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Mike Phelps

@mike1phelps.bsky.social
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Retired ex-academic economist and civil servant

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 14h
The Home Secretary has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK unless Eritrea accepts more returns of small boat arrivals and foreign national offenders. Around 84% of Eritrean asylum claims succeed at initial decision. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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UK threatens visa bans for Eritrea over migrant return policy
The home secretary said she would not hesitate to impose measures on other countries "refusing to co-operate".
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 14h
Palestinian Prisoners’ Club says Israel has detained over 2,000 children since October 2023
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Palestinian Prisoners’ Club says Israel has detained over 2,000 children since October 2023
Israeli authorities have detained more than 2,000 Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza in October 2023, with at least 350 children remaining in custody, according to the Palestin…
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 14h
According to the Trump administration, there is a ceasefire in Gaza, since 10th October 2025. #Opinion by Dr Mustafa Fetouri Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261015-the...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14h
BREAKING: @nujofficial.bsky.social writes to National Police Chief over Journalist arrests. The letter follows Leicester Police’s arrests of a number of journalists for reporting on a Defend Our Juries vigil outside an Elbit Systems factory in Leicester. www.middleeasteye.net/news/police-...
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Leicester police ‘blanket arrest’ journalists under Terrorism Act for covering protest at Israeli drone factory
Journalists tell MEE that move has set a 'worrying precedent' and that they no longer ‘feel safe’ after reporting on Elbit protests
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14h
NEW: Arrest for peacefully protesting against the massacring of children forces child psychotherapist to close private practice. She had been arrested for holding a paper sign at a vigil. Amnesty International UK has slammed Payne’s case as “chilling”. novaramedia.com/2026/10/15/c...
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Child Psychotherapist Forced to Close Practice After Holding Sign at Peaceful Protest
Exclusive: A child psychotherapist has had to prematurely end her 16-year career because she was arrested for holding a sign at a Palestine Action demo. And she’s not the only protester to suffer prof...
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 14h
The Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate has warned of a rise in attacks on journalists and media crews in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Read: www.middleeastmonitor.com/20261015-pal...
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Council Estate Media @councilestatemedia.uk · 14/10/2026
The ratio was satisfying
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Mike Phelps @mike1phelps.bsky.social · 14h
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Why did China just save the world economy?
This is one of the biggest geopolitical mysteries of the year: why did China just save the world economy?
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧🇬🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
“Violent racists broke into someone’s house to terrorise them” you mean?
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h
I don’t want to discourage the lads from noticing Reform is full of roaring racist cranks: I encourage them to go further. But how are we squaring this with e.g. the Tory leader appointing a convicted neo-Nazi criminal as an antiracism adviser one month ago, and MPs and the press basically shrugging
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 19h
There's something disturbingly predictable about politics right now. Reform announces some abhorrent racist policy and a couple of days later Labour follows up with its own hostile anti-asylum measures. Eritrea is not a safe country for returns by any measure. #r4today www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
UK threatens visa bans for Eritrea over migrant return policy
The home secretary said she would not hesitate to impose measures on other countries "refusing to co-operate".
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
In Brazil, President Lula sues Zuckerberg, producing evidence that Meta was suppressing pro-Lula accounts in the run up to the last election round. paydayreport.com/lula-files-l...
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Lula Files Legal Complaint Against Meta Alleging Election Theft
The legal complaint against Meta for election interference is an unprecedented move
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Owen Massey @oweninoxford.bsky.social · 17h
All right, but apart from safer streets, cleaner air, and better business, what has low traffic ever done for us?
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 17h
Extraordinary undercover reporting in Reform by ITV, uncovering what many of its councillors and activists are really like, when they think the cameras are off. A racist party which attracts racist people. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 16h
We've awarded the @britishacademy.bsky.social President's Medal to the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra which was founded by Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said to bring musicians across borders together to share in the act of performing music www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/pioneer...
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Pioneering orchestra promoting solidarity across borders receives 2026 British Academy President’s Medal
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra has been awarded the British Academy’s most prestigious award, the President’s Medal for 2026, recognising the orchestra’s outstanding musical achievements and its vit...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
BREAKING Labour MP @richardburgon.bsky.social calls for the ban on Palestine Action to be lifted. This follows news that Irish author Sally Rooney cannot sell her chart-topping books in the UK because of her support for the group. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action. www.wedonotcomply.org
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Pauline Park @paulinepark.bsky.social · 21h
#DwightEisenhower was born #OnThisDay in 1890, Allied supreme commander in World War II; as president, his authorization of coups in Guatemala & Iran resulted in disaster in both countries; nonetheless, his warning about the military/industrial complex was prescient~! www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Isn’t it time for every honest member of the political media to declare loudly and clearly that Trump and the Republicans are building a dictatorship?
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Netanyahu Says He Dedicated His ENTIRE LIFE to REGIME CHANGE in Iran “We still need to finish the job. I dedicate my entire life to this.” Imagine spending your entire life obsessing about overthrowing another country’s government. What a pathetic legacy. AND HE FAILED so many times so far.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 23h
Biden administration officials like Antony Blinken and Brett McGurk have embarked on media tours trying to whitewash their records over Israel’s destruction of Gaza. Their excuses for enabling genocide are as flimsy and threadbare as their ethical codes.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22h
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6 in 10 Americans Believe Trump Is Profiting Illegally or Unethically From the Presidency
Meanwhile, Trump reportedly ousted Guilfoyle because he was upset that she was making money off his presidency.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 22h
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Netanyahu Orders Investigation and Prosecution of Israeli Soldiers in NAZA
NAZA reveals how Israel’s AI-based systems have been used to execute remote killings of thousands in Israel’s genocide.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 15/10/2026
Let us get this straight. Measles is spreading. Kids are dying from preventable diseases. Vaccination coverage is falling. And Texas AG Ken Paxton’s response is to investigate pediatricians for vaccinating kids, alleging financial incentives and a conspiracy with vaccine makers and insurers.
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Ken Paxton stirs vaccine skepticism to ingratiate himself with Maha movement
Texas AG and US Senate hopeful announced inquiry into alleged conspiracy between pediatricians, vaccine makers and insurance firms
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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social · 22h
Israeli Maj Gen believes America will soon abandon Israel. Correct. The world has the right to defend itself from Israel.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22h
Jake Bauers went back to baseball for healthcare coverage for his pregnant wife. Don’t get me wrong, I love sports. But having to return so you won’t go bankrupt for having a baby is insane.
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 23h
“Generational Trauma For ME, but Not For Thee”😒😢🤬
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Sandi Walters @srzjswalters.bsky.social · 22h
I believe Jesus would call this whole “ HOLY LAND” lie BLASPHEMY!
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
There are no words that can adequately contribute to the story of this poor woman. There are no words that will ever console her, and tragically NOBODY will be held to account for her loss, A Z!0 air strike November 2024, on the al-Shati" school shelter in Gaza slaughtered Sa'eda's entire family-
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22h
Psychotic Israeli War Minister Israel Katz openly threatens to turn parts of southern Lebanon into a permanent Israeli-controlled “security zone,” warning that a ground invasion could seize more Lebanese territory and force mass displacement. Katz also threatens to evacuate the entire
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22h
It continues to be insane that the mainstream Liberal Zionist definition of apartheid in the US is one that wouldn't apply to South Africa.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 14/10/2026
Proponents of two states (their parlance: a "demilitarized Palestinian state") in the West have to contend with the fact that neither the supposedly sovereign Lebanon nor Syria possess the right or the ability to attack Israeli soldiers occupying Lebanese or Syrian territory, according to the West.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Leading with the rebuttal is a choice I guess.
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Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Meanwhile, while counterterrorism police use up their finite resources and hours processing pensioners with placards: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rightwing extremists increasingly likely to consider terrorist attacks, MI5 chief says
Move from anti-immigration or anti-Muslim views to violence is ‘most marked trend’ in spy agency’s caseload over last year
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Oliver Bullough @oliverbullough.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Re the Sally Rooney news, I was looking up data on arrests under terrorism legislation the other day, and hadn't quite realised how utterly bonkers the effect of the Palestine Action prohibition had been. That big purple spike is basically all PA-related arrests.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/10/2026
Hard to describe this as anything other than an elite-level psychosis spurred on by the collapse of mainstream support for Israel.
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Wow! This graph depicting the Palestinian vs. Israeli death toll from 1940 to the present shows exactly when the genocide begins - and why it is a genocide...
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 22h
Shiite population up to the al-Awali River and Beirut's Dahiyeh district, potentially displacing more than one million people inside Lebanon. WHERE IS THE FUCKING OUTRAGE 🤬🇮🇱🤬🤬🤬🇮🇱♾️
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is all utterly mad and the responsibility lies squarely with the British government www.rte.ie/entertainmen...
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Sally Rooney's books to be withdrawn from sale in the UK
Faber has confirmed it will stop supplying Sally Rooney's books in the UK, saying it cannot pay the Irish author royalties because of her pledge to support the banned group Palestine Action.
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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It’s weird how news anchors try to keep a straight face when the people they are interviewing are totally bananas
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West England Bylines @westenglandbylines.co.uk · 14/10/2026
From peaceful protest to mass arrests: is the policing of Palestine Action supporters proportionate, democratic or even effective? | Stephen Kinsella
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‘Methinks he doth protest too much’: reflections on the Stroud pro-Palestine rally last Saturday
From peaceful protest to mass arrests: is the policing of Palestine Action supporters proportionate, democratic or even effective?
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Mike Phelps @mike1phelps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Of course not
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Yesterday afternoon in my town, ICE kidnapped a man walking home from Dunkin Donuts with coffee for his family right off the street. New Jersey is under siege. This is the least violent kidnapping we’ve had, but it’s still a kidnapping.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
LABOUR BANNING BOOKS Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support. Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Sally Rooney says she can no longer sell books in UK due to Palestine Action support
Irish writer of Normal People says she can no longer receive royalties from British sales and she cancelled UK trip due to fear of arrest
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
OK, there is something very, very weird going on in the press right now. It certainly appears, from the outside, as if certain people are being very much protected in a way that was not afforded to certain other people! Let's start with the facts around Lola Salem... 🧵1/
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Mike Phelps @mike1phelps.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
That's a real achievement
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
He's with the Angles now
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is equivalent of Trump rejecting FBI assessment of Russian interference in US elections. It’s not “Burnham’s” claim, it’s our own intelligence agencies’ assessment. Denying it for political advantage is both shameful AND short sighted, as it does nothing to enhance her credibility.
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Sentient Nickel Particles🇨🇦🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇱🇪🇺🈚️ @robertjbrett.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
It's been so weird to watch American society reorient itself away from its foundational laws and toward North Korean-style subservience where plain reality is warped around a single deranged freak and his mutant family and friends.
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Trevor Foster @darthfos.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
"They want to put them in jail for 10 years because they fixed an engine." - Bronzolini No, they pled guilty for illegally bypassing the emission control systems on diesel trucks. They each got 5yrs probation, $66K in fines & 180hrs of community service: bsky.app/profile/dart...
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Kimmi🌷 @kimmi1965.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
He hands out pardons like one gives candy to trick or treaters on Halloween. Between the pardons and refusal to follow court orders, he continues to chip away at our Rule of Law. ROL is a foundation of a functioning democracy and its success is on the ballot!
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