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Louisa

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#FBPE Open University Graduate - IT and Computing Lover of Glastonbury

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Bedford Esquires @bedfordesquires.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
If you have missed out on tickets for Ceremony 6 today, there are some relisted ones over on See and Twickets… #ceremony
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Keir Starmer reads out Henry Nowak's father's call not to use his death to spread division and hatred Nigel Farage immediately does just that with his question. "Exploiting this tragedy when his family is saying expressly don't is unforgivable," replies Keir Starmer. "It shows exactly who he is"
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Date for your diary, Mon 16 March in Parliament: Debate on the petition calling for automatic by-elections following MP defections to other parties. Dr Roz Savage MP, a member of the Petitions Committee, will open the debate. Govt will send a minister to respond Will any Reform defectors show up?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Here we go…
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Bedford Esquires @bedfordesquires.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy Christmas to you all. We hope your day is full of warmth, laughter and music. But if you do find this time of year tough, hang on in there. Esquires. x
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 03/12/2025
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive: goodlaw.social/cpfx
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Excluding trans people won’t stop you getting sued | Good Law Project
Girl Guiding and the Women’s Institute have announced that they will now exclude trans women and girls after legal threats – but organisations can and should remain inclusive.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
So was Farage the U14 Racism Champion or just the U14 Misspoken Words Not Meant To Hurt Anyone Champion - and is the Mail going to look into this after their vitally important Reeves U 14 Chess Champion story...?
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Louisa @gippymother.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Christmas 3d prints 🎄
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The Daily Beans Podcast @dailybeanspod.com · 01/10/2025
This is all on Trump and Republicans.
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Bedford Esquires @bedfordesquires.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Bedford Esquires in @theguardian.com this morning with lots of other wonderful venues and people… www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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Beyond regional doubt: why more acts are touring the UK’s far-flung venues – and why it’s worth making the effort
With touring costs rising and venues closing, many acts are only playing big city dates. But as the Beatles and Led Zep showed in the past, more scenic routes can pay off
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” 👏👏👏
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Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians
The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy
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dave43law.bsky.social @dave43law.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Populists 😂
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
🚨🚨 Characteristically astute analysis by David Gauke reflecting on how the recent interventions by Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch suggests that the tide is turning against #brexit.🧵 www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025...
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The tide is starting to turn against Brexit
Interventions by Ed Davey and Kemi Badenoch show how the European question has been reopened.
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Bedford Esquires @bedfordesquires.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Ceremony 4.5 with Divorce, Heartworms, Nightbus and many more is now sold out - thank you to everyone who picked up tickets. That means that the big sister, CEREMONY 5 is now incoming! We've already got most of the artists confirmed, including the headliner, which will be revealed very soon.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
With pardons, January 6 offenders are now free to possess firearms and ammunition again. Their convictions would have made that a federal crime, but no more.
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Purr ✨ @purrenrage.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
You can see grass in Alaska in January. GRASS. IN. ALASKA. IN. JANUARY. 🌎 (If you’re not familiar with Alaskan winters, this is very wrong.)
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Matthew @calmeilles.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Filling out a web form to ask if there's a means to access their services without a mobile phone…
Screenshot of a web form with a box labelled "Phone number and a red warning sign with the instruction "Enter your phone number"
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
The Observer view: Countries that cherish democratic values need to take a stand against the president-elect’s throwback to unabashed American expansionism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Observer view: Donald Trump’s imperial bullying must be nipped in the bud | Observer editorial
Countries that cherish democratic values need to take a stand against the president-elect’s throwback to unabashed American expansionism
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Naz Saad @nazishmunch.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Good morning, Bluesky! I was out early today!
Eiffel tower
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Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“The fear is that as they disappear – mainstream universities are also cutting their creative arts courses – a drama school training will become once again the preserve of the wealthiest who can afford to pay to go to private institutions.” www.theguardian.com/education/20... (1/2)>
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‘National catastrophe’: drama school funding crisis in England sparks concern
Actors Samuel West and Paapa Essiedu join calls for urgent action to protect and expand access to arts
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
😂😂
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Fucking love David Bellamy
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
"Europe’s largest educational touring theatre, White Horse Theatre, has provided English-language performances to schools and theatres across Europe for nearly half a century. Rising costs, logistical challenges and the long-term instability caused by Brexit now threaten its future." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Starmer warned Brexit even putting performances of Shakespeare at risk
Exclusive: Urgent action is required to save a leading theatre company at risk of closure as a result of Brexit, the prime minister has been warned
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Even I’m at a loss for words www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sue...
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Suella Braverman claims she has seen the 'land border' between Italy and Turkey
Suella Braverman has baffled social media users after suggesting she has seen a "land border" between Italy and Turkey.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Like/RP if you are happy this dangerous criminal 'Tommy Robinson' is safely in jail.
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Crys Tom (she/her) 🇨🇦 @crystom.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
A couple cuties I met yesterday 🪶 #birds
A northern flicker in a tree and another one flying out of it with outstretched wings
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 29/12/2024
Incidentally, Labour still has more members than both both Right Whinge nutter parties combined. Which actually proves that membership numbers have nothing to do with seats. Suck on that, Fartrage! www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq62qv3…
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Farage and Badenoch clash over Reform UK membership figures
Reform UK leader Farage says his party has made history and is now the
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 29/12/2024
Reform UK want UK to leave ECHR. It must never happen When Winston Churchill stood at the Hague to deliver his speech on the importance of human rights at Congress of Europe in 1948, those there had seen first-hand the horrors that a despotic regime, unregulated by law, could enact on its people
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What is the ECHR and how does it work?
More than 70 years after Churchill, his party has become the party of law-breakers and human rights detractors with leading figures calling for a referendum on membership of the ECHR. But how does the...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Can we just admit that we NEED immigrants for our economy to run, from agriculture to high tech? We’re a goddamn nation of immigrants, aren’t we? Let’s be proud of our immigrant heritage!
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Schadenfreude is my middle name. @1proudliberal.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Meanwhile, in Greenland
rows of snowmen holding spears in defense on Greenland
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Ho-ho-ho
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 21/12/2024
You know what to do. xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Farage ‘hasn’t got a clue’ says Chancellor Rachel Reeves “What’s Nigel Farage’s answer on the economy? How is he going to make working people better off? He hasn’t got a clue. How’s he going to grow the economy? He’s not got the faintest” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reeves says economic turnaround will take time and Farage ‘hasn’t got a clue’
Chancellor pledges renewed focus on growth after Bank of England warning that Britain is on brink of stagnation
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Robin Whitlock @robinwhitlock66.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
I'm getting really tired now of almost nothing but shitty evil things happening. It's been like that for the past 30 years... 🙄
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treeshepherd.bsky.social @treeshepherd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
happy winter solstice treepeople
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 12/12/2024
Brexit “A majority of Britons who voted to leave the EU would now accept a return to free movement in exchange for access to the single market, according to a cross-Europe study that also found a reciprocal desire in member states for closer links with the UK.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Remember all the outraged coverage about a handful of climate protesters slowing ambulances a few years back? Well it turns out that wealthy farmers doing exactly the same thing on a much bigger scale is absolutely fine bylinetimes.com/2024/12/12/t...
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Two-Tier Reporting: When Climate Protesters Slow Ambulances They’re Vilified, So Why Are Wealthy Farmers Given a Free Pass?
Media outlets rush to condemn climate change campaigners as "middle class" protesters causing "chaos" while ignoring greater disruption by millionaire landowners
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Said every Brexiteer ever …
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Kemi Badenoch lays to rest any doubts about her working class credentials by explaining that she prefers to have someone bring her a steak for lunch rather than eat a sandwich.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The average lifespan was 35 and 50% of people died before they were 2. Is what they did.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Strike Day 3: going on strike isn’t meant to be fun. Yet here we are. Great colleagues, great craic & great @billybragg.bsky.social. What’s going on inside that building is the opposite of all these things. ‘Solidarity forever for the union makes us strong’ ✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊✊
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Millions living in poverty and we still get this. It’s obscene! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Qatar state visit: What's on the menu for banquet at the Palace?
King Charles praises the mediation efforts of Qatar in the Middle East at a state visit banquet.
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
As far as I can tell X is now just full of Temu ads & people calling each other cunts
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The London Economic @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is huge. The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries 👇 www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/e...
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European Federation of Journalists to stop posting content on X
The EFJ represents over 295,000 journalists in 44 countries.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Government may cap political donations to limit foreign influence www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Government may cap UK political donations to limit foreign influence
Proposal comes after billionaire Elon Musk reportedly said he would donate £79m to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Nah - I think I’ll forego the gratuitous abuse and focus on building Bluesky community instead.
X ad reading: “Expiring soon! Get 40% off X Premium. Unlock the best of X.”
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Government finally admits Brexit makes touring Europe ‘simply not viable’ for musicians www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit makes touring Europe ‘simply not viable’ for musicians, minister admits
Exclusive: Chris Bryant says the government ‘fully recognises the scale of challenges facing professionals wishing to tour in Europe’
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The fact that Elon Musk wanted to give Nigel Farage and Reform UK $100m but couldn't because it was illegal should be the death of Reform, who supposedly are all about sovereignty and the 'working' man. But it won't be because they are all stupid.
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Jenny Jones @greenjennyjones.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I'm here! At last!
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