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A firm believer in social justice and a fairer society

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
According to the scumbag Times owned by the scumbag Rupert Murdoch the UK needs to be 'weaned off the State Pension', which is actually more than paid for by NI contributions. What the UK really needs to be weaned off is Rupert Murdoch. Get this evil fucker and his disgusting rags out of the UK.
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Israeli government will no doubt continue to try to kill #MarwanBarghouti he’s the best chance of peace and Bibi really doesn’t want peace Good on #Palomafaith
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This, the last paragraph is outrageous! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... #Diana
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Earl Spencer’s memoir claims Prince Charles said of Diana: ‘We’ll forget her soon enough’
Charles Spencer’s book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister alleges comments were made during argument over Princess of Wales’ funeral arrangements
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What is the difference between #lisanandy and a chocolate teapot? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Nandy pledges crackdown on 'doxxing' after RNLI volunteers see personal details online
The Culture Secretary condemned how RNLI volunteers and others have had their addresses published online.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Excellent by @paulnowaktuc.bsky.social on Mahmood's settlement proposals “You end up with Reform claiming a woman born in Somalia who's lived here most of her life, worked hard and contributed to our society,somehow isn’t fit to hold elected office.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Heather Stewart @guardianheather.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“The idea that you could be here for the next 10, 15 years and you’d still have no legal right to remain in the country … how the hell do you plan?..It cuts across any effort to integrate at all.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/09/2026
A dark blizzard of disinformation is warping the public’s perception of our great city. But we know the truth: our homicide rate is lower than every major US city, neighbourhood crimes are down and we’ve been ranked #1 city in the world 11 years in a row. My piece for The Times.
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We must fight back against troll army’s lies about London
There is a dark blizzard of disinformation online, where our capital is described as a lawless dystopia in decline — this couldn’t be further from the truth
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
From the new Private Eye
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Many who voted Reform at recent elections may be concerned about immigration, Farage and co are othering legal immigrants to win votes, they couldn’t care less if social care vacancies go unfulfilled #ShabanaMahmood you just can’t out Reform Reform www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Watching BBC News and it's striking to hear the presenters repeatedly referring to the AfD as "far-right" whilst refusing to ever say the same about the hundreds of actual masked blackshirts currently swarming British ports
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
It’s Monday & Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood still has no response to hundreds of masked men blocking ports first in Dover now Portsmouth . No speech about keeping our communities safe , increasing the UK terror threat level , a crackdown on protest or calls to proscribe Patriot Platform 😳..
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Love this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Ella Baron on Reform UK and the donations row – cartoon
As the party’s conference comes to a close, leader Nigel Farage has again been forced to deny allegations of financial wrongdoing
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👻 Bard of the Revol-oOoOo-ution 👻 @dndnerd69.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Burkas = Bad Balaclavas = Good Thugs
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ban the Burqa!
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...
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Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'
Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Man in glasses that partook in the assault of young women at a Reform conference identified as Stephen Cooling of Sutton, a Reform member who previously stood as a UKIP candidate in Erdington.
Cooling with FaragePolitical posterCooling outside home
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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Wulfhelm @wulfhelm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
From the other place.
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I wonder if there is a training program for #foreignoffice officials to learn tone deafness. They really are hopeless! And as for the performance of the Spanish local authorities… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘Then who or what did we cremate?’ Daughter’s horror at finding bones in British wildfire victims’ car
Danielle Gillam-Kirton claims police botched investigation into her parents’ deaths in Spain and is demanding answers
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’ve read this report on various news sites but have not seen an explanation as to what motivated the offenders. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Man jumps out of first-floor window to escape kidnappers in Lincoln
Five jailed after targeting victim and subjecting him to ordeal linked to past relationship breakdown
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
BBC News report Iceland's EU referendum result, presenting it as an in-out like Brexit They neglect to mention that Iceland is already in the EU Single Market and has free movement of people with Schengen
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Chris Rivers @chrisrivers50.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
What the lying Liar said just after the referendum...
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Brandon Rubow @brandonrubow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
No, Iceland’s referendum result does not reject European integration but revamps the attractiveness of the country’s present EEA arrangement -single-market access, free movement, participation in EU programmes without a vote on EU rules My latest albertoalemanno.substack.com/p/a-lesson-f...
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 30/08/2026
Only took 10 years since Brexit to be the "dirty man of europe" again. All those years of campaigning against red tape really paid off for Nigel and co.
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sparkymark17-66.bsky.social @sparkymark17-66.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I have zero confidence that the government will fix this problem anytime soon. Come on #burnham get on with it! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tiny bit of rain and the sewage comes’: Brighton swimmers vent fury at sea pollution
Checking for sewage spills has become as normal as checking the weather forecast, say swimmers on East Sussex beaches
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 29/08/2026
Great letter in The Yorkshire Post from Peter Packham @leedseurope.bsky.social. 'The Brexit elite didn't "take back control" of our borders; they undermined our ability to manage them and incentivised criminal gangs behind the trafficking of desperate, vulnerable migrants.'
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Australia says data centres need to bring their own green energy - why isn't the UK insisting on the same? Have a listen to South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, "As data centres come on line and bring their own demand for energy, they bring their own supply of power"
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Seriously, Burnham had two easy ‘wins’ he’s just blown, on Thames Water and major donors. How does he think this looks?
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yes, there are a lot of politicians who still have not realised how unpopular their receiving such gift is. The last paragraph is worthy of extra contemplation www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If MPs want to take on Nigel Farage over his dodgy finances, they need to clean up their own act | Frances Ryan
It’s hard to beat back charges that MPs are ‘all the same’ when they have accepted £400k in freebies this year, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
STOP using X. It’s as simple as that. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Rupert Lowe set to be paid as much for divisive posts on Elon Musk’s X as for being MP
Restore Britain leader paid up to £1,476 an hour by platform, which critics say is financially incentivising inflammatory content
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If the UK government legislated to control the building and operation as well as greatly restricting the environmental impact and resource consumption of #datacentre s, the tech companies would no doubt find a way to achieve the processing power they desire www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
Holyrood ‘inching towards moratorium’ amid concerns over massive proposed developments in Auchtertool and beyond
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In 1987 the poet Benjamin Zephaniah was considered for a visiting fellowship at Cambridge. Here's how Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper approached that particular story.
Would You Let This Man Near Your Daughter On Friday, he is expected to
become a Cambridge don.
Just what are his qualities which
have appealed to Trinity College?
He is black. He is a Rastafarian.
He has tasted approved schools and
Borstals.
And, oh yes, he is a poet. Here is
PODI(SON


an example of the standard of his
work:
The day dat 1 met Lady Di 1,
What happy no I tell a lie.
I had a pain in my belly, I
Would not f..t near Royalty.
Is this "really the kind of man
parents would wish to have teaching
their sons and daughters?
Prefer
Our guess is that they would
prefer their offspring to start work
in a hairdresser's.
From his pleture, Mr Zephaniah
himself could do with a good
shampoo and set.
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Catherine 🕊️🇪🇺💚 @demcath.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Iam furious. But the same old acolytes that the Tories installed at BBC are still there. So why are Labour so bloody week? Because the same lobbyists are pulling puppet strings.
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
What, I wonder are the council doing crack down? ‘The Conservative council has been taking part in a crackdown on homeless people’ I bet it’s not giving them somewhere to stay. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Westminster council threatens Charing Cross soup kitchen with closure
Conservative authority says site is not safe for vulnerable people charity serves or general public
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Hmm, this puts me in mind of a fable about crying wolf… www.bbc.com/news/article... Seriously, this is not worthy of diminishing the value of the alert system, my view is that this was political, shame on #Burnham
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Fires prompt national government alert as 19 Stourbridge homes destroyed
The prime minister said 37 fires were currently burning across England and Wales
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Dear God what a tragedy
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Randle McMurphy 💙 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 ✌🏻🇵🇹🇪🇺 @rmcmurphy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Seem to remember Arthur Lowe was in a film named after Lee Anderson - The Plank, 1979
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Might seem unimportant but I don't think it is. Reflects on how these Gen X Brexiters who had no memory of events have appropriated people who are long dead who had lived and served through WW2 for their shitty little fake history project.
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If this is all true, and I have no reason to suspect it’s not, we’re fu*cked! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Britain's scorched fields mean a food crisis – and the government is ignoring the one measure that would help | George Monbiot
This summer’s extreme weather and wars in Iran and Ukraine have made our need for food stockpiles more pressing than ever, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Why is #Burnham involved in this and not the relevant Secretary of State It’s as if all of the No.10 team is carrying on as if the PM hasn’t changed. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Burnham to consider ban on disposable barbecues as wildfires rage in UK
PM to look at imposing restriction in public spaces, though campaigners fear it does not go far enough
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Here’s a piece of welcome news… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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To all the betting shops littering our high streets: people power is coming and the odds are against you | Dawn Butler
Too many shops are blighting too many communities. With the rule change I fought for now on the horizon, ordinary people can fight back, says Labour MP Dawn Butler
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martyparky.bsky.social @martyparky.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
More appalling behaviour and world leading arrogance by the #homeoffice www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Home Office tells Italian man his right to stay in UK after Brexit was ‘error’
Man is told he should not have been granted settled status so he can no longer sponsor Brazilian wife to remain
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Doug HS 😶‍🌫️ @doug-hss.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As large agricultural areas, the east of England has suffered from supermarket price gouging, the accession of eastern European countries into the EU drove migration feeding right wing narrative against immigrants. Low education standards because of Thatcher era mismanaged of state education.
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Dexter Crisp @dextercrisp.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
One less voter for the ranine twat in Clacton
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 03/08/2026
The leader of Restore Britain, Rupert Lowe, has urged Nigel Farage to make a Reform-Restore pact "for the good of the country". The so-called 'good': - Mass deportations - A referendum on the death penalty - Brutal welfare cuts It's not a pact. It's a threat to the future of our country.
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Rupert Lowe urges Nigel Farage to work with Restore Britain
Lowe says the two should put ‘personalities and our past disagreements aside for good of the country’
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