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Patrick Kinsella

@paddykinsella.bsky.social
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Writer, on the lookout for hidden trails, adventure tales & good ales. Gutter-based stargazer. Drum basher. Taekwondo try hard. Fan of books, bands, bikes, boats, boards, beaches, beers. Anti-fascist always. Antisocial when hungry. Political southpaw.⚒️🥋

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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Spot on.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's that time of year again: annual elections of Council Members for the magnificent National Trust. Should you wish to vote for the Nomination Committee's recommended candidates, they are on page 18 of your booklet. 'Restore' and 'Reclaim' are again in the fray. Votes are due in by 30 October.
The front of Osterley House, a red brick National Trust property in Hounslow. Their are 6 pillars at the top of the steps at the entrance, and green lawns to the fore.
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Cllr Dr Alex Powell @apowelllaw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am astounded at the utter irresponsibility of both Sarah Jones and Chris Philp. To stand at the dispatch box and talk about public concern over migration is to legitimise the show of fascist intimidation in Dover and Portsmouth this weekend. Unconscionable.
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
So, I’m In Scotland covering Tour of Britain, and I just got soundly beaten at pool by a woman who brings her own cue to the pub along with a parrot called Rudy who shouts ‘you’re a twat’ at people.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Nigel Farage v the establishment. Educated at the £30k a year Dulwich College, a trader with Credit Lyonnais. Joined the Conservatives in 1978. Fast forward to last week, where he spent 3 hours dining at Harry’s of Mayfair, the ultra-luxury private members club instead of voting in Parliament.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
This. Every single intervention I hear from Claire Hanna MP is considered, eloquent, reasonable, convincing.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Britain's broadcast media boasts of its strict adherence to impartiality rules. Mentions per MP. LibDems: 645 Tories: 5,116 Greens: 7,763 Labour (the actual govt): 27,438 Reform: 70,732 Anyone surprised they're ahead? bebroadcast.co.uk/politics-who...
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#Politics Who gets heard – and who doesn’t – on UK broadcast? | Be Broadcast
New analysis of 1.5m mentions reveals which UK parties are overexposed or underrepresented on broadcast – from Labour and Reform to the Conservatives and Lib Dems.
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Wout van Aert beating Tadej Pogačar in a sprint to win Paris-Roubaix & dedicating it to his fallen teammate was very cool... but ‘Man on stolen bike being chased by police accidentally ends up involved in cycling race & nearly wins it’ is definitely my fav story since starting on Cycling Weekly.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit.” Just the perpetrators… www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
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King and Queen will not meet Epstein survivors during US state visit
The legal implications of Charles and Camilla coming into contact with any survivors of paedophile financier Epstein make a meeting impossible while there are ongoing UK police investigations
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Dr. René MD 🇺🇸🩺 @drrenemd.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Unlike the US media, international media are saying it like it is. The US is a global pariah:
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Ace news! 👇👇👇 Good riddance to an absolute prick - a Trump and Putin sock puppet apple.news/AoxydKYV1TGS...
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Viktor Orbán concedes defeat as opposition wins Hungarian election — The Guardian
Win for Tisza party ends rightwing populist’s 16-year grip on power and will likely reshape country’s relationship with EU
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Dr. Art Garfunky @chimpvsdog.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Cartoonists are chronicling the madness of this moment in real time.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
NOW: B52 bombers are literally in the air on their way to Iran and hundreds of thousands of Iranians are in the streets waving flags and surrounding bridges & power plants. Difficult to imagine this has any precedent in modern warfare. (🎥 Al Jazeera)
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/04/2026
Jeff Bezos has $222 billion. If he paid my wealth tax this year, we could fund insulin in America for everyone who needs it plus free school lunch for every kid in Texas—and have plenty of money left over. And Bezos would still have $215 billion dollars to spare.
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Doesn't pay any tax in the UK because he ran away to the Tax Haven Singapore to escape the effects of the Brexit he helped create. Then he bought up hundred of millions of pounds of farmland to avoid tax, then cried when it was made taxable. James Dyson is a scumbag.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
This is absolutely fantastic. ht: @maddenifico.bsky.social
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
So as Reform UK announce their plans for the "biggest benefit cuts ever", whilst cutting taxes for the wealthiest, their Treasurer has just sold his Chelsea Mansion for a record £275million www.ft.com/content/8daf...
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Nick Candy sells Chelsea mansion for more than £275mn
[FREE TO READ] Deal for Providence House in central London marks capital’s most expensive house sale
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
may this be the beginning of something
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This fucking guy… (👹) apple.news/Aaw511cjSQUW...
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Opinion | Tony Blair says the left is in ‘unholy alliance’ with Islamists. It’s a desperate last ploy to quell the anger over Gaza — The Guardian
The former PM has no valid response when progressives raise a voice over war crimes, so he seeks to mute them. But we’ll take no moral lectures from him, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
It's been 66 days since agents killed Alex Pretti. DHS has body-cam footage. They haven't released it. 66 days and counting. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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DHS says it has body-cam footage related to Pretti shooting in Minneapolis
The lawsuits aim to prevent federal officials from destroying evidence related to Alex Pretti’s killing and to end the surge of immigration officers in Minnesota.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇
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Trixie 🌸🇨🇦 @trixie57.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Handmaids of Nashville, carrying signs with the names of the men who are in the Epstein files.🔥🗽
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Will Kerslake @wkerslake.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A new contender for best headline
Giant phallus-shaped iceberg floating in Conception Bay surprises residents of Dildo, Canada
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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 27/03/2026
“Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children”
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Kevin Maguire @kevmag.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Farage and Reform wasted police time? A Greater Manchester Police investigation found no evidence of any intent to influence or stop any person from voting at the Gorton and Denton by-election.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Fascinating thread
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Never in my life have I believed Iran state media over our own government. Until now. That’s not being “unpatriotic,” it’s having a brain that functions.
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AnneMc #FBPE 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇺🇦🩵 @boof64.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Reform UK really do inspire community action in the most unexpected ways.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
How Australia killed populism open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Love everything about this👇. Well, except the forelock-tugging, toadying name... Fair dues to everyone that helped make it happen - it’s a triumph for public access. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public
The King Charles coastal path will allow walkers right of access to the entire coast for the first time.
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Lounge Lizards 🇨🇦 🍁 @colin-dawny.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Huge win. 👏 "He also ordered a resumption of international broadcasting, which the U.S. has used for decades to promote press freedom around the world." “Voice of America has never been more needed.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
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Judge orders sidelined Voice of America employees back to work
The ruling amounted to a rebuke of administration efforts to dismantle the international broadcast organization.
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Good👇. Not that I know the first thing about baseball. But still… good. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...
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Venezuela beats Team USA to claim World Baseball Classic
The Venezuelans defeated Team USA 3-2 in Miami on Tuesday, in a thrilling final.
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Today I have mostly been fulfilling my obligations to the donors with links to fossil fuels who gave us £2.3m, by telling lies about fracking and drilling in the North Sea.
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Fantastic news! 👇
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
🧵 by @ilangoldenberg.bsky.social:
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.
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JRafferty @johnrafferty.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
First Amendment violation, Brendan. I wonder if a class-action lawsuit (with 320 million of us being the injured class) might change your mind. Do this and ALL of us will see you in court.
Brendan Carr, FCC chair, threatens broadcaster licenses. This is a violation of the First Amendment.
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Richard Tice: - engaged in highly aggressive tax avoidance to avoid nearly £600,000 of tax - did so at a time when the taxpayer was already paying his salary as an MEP Nothing patriotic about this party of grifters www.thetimes.com/article/6f55...
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Reform’s Richard Tice avoided nearly £600,000 in tax
The deputy leader’s property company paid nothing in corporation tax on multimillion-pound profits for most of 2018-21
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Stevie Bennett @steviebennett.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
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Mary L Trump @maryltrump.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It's difficult to end a war if you don't know why you started it in the first place.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows. Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down. www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...
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Sign the Petition
Katie Hopkins is not welcome in Wimborne!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Crypto investor based in Thailand donates further £3m to Reform
Christopher Harborne’s gift is latest to party’s election war chest and comes amid calls for cap on political donations
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Good piece👇
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Reform fury as someone else wins
by Our By-election Editor
Tim Shipsink
The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost
comprehensively to someone else.
"It's totally unfair and rigged,"
said Goodwhinge.
"I shouldn't
be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost."
Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me.
Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X.
"We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families."
Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice.
They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green."
Reform leader
Mr Farage,
speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said,
"It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either."

PLUMBER DEFEATS
MATT GOODWIN

Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… 
I've stopped the cock
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks. They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors. Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption. Watch how they vote this week.
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Patrick Kinsella @paddykinsella.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Wonderful deflation figures here👇 And this despite all the fawning media treatment and filthy cash they get lavished upon them by self-interested elites. Fuck the fash 👊
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
The government's immigration proposals are an obscenity: They needlessly punish refugees, make integration basically impossible, and introduce a sliding system of administrative abuse depending on how wealthy you are iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...
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Can we extract the Reform nonsense from Labour?
These immigration proposals are obscene, but the government can be forced to think again.
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