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Jess

@jessicakpr.bsky.social
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Lover of friendship, kindness, NHS, family, Manchester, travel, walking, wine, adventure, dogs, sunshine, football and Europe. Manchester, UK.

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Jennifer C. Martin @notreallyjcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Extremely grateful for these two grocery store ladies recreating Prodigy’s Firestarter
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Farage posted this at 12.38 today. It has been hopelessly overtaken by events and shown to be entirely wrong (British nationals involved and they've been released on bail - not very terrorist-like). And if you believe anything Trump says, you are a credulous moron.
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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,

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
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Jess @jessicakpr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Extraordinary that anyone cares (or that the BBC covers) what the ridiculous, tax dodging, unpatriotic, small minded Ratcliffe thinks about anything. What an unpleasant dinosaur. Pay the tax you know you should be paying mate or do one.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A serious democratic society simply cannot allow this. That's £72 million from just two men. (Both, until lately, based overseas). The average UK earner (full-time) would have to work for over 1,800 years to raise that much. It's a nuclear strike on any pretence at the equality of political power
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Cally Beaton @callybeaton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Anyone who has ever complained about London Underground, complain no more.
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.
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Sian Berry MP @sianberry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Molly is right - democracy itself is set to be crushed if Reform sneaks a majority. The case for a switch to a proportional system, where they simply cannot do this with a twenty-something vote share, BEFORE the next election grows by the day, and the PM cannot keep ruling this out.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This risks repeating the same mistakes Starmer made on the far right. Sometimes you have to call out racist thugs as racist thugs.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 03/09/2026
Very much here for any moves to throw off the Norman yoke.
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Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%.
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Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on
Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and notionol infroctrunturo unitIt's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Frog hotels IG: @_pollinatorsreserve Snohomish, WA
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Jess @jessicakpr.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Important read. Hopefully we can learn the correct lessons if we listen to the experts.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What makes us human. I so love this. And her. #NHS #nursing #medicine
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burnham: "Social care in England is as unfair as American healthcare." It's a very good line.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Reform in action. Nobody else has posed for as many pointless photos while managing to do absolutely fuck all to help anyone.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules:
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
In case you didn’t have enough reasons to love Spanish football, here’s some more wholesome content of the male players paying their respects to the women’s team, which also won the world cup www.instagram.com/reel/DbEsgxe...
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Dexter Crisp @dextercrisp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It's starting to look like Reform UK Ltd is less a political party, more of a front for laundering crypto
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Carol Hedges @riotgrandma.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄 Hey @the-independent.com FYI: this woman has had 3 kids and a double mastectomy ~ both can result in a stomach. Grow the fuck up you penny a liner hacks. This isn’t the 1950s Disgusting . You should have spiked this vile piece of misogynistic crap. .
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Anthony L. Fisher @anthonylfisher.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you post on X, you are an active participant in the richest man in the world’s far-right, racist disinformation campaign. But, you know, gotta get that engagement clout.
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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
We all know this to be true. JonathanPie.com
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023
Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...
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Jess @jessicakpr.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
LOL. Not that good at politics are you Mr. Farage? Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 08/07/2026
Clacton is about to be dominated by Count Binface, and Farage’s great bombshell has rather magnificently exploded in his own face. This is going to be a very, very interesting few weeks, and I am going to be absolutely insufferable about it.
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The Clacton By-Election Has Entered Peak Binface
With no major parties standing, a standards investigation paused, and Count Binface waiting in Clacton, Farage’s grand reckoning is quickly something much funnier and much dodgier.
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Alastair MacIntosh @alastairmac.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
To answer your first question, to make Farage look like a gimp. To answer your second question, it makes him look like a gimp.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Has any other politician ever called a by-election on an explicitly anti-transparency, pro-sleaze ticket before?
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Jess @jessicakpr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
On point. As per. Get off X today. The End.
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Jess @jessicakpr.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
And he can stay out of Greater Manchester forever too. What an absolute tool.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Absolutely terrific magazine piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social. You can read it here, or in the FT Mag in the @ftweekend.com on Saturday:
ft.com
The decade that made Andy Burnham
What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 22/06/2026
The 'ten years' bit is a clue.
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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/06/2026
Traditionally on Father’s Day I have posted about my own father, but today I am going to post instead about becoming one. /1
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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 10/06/2026
There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I honestly can’t understand why Elon Musk’s X isn’t banned in the UK. It has become a poisonous vehicle for spreading hatred and dissension, and is run by a white supremacist agitator, who explicitly incites violence. Surely there is a criminal sanction for this?
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ColinM 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @goodbyemr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Every "legitimate concern" comment, every time Reform was given a platform, every "both sides of the issue", every concession to the right wing, has all led to this, because nobody in government had the sense or guts to draw a line and say "No more", for fear of losing votes. Shameful.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
At moments of crisis, leaders have a responsibility to speak to, and for, their country. The PM should be on the airwaves, telling the stories of the children, teenagers and families who have been burned out of their homes; naming those responsible; and leading a national fightback against them.
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Very obviously, people who participate in pogroms should face long prison sentences and those who promote them should too. No democrat should have a presence on a platform owned by a racist insurrectionist. None of this will happen, though. We are sleepwalking towards fascism.
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Tell me about it. I despair at the inaction that has become the calling card of the Prime Minister. No doubt there will be a statement about how angry he is and if the companies in question don’t do something he’ll launch a consultation. He’s become the Paddington Bear Hard Stare of PMs.
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John Rowan @jrowanbxl.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There is a direct line from "not immediately condemning hooligans marking out their territory with flags as wrong 'uns" to "pogroms on the streets of the UK". One was always going to lead to another. The best time to stop this was then, the next best time is now. Not holding my breath though.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Get out of a permanent defensive crouch and go after these people. There's plenty of material.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Laws exist to close down publishers of harmful and illegal material. They've been on the statute books for years. We should simply ban X. Right now. It's not a question of free speech. It's a question of public safety and national security.
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Peter Beaumont @petersbeaumont1.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.
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Jess @jessicakpr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
WTF BBC? Surely this could have been phrased as "Starmer pushes back hard on Farage's unevidenced claim of two tier policing and which is expressly against the family's wishes?"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
After Nigel Farage claims we're living under two tier policing Keir Starmer slams him at #PMQs "His response has been to call for rage, rage, that's his response to a father that lost his son" "Exploiting this tragedy to creating grievance and division is wrong" "It shows exactly who he is"
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/06/2026
"Farage is right about one thing. What is happening should inspire “pure cold rage” – directed at him. Deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage in the wake of a murder is a despicable act. It is contemptible and craven."
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Our ‘pure cold rage’ should be at Farage and Robinson
The police made a terrible mistake with Henry Nowak. But deliberately stoking racial tensions for personal advantage is despicable
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is Farage’s Britain. A hellscape of racism and riots. Decency cast aside. No responsible media platform should have given him this opportunity. A disgraceful, disrespectful day. Yet another warning to us all that all Farage will ever do is hurt and ruin and divide.
Family's plea for calm ignored

Photo of protesters gathered in Southampton with their flags Henry Nowak protesters accused of 'hijacking' tragedy after pelting police with bricks
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