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Mark Copsey

@mcopsey.bsky.social
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Lecturer in business in Netherlands and the UK on entrepreneurship, strategy and innovation, Brexit refugee in Netherlands, tho it has it's issue now too

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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
I guess confiscating assets is just a continuation of colonial past
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
A model for design of a health service. A go to Dr at 9.40 having rung at 8 no engaged nos. Dr doesn't like sound of what I think is a pain in my broncial tube. Does bloody test and ESG. Then say am ambo is coming to take me to cardio. Get there straight in, nurse ready to get me all set up
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
If you support Labour's hostile policies then sorry, and I am sure you will take offence, your mentality is absolutely no different to that of the average Reform voter. You have decided that your self interest is more important than the rights of others. You have decided to write people off.
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 16/11/2025
Labour policy is being celebrated by Tommy Robinson. That's it. That's all you ever need to say to explain who Labour are.
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live... No it isn't, what is tearing the country apart is this nonsense. UK needs migrants to survive.
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Illegal migration is ‘tearing our country apart’ and system is broken, says Shabana Mahmood – UK politics live
Home secretary says it is ‘moral mission’ for her to tackle asylum system
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) shows that estimates about the damage done by Brexit have underestimated its impact over the course of a decade. Data now suggests that Brexit has reduced UK GDP by 6%–8%, reduced investment 12%–18%, and reduced productivity by 3%–4%. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Ie they know he guilty and doesn't want to go down alone Bondi assigns prosecutor to lead investigation into Trump adversaries over Epstein ties
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
If he believes that he really is a fool Starmer told by Downing St staff that none of them briefed against Streeting, says No 10
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... About time he comes clean and tells the truth, not his entitled rose tinted view
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Latest Epstein emails cast further doubt on Andrew’s claim of cutting ties
Messages sent months after former prince said he ended relations and also appear to confirm Virginia Giuffre photo
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So Goodwin is a student, kinda thought he claimed ho br an academic explains a lot given the rubbish he says perhaps that is clearly academically illiterate
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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
"Because the Human Rights Act has enriched the scope of human rights protections available at common law over the past 25 years, we should not be unduly fearful about the common law’s ability to cope if the UK were to repeal the HRA or abandon the ECHR": @UKSupremeCourt Justice Lord Briggs.
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Why is he fighting for a job when he has no vision as to what he wants to achieve, must only be ego. If you want the job have clarity on how you want to make this country better.
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Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge
No 10 said to be in ‘full bunker mode’ over fears of attempt to oust him after budget or May local elections
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Shock horror, coz you lied 🤬 Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed because opposite happened
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Good time to do smelly test. Before you start make an assumption of potential figure say 10%, if early results are way higher good to think something is wrong and test it again.
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HMRC trial of child benefit crackdown wrongly suspected fraud in 46% of cases
Exclusive: Almost half of families flagged as emigrants based on Home Office travel data were still living in UK
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Bins done every three weeks, in council tax, if you want it more regularly make it a supplementary rate for those opting in. Priority shld be waste minimisation and recycle
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Councillor’s radical plan for Salford’s bin problem sparks claims of ‘Jewish council taking over’
Andrew Walters has proposed a new town council in Broughton Park to meet the unique needs of the growing Orthodox and Haredi populations
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/environment/... Plus anti growth, quickest way to get local growth, investment and skills development
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Cutting home insulation funding will imperil UK’s climate goals, Reeves told
Energy firms and charities urge chancellor to avoid short-term fix that could also harm low-income households
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen promised renewal. Instead, Britain’s biggest regeneration project has turned into a taxpayer-funded scandal - enriching a few local businessmen while leaving public bodies on the brink. Watch the latest episode of Page 94, The Private Eye Podcast, on YouTube.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
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China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Guess best to make it formal the corruption of money into your political views than keep it hidden
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Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high-value donors
Exclusive: Tory leader has plans to reinstate group that provided top donors with direct access to senior ministers
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/society/2025... Can we add littering to his offences?
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Mistakenly released prisoner Billy Smith turns himself in
Police continue hunt for Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif as fraudster returns to Wandsworth jail
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Impressive contracts worth £203m, debts of £188m. Corrupt to their core. Send Govey the bill
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Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Prosecute them, priceless of crime must apply
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Company linked to Michelle Mone owes £39m in unpaid taxes
Statement by administrators puts PPE Medpro’s total debts at £188m, including £39m said to be owed to HMRC
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.
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Cis Rits @cisrits.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Dit!⬇️
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/technology/2... No need to worry as don't see him surviving 10 more years, drugs and lifestyle, will do him earlier
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Elon Musk’s $1tn Tesla pay deal to be rejected by huge Norway wealth fund
Carmaker’s seventh biggest single investor will vote against package at annual shareholder meeting
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
If the Brexit benefits have been 'squandered'. I guess Farage wants to rejoin then 😁.
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Spot on
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com
Images of creative Dutch biking infrastructure
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Reform enabling child abuse.
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More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Not if they fail which is what they are doing as that future generation won't live
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World leaders, remember that future generations will judge you. At Cop30, you can define how | Gordon Brown
Keir Starmer is taking the lead on tackling the climate crisis. With the US backing away, now is the moment when other nations must step up, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
So free accommodation and perhaps 60k spending money plus 20k navy pension. What every commoner is getting from their pension I am sure 🤬 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Andrew in line for six-figure payout and annual stipend from king, sources say
The former prince remains under scrutiny as Buckingham Palace finalises plans for his future as a commoner
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Crime clearly pays
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Andrew in line for six-figure payment and annual stipend from king, sources say
The former prince continues to face scrutiny as Buckingham Palace draws up plans for his future as a commoner
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Take the gloves off. Lose everything and any house or income tied to him telling the truth not this petulant denial of the reality we all know and gives names and details of what he knows
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Prince Andrew to be stripped of titles and forced to leave Windsor home
King’s brother will become known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, Buckingham Palace says, in latest fallout from Epstein scandal
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
More totalling inept political thinking Labour MPs unhappy about being told to abstain on Farage's 10-minute rule bill proposing ECHR withdrawal
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said: “I am pleased to confirm this vile child sex offender" has been deported. I look forward to her describing Andrew Windsor using the same terms 😉
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Surely this is the definition of a Reform official tool to bottom “These individuals have shown a pattern of dishonest and deceptive behaviour which the party will not tolerate from its elected officials.”
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... A core problem everywhere the racists normalise racism by pinning everything to race, not reality. It's part of making the world smaller, poorer and more conflict driven
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‘Open hostility has become normalised’: Dutch Muslims fear rise of far right as general election looms
The poll is seen as a litmus test for the Netherlands and its democratic ideals, as activists decry a hardening of political discourse driven by Geert Wilders
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Joop.nl @joop.nl · 26/10/2025
Opinie Tom Ribbens: 'Het ziet er voor de toekomstige generaties niet best uit. En dat allemaal om de huidige machtsstructuur maar te behouden'
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Waarom iedereen op links zou moeten stemmen en het toch niet doet - Joop - BNNVARA
Opinie Tom Ribbens: 'Het ziet er voor de toekomstige generaties niet best uit. En dat allemaal om de huidige machtsstructuur maar te behouden'.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
"Let's not forget, when we remember the service and the sacrifice with this poppy, that the people who bled and died for our democracy and our freedom, weren't just my grandfather who looked like me & worshipped the same God, but people across Empire & Commonwealth, who were Muslim, Sikh & Hindu'
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Ah Katie Lam's true patriots 😂
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Six Britons acting for Wagner group jailed for arson attack on UK warehouse
Judge says men imprisoned over fire at site storing Ukraine aid planned terrorist campaign in interests of Russia
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed" Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...
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Normal Times in Dire Times
Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.
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Judith Freedman @judithfreedman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Big Four accountants lobby against partnership tax changes in Budget . Of course they are! ‘A lot of firms will incorporate as a result of this…’ They would have done that in 2002 if they hadn’t had the LLP created for them- a vehicle that has done little but provide opportunities for tax saving.
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Too much snap by-election analysis "Labour needs to start delivering"... no. Governments are always "delivering". The problem is how they choose what to deliver, and what stories they tell around those priorities. And that's simply a mess right now.
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... This headline is a travesty, it's years late already
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Windrush victims to get 75% of compensation up front in scheme overhaul
Exclusive: Claimants will also be compensated for lost contributions to work or personal pensions for first time
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Isn't Nigel older ? 😁
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Three arrested in UK on suspicion of assisting Russian intelligence service
Men, aged 44, 45 and 48, detained by Metropolitan police under section 3 of National Security Act
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... What did he expect ????
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Reform’s only Black branch chair quits over ‘harmful’ migration debate
Exclusive: Neville Watson leaves amid concerns about weaponisation of religion and erosion of community relations
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/education/20... I think despite this they will fail the Katie Lam test
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Smart money: family offers £180,000 a year for tutor to get one-year-old into Eton
Family seeks tutor from ‘socially appropriate background’ who can provide infant with ‘comprehensive British cultural environment’
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... Those that don't vote for this see grooming by upper class as distinct from wider grooming.
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MPs lodge parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of dukedom
Ministers face growing pressure to act amid fresh allegations over prince’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Clearly her means of creating a vacancy she wants to fill
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Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported
Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’
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Mark Copsey @mcopsey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Clearly don't understand tax, or they are just corrupt or both
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Reform UK reviews if it underpaid VAT on tickets and merchandise
Nigel Farage’s party reported to have exceeded £90,000 threshold due to ticket sales for Birmingham conference
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