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Dr Michael Flannery

@drmichaelflannery.bsky.social
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Dynamic Objects Conservator, Clockmaker, British Civil Defence PhD , Things Mechanical, History of Technology, Quite Boring, probably.

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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I really don’t care what the leader of the opposition thinks about anything to be quite honest, and I don’t think many other people care much either.
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Is it a DS George Cross day? @timsullivanauthor.bsky.social @theguardian.com
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Only someone with a heart of stone wouldn't laugh at the demise of Jenrick's political gambit... playing out here in real time
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I think we could find a 'put you up bed' for Prince Harry if he is pushed for accommodation, in the next couple of weeks.
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Looking forward to seeing how Kemi spins the election result as a win for the tories!
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 26/05/2026
👉 NEW ARTICLE & CAMPAIGN - Nobody Wants to Live Next to a War Criminal by @john-mcevoy.bsky.social ❗️Declassified & @ICJPalestine launch major campaign to demand the end of impunity for UK nationals who fought for Israel in Gaza Pls repost & sign petition www.declassifieduk.org/nobody-wants...
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Nobody wants to live next to a war criminal
Declassified and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) launch a major campaign to demand the end of impunity for British nationals who fought for Israel in Gaza.
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Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Please retweet.
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
@salisbot.bsky.social what a cracking comment!
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
If we get drawn into the war that the USA started, we could not trust the USA not to unilaterally withdraw from what it started and leave everyone one else to clear up the mess!
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Bad enough on BBC R4 pretty well the first thing she said was about honestly, she then started to lie and we have not got to the first record on Desert Island Discs
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
@mattbishopmp.bsky.social @theguardian.com @cerianbond.bsky.social Worried about the potential Chinese Embassy planned for London. It will sit very close to cables carrying important / potentially strategic information. In times of crisis you disrupt communication cables! GB did it, Russia also.
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I seem to have, yet again, failed to catch the selectors eye for this years honours list, Oh what a pity, never mind! @theguardian.com I am heartened by the fact that neither did Nigel Farage.
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alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
This is Richard Smith of the South Durham Hunt and he thinks it’s ok to hit a horse over the head. Make this ‘man’ famous.
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I am sure I have this wrong, but why is the BBC broadcasting the World at One on R4 from Israel? To show "balance" will they also be broadcasting from what is left of Gaza, That is of course if the Gvmt of Israel will allow the BBC into Gaza. @theguardian.com @therestpolitics.bsky.social
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 25/11/2025
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The political and media establishment will try to bury the issue of Farage's ties to Russia, so please repost and share this petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy as widely and as often as possible. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy
We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
🙄look upon this as the 21stC equivalent of that Margaret Thatcher/Jimmy Savile photo … #trump #nigelfarage
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philip-goddard.bsky.social @philip-goddard.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
@theguardian.com Greg Wallace and Prince Andrew for strictly, dream ticket ?
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@fordmotorsofficial.bsky.social @ 60K miles I am having to have a new wet timing belt fitted to my 9 year old Ford Fiesta ecoboost. The wet timing belt must be one of the worst automotive design faults in the last decade. Of course Ford who sell the costly replacement Kit of parts care little.
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Nick Mitchener 🏳️‍🌈 🔭⚛️ @crossjack.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Farage has memory problems, he said he hardly knew him
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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Richard Tice told The Times in March he had “never met Nathan Gill” searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/refo...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty. If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐 There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Some journalists demolished Trump’s wild claims. But it was foreign affairs journalist Ishaan Tharoor who captured the larger story: “A senior foreign diplomat at the UN texts me : ‘This man is stark, raving mad. Do Americans not see how embarrassing this is?’ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...?
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September 23, 2025
In New York City this morning, the United Nations opened its General Assembly, marking the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations itself.
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
When the Conservative party rats are leaving a sinking ship to join another party made up of rats in a leaking dingy, then the right is in a bit of a mess. @steverichards.bsky.social @theguardian.com @therestpolitics.bsky.social
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 11/09/2025
Farage says his partner bought the house with family money. The BBC can’t find that family money: “Her parents, Bertrand and Chantal, live in a flat worth around 350,000 euros (£302,000) in a Strasbourg suburb. They, and their two daughters, co-own the flat.”
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
It is very nearly the tenth anniversary of that brief moment when, for 2 or 3 days, British newspapers remembered refugees are desperate human beings who need our help, rather than scum that it's okay to threaten with violence.
Alan Kurdi, dead on a beach
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thought for the day, when I am forced to use the self checkout in the supermarket, why am I asked for age verification when buying non alcoholic lager? I am 71 and 11/12ths.
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Thank God Netanyahu has nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. So thats a Genocidal War Criminal supporting a Felon and Sexual Predator! you could not make it up. @theguardian.com @therestpolitics.bsky.social
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Sometimes the only thing that really hits the spot is a nice thick slice of bread and a good slathering of butter.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history. Scholars and journalists say Western media’s refusal to confront Israeli war crimes is a form of genocide denial and reinforcing impunity. www.middleeasteye.net/news/experts...
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Western media enabling Gaza genocide and rewriting history, say experts
Scholars and journalists say Western media’s refusal to confront Israeli war crimes is a form of genocide denial and reinforcing impunity
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Sophie Petzal @sonicscrewup.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
As a Jew I am far, FAR more alarmed by our institutions equating me and other Jews with the IDF, who are responsible for the murder of over 80,000 Palestinians, by dint of framing any critique against the IDF as ‘antisemitism.’ Linking all Jews to the IDF is *actual* fucking antisemitism.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
They call this ad “fear mongering”. Compare with the reality above. bsky.app/profile/dhar...
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𝕃𝕒𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕄 @biglarry2k23.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Had to shake my head in disbelief this morning on Netanyahu’s claim about Iran hitting a hospital being a war crime !!With no trace of irony about his and his hateful cabal’s hypocrisy after destroying every hospital, school and clinic in Gaza, & whilst his troops fire into desperate food aid crowds
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Trump is desperate for a Noble Prize and so I think Pakistan will be on his Christmas card list this year
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
‘As Mohammed bin Salman's economic and social reforms have made headlines in recent years, human rights activists have highlighted a parallel crackdown on dissent, including extreme sentences handed out to individuals for their social media posts.’ www.middleeasteye.net/news/campaig...
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Campaigners say Saudi Arabia executed prominent journalist for Twitter account
Supporters of Turki al-Jasser, who had been imprisoned for seven years, say his execution is a result of the impunity that Saudi authorities enjoyed over Khashoggi murder
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Dr Michael Flannery @drmichaelflannery.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I seem to have been missed of the Honours List…….Again!
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
At least 225 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza. “I want to see the journalists’ colleagues from all over the world using their conscience, moral .At least then we can feel that we were not abandoned and the world did not silence our murder.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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Hide the pain: how a war reporter keeps going when their own family are victims
At least 225 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza since 2023. One was the son of Wael al-Dahdouh, who also lost his wife, two other children and a grandchild. Here, he talks about regainin...
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ALQST for Human Rights @alqst.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Over 20k people have now taken action calling for the release of Manahel al-Otaibi — a fitness instructor jailed by #Saudi authorities for her peaceful activism. As she faces retrial on 25 June, let’s keep the pressure up until she’s free. #FreeManahel globalcitizen.org/en/action/re...
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Saudi Arabia: Free Manahel al-Otaibi
Tell Saudi Arabia to free Manahel al-Otaibi and reform laws that suppress women’s rights and free speech. Sign now.
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I spoke with Seán on the Moncrieff show on Newstalk about the dark truth behind Saudi Arabia’s so-called “care homes” — where women are punished for disobedience and dissent. www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...
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The dark truth behind Saudi Arabian "care homes" | Newstalk
In Saudi Arabia, the authorities call them "care homes", when in reality they are institutions fo...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/06/2025
I hear Reform UK are campaigning in Scotland today. It would be tragic if this went viral again... ~AA
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
That would be awful. Don’t share this.
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
🧵 1/ Not enough people are linking Reform & MAGA. It’s time to correct that by talking about Nigel Farage, MAGA money, and a US PR firm with direct ties to Bannon. It’s not patriotism and pints it’s a shared plan and international far-right coordination. Grab a cup of tea and strap in👇
Far right grifter drinks a pint to pretend to be working class
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Maryam Aldossari @maryamaldossari.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
‘No plans to allow any aid into Gaza, says Israeli minister.’ — criminals. Starving a population is not defense; it’s a war crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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No plans to allow any aid into Gaza, says Israeli minister
Israel Katz says blocking aid is ‘one of the main pressure levers’ on Hamas while military announces it has turned 30% of Gaza into buffer zone
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