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Graeme Lloyd

@graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social
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Son of an immigrant, recovering ignoramus, retired Head Teacher, NUFC-curious runner. Brexit was, is and will continue to be a disaster. #KTTO

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/10/2025
Dan Jarvis confirms that, not only was there no Home Office involvement in witness statements of Deputy NSA regarding the China spying case, but the CPS made this *a requirement*. Wouldn't the then Home Sec Cleverly & HO ministers Philp, Jenrick, & Tugendhat - pushing conspiracies - know this? 🧐 ~AA
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 19/08/2025
Newcastle United have completed their 4th signing of the summer, shelling out ~£40m for Jacob Ramsey from EPL rival Aston Villa. Like Thiaw, the club have secured a player that’s been on their shortlist for a long time. Why does Howe like him so much? It’s time to take a closer look 🧵 #NUFC
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...
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FIFA drops anti-racism, anti-discrimination messages for Club World Cup
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 02/06/2025
The 24/25 season was historic for #NUFC. Howe turned a rough summer into our first major domestic 🏆 in 70 years—and UCL qualification. But success brings expectation. With PSR easing & more games in 25/26, fans & Howe expect investment. But who to buy? Welcome to my third annual Summer Transfer 🧵
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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.
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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Jacob Whitehead @jacobwhitehead.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The Premier League’s token big six are scattered across the league. Is their era dead, or do their finances mean it is more entrenched than ever? Includes what #NUFC, #AVFC, & more need to do to break their stranglehold ⬇️ www.nytimes.com/athletic/608...
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Kev Lawson @editkev.football · 22/01/2025
Everyone could see it, I sincerely hope that more and more people come forward. theconcernedbird.substack.com/p/elon-musks...
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Elon Musk's and X's Role in 2024 Election Interference
The confessions of a concerned bird.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 13/12/2024
Instead of tackling the climate crisis, the system is busy punishing a 77-year-old peaceful protester because her wrists are too small for a tag. Bit of a misuse of resources? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Just Stop Oil activist, 77, faces jail recall as wrists too small for electronic tag
Gaie Delap was sent to prison in August for her part in disruptive protests on M25 in November
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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Phrazle 619: 3/6 🟪⬜ 🟪🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ 🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle
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Phrazle - Guess the Phrase | Solitaired.com
You have six attempts to guess the phrase. Green means the letter is in the correct spot, yellow or purple means it's in the wrong spot, and gray means it's not in the phrase.
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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Phrazle 617: 3/6 🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜ ⬜🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩 🟩 ⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟪🟪 🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩 🟩 ⬜🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩 🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle
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Phrazle - Guess the Phrase | Solitaired.com
You have six attempts to guess the phrase. Green means the letter is in the correct spot, yellow or purple means it's in the wrong spot, and gray means it's not in the phrase.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Why is the government not capable wiping the floor with Nigel Farage every single day like this? Alastair Campbell effortlessly destroys him over his Brexit legacy which by almost every economic and financial measure has been disastrous for the country
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🚨🚨 The grim implications of #brexit is far from over. @jamesrball.com reports on a new bombshell coming on 13 December, the General Product Safety Regulations which is bound to be be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters. via @theneweuropean.bsky.social www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-new-brex...
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The new Brexit time bomb
A refresh of EU product safety standards, GPSR, will be a disaster for the UK’s small exporters, with the government little help
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
🚨🚨 A new report by @thecitp.bsky.social shows that #Brexit deals £3bn blow to UK food exports as British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period. Grim #brexitdisaster 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Brexit hits UK food exports by £3bn as Starmer urged to strike deal with Brussels
British food sales to the EU have fallen by almost a fifth since the end of the Brexit transition period, a new report shows
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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Phrazle 613: 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟪⬜ ⬜🟪🟨🟪 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜🟪⬜ 🟨🟪🟨 ⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #phrazle solitaired.com/phrazle
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Phrazle - Guess the Phrase | Solitaired.com
You have six attempts to guess the phrase. Green means the letter is in the correct spot, yellow or purple means it's in the wrong spot, and gray means it's not in the phrase.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 03/12/2024
If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.
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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof” Sadiq Khan👏 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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As a child I needed free school meals, as mayor, I provide them. And this policy works – here’s the proof | Sadiq Khan
Critics questioned my landmark policy but a new report backs it – and the big winners are children and their families, says the mayor of London Sadiq Khan
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Boom! The number of @bsky.app users just rocketed past 24 million! Let’s keep going, let’s make this the biggest social media platform on the planet and send Elon Musk packing
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/12/2024
MS: It's Labour that wasted £710m by scrapping Rwanda. KB: No, stop it. You couldn't send anyone there in 3 years. MS: We were on the brink. KB: Course you were. MS: The planes were booked. There were migrants waiting in France for a Labour gov't. Utterly ludicrous, gaslighting popinjay. ~AA
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
"We cannot continue to participate in the social network feed of a man who proclaims the death of the media and therefore of journalists... X is a platform that no longer serves the public interest at all, but the special ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies"
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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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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Jess Phillips was on SkyNews earlier to discuss the govt's plans to give victims the right to know the identity of their stalker, so naturally the interview was bookended by questions about Greg Wallace and the Elgin marbles. What should've been the substance of the interview was completely lost.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
🔴 Trump's Return & the Farage Blindspot: Dismissing What We Disagree With in the Hope It Will Disappear Isn't the Answer – Reality Proves Otherwise "A Musk-funded Farage as PM? Does that sound outlandish, conspiracist, wild? Sure. That's why we must pay attention to it" @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social
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Trump’s Return and the Farage Blindspot: Dismissing What We Disagree With in the Hope It Will Disappear Isn’t the Answer – Reality Proves Otherwise
Not taking seriously political figures we find undesirable will not change their potential impact or ambitions – Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Steve Bannon, and Nigel Farage only benefit from being underes...
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Let’s grow @bsky.app with a passion. Let’s grow it quickly & with urgency. Let’s make it the biggest social media platform on the planet & TOGETHER lets say boll**** to Musk www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/musk-co...
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Musk could sidestep overseas donation laws by donating to Farage through UK branch of X
Elon Musk could sidestep overseas donation laws by donating to Nigel Farage and the Reform UK Party through the UK branch of X.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 02/12/2024
This is election interference. www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/elon...
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Elon Musk tipped to give $100m to Nigel Farage in move to shake up British politics
The Tesla and X (formerly Twitter) boss is said to be considering backing the far-right Reform UK party
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Femi @femi-oluwole.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Which SHOULD be the bigger news scandal of the last 5days? Greg Wallace when accused of sexual misconduct, called them "middle-class women of a certain age". Nigel Farage when asked about his MP beating up his girlfriend: "You've had your fun, Sky News. I'm off to lunch." Which has more coverage?
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is a graphic illustration of why we must make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform in the world, say boll**** to Elon Musk & send him packing. We CAN do it www.politics.co.uk/news/2024/12...
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Elon Musk should donate to Reform UK, says father Errol - Politics.co.uk
The SpaceX owner has repeatedly issued fierce criticisms of the UK government and prime minister Keir Starmer.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The social media shift: why Twitter unravelling was inevitable northwestbylines.co.uk/news/world/w...
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The social media shift: why Twitter unravelling was inevitable
Elon Musk was the catalyst, but the ideological struggle of Twitter made its collapse inevitable
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Boris Johnson promised farmers that “subsidies would stay - 100% guaranteed”. 🚜 The National Farmers’ Union council was overwhelmingly in support of “Remain”, but decided not to campaign outright, as it would upset some of their larger farmers who were cheering Brexit.
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What happened to those post-Brexit farm subsidies?
We need a discussion about UK food and farming, our resilience to external and self-inflicted events, and where the money is going
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Londoner in Colchester @jetraven.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Another brilliant cover from @timemagazine.bsky.social
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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Wordle 1,259 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I have my thoughts on this one.
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Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 29/11/2024
Oh just some mysteriously timed leaking of long-buried information which deposes a cabinet member, definitely sounds like a happy political operation.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Villa Borghese, before opening.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
flashback to the year 2019: More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU...but MP Kemi Badenoch says “we run the country based on elections and not petitions”. www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/news/2188696...
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Saffron Walden leads Essex on ‘stop Brexit’ action - but MP says ‘country is run on elections, not petitions’
More than 10,000 people in the constituency of Saffron Walden have signed a petition to revoke Article 50 and remain the EU - the highest number of…
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Andrew Parnall from Derby @dontbrexitfixit.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Pathetic
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27/11/2024
This is incredible. Asked about the fact that private school kids get extra exam time at a rate 16% higher than state schools, Therese Coffey's response is: "It's not gaming the system. There's an opportunity there... You don't ask, you don't get." I had to watch this several times, agog. ~AA
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
An actual scientist - Professor Dorothy Bishop - resigns from Royal Society due to continued fellowship of Elon Musk. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Oxford scientist resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship
Prof Dorothy Bishop said fellowship was ‘a contradiction of all the values’ of UK’s national academy of sciences
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Excellent thread on one of those "poor farmers" affected by the inheritance tax thing.... .... who also used to moonlight as the head of the stock exchange
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Now maybe this is a different John Kemp-Welch… but in that case it’s a big coincidence that another 88 year old John Kemp-Welch managed to be chair of the London Stock Exchange from 1994 to 2000
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
On 19 November, the Times ran a ‘news’ piece on the demonstration in Westminster by farmers opposed to changes to inheritance tax. Obviously reporting the news is good, but reading such a one sided piece made me think it belonged in the comment pages www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...
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Tractors, fleeces and fury: protesting farmers bring their grievances to town
At least 13,000 protesters descend on Whitehall accusing the government of ‘betrayal’ in its plans to impose inheritance tax on farms
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Afterall, the Times also managed to publish an entire article on James Dyson opposing this change without once mentioning that he reportedly owns more land than the monarch…
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
But our ‘paper of record’ might want to at least consider the fact that stockbroker, banker, or businessmen would be better labels, at least to sit alongside that of ‘farmer’
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Andrew Parnall from Derby @dontbrexitfixit.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is farmer Farage, he plows division, sows hatred and reaps riots. He harvests bigots, racists and xenophobes.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 23/11/2024
Almost impossible to imagine a similar article being written about a male (read: any other in history) Chancellor. One argument in this article includes a man saying her master’s course wasn’t very hard. And that because she ‘only’ got a 2.1 at Oxford, she shouldn’t have got in.
The Times headline: Rachel Reeves and the five claims about her fiddling CV
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Farming tax row - BBC Verify on which figures are more reliable and why “Our analysis found that the figure was likely to be somewhere closer to the number provided by the government - about 500 estates per year. That remains our assessment” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Farming tax row - BBC Verify on which figures are more reliable and why
Government claims have been hotly contested by farmers, and the BBC has been scrutinised for its analysis.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Shocking & sobering new statistics from @trusselluk.bsky.social. As they say “this can’t go on”
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Graeme Lloyd @graemescarthlloyd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
No headlines all day about this on the BBC or SkyNews. No Tory MP literally wrapped in a Union Jack blaming it on socialism. A deafening silence from Nigel Farage, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jeremy Clarkson. Excuse me, Beth Rigby, this is the actual "class war".
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