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Dr Mark Dunford

@drmarkd.bsky.social
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Lapsed academic, researcher, writer, consultant and Digital Storyteller;Twitter migrant. Evertonian. 🇪🇺🌈

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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Put simply, I would argue that the most urgent task is to start the process of rejoining the EU. We desperately need that boost to the economy to be able to afford to do all the other stuff. Let’s Get on with it.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@stellacreasy.bsky.social great to see someone talking sensibly and constructively about Europe and EU on @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
These 2 books by @wildtwin.bsky.social and JWGoll will be officially released ONE WEEK from today. Pre-orders are still possible at www.sacredparasite.com. All pre-orders are receiving a literary bonus. And as of tomorrow, all pre-orders pre-ordered before today will have been mailed. Thank you!
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Jeff Young @wildtwin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy Second Birthday to Wild Twin. ‘…this exceptional memoir…richly detailed and observant.’ Adelle Stripe ‘ A surging heart-song.’ Iain Sinclair There’s a new stash in Liverpool Waterstones if you’re looking for one or you can order one here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...
Two copies of book Wild Twin by Jeff Young, collaged covers, bookshelf in Liverpool Waterstones on the book’s second birthday
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What I love about Western democracy is you can bung a political party £ 36 million earned from criminal activity & most media will continue to point at asylum seekers & migrant care workers with families as the barbarians at the gate we need to defend ourselves from 🙄.
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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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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A small number of MPs taking lucrative second jobs is giving all MPs a bad name. We're calling on the Government to take action on MPs' second jobs. Please sign our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/199569/...
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MPs' Second Jobs
A small number of MPs taking lucrative second jobs is giving all MPs a bad name. We're calling on the Government to take action on MPs' second jobs. Please sign our letter.
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Melissa Combs @melissacombs.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
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Knitting Cat @dameknittingcat.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
THIS is the story that needs to be amplified
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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Arday found dead and a very large number of British commentators are deleting posts and videos.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
worth saying this isn't just a British press problem, for some reason Arday was also written about extensively in mainstream national publications in the US and in France, among others, we really do have an entirely fucked up global media ecosystem
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Hardeep Matharu @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Jason Arday's utterly sad death holds a stark mirror up to the dehumanising political-media-societal culture we are in – one we must all be honest about being complicit in – which forgets there is a human being at the centre of a story, a case study, an issue, a scandal. It is dehumanising.
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The Clacton byelection cost taxpayers a quarter of a million pounds. That is the cost of employing six NHS nurses for a year. Put that on the side of a bus.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Nephew staying with us. He is part Italian and raised in Senegal. Offered the outsider's view that this seems to be a strangely antiquated way to change a Government in a democracy. It is true yet there is a glimmer of hope that this could be rectified if mooted action on electoral reform occurs.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Just as i think Americans can’t embarrass themselves any further, miss piggy appears at the World Cup final to prove me wrong
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
37 Hitchcock Cameo Appearances Over 50 Years: All in One Video
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37 Hitchcock Cameo Appearances Over 50 Years: All in One Video
Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos sometimes lasted just a few brief seconds, and sometimes a little while longer.
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Kerry Ferguson @kickingk74.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The slow death of the UK university sector is a travesty & will make the UK financially & culturally poorer in decades to come. Whole areas of expertise will be lost & cannot easily be regained. Such a shame.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Reading reports around Badenoch's latest speech. You've got to wonder how someone can misread the zeitgeist so badly, no one approves of "language policing" (assuming it means unwarranted censorship) but a basic civility is something we should expect from elected politicians in public discourse.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nothing to add.
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Around 29,000 lightning strikes light up sky across southern England. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Up to 29,000 lightning strikes light up sky across southern England
Thunderstorms caused flash flooding and travel disruption across parts of England, with more extreme heat expected on Tuesday.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
First Labour leader not from streets of North London since 2010. Not quite sure what this means but it is certainly indicative of something.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Brixton Market is at risk of being bought by private equity developers, which could push out independent traders and bring in chain stores. Locals are launching an emergency counter-bid to bring it into community ownership by June 22. Sign to keep it independent: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bu...
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Back the community bid to keep Brixton Market independent
Private equity developers are trying to buy Brixton Market. Support the local traders' emergency counter-bid to keep it in community hands before the June 22nd deadline. Add your name to the petition:
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
magazine.newstatesman.com/2026/06/10/t... This piece about migration, ethnicity and the World Cup from David Goldblatt illustrates changing nature of just about everything through prism of tournament where the key host sees nothing beyond commercial opportunity. @newstatesman1913.bsky.social
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The MAGA World Cup
Could football be a symbolic riposte to Trump’s xenophobia?
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Excellent on the Government's problem of trying to meet expectations the budget doesn't cover when you're boxed in by your own rules. The country won't sit still while Labour tries to resolve this. It is clear that Starmer has got worse at the his job over time - growing out of rather than into it.
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Caroline Lucas: "We need to recognise that what happened on the streets of Belfast was being orchestrated by the far right, by Elon Musk, by a network of people who actually want this to happen, so it wasn't quite as spontaneous as it looked.. and that has to be stopped"
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Another example of the cowardice that characterises this Govt. They simply don’t have the courage of their convictions and we’re all suffering because of this. Tackling the tech bros is not a limitation on free speech, in fact it is failing to do so that damages the public sphere.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The government needs to leave X. EVERYONE needs to leave X.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
This is a great piece on the chaos within the university sector. Anyone interested shoukd take the time to read and share.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This is an excellent summary of the position we find ourselves in. I've also got a limited sympathy for Starmer who is carrying the can for a collective failure, but this is diminishing as his stubborn belief in his own authority and endless recourse to hiding behind process damage him further.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Petition from Compass calling for electoral reform. Please sign and share. Reform won 1453 council seats and in 45% of these the progressive vote was over 50% of votes cast. We're facing a serious crisis if Labour continues to implode. actionnetwork.org/forms/unite-... @compassoffice.bsky.social
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Unite the Progressive Majority to Build a Better Britain!
Most people want a fairer society, a working democracy, a protected planet. So why split the vote & let the far-right in to destroy it all? That's why I've signed this open letter urging progressive l...
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Letting the days go by.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Even though it is early in this election with many declarations yet to come, it is possible to say that for first time since I started voting, electoral reform is the immediate interests of both major parties - Labour and Conservatives- plus Lib Dems and Greens. Carpe Diem.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Local conservative candidate came by. Asked who I was voting for, I said I hadn’t decided but it wouldn’t be for him. He replied“vote Green, it’s time for a change”. Our ward is solid labour so he hopes to split the vote. He wished me good luck and said I was rude when I could not wish him the same.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
🟨 Print Edition — Welcome to The Fête of Britain As the polls closed in Gorton and Denton on 26 February, a clearly knackered Zack Polanski on BBC Newsnight was asked about a campaign leaflet distributed by the Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin claiming that “it takes more than a piece of paper…
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Welcome to The Fête of Britain
As the polls closed in Gorton and Denton on 26 February, a clearly knackered Zack Polanski on BBC Newsnight was asked about a campaign leaflet distributed by the Reform UK candidate Matt Goodwin claiming that “it takes more than a piece of paper to make somebody British”. The post Welcome to The Fête of Britain appeared first on Byline Times.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It is more or less impossible to overstate how unreliable the train service is in this country. I’m currently 90 minutes into a 60 minute journey and we’re stuck at another red signal around 30 minutes or so away from the destination. It is the third similar journey in a week.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Why would someone get up early at around 7am on a bleak Tuesday in January, head off to their local swimming pool and then stand waist high in 1m of water near the edge of the pool for nearly 30 minutes? I'm just curious about what motivates people. Nothing to do with having to navigate an obstacle.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
All of these people - Mogg, Farage, Carswell, Jenrick, Hannan and the rest need to be forever reminded of what they backed and supported
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15/01/2026
#OtD 15 Jan 1919 revolutionary socialists Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were murdered by the far-right paramilitary Freikorps who were acting on behalf of the Social Democratic government during the events following the 1918 revolution. Learn more: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/the...
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Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
‘Knowledge of Beauty.’ The second film by Jack Hazan shot in County Mayo in the West of Ireland using 35mm film which Jack said made the scenery look more lush than normal. About the 3 films Jack said, ‘I listened to what Kevin had to say and tried to interpret what he wanted. I didn’t betray him.’
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Dexys Midnight Runners - Knowledge Of Beauty
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Helen O’Hara @oharaviolin.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
‘Listen To This.’ The 3rd film by Jack Hazan. Kevin sang live for this. Extraordinarily powerful. I love how Jack shot the band at the end.
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Dexys Midnight Runners, Kevin Rowland - Listen To This
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
This is only a start- albeit a very welcome one. Musk has dragged the platform formerly known as Twitter into a cesspit.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Nephew, 23, lives and works in Munich, studied across EU, raised in Italy and Senegal. I just explained to him what a food bank is and why we were donating. He'd never encountered anything like it. Not exactly sure what this says about him but it certainly says something about inequality in UK.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Peth/Jonathan @jpeth.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This comes out today, & the writing of it has been almost as fascinating as co-creating the shows it deals with - work that emerged from and added to community. Ta to the people @intellectbooks.bsky.social and London Bubble who saw me through - plus all the creators who made and performed the work.
Beneath the title “Vernacular Theatre - Making Theatre with Community”, a young girl throws pieces of torn paper into the air - a neutral expression on her face.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Powerful words from @alexnurse.bsky.social - who simply doesn’t want to be killed while commuting to and from work
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'I don't want to be an obituary in the ECHO, we need change'
Dad-of-two writes powerful letter after facing near-death experiences on the roads of Liverpool
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Never met Rachel Cooke but I loved her writing. A wonderful eclectic range of interests that often overlapped with mine. She had an exiled northern voice, witty and erudite. I’ll miss her work and this lovely tribute from @timadamswrites.bsky.social explains why.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Our Island Stories by @corinnefowler.bsky.social is a really powerful read. More than a historical exploration of rural Britain, it shows how colonialism haunts our present and interrogates the psychological impact of things too easily taken for granted. Like a good walk - it is best taken slowly.
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Dr Mark Dunford @drmarkd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Listening to the reliably wonderful @gidcoe.bsky.social on 6 music and realised I’d been listening to his musical choices since his time on GLR breakfast show - many moons ago. Still playing great material.
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