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Kurt

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Proud Lancastrian 🌹and European 🇪🇺 📍West Midlands UK.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If you want the director's cut, here's my much longer preview analysis of the biggest by-election in British history for the Swingometer: swingometer.substack.com/p/the-greate...
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The Greater Manchester Mayoral by-election
What if you called the biggest by-election ever and no one noticed?
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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
If Andy Burnham pledges to ban people who were children in 1976 talking about how they "just got on with it" he'll be Prime Minister for life
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🚨By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party - lets get this to the 100,000 signatures needed petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 06/10/2025
When I first heard about Project 2025, I thought it was conspiracy nonsense - too brazen, too cartoonishly evil to be real. Then Trump called it “severe right”… and started enacting it. Part One of my two-part deep dive into the authoritarian playbook now shaping the United States.
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Project 2025: The Manual for Making America Obey Again (Part 1)
Heritage Foundation’s playbook for Trump 2.0 shows what happens when authoritarian ambition meets bureaucratic precision.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 24/07/2025
How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Inside the story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.
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How 3M Discovered, Then Concealed, the Dangers of Forever Chemicals
The company found its own toxic compounds in human blood—and kept selling them.
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Simon Lee @simonleewx.com · 18/06/2025
New paper in @rmets.org Weather from Gillian Kay & Met Office colleagues finds the max possible UK temperature in the *current* climate is a staggering 46.6°C. That's 6.3°C above the current record! We're not prepared for today's extremes, let alone those of the future. doi.org/10.1002/wea....
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Rapidly increasing chance of record UK summer temperatures
The UK recorded its first exceedance of 40°C in July 2022. To assess the current chance of recurrence, we use a large climate model ensemble approach and find the 2023 return period to be 1-in-24 yea....
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Let's check in and see how European Dec-Feb snowfall has changed over the last 50 years. Other than Scandinavia, it looks awful.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🇺🇸 LATEST: America Set To Crown Its First King. All Hail King Elon! 👇🏻 Please like and share this morning’s #BrokenNews report. youtu.be/FtdC5-JDMPM?...
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All Hail King Elon! - #BrokenNews
YouTube video by Larry & Paul
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The vile, sadistic crimes of this rape gang will not make national headlines, or trend on twitter for days. Govt will not have to account for failures to protect its victims. And all of us are less safe, because there is a concerted campaign for us to focus only on perpetrators with brown skin.
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Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Some people in recent days have alleged a ‘cover-up’ over the grooming & rape of hundreds of young girls in predominantly northern UK towns, leading to calls for a ‘national’ public inquiry into child sexual exploitation FWIW here’s a non-exhaustive list of inquiries into #CSE in last 12 yrs…
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Lancashire Telegraph @lancstelegraph.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Lisa Farrell, a lifelong Rovers fan, died on Sunday (December 29) after a battle with cancer. She was 42-years-old.
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Minute of applause planned after death of 'warm and caring' Blackburn Rovers fan
Lisa Farrell, a lifelong Rovers fan, died on Sunday (December 29) after a battle with cancer. She was 42-years-old.
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James Peacock @peacockreports.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Signs are, it will be a very anticyclonic Christmas for western & central Europe. Mild or very mild on the north-western flank, increasingly chilly as you look south-eastward from there. Some wet weather in the southeast, perhaps snow on mountains.
Chart showing a strong high pressure cell over (north) western Europe, along with a weak low pressure system over the southeast.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 06/12/2024
⚠️⚠️🔴 Red weather warning issued 🔴⚠️⚠️ Strong and damaging winds across parts of Wales and southwest England Saturday 0300 – 1100 Latest info 👉 bit.ly/WxWarning Stay #WeatherAware ⚠️
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 22/11/2024
Storm Bert could bring disruption from snow, rain and wind to parts of the UK this weekend Stay up-to-date across our web, app and social channels (links in bio) More from Aidan here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBal...
A series of impact maps associated with Storm Bert this weekend. For the latest accessible warnings, please visit the Met Office website
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
If you bring central London to a halt in order to campaign against catastrophic climate change then you're a "barmy" eco "fanatic" who deserves to be locked up. If you do the same to hang on to your multimillion pound inheritance tax exemption then you're a brave freedom fighter defying the odds
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For my first thread on Bluesky I’m delving into the not-always-sexy world of local government finance Stay with me though, because it will show how local councils and the communities that they serve have been decimated over recent years and why change is so badly needed 🧵
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Kurt @kurtdr.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
@uksnowmap.com #uksnow B90 5/10
Snowy scene over vegetation
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18/11/2024
The super rich would still be super rich even if we taxed them properly. #TaxTheSuperRich join the campaign @patmillsuk.bsky.social
The 16 richest people would still be billionaires if 99% of their wealth vanished overnight. #TaxTheSuperRich #SayItWithMeNow
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-top-50...
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The Top 50 Most Followed UK Political Journalists and Commentators on Bluesky
The leading political commentators and journalists who are testing out the growing alternative to Elon Musk's toxic social media platform
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Met4Cast @met4cast.net · 16/11/2024
OVERVIEW | SUNDAY - THURSDAY Here's a very broad-brush overview of areas that are most likely to see falling snow during this cold spell based on current model guidance. It's possible small disturbances will develop in the flow bringing more widespread snow risks.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 13/11/2024
November is about to change gears... Colder, windier and wetter weather will move in through the weekend and into the beginning of next week, with the potential for some snow in places too ❄️
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