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Patrick McGinley

@patmcginley13.bsky.social
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Husband, Dad, Mucks out horses, loves numbers, NHS, London Irish background, feeds cats, reads, makes noises getting out of chairs, can't dance but loves music, likes social justice and a fact.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 07/10/2026
20 years ago, Anna Politkovskaya was murdered for speaking truth to power in Putin’s Russia. She exposed the brutality of war. She gave a voice to its victims. And she refused to be intimidated into silence. This cost her life. But her memory is carried by so many to this day.
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Times on the Shadow Chancellor’s speech to the Tory Conference ‘he ended the speech without anyone noticing’
John Crace in the Guardian called Andrew Griffith’s speech to the Tory Conference on 5th October the worst ever. The Times being a Tory paper praises the measures Griffith announced (Editoria…
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Childcare for those earning more than £100,000, an inheritance tax cut for the 4.72 per cent of people that pay it… The Tories are no longer even pretending they give a toss about the majority of people in the UK.
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Paul Behrens @profpaulbehrens.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This morning we handed our open letter on food resilience in at 10 Downing Street, signed by more than 150 experts, food organisations, and community groups. 🧵
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Shadow chancellor vows to cut tax in every Tory budget As always, it would be tax cuts for the rich. No mention of corporate welfare, equitable distribution of income/wealth. We haven't recovered from previous Tory follies. NHS queues, potholed road, crumbling schools. What will they cut next?
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Shadow chancellor vows to cut at least one tax in every Tory budget
Shadow ministers unveiled a series of policies on day two of the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer has died - here is the obituary of Monica Coghlan www.heraldscotland.com/news/1216989...
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Misogyny killed Monica many years before she died
When poor Monica Coghlan died in a car crash last week, it was a result both pitiful and inevitable. The rightful order had been restored. Justice had been done. Her sad, brief life was over: she had ...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/10/2026
At 6pm on Tuesday 3 November we welcome Sathnam Sanghera to give the 2026 RHS Public History Lecture @greshamcollege.bsky.social. Sathnam's lecture is entitled 'What History is NOT'. In-person booking at Gresham opens tomorrow (3 October) bit.ly/4xURpl1 Online booking is also available #Skystorians
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What History is NOT
In the past, history was presented to us as a settled story: a pile of dates to memorise, a handful of “great men” to admire, a heritage of statues and plaques to defend from “erasure”. In the 21st ce...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
'seven women...have told the Guardian they are survivors of domestic abuse carried out by key figures in the anti-immigration street patrol movement. All have chosen to come forward to make the public aware of the patterns of violence behind this new form of activism.'
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‘Bully in every way’: domestic abuse survivors say ex-partners behind far-right UK street patrols
Seven women share their stories to make people aware of patterns of violence behind anti-immigration street patrol movement
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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Much of the cheaper foods are ultraprocessed. Therefore before we urge everyone to avoid them we must advocate for an economic system that makes the non processed foods more affordable and/or increase the average person’s affordability. We can’t call the first public health and the second political.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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
sentence handed to the 64-year-old who
blew up a ULEZ camera was
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Tony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Man City’s Emirati chair was granted diplomatic immunity 6 yrs ago in a move that could complicate any legal action resulting from findings that the club artificially inflated its finances by more than £900mn - scoop by Caroline Binham @journosooz.bsky.social as.ft.com/r/d717fb9e-2...
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Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a) Hoo boy b) Roberto Mancini Sparkleglow sounds like a terrible cologne
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Spanish actor Javier Bardem is calling to boycott Starbucks for supporting the genocide in Palestine
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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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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I stand with Jack👏👍
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The best interviewers are prepared, polite and persistent. Mishal Husain, Brian Walden and Nick Clarke are examples, #bbcLauraK ain't.
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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is how democracy wins.
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Patrick McGinley @patmcginley13.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high student loan interest rates. It's time for Andy Burnham to fix this unfair system in the upcoming Budget so balances stop growing faster than they're paid off. Add your name if you agree: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/an...
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Tell Andy Burnham: Fix the broken student loans system in this Budget
Millions of graduates are being ripped off by sky-high interest rates, with balances growing faster than they can be paid off! Add your name to demand fairer student loan terms in the upcoming Budget.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Birthday! 🎉🎂 Mark Hamill 🎈🎁 @markhamillofficial.bsky.social
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
25 September 1942 | A German Sinti girl, Theresie Hellberg, was born in Rostock. In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 15 March 1943. No. Z-3915 She perished in the camp on 28 March 1943. --- The fate of the Roma in Auschwitz: Podcast: youtu.be/eb31osDbyk0
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"On Auschwitz" (7): the fate of Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz
YouTube video by Auschwitz Memorial / Miejsce Pamięci Auschwitz
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louise33andathird.bsky.social @louise33andathird.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Interesting fuss about the paedophile released on bail. He was making indecent images with AI. Something that AI fans suggest shouldn’t be illegal at all. Something you can still do on X. The social media company our Government still uses. #r4today
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🦋 Still Standing 🦋 @imstillstanding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Time to admit that they were wrong and make things right.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thanks to everyone from across Canada and the world who spoke up about changing the name of Trump Avenue in Ottawa. We don't name streets after gangsters and sexual predators. Good work people. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...
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Trump Avenue in Ottawa’s Central Park neighbourhood to be renamed
A street in Canada’s capital bearing the name of the current U.S. president will be renamed.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
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Nolan Principles Matter. End the #GazaGenocide💔💙 @philildo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why is Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood exercised over small boats crossing the Channel undetected + yet makes no comment ref a maniac with a knife endangering the life of folks at sea?🤔 R4 #pm asking if the thugs 'have legitimate concerns'. Really? UK has gone mad to allow fascism to be normalised
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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good news: a federal judge just paused Wilber's deportation. The government shouldn’t be allowed to shoot you from an unmarked vehicle and then cover it up by deporting you. Keep speaking out, it's working.
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I stand with Kaitlan💥
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Patrick Bresnihan @pbresnihan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ireland has highest domestic electricity bills in Europe, directly linked to runaway growth in data centres since 2015. Ireland could be a world leader in clean energy, which would insulate us from energy price volatility. These are policy decisions. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
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Households ‘put on the hook’ for cost of data centre expansion to electricity grid
Irish consumers pay disproportionately more for electricity than large data centres, report suggests
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Over the last few months these guys made me proud to be British: kind, practical, profoundly moral, a testament to this island. Now they're targeted by the very worst of us. I just gave them a bunch of money. You should too. Show those fascist clowns what's what. rnli.org/support-us/g...
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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea
Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.
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Daily Book Covers @dailybookcovers.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Book: The Foundling and Other Tales of Prydain (1973) Series: The Chronicles of Prydain Author: Lloyd Alexander Cover Artist: David Wyatt Publisher: Henry Holt #BookSky #Books 💙📚👀 🪐📚 #fantasyfiction #fantasy #Prydain #LloydAlexander #DavidWyatt
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LA Blue Dot in GA 🌊🐸 @namwella1961.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Men’s Journal: More than 500,000 foods just got the FDA’s highest-risk recall over salmonella linked to jalapenos. Is America healthy again yet? #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed
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Meidas Sassy™ 🐬 @filosia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning 💙 I absolutely LOVE this initiative from celeb activists/resisters. Following their, and Major Watson's, example: Lets all take the oath and add our voice! "Without any mental reservation"! #WeThePeople #StopTrump #ImpeachConvictRemove #resist #GTS
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's not a matter of free speech. X is a machine built to deliberately spread misinformation and disinformation and run by an overtly political trillionaire who delights in encouraging it and the far right Nobody who cares about truth should be on it regardless of their political leanings.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Release ALL the Epstein files NOW!
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 20/09/2026
Normal? Not at all. Birdsong fades. Summer temperatures soar. The danger is we simply adjust – but we shouldn’t. We cannot allow the climate crisis to rewrite our idea of what's normal.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Damn right! 👇
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 20/09/2026
‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home
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‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home
Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position Doubled over a Heathrow baggage trolley, the former British business director is sobbing uncontrollably, exhausted emotionally and physically after being deported from Sweden. Hours earlier the 65-year-old had been marched on to a plane in Stockholm, separated from his home and his Swedish wife after a five-year battle to stay in the country after Brexit came to an end. Continue reading...
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That would be the same tabloid media that's publishing the serialisation of his book? Has anyone asked him about that uncomfortable fact? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Earl Spencer says media treatment of Harry and Meghan ‘echoes’ Diana’s experience
Comments come after he accused King Charles of gaslighting him in response to claims made in new memoir
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Yes, I'm pretty sure everyone can see what's happening. Rich, privately, educated entitled tossers who could not be more part of The Establishment do not think they ought to have to play by the rules.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I would never eat dinner with Donald Trump. I would never clap or laugh at his jokes. I would never shake his hand. When he attacks me, I wear his scorn as a badge of honor. I founded Democracy Docket to never back down or obey. Subscribe now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Mark @njdoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Never stop talking about the Epstein Files regardless of what happens or whatever BB disastrous distraction the demented, malignant narciscisstic, orange felon deliberately creates!
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
👏👏👏👇
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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Exactly this. What he did was not only deplorable, it was treasonous. He and his election-denying enablers should all be thrown in prison. Hopefully the midterms will be a brutal awakening for the MAGA cult and we can finally start to see accountability.
The biggest mistake in American history was not dragging Trump off to prison within 24 hours of Jan 6th. We'll all pay for that for the rest of our lives.

~ jonmoore34 ~
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Show some love for Buffalo, New York, where Bills fans gave “O Canada” a standing ovation last night. That was a beautiful moment. 💙🍁
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 19/09/2026
Thousands gathered at vigils in Cape Town and Tembisa to remember victims of gender-based violence in South Africa, as a string of murders in Gauteng province fuel public anxiety.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SHOUT-OUT to all proud members of the MAGA-Resistance Movement in their defense of the Kennedy Center. It will NEVER have the Orange Felon's name on it, just as it will continue to be the Gulf of MEXICO, Lake ONTARIO & the Department of DEFENSE. #AccountabilityIn45Days 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
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Neurofrontiers @neuro-frontiers.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
We’ve known for some time that air #pollution is bad for human #health. But the focus was mostly on the lungs and heart. Yet somewhere along the way, it became more mainstream to consider how air pollution might affects brains too. What I found surprising was the recency of that. #neuroskyence
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How does air pollution impact your brain? - Neurofrontiers
Air pollution is increasingly recognized as having negative effects on brain health. Here we take a look at what those are.
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