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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 7h

A first half where I’m spending too much time over-thinking missing Tats again. #pusb

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Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social · 21h

All of these military experts that have been wheeled out to insist that defence spending must rise and welfare must be cut (often with feverish scare-mongering) are on the payroll of at least one defence firm. The only one that isn't goes on luxury ski breaks with them.

The defence spend hawks on our screens demanding welfare spend be redirected to spend on weapons. They’re paid by the arms industry!

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Lord Alan West Sits on the board of Kraken Technology Ltd alongside Mike Pompeo. Kraken design autonomous marine vessels and parter with major arms firm Rheinmetall (Germany) and Palmer Luckey’s sinister defence tech company Anduril (USA). West also Chaired advisory board of arms manufacturer QinetiQ back in 2006 right after he retired from the Navy. “Things like welfare.. are unimportant when you lose a war & you have Russian Chechen stormtroopers coming down the street raping women & killing people”. “It’s all very well have nice funding for children to have breakfast at school, but if you have Russians stomping down your streets killing the children who would have been having breakfast its not a very good swap is it?”
Lord Richard Dannatt On the payroll of a US arms firm (Teledyne) and was found guilty of abusing his position and violating Lords’ lobbying rules to lobby for a commercial venture he was Chairmain of. Starmer will go in ‘bin of history’ if he fails to raise defence budget, says ex-army chief.
General Sir Nick Carter On the payroll of defence tech firm and drone manufacturer Helsing; also strategic adviser, Exigent Capital (corporate strategy for defence firms). Moscow "could initiate hostilities sooner than we expect". Britain is “vulnerable” and “our enemies are watching”.
General Sir Chris Deverell On the payroll of arms manufacturers including Helsing and Babcock. "British plans for defence spending are hopelessly inadequate”. "Deterring Russia demands that we radically increase defence spending, not at some point in the future, but now."
General Sir Nick Houghton Advises defence contractor Thales UK and chairs Defence Holdings PLC. The UK is open to attack because it "still prioritises welfare benefits over national security."

Lord George Robertson On the payroll of Cohen Group (US lobbyists that pushes European governments to buy weaponry from US arms firms) for 20 years, also paid by 5654 & Co (UK lobbying firm who have worked on behalf of arms firms Raytheon and Melrose). He claimed Starmer’s “corrosive complacency” on defence was putting the UK in peril. He complained that the UK spends more on welfare than on defence, saying "there will be no butter if we don't have guns”.
Colonel Richard Kemp Trustee of and Head of the UK branch of AWIS (UK Friends of the Association for the Wellbeing of Israel’s Soldiers) an organisation that raises funds directly for the IDF. Also an advisor to Cardinal Point Strategies whose clients include defence tech, surveillance and cybersecurity providers. CPS helps its clients with “new business markets” and “representing client interests in Washington D.C. providing advice and policy council to members of congress”. Defence spend increases are "not enough; not by a long chalk,". Pentagon and Donald Trump’s defense experts will "not be much impressed when they go through the books." Defends the continued enlistment of 16 and 17-year olds by the British armed forces and wants to re-instate the death penalty for terrorism suspects.
Rich Knighton Spent a week in luxury ski resort Meribel with senior execs and lobbyists from Airbus, Anduril, Palantir and Bain & Co. Also, arms firms paid £995 for 'gold tickets' to attend an event in 2025 where they would have access to Knighton as Head of the UK’s Air Forces. Joined with resigning ministers Al Carns and John Healey to claim increases in defence spending were too low. Also said UK citizens must be prepared for the possibility of losing "sons and daughters" in a potential future conflict, as part of a "whole-of-nation" response to growing global threats, particularly from Russia.
General Sir Richard Barrons Co-chairs the finance industry lobby group TheCityUK's Defence Group. TheCityUK are funded by banks and …

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 13h

In the same way that all Man City’s trophies would still have been won legitimately after they started breaking EPL financial rules.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 14h

We could get illegal immigration down to zero for 5 years on the trot (if there a viable method of measuring it) and these pathetic racists would still be banging the drum about it because they have absolutely nothing else.

Reform UK proposes 40-fold increase in illegal migration checks.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 14h

What possible recent precedents can western-backed govts draw on to learn pertinent lessons about engaging in asymmetric warfare?

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 18h

Meanwhile, the very mention of contingencies in regard to what a NATO looks like without the US is considered terrible strategy and militarily weak.

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bylinepodcast.bsky.social @bylinepodcast.bsky.social · 19h

Only ONE national UK newspaper mentions confirmed Russian interference in Brexit today...funny that! Get the back story with @peterjukes.bsky.social @goldbergradio.bsky.social on the latest @bylinetimes.bsky.social pod... Listen: pod.fo/e/6ab1ad Watch: youtu.be/M8hVq-skssI?...

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Russia's Brexit Meddling Proven

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

These goals - as well as a Man City victory - mean absolutely nothing if the EPL isn’t a sham of a league. #LIVMCI

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The whole song is probs about the most apt Oasis tune for the whole affair. Irony beyond.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

43 minutes gone, no goals and as it stands, Man City aa a club have been cheating their way through this game since kick off. #LIVMCI

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Seems Wes Streeting does recognise a ‘shocking escalation’ when he sees one in the form of an attack on a Saudi airport, just not when it involves the slaughter of 10s of thousands of innocent civilians and the total destruction of their homes and infrastructure. #bbclaurak

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

As with all conversations about housing, it focused mainly on the problem of supply when the main problem is inequality in asset ownership. Any radical proposals to transfer assets, including disincentivising landlordship, is a way forward. Right to buy scheme for private rentals is one way.

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Phil Jones' body double @philsbodydouble.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Average new-build defects by country: Germany < 10 France 10 to 15 Netherlands ~20 Italy 20-25 Spain ~58 UK 130-150 Do you see this, Brits? Judging by the lack of reaction to my post below, you do not. Why do you let them get away with this in the UK? Wake the hell up, this is NOT normal.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Russian influence in the UK’s decision to leave the EU is bad. US and Israeli influence in successive UK Govts disregarding international law and a world order ratified in humanitarian treaties is also bad.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Guest contributor from the Richard Tice school of media training: posh voice/thick as fuck. #LBC

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Labour & Tory leaders spent no time in their speeches on the biggest threat to humanity that we all experience annually in heatwaves & floods but spent a lot more time talking about armaments expentiture to fend off a threat most people know nothing about. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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‘We need less point scoring’: What party conference season taught us about UK climate action

Tories plan to scrap low-carbon housebuilding, Greens back new nuclear reactors, and Labour put oil-drilling decisions on hold

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sat there at 9.17 waiting for Mad Lizzie at 9.18.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yep. Blakethwaite smelting mill is the arches in image 3/5.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Not sure if Man United could do anything more to make it easier for this bottom of the league team. #MNUTOT

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Said it many times before. Gary Neville shouldn’t be co-commentating on Man United games. All we’re getting is summaries or what his team’s getting wrong, what they need to do to fix it and a general summary of their woes. Neutrals and Spurs fans no choice but to put up with his bias. Poor. #MNUTOT

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Vibe at Old Trafford rn: Man United encouraging their fans from the pitch and the camera operator pans to their fans telling them to fuck off. #MNUTOT

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

We share some thoughts on: - Prepping for when the AI bubble pops (nationalize and euthanize) - Why centrists are less willing to call fascism by its name under Trump II (hint: now the whole economic system is implicated) - Why the real “rupture” was Gaza not Trump www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlKy...

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"Gaza is a moral tear in the universe" Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Today’s trail run in Swaledale’s Gunnerside Beck. Britain’s lead mining heritage doesn’t get as much coverage as other industrial heritage. Maybe because it happened in some of the most desolate, remote places with some of the most inclement weather. #runchat

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Closed 23rd October to 2nd November for essential repairs.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

What, as opposed to Mayfair Bob or St James’s Jenrick?

Robert Jenrick calling Kemi Badenoch part of the metropolitan elite‘Kensington Kemi’.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I get that people liked a nice, soft, hippy Green Party that focused only on the environment, and could be happily ignored, and Greens patted on the head with a little ‘there, there’, and don’t like radicalism that undermines comfortable capitalism. Those days are over.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having just read up on Navi Pillay’s work, technically, most of the UK Govt’s ministers should be equally as pissed off she won the Nobel Peace Prize as the loopy fascists in the White House.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Hmn. But there were more MPs representing northern constituencies in Corbyn’s last shadow cabinet than there are in Burnham’s current Cabinet.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wtf is he on about with this hyped up bullshit? He’s a former Govt minister & unelected parliamentarian now on the exec payroll of a tech firm that at the very least is raising serious concerns among people in high-office and ordinary members of the public alike. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Palantir’s Tom Watson says ‘mob rule’ must not dictate awarding of government contracts

Former Labour deputy leader says tech firm would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Saudi Arabia does too and yet successive UK Govts still more than happy to do £16bn worth of trade with them every year.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Looks like the best two TV dramas this year are going to be set in prisons, focused on the justice system. This one and ‘Waiting For The Out’ which was outstanding. Both from the BBC. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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‘Me and the lads would not survive a day in here’: inside TV’s utterly stunning, Bafta-winning prison drama

The third series of Jimmy McGovern’s breathtaking series Time stars David Tennant – and just be its best ever. We go behind the scenes

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch being applauded for calling out Reform’s ethno-nationalists (whom she was more than happy to have as shadow ministers in her own party, btw) is probably the lowest bar of anti-racism in a party where instances of racism and stances founded on racist views are far from uncommon.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, Tory MP and Shadow Minister Blake Stephenson - you pedalled a racist trope. His party leader may claim different but Reform and Tories are two besuited, posh-talking cheeks of the same arse. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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‘I feel perfectly safe’: white Lutonians on the town’s supposed no-go zones

Little if any sign Bury Park is a place where any group might fear to tread, despite Tory MP’s comments to the contrary

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A quick look at the front pages of the gutter-rags as I walked past them in the newsagents earlier. Basically, the Tories are going to make us all better off as if there was a big fuck-off void in UK politics between May 2010 and July 2024.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Before anyone starts applauding Badenoch for calling out Reform’s racism, remember, she leads a party where one of her shadow ministers took issue with the number of black & brown faces he saw in Birmingham and some idiot the other day peddled the racist ‘no-go areas’ trope. Both with no sanction.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mrs C: Where you going? Me: Carlisle. Mrs C: Wtf for? Me: Fuel’s 1p a litre cheaper. Mrs C: It’s 3 hours away. Me: It’s the principle.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That’s a good point. Far from the only land taken by legal decree, by coercion or by force that would turn out to be a massive advantage in the war effort.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Same historian, just as valid a point: sheep don’t compete with humans for their calorific intake in Britain. Pigs (main German source of meat) and horses (main mode of Wehrmacht transport in a country with far fewer cars to humans than Britain) both do.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m the only bloke of my age in my group of mates who remembers this. Half decent theme tune as well.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kinnel, lad. How many rings to want, Rob? #itvnews

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch must think there’s going to be some epochal economic transition where significant numbers of kids today will one day own homes to pass down to their kids and grandkids.

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I note again that only Labour policies are immediately questioned in terms of affordability whereas Tory policies are waved through as if they hadn’t spent 14 years trashing the country with shallow sound bites and jam tomorrow that never materialised. #cpc27

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Garrie Coleman @garriecoleman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tories don’t believe in a something for nothing culture, says Kemi Badenoch. Apart from the children set to inherit thousands or more from their parents without so much as lifting a finger to earn it. #cpc26

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