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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Lovely relaxed lunch with mrsiofiv at Eight at Gazegill.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I am on a relatively uncrowded Avanti train that is running on time. Pinching myself.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Cutting benefits doesn't 'incentivise work'. But it does penalise and humiliate people on benefits, and that's the real point.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

County Council campaign update, I came 3rd in a 2 horse race but I am now on my Parish Council.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

After trying to fight the good fight in the other place, I am back here for a refresh away from flaggy profiles.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

A few hours after Reform tabled the opposition in the council elections I posted that it would be a good time to join a union if you work for a council. Go on. First thing Tuesday morning!

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Hello. Just dropping back in to let people know that I am standing for Labour in the Ribble Valley South West Council Elections.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

My regular warning. There is no such thing as a private WhatsApp group.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Done. Thank you Copenhagen!

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It remains my gift to see the clouds scudding towards any silver lining.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

If you believe that Facebook, Twitter, even BlueSky are primarily about some noble public purposes or even that they should be, you are stuck in wish based beliefs.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

When Facebook puts a choke on fact checking will anybody notice?

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

Professor Alexis Jay said that starting a new inquiry could hinder the implementation of the recommendations from her 2022 report.
"We have set out what action is required and people should just get on with it," she told the BBC.
She added: "I've certainly been very unhappy about the politicisation of child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse in the way that many people, sometimes in a very uninformed way, have waded into the argument."

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Me? I investigated "grooming" and convicted a child rapist or "boyfriend" as the victim called him. FWIW if you can't effectively safeguard the victims, your investigations and interventions are built on sand.That child safeguarding is often very difficult but almost always doable. That is all.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

What new insights & lessons would we get from a national inquiry into organised sexual offending against children? Classic more heat than light stuff from Elon & Kemi.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Is there perhaps any UK constitutional law expert that could stage an educational intervention with Mr. Musk?

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Who should be trusted with the purchasing and implementation of Police IT systems? The records of those who have had a go before were not the stuff to inspire confidence.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Slept 14 hours last night. The lengths I will go to for brunch.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

I do love it that BlueSky has a lot of supportive public library content. Anyway, thats where I am going after breakfast, to the library.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas, and here is a Christmas story And if you want to chat about it, replies are open Gods rest you merry, merry followers

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

You will get money out of politics when you get politics out of money - never

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

In case you somehow missed it, big money has been moving in our national level politics for the longest time and there is no good way of stopping it.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Have opened the Christmas port early. This will be a bit messy.

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Fannie Jack Hammer @0hbetave.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Saturday is my library volunteer day.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

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Danny Shaw @dannyshaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

NEW Govt appears to have listened to Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr (and also Sir Brian Leveson).. It's adding 2,000 more court sitting days this year to help tackle record Crown Court backlog.. It'll help ...but many more days are needed, plus radical reform @mojgovuk.bsky.social

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I srill find myself looking at my old Twitter feed every few days. Still comparatively shit Still not giving it any more free content.

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Frosted Poptart @toastertrollop.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Would £100m be enough for an established minor party to buy itself into at least a share of power in a UK general election? I think the answer is yes. Practically, what do we do with that?

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Say no to straight bananas, Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes and mince pie bans!

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

No surrender to rational economic policy decisions that will be in our country's best interests.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The Brexit that might be "betrayed" is not the Brexit that you fondly imagined.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Bloot? Nah, it will always be bleet for me.

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Richard Horton @iofiv.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Out out with the fabulous Janet Edwards.

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