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Martin Docherty.

@martindocherty.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of Art&Design. Never voted Tory, never will. Member of the Labour Party Ilkley , Yorkshire. 🌹. #FBPE

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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Fuck. Me. Backwards.
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Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Today's Teesside Lead is totally free to read because I thought it was important people got to see what happens at TVCA's meetings. Ben Houchen called the public's questions "completely insane" then threatened to kick them out.
teesside.thelead.uk
Ben Houchen calls public's questions "completely insane"
Plus: "Flawed process" of approving £12.5m for Teesside Airport
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Sean Padraig @bluesman55.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Petition: Apply for the UK to join the European Union as a full member as soon as possible
I believe joining the EU would boost the economy, increase global influence, improve collaboration and provide stability & freedom. I believe that Brexit hasn't brought any tangible benefit and there ...
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Gerri McGerriface @messmonstergigi.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
We are raising a glass to fucking Trump and not in a nice way! #SlavaUkraine
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Let’s go for it! Tell everyone you know to join @bsky.app and TOGETHER let’s send them packing
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I'm watching the press conference between President Macron and trump, and the President of France speaks and understands TWO languages way better than trump does, struggling with just English. It's such a colossal embarrassment having trump representing the U.S.
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Jim T 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦 @jimt1877.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate
actionstorm.org
Sign the Petition
Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News
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Yorkshire Victor Meldrew and his dog📎 @yorkshirevicmeld.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Thankfully it's the weekend 🤔
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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R1ch1e5 @r1ch1e5.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We’re surrounded by treachery & lies, those openly betraying fact for fiction, utilising opinion as an alternate reality to aid political agenda, lies upon lies…. because there is no penalty for such. That needs to change. #TrumpsTraitors #FreeSpeechIsNotFreeFlowPropaganda #Bullshiticians
ALLISTER HEATH
Britain has the worst government at the most dangerous possible time
CON COUGHLIN
Starmer's peacekeeping plan is doomed to fail
MICHAEL DEACON
Expelling Elon Musk would make the Royal Society look like
'pathetic woke hypocrites’
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Ostfee 🐝 🍩 @lurch.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Well I know why I'm ashamed...
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Theprogressive ✊️ @treadres.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Whoever started calling the Tesla vehicles 'Swasticars' is a genius!
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Kane Clements📎 @kaneclements11.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Afternoon Kuntie. The situation is really serious and he’s only just started. My very rational fear is a descent into large scale violence. There are more firearms than people in the US. The prospect of one or two flashpoints being reached is high. 🫤
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Kuntie Plopkins @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I usually believe there's no point worrying about things you can't control but most pple I know irl appear to be sticking their heads in the sand over the rise of fascism in the US. We need to be shouting it from the rooftops - I can't help thinking this must be how it felt in the UK in the 1930s.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Waiting patiently for Badenoch to explain that the murders committed by these people was due to their "lack of integration" into British society: Dennis Nilson Fred West Robert Thompson James Venables Beverley Allitt Myra Hindley Ian Brady Robert Ryan Thomas Hamilton Derrick Bird Peter Sutcliffe
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of spongebob in a classroom waiting patiently for aru theory training
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob in a classroom waiting patiently for aru theory training
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
As the 5th anniversary of Brexit approaches, here's the chillingly methodical moment when the UK flag was removed from the EU Council building in Brussels. Since then, not a single Brexit promise has come true. #BrexitHasFailed
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Shosh🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇧 WokeAF💥GreenAF💚 Powered by Fury,Disbelief&Determination @shoshanade.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
There are so many misquoted attributed to Labour politicians🤬The fcking RW media landscape in the UK is slowly but surely eroding whatever little trust voters had left in politicians.
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Gerri McGerriface @messmonstergigi.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
😂😂
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
The killing of insurance CEO reveals simmering anger at the trillion-dollar US health system which is all about profit and routinely denies patient claims for treatment and medicine. - We must protect our NHS from these vultures! www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Killing of insurance CEO exposes simmering anger at US health system
Long-standing frustrations were revealed online after a health insurance executive was shot and killed in New York City.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Alastair Campbell, "I was disappointed that Keir Starmer didn't mention Brexit, because Brexit has done so much damage to our country" #BBCQT Campbell then calls our Farage on Brexit, he squirms
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Nigel Farage isn't the answer to our problems, Britain. He is the cause of them. Until my country can work that very simple puzzle out we are doomed. #bbcqt
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
DAWN OF A NEW ERA Labour’s Big Breakfast Plan “This Labour government will ensure every primary school child can start the school day ready to learn” Bridget Phillipson Education Minister 👏
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The same analysis. It’s like we can see it but can’t believe it. Democratic systems can be impacted by communications platforms to promote populists who sound far more authentic than the centrists desperately echoing them. People don’t feel they have much to lose by disrupting the status quo.
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Alan Stedman @alanjstedman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Every time you look into the background of these so called disruptors you often find something very murky And often there is an association with something unpleasantly RW Crikey, even one of Reforms MP's has a background that is pretty unpleasant (I'm being polite)
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Rishi Sunak and his wife avoiding public scrutiny by changing their company to 'unlimited'... just as David Cameron did ... Seems to be a pattern with Tory Prime Ministers eh? I wonder why..... hmmmmmmmm
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Sharron Honey @sharronhoney.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Let's talk disability, as you know @BlokeOnWheels is ma bestie. I see him taking shit on social media, "get a job" "get off your arse" He's kind, funny, loving, loyal, intelligent. Just because he can write a thought provoking tweet, which is well written does not ...1/
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Sharron Honey @sharronhoney.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Oh well 🤣🤣🤣 my 3 are 🤣🤯🤦‍♀️
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Sharron Honey @sharronhoney.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
He is worth more than 100 able bodied people. He still has a working brain (sometimes 🤣) he still has the same emotions!! He is valid!!! #DisabilityRights #TuesdayThought
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Sharron Honey @sharronhoney.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Mean he can work. In reality his body is fucked. I won't go into the details of how fucked that's for his disclosure. Being disabled doesn't make him less, less important in the world. His opinion is not less just because he can't walk.... 2/
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
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Clainy @clainybskysocial.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
CON-PARTY PHILOSOPHY Trickle down economics trickle down economic trickle down economi trickle down econom trickle down econo trickle down econ trickle down eco trickle down ec trickle down e trickle down trickle dow trickle do trickle d trickle trickl trick IT HAS NEVER WORKED, AND IT NEVER WILL.
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Miss Chief 🤭 @magf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Morning scamps, get a load of this cuntcake. Posh peep's probs, must be a nice one to have. Would bring a tear to a glass eye 🙄🤣😂
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Tobi @tobifrenzen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
And Trump boasted about how he didn't need any more votes. How did he know? He probably had the data right in front of him and his team, weeks before the election. And this is also likely where that rumour about "Elon Musk's App" came from that apparently told him the results before polls closed.
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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
For International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls I wrote this piece for @centralbylines.bsky.social
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
There's not a single comms expert on Earth who fails to understand that this is an attempt to spread disinformation. When Elon found out that much of what I used to teach at University of New Hampshire fell into the ambit of comms, he called my work "bullshit." But all he does, all day, is comms.
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Elon Musk Admits X Is Making It Harder for People to Read News
The world’s richest man has finally admitted he’s essentially censoring news articles on X.
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👣Coco👣 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Even as a kid Elon was a asshole....
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Paris to Berlin - €49.99 London to Manchester - €324.36 Guess which train journey is 4x longer?
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feistyliblady.bsky.social @feistyliblady.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
America elected Trump. It was by no means a mandate. Half of us are outraged. The other half is people I will never understand. This is not the time to quit. It's time to work your outrage into resistance. Make sure we win in 2026 and 2028. Activism matters. Outrage alone doesn't matter 1 bit.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Let’s all take a moment to congratulate Daniel ‘unelected bureaucrat’ Hannan for this masterclass in hypocrisy and abuse of power. Someone sitting in the House of Lords (however dubiously) should *not* be signing this idiotic petition. But good to have his total lack of integrity confirmed. Again.
Daniel Hannan posts that he has signed the petition calling for a general election and lists things he doesn’t think they have a mandate for:
“Farm tax
Chagos surrender 
Woke national curriculum” 🤪
Extract from The Express with photo of Hannan.

“Daniel Hannan, one of the original Brexiters, has hit out at calls for a second referendum on the UK’s EU membership saying they would trigger a crisis of democracy”
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team” Me for Byline Times on what Trump’s election means for US-UK-EU relations.
bylinetimes.com
'Donald Trump's Election Means Reversing Brexit Is Now More Urgent Than Ever'
For the sake of Britain, Europe and humanity, it’s time for us to get back with the European team, argues Mike Galsworthy
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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From Sure Start to youth centres, cutting children’s services is a false economy | Torsten Bell
Research reveals that Tessa Jowell’s programme not only helped early years children but went on to reduce youth crime
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🚨UPDATE: Lord Woodley’s Bill to end the cruel injustice of the #IPPscandal has passed its 2nd Reading. The question now is will the Prime Minister do the right thing & give the Bill government time for a full & proper Committee Stage? Let’s not wait for the next ITV drama to do what’s right
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Mandoline Blue 🕸️ @mandolineblue.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
The Right never stop trolling, do they? This lunatic petition calling for another GE has reached well over a million signatures, and climbing. I remember our Remainer petition with 6 million signatures for Article 50 to be revoked and for us to stay in the EU that the Tories completely ignored!
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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world Trump will attempt to destroy those who question misinformation....in other words the few "fact finders" left How do we spell dystopia nowadays? on.ft.com/4f1cvFf
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Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Elon Musk Hides X Engagement Figures Amid User Exodus Sounds desperate to me www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-hi...
newsweek.com
Elon Musk hides X engagement figures amid user exodus
As X loses users, the platform introduced a new feature allowing optional hiding of likes, shares, and other engagement metrics.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Why have the Guardian & Observer's journalists voted overwhelming to go on strike? I've attempted to summarise our concerns, the reports so far & why a Scott Trust board meeting tomorrow is a pivotal moment for press freedom & the future of journalism. open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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How to Speak Truth to Power
...when that power is your own news organisation? I don't know. And I wish it was a question I didn't have to ask.
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