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Richard Gledhill

@gled5.bsky.social
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Dad of 2, husband, Head of Media Studies, teacher of English and former lead singer of Hoth Wampa. As a member of the liberal elite, I have lived in Bolton, Blackburn, Middlesbrough, Grimsby and, for the last 20 odd years, Wigan.

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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Professional wordsmiths at the BBC are mixing up their modal auxiliary verbs, accidentally positioning Reform as a government in waiting. The use of 'will' signals the future tense carrying implied certainty, rather than the hypothetical scenario suggested by 'would.' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing
Labour called the plan "unserious and unworkable" and accused Reform of pushing "gimmicks and division".
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The payment is an admission of guilt. This should be the biggest news on every platform.
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Richard Gledhill @gled5.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
A dragonfly came for a quick dip in my allotment pond today. Taking the little wins.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Just remember. Farage isn’t really winning. He’s having power bought for him by foreign-based crypto billionaires and fossil fuel magnates. They want a corrupt PM who’ll sell off our NHS, bin NetZero and scrap our rights and protections to make more profit for them. Good day for moneymen and morons.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Being against Jewish people being stabbed in the street & being against Gazan children being shot in the head are not two contradicting positions - in fact, they come from the same love of humanity - something our government and press refuse to understand - their desire to divide is disgusting
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Outcry is growing over Palantir’s unholy alliance with the NHS - but it’s not enough yet. Thiel isn’t the kind of villain who walks away from hundreds of millions. Let's keep up momentum. Sign our petition ✍️
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Hold a Parliamentary Debate on Palantir’s Role in UK Defence, Security & Public Services
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
I hope as Tommy Robinson flees Dubai he settles in the first safe country he arrives in
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The Citizens @the-citizens.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
What do Thiel’s ties to Epstein reveal about the influence of the rich and powerful in British politics? Understand more in our latest explainer: citizensreunited.substack.com/p/palantir-p...
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Palantir, Peter Thiel and the Epstein files
The files have pushed a powerful surveillance contractor back under the spotlight
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Richard Gledhill @gled5.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Thread starting with 🚨 TWO SHOCKING FACTS: Epstein was in direct contact with Putin, boasting of personal invites to St Petersburg. He co-owned Thiel’s Valar Ventures w/ Ehud Barak, backing Israeli surveillance firm Carbyne. 1/12 bylinetimes.com/2026/02/03/i...
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In Putin’s Orbit: The Crypto Politics of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Thiel
The web of ties between Epstein, Moscow and Silicon Valley leads back to Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
We urgently need a parliamentary debate on Palantir. Please sign this & share with your network. Via @the-citizens.bsky.social & @change.org. www.change.org/p/hold-a-par...
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 19/12/2025
The story of Farage and Putin, told by British-Ukrainian soldier Shaun Pinner on a destroyed apartment block in Kyiv.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 09/12/2025
I'm giving away a copy of this year's Monster Month, just Like/Follow/Repost and you're in with a chance of winning.
Monster Month 2025 book coverFlicking through Monster Month
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
This absolutely needs to be a campaign. The UK and the EU (Germany especially,) need to get all government business OFF of X. Start with that and charities and other organizations will follow. Come to BlueSky. Cut off the oxygen at X.
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Richard Gledhill @gled5.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
RIP #Mani Used to see him regularly at our local in Blackburn, in the early 90s, as well as at countless gigs since. A lovely bloke and a bass legend. Gutted.
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Richard Gledhill @gled5.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
After some deliberation at work, we have come to the conclusion that @aiannucci.bsky.social should be the new DG of the #BBC. Would you be tempted Mr Iannucci?
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier. The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
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'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
🔴US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them? A new study raises stark questions about links between extreme rhetoric in the media and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues @bobbyduffy.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
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US-Style Culture Wars Have Come to Britain but Who Is Starting Them?
A new study raises stark questions about the link between extreme rhetoric in the media and politics and the surge in voters saying the country is being torn apart by culture wars, argues Professor Bo...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The Apocalypse Network: Dugin, Bannon, Thiel and the Media Machinery of the Dark Enlightenment More background around the important meeting of minds between Alexander Dugin and Steve Bannon as he forges his new ‘weapons’ of Breitbart/Cambridge Analytica open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...
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The Apocalypse Network: Dugin, Bannon, Thiel and the Media Machinery of the Dark Enlightenment
More background around the important meeting of minds between Steve Bannon and Alexander Dugin on the eve of the Maidan Revolution, as Bannon forges his new ‘weapons’ of Breitbart/Cambridge Analytica
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues. Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Answers on a postcard. Farage - who is currently in line to be the next Prime Minister of the UK - won't explain this mounting ties to a hostile foreign power. We need more investigation and public inquiry before its too late 12/12 bylinetimes.com/2025/10/04/t...
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‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem
Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
All those preparing to vote in order to allow a Reform U.K. Ltd government in. You have been warned. #dictatorship
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Lawyers have done as much damage to this great country as politicians over the last couple of decades.
A Reform government will change the laws to neutralise their poisonous attacks on the interests of British people.
Many will need to find new jobs!
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The beginning of a new Byline Times Investigation - more very soon 🔴Peter Thiel’s Race Science Network Extends Its Reach Into Reform UK, Conservatives and Labour 🔴 bylinetimes.com/2025/09/18/p...
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"This layering of connections — Epstein to Thiel, Thiel to Johnson and Cummings, Palantir to Mandelson, and Mandelson to Starmer — suggests that the commercial conflicts of interest around government procurement and big tech companies have not gone away" bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p...
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From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK
The tech billionaire Trump-backer is rapidly gaining influence over politics and public services in the UK, reports Peter Jukes
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
100% true.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
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Max Chafkin @chafkin.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Big news! My book, The Contrarian, is finally in paperback! Updated and with a new introductory essay about Silicon Valley and Trump. Find it at your local bookstore, or online
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
While in office, Johnson appears to have held a secret meeting with Peter Thiel, the billionaire who founded the controversial US data firm Palantir, months before it was given a role managing NHS data. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals
Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
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” eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...
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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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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 27/06/2025
What a tune, what lyrics, couldn't stop myself. @mrjimbob.bsky.social - A song by me youtu.be/zCafaTPwN6M
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Jim Bob - Song By Me - HappyToast video version
YouTube video by HappyToast
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The BBC should not be run by people who have donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to a political party. But it is. It’s actually mad! Lisa Nandy, time to get impartial people who have a stake and love of the arts, to run the BBC.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
This is true.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Moderates can never suppress the far-right by adopting their policies because the far-right will forever shift their policies to whatever outflanks moderates. All it achieves is legitimising far-right narratives, artificially shifting policy rightwards & facilitating radicalisation towards fascism.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
And the prize for best street name trolling goes to the city of Prague.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.
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Mrjimbob @mrjimbob.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Mrjimbob @mrjimbob.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
They’ve got the song title slightly wrong on all the adverts. That’s 95 grand wasted. Oh Lord. Buy the albums and help a guy out. x cherryred.co/AutomaticStick
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Not sure if Palantir is a household name. It's time to resuscitate + integrate a decade's worth of warnings about these folks — e.g.,... www.wired.com/story/how-pe... www.bloomberg.com/features/201... www.opendemocracy.net/en/palantir-... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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How Peter Thiel's Secretive Data Company Pushed Into Policing | Backchannel
A Backchannel investigation reveals the problems Palantir poses for law enforcement.
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Richard Gledhill @gled5.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Hi @polestarcars.bsky.social I'm considering buying one of your cars and just wanted to check that your owners weren't considering becoming fascist dictators any time soon.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 18/03/2025
What's that, you want to show some love to the arts? Sweet! You can buy signed prints or original art from www.happytoast.co.uk Support me on Patreon.com/HappyToast Get something on a T-shirt or mug redbubble.com/people/HappyToast/shop or just buy me a ko-fi.com/happytoast ☕ Cheers lovely
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HappyToast ★ art, animation, nonsense and stuff
One guy who does drawings and photoshops and animations and writes funny stuff
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 18/03/2025
Not done a giveaway in a while, so if anyone wants a 12x8 Severance print like/repost/follow and I'll pick a winner in a few days. If you don't want to risk not getting it you could simply buy a copy of course.
Severance picture by HappyToast
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Richard Gledhill @gled5.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Please forgive my terrible photo editing skills @markhamillofficial.bsky.social but I've been trying to put my finger on who they remind me of for a while.
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