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Steve McCann

@gallese.bsky.social
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Retired lecturer living in Ledbury. Welsh Irish. Graduate in Italian. Socialist getting more left wing as I get older. Life long anti-fascist. No DMs, please.

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Marlowe_UK @irishdreamer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Please share widely. Let’s make this prick famous And unemployable
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
MEL BROOKS talks about giving GENE WILDER his first cup of coffee, plying him with chocolate, and how their working relationship beautifully mirrored Fellini’s with Alberto Sordi. “Everything Gene did for me as a film artist was angelic & supreme.”
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 23h
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22h
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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
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The Room Next Door - Kemi Badenoch
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Racism ruins everything.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Glory to Ukraine
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 09/10/2026
This is 100% the right move. No one should have to suffer the indignity of damp, mould or other hazards in their homes. The government has my full backing on this.
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Government launches consultation on extending Awaab’s Law to private sector and temporary accommodation
The government has launched a consultation on extending Awaab’s Law to temporary accommodation and the private rented sector.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Keep your Great British lawn and your garden borders secure with the… WEEPING TOMMO™ From the new Private Eye, out now.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exactly what “standards” are those, Robert? You collude with pornographers over property deals. You take dodgy donations. You whore for racists and christofascists for personal gain. You betray your political allies, friends and your country to sniff at power. You have no standards. You’re poison.
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 09/10/2026
She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Moral: If you don't like false rumours circulating about you, don't spread them about others ... meem via Truth Against Hate
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Fuck. Off.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is absolutely damning. A must-read.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Would you be on board with that plan?
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
via Zurainee Tehek
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Matthew Wright @matthew-wright.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Out on patrol nice and early. Pleased to report no fascists spotted on the beach again. Happy days x
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
More Reform attacks on RNLI, mean more donations to volunteer heroes, faster Reform falls in polls "Tice, Oakshott (his GF) and Farage attacking the charities that save lives.Tice and Oakshot from the safety of their tax haven in Dubai where they avoid paying tax on their earnings" via Barry James
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Steve McCann @gallese.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I had very modest O Level results and I failed all my A Levels. As a mature student I went on to get a 2.1 first degree and later a Masters, both in Italian, which I had not studied previously. Subsequently, I studied Housing at postgraduate level and got a PGCE, ending up teaching HE.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Accidentally”.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No outraged speech from Reform UK 'I'm not racist' Farage, no social media disgust from Restore Britain Lowe, no marches by Patriot Platform ... maybe, just maybe, because none of them are black or brown! meme via We Demand UK
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🤣👏 @mrjohncrace.bsky.social
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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
UK govt plans £1bn energy bills help for poorer households. How about cutting energy profit margins, 100% windfall tax on excess profits before turning to the public purse. UK energy sector is mostly foreign-owned. Dividends paid without any UK tax deduction. End this perk, raise billions.
theguardian.com
Chancellor plans major intervention to help poorer UK households with rising energy bills
Exclusive: Officials working on further radical changes that would change how much energy companies could charge customers
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Finish every day and be done with it.” Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to his daughter in 1854.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Does very much feel like the Badenoch Tories are a busted flush.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Archer’s resignation from the London mayoral race after it was revealed he lied in court was the thing that got Paul Foot up from his sickbed and contributing again, having first started chronicling Archer’s lies and misdemeanours in 1969. From the Private Eye archive. Issue 992, December 1999.
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Steve McCann @gallese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They continue to pay into the state through all the other indirect taxes they pay regardless of their income.
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 05/10/2026
Standing up to the balaclava nonces. Inspiring.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As Nick later says he "WAS" the Tory Mayoral candidate and indeed it was as a result of running for the gig that he was ultimately brought to justice. This wasn't "a thing that happened"
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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Just the dumbest collection of halfwit confetti emerging out of that conference. Tax cuts everywhere, paid for with imaginary spending cuts. Huge spending projects with precisely zero utility, except to anchor their 'defence day' narrative. Clowns.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is 'no money' because everything has been privatised and all the money now goes to billionaires and trillion dollar corporations that don't pay any tax. There ends today's lesson on the obvious.
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Steve McCann @gallese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Neoliberalism is not dead!
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have heard rumours that Richard Tice heads a company called Britain Means Business, that has no employees and sells no products but takes in very large donations from foreign based people and forwards them to Reform UK Ltd. I can't believe this is true, but if it is it should bring down Reform.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Left: The Tories claim they’ll save taxpayers nearly £1bn a year by cutting student loans to “foreign students”. Right: Most international students on Student visas don’t qualify for UK student finance in the first place. So where exactly are these £1bn “savings” coming from?
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The book is Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett. His description here perfectly prefigures the recruitment process for ICE agents :
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As long as the Tories are threatening to leave the ECHR, they aren’t a serious party. Consider it the ultimate red flag. Any party who’d take this entirely unnecessary and ruinous risk with our rights and our country’s security and wellbeing should never get its hands on power. (Letter, Times)
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Sir, In dangerous times, serious countries do not retreat into splendid isolation. They build alliances, multiply their influence and strengthen institutions. Key among those is the 46-member Council of Europe, at its heart the European Convention on Human Rights.As former independent reviewers of terrorism legislation we have seen at close quarters that the ECHR is not just a human rights instrument. It is a national security asset. Terrorist networks, hostile states, organised crime gangs and people smugglers do not respect borders. Tackling them requires arrangements for the closest possible co-operation with our neighbours, including through joint investigations and police access to European passenger, fingerprint, DNA and vehicle data.These arrangements expressly depend on internationally agreed human rights standards, applied by a supranational court. We detect no political willingness to excuse the UK from compliance with standards to which the rest of Europe already subscribes. As authoritarian powers grow more aggressive and democratic institutions face mounting pressure, Britain should not be abandoning one of its greatest postwar achievements.
The question is not whether we can afford to remain within the ECHR. It is whether, in an increasingly perilous world, we can afford not to.
Lord Carlile of Berriew, Lord Anderson of Ipswich, Sir Max Hill
Independent reviewers of terrorism legislation, 2001-18
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Robert Jenrick’s handling of donations to his failed 2024 Tory leadership campaign has come under fresh scrutiny, after the UK donor at the centre of the row claimed that the politician and his senior campaign staff knew about the involvement of an overseas donor. www.ft.com/content/38a5...
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Reform UK’s Robert Jenrick faces fresh accusation from campaign donor
British businessman Phillip Ullmann says the politician was aware of his relationship with potentially illicit US donor
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026
good news! good news! [walking around ringing a big bell] some good news for once!
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
'2 year suspended sentence and 200 hours community service/unpaid work' "Imagine the carnage if this guy was brown!......" via We Demand UK
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Steve McCann @gallese.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jenrick's self-serving performance achieved nothing.
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What is money, really? The hardest question in economics needs an answer. That's what this morning's video is all about. youtu.be/Rs5fIopDHI8?...
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What is money, really?
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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
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