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@mel44.bsky.social
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Lover of politics, F1 and all things food related. Currently residing in Sussex by the Sea

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Welcome to autocracy. The Republic we have known for the last 240 years is gone. This is going to keep getting worse. Much worse. The courts mean nothing, the law means nothing, Congress is irrelevant. He is a malignant psychopath.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Congratulations to the senior Tories who, having been told this for a mere 60 years, and staunchly denied it throughout, have finally twigged that it might not be a brilliant idea to have a nuclear deterrent which can be switched off by another state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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US support to maintain UK’s nuclear arsenal is in doubt, experts say
Malcolm Rifkind joins diplomats and analysts urging focus on European cooperation to replace Trident
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2025
Goldman on Musk: "Notable, somehow none of his $13 billion of government contracts he has determined to be waste, fraud, and abuse."
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Donald Corleone, turning the US into a mafia state. Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Donald Trump is turning America into a mafia state | Jonathan Freedland
The pattern is inescapable – with just one caveat: organised crime bosses occasionally display more honour, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Ray Douglas @raydouglas.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
An FT reader explains how #tariffs work...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Justin Trudeau gave the exact kind of press conference today that we have been waiting for from our Democratic leaders. Watch it and learn from it. No gimmicks, no stunts, no script, no platitudes, no slogans, no games. Just straight talk, honesty, sincerity and facts.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Brexit has never looked quite so daft
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Mel @mel44.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
#Slavaukrani #Glorytoukraine
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Praise for the war criminal, a punishment beating for Zelensky.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 02/02/2025
"America First" becomes "America Alone" from @davidfrum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Price America Will Pay for Trump’s Tariffs
Alienating allies and partners that the U.S. desperately needs means that “America First” will be “America Alone.”
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
The @Telegraph, @thetimes, @MailOnline & @TheSun publish corrections to their scaremongering on undocumented migrants in London. Imagine between them the reach & power of these papers. The fact is they are using that power to instil Trumpist hate & we are ill-equipped to resist.
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Update. The Telegraph has now corrected its entirely fabricated claim that 1 in 12 Londoners is an "illegal migrant" and has accepted that this claim was false in *four" separate respects. However, this has not resolved my complaint to IPSO - I will continue to request a front-page correction.
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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
TCM seems to have something on their mind today.
Turner Classic Movies schedule for 1/21/25:

10:15am: CONFESSIONS OF A NAZI SPY (1939)
12:00pm: THE MORTAL STORM (1940)
1:45pm: THE GREAT DICTATOR (1941)
4:00pm: THE SEVENTH CROSS (1944)
6:00pm: EDGE OF DARKNESS (1943)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 17/01/2025
How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post | Margaret Sullivan
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How Jeff Bezos can stop the bleeding at the Washington Post | Margaret Sullivan
The paper’s owner should show up – soon – to hold a town hall with the newsroom, answer questions, and take the heat More than 400 newsroom staffers at the Washington Post pleaded with the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos, this week to do something about their…
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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
“They feel like they are being used like a political football.” Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips says some grooming gang victims in Telford feel like they are being used by “people who have never shown any concern about them.” #Newsnight
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Jess Phillips @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Just in from mammoth interview session to two bits of news. One that a DV perp got locked up because of something I did and that a vulnerable constituent had a a massive wrongful debt written off after our intervention. This is why I came to politics, this is why I'll just keep cracking on.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Today is an object lesson in the radicalisation of the British right-wing press. Britain is being disparaged and insulted by a foreign far-right conspiracy theorist. But the Mail, the Express, the Telegraph and even the Times choose focus their criticisism on the British prime minister instead.
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Mel @mel44.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
#Beyonce is the absolute Queen! Absolutely smashed it!
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
He will live in infamy because history is written by dispassionate scholars based on facts, not ideological political extremists living in their own reality. #NoNamesNeeded
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Brad Philpot @bradphilpot.com · 05/12/2024
I just want to say, I love the drama and I’m here for this beef 👇🏼 #F1 #Russell #Verstappen
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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Hegseth has the stink of political death on him.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM @calltoactivism.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
BREAKING: Rep. Jerry Nadler announced that he'll step down as the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee next term and endorsed Rep. Jamie Raskin to succeed him. Thank you, Jerry Nadler. Congratulations, Jamie Raskin. 💙
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
“Global power is shifting… there is a resurgence of geopolitics and it will last for decades” says Admiral Sir Tony Radakin UK Chief of Defence Staff tonight in his annual lecture in London @RUSI_org #cdslecture24
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Recent events have shown again the power of news photography. People putting themselves in sometimes dangerous places to tell stories through images. This starter pack has a range of photojournalists & photo editors working globally. 50:50 female/male talent. Pls share & support their work. 🙏📸
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wow. This post from @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social has been shared 11,300 times & has 60,400 likes on @bsky.app. On X it has just 8 shares & 13 likes (despite a much larger following). Don’t tell me Musk isn’t throttling accounts. Thankfully the forecast going forward is BlueSky’s.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Let’s make @bsky.app the biggest social media platform on the planet and send Elon Musk packing
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Andy @andy-redg.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I agree with Max this behaviour is very unsporting. Max won his first championship as a result of his team pressuring the Race Director to break the rules. And as he and his team failed to show the humility to admit it, I lost all respect for Max and @redbullracingf1.bsky.social. #F1 #Hypocrisy
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Sophy Ridge @sophyridge.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Gregg Wallace: “I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age” Same age as you Gregg t.co/ax8NNIs8LF
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The Gregg Wallace sacking is not only a good example of how the BBC seems to have a real problem standing up to bad behaviour but also how completely average men with no discernible talent are able to drift to the top and eat pudding on TV for hundreds of thousands of pounds
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
He tried to stage a coup, failed, and there will be no consequences. Now he gets to be president again. Just a joke of a country.
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Jonathan Freedland @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Latest column is on the ICC arrest warrants against Israel - and how Benjamin Netanyahu has to no one to blame but himself www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Benjamin Netanyahu is a wanted man – and he has only himself to blame | Jonathan Freedland
A strategy of starvation would always be indefensible. After this week’s ICC decision, he risks turning Israel into a pariah state, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Laughably naive Peter Mandelson has shown he can’t deal with Trump inews.co.uk/opinion/naiv...
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Laughably naive Mandelson has shown he can’t deal with Trump
Peter Mandelson has made it painfully clear that he is not the right ambassador to the US
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
His second failure is to think that Musk can be a viable partner. He cannot. He is a threat to British security.
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AndrewT @andrewt500.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A message from a REAL farmer who hasn’t been brainwashed by the Tories, wealthy landowners and the right wing media👇🏽 #FarmersProtest
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Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Tin hats time. My esteemed colleague Martin Wolf hammering home some home truths on Trump & trade. I suspect talk of triangulation in London likely to be over estimating UK agency over what’s to come. www.ft.com/content/67a3...
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
**Taggart voice** "There's bin a murder"
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David Martinez @demartinez.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Just completely fucking pinned down. Glorious.
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Mark Urban @markurban.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This affair of the Chinese flagged ship suspected of cutting underwater data cables in the Baltic is getting really interesting now…
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
19 November 1943 | A selection took place in the female camp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. 394 Jewish prisoners were selected. During the transport to the gas chambers, two women tried to escape: Bina Braun and Rosa Theberger. They were shot. The remaining women were murdered in the gas chambers.
Image of a worn document with typed text and some handwritten notes. It's a historical document related to Auschwitz.
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Brad Philpot @bradphilpot.com · 18/11/2024
This is the one. Repost it to your friends #TeamLH 😅 #F1 #Bluesky
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Jon Sopel @jonsopel1.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A word on the Allison Pearson free speech row, and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. We asked her on @thenewsagents.bsky.social to discuss. She said: ‘No. And if you get any aspect of the story wrong my lawyers will be watching.’ Gotta love a free speech warrior 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Ukraine: Biden lifting restrictions on personnel in UKR & long-range strikes on Russia are not game-changers, especially as the Trump will likely cut support. The most meaningful action Biden can take is to push as many resources as possible before 1/20. Empty stores, send everything, buy UKR time.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Badenoch arriving is the clearest evidence yet of a change in the centre of gravity online. I know some people will hate it. But if you want to replace X, it's going to involve the leader of the opposition being here.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It’s taken almost 3 years to make this decision, and hundreds of thousands more dead, and Russia terrorising civilians on a daily basis. It’s the right choice, so needs to be applauded, but oh so late.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
It’s interesting that when centre left parties lose they are expected to engage in agonising root-and-branch self-criticism about what went wrong but when right-wing parties lose they just keep on trucking like nothing happened
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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
📢The Guardian is now officially on Bluesky @theguardian.com
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
By popular demand… the Guardian is officially on BlueSky @theguardian.com
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/11/2024
Adam Schiff: "The problem today is that people are working and they still can't get by. When people see the quality of life their parents had and say 'that's better than what I have have,' all too many will entertain any demagogue who comes along promising they alone can fix it"
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