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John Morton

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Living with young onset Parkinson's disease. #YOPD

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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk asks “What are we becoming? We’ve turned ourselves into a population where the bravest people in the country are being terrorised and closed down by the biggest cowards, the people who won’t even show their faces.” Fascism in action.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Very nice to hear a sane voice from Piddington. Serious respect to this woman, who is apparently already being othered by more bigoted villagers.
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Sam Wilson @samwilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Damning silence from Labour on their Napoleon III exhumation policy
Tom Harwood tweets:

BREAK: Nigel Farage says under a Reform government the body of Napoleon III could be returned from England to France.
The last French emperor's final resting place is in The Imperial Crypt at St Michael's Abbey in Farnborough.
He died in exile in England in 1873 following the fall of the Second Empire. His body was never returned to France because they didn't want it, and due to his wife's wishes. She was later buried alongside him.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Looking forward to this 💙
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James @wearejames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In today's Observer, Tim talks to Miranda Sawyer about the release of James: Getting Away With It. Read it here: observer.co.uk/culture/musi... NBL x #James #GettingAwayWithIt #FilmPremiere
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
God only knows
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Staying tuned!..
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social thanks a bunch, James... now it's going to be the world infamous bury market...
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I hope you're correct in the hypothetical political sense, but I hope you're wrong in the sense that I hope it doesn't happen... What a time to be alive 🙄
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So much that has already passed would have been the undoing of any other president. Do you really think that that would finish him off?
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
La petite mort...
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is not "news"... it's just more of the same
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Case by Case, taken in context.... unless you're Argentina
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I'm giddy to hear your response this morning 😂
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Good morning James. Switched on this morning (Thursday 9th July) Honest Bob in the hot seat. He's campaigning. Lasted 8 minutes before switching to BBC 6music. Do I hold the longest listen record?
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
A lot of voters will skip this one
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
He will not, dear readers, fight to win. He will fight to lose. This is nothing more than a rousing speech to call out every other party to throw everything they have to ensure his loss, so he can keep earning the money as a private citizen, and still have enough clout to chirp from the sidelines.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Nailed it
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The USA coach could go down in history by dropping Balogun for the match. Or even Balogun himself by withdrawing from the match. Or a joint statement amounting to the same thing. I shudder to think what would happen if USA win, particularly if he contributes a goal or assist.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
They need to take a leaf of BBC's book
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
This has made a lot of people look even more foolish than usual... "It's AI"...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Lee Anderson deletes a post in which he calls people thick for posting an AI image, when in fact it was a genuine image and the one he posted was fake. To the surprise of nobody, it turns out that he was the stupid one.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
These people despise Europe. They are determined to see far right parties elected to government…an official pillar of Trump’s National Security Strategy. Vance is likely to be targeting this message at voters in Makerfield in a brazen effort to interfere with the UK’s democracy.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
"including an offer to fund the prosecution of police officers involved in the case"
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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The UK government and the EU need to do something together about X. Now. It is pushing racist nonsense that is now bleeding into the mainstream media.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Breeze block in a tumble dryer works as an analogy... don’t ask
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social why would the reform candidate for Makerfield's new X account be based on the United States? 🧐
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Micah @rincewind.run · 18/05/2026
the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James, i wonder if you have seen Mr Tice's recent Facebook post regarding an apparently pregnant elderly person?
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Slightly increase a band: Country house of pain
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Andy-Luke @andy-luke.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Monday election update: 1 Reform councillor fired, 1 Reform councillor ran away, and 1 Reform councillor might not exist. Waveney Valley's George Alexander Jonathan Boyd is an AI generated image. No A-V, no sightings, no trace except for agent's address. Why aren't the news media all over this?
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Mum's the Word @exuk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
(Taken from Facebook) I’m trying to find out who the new Reform councillor is in Waveney, Norfolk. His name is George Boyd; he seems to have no online presence. Even with a reverse photo check, I could not find any trace of him other than a suggestion that the image was AI. Does he exist?
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Farage’s crafty crypto fortune. Full version: youtu.be/SqObceUurRs?...
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Bury Reform candidate accused of sharing Islamophobic post
burytimes.co.uk
Bury Council Reform candidate accused of sharing Islamophobic post
A Reform UK candidate in Bury has rejected accusations of racism after sharing a ‘satirical’ post aimed at ‘Muslims of the UK’
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Same happened in Tottington earlier this month. They don't care as long as they get power.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
They don't care 🙄
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Nice finish
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shardcore @shardcore.org · 06/04/2026
morning
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Goonie
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I share this warning most years. I just want young journalists to know. On April 1st some PRs publish ‘hilarious’ press releases. In my first year of journalism no one told me there was this magical day where they simply lie. And that is how I came to write an article about condoms for dogs.
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a close up of a dog 's face with a collar that says ' collars ' on it
ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with a collar that says ' collars ' on it
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Civilians among the rubble following airstrikes in Tehran. (Photos by Mehdi Ghasemi)
Woman calls for help from a hole in the wall of a bombed out buildingMan helps a woman covered in dust navigate rubble in the street
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/03/2026
I know I've said this a trillion times but I have to say it periodically to keep from going insane: The right ran a huge, well-funded, & ultimately successful campaign to completely take over political media & the infosphere more generally. This is by far the most important political development...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Farage has sold videos of himself endorsing a neo-Nazi event, repeating extremist slogans supporting a man convicted over his involvement in a far-right riot etc But don't worry Nige will be along in a moment to blame it all on the BBC, or Coutts, or refugees... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...
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Newly unearthed Nigel Farage videos reveal support for rioter, neo-Nazi event and far-right slogans
Exclusive: Analysis of more than 4,000 of Reform UK leader’s paid-for Cameo videos also shows they contain misogynistic remarks and antisemitic conspiracies
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Looking forward to it 💙
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Last Post on this. Churchill has only been on the £5 since September 2016. Before that it was Elizabeth Fry the prison reformer. Did Farage call her removal woke too? This isn't some ancient tradition but Farage is ridiculous. And that statement is timeless
The Bank of England is replacing
Winston Churchill with a picture of a
beaver on our bank notes.


This is the definition of woke.
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John Morton @draffy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Apparently a history book, that "they're" erasing 🤷‍♂️
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