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Lee Winstanley

@leewinstanley.bsky.social
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Bowie, The Beat Generation, Bobby. A wild eyed boy from free cloud. A tiny ripple of hope 🔶 www.liverlibdems.org.uk

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Matt 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Beautiful evening for pizza party at SUP (recommend if you're in New Brighton) but just got home to a stonking hot house
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Paul Stothard @paul-stothard.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I was an early supporter of Starmer, he’s decent and generally competent - against the context of the Johnson/Truss/Corbyn era qualities not to be underestimated. But he’s a surprisingly ineffective, robotic communicator and made some amateurish mistakes. He ended up feeling like Theresa May.
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Sharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/06/2026
Every now and then I wonder what life would have been like if we’d just opted for Chaos With Ed Milliband
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
He’s right, he did inherit a Labour Party that was “politically, financially and morally bankrupt" #starmer #labour
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 22/06/2026
NEW: Keir Starmer confirms he will resign as leader of the Labour Party. Nominations open 9th July. In event of contest new PM will be in place by September. He will be the shortest serving Labour prime minister in history.
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Rachael @rach85ob.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Great to be part of Sefton Pride today with the NEU. Fantastic turnout at Bootle Town Hall. Lovely to see so much support and Unity for the LGBTQ + community. #seftonpride#pride#unityindiversity 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Andy Burnham has pledged to scrap business rates for shops, cafes and hairdressers - and reduce them by 20% for pubs It would be funded by increasing taxes on online tech giants and their British warehouses www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Perfect Sunday, delightful weather. Primrose Hill
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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
AOC: What we saw today was a criminal murder a woman while she was trying to flee for her life. What we saw today was a manifestation of every American’s worst nightmare: their government turning into a tyranny.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Love that the media still feels obliged to insert a quote (but not, of course, an apology) from the Independent Schools Council at the same time as calling bullshit on its scare-mongering claims about the impact of VAT before it was introduced.
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Home Counties most affected by VAT on private school fees, data suggests
Few English local authorities report a rise in state school pupil numbers with a corresponding fall in private enrolment in 2024-25
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/01/2026
Zohran Mamdani was officially sworn in as mayor of New York City early on Thursday, just after the New Year’s Eve ball dropped in Times Square. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/n...
Under an archway that reads “CITY HALL,” Zohran Mamdani stands on subway stairs with his right hand raised. He is being sworn in by Letitia James, the state attorney general, as he rests his left hand upon a Quran held by his wife, Rama Duwaji. A headline reads: "Zohran Mamdani Is Sworn In As Mayor of New York City." Photo by Amir Hamja for The New York Times.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Football - the sport of the common man.
The high price of tickets for the World Cup Final
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Boxing Day, the day when the food tastes better, you’re relaxing at your own home, a day that’s reflective but also looking towards the future.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2025
What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
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What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison
The long read: As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missing
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Robert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
In 2020, Boris Johnson said that Trump "encouraged people to storm the Capitol ... I believe that that was completely wrong. ... I unreservedly condemn encouraging people to behave in the disgraceful way that they did in the Capitol". Does he still think that? www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgCi...
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Boris Johnson condemns Trump after Capitol attack: 'Completely wrong'
YouTube video by Guardian News
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Tonight’s film choice, Spike Lee’s ‘Do the right thing.’ www.theguardian.com/film/2019/au...
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Do the Right Thing review – Spike Lee's towering, timeless tour de force
Racial tensions hit boiling point on the Brooklyn streets in a masterwork whose relevance remains starker than ever
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A great night for democracy. Wonderful also to see younger candidates elected, a new generation of hope.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/11/2025
It was the wave election of 2025. In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to President Trump and his Republican Party. Here are six takeaways from the first major elections of the second Trump era.
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The Backlash Has Arrived: 6 Takeaways From a Good Night for Democrats
In Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to President Trump and his Republican Party.
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New York Magazine @nymag.com · 05/11/2025
Nia Prater reports that three ballot initiatives approved by New Yorkers will turbocharge Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s agenda to build more housing.
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How the Housing Proposals Will Turbocharge Mayor Mamdani
Nia Prater reports that three ballot initiatives approved by New Yorkers will turbocharge Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s agenda to build more housing.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Please sign our open letter to the @libdems.org.uk party asling for the awful decision over diversity quotas to be scrapped. 👇 lgbtlibdems.org.uk/civicrm/peti...
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Lib Dem Internal Elections 2025 – LGBT+ Liberal Democrats
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!!
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Ultimately it is entitlement, self-seeking and indolence that will kill the monarchy. In his stupidity, self-indulgence and venality, Andrew seems never to have learned that lesson. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Stupidity and royal self-entitlement sank Andrew, and it may not be over yet
Indulged by his mother and ignored for too long by his siblings, it is behaviour like Andrew’s that could ultimately kill the monarchy
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Tonight’s film choice, for Halloween season… Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) a good remake effort.
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Fuck me….. 🤦‍♂️🤯
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Film viewing tonight; Longlegs (2024) positive it’ll be a good watch www.theguardian.com/film/article...
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Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller
Monroe plays a dogged, antisocial FBI agent on the trail of Cage’s occult serial killer in the latest buzzy, atmospheric film from Osgood Perkins
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Train travel across the north of England…. One of the most uncomfortable, unsatisfying experiences I can do on Thursday morning. The silver lining is it’s Friday tomorrow, no work.
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?” “Because that’s what they are” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference. #Newsnight
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 30/09/2025
Keir Starmer: “Think about it- when was the last time Nigel Farage said something positive about Britain’s future? He can’t. He doesn’t like Britain. he wants to turn our proud country into a competition of victims. “
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Among the stipulations; ‘contribute to the community’ these demands are more than what they expect people born here, some British people don’t respect their local area let alone contribute but you put these expectations on those seeking help. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status
New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I wrote my first investigative piece raising concerns about Covid contracts in *April 2020*. Great to see this finally on screen
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Tonight’s film viewing, Sorrentino's 2013 offering; The Great Beauty. www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se...
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The Great Beauty review – a pure sensual overload of richness and strangeness
A swooning love letter to Roman decadence starring Toni Servillo, this is Paolo Sorrentino's best film yet
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Not surprising really. The guy stumbled into the Labour leadership, failed, and continues to imitate an influential figure. Incompetent as always Jezza
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Trump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that."
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Not a bad way to spend a Wednesday evening with Fran Lebowitz
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Seems quite apt now. Robert Redford was a great actor and above all a decent man.
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Retro Blast 👻 @retroblastpod.com · 15/09/2025
Nintendo GameCube released officially in Japan 24 years ago! It's wild to think it's been 24 years. I remember getting on AOL and looking at photos of Luigi's Mansion and "Mario 128" on Nintendo's website. Once I got one, I immediately loved it. Still do. Share some of YOUR GameCube memories!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/09/2025
Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
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Channel 4 to mark Trump’s UK visit with ‘longest uninterrupted reel of untruths’
Broadcaster to dedicate Wednesday night schedule to unpicking US president’s false or misleading statements More than 100 of Donald Trump’s inaccurate statements are to be dissected by Channel 4 to coincide with his state visit, in what it described as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”. The US president is expected to arrive in the UK on Tuesday night. He will enjoy a huge amount of special treatment as ministers attempt to preserve the special relationship, including a ceremonial welcome at Windsor Castle for Trump and his wife, Melania. Continue reading...
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Amanda Jeyaretnam (she/her) @liberalisms.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Not defending Starmer but this is not true. The Israeli fighter planes - F15 & F16 don’t use the same refuelling method as UK planes. It would be like trying to put a 3 pin square plug into a round 2 pin socket but with high octane fuel. It didn’t happen.
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Tonight’s film viewing; All the President’s Men (1976) www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oc...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Whispers *that's the French flag mate*
England is ours and always will be
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 05/09/2025
Rayner to resign as Deputy Labour Leader, not just DPM. The real nightmare scenario for No 10. Now a Dep Leadership election incoming. Months of (unpredictable) Labour introspection and party soul searching- a Labour speciality.
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Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Very sad to see someone pushed out like this
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Christ this is appalling.
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