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John Denham @jydenham.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Calls to ‘reclaim the flag’ amid a ‘never-ending fight’ again simply tar English identity uniquely with the far right. It risks alienating the very English identifiers Labour needs to win. They don’t see themselves as far right; it sounds like Labour does. www.thesun.co.uk/news/3459195...

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Sir Keir issues rallying cry to 'reclaim our flag' for St George’s Day

DEFIANT Sir Keir Starmer has issued a St George’s Day rallying cry to the country in the “never-ending fight for the flag”. The Prime Minister launches a savage attack on those who “sow division” &…

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Mind your own business! Can't a ferret have a night on the town without being plastered all over social media?

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Ethnic nationalists convinced they've won the argument because the Joe guy points out that England is a cultural and historical fact and mentions that we don't have a parliament. Most people would agree with that and always have done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrEP...

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PoliticsJOE Realise They Are English Nationalists

YouTube video by Lotuseaters Dot Com

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I watched Free Guy with my kids (12 & 14) last night. They loved it. My hot take is that it's Gen Z's answer to The Matrix with a bit of The Truman Show thrown in. It doesn't take itself too seriously though and is essentially a funny action film. www.imdb.com/title/tt6264...

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Free Guy (2021) ⭐ 7.1 | Action, Adventure, Comedy

1h 55m | PG-13

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This somewhat creepy painting in a Totnes pub always reminds me of Rishi Sunak.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Wild boar strolling through Poundsgate this morning. #Dartmoor

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Emmanuel Petit looks like he's on his way to the Dragonpit to order a dragon to serve him in High Valyrian.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The Government is set to allow local elections to be delayed in large parts of England. We don't think democracy should be put on the back burner like this. Add your name to our letter. secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/164357/...

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Back our campaign

The Government is set to allow local elections to be delayed in large parts of England. We don't think democracy should be put on the back burner like this. Add your name to our letter.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A round from our family Christmas Quiz. Name that chocolate bar.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

If you're not at the Exmouth Caribbean Cristmas Party, you're a loser. That's just the way it is!

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I'd be horrified if Reform UK received millions from Musk, but at the same time I think Farage is correct. Labour and the Tories have been trousering money from private healthcare, off-shore sources and dodgy multi-millionaires for years, with kickbacks.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

There's only one way to settle this 51st state idea: mano a mano. You name the place and King Charles will be there, Trump.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

As a bloke it pains me to say it but maybe the Church of England should consider putting women in charge of safeguarding. The blokes seem pretty shit at it. chng.it/T92ZjFjNQp

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RESIGNATION of STEPHEN COTTRELL, Archbishop of York

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

On a more pleasant note than the previous post, I went over to my parents earlier to help them with some heavy lifting and gardening. This is a picture of their front door. Yes, those are huge lemons. Coastal Devon microclimate. They even have a banana plant that sometimes fruits.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

We frequently get foxes predating our poultry (chickens, ducks & geese). The duck and geese can take to the water but the chickens are sitting, err, ducks, so to speak.

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English Commonwealth @ecommonwealth.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Why can’t the English realise that their national / regional identity is far more protected within the European Union than within the UK? englishcommonwealth.net/2024/12/14/w...

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Why can’t the English realise?

European Movement UK recently did a webinar featuring Caroline Lucas and John Denham on the Role of National Identity in the Journey Back to Europe. It’s well worth a watch.In the Q&As th…

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The Red Wall in Wales should come tumbling down. Give @plaidcymru.bsky.social a go Wales. Labour have lied to you over HS2 money, voted against Crown Estate devolution and you know they won't support you having the same powers as Scotland. Kick them into touch.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Retiring for the night after binge-watching One Hundred Years of Solitude on Netflix. Adaptations of much loved novels are tricky but I think they pulled this off.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Six votes for Tasha, just for that show dance. JB's orange suit number was good but there should be only one winner. #Strictly

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

It's beginning to feel a bit like Christmas in Widecombe.

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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Excl: Government will move to scrap district councils in its devolution white paper on Monday, sparking the biggest local government reorganisation in 50 years on.ft.com/3VBH0ui

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District councils face scrapping in major overhaul of English local government

[FREE TO READ] Devolution white paper aims to create larger authorities and more elected mayors

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

It's weird how people are so partisan over their political party. As if there's something special about the Conservative Party. It's just a vehicle (one whose wheels happen to have fallen off).

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Chelsea their own worst enemy in that half, sloppy distribution at the back and two slips from Cucurella.

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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Why cannot Labour explicitly talk abt England? A majority of Starmer's milestones unveiled today are England specific. Yet this is not explicit in the presentation & politics today. Not talking abt England confuses voters & leaves the populist right to claim this territory. #C4News

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

All clubs should have a no camera policy. London's Fabric cover your phone camera with some tape as you go in. It's not foolproof but it seems to work and it makes the atmosphere better.

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Time to get smartphones off the dancefloor?

A new nightclub is opening and introducing a strict no phones on the dancefloor policy.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Nice sunrise out the bedroom window. #Dartmoor.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

You're not following me anyway, so what ya gonna do?

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"So, when someone born or bred in England tells you – or perhaps when you yourself say – “I don’t feel English”, it is not just a claim to uniqueness, it is English nationalism." www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/1...

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Who can answer the English Question?

Great Britain’s largest constituent is a nation lost within a multinational state.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I'm certainly not going to defend Gregg Wallace but can the media circus please move on? The guy has been absolutely monstered, far more so than the Archbishop of Canterbury who covered up institutional child abuse, and quite frankly events in Korea, Palestine, Ukraine and Syria are more important.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Wow, Tim Montgomerie, creator of Conservative Home, one of the more considered Tory commentators IMO, has defected to @reformparty-uk.bsky.social. I can't help but feel that this is a political moment. The scales are tipping away from the traditional parties of Westminster.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Nation: A group of people of shared cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and/or historical ancestry usually occupying a defined political territory. Region: a notable area. Could have deeper cultural or geographical significance, can cross or be within national boundaries, or just administrative.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

me: has anyone seen my bag of Cheesy Wotsits? Angus, Shetland, Series 9:

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Today's Dartmoor is Quintessential Dartmoor. The stereotype. Fog is a pain in the arse if you're driving or want to admire the vista, but in a familiar place it can impart an ethereal stillness and quietness that's quite beautiful and refreshing.

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Paul @bingowings14.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

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Independent Voices @indyvoices.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

‘no other major power is quite as conflicted about whether it is even a nation to begin with, let alone what it takes to act like one.’ But what caused Britain’s demise? #Brexit #Indyref2 indyvoices.info/who-killed-b...

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Who killed Britain? | Independent Voices

Why Britain is in its death spiral

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

River Dart is raging. There are people kayaking on this. Doesn't look too bad here at Holne Bridge but further up where the gradient is steeper it's scary.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Dear streaming services, I'm not starting a series until you've released all the episodes. No one can be arsed waiting a week for the next episode of Shetland or Slow Horses. Stop being dicks. On behalf of binge-watchers everywhere.

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James Hawes @jameshawes.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

And given that the UK was founded in 1801 for the sole purpose of assimilating Ireland, it should logically have ended, having evidently failed in its one mission, in 1922.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

One for you, @anthonybarnett.bsky.social I've highlighted the fault. Should read 'England'. Ironically, it was the failure to forge a confident English identity (Labour too busy concentrating on Scotland, Wales and then Brown's Britishness) that scuppered this European dream.

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I didn't manage to get out for a walk until most of the snow had gone. #Dartmoor

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Gareth Young @gaf-young.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Upgrade or downgrade? Regardless, this was my first computer. I used to ride my BMX to the local video store to spend my pocket money on a cassette from Codemasters.

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