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Mark Spell 🌈

@litespell.bsky.social
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🌈 lgbt+, liberal, Irreligious, British, European, Human-Rights, anti-fascist, Kindness-Empathy-Equality

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just briefly on that unbelievably stupid Falklands thing iandunt.substack.com/p/football-e...
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Eugen 🇨🇦 @eugen.ca · 27/08/2026
This is the first European cartographic mention of Lake Ontario. The year was 1688. It’s Lake Ontario.
First European cartographic  mention of Lake Ontario - 1688
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Jack Sprat @jacksprat39.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Lake Ontario renamed...
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horrorposterguy1.bsky.social @horrorposterguy1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Terrific late Hitchcock, a shockingly grim story of a London serial killer. Brutal and blackly comic, arguably the final jewel in Hitch's crown. 1972. #horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #horroraddict #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Russia's ' Child catcher' Maria Lvova-Belova. Still at large ! Wanted for the kidnapping & brainwashing of children from Ukraine (now at over 20000 children) WANTED: by the International Criminal Court.
Russia's ' Child catcher' Maria Lvova-Belova. Still at large ! Wanted for  the kidnapping & brainwashing of children from Ukraine (now at over 20000 children) WANTED by the International Criminal Court.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A big boy did it and ran away, apparently.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There’s absolutely no way anyone can take any part of this farcical by-election seriously. What a total joke that this was allowed to happen and that Farage - the orchestrator of this total waste-of-time debacle - may try to claim any sort of victory or vindication here.
However, the contest has already broken several records:
• The most candidates in one Westminster election
• The most independent candidates (20) to stand in a single election
• The longest ballot paper in British electoral history
Tendring District Council said it could not find a stage big enough for all 34 candidates at the count.
Instead, they will be asked to line up on the floor of the sports hall in alphabetical order as the results are declared.
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Andrew Knight (Fella) 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @andrewknightfella.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I am a Lib Dem voter (in my constituency they were the best suited to get the Tory filth out). Have voted once for Labour. But do also agree with Greens also on many policies. Call me a "floater" if you will 💩 Frankly... i'm just happy to see Deform UK dying a death...
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Politics Phil @politicsphil.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I would put it :- Nigel Farage's dreams of becoming PM 'ruined' by greed, dodgy finance, and dodgy mates.
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Sideloading shouldn't require a 24-hour waiting period and a 9-step gauntlet. Google's 'advanced flow' is designed to fail. Keep Android Open! @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org
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Keep Android Open
Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New Opinium poll. There’s a clear picture across multiple pollsters now. 🌹 LAB 27% ➡️ REF 23% 🌳 CON 17% 🌍 GRN 12% 🔶 LD 12%
Tracker showing Labour rising, Reform, Tory, Green falling
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
“We’ve moved into the Age of the Oligarch which is defined by a network of the rich and powerful and the authoritarians they prop up. The group transcends national borders and has zero interest in the countries that elevated them to power.”
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The Third World War Is Here
And it's not what you think
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A leading UK Conservative and moderate criticises leader Kemi Badenoch for chasing Reform policies and suggests it might be better if the party split.
ONE NATION
CONSERVATIVE
NETWORK
Resignation as Chair and depature from Conservative Party
Almost two years ago, I founded the One Nation Conservative Network to give centrist conservatism a home inside a party that seemed to be forgetting it had one. Today, on the eve of that anniversary, I am resigning as its Chair, alongside my membership of the Conservative Party and my role as University & Outreach Officer for the Young Conservatives.
The chairmanship, as agreed by the Executive, transitions to Joseph Cotter-Brooker, who will keep the fight going inside the Party.
1 am a One Nation Tory before I am a Conservative Party member, and that has always mattered more to me than my prospects in the Party. I've campaigned for years, staying loyal through difficult times because I believed change was still possible from within. But after everything I've given it, I no longer believe there is a home in the Conservative Party for One Nation Conservatism. The culture has turned against those values, the institutions that once protected them are gone, and the policy platform has moved somewhere I can't follow.
To be clear, I never sought candidate selection, and this isn't about being passed over. Until Kemi Badenoch's fateful Telegraph article, I believed pragmatic, centrist voices like mine were still welcome in the Party. That article was the final straw.
1 am still a Tory, in the sense my political hero lan Gilmour was: Conservatism as a disposition, not a membership card. The Party insists it will beat Reform, not work with it, but chasing Reform's voters with Reform's politics does Reform's work for it all the same.
None of this is aimed at the honest councillors and activists I have come to know and owe a great deal to. I don't think disagreement on these policies makes anyone extreme or a bad person, and I hope to keep the friendships I've made regardless.
Peter Temple-Morris, a prominent One Nation Tory, described his party's evolution from tolerant and gentle into s…
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ukrainian drones also hit Engels Airbase and the oil refinery in Saratov. #explodey
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Farage has just released a video begging Reform supporters to come to Clacton to help him win his unnecessary by-election. All going well in the Battle with the Bin then.
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
ANTI-LGBTQ laws are on the rise across west africa
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Anti-LGBTQ+ laws are on the rise across west Africa, campaigners warn
Activists in the region say politicians regard LGBTQ+ people as ‘the easiest scapegoats to maintain their power’
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Times: Net zero risks blackouts. Below a photo of French wildfires.
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Should not come as a surprise. All the nationalists that protest seem to be the most horrible people.
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Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse
Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence
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Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Latest @theguardian.com cartoon #TheOdyssey #ElonMusk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ben Jennings on Elon Musk and The Odyssey – cartoon
Elon Musk has claimed that his AI platform Grok Imagine will make a ‘historically accurate’ adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey
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Ehijacked 📎 @ehijacked.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Lying flagshaggers - just like Trump! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK-led council fails to attract any sponsors for union flag scheme
Party had justified plan to hang flags in Nottinghamshire on basis that local businesses would foot £75,000 bill
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
One of the great sources of humour is listening to things like the NYT’s The Daily podcast describing US democratic socialists as “extreme” when they’d barely make it to centre-left in Europe.
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Good luck to Hungary Pride event. You all deserve full equality & human rights now! #Hungary #Pride #LGBTQ+
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‘Many are still afraid’: hope and caution in Budapest before first Pride since Orbán
LGBTQ+ people continue to reel from stigma spread by 16 years of rightwing populist government, says organiser
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Sarah B Rogers (the ugly face of Trumps anti-liberal democracy) joins Farage & Badenock at right-wing conference. She believes anti-hate policies are policies of a dystopian society. This American Nazi has the gall to quote George Orwell, in defence of hate-speech as 'free speech'. Twat
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
See also, obviously, Musk's endless quest for an algorithm that gives him a more appealing personality. It just can't be done.
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Hugo Rifkind @hugorifkind.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Tbf, Farage on a desert island would be the best reason I've ever heard to Stop The Boats.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I think it’s impossible, short of triggering a nuclear strike against the UK, to surpass Liz Truss as the “worst ever”.
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Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A new @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social modelling exercise shows that #Brexit has substantially reduced the UK’s trade with the EU, both in goods and services. We find that a customs union with the EU would do little to recover those losses. Read the paper here: buff.ly/5r48H6b
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The cost of Brexit, ten years on: The impact of leaving the customs union and single market on UK trade
A new CER modelling exercise shows that Brexit has substantially reduced the UK’s trade with the EU, both in goods and services.
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European News @eunews.social · 20/06/2026
Hungarian government lifts ban on Ukrainian news outlets blocked by previous administration The previous administration introduced the ban in response to Ukraine's decision to block several foreign news sites, including some Hungarian outlets which were part of the Orbán government's propaganda.
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Hungarian government lifts ban on Ukrainian news outlets blocked by previous administration
The previous administration introduced the ban in response to Ukraine's decision to block several foreign news sites, including some Hungarian outlets which were part of the Orbán government's propaganda machinery.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Your belly laugh for the night. The former Tory Notts Police and Crime Commissioner Caroline Henry who was done for speeding has been blocked from standing for Reform. So has her husband ex-Broxtowe Tory MP Darren Henry. Reform says it is not a "dumping ground”. Repeat: not a “dumping ground”.
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Ex-Notts policing boss convicted for speeding blocked from Reform
Caroline Henry and Darren Henry both recently joined Reform UK from the Conservative Party
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
No Equality Act. All new family rights in the Employment Rights Act scrapped. But, a “Women and Motherhood Protection Act” From a party of misogynists with links to MAGA christofascists and anti-abortionists. Just call it the Gilead Act and be done with it. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ref...
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Reform branded 'shameless' with announcement of 'Women and Motherhood Protection Act'
Reform have been accused of using "shameless" distraction tactics by announcing a 'Women and Motherhood Protection Act.'
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says" Excellent news #RejoinEU
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Italian PM Giorgia Miloni slam President Trump for claiming she begged him for a photo, "Then there are certain matters that warrant an immediate response" "Donald Trump’s statements are completely fabricated. I am, quite frankly, stunned"
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Praṇay Manocha @pranman.com · 19/06/2026
Restore was backed and amplified by the world's only trillionaire, and despite the huge spend and mobilisation, they only managed 3000 votes! There's joy to be found in that regardless if you're a fan of Starmer or Burnham or neither.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2… A boy can dream.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
"We are far more united and have far more in common than that which divides us". It was ten years ago today that Jo Cox was taken from us in the most awful way. I met her, briefly, once. She was one of those people who radiated a sort of inner goodness. Rest easy Jo 💔
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A Russian political cartoonist who lampooned Putin, Semyon Skrepetsky, has been assassinated in the Polish city of Biała Podlaska. He was shot in the parking area of a residential building. A suspect was arrested near the Belarusian Embassy.
A bearded man in a claret hoodie shows off a shirt with a caricature of Putin
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Ukrainian drones have hit the Moscow oil refinery. It’s burning. This is a big one - the refinery provides 40% of fuel for Moscow and the wider oblast. #explodey
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Whatifisaidit @whatifisaidit.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Reform’s latest idiotic, racist idea: imposing a tax on companies that hire foreign workers And the perfect person to introduce it. A corrupt, opportunistic, nasty little tosser. If you loathe Jenrick, you’ll love this… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Reform UK’s Honest Bob makes a stand for the little people like him | John Crace
It fell to Robert Jenrick to announce his party’s plans to lift white British people from the bottom of the pile
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“Mary-Ann Stephenson (Equality Head) kept talking about ‘common sense’,” Historically, UK 'common sense' also said left-handed people were witches, the sun rotated around Hereford, and women shouldn’t vote because their brains would overheat. Maybe we shouldn't rely on it for complex human rights."
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Labour MPs doubt EHRC guidance on court’s biological sex ruling is workable
Exclusive: Commons motion calls for code of practice to be blocked amid concerns over impact on transgender people
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/06/2026
Tommy Robinson detained at Heathrow under counter-terrorism laws
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Tommy Robinson detained at Heathrow under counter-terrorism laws
Police stop comes after far-right activist rose to global prominence on social media amid racial tensions in Britain Tommy Robinson was detained by police on Saturday at Heathrow airport under counter-terrorism laws, after a week in which he rose to global prominence on social media. It was understood the far-right activist, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, was stopped and his phone was seized under section 3 of the Counter-Terrorism Border Security Act 2019. Continue reading...
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Horrific. Ban fox hunting.
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
#elonmusk - the worlds first #NaziTrillionaire He's going to celebrate with his Hitler tribute act, at a rally in Nuremberg
Photo titled, "Grok says Heil",  showing Musk doing his Nazi salute.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Surely the case for banning X in the UK is now obvious? Its owner, powerful both in his own right and as a representative of a hostile government, is openly quoting a violent British racist, and carefully stopping *just* short of calling for the sort of pogrom we saw in Belfast... Action is needed.
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Mark Spell 🌈 @litespell.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Yaxley-lemon, the utterly delusional twat in Moscow
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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Shall we split the UK down the middle and all the bigots can just stay on their own side wanking themselves into oblivion over AI pictures of Farage and Tommy Robinson wearing Union Jack pants and getting of with Churchill, while Sweet Caroline plays in a loop? x
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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 09/06/2026
King Donald the Mad admits getting CBS to fire Stephen Colbert was a political decsiion because the bad man was nasty to him. Others beware.
Post on Lie Social by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump)

In the last two weeks I've taken out many bad Political "Leaders" and Pundits including Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Lightweight "Congressman" Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brad Raffensperger of Georgia, REALLY DUMB Stephen Colbert of CBS, and others.

My score, for two weeks, is 38-0, with three more limping Late Night Talk Show Hosts, including Low
Ratings Bill Maher and his Fake "Laughing Machine,"
to go. It is my Honor to be working so hard for our
Country! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Just a few feet to your left and you’ll be consumed by Ukrainian hellfire.
Andrew Tate • • @Cobratate • 3h
The sea smells different in St Petersburg
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UN adds Israel and Russia to blacklist for sexual violence in conflict
Organisation cites abuse, including rape of male detainees, by security forces of governments which have blocked UN investigators
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