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Rob @okitwas

@okitwas.bsky.social
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Life should be balanced...maybe in the next one. Devon UK. Likes art/music/engineering. Fairness/equality/everything in moderation. Pragmatist. Dislikes extremism, left/right. I speculate a lot, one day I may actually be right. No DMs/Starter packs.

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Douglas Ogg @dougogg.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I hate to sound like a Luddite, but I agree with this.
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Water is not a dumping ground. It was good to meet Matt Staniek of Save Windermere during the EFRA committee visit and hear about the fight to protect our waterways. We must hold water companies to account. But ultimately, public control of our water must be the way forward.
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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In a desperate bid to improve his popularity Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename himself Dolly Parton.
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Adrian Littlejohn @yorksfella59.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
To answer your question Mr Lowe, I do. His name is Nasser Hamid. He was 16 when he left his village, to escape Sudan's civil war. He could not speak English. Look what he achieved! I admire his courage, resourcefulness and intelligence. All qualities sadly lacking in... certain people 🤮
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GJRboston @gjrboston.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Random #Beatles Tune for the day: #FabFour #Fab44ever www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztrh...
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The Beatles - If I Fell
YouTube video by DRMPLX
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Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Latest @newstatesman1913.bsky.social pod! Oli Dugmore and I discuss the Good Life, English sparkling wine and try to summon some thoughts about Harry and Meghan - plus a rap battle (of sorts) and a comparison of our music tastes...
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Is the UK really poorer than Mississippi? | The Politics Show
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
There may be an explanation. But the trail raises a legitimate question about what was declared on his election paperwork and the actual use of the property at the time. Given Arundell's extensive property interests across Boston, it's a question worth answering.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Statement of persons nominated: www.boston.gov.uk/media/26957/... The Firs: smartmovehotels.co.uk/properties/t... Boston Borough Council planning record: democracy.boston.gov.uk/mgAi.aspx?ID... Planning Inspectorate document: acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/ViewDocument...
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Warspitefella 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @warspitefella.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
#MosquitoMonday De Havilland DH-98 Mosquito KA114, manufactured Canada 1945. Marked as 487 Sqn. RNZAF - EG-Y.
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Turið Torkilsdóttir @turidtorkil.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Describe your music taste with only three artists. No genres allowed. Alcest Amy Lee Linkin Park
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Molly McKay @msmollyomolly.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I'm off to planet calm and peaceful! youtube.com/watch?v=h-rR...
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Why you feel what you feel | Alan Watkins | TEDxOxford
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10/08/2026
09/08/26 Ukraine SitRep is ready: threadreaderapp.com/thread/20867... Independent Ukraine war reporting exists because readers support it. Help us keep verified, real-time coverage alive: Patreon: patreon.com/NOELREPORTS One-time: buymeacoffee.com/noelreports
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In the movie about his close connections to Deripaska, Lebedev, Epstein and Thiel, Bill Nighy would be a brilliant Mandelson
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Ken Bardsley @kenbar.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Burnham must be watched carefully. He seems to have no scruples at all about claiming the credit for the great work of his predecessors. He seems to be reluctant to provide attributions, or tardy at the very least.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The convicted fraudster George Cottrell transferred a total of more than $2m to his mother, Fiona Cottrell, in the days before her 2024 donations to Reform UK, the Guardian understands. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
PS If you make a request at your library that they stock one of my books that’s a brilliant thing for me. It makes it available to many many more people who would never have known it existed.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
The three of us have put out over 300 episodes, as well as holding down a day job each. All of it is put out completely free to absolutely everyone. Imagine taking to the keyboard to abuse me, because five minutes of a single episode didn't do it for you. WTAF is wrong with people.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
No reason why I should suffer the full size horror of what @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social made in his dank photoshop basement alone. Sharing is caring.
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Rajan Naidu 📎 Ⓥ @rajannaidu.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Reform UK ~ funded by Russia Restore - bought and paid for by an American trillionaire GB News - owned by a hedge fund in Dubai The Daily Mail - registered in Bermuda. Is that Patriotism? #NotOnOurSide ⤵️ #ReformUKLtd 🇷🇺 #RupertLowe 🇺🇸 #GBNews 🔥🇬🇧 #DailyMail 🔥🇬🇧 www.facebook.com/share/p/1H1z...
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David__Osland @David_Osland:
So Reform UK is funded by Russia, Restore bought and paid for by an American trillionaire, GB News owned by a hedge fund in Dubai and the Daily Mail registered in Bermuda. That's patriotism for you these days.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Reform's Zia Yusuf had claimed the state was "providing no protection whatsoever" to the party's MPs. In fact, Nigel Farage had been offered a package that would have given him the same level of protection as Kemi Badenoch - but he turned it down.
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Brilliant Darren ! 👏👏👏
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John Johnston @bawsman.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Such a waste of lovely people’s lives. Putin deserves punishment.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is what imperialists always do. They claim to love their country. They feed its people into the machine.
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“Dance to the music” @aceofmalts.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Had to! "So we sailed on to the sun 'Til we found a sea of green" 🎵🎼🎶
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Andy Thingy with the eyelashes who was once ‘mayor of a town’ hits Westminster | John Crace
Trump gets to grips with ‘extremely liberal’ new kid who’s already roasting Kemi Badenoch on X
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Adam Squires @adsquires.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The current PM's house firebombed *by people paid for by Farage's allies in Moscow*
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Which of us is really the villain here, sir? You, refusing to help a stranger in need, or me sipping from the straw in your iced latte? I guess now that I’ve been asked to leave this train we will never know.
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Farage breaks cover at last but finds the £5m question hasn’t gone away | John Crace
A testy Reform UK leader tried to bat off questions about why a gigantic gift to him had anything to do with the public
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
THIS !!!!! Please RT Carol !
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
MAGA is racist.
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Car mechanic looking at car with crazy stuff under the hood: “here’s your problem: the cartoonist has no idea what the inside of a car looks like.”
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Cartoon by Robert Ariail
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Political Satirical @politicalsatirical.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Where were the riots? Why does the right wing sleep through all these events? Two Tier Policing - say whut now? & remember, Farage's nephew, got off VERY lightly with upskirting...
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Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
With England's World Cup campaign kicking off tonight, I want to give a huge shout out to East Manchester's own Nico O'Reilly! He's had an incredible season, including his heroics in the League Cup Final. He's a very well deserved young player of the year. Come on England!
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Nico O'Reilly is in the perfect position to thrive
After a breakout campaign for Manchester City which saw him crowned the club's Player of the Season as well as the Premier League's Young Player of the Season, last week he was called up to Thomas Tuc...
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Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It’s hard to believe it’s 10 years since my friend, the amazing, Jo Cox was murdered. I will never forget that moment nor the time after it. It’s still hard to compute. That such a positive, impactful, caring, inclusive woman could be taken in that way for doing her job as an MP, still shocks.
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 15/06/2026
NIGEL FARAGE - AN APOLOGY. thecritic.co.uk/once...
NIGEL FARAGE — AN APOLOGY. Last week, I noted that since The Guardian revealed that he’d accepted a £5 million “gift” from a crypto-billionaire, the leader of Reform has carefully avoided places where people might ask him questions. In response, I find I’m now being shunned by Reform: when shame-vacuum finance spokesman Jenrick spoke on Monday morning, I was the only sketchwriter not invited. 

To some journalists, the discovery that they were no longer going to have to attend events with Richard Tice would be a source of profound relief. Such hacks might take it as a compliment to have so riled the not-at-all fragile people who run Reform that they enacted petty revenge. But I am not that kind of writer. Goodness no. 

So I would like to take this opportunity to say that I apologise for ever implying that Farage might be scared of questions. Quite the opposite: the leader of Reform is a giant among pygmies, a vigorously healthy man of tremendous moral and physical courage who has only
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Why Britain gets defence wrong – this is sharp from @jeegarkakkad.bsky.social on how our obsession with the level of spending has distracted from its quality. “The real question isn’t 3% versus 3.5%. It’s whether the money buys the protection the threat demands.“ www.arguably.uk/p/why-britai...
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Why Britain gets defence wrong
Stop fixating on numbers and start focusing on capabilities
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Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
This is sad news. Roy Hattersley, best known for being Neil Kinnock’s deputy leader, shaped the Labour Party and British politics. He was a giant of our movement and of that generation of politicians. I met him a few times and he was always kind, thoughtful and full of sound advice. RIP.
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
@chappatte.bsky.social
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Rob @okitwas @okitwas.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
So fucking apt.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
We leave the house for two hours and there he is, completely baked, upside down on the sofa, listening to psychedelic rock music.
Our cat Professor Charles Cardigan enjoying the fabulous 1969 album 'Kak' by the band Kak.
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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Excellent thread !
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
🇬🇧 British forces intercepted a russian “shadow fleet” oil tanker in the English Channel early this morning, acting on orders from Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Starmer said the operation delivered another blow to russia and sent a clear message to those helping fund putin’s war against Ukraine
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Yasmin Qureshi MP @yasminqureshimp.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Today Labour passes the Steel Nationalisation Bill. British Steel is coming into public ownership. For generations, previous governments left our steel industry to die. Capabilities declined. Production fell. Communities were abandoned.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Just remembered we've passed the 10th anniversary of this untruthful tweet
Boris Johnson falsely claiming that Brexit will make no difference to British citizens in the EU.
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Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Nigel Farage is getting desperate. My @politics.mirror.co.uk column on how the shine is really coming off Reform; making the changes in the Employment Rights Act a reality; the World Cup kicking off; and my theatre appearance this week👇🏻 www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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'Nigel Farage is getting desperate - the shine has come off Reform'
'This week’s Question Time - a great example of a political debate show - exposed just how far off Reform are from a serious party', Labour Deputy Leader Lucy Powell writes
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Laurie Dunkin Wedd @ldw1.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
This is absolutely brilliant from @james-bg.bsky.social. Strongly recommended! iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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Guest Post: Labour's Net Zero triumph
In the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. It's time to give credit where it's due.
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Peter Vlahos 🇬🇧🇬🇷🇪🇺🇨🇦 @mrsohalvretep.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
@lucympowell.bsky.social please speak to @lisanandymp.bsky.social about getting a grip on @ofcom.bsky.social . They are totally unfit for purpose. The level of partiality in our media is grotesque. Freedom of speech yes. But it must come with fairness and responsibility. The public deserve better.
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