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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“A complete delight” “One part Bill Bryson, one part Terry Pratchett and one part Chris Packham” “Very, very, very funny” “Puts me very much in mind of the late great Douglas Adams” “Hilarious and fascinating” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 25% off the illustrated hardback if you buy direct via russelljonesauthor.com
russelljonesauthor.com
The Wolf That Chews Rocks by Russell Jones
Dogs, science and chaos. Buy the illustrated hardback direct for £18.99.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
True story. I am doing an audiobook of this, honestly. But I'm recording it at home, and every time I read Baxter's name, he thinks it's playtime and leaps on me. Cut. Take 37.
Baxter, being a tool again
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My dog exploded in the bath. russincheshire.substack.com/p/my-dog-exp... Do not eat before. You won't want to after. No paywall.
russincheshire.substack.com
My Dog Exploded in the Bath
A true story about fox poo, diarrhoea, disastrous instincts — and the question that led me to write The Wolf That Chews Rocks
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Jarl Graham Kirk. Photo of me 1965 @grawitmik.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Reece needs a petition signing here's the link. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa... Also an email to Kate Dearden MP for Halifaxx kate.dearden.mp@parliament.uk
megaphone.org.uk
Save Square Chapel for the people
Square Chapel has a strong history of supporting community events and professional performances and is a popular venue in the local community.  Square Chapel was a popular arts centre with good ...
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pressure building up at and beyond Labour Party Conference because: - Brexit even more costly than predicted, hurting economy & damaging public finances - Geopolitical situation: aggressive Russia in east & unreliable USA in west - British public now has a steadily growing majority for rejoining EU
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Liar. Small boat crossings peaked under Johnson in 2022 reaching 46,000 in 2022. In current year they are 18,565 and falling. Also prior to Boris Johnson's Brexit there were none.
It's a disaster, and it can all be traced to
Labour ideology. Burnham has no mandate
from the people. He has no real ideas, and
no plan,

Johnson on X
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Talk TV on migrants: 'culturally, I'm an ancient Roman; culturally, these people are barbarians' 😖 Truly grim. No one should be advertising on this toxic channel. What are IKEA thinking? Sign the petition: actionstorm.org/petitions/ik... #migrants #mediahate #ikea #stopfundinghate
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well played #AndyBurnham - the new bus fares don’t ‘just’ help ease the cost of living, they change habits for the better. The last time I took this bus it was around £7.50 return, similar to petrol + parking, now £5. At that price it’s a no-brainer, the car stays at home (we can also stay longer).
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's been a week… So let's go through it in a way that no other news/politics podcast does 🕵️ Tom Watson goes from fighting phone hacking to working for Palantir 💰 People with £millions insist they're the ones being squeezed 🎤 Sheeran backlash rumbles on podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
How Much Is Integrity Worth? Sheeran's Backlash, Tom Watson's About-Turn & The Budget Headache
Podcast Episode · The Trawl · 24 September · 38min
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
She should be sacked, and then we should ask how and why the main left party going very hard into National Front crackdowns, rhetoric and imagery - a thing that horrifies their own members - earned them the roaring approval of the British press. Because that’s the core issue, right there.
Paul Hebden @paulhebden.bsky.social • 11m
So are we saying that if I got a van and started ramming ambulances, slashing their tires and assaulting their staff, I'd be fine as long as I was a fascist. Mahmood should be sacked. The situation with this government is intolerable.
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto
PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thames Water has long passed its notice period. Labour can use its massive majority to nationalise it right now.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Hannan, like Rees Mogg, is a stupid person's idea of what an intellectual is.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here’s that link again:
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🔥 This video is approaching 1 million views collectively across social media. Pretty please use this tool to write to your MP - whoever they are - it all counts. And then share this link everywhere to family, friends, groups —> www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Keir Starmer wasted two years trying to make Brexit work. If @andyburnham doesn't ditch Labour's red lines, he'll go the same way as Starmer. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/09/2026
Normal? Not at all. Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar. The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t. We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s time to stop adhering to a decade-old referendum that caused us nothing but problems. An increasingly volatile world now changes faster, year on year. The days of Empire are long gone. We cannot survive alone. We need the power/safety of our neighbours. Unity not isolation.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Man who supported Brexit then fucked off to Monaco to avoid contributing a penny of his £15 billion fortune to public services makes the mistake of thinking anyone gives a shit what he thinks.
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Take a bow, @uklabour.bsky.social this is what cowardice leads to.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026
What on earth is happening?
  This had become the new normal. RNLI crew members had been forced to take their permits off their cars after their tyres have been repeatedly slashed. Most of them have been pilloried at the school gates or turned away from local pubs. One man who worked in search and rescue had been beaten unconscious and hospitalised, recognised for TV interviews he had done.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
You might ask yourself “whose side are they on?”. You might not like the answer, but it becomes hard to deny. So why? Why, when we know that appeasing the far right empowers and builds it, do they keep doing it, alienating their base and helping to deliver the country to Reform or Restore?
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Andrew Sharpe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿|🇪🇺 @andrew.sharpe.scot · 17/09/2026
Let me correct that headline: 'Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station off service after violent gang attacks'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Portsmouth RNLI lifeboat station off service after anti-migrant protest
The RNLI says it hopes to have the lifeboat station operational again as soon as possible.
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Yeah edsherran59, gonna follow back ..
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ooooh I do like the sound of those words … « a post-US world order »
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“When he was twelve weeks old, I returned to collect him. His shell- shocked owners practically cried with relief as I carried him away, and I swear I heard them kick-start a party as I was getting into the car.” 😬
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
To celebrate publication day of The Wolf That Chews Rocks, a selection from the book’s Field Guide to Familiar Oddballs. The dachshund, an animal whose fundamental disagreement with the world is visible from space. It's legs are not visible from the sofa. Out now. www.amazon.co.uk/Wolf-That-Ch...
Dachshund
A vexed draught-excluder that woke up one morning and chose violence. Built to pursue badgers into tunnels, which explains a great deal. Bet every penny you have that it will fail its annual review on the grounds of attitude.
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MrMirth @mrmirth.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This is what the BBC calls 'news'. Released today. It's just a blatant platforming of Reform. It's meaningless and is not news.
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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The President of the United States is a lunatic. Worse, people who are not lunatics refuse to do anything about it. Worse still, way too many press people are pretending he's not a lunatic.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Your Sunday morning sermon, from me to Y'all. "Don't be a bigoted asswipe." - Mouthy 86:47
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Putin did a number on 🇬🇧 & 🇪🇺but to his credit, he stuck to the old world order & snuck around doing it covertly. The cretins in the current 🇺🇸 administration + unelected 🇺🇸 oligarchs do it openly. They either don’t have the nowse to do it slyly, or they know they don’t need to. Not sure what’s worse.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
With two crypto billionaires donating £72m to Farage’s party in one day, there’s a good reason that for months Byline Times has featured ‘Crypto Politics’ as one of its major themes
bylinetimes.com
Crypto Politics
Crypto Politics Dark money flowing into British and American political parties from donors whose interests shape policy on tax, regulation, and public services. Political fixers operating between oligarch funders and party leadership — in the Conservatives and Labour alike. The revolving door between government, lobbying firms, and the industries they once regulated. Foreign interference channelled […]
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Neoliberalism has ravaged the UK Workers’ share of gross value added down from 71.9% in 1975, to 59.7%. 1.23m workers are on zero-hour contracts. 4.4m jobs pay less than the real living wage. Poorest 20% pay a higher proportion of income in direct/indirect taxes than the richest 20%.
leftfootforward.org
Here’s how the chancellor can raise the billions needed to improve the quality of life of millions
Prem Sikka is an Emeritus Professor of Accounting at the University of Essex and the University of Sheffield, a Labour member of the House of Lords, and Contributing Editor at Left Foot Forward. Mi...
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Richard Burgon MP @richardburgon.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Palantir's co-founder claimed "the NHS makes people sick" Yet this US tech giant now runs the NHS data platform. There are serious concerns about its access to patient data and human rights record. The Government should use the break clause and kick Palantir out of our NHS.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If a lEgiTiMaTe dEbATe aBOut iMMigRaTioN leads to people turning up with pitchforks to demand credentials from every group of young non-white men arriving in town, you’d think even Labour MPs would start asking themselves if it’s really a legitimate debate
Amanda Martin, Labour MP for Portsmouth North, called the hotel incident "deeply concerning".
She said: "It's completely unacceptable that misinformation has led to young cricketers visiting our city being wrongly targeted and mistaken for people seeking asylum.
"It's also wrong that people who work in the hotels had to deal with this.
"Those who arrived in Portsmouth on Sunday were transported outside of Hampshire for processing.
"There is a legitimate debate to be had about immigration, but it must be based on facts not misinformation or rumour."
The BBC understands the England and Wales Cricket Board has checked on wellbeing of the Pakistani under-19s team, and is reviewing security arrangements for the remainder of their tour.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The balaclava blackshirted thugs are a result of a decade of politicians, tabloids and the broadcast media telling racists they have "legitimate concerns." The normalisation of actual fascism rhetoric and action has led to this and is a far greater "legitimate concern" than any migrant on a boat.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...
portsmouth.co.uk
Protestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotel
Misinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.onparticipe.fr/p/D0z2r2TU #Avignon #PorteStLazare
onparticipe.fr
Pour maintenir le passage protégé porte saint Lazare en Avignon! - OnParticipe
Les véhicules rentreront à nouveau par la porte St Lazare??????? Autoritaire?Aménagement non demandé sans concertation avec les habitants??????? Inutile?Seule?la rue
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 08/09/2026
🚨 THIS IS BAD! 🚨 Palantir’s stated goal is to disrupt democracy by getting control of the systems in the name of technofascism. Their MO is wedging people into positions of power then shoehorning themselves into critical infrastructure. Now they control the grid. www.ft.com/content/f6a2...
ft.com
Britain’s grid operator gave Palantir contract without inviting rival bids
Neso cited a legal exemption that removes the requirement to consider other suppliers if dependencies leave no alternative
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
All those expensive Palantir contracts and the police are still surprised by the covert organisation and mobilisation of far right thugs in Dover and Portsmouth
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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Metin Seven, Moon Child's dad 🌝 @seven.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026
🐧 🥳 itsfoss.com/news/switzer... #linux #switzerland #europe #microsoft #microslop
itsfoss.com
Switzerland's Federal Government is Replacing Microsoft on 3,000 Computers
This is the pilot phase, with 3,000 workstations moving away from Microsoft 365. The federal administration has over 54,000 computers.
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil - and both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out! www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
foxglove.org.uk
Andy Burnham: no gas power stations for data centres
Two planned data centres will emit more carbon than the entire UK operations of ExxonMobil. Both plan to build their own gas power stations. Tell Andy Burnham to rule it out
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I believe this to be a fairly shit bird pic .. a second opinion wouldn’t hurt .. @wulfhelm.bsky.social
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jaxhampton.bsky.social @jaxhampton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Pont d’ #Avignon vu d’Île de Piot cet aprèm
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