now Tim Curry. 😞 www.tmz.com/2026/08/26/t...
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Actor Tim Curry Dead at 80
Tim Curry -- the legendary film and TV actor best known for playing Dr. Frank-N-Furter in the cult classic "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" -- has died ... TMZ has learned.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If I had a nickel for every time this week that the Grim Reaper took an 80-year-old public figure with a larger-than-life persona, but not the one we're all waiting for, I'd have two nickels.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If there's such a thing in this world as a genuinely good person, Dolly Parton was it. She rose from humble beginnings to stardom and then she helped people up after her. She made the world a better place.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New Origin Story on Section 28: the law which halted progress on gay rights and drove it into reverse. Nearly every moment in this story - the moral panic, the press hysteria, the bad actors, the political cowardice - resembles what is happening now to trans people.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Do you want to hazard a guess at what this “jaw-dropping” list of freebies included? What luxuries asylum seekers might be being given “for free” in Thetford? Xboxes? Plasma TVs? iPhones? Ferraris? Let's take a look👀 🧵 1/22
Express headline: The jaw-dropping list of everything asylum seekers in Thetford were 'given for free'.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I was stunned and rather dismayed by how many people were responding to this post absolutely convinced that Hasan Piker was correct to claim - with zero evidence - that Israel was behind Moroccan migrants to Ceuta. So I wrote about it. religiondispatches.org/2026/08/07/g...
religiondispatches.org
The Great Agreement: Conspiracy About Israel's Orchestration of Moroccan Migrants Embraced Across the Spectrum
As scholars and experts have often noted, conspiracy theories proliferate when, in the face of a complex situation or event, people are offered easy answers that tend to confirm preexisting beliefs. S...
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
You know what, I'm done with "have your say." The proper governmental response to this outcry is not "okay we won't build it here." It's "oh my God, grow up."
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are we allowed to say 'we told you so' about Kathleen Stock?
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? at least one dead lighter that you don't remember how you acquired
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Just watched a CFL player get thrown out of the game for "embellishment" (flopping). The NFL needs this badly. Mahomes would be tossed from every other game.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
If it's going to cost you the same, you might as well have the device that does more things.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I remain to be persuaded that this will not all end in tears.
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Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk · 30/07/2026
AI company Anthropic secretly bought millions of rare and out-of-print books to train its Claude AI model. They used a hydraulic-powered cutting machine to remove the pages for scanning before destruction.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Building engines for planes.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Okay, it's just an ankle fracture. I'll have to wear a boot for a few weeks. Okay, it's a fibula fracture too. I'll be in a cast a few weeks longer. Okay, I have orthopaedic surgery today. Okay.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Zack Polanski, and the Greens under his leadership, are not ready for primetime, and it is a tragedy that interesting ideas that may improve this country greatly will get lost in the wreckage left behind by this fact.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This sounds like Dan has been at the ket, but read to the end - he's describing adult social care. This system ate every penny my parents had, and their home. Meanwhile my auntie - pretty much the same age and circumstances - paid nothing. It's chaos. I don't have any answer. But somebody must.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
😂 Ouch, I can feel the burn from here.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Well this is a doozy
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Dutch equivalent of Cass, (except it’s a proper scientific review not pseudoscientific drivel like Cass) has wholeheartedly endorsed puberty-blockers and full gender affirming care for young trans people.
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Landmark Official Dutch Review Recommends Trans Youth Care, Call For Expanding Treatment
The review finds that wait times must be shortened, that few people detransition, and that trans youth care has enormous benefits.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In which Darren Jones gives me the political version of The Ick.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
What on earth happened to the notion of a government - any government - doing something, not because of the optics, but because it's the right thing to do?
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
We have to be fucking better than this.
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Sebastian Dobson @sebdobson.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So the same people who didn’t have a problem in 2019 with election literature in Chinese now want to outlaw election literature in Irish, Gaelic, and Cornish?
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
He could do mine a hell of a lot better than I could do his.
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phil 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇱 @crooksontherun.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I think I'm officially middle aged. Last night I slipped down a couple of stairs, and fractured my ankle.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Oh shit. Lindsey Graham died this evening, according to his official Twitter account and his communications director
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So, there is a precedent for vetoing an MP's resignation Viscount Chelsea (Henry Cadogan) applied for the Chiltern Hundreds in 1842 The Chancellor (Goulburn) refused because, get this, Cadogan wanted to resign to obstruct an investigation for bribery h/t @fascinatorfun.bsky.social and @gazhay.com
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"The noble Lord had stated, that it was unusual to refuse the Chiltern Hundreds, except on account of mental incapacity, or where proceedings were pending for the expulsion of the applicants from their seats. In this case, however, the House had decided that compromises had been entered into, which had the effect of obstructing the investigation of bribery; "
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 07/07/2026
Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
On Graham Platner, and why the tattoo should always have been the end of it, and character more broadly in politics: www.ft.com/content/d8f1...
Given the weight and the complexity of the decisions that US Senators make, I consider it useful that they not have a record of flunking the obvious no-brainers, like “should I get laser surgery on my Nazi tattoo before running for elected office?” It reflects poorly on the judgment of Maine’s Democratic primary voters that they have decided that someone whose decision-making is at best unreliable is the person to defeat a formidable incumbent in Susan Collins. 
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"Daily Mail Brexit poll goes so badly the chart became part of the joke" thedailybritain.co.uk/daily-mail-b...
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026
new metaphor just dropped
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Have some fun with our new fantasy cabinet builder. Danny Dyer for Chief Whip anyone? bestforbritain.org/fantasy-cabi...
bestforbritain.org
Fantasy Cabinet Builder - Best for Britain
With Keir Starmer standing down and Labour choosing its next leader, the front bench is up for grabs. Pick from every current MP (and a few special guests) and build the top team you'd put around the ...
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