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John Morgan

@leafymorgan.bsky.social
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Work: International development | conflict states | good governance | trade Play: Chelsea | travel | cooking, eating and drinking

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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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 these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
First time ever. 😄 www.maptap.gg August 4 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 100🎯 Final score: 1000
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🎯MapTap Daily Geography Game
Play MapTap - the daily geography game! Find 5 world locations on a 3D globe with historical stories. Free browser-based daily game for geography lovers.
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Anybody know if Ashley Giles will be there to collect the trophy if Spain win?
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Looks like the Hapsburg Derby’s going to end up with a Spanish Succession.
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Hundreds of people will have been stabbed in the UK this week, each of them a terrible crime. But only the stabbing (allegedly) committed by a Sudanese refugee has led to riots. Why is that?
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Just on the off-chance that anyone’s interested in my footy rantings…
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
In a blatant act of provocation yesterday, Sadiq Khan allowed Christians to perform the Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square - a disgraceful show of dominance by a religion from the middle east.
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The Chelsea Podcast @chelseapodcast.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
NEW EPISODE: Two wins of differing natures for Chas., Mouch and @leafymorgan.bsky.social to discuss, plus a look forward to our trip to Paris. #CFC #ChelseaFC #KTBFFH open.spotify.com/episode/0S7a...
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This is what true heroism looks like.
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Yeah, but what’s the point of modern dance…?
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.
A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 22/01/2026
457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.
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Topper @topperuk.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Monday: Greg Tuesday: Ian Wednesday: Greg Thursday: Ian Friday: Greg – Gregorian Calendar.
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Garnacho just relegated to second-worst miss of the weekend. #AFCON
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
For those who might be interested…
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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Patriots.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 11/09/2025
every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer
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Lou Calvey @loucalvey.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Skegness, one of your absolute finest people right here. Buy her a drink whenever you see her.
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Whenever people say we should have fewer migrants, ask them which specific ones they want to have fewer of. (Checking in from the Whittington Hospital in North London, where an array of people with foreign accents have helped with my tests today. Thanks to you all 🙏)
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
If I were protesting in LA at present, I’d think about playing this tribute to Brian Wilson. (Yes, I know he didn’t actually write it) m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unn8...
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The Beach Boys - Student Demonstration Time
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
So is everyone ready for the Sound of Music Final? “I am 16th, going on 17th”…
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The Chelsea Podcast @chelseapodcast.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Our latest episode - discussing the Spurs and Brentford matches with CFCUK writers and Chelsea authors Kelvin Barker and @gate17marco.bsky.social . open.spotify.com/episode/7yum...
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The Time to Step Up Episode
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Devon Whittle @devonwhittle.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is the analysis I've been waiting for, @SimonEvenett & Fernando Martin apply the US's "reciprocal tariff formula" to services trade. If others looked at services the way the US is looking at goods they'd be justified in imposing some big tariffs! globaltradealert.org/reports/ZEIT...
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 24/03/2025
To stop receiving military operational planning updates from the White House, reply UNSUBSCRIBE
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Dr Darren R Flower @drdarrenrflower.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Sasha Trubetskoy
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Sheila Ritchie @europesheila.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
I’ll give Trump a coupla things. He has single handedly united Europe and given Canada back to the Liberals
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
What's in a weekend? Vance was skiing (badly by all accounts); Trump was golfing (ditto); Zelenskyy was negotiating to save his country.
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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I led USAID's operation for the 2014-15 outbreak in West Africa. Also went to Congo with WHO to assess response at peak of the 2019 outbreak (under Trump 1). Those were both robust USG ops. That capacity has now been wrecked. cgdev.org/publication/...
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JP Ahonen 🇪🇺 @jpahonen.eurosky.social · 22/02/2025
Today it Starlink in Ukraine. Tomorrow? How about AWS? Azure? Google? Remember who were there to kiss the ring at the inauguration. And instead of Ukraine, how about Germany? Italy? UK? Start US tech dependency due diligence today. And divestment tomorrow. Every tech is now a political weapon
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 21/02/2025
Lie after lie has been told this week about how the Ukraine war started, from the Kremlin and the White House. Here's our News Agents video essay which explains the truth, and spells out why Trump clings so close to Putin and lives in his warped reality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufM...
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Ukraine War: The New Trump & Putin Axis Explained
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Zelenskyy should say that if they're looking for some sort of 'land-for-peace' deal, he's willing to offer Alaska.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 16/02/2025
"It is quite ironic to see a decade later, the political and economic elites of Western countries trade accusations of censorship, while in the background actively working to suppress or distort freedom of expression." — #AJOpinion by Khalid Albaih ⤵️
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The West has been in denial about censorship for far too long
It is time for Western societies to stop lecturing others and open their eyes to their own realities of repression.
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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Maureen Nicholson @coddme.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Make America Bribe Again 💰 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump halts enforcement of US law banning bribery of foreign officials
President directs DoJ to pause prosecutions under Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and issues pardon to Rod Blagojevich
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
#HegsethPolicies Meetings of the Joint Chiefs of Staff now have a two-drink minimum.
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Peculiar People @peculiarpeeps.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This is why they call it the Gulf of Mexico
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
You scratch my back; I’ll scratch yours. Case was worst Cabinet Secretary I can ever recall. Completely failed in his duty to uphold the core principles of the UK civil service- integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality. Played a huge role in the growing rot of our political establishment.
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Kemu808 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱 @kemu808.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
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Sandi Bachom 📹🎥🎬 @sandibachom.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Monday is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. I filmed Nazis in Charlottesville and Orlando chanting 'Jews will not replace us' Walter on the left and Werner in the middle were tattooed 10 numbers apart in Auschwitz. They never met til 70 years later
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 24/01/2025
“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 23/01/2025
Why is the government happy to cosy up to China, but won't even look at a better customs deal with our closest neighbours in Europe? Ministers say they’re looking everywhere for growth but are ignoring what is staring them in the face.
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
-And steps like a goose…
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John Morgan @leafymorgan.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
If Galton had really wanted to pay tribute to Denis Law, she’d have backheeled that in!
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Challenge accepted! 🎤I am the very model of a modern crashed economy I've underperformed vegetables like lettuces and broccoli I know the cheese of England, and I want a Keir apology From pork markets to pensions too, my life is tragicomedy
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
So I'm standing in the grocery store parking lot and it's freaking cold. A very classy old woman sees me and walks the entire distance across the lot. "You give that man shit," she says. Then walks away. That's Canada. The criminal might buy off porn stars. He will never force Canada to bend.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft
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10 corporations that kept their promises after January 6, 2021
After a violent mob stormed the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, hundreds of corporations took action to communicate to the public that democracy itself was more important than maximizing their po...
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
This is good news that you can absolutely guarantee will get next to no coverage anywhere.
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Lewis Atkinson MP @lewisatkinson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Very pleased to see the thorough NHS elective waiting times recovery plan launched by the PM and @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social today. As someone who spent two decades working in the NHS managing and trying to reduce waiting lists of varying types, I've identified a couple of key points 🧵
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Dolly @fauxpaschick5.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
I meant to post this before but still relevant.
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