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Llangoed Phil

@llangoedphil.bsky.social
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Retired North Wales academic - agriculture, environment and international development. Fishing, rugby, motor sport, also good food and drink, walking. No unsolicited DMs please, you will be blocked

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
A recurring theme w/ MAGA/radical right is *endlessly* accusing their enemies (falsely) of doing why they are *actually* doing It’s Orban who spent fortune interfering in politics outside Hungary Including paying Reform’s Matt Goodwin €10k a month democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits
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What happens to Britain's radical right if Orbán loses?
Inside the money, power and patronage connecting Hungary and the British right
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“A whole civilization will die tonight” is the most vile thing a US president has ever said, certainly during the post-1945 era when they’ve had the power to kill civilizations with the dropping of a bomb. I’m staring into the darkness. May this not be one of the most fateful days in human history.
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
still think a season of Alan Partridge trying to get some kind of documentary made about Prince Andrew would be incredible
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Detectives investigating Andrew have asked the FBI and DOJ for unredacted copies of the Epstein Files, via the National Crime Agency.
bbc.co.uk
Epstein files could be just tip of the iceberg for Andrew investigation
It is likely we have only seen the tip of the iceberg compared to what the police have seen.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
So faced with a winnable election in a previously safe Labour seat Nigel Farage picked: - A Tommy Robinson-backed oddball, with a history of racism and alleged sexual harassment - A holocaust-denying campaign manager who said he would "never touch a Jewish woman" Reform is not a serious operation
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
So..... how's YOUR week going so far?
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.” This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate." #TrumpSyndicate
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
If you taxed every Billionaire in the UK so they only had £1bn you would get £1.1tn, an entire year’s worth of tax revenue. It would affect only 173 People. Tax the Rich, they’ve stolen all the money and dodged tax for decades. It‘s time for payback.
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Jo Cox was murdered before the vote by a far-right terrorist & this is the language this complete disgrace chooses to use
BORIS JOHNSON: If Labour
MPs try to reverse Brexit they will be walking into a hail of machine gun fire - and if that's the fight they want, bring it on! But they should heed my warning before things get bloody..
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Of course anyone with half a brain knew how this was going to end long ago: Walk away from Ukraine, walk away from NATO, blame Zelensky, lots of business deals between Trump, his cronies, and our new “friends” the murderous, corrupt, lying Russians.
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Sir Michael Take CBE @sirmichaeltake.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My wife Bunty & I had the privilege of visiting Nigel Farage in his campaign office during the last election. He was so lovely & allowed Bunters to take a photo of him (shown below). There was absolutely no hint of him exceeding electoral expenses & being involved in fraud. 😊
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 08/12/2025
The flags were sold as “patriotism”. What they’ve delivered is fear: late-night confrontations, mobs gathering in minutes, and police shrugging when violence follows. eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/loc...
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Left to danger: Norfolk council inaction leads to flag-related violence
As Norfolk refused to act on flag complaints, locals removing them instead found themselves threatened and violently attacked
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 08/12/2025
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
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Dave Keating @davekeating.substack.com · 08/12/2025
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In 1968 Finland banned for profit education, the few private schools that exist in Finland have to reinvest any profit they make or pay it back to parents. It has been in the Top 3 in education for the last 20 years. There should be no profit in education or healthcare.
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Llangoed Phil @llangoedphil.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
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Mario G. Rivera @ebehere.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
It’s not talked about enough that an Epstein and Ghislaine maxwell associate who sat on the board of one of Ghislaine’s companies got America’s First Lady her visa… x.com/AdameMedia/s...
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Llangoed Phil @llangoedphil.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Llyfyr newydd gan Ruth Richards Mae’r ysgrifau hyn yn dwyn i gof atgofion o fwyd a bwyta, o datws pum munud i gyrris Vesta, yn rhyfeddu at gynnwys gwych a gwallgof rhai o’r llyfrau coginio Cymraeg cynharaf, ac yn dathlu’r berthynas glòs sydd ganddon ni â’r hyn sy’n tyfu yn ein milltir sgwâr.
Cover of the book Lobsgows
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 05/11/2025
Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
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Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
PPE Medpro breached 2020 contract to health department to supply sterile surgical gowns The firm linked to former Conservative peer Michelle Mone, which was found last month to have supplied unusable personal protective equipment during the pandemic, owes £39m in unpaid taxes, according to company documents. PPE Medpro – owned by Mone’s husband, the Isle of Man-based businessman Doug Barrowman – was put into administration on 30 September, the day before the high court judgment was made public. Mrs Justice Cockerill ruled that the company had breached its contract with the Department of Health and Social Care, awarded in June 2020, to supply 25m sterile surgical gowns, and must repay the full £122m it received. Continue reading...
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Why the IDF... Maccabi fans were banned. No the UK does not want dangerous War Criminals walking the streets.
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
'What’s stunning is that the idea that the royal establishment has tacitly ­protected one of its own, intimidating the police and foreign administrations to keep a safe distance, is treated as a matter of bland reportage.' @peatworrier.bsky.social, via The National archive.is/dosH8
The former Prince Andrew, looking as cheery as ever.  Jings, what a loser.
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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
The same applies to interviewing a Reform UK MP or spokesperson.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This is what tolerance of anti-migrant political rhetoric leads to. A surge in racial abuse against nurses and care workers. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Racist incidents against UK nurses surge by 55%
Royal College of Nursing calls on government to stop using anti-migrant rhetoric, which it says emboldens racist behaviour
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
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👻 Jack Djinn Wail 🧞 @jacktindale.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
It's also funny how basically all royal regalia are a few centuries old at most. There's only one genuinely ancient bit of the British Crown Jewels left (the anointing spoon) because the rest of them either got lost by King John or flogged off by Cromwell.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
The fact that your politicians will stand up for Israel. But not for Disabled People, Pensioners, Immigrants or against War Crimes. Should disgust everyone.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 16/10/2025
Letter to the editor: In 2018 alone, the EU gave £5.9bn to help deprived UK regions. Now the government calls £5bn over ten years “ambitious.” Brexit really did take from the poor to give to a slogan.
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Letter to the editor: £5bn over ten years isn’t ‘ambitious’ – it’s a fraction of what the EU once gave
Letter to the editor
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Oh no not again www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 10/10/2025
The poorest people spend every penny they get. Cut their income, and you cut spending in every local economy. The Tory plan to cut £47 billion out of government budgets is £47 billion less in everyone’s pockets | Prof Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social - with thanks
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What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?
Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline
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John Espley 🇨🇦🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈💉🚀🔭📚 @johnespley.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r...
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Renewables Are a Global Economic Engine, Not a Culture War Threat
Energy companies are learning this lesson faster than Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 15/09/2025
EU nurse registrations collapsed by 87% after the Brexit vote. Since then, writes The Bear, 1,485 extra deaths a year have been linked to workforce gaps. Sovereignty doesn’t keep people alive. Nurses do. And then there's the issue of unavailable medication....
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From promises to collapse: The measurable damage Brexit caused the NHS
Staffing gaps, medicine shortages and avoidable harm – the everyday reality of a broken Brexit promise
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/09/2025
“Ignoring Elon Musk and hoping he goes away hasn’t worked. X can mobilise violent mobs onto Britain’s streets, financially support its leaders, and radicalise casual users of the site – and its owner has made plain his agenda. The government has allowed a problem to turn into a crisis.”
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It’s time for Starmer to confront Elon Musk’s extremism
Tesla’s owner wants a “fight back” to create regime change in the UK. The government must stop indulging him and using his platform
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead. Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
There were no education events at Reform conference. Their only policies appear to be giving private schools their tax breaks back and changing the history curriculum to trumpet the benefits of empire.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BSTThe Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage is claiming to Congress that the UK gov deliberately withheld details of the Southport attacker from the public. This is dangerous and it’s false. The attacker was under 18, and so a court had to give express permission to release his name in exceptional circumstances, which it did.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/09/2025
Nigel Farage just repeatedly denied – under oath! – to @raskin.house.gov ever banning journalists he doesn’t like from his party’s conventions. This happened to me *literally today*.
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Brandon C. Williams @bcwilliams71.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Bravo to ALL of the brave women speaking out today. #ReleasetheEpsteinFiles
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/09/2025
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
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Supertanskiii @supertanskiiii.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
On This Morning, Rylan repeated far right conspiracies. None of it is true. In this video I check his claims one by one. Rylan was wrong. Here are the facts… Show this to your reform voting uncle. youtu.be/MgeRPFkod5g?...
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Rylan Clark Is Wrong: The FACTS About Asylum Hotels
YouTube video by Supertanskiii
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Genuinely important commentary
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sharonfisher68.bsky.social @sharonfisher68.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
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Gareth @garethw1.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/08/2025
Immigration has dropped dramatically in the last two years – small boat crossings are a small part of the overall picture, but have come to dominate the story (in part because the government has let it)
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