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Joe Woolley

@mrjoewoolley.bsky.social
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I like playing the guitar, coffee and books. Beatnik gone to seed.

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
One aspect of Manchester City story massively underplayed is that England now has an independent football regulator Premier League lobbied against it - even hired Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm Global Counsel Tufton Street think tanks lobbied against it But now the regulator exists - and can act
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In lieu of the Joint Intelligence report @nebriefing.bsky.social is an excellent project to help you get informed. www.nebriefing.org
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National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature
National Emergency Briefing | The UK’s leading climate and nature experts brief MP's on the risks, impacts and solutions to the climate emergency
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UK is on track to install around 300,000 solar rooftops this year That'll break records and on its own add at least 1GW of solar to UK generation For scale, UK maximum demand is around 50GW www.businessgreen.com/news/4535700...
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'Unprecedented numbers': Solar industry on track to smash rooftop record
MCS tracker reveals number of small-scale solar installations completed this year has already surpassed long-standing 2011 record
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GuyD @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And yet they can never hear 48%+ of us
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
🔴 More than 80% of all the donations ever received by Nigel Farage’s Reform UK have come from just two cryptocurrency billionaires, new Democracy for Sale analysis reveals. “If that isn’t a massive corruption risk I don’t know what is.” democracyforsale.substack.com/p/breaking-8...
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BREAKING: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from two crypto billionaires
“If that isn't a massive corruption risk I don't know what is.”
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inaction
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Burnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donors
PM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is completely on Andy Burnham Last week Labour could have stopped this. Now we have a single person giving more money than the entire general election spending limit for a political party www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
MPs now demanding that government releases the full un-redacted national security report on the severe threats from nature collapse. This is a vital debate for the future of this nation. Watch here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/... #NationalEmergencyBriefing It's #TimeToStepUp
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I attended a screening of @nebriefing.bsky.social yesterday evening. @lucyrigby.bsky.social all attendees pledged to contact you to ask that you watch the film and join the other 152 MPs calling on the Government to stage a televised emergency briefing.
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Weekend treasures. Jimmy Guiffre's Mosquito Dance is particularly good.
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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026
BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?
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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’m in a couple of WhatsApp chats and this is the extent of both of the chats. Something needs to happen in this country, the media has too much power. Bring back the IPCC, make Ofcom work again for broadcast media. Bring back some standards instead of bonfiring of regulations.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Two of these people around Farage were in and out of the Russian Embassy discussing Gold and Diamond deals. The third has been sentenced to over 10 years in prison for taking Kremlin Gold. How does anyone believe Nigel didn’t know?
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hard to think of a more deeply damaging start to Burnham’s premiership than giving green light to new oil & gas in N. Sea, if true. It won’t lower bills or lead to greater energy security but will drive an even hotter planet. What a terrible signal to give to rest of the world #ClimateVandalism
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BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) on X
Andy Burnham will announce plans for new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea when he becomes prime minister on Monday, the BBC has been told. The announcement will form part of a flurry of policy m...
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GuyD @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Very plausible theory.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
When you come third place to a bin
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 09/07/2026
“At one stage I even flew to Australia to get him to answer my questions” Nerve co-founder @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on her loooong decade investigating Nigel Farage* *including first raising questions about George Cottrell in 2018 🤔
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
So after spending years posing as a political martyr for being "debanked", we now find out Nigel Farage was also reported by bankers to the National Crime Agency over money laundering concerns, after secretly taking millions of pounds from a crypto billionaire
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I went out for coffee and accidentally brought first presses of Sly and The Family Stone's There's A Riot Going On (with the bonus EP and insert), Art Blakey's Buttercorn Lady and The Modern Lovers LP and a nice Son House reissue.
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Here's the problem, from the climate crisis to Brexit.
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 21/06/2026
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 19/06/2026
Did Reform lose because they were too woke? A columnist earning 8 times your salary assumes the answer is yes, and investigates from there.
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Thia really is proper journalism. I now look forward to them doing the same to Farage.
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Trains Trams Tracks @trainstramstracks.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“Not all of us want new cars. Some of us want trains and buses that come every 5 minutes.” - @myvoicemychoice.bsky.social
MY VOICE MY CHOICE
Not all of us want new cars. Some of us want trains and buses that come every 5 minutes.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DY7laNIgcJ8/
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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GuyD @thenotoriousguy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There’s nobody that knows that renewables are the solution to many of society’s ills as well as fossil fuel companies
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I hope the MPs who use this platform use this moment to tell their colleagues they should quit the race riot and non-consensual pornography platform once and for all, and call them out when they refuse. Musk clearly has no intention of cleaning up his platform, quite the opposite in fact.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her) @jandersoncoats.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 06/06/2026
'It’s hard to imagine songs like the Velvet Underground’s ‘Heroin’ or ‘I’m Waiting For The Man’ existing without Ginsberg's breakthroughs, and Patti Smith was deeply influenced by his work, as seen in tracks like ‘Piss Factory.’' The Cultural Legacy of #AllenGinsberg buff.ly/uomrXTk
The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting For the Man/ There She Goes Again single cover. Andy Warhol style lips and a coke bottle with a straw and bubbles issuing around the mouth. Patti Smith - Hey Joe/ Piss Factory single cover. Black and white photograph of the artist wearing a black woollen hat and horizontally striped shirt.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
My main criticism of these sorts of statements is it treatment disinformation and misinformation as a supply side issue, when its really a demand side issue. The solutions need to deal with what drives that demand, which is a sense of humiliation and/or betrayal.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
We need to put pressure on our politicians and media institutions to leave X. We need government to hold Musk to account too. It's really not pretty what is going on there and it's long past the point when it was OK to indulge it.
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Meanwhile the evidence in the Epstein files of Johnson and Farage colluding with Steve Bannon to topple Theresa May has not been contested bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...
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Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May
The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It’s that kind of afternoon.
Randy California, Paul Desmond, Gabor Szabo and Traffic LPs
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Joe Woolley @mrjoewoolley.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Just seen a bat.
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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Spotted elsewhere in this cropped state, so unable to credit, but raised a chuckle.
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Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The fact that Keir Starmer has drafted Morgan McSweeney back in to save him has to be funniest part of all of this. Truly committed to never learning a single lesson you have to give it to him
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Warren @tumour.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What could possibly go right?
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I know there’s a lot going on with the Labour Party, but it is all in the bounds of democratic politics. This however, paid collusion between the leaders of two political parties in the run up to election, if true, is a scandal of staggering propositions
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Wes Streeting would be the final nail in Labour's coffin. More neoliberalism, more privatisation, more austerity, more grovelling to economic power, when we desperately want change.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I think it's really underappreciated that a large chunk of people across the world are everyday being served images of the world's worst atrocities, essentially live as they happen, in ways previously only experienced by people on the frontline, who have historically had years of trauma as a result.
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The á is interesting here. Suggests to me that this has been copied and pasted.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Each year nuclear adding only as much net global power capacity as renewables add every two days. Game over.
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Tesco can fuck off with their little tokens to vote for which local good cause will be funded. You made several billions of profit last year, just give all three the money you bastards.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
As time has gone on I've realized there is a still quite small but now non-trivial chance that the entire Iran War is simply an insider trading operation, creating repeated black swan moments and relying on markets continued willingness to gyrate wildly in the face of absurd and predictably ...
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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 20/02/2026
“Looks like this place has been pretty much sucked over.”
“Looks like this place has been pretty much sucked over.”
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Thomas Germain @thomasgermain.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it
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