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Douglas Clark

@mrdclark.bsky.social
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Slimming World Consultant, ASN Teacher, Former Charity chair in 🇷🇺 😔. parkrun Fanatic. Celtic fan ⚽️, Glasgow Warriors fan 🏉, ADHD.

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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
@instituteforgovernment.org.uk just listening to the latest podcast episode…. John ‘Sweeney’ - who’s he?? 🤦‍♂️
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
@jamesrball.com congrats on a hugely important piece of journalism. Whit a shocker 😳 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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EXCLUSIVE: How the BBC dossier author HIMSELF doctored Trump’s quotes
Podcast Episode · The Two Matts · 13/11/2025 · 42m
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
@disordershow.bsky.social you can only go so far in persevering with a podcast etc that challenges your ‘echo chamber’ of views… but to say there is no genocide in Gaza? So sad to hear that 😔
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President — theonion.com/trump-asks-j...
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Trump Asks JD Vance To Research Whether President Allowed To Kill Vice President
WASHINGTON—Calling him “the best man for the job,” President Donald Trump reportedly asked JD Vance Thursday to research whether the president was allowed to kill the vice president. “I mean, Article ...
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
I’m tagging just @governor.ca.gov and @mehdirhasan.bsky.social — the first two of a small band of merry men still making an effort to stop us sliding into global disaster.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
@disordershow.bsky.social I was just listening to ep. 143. It always challenges me and for that I love it for that. But Jason, you don’t agree with Gay marriage? I’m really struggling with that and didn’t expect that point of view from you. Can you elaborate? 😔
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia last night. 18 people injured as of now, more people are asking for medical assistance with shrapnel wounds, concussions and acute stress reactions. Residential building and vehicles damaged, as per usual Russian tactics of attacking Ukrainian civilians.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
I’m neither Jewish nor Muslim. I don’t have a side here, except my humanity. It’s unbearable to see the people who once suffered the Holocaust now see their politicians carrying out genocide against Palestinians. All of this driven by Israeli politics, Gaza paying the price. #Gaza #Israel #UN
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Yup. 🤦‍♂️
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I’ve been listening to @newsagents.bsky.social @jonsopel1.bsky.social @lewisgoodall.com @maitlis.bsky.social in rltn. to Gaza. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... This shed light on something we don’t always hear about: the growing divide between many Israeli citizens and their right-wing govt.
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Israel invades Gaza City. Will anything stop Netanyahu?
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 21/08/2025 · 49m
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
“Delivering benefits isn’t enough — people need belonging, identity, and a story they believe in.” democracyjournal.org/author/shahr... Thanks Matthew D’Ancona for referencing this in a recent @thenewworldmag.bsky.social If only response to right is outrage, how will hearts be won as well as minds?
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Shahrzad Shams
is the program manager for the Race and Democracy program at the Roosevelt Institute.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
What a depressing, depressing photograph this is 😔
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
www.facebook.com/share/r/1HQd...
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Redirecting...
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started — theonion.com/netanyahu-ca...
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Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The man who wants a Nobel Peace Prize has ICE preparing to hit 5 Dem-led cities. Marines deployed. Insurrection Act discussed. Federalised National Guard. Some US military personnel apparently filing conscientious objector paperwork. peace? law and order? Try American autocracy. Smell the fascism.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
No ‘Lie of the Week!’ 😭 @theneweuropean.bsky.social Can I start a campaign to bring it back?! What do we want? LIES! When do we want them? NOW!
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
@theneweuropean.bsky.social do I need to renew/ start a new subscription or will my TNE subscription roll into TNW?? 🌍 Exciting times, love my weekly paper ❤️
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Junior #parkrun followed by #SlimmingWorld Summer promotion work.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Sometimes putting the morning coffee mugs away just capture your life! @newsagents.bsky.social @pauls-h.bsky.social @hopenothate.org.uk #Teacher #Rugby
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This feels hugely significant given its coming from @lewisgoodall.com but especially @maitlis.bsky.social and @jonsopel1.bsky.social ❤️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Britain suspends trade talks with Israel
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 20/05/2025 · 41m
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
What a weekend so far. Woodhouse Moor #parkrun in the morning, #BryanAdams tonight, junior parkrun on way home, followed by our second sighting of parkrun Jesus in a month or two - we’re passing so would be rude not to!! @pauls-h.bsky.social
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
In today’s episode of “What the Fu*k”……
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
This headline says it all. Don’t Fu*k this up as well SNP 🙏
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
There's strong evidence that women's participation in security efforts makes countries safer. That's why leaders in over 100 countries have taken action to further it. One of them—who signed the U.S. Women, Peace & Security Act into law in 2017—was Donald Trump.
Tweet from Pete Hegseth: This morning, I proudly ENDED the “Women, Peace & Security” (WPS) program inside the 
@DeptofDefense. WPS is yet another woke divisive/social justice/Biden initiative that overburdens our commanders and troops — distracting from our core task: WAR-FIGHTING. WPS is a UNITED NATIONS program pushed by feminists and left-wing activists. Politicians fawn over it; troops HATE it. DoD will hereby executive the minimum of WPS required by statute, and fight to end the program for our next budget. GOOD RIDDANCE WPS!
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
I just had to go tell Sir Keir the good news! #SlimmingWorld #parkrun
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Four warning signs of authoritarian behaviour, according to Levitsky and Ziblatt in ‘How Democracies Die’. 1. Rejecting democratic rules — e.g., refusing to accept election results, undermining the legitimacy of elections. /1
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
I’ve been listening to Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, and it feels as relevant now as Im sure it did over 50 years ago. When he first brought the song to Motown, he was apparently told it was too political. But how could it not be? 1/
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Parkrunners! #parkrun Is it just the UK that are out of ‘250’ hoodies? If they’re available where you are in the world, I feel like there’s a wee trading deal to be done! 😂
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This on the other hand?! Ffs 🤦‍♂️
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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Please share folks: @gemmaclark.bsky.social @mrdclark.bsky.social @douglashutchison.bsky.social @strath-ioe.bsky.social @uofgheadship.bsky.social @markrpriestley.bsky.social @stellamouroutsou.bsky.social @andreahgp.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @janeemcallaghan.bsky.social @eisunion.bsky.social
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Israeli soldiers murdered these medical workers, buried them in a mass grave, libelled them as terrorists and then lied about it. One of the ambulance crews' last words were: "I only chose this path because I wanted to help people." www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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BBC Verify analyses video showing Israel's killing of Gaza medics
The IDF's killing of 15 emergency workers has drawn international condemnation. BBC Verify examines new footage of the incident.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Trump’s latest performance was less “economic strategy,” more bin fire meets reality TV. •Declared 1789 the peak of greatness •Launched global tariffs with a marker and a vibe •Forgot to sign the order •Thanked someone for plastic Easter eggs Markets tanked. Allies baffled. #BinFire #TradeWar 🤦‍♂️
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Carney: The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@theneweuropean.bsky.social Really helpful analysis from Ronald Reagan some years ago. #tariffs
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
The suffering that will be unleashed on Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos is horrific. And that's not because they have "raped" America. It's because they're poor, they can't afford many US goods but they can become wealthier by exporting to rich countries.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 31/03/2025
BREAKING: French court finds far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty in embezzlement case. ~AA apnews.com/article/mari...
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French court finds far-right leader Marine Le Pen guilty in embezzlement case
A French court has found Marine Le Pen guilty Monday in an embezzlement case. The court on Monday didn’t immediately say what her sentence might be and how it might impact the far-right leader’s polit...
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
@pauls-h.bsky.social has as I’ve said many times has had a profound effect on my life through #parkrun. I’ll be speaking to the local Rotary club about my own personal journey and promoting my Slimming World group, but I’ll also be talking about my new tattoo ✌🏻 What one key message should they hear?
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
If you love @quietriotpod.bsky.social, you’ll want to hear this. Ancient myths, modern meaning — told with warmth, wit, and that unmistakable warm hug of Alex Andreou’s voice. Podyssey begins this weekend. Echo & Narcissus await in Episode 1. Subscribe now so we can talk about it afterwards ❤️
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
@lewisgoodall.com @jonsopel1.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social at the Usher Hall. Wonder who the main topic of conversation will be 🤔 🍊 🛎️ 🔚
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Some say the best horse youtu.be/JhkZMxgPxXU?... @theneweuropean.bsky.social thanks for tip on this Matt and Matt.
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There's a Horse In The Hospital | John Mulaney | Netflix Is A Joke
YouTube video by Netflix Is A Joke
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Come on United States of the World, time to step back from the precipice. 🇺🇦
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 18/02/2025
A Trump shill on Newsnight claims there are more people in prison in UK jails for freedom of speech violations than in Putin’s Russia. These people are radicalised, insane, plain stupid or some combination of all three.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“Vance went on to criticise the use of laws enforcing buffer zones, saying that free speech was in retreat and alleging that the Scottish government had warned people against private prayer within their own homes”. Thanks America, for bringing this global disaster to our doorsteps.
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JD Vance attacks Europe over free speech and migration
The vice-president's speech at the Munich Security Conference was denounced by several European leaders.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Sad times 😞
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Tributes after death of Slimming World founder, 76
Margaret Miles-Bramwell started her first slimming group in Alfreton, Derbyshire, in 1969.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Yup, global warming is all made up 🙄
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Woman dies in Australian flood as thousands flee homes
Meteorologists say these could be the worst floods to hit northern Queensland in 60 years.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Eh, what now? 🤦‍♂️ ffs. 🇩🇰 will hopefully stand firm x
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla... @lewisgoodall.com 🙏
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Trump inaugural: cultural conservatives think they've won the culture war.
And what progressives should do about it.
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Douglas Clark @mrdclark.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
@gemmaclark.bsky.social is making a cup of tea right now. Updates as we have them. 🫖
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a cup of coffee with smoke coming out of it
ALT: a cup of coffee with smoke coming out of it
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Renfrewshire Council @renfrewshire.gov.uk · 06/01/2025
Welcome to our new Bluesky account. Follow to keep up to date with the latest news and updates from Renfrewshire Council.
Kingfisher mural on the side of a building in Paisley
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