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Dan Murphy

@dan-murphy.bsky.social
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45 years in global retail, pubs, hospitality. Operations, transactions, & restructuring. Resting since 2017. These days spending most of my time long distance walking and cycling. DM = instant block.

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Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · 6h
Such sad news that the legendary Dame Esther Rantzen has passed away. Campaigning right until the very end. It was an honour to interview her several times in her final years. Thoughts with her family, who loved her so dearly.
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Blue KathyC @kathyc2222.bsky.social · 6h
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1kr5ur43m.bsky.social @1kr5ur43m.bsky.social · 20h
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We still don't know what's happened but Farage making a serious twit of himself here.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 29/09/2026
Whose empty chair is that: Natalie or Mitch??
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What fantastic news
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to drive slow in the school zone. 🐟
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Corporations spend more than $1.5B a year on union-busting. That’s $1.5B they could have spent on higher wages, better benefits, and improving workplace safety. Remember: if they weren’t so scared of worker power, they wouldn’t fight so hard against unions. Kudos to these Autozone workers.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Grumpy-ish Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇮🇪 @brian770.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the Texans out there - vote Talarico if you want to change the 30 years of decline in your state
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southerngirlraven7.bsky.social @southerngirlraven7.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 25/09/2026
"Some day people will look at online gambling the way we look at Big Tobacco today: an industry that dishonestly profiteered on addiction and human misery."
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Our Politicians Suck. But Our Voters Do, Too.
And the political system we’ve built brings out the worst in both.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/09/2026
In high-res (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
yesterday, the the major networks served up to Dear Leader a huge slice of Fuck You Pie, and boycotted all White House press events — leaving bottom-feeders like Newsmax to air amateurish silent videos. thank you for your attention to my coverage of this hilarious shit. link is here: bit.ly/4hkOvzV
holy shit.

yesterday, we finally got the answer to that age-old conundrum: if Dear Leader opens his fat yap in the middle of the White House, and there’s no one from the press pool around to report on it, does he make a noise?

the answer, it seems, is a resounding no.
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Angry Byrd @tylerbigbyrd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why does Andrew Tate whine so fkn much? It hurts to laugh this hard...
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔴 Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a “scare” and suggests the world is merely emerging from a “mini ice age” bylinetimes.com/2026/09/21/r...
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Reform Council Leader Denies Climate Change Crisis After Record Heat Deaths
Leader of Kent County Council dismisses recent surge of wildfires and heat deaths as a "scare" and suggests the world is merely emerging from a "mini ice age"
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg has joined the great war scam. All this BS to justify the outrageous 'Defence' spending that is going cause all other budgets to be frozen or cut. They must have you believe this nonsense, otherwise you won't accept it.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
Air traffic control failure disrupts flights in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England – business live
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Air traffic control failure disrupts flights in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England – business live
National Air Traffic Services says it is investigating a ‘technical issue’ at its Prestwick centre in Scotland An air traffic control failure has caused delays to flights at Manchester Airport, about two weeks after a software glitch caused widespread flight chaos in the UK. The issue at National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is affecting airspace in northern and central England, as well as in Scotland and Northern Ireland. Airspace is being restricted due to a technical issue at the NATS Prestwick centre in Scotland. We are investigating a technical issue at our Prestwick centre in Scotland. To maintain safety, air traffic regulations have been applied to manage traffic demand. Engineers are on site investigating and working to resolve the issue. The issue is unrelated to the technical problems experienced earlier this month. Borrowers will be frustrated to see fixed mortgage rates soar, with around £150 added to monthly mortgage payments, based on a typical mortgage [of £250,000 over 25 years], since the start of March 2026. There were notable rate hikes last week from the major brands, some increasing for the second time this month to catch up with rising swap rates. The average two-year fixed rate is approaching its highest point seen this year, rising by over 1% since the start of March, and the average five-year fixed is now back to highs not seen since October 2023, the month after the infamous mini-budget. Continue reading...
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Interdimensional Portal Of The Day.
What looks like a giant beehive - possibly inhabited by giant bees - in the middle of the West Dorset countryside.
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Dan MacDonald 🇨🇦 @danmacphotos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I hope it’s an interdimensional portal because, if not, it’s the strangest looking outhouse I’ve ever seen
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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
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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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Dan Murphy @dan-murphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I grew up in North Kent. In Sept 1979 I went to Keele University. On my 1st day I caught the train to Stoke on Trent alone - my parents would have been bemused at the idea of taking me, aged 18, anywhere. And as for the idea of them knowing where I was or what I was doing...how times have changed.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Right-wing press and ideologues will have you believe that the UK is the most heavily taxed place. They promise the impossible, European/Scandinavian levels of social security with American levels of taxation. This graph puts things in perspective.
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TOSsnitch @tossnitch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maxwell was pedophiling the teens too. Just use common sense, the evidence just hasn't been released! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...
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Ghislaine Maxwell trained underage girls as sex slaves, documents allege
Unsealed testimony from 2015 case reveals series of claims about Briton’s role in Epstein sex-trafficking ring
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MyFry @rampanen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
And Leroy Merlin, part of Mulliez collaborationist empire, like Auchan :-)
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Lill @drlw.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Agreed. In the 1970s, Nestle sent sales women dressed as nurses to poor villages to advise women not to breastfeed. They gave out free samples of formula. When breast milk dried up while sampling what Nestle provided & when the formula ran out babies starved. www.businessinsider.com/nestles-infa...
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Every Parent Should Know The Scandalous History Of Infant Formula
Nestlé faces backlash over its infant formula practices, raising ethical concerns about marketing and health.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The story of how Nestle and Auchan refused to leave Russia in 2022, only for Putin to eventually seize their businesses with a single stroke of the pen, deserves to be told by sages as a biblical parable.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
10/ The strategy was patient: shape journalists and experts, move radical ideas into respectable debate, seed think tanks, train personnel, then make legislation possible. I previously walked readers through this long game here. bsky.app/profile/digi...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
9/ ABC Australia traces this project from the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium to Hayek’s Mont Pelerin Society, Antony Fisher’s think tanks and the Atlas Network created in 1981. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how
A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
8/ Hilton’s record explains why. In Britain, he pushed privatized services, looser labor laws, welfare cuts and fewer government workers. In California, he promises tax cuts, deregulation and reversal of climate rules. calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Steve Hilton has reinvented himself multiple times. Can he do it again as a California Republican?
The GOP nominee for California governor wants to deregulate businesses and overturn environmental rules. He’s also praised liberal workplace policies and once made the British Conservative Party more ...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
7/ Let me be precise. Marriage does not prove Atlas gives Hilton orders. Family lineage alone is not evidence of secret coordination. But lineage, personal affiliations, his political history and an agenda resembling Atlas-backed policies create a strong reason to examine what “change” would mean.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
6/ Hilton has his own institutional record. He became a visiting scholar at Policy Exchange, a British think tank then listed as an Atlas partner. He also held a visiting scholar role at Stanford. The family connection is only one part of the evidence.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
5/ Rachel Whetstone remains influential. She moved from British Conservative politics into communications roles at Google, Uber, Facebook, Netflix and the AI company Sierra. She operates where politics, media and technology meet. www.axios.com/2025/03/04/r...
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Exclusive: Former Netflix CCO Rachel Whetstone joins Bret Taylor's AI startup
This is Whetstone's first time working for a startup and as a team of one.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
4/ Linda’s obituary records that she chaired Atlas Network and served as Mont Pelerin Society president. She died in 2021, but those institutions remain part of the free-market project. www.acton.org/religion-lib...
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In the Liberal Tradition: Linda Whetstone (1942–2021)
A long-time champion of free markets and individual liberty, Linda Whetstone passed away on December 15, 2021, shortly after participating in the Atlas Network’s Freedom Forum and Liberty Dinner, age ...
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
3/ Follow the family line. Antony Fisher founded Atlas. His daughter Linda Whetstone later chaired Atlas Network and served as president of the Mont Pelerin Society. Linda’s daughter Rachel married Steve Hilton. This is a multigenerational political lineage, not a stray acquaintance.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
2/ I was unaware of this until @lucyham.bsky.social documented it. She deserves full credit. Hilton’s wife, Rachel Whetstone, is the granddaughter of Antony Fisher, who created the Atlas Network to spread his political project. lucyham29.substack.com/p/the-atlas-...
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The Atlas Network’s dynasty is coming for California
The Atlas Network’s partners have manipulated our politics and debate for over 50 years for the Mont Pelerin Society’s neoliberal “thought collective.” The family behind it is a dedicated dynasty.
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
1/ Steve Hilton is not merely a politician who sounds like Atlas Network. His wife is founder Antony Fisher’s granddaughter. Her late mother helped lead Atlas. Now Hilton wants to govern California. Lucy Hamilton exposed the lineage. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just checking how Calvin Robinson and Andrew Bridgen are getting on these days....
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Word! Hell yes I support this💙💛
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Love2026 @love2024.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
He’s so desperate 🤣 Don’t believe a single word 🤣
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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I still can’t get over the fact that Putin’s close buddy pays for the wedding of Trump’s son and then Trump returns the favor by pushing Ukraine to capitulate. This is the most corrupt president in the US history by a huge margin!
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Hectotane @hect0tane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So that phrase: "The Irish NEVER FLOUNDER." Or is it the Scots? I can't tell. They both scare me.
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TheHey™ @thehey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dude became a multimillionaire cosplaying Glen Hansard and didn’t even go to the man’s funeral.
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Andy - Scotsman Back Home @afforsyth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you so much Beth @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social 🙏💙🕊️ @judithbolyard.bsky.social @simplyskye.bsky.social @browneyedsusan.bsky.social @bluthrunthru.bsky.social @wolfhour.bsky.social @marzgrl.bsky.social @ginafortexas.bsky.social @wolf-man.bsky.social @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social @tiff44.bsky.social
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/09/2026
Kash Patel: "Applicants who have engaged in beastiliaty means they were victims of beastility because they were forced to do so. At this FBI we are not going to criminalize and prevent victims from serving."
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mime level 900
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