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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I loathe Israel and the genocide that it is committing against the Palestinian people. I don't think we are doing enough to stop them. However, this Green Party vote seems like some puerile 1980s sixth form student union vote. I want the Greens to show that they are a serious party.

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Unfortunately, there’s just no money.”

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Re English ethnicity: There's no ethnicity or DNA marker that maps well onto England. Same true 150 years ago. At high level, our ethnicity blends with other NW Europeans. At next level, it goes sub-national: Geordies are v Scottish; NW, SW and welsh borders different. English is a national culture

Map of identifiable sub-national DNA groupings in the UK. While a large identifiable Central/South England DNA group stands out (that's similar to the Dutch), there are others within England's borders: in the North East, North West, South West and Welsh marches. Are those people 'not ethnically English'?

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just read Gil Duran's Nerd Reich. Hell's teeth. It's absolutely terrifying, bringing together all of the threads that you can see around you, from crypto, AI, to violent and racist Christian fundamentalism etc. and all featuring your favourite people. I can't recommend it highly enough.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Video of the fascist Danny Tommo slashing a Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) boat rescuing migrants at sea www.instagram.com/reel/DdmJaD4...

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Fair play to the wife of a Caribbean man and mother of mixed race children being informed by the BBC reporter that she’s in the minority in her community regarding immigration and responding with, “Yes, I’m surrounded by bigots.”

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This was predictable on their part and I didn’t need an AI to figure it out.

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Sonia L @sonial77.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Horrifying. And this person is presumably still at it.

In a third case, a lesbian asylum seeker from Uganda whose asylum claim was based on fear of imprisonment or death in her home country if her sexual orientation was discovered, was unable to find a legal aid lawyer to represent her.

“I managed to find a private immigration lawyer but I had no money to pay him, so he forced me to have sex with him as a form of payment even though he knew what my asylum case was,” she said. “I felt there was nothing I could do to prevent this.”

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What positive contribution do the tech bros and crypto bros actually make to people and the planet? I don't think that we would miss them one jot if they were to suddenly vanish without trace.

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Fidra @fidrango.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A new report published by MPs is calling for stronger UK action on #microplastics The report warns that the UK's current fragmented approach won't tackle the scale of pollution. The MPs set out clear recommendations, including stronger regulation, reduction targets & better monitoring tr.ee/YnVWcK

fidra.org.uk

MPs call for stronger action to tackle microplastic pollution in the UK - Fidra

The All Party Parliamentary Group on Microplastics has published a new report calling for urgent action on microplastic pollution in the UK.

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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The BBC, which is normally keen to tell you the nationality or immigration status of people charged with crimes, has failed to mention in this guy had a long history of involvement with Britain First. Funny that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

bbc.co.uk

Warwickshire man raped and attacked woman in 'horrific' abuse campaign

James White, from Warwickshire, subjected the victim to weeks of abuse, including rape and sexual assault.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Not my footage, but video from North Shields Fish Quay beach this evening of crows eating nurdles. Volunteers are saying the quantity of nurdles on the beach today is as it was in the earliest days. Birds eating nurdles face starvation. Just 11 nurdles can lead to a 50% chance of death, 23 to 90%.

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Dave Rendle @daverendle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...

action.friendsoftheearth.uk

Tell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disaster

One of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend...

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The magnificent Llangernyw Yew. This tree is possibly 4,000 - 5,000 years old. Maybe one of the oldest trees in the world. It's fractured, but that's at least partly down to an oil tank being placed in the middle of it. 🙄

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Haywain 2026

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's that day again #alevels

[Title panel]:
A-LEVEL RESULTS COLUMNS DAY

[Scene is a TV news type report about A Level results day]

REPORTER [talking to camera outside a school where students are crowding outside the hall to get in]:

Well, it's that day again

When A-Level students across the country finally get to find out

What Britain's newspaper columnists think about their results.

[show the interior of the school hall, with long tables, but instead of results papers on them, loads of middle-aged newspaper columnists are all laid out]

[Close up on the COLUMNISTS lying on the table, talking up to a gaggle of excited students desperate to find out what they say]

PETER HITCHENS:
I remember when A-Levels meant something

CLARKSON:
I got a C and two U's

[Cut to outside the hall, the REPORTER is talking to a student]

REPORTER:
And did you get the middle-aged opinions you wanted?

STUDENT:
Yes!

I got one ‘There's Too Much Humanities’,
and two Oxford graduates telling me they went to Oxford.

REPORTER [now doing a voiceover, as we see the students in the school hall next to the columnists on tables, and the students are preparing to jump in the air for a photographer]:

And then the annual photo shoot…

[PHOTOGRAPHER]
One, two, three...

[One of the columnists on the table pipes up with]:

What's The Point Of University in 2026?

[The students all jump for joy]

STUDENTS:
HOORAY!

[ends]

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Without wanting to sound too jaded, but really, once you've seen one eclipse, you pretty much have seen them all.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

In South Shields yesterday. An old guy of South Asian heritage (?) asked me to help him over the road. Half way over, a car came along, didn't slow down but whizzed by close in front of us. Seconds later, a van drove along behind us, the driver shouted "Paki!"

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I just can’t believe we’re seeing this sort of stuff from a sitting MP Just want to say to British Somalis that you are loved and I’m so, sorry this is happening.

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Minority communities in the UK have assimilated themselves into powerlessness. There seem to be no media platform for us, or representation in public life. If black and brown politicians & journalists cannot speak up for us when these things happen, what’s the point of them being in such positions?

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

There's a Land Rover ad at the cinema where a smug and surly man drives his vehicle around his country estate to find his enormous dog's ball. Never has an ad been so successfully designed to generate hate and contempt from the public towards its target market.

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Cruelty is the foundation of those 'policies'. Making us feel threatened is the purpose. We have no physical proof of our status, we are at the mercy of a glitch. We are aliens, and we must be made aware of it. Reform's 'plan' to strip us of our Leave to remain is just a darker shade of grey.

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Abolish the Home Office

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"No UEFA national teams will participate in any FIFA competition for so long as these proposals remain alive, unless this proposal has been abandoned in its entirety and binding assurances have been given that FIFA will never again open its governance or competitions to private ownership".

uefa.com

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations

UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If you've seen anything of the #nurdle spillage on #Tyneside (now contaminating the coastline to the north and south), can I ask you to sign this petition demanding better nurdle handling regulations? Please repost etc for greater awareness. Thank you. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

petition.parliament.uk

Petition: UK to mandate "zero plastic pellet loss" in line with new EU law ASAP

The EU recently formalised its Plastic Pellet Loss Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2025/2365), which mandates risk management plans and independent audits for large handlers. We want the UK to follow suit...

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Was down on Whitley Bay beach today, collecting #nurdles. Although there's thousands of them, they are unsurprisingly so much dispersed since last week. The councils and port authority have been wholly inadequate and late to respond.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Some pics from local people:

Nurdles in a dock on North Shields Fish Quay

Nurdles spread across the Fish Quay beach

Nurdles collected in a net (washing bag)

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

If you are local, there is clean up action taking place. Sign up to WhatsApp groups to get info on clean up plans/approach Write to council/councillors/MP Details below - DM me if WhatsApp link doesn’t work.

ACTION-

An estimated 1.25 billion (25tonnes) plastic pellets (nurdles) spilled in the river Tyne a week ago and are now all over our beaches, river, in our seas. According to experts this is being classed as the biggest plastic pollution disaster in European history.

Two actions to potentially take:

You can join a community WhatsApp group that has been running this past week to help with the nurdle clean up please see this link

https://chat.whatsapp.com/KXTZ6z069si0vNqNOnrc1f

There are individual beach groups set up and there has been an unofficial request for help specifically on Monday and Tuesday. No organisation is leading this as hands are all tied by Environment Agency advice.

Volunteers on the ground and myself strongly believe that @ntcouncilteam have not grasped the emergency level of this catastrophe and the response has been insufficient and late. So whilst volunteers are needed (and you must join the group to know more about this please) we need to put the pressure on the council to absolutely do more.

Money should not be an issue, the environment should.

join a specific beach clean effort through community chat or just head down. Find out more via WhatsApp.

Large mesh bags are effective with shovels or where appropriate still dustpan and brush, techniques developing daily. Leave next to council bins in bin bags.

Write to your MP, Councillor and the Mayor - all three and tell them you want to see a large scale effort going out at the appropriate times based on the tides to collect the nurdles.

We are absolutely not seeing this. People are needed specifically Monday and Tuesday for a large scale clean up and we expect to see the council responding with numbers and the appropriate gear and equipment.

Nb- the council tractor is still being used on the beach and this is burying the nurdles deeper causing significantly more harm than good. This must stop.

https://www.gov.uk/find-your-local-councillors

Residents of the Tynemouth (and North Shields) constituency write to -
MP Alan Campbell - alan.campbell.mp@parliament.uk

Mayor Kim McGuinness
Kim@kimmcguinness.org

Always include your name and address at the top.

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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

25 tonnes of nurdles, more than 1 billion nurdles, were spilled into the Tyne last week and are washing up on our beaches, north and south of the Tyne. Likely one of the largest ever plastic pollution events in the UK. There is remarkably little mention of this on here.

Guardian headline from Weds 22nd July reading:

“One billion plastic pellets spilled into River Tyne after two ships collide
Up to 25 tonnes of nurdles, the raw material for plastic manutacturing, have spread further than initially feared”

With an image of a beach covered in nurdles.

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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Approximately a billion tiny plastic nurdles have entered the River Tyne after a “devastating spill”, with the pellets thought to have spread much further than first thought. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com

Billion plastic pellets spilled into UK river after two ships collide

Up to 25 tonnes of nurdles, the raw material for plastic manufacturing, have spread further than initially feared

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I see Elon Musk, the world's richest but saddest man, wants to make a historically accurate version of the Odyssey. What with all the monsters, gods and goddesses, nymphs, and so forth, it's crying out for accuracy. Oh, I see he means more white people, and fewer black and brown people. 🙄

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Saw The Odyssey last night. As you might imagine for an epic, it is gloriously epic. Amazing film. Of course, it's not 100% accurate to a version you may have read and why should it be? Well worth going to see.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Vox pops really are the laziest and ridiculous form of reporting. Let's amplify the most uninformed and small minded opinions!

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

These small plastic pellets are called #nurdles. After a ship collided with a crane on the #Tyne, these are washing up in South Shields and have now been seen on the beaches of North #Tyneside. Keep your kids and animals away from them.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What was wrong with that? A goal surely.

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is not on the BBC homepage. Also it’s noticeable that when a white person does a crime, the lead picture is the victim and not a mugshot of the accused.

News from London >
Change your local news and weather location from your
BBC Account in Settings.
Met detective guilty over
Sally Bowman photos
London • 1h ago
picture of the victim, Sally Bowman a blond woman

Man denies fatally stabbing
Airbnb host
London • 4h ago
picture of the victim, Kamonnan Thiamphanit, an Asian woman

Mother of Henry
Nowak killer jailed for removing knife from murder scene

picture: Kiran Kaur was found guilty of assisting an offender she is a middle aged South Asian woman in a cheque headscarf

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Astonishing statement from Finnish FA president in which he explains that, despite reservations, he will support Infantino as he fears Fifa money will dry out if he does not - perfect illustration of how the current system is propped up by fear and bribery. Via @staniselsborg.bsky.social

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Jalkapallo | Palloliiton Infantino-päätös ei ollut yksimielinen – seuroille kannanmuutos tuli yllätyksenä

Palloliiton puheenjohtajan Ari Lahden mukaan Fifan asiat nähdään Suomessa usein hyvin suppeasti.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This week's Men's Pie Club recipe was from #Curaçao. Keshi Yena is supposed to be served in a hollowed out Dutch cheese, so I had to adapt it. Very good.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

There's an awful lot of people pinning their hopes on Burnham. Other than being a better communicator than Starmer, is there much else? What will actually make life better for the people living in the UK? I'm not sure.

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Andrew Mambondiyani @mambondiyani.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-afr...

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Ground elder is a curse in the garden. But it was originally introduced as a leafy vegetable by the Romans. So I have made ravioli stuffed with ricotta, parmesan, and ground elder. Not bad at all. #food #cookery

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