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Steve Halley

@engelbert1969.bsky.social
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Humanism Critical thinking Fairness Evidence Support Zelensky and Ukraine. USA: us Brits/Europeans need a plan B asap #buyBritish #buyEuropean #buyCanadian Block trolls Staffordshire Moorlands Green Party member All opinions my own

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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'That's what I came here for... to learn to dance' Deserves another week or two then for me
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I wondered too :)
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Brilliant
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.samaritans.org/branches/lee... I had the great pleasure of meeting this guy on Saturday... www.thelisteningwalk.com Smaritans can be contacted on 116 123.
samaritans.org
David Matthews comes to Leek as part of the "Listening Walk"
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name? 38d.gs/jpcf
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Cows are cool 🤣
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm assuming cows on a Thursday is a bit unusual?
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *SimplicityCremations *Boxt *Dormeo *Tufferman *AllClearTravel *Qhitescarcave *Dialaflight *WeFixLondon *TheGardeningClub *WhatStores *RepairMyKitchen *Madisonandmayfair *TrailFinders *AquaWarehouse *Powerjetpro *Love2Stay *YourUnbelievaBowl
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Starting to think Burhnam's balls are as small as Starmer's
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Mason is doing exactly the job the management want him to do so without a change he's going nowhere
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Issues adding alt text, so, the first image shows the view down the rugged rocky north coast of Valentia Island to the Valentia lighthouse on the horizon with crashing waves just visible. The 2nd image is facing North across the sea to Beginish Island and mainland Ireland
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This year's morning 'yoga with Steve' location. Bit fresher than last year but no less beautiful
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Alan Helliwell @alan160755.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Shop at the Coop, at local independent shops & markets where possible. Grow stuff wherever you can. Vote Green, as they appear to be the only Party currently expressing concern about our impending extinction. Tell anyone you know who reads the Mail to stop being an embarrassing moron.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Today's Express also promotes the dangerous trope portraying refugees as an inherent "danger" to women and girls. Today's Express advertisers include Tesco, Coop, NS&I, Ryobi & Gtech
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today's GB News TV advertisers include *SimplicityCremations *Boxt *Dialaflight *AllClearTravel *Tufferman *DormeoUK *YourUnbelievaBowl *MansfieldFireplaceAndStoveCentre *TrailFinders *TheCarWarehouse *Maxus *ArdenParks *Revitive *Movinglife *RepairMyKitchen *DaysMotorGroup *Powerjetpro
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Boxt are now out of the running for a £6k battery installation
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This dangerous, extreme, inflammatory rhetoric is what Ikea are supporting by advertising on Talk. Take action: www.facebook.com/IKEAUK/
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don't wish the man any harm but why waste your breath?
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It’s shocking how water companies have gotten away with polluting our waterways with sewage. We’re handing in our petition next week, and we need to make sure the Government can’t ignore us. We’re pushing for 350,000 signatures — can you add your name and help us get there?
you.38degrees.org.uk
End the sewage pollution scandal
It’s shocking how water companies have gotten away with polluting our waterways with sewage. That’s why more than 319,000 of us have signed the petition demanding an end to the sewage scandal. We’re...
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This is great. I don't have room for it but I will be building a gazebo for a couple of plug in solar panels.
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bucket list ✅️ ... last week, walked the Pilgrims Way to Holy Island across the tidal mud flats. The most beautiful of days. With @willh579.bsky.social
Selfie of me with  the poles marking the route across the sand and the early morning sun behind meSelfie of me and my son with the salt marsh and early morning sun behind us
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Something radical is very much needed and this could be explored, but... who can afford to volunteer full time for a year before going to university? Just the wealthy kids?
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
... make you need a wee
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Alistair King @alistairking.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Struggling to work out why Jenrick would single out these three Commonwealth countries rather than, say, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, whose citizens have exactly the same rights. It’s a head-scratcher.
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Brilliant and good luck. I also have little faith in any visible outcome but if it's read by one person at the BBC then that's a result. Anything else is a bonus.
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Here's my critical email response to the Government's Watch This Space consultation. Anyone can feel free to use it themselves for their own response as is or amended / improved. Text copyable in alt text of 1st image. Email to watchthisspace@dcms.gov.uk
Dear DCMS Media Policy Team,

Please find below my formal response to the "Watch this Space" public consultation. I am writing as an individual viewer to express my strong objections to the proposed strategic direction for the UK media sector and the expansion of regulatory interventions on digital platforms.

Section 1: The vision for a thriving and secure UK media sector
My Response:I strongly oppose the vision outlined here if it relies on state intervention to distort the media market. A thriving media sector must be built on fair competition, consumer choice, and the independent merit of content creators, not regulatory protectionism.

Section 2: Ensuring the sustainability of public service broadcasting
My Response:Public service broadcasters (PSBs) must earn their audience on their own merits. If traditional TV channels are losing popularity, they need to reflect on their own output and improve. Artificially propping up failing models through regulatory advantages is an unsustainable approach.

Section 3: Prominence and visibility on digital platforms
My Response:I am completely against forcing digital platforms to alter their algorithms to boost PSBs. Forcing mainstream channels into user feeds is a perverse attempt to unlevel the playing field. Viewers choose digital platforms precisely to escape traditional TV formats, and that choice must be respected.

Section 4: Public interest journalism and news delivery
My Response:I strongly object to state-mandated boosting of mainstream news. For example, I actively avoid BBC News due to perceived right-wing, establishment bias, political influence, and a general dumbing down of content. Forcing these specific, biased news feeds onto the public via algorithms is unacceptable.

Section 5: Supporting independent creators and the wider ecosystem
My Response:The proposed changes will directly harm independent creators by pushing them down the algorithmic ladder to make room for traditional broadcasters. The digital ec…
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
the amount of grace these racist fucks receive is just loony
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Do you know how much of a vile vulgar depraved despicable asshole you’d have to be to deliberately want to destroy a good-standing relationship with Canada?
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I particularly appreciate this one Emma. In my opinion one of the most poignant and powerful pieces of your work I've seen.
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...
action.friendsoftheearth.uk
Tell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disaster
One of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend...
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Emma Monk is a genius. Please support her.
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The Press is gonna Press... duck and dive and twist and deflect and contorted and lie. They can't be allowed to get away with it.
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Support what non-US tech you can and the alternatives will come
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
As an individual, I've been de American-ising too. UK and EU really need to up their game on this because 100% non US tech is nowhere near yet. Proton seem to be making a good effort tho
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Over 3000 people died this summer due to excess heat.
Richard Rice: Scrap net zero and enjoy the weather
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Enjoy your crop failures, constant wildfires, runaway food inflation, water shortages, failing electricity grid, fainting NHS staff, sleepless months, and family heat deaths. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Our exciting new announcement is that we want to cut benefits for disabled people! This will help to fund our plan to slash capital gains tax on crypto assets from 24% to 10%, benefitting crypto billionaires like Christopher Harborne, who coincidentally gave me £5m.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name
goodlawproject.org
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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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The disproportionate scrutiny was 100% because he was black
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Steve Halley @engelbert1969.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It's appalling
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