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Julie D

@julie169.bsky.social
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Retired, love Europe, baffled and worried by the nonsense happening everywhere. Gaah!

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 06/10/2026
More than 9,600 have already taken action and called on Ofcom to investigate Nigel Farage's GB News show. A party leader and sitting MP should not be allowed to host their own news show. Help us reach 10,000 signatures. ⬇️
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Farage on GB News: Demand that Ofcom takes immediate action - Best for Britain
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If people don't want to pay tax to make this country function and help out the rest of society and particularly those who need help most... then maybe they should move to Dubai and stop bleating about it. Really sick to death of it.
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
😡 What do you expect from Liar Johnson?
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 26/09/2026
🚨Broadcasters are required to present news impartially, without political bias. Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action. ⬇️ bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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Womble1958 @wimblewomble1958.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exactly - why the fuck does the BBC have to sanitise everything!!??? This twat is a fucking terrorist attempting to kill a rescuer by drowning him whilst cutting the dinghy with his knife - it’s in the fucking video of they bother to watch it properly, he’s even boasting about it as he does it!!! 🙄😒
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Revchips @revchips.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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RNLI statement on Channel incident | RNLI
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/09/2026
TAKE ACTION🚨 Add your name to demand that Ofcom takes immediate action. Sign the petition here: bestforbritain.org/petition/farage-…
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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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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🚨 Millions of elderly Britons take drugs known as anticholinergics - they can have serious side-effects and have been linked to a risk of dementia but patients aren't routinely warned. Another aspect of the polypharmacy crisis: www.thetimes.com/article/b5fb...
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Doctors prescribe drugs without mentioning dementia risk
Common medicines for diabetes, bladder control and depression can be associated with serious side-effects for older people
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
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An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Dave Rackliff @daverackliff.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We are now at the point where hotels have to show “proof” to racist councillors so an angry mob won’t assault their guests. Fuck you Farage and fuck you all the petty, small minded bigots jumping on his bandwagon.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If you would like to add your voice to tens of thousands of people thanking RNLI volunteers for their work, 38 Degrees have organised this open letter to express public support (at a time when a hateful fringe have been intimidating & abusing RNLI volunteers) act.38degrees.org.uk/act/rnli-tha...
act.38degrees.org.uk
An open letter in support of the volunteers and staff at the RNLI
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know th...
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"I was expecting to learn things. I was expecting to have fun. What I was not expecting, though, was that there’d be a moment that felt akin to how I imagine religious people experience faith, in which I stood looking at the magnitude of creation and felt genuinely overcome by emotion."
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Here’s how you dig a big tunnel under the ground
A flashback to September 2021.
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Tobique Mike🇨🇦 @tobiquemike.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
With the recent promising successes in mRNA technology defeating pancreatic and now glioblastoma (brain cancer), it’s looking like anti-vaxxers may be the only ones that will die from these diseases soon. Dolly Parton backed mRNA research. This may end up being her greatest gift. #science
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ReMona Lisa - News Reader - @thebookwormturns.co.uk · 03/09/2026
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Andy Burnham: Kick Palantir out of our NHS!
I just signed the campaign calling on the Prime Minister to kick Palantir out of our NHS and police, can you ad your name now?
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
wrote about the nonce goggles www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The law won't save us from Meta's 'pervert glasses'. The only solution is mockery | Jonathan Liew
These things are undermining not just our public spaces but the very nature of being human. Let’s shame them off the streets, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In your face Purves! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show
National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding
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Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸 @jeffrudd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
REMEMBER: They all knew.
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Well done everybody! 🥇 🥇 🥇 🥇 #hunt #asher-smith #goat BBC News - History for Hunt and Asher-Smith as GB win relay gold www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...
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European Athletics Championships 2026: Amy Hunt and Dina Asher-Smith make history with relay gold
Amy Hunt and Dina Asher-Smith make history and Georgia Hunter Bell claims a commanding 1500m gold as Great Britain maintain their bid to top the final medal table at the European Championships.
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Tragically, Jason Arday has died after a vicious press campaign over the last few weeks. The Govt must urgently launch an inquiry into the rotten culture of the press, and any role it had in his death. Add your name now: hackedoff.org/campaign-actions/demand-an-inquiry-into-the-culture-of-the-press
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Demand an inquiry into the culture of the press
Jason Arday died after being relentlessly hounded by the press. Demand an inquiry into press culture now.
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Joe Roberts 🔥💙🔥🐸 @robbyjoe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
He didn’t change. They did.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Today was the 5th hottest day on record in the UK. Beating the 6th hottest day on record set on June 22nd 2026 by 0.1c. 5 of the 6 hottest days ever in the UK have happened since 2019, the other was 2003.
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@support.bsky.team Please correct your terrible explore list. Have you been invaded by bots? The election has only just started. Nobody has won anything...
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
An absolutely brilliant AWE inspiring day and evening. Thanks to the universe for giving us these spectacular experiences. #eclipse #spain #Palencia (these are just my phone snaps 😊)
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 12/08/2026
Anyone who isn't in today's UK/Europe Eclipse zone – or who hasn't been able to get a pair of those special glasses, or a welder's mask, or a colander, or a pinhole camera – you can watch it live here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_lW...
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Partial solar eclipse LIVE, 12 August 2026 | Telescope feed | Live from the Royal Observatory
YouTube video by Royal Observatory Greenwich
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 07/08/2026
Well said! The world is increasingly more dangerous- a closer relationship with the EU helps to keep Britain safe.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Solar energy supplied more power to Britain’s grid in July than any previous month on record. The figure of 14.4% of all power generated in July smashed the last monthly record of 12.4%, set only in May In July 2025, the (formerly) best year for solar generation, 9.6% of generation was from solar.
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Drootinator @drootinator.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Can electoral lightning strike twice? #VoteBinface #Clacton
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 31/07/2026
Labour wins decisive victory in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection
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Labour wins decisive victory in Greater Manchester mayoral byelection
Bev Craig, the city council leader, succeeds Andy Burnham as mayor, reversing Reform gains in May local elections Labour has stormed to a decisive victory in the Greater Manchester mayoral byelection, seizing back areas that recently fell to Reform UK and the Greens. Labour’s Bev Craig, the Manchester city council leader, will now succeed Andy Burnham and hold one of the most powerful political positions outside Westminster. Continue reading...
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Absolutely shocking. "Very hard" decisions my right eyeball 😠
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
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Andy Burnham visits an Essex pub & drinks a pint of mild
Burnham visits an Essex pub & drinks a pint of mild You couldn’t really miss the symbolism except of course the media did. To mark the announcement of a 20% reduction in business rates for pubs…
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Ditto!
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
IS ANYONE LISTENING TO THIS!?? 😠
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Yes please!! 🙏👍❤️
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Julie D @julie169.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
They are vindictive bastards every last one them. It's just wrong on every level. We need to revisit Leveson 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Never really cared for Michael Heseltine but like John Major, Ken Clarke, and Gordon Brown the older they get the more they show how shallow, vacuous, and talentless most of our politicians are in recent years I now realise they are true statesmen, not third rate plastic immitations❗️
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
PSA.
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If anyone is thinking to do actual campaigning in Clacton, it is ESSENTIAL that you get agreement from Count Binface. This is not a joke. We do not want to get him into trouble.
All expenditure in support of a candidate MUST be accounted for by the candidate even if they didnt pay it out themselves. Otherwise he would be breaking the law for not declaring the expenditure in his post-election expenses return to the authorities.
Also any leaflets have to say who printed and published them, even if not produced by CBf himself. And the costs (even if donated by supporters) MUST be agreed by CBf so he can include them in his expenses return.
I should add that I do know what I am talking about - I was a member of the Greens and stood for election for many years, sometimes even successfully! CBf needs to be squeaky clean on this sort of thing, compared to Frogface.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The Norweigan Ambassador to the UK
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.
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D Lesser @harleygalsc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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The Lady Lucy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🇬🇱🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🐾🐕 @lucyarnold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
There, I've corrected the word order of Brendan o'Neills article there... "Their town is not a moral playpen for smug outsiders to act out their haughty disregard. Show some respect, Nigel Farage, for the people of Clacton and for England’s hard-won democracy."
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Make Votes Matter @makevotesmatter.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📺 WATCH: Angela Rayner says there's a "consensus that we can't carry on with the system that we currently have". "This is one of the issues that is starting to feel louder and louder from the grassroots." PR really feels like an idea whose time has come 💪
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...
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let's do a 'couch to 5k' for reading
we're going to work ourselves back to good 'reading fitness' over the next eight weeks. come and join us.
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Prof Frank McDonough @fxmc1957.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PERSON OF THE DAY. 5 July 1975. Arthur Ashe (USA) became the 1st black man to win a Wimbledon singles title by beating No 1 seed and defending champion Jimmy Connors 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in one of the biggest upsets in Wimbledon history.
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He’s not even in office anymore and he’s still more presidential than the man who is.
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