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John Ferry

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Husband, father, brother and dog owner. Loves nature, books, food, theatre, music and walking, Favourite reads include PG Wodehouse, Terry Pratchett and John Naughton’s blog at substack.com/@johnnaughton?r=3fuy4v…

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discWorld order @discworldorder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents episode of Discworld Order is out now. @iversen83.bsky.social talks about the novel that made him a Discworld fan & how Pratchett adapted the Discworld formula for a children's book. 📦 bit.ly/4z8SfMc 🍎 bit.ly/3Vk0iap 🟢 bit.ly/3TbXSdm
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John Ferry @macferry45.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
In the i newspaper app this evening. So, if we go the war with Russia, the real worry is the threat to the triple lock?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 01/05/2026
Zack Polanski apologises for sharing tweet criticising police at Golders Green stabbings
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Zack Polanski apologises for sharing tweet criticising police at Golders Green stabbings
Apology comes after head of Met police said Green party leader risked undermining public confidence in his officers Zack Polanski has apologised for sharing a social media post critical of police after the Golders Green stabbings, after the head of the Metropolitan police said the Green leader risked undermining public confidence in his officers. Polanski, who leads the Greens in England and Wales, said he was sorry for having shared someone else’s post “in haste”. Continue reading...
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Nigel Farage used an LBC appearance in September to accuse the Bank of England of being “dinosaurs” for seeking to place restrictions on the use of Stablecoins by crypto firms like Tether. He did not declare that Reform had just received a £9 million donation from one of its biggest investors
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Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Review of the BBC’s Prisoner 951 - a magnetic lead, and a very different story from the one the government told. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-p...
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Prisoner 951 is another drama that shames Britain
The fictionalised version of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s torment in Iran is damning for the state, and for Boris Johnson
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Good to see @dailymail.co.uk @thetimes.com and @telegraphnews.bsky.social all delete their articles - sad the lies went up in the first place
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Nigel Farage wants to charge you for healthcare. youtu.be/U9lV7P9DK2o?...
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The NHS is not safe in Nigel Farage’s hands.
YouTube video by Labour Party
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The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Tax the old Britain cannot afford to bribe well-off pensioners any longer. Rachel Reeves must invest in the young 🖊️ Andrew Marr
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Tax the old
Britain cannot afford to bribe well-off pensioners any longer. Rachel Reeves must invest in the young
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'
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KEVIN MAGUIRE: 'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong' - The Mirror
No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The contact of Reform UK's Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why is no one asking more questions? www.thenerve.news/p/reform-uk-...
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The contact of Reform UK’s Russian puppet Nathan Gill is linked to efforts to destabilise the US and Ukraine. Why, even now, is no one asking questions?
Gill, former leader in Wales of Nigel Farage's party, admits taking bribes to help Putin. And his Russian connection - the Ukrainian politician Oleh Voloshyn - in turn has links to a key figure wante...
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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I cannot stress this strongly enough: Support your local theatre, café, bookstore, bakery, and library. We breathe life into these places when we support them. They need us, and more importantly, we need them.
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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Researching the latest More Jam Tomorrow, I was struck by what an amazing thing it was for the Home Office to support prisoners who wanted to study – which was impossible before the Open University was founded. Just the most decent and humanitarian thing to do. morejamtomorrow.com/episode/milt...
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Milton Keynes
It’s built for cars. The buses are baffling. But it’s got the most energy efficient housing in Britain. What did it take to build a city from almost nothing?...
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him. Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership." SHARE!
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raiken @raiken14.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Best sign ever.
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Damian Low @damianlow3.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Stephen Yaxley Lennon. Convicted for… - assaulting an officer in 2005 - assault at a neo-Nazi rally in 2011 - football hooliganism in 2011 - using a false passport in 2013 - mortgage fraud in 2014 - contempt of court in 2019 - stalking a woman in 2021 - libel in 2024 What a patriot.
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Interesting inflection point. Seems to come around the time faith in mainstream politics really came undone
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
"The PM does nothing" I hear people say. Well here are 323 calls, meetings, statements, agreements & treaties he has done with other countries & international groups in the 13 months as PM. It's this hard work which allows us to do better deals and repair our reputation across the world.
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Labour in government
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Geoff Norcott @geoffnorcott.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
If you have a son and have ever spoken about needing positive masculine role models, take him to the Superman film. There was something surprisingly cathartic about seeing a hero be unironically heroic.
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Michelle Jackson ARPS CrGP ANPS @emmabrooke.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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A new start after 60: I quit my job, bought a camera – and became a successful wildlife photographer
On retiring at 56, Michelle Jackson needed a big new challenge. So she picked up her first proper camera and was soon spending 20 hours a week in the field, and winning awards
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/07/2025
This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government | Bridget Phillipson
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This new Sure Start plan for children is a moral mission: a watershed moment for our government | Bridget Phillipson
Labour will restore the early years provision decimated by Tory rule – and engrain it so deeply that no rightwing government can unpick it, says education secretary Bridget Phillipson
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
From Family Hubs to the rise in business confidence. Ten things you may have missed in the MSM over the last week (I wonder why). Share far and wide. No copyright on my Lists 👍
1.  The number of people feeling financially secure has risen this quarter by 3% to 58%,
2. £28.6m National Wealth Fund investment in carbon capture project,
3. Pension Bill 2nd reading. Boosting pension savings by up to £29k
4. Mona offshore wind farm has the potential to power the equivalent of more than 1 million homes with clean, secure, homegrown power
5. Nationwide clampdown on delivery riders working illegally
6. Family hubs offering parenting support and youth services will be rolled out across every local authority in England
7. PMI figures outstrip expectations once again. Fastest rate of growth for 10 months
8. The FTSE100 is 1000 points higher than 4/7/24
9. Another large People Smuggling Gang arrested in Essex and Yorkshire
10. Draft leasehold bill, provisions to end the system on new-build flats and to make it easier to convert old properties into other forms of ownership
11. Neighbourhood Health Services to be rolled out across the country
12. New NHS App released
13. Gilts option auctioned 2/7/25. T
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
hey quick question, but which party was in government from 2010 to 2024, you fucking charlatan
Daniel Hannan: Britain is turning into a Third World country
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Been a full on week for Labour. I’ve gathered just a few highlights. Most important in my view, is Mone. Being held accountable for her failed PPE supply. I hope we get our money back. Daylight robbery under Labour does not pay
1. Michelle Mone in Court being sued for £122m unusable PPE plus storage plus interest
2. Sickle cell patients to get better treatment after £9m boost
3. £500m boost for hydrogen to create thousands of British jobs
4. Additional £96m for the Crown Prosecution Service
5. 1st time in 17 years, the NHS cut waiting lists in the month of April.
6.  Funds for crackdown on fraud, bribery and corruption 
7. Agreement on Gibraltar with EU
8. Extra £29bn for NHS
9. Free breakfast clubs extended to every primary school pupil in England
10. Free school meals in England extended to all children with a parent on UC.
11. £39bn over ten years to build social rent, affordable rent, and shared ownership homes
12. The £3 cap on single fares in England is staying for two more years.
13. £2.3bn a year to repair ageing school buildings
14. Abortion decriminalised in England
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Phil Brickell MP @philbrickellmp.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A pleasure to chat anti-corruption on the way in to Parliament this morning. We urgently need to tighten up how our politics is financed. 🔍More transparency ❌Stronger enforcement 💷Proper checks on donors 🧑‍💼A regulator completely independent of government
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Another raft of good things being undertaken by our hard working Labour government. Just in last 7 days. All on Gov website because it’s not in the media!
1. Rolls-Royce SMR selected to build small modular nuclear reactors
2. Thousands of jobs to be created as government announces multi-billion-pound investment to build Sizewell C
3. System to distribute surplus food to the most vulnerable 
4. Fairer system for debt collection
5. Compensation to postmasters reaches £1 billion milestone
6. Winter fuel allowance reinstated with £35k cap
7. £187m Tech First scheme to get school kids ready to work in AI
8. Extend ban on destructive bottom trawling
9. £86 billion boost to science and tech to turbocharge economy
10.  £113bn of new capital investment in homes, transport and energy at the forefront of the spending review
11. Over 6,000 arrests and 9,000 visits carried out across the UK in illegal working
12. Digital marketplace to help change how the UK public sector buys technology
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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Is the BBC giving too much airtime to Reform UK? With me in the studio to discuss this are Nigel Farage, Richard Tice, Lee Anderson and Sarah Pochin.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
New border checks on fruit and vegetables imported from the EU were due to come into force on 1st of July - resulting in more paperwork, delays at the board and likely higher prices. Thanks to the new UK-EU deal these checks have now been scrapped. 1/2
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Fruit and veg import checks scrapped ahead of UK-EU deal
In advance of a new SPS agreement with EU, fruit and veg imports will require no fees or border checks - saving businesses time and money
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Windy101 @windy101.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Andrew Harrison @nndroid.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Absolutely insane that it takes a fictional drama set on other planets to say what the news bulletins won't, or daren't.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Nigel Farage still insisting that he has "never ever, ever suggested anything other than the NHS should be free". Here's what he's said in the past behind closed doors
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LaindonFeminist @viviane49.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I see the MSM pundits are predicting a Labour wipe out in the locals on 1st May. Yet many polls still have Reform trailing Labour (not all). Given few people vote in the locals there are two ways forward 1. Get off your arse and vote 2. Let Reform win and watch what happens
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Nigel Pugh @nspugh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
French satellite company Eutelsat is replacing Starlink and plans to send approximately 40,000 communication terminals to Ukraine. Their stock has rocketed 390% in the last 3 days as #Tesla $Starlink #SpaceX and #X continue their freefall. www.nbcnewyork.com/news/busines...
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A European Starlink rival's shares skyrocketed 390% in a week — here's why
Shares of French satellite operator Eutelsat gained over 550% in a three-day rally last week.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Seeing Kemi Badenoch respond to matters of unprecedented geopolitical importance reminds me of an anxiety dream I used to have about agreeing to play drums at a charity concert with the Rolling Stones & remembering on the night that I can’t play the drums.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The government has today set out its response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry's final report. They have accepted the findings in full and have set out plans to act on all 58 recommendations across areas such as building safety, construction product safety and accountability. 1/2
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Government responds in full to Grenfell Tower Inquiry, setting out tough new reforms to fix building safety and strengthen accountability
In the full response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s final report today (26 February), the government has accepted the findings and sets out its plans to act on all 58 recommendations.
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Disillusioned With Conservatives @neverevertory.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
#Labour #KierStarmer
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/gov...
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Government is busy: but the media are not telling you
Despite what the press tells us, the government is very busy, often doing popular things. But you wouldn’t know it from the press coverage
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 04/02/2025
"Reducing trade barriers is of mutual benefit to the UK and the EU, especially at a time when our economies need a kick start," Nick Thomas-Symonds says. "There is a clear opportunity to upgrade the relationship to deliver for businesses and citizens." 👏🏽 ~AA #Brepair
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The last quarter of a century tells a clear story: pensioner poverty halved under the last Labour Government, but it rose by 300,000 under the Conservatives. That is their legacy.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The Home secretary has announced an additional £100m funding to help the recruitment of 13,000 extra police officers to boost neighbourhood policing. This is on top of a £1bn funding increase announced in December, which included an initial £100m for recruitment of new officers. 1/2
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Extra £100m funding announced as police warn of cuts - BBC News
Yvette Cooper says the cash is for more local officers but some forces say they still face budget shortfalls.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Guess they didn't background check any of the j6 pardons. Shocking
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Five years after we left, a new YouGov poll finds a grand total of 2% of voters think Brexit has had a very positive impact on the NHS.
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Andy Adams @flakphoto.news · 20/01/2025
I would love more people to learn about this photographer. Please repost.
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John Ferry @macferry45.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Sunset over Blackheath SE London, 11 January
Sunset viewed looking south west across Blackheath in south-east London, with traffic crossing the heath on its way into the village
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John Ferry @macferry45.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 💙 #Musicsky #NellieMcKay
The cover of Nellie McKay’s album ‘Get away from me’ featuring a smiling  Nellie in a bright red jacket with her arms in the air in front of a wall with graffiti on it.
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John Ferry @macferry45.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 💙 #Musicsky #DonaldFagen
Cover of ‘The Nightfly’ by Donald Fagen showing Donald as a late night DJ sat behind a record deck speaking into a microphone and holding a cigarette.
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John Ferry @macferry45.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Choose 20 albums that have stayed with you or influenced you. 1 album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 💙 #Musicsky #KateBush
The cover of the album ‘The Kick Inside’ by Kate Bush featuring a photograph of Kate flying on a kite in front of an illustration of part of an eye.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11/01/2025
Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
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Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld In early 2017, Mark Zuckerberg was on what might be termed an “apology tour” of the United States. In the tumultuous few months since Donald Trump won…
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