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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦

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Tyke, Cymro. Archaeologist, Envi. Sci. Teacher and now runs design and manufacture company. And in too many choirs. Quaker. Annibyniaeth Also on Mastodon @drdave89@toot.wales

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Euronews @euronews.com · 07/10/2026
The resolution calls China “a decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine and says the EU should take action against China’s weaponisation of the rare eath minerals that Europe depends on. #EuropeNews
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MEPs call for tougher action against China
The resolution calls China “a decisive enabler” of Russia’s war in Ukraine and says the EU should take action against China’s weaponisation of the rare eath minerals that Europe depends on.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A note from Richard Barfield sets out why Matt Goodwin's projections of population & ethnic change are entirely unreliable, using simplistic + false premises that are not valid but have the impact & intent of exaggerating the rate of change rbas.co.uk/wp-content/u...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Why you can’t trust Grok - or any other LLM which basically tells you what you want to hear and amplifies online echo chambers
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@bsky.app Currently on hold with #RoyalMail who only offer phone contact, and then after several layers of obstruction. And the wait time is climbing! No the app and website are not easier as they don't cover everything.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been warning for many months that there is a political party within the UK that has many proven links with the UK's most threatening enemy, Russia.
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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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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I must say I’m very disappointed in the police over their dealing with the RAF Fairford incident. By announcing that the suspects are British nationals, they have completely undermined the stream of made up bollocks from myself and every other right wing gobshite on Twitter.
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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Outstandingly dishonest even by Nigel Farage's standards. Farage knows that the men arrested at Fairford would not have been released if they were still suspected to be terrorists. He's stirring up fear, hatred & resentment against both immigrants & the police. Pure malice.
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Parades Committee should have inserted the clause that the Orange Order can pass along Garvaghy Road only if they go on space hoppers.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 22/09/2026
Campaigners who persuaded Wales’ biggest local authority to back disinvestment of workers’ pension fund cash from companies said to be complicit in Israel’s genocide in Palestine are angry the amount invested has actually increased ✍️Martin Shipton
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Anger as value of Welsh pensioners' money invested in firms 'complicit in Israel's genocide' increases
Martin Shipton Campaigners who persuaded Wales’ biggest local authority to back disinvestment of its workers’ pension fund cash from companies said to be complicit in Israel’s genocide in Palestine ar...
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 22/09/2026
Sarah Cooper-Lesadd has faced a torrent of vile and misogynistic online abuse from Reform UK-supporting men following her defection to Plaid Cymru ✍️Emily Price
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Plaid defector faces torrent of misogynistic abuse from Reform-supporting men
Emily Price  Sarah Cooper-Lesadd has faced a torrent of vile and misogynistic online abuse from Reform UK-supporting men following her defection to Plaid Cymru. The Member of the Senedd for Pen-y-bont...
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How do things work with the police these days? Is it 'commit crime then they take action' or do they hold some sort of raffle?
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Farming in the UK has for many years relied on subsidies of one form or another The fact that this all went in 6 hours and many many have missed out is a worrying sign that all is really not well in that industry. Probably a variety of reasons, but a big worry www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours
Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Calls for far-right thug Danny Tommo's arrest after he slashes rescue dinghy Daniel Thomas, also known as 'Danny Tommo', slashed a rescue boat in the English Channel while a crew member was on board www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Calls for far-right thug Danny Tommo's arrest after he slashes rescue dinghy
Daniel Thomas, also known as 'Danny Tommo' slashed a rescue boat in the English Channel while a crew member was on board
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The total weaponisation of the poppy over the last ten years by the right is undoubtedly one of the more unpleasant and depressing elements in our national pantomime. It's become a de facto nationalist symbol.
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Things that aren't patriotic: - Racism - Moving abroad for tax purposes Things that are patriotic: - A love and sense of duty to your country, including paying taxes that contribute to it
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
oH bUt we'VE hAd EnOUgh of eXPerTs.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hello @BBC #Radio4, any discussion on the mental health of young people without a single reference to having a livable planet, shows how out of touch you are.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How the BBC’s latest platforming of the bigoted views of the anti-migrant billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is the sign of a national broadcaster that is increasingly losing its way www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...
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How the BBC Mainstreams the Right’s Anti-Migrant, Anti-British Agenda
The BBC’s platforming of the bigoted views of billionaire tax exile Jim Ratcliffe is just the latest sign of a national broadcaster that has lost its way
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
'Monaco immigrant has a moan about UK immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A billionaire who demands subsidies from my government isn't someone who we should be taking advice from. I also suggest he does a bit of reading about our history and then he might educate himself about immigration.
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Lord give me the arrogance of a tax exile who feels the right to comment on the tax policies and general running of a country who you have deprived of billions by registering yourself in Monaco
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Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Palantir have just bought themselves a Labour Lord with close links to the Labour government. No other word to describe this other than corruption. How can Watson remain a member of the House of Lords and keep the Labour whip?
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Iran has just declared that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the orange felon is removed from power. Looks like Iran has held all the cards from the very beginning of this illegal disastrous war. The orange felon and drunkard rapist fox host should be in jail.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Burnham et al. whinging that next budget will be difficult (for us) but not doing the single thing that will improve economy and his position- rejoin SM and CU. Face the obvious and face down the xenophobes and tax dodgers or get out.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Today we remember #OwainGlyndŵr, who fought for a Wales that could govern itself 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 More than 600 years later, that ambition lives on. Plaid Cymru will always stand up for #Wales to have the voice, powers and resources we need to shape our own future ✊
Owain Glyndŵr on horseback and "Owain Glyndwr Day" in bold white text.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 16/09/2026
People across Wales are marking Owain Glyndŵr Day today - a celebration of Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Prince of Wales and founder of the first Welsh parliament
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A nation rising: Wales marks Owain Glyndŵr Day
Stephen Price People across Wales are marking Owain Glyndŵr Day today – a celebration of Owain Glyndŵr, the last native Prince of Wales and founder of the first Welsh parliament. On 16 September every...
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Plaid Cymru @plaidcymru.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Heddiw rydym yn cofio Owain Glyndŵr, a brwydrodd dros hunan-lywodraeth i Gymru 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dros 600 o flynyddoedd yn ddiweddarach, mae'r uchelgais hwnnw'n parhau. Bydd Plaid Cymru wastad yn sefyll i fyny dros Gymru a'r pwerau ac adnoddau sydd angen i lunio dyfodol ein hunain ✊
Owain Glyndŵr on horseback and "Owain Glyndwr Day" in bold white text.
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Dr Lindsay Maxwell @parisdaguerre.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I’m furious that the Government having talked about setting a limit to donations to political parties that they haven’t done it. Now we have a second crypto /dark money donor funding Farage. For God’s sake we don’t want our politics to be bought & turned into USA2 .
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Easy to donate: rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And what you really think is the most hackneyed bunch of Westminster talking points imaginable
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 12/09/2026
A lot of people pushing back against what they see as AI "scaremongering" cite Y2K as an example of something with dire warnings attached that passed off without major issues. But that's only because the world spent over $600 billion remedying a known and easy to define problem. There was a wolf.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I should add that this is nothing new for me or anyone who aims to be trans ally - five years of it around Monkey Cage This will give you some idea www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...
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The Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a manufacturer I'm through with trying to make #Brexit work. It is impossible. One specific- #NorthernIreland, we're stopping exporting there. Either get UK back in CU and SM, or reunify Ireland. The latter will happen anyway but more quickly because of Brexit.
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The RNLI is the best of us. Any Blackshorts who think volunteers saving lives at sea are somehow bad people is at best an sad idiot and a dupe. At worst …. (Suggestions welcome)
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Hail the Blackshorts!
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Jason Arday's students and colleagues meet to demand action for Black students, academics After Jason Arday's death, change must come. It must come fast - and it must be far more than an 'investigation', students tell the Canary. www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Jason Arday's students and colleagues meet to demand action for Black students, academics
After Jason Arday's death, change must come. It must come fast - and it must be far more than an 'investigation', students tell the Canary.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 07/09/2026
If the police can arrest an elderly female vicar for protesting against the genocide in Gaza, then they can arrest the people responsible for the ‘thuggish and intimidating behaviour’ happening in Portsmouth, can't they? ✍️Alun Smith wp.me/p8Mk4U-1sCD
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The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk · 07/09/2026
"You can't need a £5 million donation because you're so concerned about your own security but allow your supporters to assault whoever they want, and respond with 'boo hoo'." Why is Robert Jenrick OK with a young woman being attacked by Reform voters? www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/refo...
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Reform is falling apart – and Robert Jenrick’s ‘boo hoo’ comment exposes exactly why | The News Agents
Tory defector Robert Jenrick responded to footage of a young woman being assaulted by Reform UK supporters by saying she should “get a life”. Why is the UK’s hard right OK with some incidents of…
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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The man who beat two female protesters with his cane at the Reform conference has been identified as Stephen Cooling - it’s actually there on his conference tag - former UKIP candidate for Erdington and now member of Reform’s Sutton Coldfield branch. Presumably West Mids Police have enough info now
Snarling man with cane in Reform shirt, showing conference badge
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
At the same time as banning myself and other journalists from their conference this week, this is who Reform laid out the red carpet for www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Raise the Colours leader given access to Reform UK conference while on bail
Ryan Bridge, arrested this year on suspicion of religiously and racially aggravated harassment, says party invited him
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/09/2026
2014: Harmful air pollution above legal limits. 2024: Harmful air pollution driven down to legal limits. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dr David Weston🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦 @drdave89.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The party currently calling itself the Conservative Party are irrelevant. They are a far-right nostalgia with nothing to offer other than a Reform tribute act.
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