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Trevor Mitchell

@loosetalk.bsky.social
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Socialist, Runner, Astronomer, Gardener amongst other things living in Andalusia. Walks section of La Desbandá every February remembering the death march from Malaga to Almeria in 1937.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump announces deal to import Russian diesel. Yet he imposed tariffs on China and India for importing fuel from Russia. 3 weeks ago signed law threatening 500% tariffs on India and China. Now facing midterm election defeat ... and Utter bankruptcy of Trump foreign, economic and other policies.
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Trump announces deal for Russian diesel as Zelensky calls it a 'gift to Putin'
Ukraine's president sharply criticised the move, calling it an "investment in war that must be ended, not prolonged".
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No pressure but if this gets to a million views, I'll be able to pay the mortgage this month. Thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHUv...
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Most TV is Just This Now
YouTube video by Michael Spicer
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
#R4Today
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Matthew Amroliwala (BBC News): Prison overcrowding is an issue successive governments have been trying to find a solution to. You mean the Starmer government? And the Sunak government, which released 10,083 people early and called an election when it was looking really difficult?
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#BBCPM
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US has withdrawn from GRECO, the Council of Europe’s anti-corruption watchdog, which it has been a member of since 2000, ABC reports. Russia and Belarus are the only other countries to have left the group.
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/09/2026
“In the next few months, the government will decide whether to cancel Palantir’s NHS contract. And right now we’re daring to hope they might.” goodlaw.social/k4ck
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Forced out of a job in the NHS for speaking out on Palantir | Good Law Project
I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that a US spy-tech company poses to our NHS
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 22/04/2026
The Shadow Contract is a 4-part deep dive into how a US spy-tech firm landed a £330m deal for our NHS data. It’s a story about power, privacy, and you. 🔍 Listen now 👇 goodlaw.social/1e69ba
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Billionaire Brexiteeer and Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK. Lives in Monaco to avoid UK taxes, owns several luxury properties. Demands state subsidies, including for building a Man U stadium. Why do billionaires resent people getting decent NHS, social care, public services?
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Why does the BBC have as one of its lead news stories this morning another Britain-hating interview with Jim 'the UK has been colonised by immigrants' Ratcliffe? What public interest is this serving?
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you add in £130m losses on “Reform TV” (aka GB News) the effective subsidy of Farage’s party from just four men tops £200m. You just have to join the dots app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/75017/...
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Farage and the £130m even his detractors have missed
GB news has provided relentless positive PR for Nigel Farage while racking up tens of millions in financial losses. And now there is a new channel in the offing
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Cat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Have a feeling ministers are being awoken by the sound of a horse bolting
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Reform is the richest party in Britain. Its leaders are almost all millionaires. It is funded almost exclusively by billionaires. It has a supportive TV station and widespread media backing. So naturally, this donation comes with the usual attack on "elites". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform UK given record £36m donation by British crypto billionaire
Ben Delo was convicted in US for failing to implement adequate anti-money laundering controls but pardoned by Trump
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Looks like the counter-terror police were correct that there were people intent on political violence in the hall yesterday.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh no Dolly Parton died. She gave one book a month to each enrolled child from birth until they enter kindergarten. Her Imagination Library gave books each month to 850,000 children in US, Canada, tUK, Australia, Ireland.In February 2018, she donated her 100 millionth free book. Thank you Dolly
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A new London datacentre will produce as much annual CO2 emissions as 8,480 flights to New York www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Proposed London datacentre ‘incompatible’ with net zero with 1m-tonne carbon footprint
Exclusive: Planning documents show annual emissions from North Ockendon project would be equivalent to 8,480 flights to New York
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
BBC slammed over pushing Reform UK propaganda yet again Overly eager to air Reform's latest press conference, the BBC displayed an empty podium for the better part of an hour. What the hell was this??? www.thecanary.co/trending/202...
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BBC slammed over pushing Reform UK propaganda yet again
Overly eager to air Reform's latest press conference, the BBC displayed an empty podium for the better part of an hour. What the hell?
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
«Teachers who make physics boring are criminals» Original post
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Debbie Eade @debbieeade.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I just want to say a quick thank you here to @meteogib.bsky.social because their forecasts are a lot more accurate and complete than the ones by the Spanish Met Office for my area 👏👏👏
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 18/08/2026
I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Reform is falling apart before our eyes. It has just suspended one of its high profile Conservative converts Tim Montgomerie for highlighting the deteriorating relationship between Farage and Zia Yusuf.
independent.co.uk
Former Farage ally suspended from Reform after hitting out at Zia Yusuf
Tim Montgomerie suggested in a podcast that ‘Nigel has fallen out of love with Zia’
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've been reading Reform UK's constitution so you don't have to. The party’s founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him: bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/c...
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Chairman Farage: How Reform UK Operates as a Democratic Party in Name Only
The party's founding documents reveal the extraordinary levels of power Nigel Farage wields over Reform UK, making it all but impossible for party members to remove him
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 17/08/2026
“There is no doubt at all that this was a racist attack on a working class black man.” We're taking action – ask the PM to commission an immediate public inquiry: goodlaw.social/n1ck
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 17/08/2026
"Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?" Of course they won’t - Lib Dems with >70 MPs barely get a mention www.thenational.scot/news/2646829...
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Former BBC News director slams broadcaster's 'bizarre' Reform coverage
A FORMER BBC News director has criticised the broadcaster's coverage of Reform UK's latest welfare plans branding it "bizarre".
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Could the US explain why Jason Arday's permission to travel there had been revoked? #BBCPM
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Tice makes some points here which seem "unjustified", and one or two which I'd like answers to. Media outlets tell us what the Commissioner for Standards is investigating, but he himself doesn't. Is it a matter of joining the dots, or is Daniel Greenberg announcing things I'm not connected to?
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The Parliamentary Smears Commission
Reform’s opponents have weaponised the parliamentary standards system.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"In January 1933, leading a coalition government with only two other Nazis in the cabinet, Hitler was expected to only survive a short period... just 18 months later, he declared himself the sole ruler and Führer of Germany. How did the Nazis consolidate their power between 1933 and 1934?"
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The 1933 election and Enabling Act - Consolidation of power - WJEC - GCSE History Revision - WJEC - BBC Bitesize
Learn and revise about Hitler's consolidation of power for WJEC Unit 2 Germany in Transition with BBC Bitesize.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Going to do that thing where I boast about my dad again: at Montgomery Show yesterday he gave away the 1,100th free bike in his scheme where he takes in unused/out-grown bicycles locally, gets them back into working order, and finds new homes for them where they will be well used. Incredible stuff.
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oh my god what TF is wrong with #BBC #BroadcastingHouse? They have got KATHLEEN STOCK on to do the review, SPECIFICALLY to talk about Jason Arday. When she was one of the most egregious examples of the pile on, just days ago. I have turned the radio off. Shame on you BBC.
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Jo Kibble (Political Animal) @politicanimal.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Mistook the nappy/sudocrem vending machine in the IKEA changing facilities for a contraceptive vending machine at first. For those ‘that’s enough of these, thank you’ moments.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#BBCPM
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is from September last year-Less than a year ago. No wonder some people don't take politics seriously when the BBC employ a political editor who produces nonsense like this www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #r4today
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Chris Mason: Reform conference shows party's growing ambition like never before
The conference feels like that of a big party - but retains the insurgency vibe that the party is seeking to channel.
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Andy Birss @andybirss.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Of course Justin Webb lets slide why attending a party with your own supporters is a sign of 'principle' while effectively sticking two fingers up to all the counters and officials at the polling centre. If that's a sign of principle then I'm a prima ballerina. #r4today
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Repeated dawn raids by the police on peaceful, decent people who have made social media posts supportive of Palestine Action. They are being treated as if they were building bombs. Tell me this isn't authoritarianism. www.middleeasteye.net/news/this-is...
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'This isn't the Britain I grew up in': The activists raided by police over Palestine Action videos
Activists say police searched their entire homes, confiscating personal devices and items bearing the Palestinian flag, even rifling through personal diaries
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#R4Today
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Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I misinterpreted the news. The boat with 230 people in it was the only boat on Monday, according to government statistics. #R4Today
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Wow. Just wow.
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