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Kevin L Lamb, Ph.D.

@kevinllamb.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof. of Sport & Exercise Science at University of Chester. Mid-80s product of Alsager College of H.E.(!) Life-long Millers fan, fell wanderer, & mediocre golfer.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I'm so pissed off that I've taken to ranting into my empty kitchen cabinet. Here's me on why Farage is wrong about everything. Thank you for listening.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Zelensky: "When our strikes reached Yandex’s data centers, it suddenly became a little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. A lot of people noticed it. There was less hate, less division, and fewer provocations... It’s pretty clear where those bots were coming from."
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/09/2026
The Guardian University Guide 2027 – the rankings
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The Guardian University Guide 2027 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Having first tried being a ‘one nation’ Cameron-Tory, then a remainer, then a rabid brexiter, Jenrick has now decided that his route to power lies in being a nasty little far-right shit. A total loser scrabbling around for ‘likes’ in the cesspit of Reform. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/robert...
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Robert Jenrick Says Reform Supporter Who Attacked Woman At Party Conference 'Should Get A Medal'
He previously said the heckler should “get a life”.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bill Bryson on the RNLI in "The Road to Little Dribbling : more notes from a small island" (2015)
I had never really stopped to consider what an extraordinary thing the Royal National Lifeboat Institution is. Think about it. A troubled ship calls for help, and eight people - teachers, plumbers, the guy
who runs the pub - drop everything and put to sea, whatever the weather, asking no questions, imperilling their own lives, to try to help strangers. Is there anything more brave and noble than that? The RNLI - I looked this up later - is an organization run by volunteers, supported entirely by public donations. It maintains 233 stations around the coast of Britain and averages twenty-two call-outs per day. It saves 350 lives a year on average.
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TensegrityFan🐝🍯 @tensegrityfan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
It entirely understandable that the deluge of news about Nigel Farage’s financial affairs means it’s easy to miss key new information and important new reporting. But this latest instalment from the brilliant Dr Ahmed really is worth of all of your attention.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/07/2026
£10bn wasted. A 'VIP lane' for well-connected firms. The Covid inquiry's verdict on the Johnson government is in. They "undermined public trust when the country needed it most". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/ju…
theguardian.com
Johnson government wasted £10bn on PPE, Covid inquiry finds
Chair criticises use of ‘VIP lane’ to prioritise PPE contracts for companies with Tory connections in damning report
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A reminder
As you hear the latest news of Tory greed and corruption from the Covid inquiry, don’t forget that we had THREE pandemic preparedness exercises, the biggest, exercise Cygnus, in 2016. 

Findings showed the UK was scarily unprepared for a pandemic. The Tories didn’t just fail to act on the findings they refused to fully participate in the exercise including making life or death decisions. 

Ultimately, they favoured ideological austerity over replenishing stockpiles. Four years later Covid hit and instead of acting fast they thought about how their donors and mates could profit as our NHS workers used fucking BIN BAGS while attending to patients. 

To add insult to injury the fuckers partied and got coked off their tits in Westminster as millions died and suffered in isolation.

Never forget what those scumbags did.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 10/07/2026
Carol Vorderman: "I haven’t stopped laughing since it became obvious that the Reform UK leader will spend the summer arguing with a fake alien with a bin on his head, because now everything he does from here on in is a joke.”
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Of course I want to stop Nigel Farage – so I’ll be backing Count Binface
I haven’t stopped laughing since it became obvious that the Reform UK leader will spend the summer arguing with a fake a
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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Farage’s appetite for seemingly endless self-enrichment reminds me of a former PM whose greed eventually caught up with him…
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Farage’s Boris Johnson tribute act
💰 And the £5 million gift that keeps giving...
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
BREAKING: Indigenous white people commit riot and arson. Incompetent indigenous white police fire water cannon. Indigenous white politicians who fucked up our economy discuss "legitimate concerns" in lying newspapers owned by indigenous white tax evaders. Immigrants somehow remain the problem.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
“Someone who is rioting doesn’t know that the person they are targeting is actually looking after their mother or their granny” Nor, it seems, do the far right politicians who whip up the rioters with their racism and hate. The harm Farage does is criminal. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mob
Sumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses
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CorrinaLeeB 🇨🇦 @corrina.sheshed.rocks · 09/06/2026
When reporters say they were pressured to change facts to match a preferred narrative, that’s a story everyone should care about! A free press can’t function if stories are shaped to satisfy politicians, executives, or activists! Facts first. Always! #SheShed #TruthMatters #PressFreedom
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely” said just one of the far right lunatics due to speak at the event, alongside Farage, Truss and other conspiracy nutjobs, fascists, racists and no-marks with criminal records for incitement. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Nigel Farage to headline Liz Truss’s UK CPAC event after apparent snub
Reform had previously suggested Farage would be ‘steering clear’ of event, modelled on US conservative gathering
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
All he wanted was to be PM. Everything else and everything else this turnip of a man says is absolutely irrelevant
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 08/06/2026
Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Nigel Farage seen smirking and chuckling as Keir Starmer condemns him for exploiting the murder of Henry Nowak for his own political ends, against the wishes of Nowak's family
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Very proud that Tax Policy Associates is the first to publish research identifying a highly statistically significant correlation between the number of cheeses a country has and the number of taxes (p=0.0000000375). This changes everything.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Privatised water is such an obvious scam that it's achieved the impossible: getting 82% of Brits to agree on something. The only issue to score higher was the public’s desire for Tony Blair to stick to retirement.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
🔥 Now over 75,000 signatures! So an increase of 5K in less than a day. Keep going folks. Share to friends.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
No, there weren’t ‘over two million’ people at last weekend’s Unite the Kingdom march. Police estimates put the figure for last weekend’s march at “around 60,000” people. fullfact.org/politics/uni...
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No, there weren’t ‘over two million’ people at last weekend’s Unite the Kingdom march – Full Fact
We’ve seen several social media posts quoting this figure, but both the police and an independent expert have said it’s much too high.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?
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Claire K @clairekreads.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
The Mercy Chair by M.W. Craven @mwcraven.bsky.social #themercychair #bookreview #teampoe #teamtilly aknightsreads.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/t...
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The Mercy Chair by M.W. Craven #themercychair #bookreview #teampoe #teamtilly
Happy Monday! Today I’m playing catch up on the rather fabulous Poe and Tilly crime thrillers from M. W. Craven with my review of The Mercy Chair.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22/04/2026
The Shadow Contract is a 4-part deep dive into how a US spy-tech firm landed a £330m deal for our NHS data. It’s a story about power, privacy, and you. 🔍 Listen now 👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 stamp duty on her flat, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should immediately resign if she had “any moral decency”. Now we learn he personally made £91,000 in excess payments by failing to pay the tax his company legally owed
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Richard Woodfield @richardwoodfield.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Bin the state visit by King Charles! Madness to go ahead...
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Petition: Government to advise monarch to refuse/cancel state visits with hostile powers
The Government should advise the Monarch against facilitating a ceremonial head of state visit where a foreign state is engaged in hostile activity - whether economic, diplomatic, military or otherwis...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... “Management consultants are ruining UK universities”. No, fleecing.
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Management consultants are ruining UK universities
Relentless off-the-peg commercial rewiring has undermined British higher education
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/04/2026
It’s the silver lining from this terrible age of Donald Trump: he is pushing Britain closer to the EU | Gaby Hinsliff
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It’s the silver lining from this terrible age of Donald Trump: he is pushing Britain closer to the EU | Gaby Hinsliff
Ten years after the Brexit vote, Trump’s disdain and insults are fuelling the belief that the UK should renew ties with Europe, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Average of all the polls. We just hit crossover day! Great moment to join as we take on Reform next. Join.greenparty.org.uk
Green line catching up with the red one and crossing over it!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Been thinking about this headline and this paper. Beyond disgusted by both. It’s the most unpatriotic, irresponsible, ridiculously rightwing shitrag of them all… and we have several. But the Daily Mail is a real prejudice-peddling menace, dressed up as a newspaper. Shameful to buy or read it.
Daily Mail (headline 1st April 2026 but not an April fool) 

Amid fuel crisis, President tells UK: "Go get your own oil' TRUMP'S TAUNT EXPOSES A PM WITHOUT A PLAN
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Today, the UK minimum wage for the over-21s rises to £12.71 per hour. £10.85 an hour for 18-20 year olds 4.4m will earn less than the real Living Wage. In parliament, multi-millionaire Tories opposed the rise. No empathy for the poor. Watch my response to their motion.
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House of Lords Minimum Wage 17Mar2026
YouTube video by Prem Sikka
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RomayneG @ladymommag.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
38d.gs/sitl
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End Palantir’s NHS contract NOW
Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contra...
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Jack dart @jackdart.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Nigel Farage took £585,000 from GB News. His MPs declared another £770,000. Four billionaires have spent £170M building the media machine putting Reform in your living room every night. Today the Guardian exposed them and what they expect in return. This is a political project funded from the top.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Iran war is going to boost all our bills. Hopefully it impresses on people: 1) what reckless idiots Trump & Netanyahu are 2) why we need to get away from fossil fuels
bbc.co.uk
Typical energy bill forecast to rise by £332 a year in July
Cornwall Insight says the recent surge in energy prices due to the Iran war is set to push up household bills.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Finding BBC and #r4today analysis of Trump’s insults of Starmer to be bizarre. Why are we even considering what Trump said? It’s meaningless. Genuinely. Not even Trump knows what he means. The story is - Starmer stood firm and acted in the national interest. Trump threw some toys out of his pram.
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Chalkwitch Tiff @chalkwitch.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Oh bringing the receipts @zackpolanski.bsky.social and rightly so.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
You don’t beat Reform by being Reform. You do it by showing that you can manage a fair immigration system without the need for cruelty or draconian rules that create vulnerability and division. Being tough shouldn’t mean being hideous. Be fair, efficient and respectful. This is none of those things.
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DJ Punctum @djpunctum.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The art lies in knowing how to give as good as (or better than) you get and ZP has that art. Thoroughly enjoying all the unilateral media squirming that he's cheerfully provoking.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.
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Nollaig McEvilly @drmcevil.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Good morning and thank you so much to the good people of Gorton and Denton for giving us hope and showing us better things are possible 🙌 💚
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Sneak peak of Trump’s State of the Union address courtesy of the late great Stanley Unwin. youtu.be/0UJZF5iRhNg?...
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Stanley Unwin
YouTube video by domshaw
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
You need a mooring permit which needs to be issued six weeks prior to arrival. Plus
The British Indian Ocean Territory is not a
tourist destination. There are no
commercial flights, access is restricted and
you need a permit before you travel.


Passport validity requirements


To enter the British Indian Ocean Territory
your passport must have an 'expiry date' at
least 6 months after the date you arrive and
nave at least 2 blank pages


Check with your travel provider that your
passport and other travel documents meet
requirements. Renew your passport if you
need to.


You will be denied entry if you do not have a
valid travel document or try to use a
passport that has been reported lost or
stolen.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Dear UK media, If you’re going to fall for Farage’s every cry for attention, FFS, be ready with the facts that show that, not only is he peddling anti-immigrant sentiment/racism for votes, but he’s lying about the stats too. It’s dangerous and dishonest. Please say so. Thanks A v tired-of-this, UK
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Wow! Palestine Action win judicial review - Guardian report. This is a *big* legal win. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
UK ban on Palestine Action unlawful, high court judges rule
Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws
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andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
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