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David Bainbridge.

@davidedward.bsky.social
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Retired from a career in management. Brass player (trombone, euphonium and cornet). Singer with choirs. Sea Shanty singer with The Whitehaven Solway Shanty Crew. Slave to a Border Collie!

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My latest blog piece, with Burnham's EU announcement Labour's gone from jam tomorrow to maybe jam at some point in the future. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/10/05/l...
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Labour’s gone from jam tomorrow to maybe jam eventually
One of the key promises of the Labour party in Scotland during the 2024 Westminster general election campaign was that a vote for Labour was a vote to save the jobs of the workers at the Grangemout…
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randy39.bsky.social @randy39.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Chris Hedges on the university fraternity system in the USA This is the proving ground for the corporate system of corruption chrishedges.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
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Thoughts on the Mass Rape at Cornell University
The Chi Pi fraternity house at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.(Photo by Matt Burkhartt / AFP via Getty Images)
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Owen From Ohio @owenfromohio.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Reform MP buys £800k second home in Wales two days after questioning their impact willhaywardwales.substack.com/p/reform-mp-...
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Reform UK MP buys £800k Welsh second home just days after questioning their impact
Is this a case of politicians saying ‘do as I say, not as I do’?
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Zack Polanski, "Over the next year, more than 1/3 of the money that the DWP spend on housing benefits, go straight into the pockets of private landlords, subsidising their extortionate rents" "That's £13.4 billion" "That could be spent building new council homes"
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Chris7ben @chris7ben.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is a genuine chance to make another historic breakthrough and get a sixth Green MP elected. So please, dig as deep as you can, and help send Zack to Parliament. donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/london-by-el...
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Let's get our sixth Green MP elected - Green Party
We have a chance to elect our 6th MP - London's first Green MP, Zack Polanski! But we raise over £200k by 8 October. Will you help us?
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We've won big this year - and our wins have forced the Labour government to change course. But we need far more and urgently. From climate action to an emergency brake on rents - we'll keep the pressure on to bring about the change this country needs. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Greens can move Labour in the right direction, says Zack Polanski
The Green leader tells his autumn conference that a vote for his party can force changes from Andy Burnham.
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David Bainbridge. @davidedward.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ban AI layoffs and protect European workers now! action.eko.org/a/ban-ai-bos...
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Ban AI layoffs and protect European workers now!
No warning. No manager. No appeal. Just an AI that decided you spent too long in the bathroom – and automatically terminated your contract. This isn't a Sci-Fi movie. Nearly half of all workers in t
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cartoonist: Mike Luckovich
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Rod Evans @ultra-rejoiner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesterday, French president Emmanuel Macron said it would ⁠be “excellent ​news’ ⁠and “a good decision” ⁠if Britain decided to rejoin. Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sanchez said Britain would be welcome back to the EU "with ⁠open arms". Mr RobertBob
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cartoonist: Mike Smith
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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cartoonist: Lee Judge
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
THIS 👇 HERE.......
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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The latest from Michael de Adder. Trump wants to stop Iran from having a nuke. But should a mentally unstable felon threatening to "annihilate" 92 million people also have access to nuke?
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"I immediately thought of Viktor Orban as soon as I saw this last ad because they were the same type of thing he did before finally losing his last election earlier this year. He spent 235 million euros of Hungarian taxpayer money on propaganda campaign material." open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
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Donald Trump’s latest impeachable offense
Just before noon today, the President of the United States was standing just inches away from the trophy at the Medinah Country Club outside Chicago, wearing an extra-large suit that bulged along his ...
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Mike @mike-0568.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.' The US president is a lying tosspot. The plot was foiled by an insomniac farmer, who spotted the men and reported them to Gloucestershire police.
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Greymane 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @greymane54.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
No UK govt, they are all controlled by Zionist lobby groups and their own "friends of" groups.
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AW Sylwester @aw-sylwester.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Why is the far right rising? The West rigged the economy, then launched a series of catastrophic wars. The far right found someone else to blame.
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Stroud District Green Party @stroudgreens.org.uk · 28/09/2026
Great to see some Stroud Greens on the ground with Caroline supporting @zackpolanski.bsky.social in the by-election campaign! 💚💚💚👏👏👏
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/09/2026
Our polling with YouGov shows that 99% of constituencies want to rejoin the EU. And Labour promising to rejoin the EU could stop a Reform UK government. Now is the time to talk about EU membership. www.ft.com/content/a1614884-7c8c-43…
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Shannon @shenanigan-v.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How much longer will the UK allow the American military to stage for this illegal war against Iran?
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Kate Vasey @katevasey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh yeah, our leaders are useless. We're basically a vassal state.
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Kate Vasey @katevasey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The US could always fuck off out of our country and stop making us a target of retribution for their many, many crimes. Just an idea. 🤷
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
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Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
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reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
And apologies… as has been correctly pointed out… £4- to £7bn is the cost to the Treasury, not the economy… where the cost is far higher, and should include the opportunities lost also… The relentless drumbeat to cut immigration has become a ruinous and dangerous national madness.
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David Bainbridge. @davidedward.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Professor Alice Roberts explains how the humanist view of life can help us gain meaning, purpose, and fulfilment in life through the decisions we make and the connections we nurture. humanists.uk/join/action/...
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One Life, Live it Well
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Roger Alan Blackwell @rogera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'The crisis led to the pound sinking and along with it the Labour government of James Callaghan. It was Callaghan who famously declared: ‘We used to think you could spend your way out of a recession … that option no longer exists.’
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.
Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm not holding my breath, not least because the author of the worst of these polices, Yvette Cooper, is still in government, and her successor in the Home Office, Shabana Mahmood, has defended and extended her draconian anti-protest measures. And yes, these measures really are mad and bad.
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
Help out with the #Holborn campaign if you want to see #Green change coming to Westminster! 💚💚💚 Resources here 👇
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is what the path to winning looks like - but only if we keep the numbers up. More people came out to volunteering that there's no way of getting a photo angle to show them all! This is a huge moment - time to get it done. 10 days left. Sign up below 👇🏽
Huge crowd smiling with vote green signsHuge crowd smiling with vote greens signs
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 27/09/2026
This admin has spent years going after science. It proposed the largest cut in NASA’s history, about a quarter of the agency and half of its science programs. But last month, a groundbreaking telescope left the launch pad anyway. And the story of how it got there is our good news this Sunday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump and Republicans are terrified of policies that curb their own wealth and power, and the wealth and power of the oligarchs that bankroll them. That's why they're amping up the fearmongering about "socialism."
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Love the legalese bunkum. Apparently, attaching something to someone else's property, without permission, means they can't take it off or it's theft/criminal damage. It would be terrible if someone, who knows where this prick parks, filled his windscreen with RNLI stickers, to test the principle.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 27/09/2026
Israel’s Netanyahu criticises opposition uniting against him for election aje.news/7ww4ca
Israel’s Netanyahu criticises opposition uniting against him for election
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David Bainbridge. @davidedward.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've just signed "Don’t scrap young people’s voice" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/do... @OpenBritainHQ
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Iain @iainmarley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
64,000 Children killed or injured. Sixty Four Thousand lives that didn’t count or matter. I am so sick of Netenyahu’s bullshit.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ABSURD: The Campaign Against Antisemitism is pressuring Wembley Arena to cancel Macklemore's Free Palestine fundraiser. This comes amid a backdrop of a new ad campaign on London transport, continuing the mockery of Ed Sheeran's inexcusable spinelessness. #wembleyarena #macklemore
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social @biggivenotbiggov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power. ~ Daniel Webster
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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