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Nick Rochford

@nickrochford.bsky.social
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English. But Welsh. Irish. Scottish. Londoner. Books, football, cricket, beer, wine, moussaka. But not at one sitting. Necessarily. CPFC ST Holder | DHFC | Dulwich cricket | Surrey cricket | Mediterranean fan, West Norwood dweller....

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19h
A man builds an IED. He sets it off in a busy public street. Shrapnel flies about hitting cars, homes and a child's bedroom. It's a miracle nobody is injured. And Reform MP Sarah Pochin calls his imprisonment "disproportionate" and "two tier justice."
It does raise this point of two-tiered
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Reform's Sarah Pochin believes the
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blew up a ULEZ camera was
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Dave Ross @daveamitri.bsky.social · 10h
9 of England's current 11 are black. English black people. Representing England. On the world stage. Winning 7-0. Up yours Suella.
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Pól Micheál O'Slatraigh @pmoslatraigh.bsky.social · 13h
Suella Braverman, consider Walter Tull. Born in Folkestone to an English mother and a Barbadian father. A footballer for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. A British Army officer who led soldiers into battle and was killed serving his country in 1918.
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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 8h
Matthew Syed says we need more bankruptcies and unemployment; unclear if this extends to Sunday Times columnists.
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Spookably UnAwake @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 8h
Everything else aside this is the most total failure of sportswashing possible. The UAE have gone from "we're just normal men who like football like British people do" to "if we can't massively cheat at football we'll do as much financial damage to the UK as we can."
theguardian.com
UAE may halt UK investments after Manchester City guilty verdict
Premier League’s actions would ‘have an influence on the bilateral state relationship’, Emirati officials said
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 20h
My son has just sent me a photo of his new girlfriend. She's wearing football kit, football boots, and big gloves. I messaged him back. "She's looks like a keeper." 🐢💨
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Pretty much as predicted: when telling the public about what the Greens were doing and saying failed to induce the expected hilarity, revulsion and unpopularity, the lads reverted to 2018 tactics - ignoring them almost entirely except for things that could be used to boot them in the testicles.
John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.social • 4m
Polanski once hoped to replace Labour.
Where has it all gone wrong for the Greens? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Andy Lewis @andylewis.bsky.social · 20h
Biddu's story is remarkable, and I can't wait to read Alwyn's take on it. You might not know his name, but you've definitely heard, or danced to, some of his productions.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
According to Suella Braverman not one of these ENGLAND players are English. FUCK HER 🖕🖕🏾🖕🏿🖕🏽🖕🏼
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JoGo @mywitsend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eight years ago today the Saudi government murdered WaPo columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. Today they own 49.5% of the biggest media/news company in America.
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Mike Sharp @grotwort.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The omens are dire.
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If only the British political classes had realised there was a downside to the Thatcherite-Blairite-Cameron stance of not having any barriers to foreign investors & states buying anything they like in the UK. Was kind of obvious to many folk this wouldn't end well.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Traditional Sema ceremony where Sufi dervishes perform a meditative whirling dance, a tradition which traces back to 13th-century mystic and poet Rumi. Yenikapı Mevlevi Lodge, Zeytinburnu district of Istanbul, Turkey. 🇹🇷 IG: @theworldofsufis www.instagram.com/theworldofsu...
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Gerry Hassan @gerryhassan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Imagine if this Labour Govt had an active, interventionist Culture Secretary? They might appoint new Board members to the British Museum who could sack George Osborne. They could call time on the disinformation of GB News. Sadly Lisa Nandy does not seem to be that minister.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
Christopher Hale w @ChristopherHale
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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𝔐𝔞𝔤𝔫𝔢𝔱𝔰 🧲 @magnets.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026
integrity of english football entirely reliant on whether the labour party are willing to stand up to despots who have turned man city into a plaything. funny
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 02/10/2026
Oli Dugmore brilliantly outlines the struggles young people face today. Brexit robbed them of countless opportunities. Restoring our EU membership is the easiest way to help our young people.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do people really not get quite how pernicious this ethno-nationalism is? I mean, this is *evil* stuff.
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Lil’ Donny B 🍞&🎪🎪 @lildonnyb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stop watching sports. It’s all a scam
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AJ 🦋 @andjamwar.uk · 01/10/2026
Others are making satirical, intelligent comments on this. I just think he’s a vacuous cunt.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
he dog’s emotional reaction when it saw its owner bald from chemotherapy. Original post
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Pete Hotchkiss @petehotchkiss.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She's so dumb she could trip over a cordless phone
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question
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Mama twins @hi-its-alaa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The war in Gaza is actually the Genocide in Gaza Settlers is actually terrorist invaders. The war in Lebanon is actually the Genocide in Lebanon A safe zone is actually occupation. Collateral damage and human shields is actually murder children and innocent civilians
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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 02/10/2026
I was pretty cynical about Man City’s financial doping and didn’t like the idea of stripping titles etc, but seeing their utterly shameless response and desperate threats makes me want the book thrown at them.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
UAE officials have warned the UK that a severe punishment for Man City could hurt future Emirati investment in Britain, Bloomberg reports. This is the perfect argument for keeping foreign money out of football.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Do we need Prevent for boomers?
bbc.co.uk
Man jailed for 15 years over Sidcup Ulez camera blast
Kevin Rees, 63, faces a tougher sentence because the offence had a "terrorism connection".
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Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this is not going to happen. it’s outlandish and insane. consider it less a workable solution and more a statement of principles. in that spirit: I present the case for nationalising manchester city www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
How best to punish City? Restitution over retribution, then hand club to the fans | Jonathan Liew
There are no real precedents and emotions are still raw, but good can come from this mess if ownership models change
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 02/10/2026
London is the wild west when it comes to e-bikes for hire. I welcome the government's plans to give cities powers to better manage e-bikes, but London can't afford further delays. We’re working with the government and operators now to speed up the process.
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Scott Innes @flyinginside.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Amol Rajan: ‘I know a lot of people think of me as that nice, warm man from the news…’ #CelebrityTraitors
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unlike Simon Clarke, I was alive during the 1970s. A combination of low inequality, low crime and aspects of culture made 1976 one of the happiest years on record in the UK. The IMF bailout had zero impact. Lesson for Simon, happiness is not just a function of wealth.
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davidc1935.bsky.social @davidc1935.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Jean Gabin left Paris just before the Nazis took control and followed others to Hollywood. Dissatisfied with studio offerings he returned to Europe to fight with the Free French, eventually rising to tank commander, and subsequently awarded the Médaille militaire and Croix de Guerre.
A black & white photo of actor Jean Gabin, c. 1949 by Walter Carone.
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Dinsdale Piranha @heptaglemious.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I, too, remember the 1980s boom! And we could do it again! Sell off the railways, water, gas, electricity, and council housing, and use the income to cut taxes for the rich! Oh, wait...
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Simon Robert H K @simonpostsdog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#BBC. Chris Mason. You are a snivelling little shit. Burnham is not ‘wounded’ by a remark about Man City. Grasping little turd.
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Nick Dearden @nickdearden.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Massive crowd outside Palantir’s HQ. Throw this evil corporation out of our public services.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rich privately educated prick who wasn’t even born until 1984 recasts era of rioting, poverty and mass unemployment as Britain’s golden age. Thatcher was the worst thing that ever happened to Britain
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"
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"What are you giving me with the flying fish" @romanbone.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Barbara Stanwyck by George Hurrell, 1937 for Esquire magazine. "I played romantic music that went with her rather ethereal mood that day", recalled Hurrell.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
No civilised country has the death penalty.
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Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So true. In my experience, few in England (including my own otherwise highly political friends) have any interest in the dynamics of the Union. An independence declaration from Piddington attracts more interest than a meeting of three first ministers with a shared determination to leave the UK.
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Integrating into the Single Market and a Customs Union but not full membership for the UK should be the realistic target set by Brussels. If UK state elites as well as voters can't cope with either the trade-offs of full membership or lack of input on Single Market rules without it, well tough.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
South West Water pleaded guilty to sewage dumping, fined £8m, a decade after the events. Yet govt introduced more deregulation. England's water industry controlled by organisations with criminal convictions. None has licence revoked. No exec prosecuted. Customers fleeced.
bbc.co.uk
South West Water fined almost £8m for sewage spills
South West Water previously entered guilty pleas to pollution offences spanning six years.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
What are you doing to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Cable Street, the biggest day in a big year in our antifascist history? Battle of Carfax (Oxford, 25 May) Battle of De Winton Field (Tonypandy, 11 June) Battle of Holbeck Moor (Leeds, 27 Sept) Battle of Cable Street (London, many fronts 4 Oct)
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a dreadful argument from Burnham. Empirically false - almost 6m people were granted settled status; about 4m are currently resident. More importantly panders to racism/xenophobia, and directly contradicts argument made in his speech about migrant contributions.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will never not be wild to me that the Russians attacked Keir Starmer's home, successfully spread falsehoods about Starmer's love life, and this didn't changed British politics and British political elite behaviour *at all*.
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just saw a post from some guy saying that traditional music is “over” because AI music will provide “infinite personalised songs”. I want music that reflects the misshapen thoughts of another human being, not the output of an algorithmic average.
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