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Mial Pagan

@mialp.bsky.social
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How did we get here? Anti Farage, Trump, Putin & co. Playwright, novelist. Writer of the Dermot O'Hara detective series set in Co. Kerry. Longlisted for the 2022 Bruntwood Prize for 'National Trust'. mialp0.wixsite.com/mialp

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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I trust Counter Terrorism Policing London are looking at Farage, Johnson, Tice & others as well.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Sarah Pochin raised "concerns" in parliament about the impact of second homes on rural communities. Two days later she purchased an £800,000 second home on Anglesey. Remarkable stuff. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
theguardian.com
Reform MP raises concerns about second homes – then buys one for £800,000
Sarah Pochin bought Anglesey property two days after writing to minister about impact of second homes on rural communities
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And the world of fiction is a better place tonight. 😉
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C Hanna @chcowgirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
BINGO!💥
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Meanwhile, in today’s master class of diplomacy. H/T 🎩 to Denmark 🇩🇰: Denmark just pulled off the diplomatic heist of the decade. They basically got Trump to re-sign the 1951 Greenland agreement, but added a genius "poison pill": the deal is only valid as long as the U.S. stays in NATO.
TRUMP HOODWINKED AGAIN
Denmark just pulled off the diplomatic heist of the decade. They basically got Trump to re-sign the 1951 Greenland agreement, but added a genius "poison pill": the deal is only valid as long as the US stays in NATO.
Trump gets the domestic headline, but Denmark quietly locked them into the European security architecture.
Masterful. 

Photo on the left of a man (U.S. President Trump) with an orange face and blue suit on with a red tie + a photo. 

And, on the right of a woman (Denmark PM Mette Frederiksen) with a look of determination on her face.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We Should Ban Trump, Not The Press.......
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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The thing about Gas Prices, is that the GOP has absolutely no way to claim that they can bring them down without also claiming they will stop the war in Iran. And that means standing against the asshole’s foreign policy, which they cannot do without passing him off. I love that dilemma for them
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How much tax does Dave pay or avoid?
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We await regular progress reports from her! 🤔
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trying to have a calm day, avoiding Trump related news, then Tom McKinney on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social says 'the annual fat bear competition has been won by'... 😂
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
HMRC, check if Dave pays his full tax & doesn't evade VAT & sponging off honest taxpayers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.” So obvious it hurts. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
independent.co.uk
Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
LibDems have said it, Milliband's said it, Burnham's admitted it. The Tories know it but daren't admit it as they caused horrendous damage to the UK through their narrow bigoted view of the world. They & Reform should never be near power.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The United States, which once freed prisoners from Germany's concentration camps, is now siding with the war criminals—and obstructing those who would hold them into account. Shameful—if this administration had any shame.
yacnews.com
US prepares to sanction the ICC, that indicted Russia's Putin and Israel's Netanyahu for war crimes
Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and ...
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thanks to years of Tory underfunding, the #ToryBrexitDisaster and Farage's persecution of all immigrants... ...our #NHS is now seriously understaffed. Labour will have to sort out the mess, as usual, and no doubt be criticised by the party that caused it! #ukpolitics #RejoinEU #r4today #wato
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
'George' has no profile photo, just 179 followers & provocative- looks like a bot. Reported.
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Over to Hampshire Police to see where the money's going (presumably coke for Tommy & Tommo).
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WIRED @wired.com · 22/09/2026
When Andy Burnham served as the Manchester regional mayor, he did so in the only region of England that refused Palantir access to its data. Now, as British prime minister, Palantir could be his first major test in office.
wired.com
The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir
Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington.
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If we're clever enough to create AI that can destroy us we're clever enough to get to net zero. Switzerland 👏👏👏👏👏 www.geeky-gadgets.com/solar-panels...
geeky-gadgets.com
Sun-Ways Installs 18 kW Removable Solar Panels on Train Tracks
Sun-Ways installed railway solar panels between Swiss tracks, testing a prototype that could generate 1 TWh of energy annually across 5,000 km.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is the way. I know it’s a delicate balance between covering legitimate public interest stories and First Amendment concerns, but it’s about time the press showed some balls.
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Liberal Libbie @liberallibbie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The whole system was on honesty & morality which the majority on SCOTUS have zip as well as all of the branches of government at this point in history! FUCKING CHANGE IT VOTE BY MAIL! He fears it, that what won in 2020
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We can add Farage & Reform, & of course Kim Jong Un, to that unloved bunch.
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Paul fulbrook @paulfulbrook74.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
That puts Trump (guessing about 19 stone weight) far into obese BMI. There is hope...
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Carole with an e @crwright.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Having lived through those years, I remember the fear many reporters faced but carried on despite all. Thank you.
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Microsoft belong(ed) to the Federation Against Software Theft, were rightly tough on piracy and yet... when it comes to making money they will cynically & criminally pirate the work of creative people's efforts.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And Donald is wearing lifts. Everything about him is a fraud.
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
China, who hold a lot of US debt, must be doing well... Trump's a great supporter of Communist regimes. Do his MAGA supporters know 🤔
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Vanblerkisms @vanblerkisms.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I'm not a Liberal Democrat (although I voted for them tactically in the recent Council elections to stop Reform), but the lack of coverage for their conference is very undemocratic. Especially given the blanket coverage Reform, with their handful of MPs, was afforded recently.
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ANTIFA BEVERLY @stewardship.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
He's LOOKING at IRAN 👀....these are some of the dumbest Motherfuckers to Ever Post Shit like this !!! This is CRAZY as FUCK!
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Webb missing the irony this morning on #Today when he asked Ed Davie (I paraphrase) 'You have 72 MPs yet can't get through to the public at large?' Maybe if Robbie Gibb's friends Reform (3 MPs apart from Tory rejects) weren't goto guests for the BBC other parties could get proper representation.
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Saw an excellent production of Home, I'm Darling yesterday! It covers so much ground from nostalgia for times past, through Me Too movement via complex relationships between all the characters. A great cast and the direction was beautifully judged. www.abbeytheatre.org.uk/whats-on/hom...
abbeytheatre.org.uk
Abbey Theatre, St Albans
Community arts theatre with a 230 seat main auditorium and a 78 seat studio space, staging local and touring productions
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Apart from Carol, who else - Brian maybe? 🤔 Why Lillian hasn't killed Justin yet is a mystery... 😉
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Has he considered that it would be the perfect vantage point for an assassin?
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Our politics should not be for sale. It's time for a strict cap on political donations. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/donations-cap/
r.ippl.es
Petition: We need a cap on political donations NOW
I’ve just signed to support this campaign – join me
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For beautiful nature writing, I love Michael Viney's 'A Year's Turning'. books.google.co.uk/books/about/...
books.google.co.uk
A Year's Turning
This memorable journal of one year in a remote cottage on the west Irish coast is destined to become a classic of Irish nature writing. For nearly twenty years, Michael Viney's popular column in the I...
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Reform's political strategist Lee Anderson: 'Nige, can you get on to your dodgy cryptolosing'- I just bet our £72million on him losing.'
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Jasper Barry @jasperbarry.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Personally, I'm writing to Stella and Pip to say I can't attend the wedding after all - sick grandma in Uzbekistan. I was, for obvious reasons (Stella deserves better), dreading the occasion, but the presence of children, particularly Sarin and Novichok, is just the last straw. #TheArchers
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
'Sarin and Novichok' 😂😂😂 That is perfect - I've always given the family the names, Sausage Boy, Rasher & the Chipolatas - which could also be the name of an indie band from Swindon.
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
🤪🤪🤪🤪
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Broken Politics 🌍 @landofbritain.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Vote #ReformUK and #Farage for a privatised #NHS... ...and get this horrendous situation that ordinary people in Trump's America have to suffer every day... #healthcare #ukpolitics #bbclaurak #r4today #EpsteinFiles
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20/09/2026
Maybe don't talk about fleece for awhile.
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Is he talking about Trump🤔 Ah, it's his goat thing again 😂 He always looks startled, as if he's just been butted...
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Mial Pagan @mialp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thirty six million pounds and one pence, so he can say he gave most. Tax deductible of course.
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Bob @psychobob4q2.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It pays to advertise...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The RNLI rescued Luftwaffe pilots in WW2 because the organisation is there to 'save life at sea' - it's something to be immensely proud of. But as I've said many times before Farage and Co don't seem to have pride in Britain and its institutions beyond flags and crap Enoch Powell said 60 years ago.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation. Looking very foolish again, UK.
EU suggestion of Canadian membership

2 of the letters 

Sir, Gerard Baker is right ("Grin and bear it, Andy, and stick with Trump", comment, Sep 18)……

….The problem is that the US is neither as reliable nor as reliably friendly as it once was. If it is willing to impose tariffs on friends, that economy becomes rather less reassuring. If the US prevents the UK regulating to protect our children, those new industries are not as positively transformative as we may have thought. And if Washington no longer thinks European security is its concern, then all that military might counts for little as far as we re concerned. Ultimately, the UK has little choice but to try and limit its dependence on a partner that is far less reliable than it was, and to do so, in part, by working more closely with its European neighbours. Managing this without further irritating the US president must be the ambition.
Anand Menon
Professor of European, KCL; director, the UK in a Changing Europe

Sir, Mark Carney's address to the European parliament was
extraordinarily impressive. It was a vision of what politics can be when it looks beyond the next poll, election or headline. Carney spoke of Europe and Canada building something together based on democracy, freedom, sovereignty and resilience. He offered both a dream and a practical route towards it: co-operation in defence. energy, critical minerals, technology, Al, trade and education. What struck me most was the clarity and scale of his thinking. He spoke of the challenges confronting western democracies but did not simply complain about them: he asked what could be built in response.
His metaphor of the forest was particularly memorable: a single tree mav be brought down by the storm. but a forest will endure because its roots are interconnected. I am 80 and I cannot remember recently hearing a western political leader speak with quite this combination of ambition, seriousness and intellectual clarity.
Thomas Kendall
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This should be the moment people finally realise that Farage has turned them into fascists. If you’re choosing this dangerous inhumanity over the rescue work of the RNLI, you’ve lost your minds to racism and hatred.
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