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David Bowden

@davidabowden.bsky.social
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Chartered Building Surveyor, Arbitrator, Mediator, Expert Witness on boundaries, party walls, and easements London and Lisbon

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 12h
Suella Braverman's book PATRIOT came out today. It's 503 grams, costs £30 and tells the story of one politician's struggle against reality. Mine is currently 99p on kindle. Weighs nothing. Is all about traitors and villains... And people love it. Choices www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0F2FHD18...
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Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter
Notorious: History’s Villains and Why They Matter eBook : English, Otto: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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His Royal Huwness 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🐸🇵🇸🇪🇺 @litterygeniarse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1: What good has it done? 2: Brexit remains undefined. So we could rejooin CU and SM immediately and not "betray" a damned thing. 3: Burnham and his govt need to be more vocal about the harms and the nature of the people behind it. 4: johnhuwevans.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/b...
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BREXIT WAS A COUP
Brexit was a right wing coup and a far right one at that.Perhaps you will disagree with my use of such an emotive term. Please read my argument and tell me what better label you can put on it. I li…
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So let’s see practical steps to rejoin asap. As global insecurity grows, anything less simply won’t do
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Technically, they’re Remains now.
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Bertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Arthur Tress credits his friend and fellow photographer Duane Michals with opening his eyes to the possibilities of photography. “He said a photograph can be anything. It can be a sequence, you can write on the photograph, paint on it, make collages, tell a story. Revolutionary.”
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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When we've got serious poverty across the continent of Africa and yet we're building maps of the world on reclaimed land in the desert pardon me if there's a little schadenfreude when the tide comes in on this lunacy www.ft.com/content/3d6b...
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Middle East war tests Dubai’s island dreams
Ailing luxury developments on emirate’s man-made archipelago reflect strains on wider real estate sector
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Senile Satan: “Nobody’s ever seen crowds like I got in Ireland.”
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oFFiCiaL mONsTEr RaViNg LooNy PArTy @omrlp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
WEBSITE UPDATE - #BarmyBrunch www.loonyparty.com/5406/9643/no...
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Holborn & St Pancras – The Official Monster Raving Loony Party
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James Harvey @keepof4worlds.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The creatures outside looked from Reform to Labour, and from Labour to Reform, and from Reform to Labour again; but already it was impossible to say which was which
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Wanstead weather @wansteadweather.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This evening in Wanstead
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Chris @chris4man.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
So if his family are being "debanked" then does that mean that their accounts were flagged for money laundering reasons just like his was?
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 03/09/2026
A yearlong investigation by Verbatim Media reveals Nigel Farage courting illicit funding as part of a plot to bring foreign money into British politics, orchestrated by his top aides and caught on hidden camera. youtube.com/watch?v=RugP...
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My Year Undercover in Reform UK
YouTube video by Verbatim Investigations
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Warless Goddess @warlessgoddess.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Sometimes I really lose my faith in humanity. This is one of those times. I’m against war for so many reasons, but one of my most adamant reasons is because of the destruction of life…all forms of life.
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Javier Bardón 🤸 @javierbardon.com · 08/08/2026
Me gustan los políticos que hablan clarito. Este es el alcalde de Nueva York. Comparto su deseo de que el genocida Netanyahu acabe donde se merece: juzgado y condenado por crímenes de lesa humanidad. 👇😍
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Israel murdered another journalist. Nobody will even mention it.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Just out, my latest Substack blending politics, science and history, with a focus on London’s diverse international food culture in historic times, Victorian impoverishment, and St Margaret the dragon-slayer nataliebennett.substack.com/p/change-eve...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The guidance is incorrect @andyburnham.bsky.social The bill is so high because Labour has ignored airborne risks. It’s the governments fault and disabled people are taking the blame. Please correct this!
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 19/07/2026
NEW: Who funds Nigel Farage? And why has it taken till now for any journalistic scrutiny? @carolecadwalla.bsky.social who has tracked him for a decade exposes how the UK press & regulators looked the other way 🧵👇
Farage the money launderer and me: a decade of denial
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OSINTRadar @osintradar.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
A court in Istanbul has issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu on charges of crimes against humanity, according to Türkiye Today. The court granted the prosecutor's request to send a request to Interpol for his international search.
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oFFiCiaL mONsTEr RaViNg LooNy PArTy @omrlp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
So we now have a #HillsboroughLaw to 'force' people to tell the truth? We have long suggested for a law where it's illegal for any politician to lie! Sadly most of the 650 people that could implement this are not interested in a #Manicfesto pledge that would see them jailed🎩
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dasmo.bsky.social @dasmo.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
www.radiofree.org/2026/07/03/m...
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“More Than a Human Can Bear:” On Israel’s Systematic Sexualized Violence and the Silence That Enables It |
Independent Media for People, Not Profits.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
More than 1m Europeans have called for a full suspension of the EU's trade agreement with Israel. However the EU is planning just a partial suspension, tariffs on only 40% of Israel's exports. This not acceptable. Full suspension of the Trade Agreement with Israel. NOW.
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crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social @crboxfoundationuk.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Happy Father's Day. How about a super quiet, efficient air cleaner for a gift? At 10% off? One that helps others to have one of their own? If that sounds good, we may have a solution. Code CRFUK10 corsirosenthalfoundation.org.uk #CleanAir
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Funktuated Freaquilibrium @clarencedarrow.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Reminds me of this from ww2 www.smithsonianmag.com/history/alli...
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One of the Allies’ Secret Weapons Against the Nazis Was a 21-Year-Old Woman Armed With a Microphone and a Script of Lies
As “Vicky With Three Kisses,” she strategically sweet-talked and sang to German troops over the airwaves of Europe. But Agnes Bernauer didn’t mean anything she was saying
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Buck Frexit @beany.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
That “small majority” is still bigger than the “majority” that voted to leave!! Brexit was ridiculously stupid and the fact we smashed everything up because of such a small vote difference in an ADVISORY referendum will never not make me angry.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@zackpolanski.bsky.social @greensagainstcovid.bsky.social
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Peter Cook: Brexorcist in Chief: Reboot Britain @brexitrage.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Eve of Destruction - recorded during COVID about Trump but still prescient www.youtube.com/watch?v=44v1... #Trump #USA #Populism #Putin
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Eve of Destruction - DUMP TRUMP
YouTube video by Peter Cook
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DAPPER DON DHARSHI @dapperdondharshi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Squirrel asks human for a drink of water.
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 12/06/2026
100 days of Hannah Spencer MP And she's just getting started 💚
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Richard Ⓐber @richaber.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
With alt-text.
Photo of a bus stop with a large advertisement on the side.

The advertisement has a photo of Elon Musk, wearing a suit and bowtie, with a smile on his face, and his arms outstretched as if he is giving a carefree shrug, at the bottom.

Above the photo of Elon Musk, large white text reads: "If you have a trillion dollars in a world where children are starving, you're not a visionary, you're just a cunt".

The advertisement has a pink background, with small, randomly placed white starbursts.

The advertisement has four small cartoon images in the corners.

There is a small image of a white smiling flower in the top left. An image of two smiling clouds with a rainbow between them in the top right. An image of a smiling white kitten with a unicorn horn, wings, and a rainbow coming out of its butt in the bottom left. And an image of a pink flower in the bottom right.
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Peter Cook: Brexorcist in Chief: Reboot Britain @brexitrage.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Brexit Breaks Britain
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 10/06/2026
“Why aren’t more people alarmed by this extreme erosion of the right to protest and what it means for our country?”: @natashawalter.bsky.social on Labour’s repression of protest www.thenerve.news/p/natasha-wa...
If a far right government treated protests the way Labour is there would be outrage, writes Natasha Walter. Image: protesters hold a banner saying 'Shut Elbit Down' during the demonstration on January 23, 2026 in Sandwich, United Kingdom
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Sadly we are heading for a US situation because there should have been an investigation into the influence of antivaxxers as part of the Covid inquiry on government policy. This really leaves us in a shaky position moving forward. counterdisinformationproject.substack.com/p/network-ma...
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Network Mapping: Unravelling the HARTleaks; Exposing how Conservative MPs embraced the covid disinformation ecosystem
How conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers influenced the CRG, the Common Sense Group, 1922 Committee Chair, Education Select Committee Chair, two APPGs, Bills and Ammendments
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Covid spreads through the air like smoke. It can spread across a room. Your risk on surfaces is less than 1 in 10,000.
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oFFiCiaL mONsTEr RaViNg LooNy PArTy @omrlp.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
#Manicfesto, Door Poster & Loony Kit (scissors, glue, safety pins not supplied) #MakerfieldByElection
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Dr. Patricia Bath overcame sexism, racism & poverty and saved the sight of millions of people. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment, 1986; it was patented in 1988. She co-founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness, 1976. She died #OTD in 2019. #WomenInSTEM
A vibrant color historical photograph capturing the brilliant ophthalmologist, inventor, and academic Dr. Patricia Era Bath (1942–2019) in an office or laboratory setting, radiating an aura of confident intelligence and warm approachability. Occupying the center and right of the shot, Dr. Bath sits facing forward, smiling brightly with a direct, engaging gaze at the camera. She is dressed in a professional white medical lab coat—subtly embroidered with "Dr. Bath" in red cursive on the left lapel—worn over a light blue button-down denim shirt and accented by a polished gold chain necklace. Pens are visible tucked into her left coat pocket. Positioned prominently to her right on the left side of the frame is a large, white medical laboratory microscope or ophthalmic imaging equipment with black eye-pieces. The background shows a white wooden bookshelf packed with colorful medical texts, binders, and stacked papers. This portrait carries immense historical significance, honoring a legendary trailblazer in STEM who became the first Black female doctor to patent a medical device—the revolutionary Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment—fundamentally restoring sight to millions worldwide.
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Ryan Hill @ryanhillart.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Lovely evening to paint out in Seattle
My plein air easel on the dock near Mark Zuckerberg's mega yacht "Launchpad" on Lake Union in Seattle. I'm holding a glass palette painting the vessel in flames on a 9"x12" panel.Another shot of me painting Zucks megayacht on fire on Lake Union in Seattle, May 27, 2026
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I have put up a selection of articles from the Counterdisinformation Project. Lots of important things MSM should have covered but never did. Please do repost and share. All on my timeline below ⬇️
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Hard Boiled Egg @perigominas.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
The British Establishment has about as much understanding of the Silicon Valley mob, their products and their motivations as a cat does a laser pointer and reacts in more or less the same way whenever one turns up
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Caroline Lucas of the Green Party reckons that Water needs to be Renationalised. RT if you know it has to be.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I feel like small matters such as “selling off most of the things that help governments to make themselves useful, out of pure hardcore ideological conviction” and “a pathological loathing for investment in services and infrastructure” may also have contributed
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Six prime ministers in ten years, a disillusioned electorate and the rise of social media are all blamed for Britain's political instability. I BIG READ
Britain is ungovernable.
These numbers prove it
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Mevrouw Vos @lillieg.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Read this and weep when you realise it all happened in just ONE WEEK And then be very, very angry because this is a deliberate strategy for it all to be just white noise in the background instead of things we should be paying close attention to. open.substack.com/pub/iratusur...
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Too Much to Follow, Too Little to Stick
A £5 million gift, endless scandals, and the political strategy of exhaustion
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
NHS data should be driving innovation & improvement – it’s an amazing resource We just published the sequel to our 2021 "Road to Hell" paper on using NHS data for research... things are worse! Buckle up for a long 🧵about *how COMPLETELY mad* system is for accessing NHS data for research 1/20
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Eddie @whalepsychiatrist.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Israel sat wondering why Jews are getting targeted world wide, it doesn't take a genius to see why, I dont agree with antisemitism but criticising Israel for what they doing isnt that, it's saying stop doing a what Hitler did to your people ffs, it's not hard to work out.
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04... “COVID-19 can significantly worsen cardiovascular outcomes, placing patients with preexisting heart conditions at increased risk for complications, underscoring the need for heightened clinical vigilance during and after hospitalization.”
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COVID-19 and severe heart attack increase mortality by 25% after 1 year, more than double pre-pandemic rates
Findings from the North American COVID-19 Myocardial Infarction (NACMI) registry demonstrate significantly higher one-year mortality rates in patients with COVID-19 and ST-elevation myocardial infarct...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Good indoor air quality is vitally important. It’s as important as clean water. gadgetgram.com/sensereo-int...
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Sensereo Introduces Airo, a Modular Smart Air Quality Monitor at CES 2026
Smart sensing solutions company Sensereo recently introduced Airo at CES 2026, a modular air quality monitor designed to understand air across your home.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Trump 'absolutely' considering withdrawing from NATO Since Dugin laid out the plan in 1998, the main foreign policy aim of the Kremlin has been to sever Britain from Europe (achieved in 2016) and break up the Transatlantic Alliance (2026?) www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
And who is vaccinated in the UK regularly enough? A very very small band of people. Most private vaccines aren’t even keeping pace. Immune escape potential from vaccines- we need layered mitigations. When will they stop this vaccine only strategy? www.contagionlive.com/view/covid-1...
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COVID-19 Variant Emerges as a Closely Watched SARS-CoV-2 Lineage with Immune Escape Potential | Contagion Live
A newly identified SARS-CoV-2 variant, BA32, is spreading globally with mutations that may reduce vaccine and prior infection protection, underscoring the continued importance of genomic surveillance.
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tanwyn.bsky.social @tanwyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
We are creating thousands of potential terrorists. You live a normal life, when for absolutely no reason, some tyrant starts killing your family, neighbours, friends. Bombs everywhere. You look around, & see countries facilitating the onslaught. Don't expect the survivors to forget that.
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dave161256.bsky.social @dave161256.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Don't forget the 'finance curse' (that is similar to the resource curse) that currently afflicts the UK. taxjustice.net/topics/the-f...
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The finance curse - Tax Justice Network
Many people labour under an illusion that the financial centre in their country is the magic goose laying golden eggs, showering investment, jobs and tax revenues on the rest of the country. They worr...
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