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David JW Bailey

@davidjwbailey.bsky.social
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Walker, photographer, radio ham, gamer, wine lover, accountant, entrepreneur, human friendly activist, ally. English & European. Generally prefer facts and science.

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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 9h
Someone on the radio just now from the Labour conference in Liverpool referred to 'our care service'. There is no care service. There's a care b u s i n e s s, and a very limited one.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 4h
This proves the depths of pure craven cowardice in our politics go very deep indeed
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 4h
The VERY conservative 11th Circuit unanimously refused to block the lower court's sanctions order against the DOJ in the Trump v IRS (that resulted in the slush fund) case.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think Highways England is taking the Micky today – over 110 miles of 50 mile an hour speed limit on the M1 and M6 with no visible issues, accident, and just a short section of roadworks for H.S. 2 on the M6 Toll Reeks of incompetence and under Investment
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reform UK's new 'Small Boats Watch' app is not only cruel, it is in clear violation of Apple and Google’s rules and must be removed immediately. You can take action now: bestforbritain.org/take-action/...
bestforbritain.org
Tell Apple and Google: Remove 'Small Boat Watch' from your app store - Best for Britain
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it…
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another Old Tory Trope bites the dust. UK workers are NOT massively less productive than the G7, and all their whining about laziness and idleness was just projection of their own inadequacies and loathing of the working class. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
resolutionfoundation.org
Revision of labour • Resolution Foundation
The UK’s post-financial crisis productivity slowdown has been a defining feature of our economic landscape.[1] But changes in how the Office for National Statistics (ONS) calculates the average hours ...
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Vocational GCSE” cries the newspaper headline. I feel slightly sick. UK Labour has become Uncle Tom the neoliberal capital owners. Turning our precious children into “economic units of labour” Oh the irony. All thinking expunged, everything made “profitable” I despair.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Brilliant! www.instagram.com/p/DdllUVlDoP...
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DrownedinSound on Instagram: "Today is a big day for DiS, we’re officially entering our magazine era. Yes, you read that right, we’re gearing up to print 50,000 copies of SHOWNOTES, which is a new qua...
1,255 likes, 130 comments - drownedinsound on September 22, 2026: "Today is a big day for DiS, we’re officially entering our magazine era. Yes, you read that right, we’re gearing up to print 50,000 co...
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Removing Immunity and the statute of limitations on Trump crimes should be the FIRST and SECOND actions of a Democratic majority, Sadly Kier Starmer bottled it when he had the chance in the UK.
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FT Edit @ftedit.ft.com · 22/09/2026
A Kremlin-backed fintech company used old-fashioned money laundering to bypass western sanctions and funnel almost $7bn through major international banks, including Standard Chartered, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank. Read today's excusive investigation 👉 ft.trib.al/POYpdNe
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
youtu.be/ronwzumrDQ8?... Labour should revoke all Anti-BDS laws in the UK
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Palm Beach County meeting erupts over $1B Israel Bonds investment; attorney arrested
YouTube video by CBS 12 News - WPEC
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What if… Every Parliament (on either side) that declares war was *instantly* sent to the Front Lines as infantry. Along with the sons & daughters of every billionaire who funded it? I have a feeling war would be a lot less popular among governments if this was enforced globally.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only 4 constituencies where rejoining the EU wasn’t the preferred option were those of Lee Anderson, Farage, Tice and Lowe. In those 4, the top answer was ‘don’t know’. Confirming that Brexit has no real support at all. Not surprising for a total shitshow. And makes red lines seem very silly.
Independent front page. 

Voters across Britain back rejoining EU
Reversing Brexit is most popular option in 646 of 650 constituencies, finds new electoral survey of 12,000Bar chart showing
Which EU relationship respondents most wanted the Uk government to propose

EU membership 35%
Single market 6%
Customs Union 5%
Uk govt position  18/19%
Starts quo 8/9%
Don’t know 16%
Loosen ties 11%
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Nick P @npilon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“President AOC may have a supermajority in both the House and the Senate and have exceeded Reagan 84’s electoral college results, but does she have a mandate to alter DC’s traditional drone deployment architecture? We’ll be spending the next six months discussing this, here on CNN.”
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stopping charities from lobbying and removing their tax breaks is, of course, already Tory policy
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The judge asked the govt if the Kennedy Center is going bankrupt. You should've seen them backpedal Why so fast? If it's broke, a court puts someone else in charge & they lose control of it @cnn.com👇 -TN
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/t... Yep. As soon as you open the door, in comes big money and corrupts everything
bylinetimes.com
The Integrity Gap: How We Built the Authoritarian Future We Fear
Labour MP Clive Lewis argues that the collapse of public trust in Government is the product of corporate power being wired into the architecture of the state
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This should result in Amazon being IMMEDIATELY closed for market manipulation.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The original reporting of what happened in Portsmouth was a joke. This is just a hate mob that has been whipped up who are now targeting the RNLI. Throw the book at them.
independent.co.uk
RNLI closes Portsmouth lifeboat station after huge anti-migrant protests
RNLI volunteers were branded ‘traitors’ after bringing migrants ashore
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The heart of end times fascism is an abandonment of this world. Heaven is either celestial or computational, but not earthly. Not here. It’s why so many people are already rising up. Most people actually like it here. Thank you to CNN International’s Amanpour for having us.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bravo! And UK Labour? Hang your heads in shame.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At CERN, humans just moved 92 particles of anti-matter over 7.5km in a truck. Anti-matter. In a truck. home.cern/base-experim... Never bet against a team of humans who refuse to accept being told something is impossible.
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BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter – Home | CERN
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Do you know what causes parts of the UK to have hose pipe bans and flooding at the same time? ruthless profit extraction by private equity causing massive under investment in critical infrastructure. That does.
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Shame on you, Wes Streeting Shame on you, Andy Burnham Shame You could have ended the horror that Student Loans are. Instead you let HM Treasury make you their bitches, and now you will forever be their bitches.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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bossk baby @bonnnt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It is so mentally corrosive to try to ascertain, every day, whether the images I am seeing or the texts I am getting or the phone calls I am receiving are real - produced by a human who is trying to communicate something with me, even indirectly. It makes me feel insane and paranoid all the time
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We’re on the brink of becoming a crypto tyranny, and Labour has been asleep at the wheel
writesbright.substack.com
Labour’s indecision has cost us all
Farage is trying to create an oligarchy...
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This money is very likely to be *DIRTY* and quite possibly Russian or American in origin. And so are these men, in my opinion. The good news is: if we get the transactions, we can track back up the Blockchain and find out!!
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I hate this, and want a LOT of people fired over it - Palantir will sell this info to right wing groups to target the vulnerable, and to insurers to rob people. 100% certain prediction!
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And the same little drones will fly into your face and explode. Worth thinking about how Ukraine and 9/11 and smart drone weapons are linked through Israel…
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Breathtakingly bad polling. If the political class hadn't preemptively declared him immune to all laws of political gravity, they'd be calling this a failed presidency and talking about resignation, impeachment, party splits, and other historical markers of full executive-branch collapse.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The Green's Baroness Bennett points out that Palantir did not have any experience in health data and only got NHS contracts after being introduced by the now disgraced Peter Mandelson Making the case that data ownership should be with the NHS, not with external parties
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Louis 〓〓 @louishenwood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Dumb-founded" Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants as they gather outside Portsmouth hotel Dumb-founded protestors were left scratching their heads after they confused a Pakistan cricket team for a coach of migrants.
portsmouth.co.uk
Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The beautiful irony that the actions of sociopaths who sell fossil fuels (Russia, America, Saudi) have done nothing but accelerate their own doom
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NEW: Cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne - the man who gave Farage £5m - has quietly dropped his defamation suit against @wsj.com over this 2023 article 👇 1/
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done. Baloney. Economist @gabrielzucman.bsky.social debunks their lies. Watch.
youtu.be
How Would a Wealth Tax Work? (ft. Gabriel Zucman)
Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hands up who admires this?
Very old fuse box in Mount Grace
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Foxyfunderburd 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🇺🇦 @foxyfunderburd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Danny Tommo, the man who organised the blackshirts rally, openly telling us a foreign American think tank wired him £30k for his very first street protest. Foreign money is propping up the British far right
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Second, MAHA isn’t all that concerned with treatment of disease anyway. Its core claim is that nearly all diseases can be prevented through virtuous lifestyles. If we were all drinking raw milk and taking zinc supplements, we wouldn’t be coming down with heart disease and depression and COVID.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is the proper way to deal with fascists. Be like Joe Spatola
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
1 the UK does not have an immigration problem 2 the UK specifically does not have an illegal immigration problem 3 the UK does not have an asylum seeker problem. 4 there are no “legitimate concerns” to be had about immigration. The UK has a racist problem fed by foreign owned media.
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Natasha Devon @natashadevon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wrote about how politicians need (PLEASE) to stop using the phrase ‘legitimate concerns about immigration’, particularly when responsible to far-right riots. www.lbc.co.uk/article/legi...
lbc.co.uk
Britain does not have an immigration problem, it has a nuance problem writes Natasha Devon | LBC
By endlessly repeating that people’s anxieties are ‘legitimate’, politicians are giving credence to the far-right’s propaganda and inadvertently stoking the tensions they were designed to rile up.
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CllrAndyOddy @cllrandyoddy.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
If Andy Burnham is serious about making a difference then it’s time to act. Clamp down on these thugs attacking police and RNLI volunteers AND on those who explicitly publish their approval of such hate crimes. Pandering to them is just bringing the day nearer when these thugs will be ICE UK
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Michael Gove risks having his massive bungs from Tel Aviv / Brooklyn clawed back if his anti-BDS legislation is shredded…
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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Would you understand this more if you suspected YouGov pushes right wing narratives into the UK by using rigged or planned fake polls.
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sympathizer of many, many different dimensions @miasmo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Lego Bastille
ALT: Lego Bastille
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 06/09/2026
Patriot Platform, the far-right group whose black-clad masked members caused hours of disruption in Dover yesterday, calls itself a Christian “army of patriots” dedicated to protecting women and children. There’s a problem with that story.
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