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Ken Matheson

@kenem.bsky.social
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Too old to be noticed / Too much experience to be ignored / Always see the bigger picture / Often out of place, now running out of time / Traditional left leaning

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today, in lying: Trump: “The arrest in the UK was fantastic. Working with Britain, it was an amazing job. “We had them under investigation. They were looking to do big damage to our fort, and working with the British worked out great. “We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.”
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Data is good but understanding, perception, feel and common sense will never be replaced by instrumentation and AI." I wrote this 4 years ago, in a longer piece about sport. I now think that I was wrong, but right.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Give up Robbie, you're co-commentating with an idiot.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anyone get the feeling that humanity has run its course?
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Osbert Lancaster @osbert.org · 22/09/2026
Connecting changemakers to explore what's happening and discuss what's next! Please join us and invite your networks! @greenspacetrust.bsky.social @thecockburn.bsky.social @caltonhill.bsky.social @scotlink.bsky.social @rspbscotland.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/what-if-edin...
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What if Edinburgh was designed for wildlife as well as people?
A networking discussion for changemakers working for environmental and social change: exploring how we can respond in the climate, nature and human crisis.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Do it!
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Give Money To Charity – Donate And Support the RNLI In Saving Lives At Sea
Donate money to the RNLI and help us save lives at sea. Your donation provides volunteers with the kit, equipment and lifeboats they need to save lives.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Jacob Rees-Mogg has put out a video about how everyone needs to "grow up" and put childhood things behind them and show a bit more backbone and be prepared to do things fir themselves. That's Jacob Rees-Mogg who as an adult ... quite literally went canvassing with his nanny.
Rees mogg and and an AI image of a man in a bowler hat
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 20/09/2026
I don't think we disdain the center-right enough. First, they rode nativist populist tigers to power to get their tax cuts and deregulation; Then, they lost control of their own parties to those tigers; Now, they sit in lucrative jobs as columnists writing about how it's all the left's fault.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
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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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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For those in the UK and other countries where the lie is called a “war on motorists” rather than a “war on cars,” here’s a poster version for you to use and share. Either way, never forget, if there’s REALLY been any war in cities, it’s been a century-long WAR ON WALKING. #UrbanTruth #WarOnWalking
Black text on white background. “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on motorists. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century. Via the Urban Truth Collective. 
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bilbao is certainly powerful but everything about his riding style seems to be indexed. #vuelta2026
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"The vast majority of the civilians [in Gaza] were killed by two groups. One is the lawyers that legitimized the attacks, and the other is the pilots. And these groups are loved by Israel." Neve Gordon, Professor of International Law, on The +972 Podcast.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We're rapidly approaching the perfect storm: - Climate crisis. Tech control. Corporate government. Global financial implosion. Optimism won't save us - what might?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Currently watching Tour of Britain on TNT which has Soudal sealant ads in the breaks. I wonder if Soudal have a product for the so-called-commentator's loose mouth?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’m currently watching the Tour of Britain riding through the Yorkshire Dales on the roads where my cycling life was born and bred - both just riding and racing. It makes me simultaneously happy and sad.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Boring and greedy.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Sign the Petition
Make Walking Easy: Adopt the International Zebra Crossing Design on 20mph Streets
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I'm quite good at forgetting past events in my life; painful memories, difficulties to get through, things I can't do because of age or health. So I've concentrated on present positives and things I can still do. I'm starting to regret that now as a lot of good times got lost with the bad ones.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
My new paper weight. Kudos for anyone under 70 who can name it.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Does anyone recognise these paw/hoof prints? They appeared in the ashes of a small garden fire in the UK.
Paw/hoof prints in ashes of garden fire.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I can understand people prioritising the here-and-now, like working, paying the bills, enjoying life as best they can. But what about the longer term future? Isn't that what governments are supposed to be concerned with, rather than just firefight and squirm for votes in the next GE?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Maybe this is the (Dumb) Data Era?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Charles Moore inadvertently becomes a Lefty. Morning.
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Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · 27/07/2026
"Let’s take stock of what happened here: CBS News executives tried to help the Trump regime whitewash public executions carried out by federal agents."
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Here it is. My manifesto for the 2026 Clacton By-Election. It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Join me, clean up Clacton and let's make 13th August Bin Day! #VoteBinface #VoteyMcVoteface #YesWeTinCan
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Proudly lying in public with no apparent conscience and no consequence has now become normalised. Shame on all of us for allowing it.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I have never seen a rider go so deep as Mathieu vdP to win the last stage of #TdF2026. Gobsmacking!
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The most interesting thing about Right to Buy is it should have meant Councils had loads of money to build new Council Houses But actually they stopped Because Thatcher blocked Councils from using this money to build houses and cut their budget from Government Because of their increased incomes
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
5w/kg for the grupetto to get 2 mins inside estimated time limit today in #TdF2026 Whether that's on climbs or for the stage human physiology has moved on a lot 🤔 Yeah, right.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
"...his apparent malignant narcissism. Much of his rhetoric is laced with venom, vengefulness, spite, hatred, selfishness, iconoclasm, racism of the crudest sort, misogyny, entitlement, impetuosity, thin-skinned intolerance, xenophobia, and delusions of grandeur."
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The change in UAE and Pog makes me even more curious about those middle of the night anti doping visits.
Under the anti-doping regulations of the International Cycling Union (UCI) which delegated its anti-doping programme to the ITA in 2021, the UCI must have “serious and specific suspicions that the rider may be involved in doping activities” to conduct tests between 11pm and 6am. The judges responsible for liberty and detention (JLD) “have concurrent jurisdiction to rule on requests for night-time anti-doping tests”, the Paris public prosecutor’s office told AFP.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear TNT/HBO, I pay a subscription to watch your sport broadcasts. Why do I have to watch: - Advertising slots. In program advertising of your own future broadcasts. You're going to lose me.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"Greatness begins when you push beyond" 💩 💩 💩 💩 💩
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It's Day 1 of Andy Burnham being Prime Minister & Donald Trump is celebrating the destruction of our planet. Meanwhile Spain doubled it's renewables - before they had some of the highest bills in Europe and now some of the lowest bills. Labour need to stop appealing to Trump.
The People of Aberdeen, in Scotland, are dancing in the streets because the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, has stated that he will be opening up, all the way, the invaluable North Sea Oil! It is one of the Greatest Sources of quality Oil on Earth, has hundreds of years of Capacity left, with much not even found yet, and will make the United Kingdom, from a Poverty Stricken Disaster, to one of the Richest Countries anywhere in the World! Britain pays Norway Billions of Dollars a year to buy its Oil, which they get from a less valuable part of the North Sea — How ridiculous is that! Also, word is that the UK is going to move the old and horrible looking windmills, which loom over and destroy the City of Aberdeen.That will be a big day for the Country, and will be very much appreciated by everybody. Such great potential in the UK, but it all starts with OPENING NORTH SEA OIL. WE LOVE YOU SCOTLAND! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
FMG Remco... on top of a mountain. #TdF2026
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
President Theodore Roosevelt, as if speaking of Donald Trump 116 years ago.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Did UCI write a new script? Maybe, maybe not. #TdF2026
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Please can we just forget Froome, please. #TdF2026
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In 1948 a decision was made to recognise a new State of Israel. The US and UK have spent almost 80 years defending that decision - even in the face of obvious acts of genocide. In the process we have made enemies of many Arab nations. So here we are, making so many compromised decisions.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Well that's another nail in the coffin of my lifelong love of the #TdF
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
#TdF All the focus is on the dominance of UAE but is the failure of Visma the real cause of that? Can anyone smell the whiff of UCI 'management'?
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I've just tuned in the UAE show featuring Tadej Pogačar. And there's me thinking it's the Tour de France.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 14/07/2026
Britain has more than 50 billionaires. Each owns more than 3,000 times the wealth of the average person. Should we tax those fortunes a little more? Stephen McNair makes the case. 👇
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Fixing inequality: just tax the extremely rich
Inequality is at the root of most of our social ills. It could be fixed with a wealth tax. And Gabriel Zucman has a cunning plan
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I've an optimistic feeling that the dirty money behind these people, and their kind, is drying up, and that's all they're in it for.
A Guardian headline photo "How we covered a curious week for Farage, Trump and Le Pen"
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
All these years and I never thought that someone so good at it could deter me from my lifetime passion #procycling Still, there’s always just riding a bike.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
UAE, and especially Pogačar, seem to be making the most of 2026. Maybe they know that the UCI will probably soon nobble them for the foreseeable future. I am not accusing anyone of wrongdoing but see also Sky/Froome.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Donald Trump is clearly insane, which precludes him from being President of the USA. So please tell me why he is still in post and, just as importantly, killing people in various countries, including the US.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A bit more evidence for the idea we're moving, fairly rapidly, into a post-literate age; mix of poor education, attention span deficits and short form video killing out literacy. This is a very, very bad thing.
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Ken Matheson @kenem.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Why can't we just ignore Farage? The man is obviously a first class arsewipe. No need to give him the oxygen of publicity.
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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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