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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Our green played host to Northumberland v. County Durham ladies match. Northumberland won.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Loads of club members turned up to tidy the borders, work on the green and clean inside and out of the clubhouse on a beautiful morning.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

We have our son and his partner staying with us over Christmas. Apparently Coco Pops and Baileys for breakfast is a thing.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Sanderlings in their winter plumage on Cresswell beach in Northumberland UK on a perfect late Autumn day.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Fourth yesterday in the Open Triples lawn bowls competition held at our own club yesterday. Huge prize money of £10 each. Really great day. Five matches of 6 ends each, 30 ends total. 3 wins, one draw, one defeat.

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/Never Again @montrose.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

That's right Trumpkopp Twinned with Epstein Island

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Labour's water industry review is little more than fiddling with the broken status quo The Independent Water Commission is a half-baked and half-hearted exercise in pandering to investors and CEOs - at the public's expense www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

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Labour's water industry review is little more than fiddling with the broken status quo

The Independent Water Commission is a half-baked and half-hearted pandering to investors and CEOs - at the public's expense

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

After yesterday's threatened thunder we actually had some today; the low, distant rumbling of English summer thunder.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Won second place with two teammates in Brampton Bowling Club's Mixed Triples competition. Actually won some money! Founded in 1761 it is Britain's second oldest bowling club.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Our blind Jack Russell called Molly enjoys the occasional ice cream on a stick.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Another classic from the Queen of gaffes…

The FT reports New Delhi officials describing Kemi Badenoch of talking “rubbish” about the U.K./India trade deal.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Yesterday, down by the River North Tyne in Northumberland.

A grey-coloured heron stood motionless in a flowing river with daffodils in the foreground.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

God of glory, by the raising of your Son you have broken the chains of death and hell: fill your Church with faith and hope; for a new day has dawned and the way to life stands open in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. Happy Easter!

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

It’s extraordinary that so much media still reports on Trump with the old, redundant tools of the trade. He lied about Ukraine, then he tried to extort Ukraine, and having failed he threatens to walk away from Ukraine. The idea that he was ever going to do anything unwelcome to Putin is ridiculous.

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The First Felon Of The United States is a complete jabberwocky-speaking clot. And everyone else is responsible for crashing the world economy when the blame lies entirely with him.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Privatisation Racket. 20 companies controlling UK supply, production, transmission of energy made operating profits of £514bn in 2020-24. Profit margins at electricity/gas supply companies up by 363%; electricity generation up by 198%. They get subsidies too. More in the linked article.

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With bills having gone up, it’s time to take energy back into public ownership

The obscene profits of the energy industry show the sector is broken

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Liverpool 0-2 Newcastle United at the moment. Will it be their first cup win since 1955? Under ten minutes to go.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

When Tony Slattery passed away in January, obituaries in The Telegraph and The Times recalled a cartoon that hung in the bathroom of his London home... We've rummaged through the Eye archives and found it. From issue 838, January 1994. RIP Tony Slattery.

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Are you tired of winning yet?

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Boris Johnson’s million-pound Daily Mail gig continues to be farcical. A recent column, confidently praising Trump’s Ukraine stance, was swiftly pulled after Trump and JD Vance launched a scathing attack on Zelensky. Full story online and in the latest issue: www.private-eye.co.uk/news

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Private Eye | Boris Johnson : Boris spiked

THE Daily Mail's star signing Boris Johnson continues to earn every penny of his million-pound fee.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Fujitsu swore it wouldn’t bid for public contracts until the Horizon scandal inquiry wrapped up. And yet a new £300k MoD deal just landed in its lap. Their “no-bid” pledge is looking more like a PR stunt riddled with loopholes. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

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aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30) @aidthompsin.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

11 weeks apart. They were willing to overlook the lies, Jan 6th, fraud, the arrest, the charges & the rape to celebrate his return to the White House. Now they feign surprise that the sociopath we all warned was a sociopath is indeed still a sociopath.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Cartoon by David Sipress.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Now THIS is true leadership on the world stage. In stark contrast to the weak, ignorant clown we currently have in the White House. #SlavaUkraini 🇬🇧 🇺🇦

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Please share. 🙏🏻

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I'm struggling to get over what we saw today. The amount of gaslighting, cruelty, ignorance, abject cowardice, arrogance, indifference to human life, and deceit we saw from Trump and Vance...we saw behavior we associate with enemies of the United States inside the Oval Office. That's traumatizing.

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The Real Gulf of America. The 3 Richest Americans Hold More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Of The Population. Probably worse now with the rise of Elon Musk. Money buys everything - politics, govt, press, judiciary, law enforcement. Inevitably produces Trump, arrogance, danger.

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The 3 Richest Americans Hold More Wealth Than Bottom 50% Of The Country, Study Finds

Collectively, the billionaires on the Forbes 400 hold more wealth than the bottom 64% of America, "more people than the populations of Mexico and Canada combined."

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The leaders of the US may like to ponder on this from Ecclesiastes chapter 9 and reconsider their actions: The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouting of a ruler among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one bungler destroys much good.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Places Trump 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 deploy US troops v places Trump 𝐰𝐨𝐧’𝐭 deploy US troops From the latest Private Eye, in shops now.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally” www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...

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Trump Dragged After Being ‘Fully Humiliated On The World Stage’

Donald Trump was “humiliated and exposed in a way that no previous president ever could be," said MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

French President Emmanuel Macron says US and Ukraine should be compensated by Russia, not by Ukraine. Russia started the war 👏

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Meta Resistance @metaresistance.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

No One Voted For Elon Musk!!

NO ONE voted for eliminating the Department of Education to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. NO ONE voted for cuts to Social Security so that Tesla can continue to pay $0 in federal taxes. NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON MUSK!

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Mike Slade @micklad.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Homemade bread and preserves. I know exactly what goes into them.

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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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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Byline Times is looking for a qualified news and investigation reporter for paternity leave cover in April and May, with the possibility of a more long-term contribution. If interested, please get in touch

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The United States is under attack. Elon Musk—who has been elected to nothing and is a deeply troubled person—is literally destroying our government from the inside and doing so without authority or consent of the governed. Working on a report on this right now. It’s an emergency.

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Cathy Newman @cathynewman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A written account from a member of the committee which met in secret to discuss the appointment alleges the Archbishop of York “bullied” and “coerced” people to promote Bishop John. Stephen Cottrell denies the allegations.

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Lalo Alcaraz @laloalcaraz.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Reports of ICE harassing even indigenous people are an extra layer of disturbing that I didn't forsee. But here's what should happen! Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Thames Water prices will be hiked by £19 a month from April. Sewage will be dumped in rivers, leaks will go unplugged, dividends will be paid, cost of servicing,£17bn debt passed to customers, execs will be rewarded for fleecing people. Predatory capitalism. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Thames Water confirm it WILL hike customers' prices by £19 a month

Thames Water has announced plans to increase its prices by £19 a month in a move which it says is to invest in infrastructure over the next five years amid a spike in sewage pollution incidents.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🧵Curious about "DeepSeek"? Wondering what it is and why it matters for the U.S. and the world in general? Let me break it down in simple terms—no tech background needed! (1/21) 👇👇🌏💾

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