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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 13h
I honestly blame Stephen Flynn for this. Came onto the scene with the same energy as Poochy from that episode of the Simpsons
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
However much you hate Trump, and the system that enables him, it is not enough. A total betrayal of an ally.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 22h
This just gets more and more wild by the hour. The anti ZIR Cllrs have now been described as: 'They are rebels. They are like the Confederates in the American Civil War' www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2662401...
eveningnews24.co.uk
Norwich Greens in disarray as 'anti-Zionists' launch rebellion against their leader
Norwich’s Green administration is in disarray as a councillor calls for leader Lucy Galvin to resign amid a bitter row over Zionism
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
'Bliss Wylie admitted the controversial vote had made Jewish friends "sad" but said their upset was “about feelings” and “not about facts”' Yeah, I often quote Ben Shapiro when I'm trying to take the moral high ground. Fucking hell.
static.klipy.com
Limmy: Don't Back Down, Double Down
ALT: Limmy: Don't Back Down, Double Down
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
With all due respect to bliss....wtf is wrong with you? www.edp24.co.uk/news/2662444...
edp24.co.uk
Norwich Green claims Zionism motion has 'very little to do with Jewish people'
A Norwich Green who was involved in drafting the motion branding Zionism 'racist' has claimed it has "very little to do with Jewish people".
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I know people like to treat the D motion like a huge gotcha when a) amendment 3 was voted down, which would surely have been an acceptable buttress against any disciplinary measures and b) pretends the new DC isn't full of people who voted for the motion
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do honestly feel for Lucy because why on earth is opposing an extremely controversial party motion a matter for resigning as Leader of the Council? Unless, ofc, you think the purpose of being a cllr is to just have the correct vibes on factional takes
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Extremely telling that a flagship council for the Greens (Norwich) has fallen into civil war over the zionism motion. They took power a few months ago and there's already calls for the leader to resign! www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/2662115...
eveningnews24.co.uk
Green civil war breaks out over Zionism vote as City Hall leader faces call to resign
The Green leader of Norwich City Council is facing calls to resign from her colleagues after she spoke out against her party's widely condemned motion equating Zionism with racism.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I mean, this is the crux of it, right? It's all just part of a 'healthy debate' for these people. It's not real, it's just semantics. And 'many many Jewish voices' agree with me, so I don't understand why the rest of you are whinging about it.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I am also an arbiter purist though in thinking my boy got done dirty in Halo 3. And I was always on the 'humans are forerunners' side of the speculation
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Never quite clicked with me. I would have loved them to focus on a post Covenant space, there's a good story in trillions of beings finding their way in the universe after their worldview crashes. I think the 343 story tried to ride both horses with that and the forerunners.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For that matter, just reset the forerunner lore
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If they have to do a full reboot, can we scrub away the weird eugenics shit that 343 seemed particularly obsessed with? The Halo 4 'reveal' that Chief is essentially a genetically programmed ubermensch through some pseudo bene gisserat shit sticks out
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What this means in practice is that a Jewish member attending synagogue can now be reported for racism in the same vein as someone indiscriminately tweeting racist slurs
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It is now GPEW policy that pretty much every British Jew and communal institution is, by virtue of their Jewishness, automatically regarded as racist.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 04/10/2026
The "zionism is racism" motion that has just passed on the Green Party's conference floor is truly gross, and deeply racist. The party's MPs deserve some credit for opposing it, though they should've done so more stridently and sooner. This is now a millstone around the party's necks. Deservedly.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
justice..


Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
disproportionate'.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting omissions, no?
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Sharpe: Sean Bean's Warning
ALT: Sharpe: Sean Bean's Warning
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Ash @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Surprisingly down to earth and VERY funny
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They had some spare, which makes it even more strange! Such a bizzare value judgement to make, especially with a foreigner?!
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Suddenly reminded of the mandatory masking bug zoo in Victoria, BC, that got really huffy with me when I explained that I didn't have a mask in May 2024.
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Nicola Kelly @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have spent weeks shadowing the RNLI and I can tell you, they do it out of nothing more than compassion. Wrote about the heroes I've met over the years in this free-to-read post. nicolakelly.substack.com/p/the-rnli-a...
nicolakelly.substack.com
The RNLI aren't traitors; they're heroes
I have spent weeks shadowing lifeboat crews. Here's what they do and what it's like.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The violence is the point. They *want* mass expulsions and what that entails because they see it as a redemptive act for the sin of not just the Israeli state, but every Israeli. This is why Algeria ('the coffin or the suitcase') was the 'right' outcome and SA was the 'wrong' one.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I mean, we know. Is it even a dog whistle at this point? It's just this poisonous belief in violence as a redeeming virtue in and of itself.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Since we are all on it: my pet hate *as a cyclist* is folk cycling the wrong down the lane on unidirectional lanes. There's plenty of space on a dedicated lane on the other side! Stop making me swerve out of the way on a tight corner! The corner at the Star Bar is the worst for this.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The logical endpoint of this is just 'there are no good Israelis' which is becoming distressingly common
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Reminded of when I went to Lviv this summer and joined a WhatsApp of volunteers. It was mostly Americans talking about Trump, pretty much 24/7.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The unluckiest man in British politics is at it once again, I see Although a useful reminder I don't need to follow his insta page anymore
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The first Orangeman to come out in support of a united Ireland
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Ben Dunnell @bendunnell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
What the absolute fuck is this line of questioning by Justin Webb? It’s worse than pure grandstanding; it’s querying Miliband’s faith.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sorry, this is dumb/ahistorical. UK sanctions against South Africa 1985/86 were also largely "symbolic". But Thatcher had to be dragged kicking and screaming, and the apartheid regime devoted huge resources to stopping them - just as the Israeli govt is now. Symbols *really* matter here..
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Chris Terry-Enescu @cjterry.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hal Lindsay has done incalculable damage to the lives of millions of people
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When acknowledging anything Mike Huckabee says, he is doing so in the context that he sincerely, truly, believes his role is to bring about the end of the world. How do you conduct international relations with garbled eschatology and anti-semitism sitting alongside you at the table?
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The term "reset" is crucial. Israel has undergone a comprehensive reset in the last four years: it has reset its constitution, its security forces and its military tactics and strategy. A reassessment and reset of relations is long overdue. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Ed Miliband promises ‘comprehensive reset’ of UK policy toward Israel
Foreign secretary tells MPs he will try to stop illegal settlements carving up the West Bank
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Euan Healey @euanhealey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Anti-immigrant crime latest - yesterday in Glasgow someone (allegedly) set a block of mid-renovation housing association flats on fire because of misinfo that they might be rented by immigrants. Now it'll be months until anyone gets to live in this social housing. Congrats to all involved.
glasgowbell.co.uk
Possil tenement fire: coincidence and conspiracy
Plus, two quid buses and George Square reopens, sort of
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 05/09/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
She has form with this. It's an unsettling watch. www.google.com/amp/s/metro....
google.com
Redirect Notice
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh no, it's Aberdeen discourse day
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"The Falklands have long been core to Argentine identity, appearing on posters and graffiti across the country." - deeply odd country
ft.com
Milei dials up Argentina’s claim to Falklands
Domestic politics, oil drilling and UK-US tensions drive libertarian leader to amp up sovereignty dispute
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Reminder: Dolly Parton helped fund the Moderna vaccine for COVID.
nytimes.com
Dolly Parton, who helped fund the Moderna vaccine, gets a ‘dose of her own medicine.’ (Published 2021)
The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to “get out there and get your shot.”
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spooky halloween txt @metaltxt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Well, what I always say, "I just want everybody to be treated good." I try not to get into the politics of everything. I try to get into the human element of it. I have some of everybody in my own immediate family and in my circle of employees. I've got transgender people. I've got gays. I've got lesbians. I've got drunks. I've got drug addicts — all within my own family. I know and love them all, and I do not judge.

And I just see how broken-hearted they get over certain things and I know how real they are. I know how important this is to them. That's who they are. They cannot help that any more than I can help being Dolly Parton, you know, the way people know me. If there's something to be judged, that is God's business. But we are all God's children and how we are is who we are.
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The beating heart of wholesome Americana lies still. Just an unbelievable tragedy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0...
bbc.co.uk
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
She wouldn't denounce homeopathy at a hustings!
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is doubly funny as Lesley was considered on the crankier end of Norwich Greens pre-Polanski. The idea of her becoming an establishment stooge is quite hilarious to those of us with memories of her in 2015 Norwich South!
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Luke Stronach @lukestronach.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Like, two tweets away from talking about well poisonings at this point. GPEW, you planning on doing something or what.
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Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wrote this article last year and still think about the Uxbridge backlash quite a lot. I think it summed up a lot of what was wrong with Starmer's Labour – and the benefits of Sadiq sticking by his guns are now clear to see. labourlist.org/2025/04/loca...
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