Reposted by Lee WinstanleyMatt 🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @mwr26.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Beautiful evening for pizza party at SUP (recommend if you're in New Brighton) but just got home to a stonking hot house 362
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyPaul Stothard @paul-stothard.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I 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. 032
Reposted by Lee WinstanleySharon O'Dea @sharonodea.com · 22/06/2026Every now and then I wonder what life would have been like if we’d just opted for Chaos With Ed Milliband 1187
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026He’s right, he did inherit a Labour Party that was “politically, financially and morally bankrupt" #starmer #labour 010
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 22/06/2026NEW: 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. 4612424
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyRachael @rach85ob.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Great 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 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 051
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyPeter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Andy 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... 3833989
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Perfect Sunday, delightful weather. Primrose Hill 010
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 12/02/2026media.tenor.coma man in a suit is peeking out from behind a piece of paperALT: a man in a suit is peeking out from behind a piece of paper 000
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyMorten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla... 7404140
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyAcyn @acyn.bsky.social · 08/01/2026AOC: 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. 517326909194
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Love 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.ft.comHome Counties most affected by VAT on private school fees, data suggestsFew English local authorities report a rise in state school pupil numbers with a corresponding fall in private enrolment in 2024-25 15016
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/01/2026Zohran 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... 964896647
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Football - the sport of the common man. 76540142
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Hahah you had it right with your description 020
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Boxing 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. 020
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 26/12/2025😂 I await the bell sound and seeing @dantechnik.bsky.social bring you many things 020
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/11/2025What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennisontheguardian.comWhat AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel DennisonThe 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 48728
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyRobert Shrimsley @robertshrimsley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The 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. 552106623
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyRobert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 09/11/2025In 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...youtube.comBoris Johnson condemns Trump after Capitol attack: 'Completely wrong'YouTube video by Guardian News 615864
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Tonight’s film choice, Spike Lee’s ‘Do the right thing.’ www.theguardian.com/film/2019/au...theguardian.comDo the Right Thing review – Spike Lee's towering, timeless tour de forceRacial tensions hit boiling point on the Brooklyn streets in a masterwork whose relevance remains starker than ever 030
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 05/11/2025A great night for democracy. Wonderful also to see younger candidates elected, a new generation of hope. 010
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 05/11/2025It 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.nyti.msThe Backlash Has Arrived: 6 Takeaways From a Good Night for DemocratsIn Virginia, New Jersey and beyond, Democratic voters powered their candidates to victory and sent a warning sign to President Trump and his Republican Party. 1432159
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyNew York Magazine @nymag.com · 05/11/2025Nia Prater reports that three ballot initiatives approved by New Yorkers will turbocharge Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s agenda to build more housing.nymag.comHow the Housing Proposals Will Turbocharge Mayor MamdaniNia Prater reports that three ballot initiatives approved by New Yorkers will turbocharge Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s agenda to build more housing. 0317
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025A 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 333192710
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyLGBT+ Liberal Democrats 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @pluslibdems.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Please 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...lgbtlibdems.org.ukLib Dem Internal Elections 2025 – LGBT+ Liberal Democrats 26335
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyWhaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 31/10/2025WHAT A FRIDAY HAPPY NEWS STORY!! 1831596
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Ultimately 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...theguardian.comStupidity and royal self-entitlement sank Andrew, and it may not be over yetIndulged by his mother and ignored for too long by his siblings, it is behaviour like Andrew’s that could ultimately kill the monarchy 010
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Tonight’s film choice, for Halloween season… Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) a good remake effort. 000
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Film viewing tonight; Longlegs (2024) positive it’ll be a good watch www.theguardian.com/film/article...theguardian.comLonglegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thrillerMonroe plays a dogged, antisocial FBI agent on the trail of Cage’s occult serial killer in the latest buzzy, atmospheric film from Osgood Perkins 000
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Train 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. 100
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyBBC 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 1202101692
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025media.tenor.comthree men are standing in front of a debate night signALT: three men are standing in front of a debate night sign 010
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Hahah very good to hear! She’s proud of you (my last compliment of 2025) 010
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyJames O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Nigel 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. 17549171134
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyLewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 30/09/2025Keir 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. “ 33636118
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 29/09/2025Among 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...bbc.co.ukShabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled statusNew tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits. 030
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I wrote my first investigative piece raising concerns about Covid contracts in *April 2020*. Great to see this finally on screen 225588
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Tonight’s film viewing, Sorrentino's 2013 offering; The Great Beauty. www.theguardian.com/film/2013/se...theguardian.comThe Great Beauty review – a pure sensual overload of richness and strangenessA swooning love letter to Roman decadence starring Toni Servillo, this is Paolo Sorrentino's best film yet 010
Lee Winstanley @leewinstanley.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Not surprising really. The guy stumbled into the Labour leadership, failed, and continues to imitate an influential figure. Incompetent as always Jezza 030
Reposted by Lee WinstanleyAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Trump: "When you have a network, and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump... They're not allowed to do that." 7432761891