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

How do you get that kind of information? I say let them pick up tear gas grenades and wash their eyes out with bleach.

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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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is a good one. It's in the grounds of Winchester Cathedral. Not so much a portrait of his character, but wise words and a nice couplet at the end.

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

Having a name that is frequently shortened to Al (capital A, small L), this is the first time I have welcomed a decision from the deluded loon. It's disappointing to see headlines blaming me for the coming apocalypse.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oooo. I feel an experiment coming on.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

To be honest, this sounds like corned beef savoury, a sludgy, suspect, and frankly gorgeous sandwich filling. Greggs used to sell corned beef savoury stotties in the north east and nowhere else.

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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

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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...

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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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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

He's lost a lot of momentum, and I'm not sure what he's doing to turn it around. He needs to be precise, and on top of his policies. Their surge was seemingly based on anti Blue Labour support. Burnham coming in might not have changed Labour's fundamental direction, but it's spiked The Greens.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Comment ? C'est fou! Il ne sait pas ? Vraiment ?

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

And you say lots of his businesses failed? 🤔 Hard to know how.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"They have introduced the hand crank thing at the front. After almost 100 years, we have returned to the true starting mechanism. Vote for me! "

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What would your fellow Canadians think? Your fabulous act might be a curse.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I think I'd just not turn up to his silly ceremony so he'd be forced to come up with some whiny complaints and insults about me. Fortunately the chances of me doing anything great are pretty slim.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Were you born in a barn lad?", followed or sometimes preceded with "put wood int'hole"

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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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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I click a couple just so I can remember where I've been throughout the year. People who film entire songs etc , watching the gig through their camera seem foolish and selfish.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A fine insult. See also the Yankee Doodle lyrics.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I get your point. I've never understood Greatest Hits albums that include stuff that weren't singles.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

So far all my cool records, one of the most played was a K Tel album?

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

And loads of interesting comments too. I played it to death, blissfully unaware of the dodgy dealings.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ha ha! Yes, I think it might have been. I'd not thought about that.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I bought this in the early 80s and it was unrelentingly great.

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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...

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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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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Hell's teeth. The master race has a more low level bookkeeper vibe than I imagined.

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

The Haywain 2026

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

At least they'll have paid for access to all those books and research materials. Won't they? Surely... 😞

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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 · 12/08/2026

That's pretty much Trump's life story. Inherited a fortune from his father. He was busy losing it all through failed ventures and would have been better off just playing golf. Then he was elected and he's since filled his coffers via dodgy dealing and pilfering the US treasury.

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The Newcastle skimpy clothing in a blizzard was as much about not having to deal with cumbersome jackets in hot bars as it was about fashion. It might still be a thing, but I'm too old to go to these places anymore. 🤣

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Alistair Leadbetter @indolentfop.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Could you light a fire with it? Or at least burn your initials on a piece of paper?

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

I don't encounter racist behaviour on a regular basis, but clearly a lot of people do. It disgusts me to my core. People could choose to be kind, but clearly choose to blame minorities and the vulnerable.

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