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Mark Doidge

@markdoidge.bsky.social
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Sociologist at Loughborough University researching sport, environmental sustainability, antiracism & refugees. Member of @fanseurope & @britsoci

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 4h
The outrage at Mamdani on the left is just embarrassing, shameful in itself, but also just leaning into a stereotype that will be wielded gleefully.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 2h
If you were Putin, your best foreign policy outcome would be if the EU and US turned inward on themselves and focused on nationalism. It’s almost as if those proud patriots are doing this for Putin not their own countries.
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 15h
Man City’s top lawyer mounting a robust defence and providing a full explanation to each of the charges from the Premier League. #ManCity #PremierLeague
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 22h
I think one of the undercurrents of our fractured political reality is that basically everyone has come to realize that the people who rule the world do not possess any particularly impressive level of intelligence or capability
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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · 5h
Nottingham on strike, Edinburgh on strike. Comment from the government? Zero.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15h
It’s a mark of the corruption of our whole way of thinking about the world that trying to meet a planetary emergency is routinely described as “ideological”, while continuing to accelerate it is presented as “pragmatic” and “economic”.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 13h
Many of the charges were about how Man City did not act in good faith and actively tried to hinder the investigations. They’re doubling down on this approach, which hasn’t served them well so far.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 13h
This has been the BBC headline for since Rubio said it. It makes it seem that the words are fact rather than a political statement from someone in another state trying to make political capital. The BBC, in this case, are actively contributing to the disinformation.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 14h
The AI bubble will burst because expected returns won’t match the investment. The tech bros who hate tax & the regulatory state will come cap in hand, & the taxpayer will bail them out. IF they are bailed out, then it should only be done with extreme regulation. This will strengthen the state.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
At what environmental cost? "Spacecraft is being landed in the sea with no plan to recover and recycle it...exploded in a huge fireball once it had hit the water" #PlanetaryBoundaries www.independent.co.uk/tech/spacex-...
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SpaceX’s Starship dramatically explodes after first orbital trip
Mission was hit by technical problems as it flew around Earth
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Crime, corruption, and fascism are only possible when others are complicit. Some are complicit from fear, others because of self interest. We have to address the accomplices. They’re the lawyers & accountants.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give up. I’m moving into a cave.
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Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was a speech. It had nice words, well delivered, promising much. The promises were vague or a long time in the future. And the people who needed reassurance the most (the disabled, the migrants, the victims of racism/Islamophobia/xenophobia, and trans people) received none. Let us see action.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on”. This is right wing ideology. Lie immediately to control the narrative. Media reports this & reinforces the lie as the narrative, & their gullible supporters believe it. Job done, it’s now impossible to reverse.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all the narrative about men being strong and tough and individualistic, much of masculinity is the fear of being vulnerable and therefore many men follow the herd. Men need feminism to break the hegemonic masculinity that keeps so many men fearful of being alone or at risk of physical violence.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You have to wait until the sixth paragraph of this piece before you learn, in the New York Times reporting on the murder of THEIR OWN EMPLOYEE, that the victim was a trans man who had been abused for being trans by the in-laws who murdered him. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Couple Accused of Killing Their Son-in-Law in Bay Area Park (Gift Article)
Jonathan McKinsey, an engineer who worked in the games department for The New York Times, was fatally shot Saturday in a San Francisco suburb. The police have accused his parents-in-law, both 76.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Men, stop telling women you denounce sexual assault and start telling your male friends.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The rules don’t make them seem nasty. They make them *actually* nasty.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Bearing in mind this will have gone through so many lawyers, this is a very powerful statement from the Premier League. What stands out is how the club didn’t act in good faith and obstructed the investigation. www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727...
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Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When their CEO claims it’s a conspiracy, it’s hard to believe that a substantial number of the charges against Manchester City were that they didn’t act in good faith and obstructed the investigation.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fixing our broken politics means regulating social media, & stop using Twitter as the primary source of information & dissemination. They’re doing nothing about the radicalisation of the electorate by Russian & US demagogues trying to undermine our democracy
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Goodwin is showcasing his incompetence as an academic. His methods were always shoddy, & he blocked people that pointed that out (despite him loving freedom of speech). He’s just another right wing grifter, & the government continue to let these platforms fund people undermining our democracy.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why might that be, Telegraph?
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 28/09/2026
To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Suella Braverman was the first MP to be sworn in on a copy of the Dhammapada! That's hardly paying lip service to the supremacy of Anglicanism in the UK, is it.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
It really gives the game away when the anti trans orgs are calling the election of the neo nazi party in Germany a "glimmer of hope."
​A screenshot of an online article headline from "Inspecting Gender" by Genspect. The main heading reads: "Germany: A Glimmer of Hope for Sex Realists?" Below the title, the summary text asks: "Is the victory of the AfD in Germany a dark day for democracy or a glimmer of hope for sex realists? By David Allison." The bottom metadata displays the Genspect logo, "5 hours ago," and a "Listen" audio option button. In the top right corner, there is a teal "Subscribe" button alongside a circular profile avatar.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Times - which has v much joined in the rightwing clamour to reduce immigration - now reporting that Mahmood’s “success” has cost the economy £4- to £7Bn. Would they like to now honestly confirm that fewer people = less spending power for all. There’s a high price to pay for this nasty obsession.
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Chief Political Commentator Oliver Wright Policy Editor

Falling migration numbers could cost the chancellor as much as £7bn in fiscal headroom as he writes his first budget, The Times has been told.
Government insiders believe that John Healey, who already faced an uphill battle to balance the books next month, is likely to have an even bigger challenge after immigration undershot projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
The Institute for Fiscal Studies think tank estimated last month that the success of Shabana
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reforms, which have cut net migration to the low hundreds of thousands, could cost Healey some £4bn.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I think the story of our era will be of a political class that were not only not up to the times they faced, but often wilfully blind to them.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s as if Farage and Reform are the ones looking to sow division and fear.
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Remember, Jenrick is not stupid. He's a trained lawyer, he knows the difference between police and court bail. He's just a turd.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This man was a lawyer yet clearly knows nothing about the law. He’s a legislator yet clearly know nothing about the law. And he wants his party to govern despite knowing nothing about the law.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Smirk.
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Rob Baron @rob-baron.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been warning for many months that there is a political party within the UK that has many proven links with the UK's most threatening enemy, Russia.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Imagine sympathising with someone who encouraged more violence while riots were taking place
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ᚅᚓᚃ ᚆᚐᚔᚏᚇᚑ ᚃᚆᚑ ᚇᚔᚄ @ciara2001.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
I really think people like this should have to wear the logos of their sponsors on their clothing when they are being interviewed
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He holds a number of paid positions as an adviser for lobbying and consultancy companies.[51] He is paid chair of the Purpose Defence Coalition, members of which include arms manufacturer Leonardo, which has "extensive links" to Israel’s military.[52] He is paid chair of the Purpose Business Coalition, members of which include Leonardo and oil company BP. He is a paid senior adviser to Rud Pedersen, a lobbying company with expertise in security and defence, which has oil and gas companies Glencore and Enwell Energy as clients.[53
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Journalists and political commentators never ask how the government is going to pay for reductions in immigration, but are always asked how they would pay for welfare or infrastructure.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who would think that a club that tried to sell its environmental credentials by getting people to pollute more through its partner airline could possibly be trying to decieve people over their financial arrangements?
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Baroness Floella Benjamin @floellabenjamin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today it’s 50 years since I first presented Playschool wearing my blue beads and silver heart. I adore bringing joy into the lives of my Playschool Babies during the 12 years I was on the programme. ❤️
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
It's striking to see people *still* reacting to the term neoliberalism as if it were a figment of the imagination. I guess the fish doesn't see the water in which it swims. But still to be claiming, in 2026, not to know what it is looks to me like wilful ignorance verging on denial.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Condemnation is pure hot air if in the next breath you’re telling everyone you’re doing your best to give the fascists what they want, just without the masks
In fact, these are scenes we have not seen on British streets. Immigration needs to be deal with, I will be the first to say that and we are dealing with it. The boat crossings have been halved since six years ago, net migration is down massively.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If only he was Prime Minister and was in a position to do something about masked fascists on the streets rather than just condemning them.
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who broke Britain? It was neoliberalism, Austerity, and Brexit, all of which Reform want more. If Britain is broken, Reform will sell it for scrap and keep the money for themselves
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Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So he wanted more cars on London’s roads as that would make it easier for him to move around the city? 🙄
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Despite being a famous Hollywood star if you want to know what sort of person DAVID NIVEN was, the largest wreath at his funeral was from the Porters at Heathrow Airport. It read: “To the finest gentleman who ever walked through these halls. He made a Porter feel like a King.”
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