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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 28/09/2026

You’re right. He’s wrong. (Though after well over 50 years I’m now questioning my pronunciation of Roger’s monkey in the Swallows and Amazons books!)

Instructions for the word “gibberish”. They specify a soft “j” at the start.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 08/07/2026

Does Nigel #Farage and #Reform party represent good value to the people of #Clacton ?

Infographic comparing Nigel Farage’s parliamentary activity with a typical UK MP (July 2024–July 2026). Measures include voting participation, Commons speeches, written questions, committee and APPG membership, constituency surgeries, outside earnings, outside working time, foreign trips, media appearances and financial investigations. Farage scores well below average for voting (31.5%), speeches, questions, committee work and constituency surgeries, has no published constituency casework figures, and is exceptionally above average for declared outside earnings, outside working time, media appearances and US trips. The graphic notes that voting is the only official comparable metric, other comparisons are estimates from public records, and that investigations into alleged undeclared gifts and benefits are ongoing with no findings of wrongdoing at the time shown.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 08/07/2026

It’s a table of estimates. But it’s a table. Its use is partly dependent on what value you attach to each metric. For instance it’s entirely possible that #Farage has brought joy to #Clacton and ended multiple international conflicts in the space of an hour’s meeting. #Reform

Alt text: Infographic comparing estimated working time of UK party leaders (July 2024–July 2026). Rows show Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch, Ed Davey, Adrian Ramsay, Stephen Flynn, Rhun ap Iorwerth, Doug Beattie and Nigel Farage. Columns compare parliamentary work, constituency work, media activity, outside paid work, voting participation and notes. Most leaders show no significant declared outside employment and spend most of their time on parliamentary and constituency duties. Adrian Ramsay has the highest voting participation (about 80%+). Farage has the lowest voting participation among major party leaders (about 31%), the highest media activity and the highest declared outside earnings. Notes explain that voting is the only official comparable metric, time allocations are estimates, and separate investigations into alleged undeclared gifts/benefits are not included in the earnings comparison and had not been concluded at the time shown.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/06/2026

wmarybeard.bsky.social Loving this! Yes!!. The Greeks thought that elections were inherently unfair. It was enlightening to learn democracy and elections aren’t one and the same thing. Against Elections is a good read. bookkind.co.uk/against-elec... #AncientLivesWithMaryBeard 1/2

Front cover of

AGAINST ELECTIONS
The Case for Democracy
David Van Reybrouck

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 26/06/2026

It’s tickled me but for a different reason!

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 22/06/2026

@nujofficial.bsky.social Is there any statement -or action- that the #NUJ might be able to make on this? #RyanBridge

AI image of Ryan Bridge claiming to be be a journalist. The text says:

“RYAN BRIDGE
INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 04/05/2026

Here’s a maths question. It’s just a question of counting. How many people sustained multiple knife injuries in the sickening, appalling and contemptible attack by Essa Suleiman last week? And what do the victims have in common?

BBC summary report stating:

“• Essa Suleiman has been charged with attempted murder after two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green
• The 45-year-old is accused of attacking Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, in north London on Wednesday”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 25/04/2026

I am not a fan of #Starmer by a long way, but I think we must agree that this is appalling and possibly fraudulent data harvesting @electoralcommission.org.uk ? Can we report and investigate? @uklabour.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

Fraudulent social media post by Reform UK in April 2026 claiming the Prime Minister can be removed through their petition.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 25/04/2026

“In relation to malign state actors more generally, proscription, we do need legislation in order to take necessary measures, and that is legislation that we’re bringing forward as soon as we can. We go into a new session in a few weeks’ time, and we’ll bring that legislation forward.” #Starmer. Meh

Clip from The Guardian on the killing of a journalist by Israel:

“Amal Khalil, 43, who worked for al-
Akhbar newspaper, was buried on Thursday. She was killed in what colleagues described as a sustained attack by Israeli forces, with rescuers attempting to dig her out of the rubble of a building also targeted and prevented from providing life-saving assistance.”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 13/04/2026

Oh yes #Kemi Uganda is a beacon of civilised and respectful behaviour. It’s enough to make @nickferrarilbc.bsky.social drool. @lbc.co.uk www.amnesty.org/en/location/...

Summary of human rights violations in Uganda saying:

“Uganda faces severe anti-social behavior challenges, primarily driven by state-sanctioned discrimination, violence, and intimidation against
LGBTQ+ individuals. The 2023 Anti-Homosexuality Act, which includes the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality," has triggered widespread harassment, extortion, and over 1,000 documented human rights violations.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 03/04/2026

There’s a pile of mythology and vagueness- and it’s only something I was told long ago. On digging I found reference to the 1966 Act, but it’s not the whole story. #TheArchers

Text which says:
“• Legal Position: Under the Veterinary
Surgeons Act 1966, only qualified vets can treat animals, but there is no equivalent law prohibiting a vet from acting as a "Good Samaritan" to treat a human in a medical
emergency.”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 24/03/2026

There’s the Admiral, and of course… Nancy and Peggy …. Pirates!!!! They practically constitute a feminist handbook! I reassessed! What’s your favourite? (Here’s me at the top of Kanchenjuga before I got Long Covid, then M.E.) 4/4

Dave at the top of “Kanchenjunga” (nickname for The Old Man of Coniston given to it by the Swallows & Amazons

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 24/03/2026

Nothing to do with Critereon, but a week after the bill passed we were given a Section 21. We were happy where we were and our little bungalow had been a rental for years. Our forced move has played havoc with my M.E. Somehow @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social didn’t see this coming! 🙄🙄😢😢

Clip from The Guardian 24th March 2026 saying:

“In a letter to the directors of Criterion, seen by the Guardian, Pennycook said that if the company was seeking to remove tenants before the Renters' Rights Act comes into force on 1 May, banning so-called no-fault evictions in England, it would be the actions of a "thoroughly unscrupulous landlord"

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 19/03/2026

I really like #amol but “this is really interesting”….? Really!? It’s 2026. How long have we known that unequal societies are unhappy, anxious and dangerous? And that inequality is a problem in the UK? @dannydorling.bsky.social must have had a face-palm moment! #r4today 1/2

Cover of the book

The Spirit Level
Why Equality
is Better for Everyone
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett

'A big idea, big enough to change political thinking' Sunday Times
'The evidence is hard to dispute'
Economist

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 17/03/2026

Ok. Can we please rewind #PMQs for a few weeks? Am I wrong to feel as though #kemibadenoch has embarked on a recklessly extravagant use of gas in order to attempt to light the entire country with this!?

Headline from the Guardian with photo of Kemi Badenoch. Text says:

“Kemi Badenoch calls
Trump's repeated criticisms of Starmer 'childish'
Tory leader says US president's words
'completely wrong' as she tries to distance herself from his war on Iran”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 11/03/2026

“If a candidate uses an image of a police officer in campaign leaflets or social media to suggest police support, the force can -and should -ask for it to be removed, according to NPCC guidance.” @peterstefanovic.bsky.social @privateeyenews.bsky.social @andrewhunterm.bsky.social #r4Today #WATO

A campaign photo, posted by the U.K. Conservative Party on March 10th 2026 showing its Leader, Kemi Badenoch posing with two Metropolitan Police officers.

“Only Kemi Badenoch has a plan to Take Back Our Streets from criminals, and the backbone to get it done.”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 04/03/2026

Let’s close those #SafeRoutes Deaf Labour Dead Labour Fake Labour Fuck Labour

Clip from the Guardian on the closing of safe routes by the Labour government.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 07/02/2026

🤔🤔 www.scope.org.uk/advice-and-s...

Attendance allowance eligibility criteria:

You are eligible if you need support with 'bodily functions'.
. These include:
• breathing
• dressing
• drinking
• eating
• going to the toilet
• getting into or out of bed
• hearing
• seeing
• sitting
• sleeping
• walking
• undressing

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 05/02/2026

Quiz Question 142: Whose words are these? #Mandelson

Quotation:

"Peter Mandelson, in my view, could be a viable candidate for the ambassadorial role. He's an intelligent figure who knows his brief well, as I saw when he worked with the European Commission.
"While I'm not certain he's the ideal fit for dealing with Trump directly, his intellect would at least command respect."

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 05/02/2026

Thanks to #LornaGordon for making it surprisingly clear where the #SupremeCourt stands on women’s spaces. #EquitiesAct #TransRights #r4Today #Radio4Today #BBCRadio4

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 04/02/2026

Streeting and Mandelson sitting in a tree, V.E.T.T.I.N.G.

Headlong from 9 September 2025 saying “Wes Streeting defends
Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey
Epstein”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/01/2026

It’s what she what would have wanted. #TheArchers

A very large stained glass artwork hanging in an elevated position outdoors. There is a group of 14 village people looking up at it. There is a river and beavers can be seen building a damn. There is a largely submerged car in the river. Badgers are peeking at artwork from behind the trees.

The intricate stained glass depicts an old grey haired woman looking down

at viewers with a wicked malevolent look.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 27/01/2026

This is my favourite piece on the Forest Of Dean sculpture trail. It’s glorious to approach from the forest and every step changes its relationship with the surroundings and the viewer. www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk/sculpture/ca... #TheArchers #ForestOfDean

Ken Atherton’s stained glass piece on the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail entitled Cathedral.

https://www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk/sculpture/cathedral/

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 25/12/2025

There’s no rush! (For some reason we don’t have any flutes, so the Buck’s Fizz is …er… generous! 🤣)

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 15/12/2025

“A destination shopping experience”. #TheArchers

Photo of the Royson Vasey local shop for local people from The League Of Gentlemen.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 15/12/2025

“A destination shopping experience” #TheArcherd

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 30/09/2025

#IsabelOakeshott grew up on planet Earth and incredibly claims to be a human being. Really? I think that this is laughable. #ReformUK #RichardTice

A Twitter post from Isabel Oakeshott saying:

“@IsabelOakeshott
IN the world according to @Keir Starmer if I grew up in, say, Somalia, I could credibly claim to be Somalian. Could I? Really? I think that would be laughable”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 06/08/2025

My Dad was a humanist, not a Christian. I always wondered why this sat on the mantelpiece. It was given to him by the mayor of #Hiroshima and was made from the roots of a tree that stood in the city. I’m an atheist and it now sits on mine. #r4Today #CND @cnduk.bsky.social #r4Today #WATO

Photo of small wooden crucifix given to Michael Howard of CND by the mayor of Hiroshima.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 07/07/2025

@theguardian.com Number 8 on the most viewed list today - it’s more than 21 years old!! What’s going on here? #TheGuardian

Number 8 in the list of most viewed articles today, 7/7/25

The item says:
“Musician found guilty of murder of teacher.”

The news story is 21 years old.

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 05/07/2025

It’s what we were saying nine months ago; “the grown-ups” may be “in charge”, but it turns out they are unimaginative, unaware, and worse; cruel. People learn through narrative and #Starmer doesn’t understand the importance of story; under #Keir there is no path to national redemption. #Labour

$Exerpt from Guardian comment article saying: “The prime minister seems like a politician suited to managing decline, rather than overcoming it. Rather than offer a transformative vision, he aims to stabilise a reeling country after a decade of tumult. He is not a Thatcher or Attlee. His gamble is that, in a chaotic time, people do not want a charismatic leader; just someone who won't make it worse. But his year in office has been marked by churn with little direction. By avoiding Labour values, he dulls the party's voice on justice and solidarity. Under Sir Keir, Labour has consistently misread where its electoral threats lie. While it obsesses over the radical right, the left is regrouping, young voters are alienated and Muslim support is fracturing. If a charismatic leftwing rival emerges, Labour's electoral coalition could be seriously damaged.”$

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 03/07/2025

I think you’re not being at all consistent. You unequivocally equate the IDF with the Jewish people here. If it is antisemitic to chant “death to the IDF” (it isn’t) then it is reasonable to hold the Jewish people responsible for their actions (it absolutely isn’t!). You can’t have it both ways.

Hugo Rifkind writing in The Times:

“The first thing to say about this is that it was, unequivocally, antisemitic. Had it been, say, an American army bombing somewhere into dust, I'm confident even that audience would have felt wishing them all dead would have been a tad strong. Even "death to Isis" would probably be a bridge too far. But Israeli Jews? These days, fine. See also a crowd at a music festival giving no thought to the way this war began with a slaughter at another music festival. You'd think some feeling of solidarity would be inevitable.
But apparently not.”

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 23/06/2025

#Israel are bombing targets that have already been “obliterated”? …..🤔🤔🤔🤔 Bombing with “unprecedented intensity”? Seems sensible. #Iran #Trump #midnighthammer

Guardian headline saying:

“• Live
Iran's Fordow nuclear site hit again, state media says, as Israel says it is attacking targets in central Tehran
Israel has hit the Fordow nuclear site, Iran state media says, as Israel's foreign minister says military is carrying out strikes with 'unprecedented intensity' “

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Paddywack Dave @paddywackarts.co.uk · 20/06/2025

Quote a record that you found in your parents' collection when you were young.

Cover of WE SHALL OVERCOME PETE SEEGER A CARNEGIE HALL

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