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Upright cyclist, dog servant and music.

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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows
Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
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A good life for the 99% isn’t a pipe dream: it can be done. Here’s how
Our plan is radical – but by transforming how we live on a finite planet, nearly everyone gains, says Thomas Piketty and researchers from the World Inequality Lab
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tony Blair has been pickled in money.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
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Music and the Mind - Music benefits on Mental Health
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Rega Research Ltd @rega.co.uk · 20/04/2026
Rega is proud to be supporting War Child’s Secret 7”. @warchilduk.bsky.social We’re calling on artists, designers and illustrators to submit original sleeve artwork and be part of something special. Submissions are open and close 1 June. Find out more: bit.ly/4bYt6v6
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Posting a video on Bluesky to honour my contractual obligations, even though I think it crops it horrendously on here.
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TheBlindboyPodcast @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
There was a request for me to post a video on X and I had to explain that a few hundred comments calling me a globalist cuck isn’t going to sell tickets
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying
LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
It’s not raining! #cycling the bumpy redways.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Shane Clifford @brilliantshane.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
It's funny to me to upload a stand up clip to Bluesky and hope it goes viral
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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Gordon Brown by James Macintyre review – a very different kind of politician
A new biography reveals Brown to be a man of exceptional vision and probity – what a contrast with today’s politics
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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We owe it to Epstein’s victims and to British democracy to demand historic change | Gordon Brown
The abuse of women by figures such as Epstein, and of political power by the likes of Mandelson, must be confronted. As far as I am able, I will play my part, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brow...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Outrageous bare-faced lies - it’s extraordinary what the right wing press can get away with. Thank you @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org for such a thorough debunking
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less | Samuel Earle
Years of scandal and disappointment have left a void in our politics. But New York’s new mayor offers an alternative to more apathy: hope, says author Samuel Earle
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Surely the City can come up with something more interesting to keep trying to attack me with? Cut bills. Tax billionaires. Join.greenparty.org.uk
There's nothing new in Zack Polanskis fantasy economics
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 23/11/2025
“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Our country is in crisis. Bills are too high. People are being forced to live in mouldy, unaffordable homes. One in three kids is living in poverty. The budget is this government's chance to turn things around: it's time to cut bills and tax billionaires.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Britain’s biggest housebuilder wants more free money to maintain fat profits www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Britain’s biggest housebuilder urges government to support first-time buyers
Taylor Wimpey chief Jennie Daly calls for revival of help-to-buy equity loan scheme to revive property market
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Ofwat letting water firms charge twice to tackle sewage, court to hear
River Action bringing legal action against water regulator over who should foot bill for firms’ past failures to invest
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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 28/10/2025
NEWS! 'It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they're less than 1% of the Parliamentary population' confirms public newsthump.com/2025/10/28/i...
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‘It drives us mad when TV screens are full of Reform MPs when they’re less than 1% of the Parliamentary population’ confirms public
The public have today confirmed they are sick and tired of seeing Reform UK politicians plastered all over their TV screens despite them making up less than 1% of the parliamentary population. Refo…
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Would you like to receive updates from Green Party self-organised groups?
Self-organised groups in the Green Party of England and Wales do important work to organise on liberation issues and campaign for Green Party policies for marginalised communities. Greens of Co...
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
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A-level English, voluntary work, delayed citizenship: it’s Labour’s Orwellian Two Minutes Hate for immigrants | Nesrine Malik
It’s easier for politicians to blame others than to face the truth: Britain has been stripped of the spaces and opportunities that allow for true social integration, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Ma...
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Sorry, I’ve joined since this went out. You need one of those real time counter things.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
@greenparty.org.uk I’ve joined! For #hope for #courage 😁
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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Tech bros need the world to believe their hype. Here’s an idea – let’s just ignore them | Pip Finkemeyer
Social media didn’t live up to its promises. So why do we think artificial intelligence will be any better?
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well? Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything. This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?
Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Yes. Pain. Can’t call either.
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Millions ask “what is Labour for?” after regulator backs more price rises. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Millions in England face higher water bills after regulator backs more price rises
Competition watchdog agrees to requests from Anglian, Northumbrian, South East, Southern and Wessex to increase charges
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Martin Austwick @martinaustwick.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Antifa Activist Michael Heseltine Shifts Overton Window Leftwards
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Nick Robinson has defected to Reform 😳
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Stop blaming migrants and tackle UK’s real problems, 100 charities tell home secretary
A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHS
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Privatisation of UK industries is driving cost of living crisis, says Greens leader
Zack Polanski calls mass privatisation a ‘failed experiment’ as report finds it has cost UK households £250 a year more
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Privatisation premium’: billions from UK energy bills paid to shareholders
Analysis reveals £416 of average bill of £1,719 taken as pre-tax profits by the major energy industries last year, rather than being reinvested
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It’s not about Rayner or Farage: the real tax story is how the super-rich avoid paying their share www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s not about Rayner or Farage: the real tax story is how the super-rich avoid paying their share| Rebecca Gowland
To focus on individuals is misguided: the problem is a tax system hugely skewed in favour of the ultra-wealthy, says Rebecca Gowland of Patriotic Millionaires International
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Now THAT was hot... My musings on Farage being handed his arse "The Political Foreplay We Didn’t Know We Needed" Please read, subscribe and enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/marinapu...
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Farage Being Handed His Arse: The Political Foreplay We Didn’t Know We Needed
Farage flew to Congress to slag off Britain. Raskin handed him his arse. And somewhere between the facts and the fury, I found myself rubbing my knees...
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
We’re building something special and we’re going to change British politics forever. Join us: yourparty.uk
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David Mitchell @davig1.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Family of Southport stabbing victim criticise plan to reveal ethnicity of suspects
Exclusive: Michael Weston King, grandfather of Bebe King, warns government against ‘kowtowing to the likes of Farage’
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